that democrats passed to ensure that people, you know, wealthy people do pay their fair share, in taxes. that is what house republicans are going to be focusing on. one thing that house democrats, the ways committee says that they want to do, and speaker pelosi said that she is going to do before congress adjourns by the end of the week is to codify this language into law, that the irs, in fact has to audit presidential taxes. but it is no longer under the purview of the irs to maintain docked policy. but then it will become statute. but it is very unlikely that the tenants are going to have time to pass something like this as well, and it is unlikely that house republicans are going to take that up next year. so we are up against a huge deadline for democrats to act. there is a divided congress
take a few more days to redact the documents before they are released. but tonight, the committee did release two reports on trump s tax returns, one of the big takeaways is that the irs field to audit former president trump s tax filings, despite a long-standing policy that makes the auditing of sitting presidents mandatory. here is how the chairman of the ways and means committee put it earlier this evening. for all practical purposes, the research that was done, as it relates to the mandatory audit program is nonexistent. the tax forms were never audited, and only sending a letter at one point prompted a rearview mirror response. we had a lot to get into on that. but meanwhile, the january 6th committee is expected to release its final report
they should not be put out for public scrutiny, certainly not in a retaliatory fashion. but i heard members of the committee explaining tonight that to understand the failure and the mandatory audit program you really had to be able to look at provisions on these returns to see where red flags were ignored. so, i hope what went before these documents are released they will be screened and redacted inappropriate ways to protect privacy. what the abuses here are so over the top that there needs to be a very thorough look at what went wrong at the irs and who should be held accountable for those failures. but what does accountability look like, joyce? if at the end of the day it is just, well, galaxy, we learned that the irs is really dysfunctional, or there are some ethics violations in their, there is a lot of people who would, say i don t mind being called names. i got to run away with a whole lot of dough. i could not agree with you more. i am a taxpayer, you are a
and here we are learning about that years later. that is what will require a good, hard look. and my instinctive reaction, this is just instinctive for federal prosecutors, it is we are very protective of taxpayers documents. they should not be put out for public scrutiny, certainly not in a retaliatory fashion. but i have heard members of the committee explaining tonight that to understand the failure and the mandatory audit program you really have to be able to look at provisions on these returns to see where red flags were put up. i hope that before this documents are released they will be redacted, and inappropriate ways to protect privacy. but the abuses here are so over the top that there needs to be a very thorough look of what went wrong at the irs and who should be held accountable for this failure. but what does accountability look like, joins?
and means committee put it earlier this evening. for all practical purposes, the research that was done, as it relates to the mandatory audit program is nonexistent. the tax forms were never audited, and only my sending a letter at one point prompted a rearview mirror response. we had a lot to get into on that. but meanwhile, the january 6th committee is expected to release its final report tomorrow. today we learned that the select committee has already begun returning documents and transcripts over to the department of justice. with that, let s get smarter with our lead off panel tonight. leigh ann caldwell, anchor for washington post live and coauthor of his morning newsletter, the early 202. tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist, and msnbc political analyst, he is one of the only people who has