or end there for donald trump, as you probably see in the january six committee, voting yesterday, to make multiple criminal referrals of trump to the department of justice for his conduct leading up to and during the attack on the capitol. this is the first time that congress has done so for a former president of the united states in the entire history of this country. but that metaphorical passing but that metaphorical passing of the investigation from the january six committee into the hands of the special counsel, this man, jack smith, who sometimes has a beard. sometimes does not. became much more literal today. nbc news can now report that the january six committee is cooperating extensively with his office, this may not come as a surprise to you. but it is an interesting development. punchbowl news who first broke the story noted, starting last week they saw the documents and transcripts so the committees relation with the former chief of staff, mark meadows, and john eastman. t
chance to look at this. if you can, for our viewers, please lay out why it was important for congress to get donald trump s tax returns in the first place and why you want to release these tax returns to the public? thank you, great, question so i want to be very clear that the committee was looking at donald trump s taxes or asked to look at them, in the process of reviewing the mandatory audit program that refuses all taxes of every single president and vice president since 1977. but since then, every presidential candidate, or vice presidential candidate release their taxes. except for donald trump. so we wanted to know how the program was working, and was it really doing the audits it was supposed to? and one of the things that it showed? it was not. the mandatory audit program did not complete one audit of president donald trump s tax
caucus. and emphasis of the term vigorous. steve? thank you mister chairman. steven from nevada for. first i want to commend you for i did monitor this. this is a press conference from the house ways and means committee. who have decided to approve the release of donald trump s tax returns. as you recall, they have been handed over by the irs to congress by the treasury department. to congress, and ryan mcneill is now saying that they are going through them to see if anything needs to be redacted. our apologies for those of you watching, this has developed during the last few minutes, and we had to take over and determine what is going on here. let s discuss what this is all about, i want to bring in ryan nobles, he is a capitol hill correspondent for nbc news, he joins me now, ryan thanks for being with us and for those who have not been following this particularly close although i don t think the whole country has been solving this for the past two years. these are donald trump
department. to congress, and ryan mcneill is now saying that they are going through them to see if anything needs to be redacted. our apologies for those of you watching, this has developed during the last few minutes, and we had to take over and determine what is going on here. let s discuss what this is all about, i want to bring in ryan nobles, he is a capitol hill correspondent for nbc news, he joins me now, ryan thanks for being with us and for those who have not been following this particularly close although i don t think the whole country has been solving this for the past two years. these are donald trump s tax returns that donald trump fought for a very long time to keep from the public, lay out what is happening here in the ways and means committee has received these tax returns and they have decided to then after certain review and redactions, they will release these to the public. which would ve been a normal course of practice for most presidential candidates? yes, and
can follow to prosecute donald trump, with donald john eastman and whoever else, tell me what does this cooperation look like? i think that congress on the one hand, is the legislative branch and the department of justice, or special counsel as the executive branch, are on separate, and independent paths. and we have accumulated all of the evidence that we can with the rather limited [inaudible] of investigative tools we have available to us, you saw a lot of people blew off our subpoenas. including members of congress. the department of justice is armed with far greater investigative resources and powers to course participation and compliance with their order. so we think that they have the ability to get a lot more evidence, but like anyone else in the country, we have an obligation and a duty to turn over what we know about potential crimes, and that is