it intertwines. i would presume you re going to ask for business returns as well. is that do you think going to be easier or harder or a different process or what? i believe same process but we want to start with the personal returns and then move from there. so personal returns are the requests now. you re not yet requesting business returns? correct. we held a hearing today on hr-1 which is a bill that would make all future candidates for vice president and president provide those. we think it s important, again, for transparency. it s been the custom and the practice since nixon for folks to turn them over and again, president trump promised as a candidate that he would and he has not. it s more important to get this right than to do it hastily. we are taking it in a step by step approach. we want to do it correctly because if we botch this it can mean bad precedent moving forward so we want to make sure we re doing it the right way. it speaks highly of the irs,
gates. there may be other additional evidence, and so the fact that manafort there are multiple areas in which the government has said that he was not truthful, at least four areas, so this just becomes a really important question of why he s lying about it and what he s trying to conceal. he s pleaded guilty. right. he s already been convicted. he will be incarcerated in a federal prison so the question is who is he protecting and why. that is the big question. who is he protecting and why, right? there s been a guilty plea, then supposedly cooperating, there s jail time, and yet still seems to be protecting someone. that s right. and the obvious question is, is that someone the man he was working for at the time, donald trump. the now president has said explicitly that he didn t know anything about this meeting. we are told by people around i m told by people around the president that when he found out about it, when it was first revealed and reported that manafort had
to trump and he would go after the political opponents of trump. so they ve had this long relationship. now recently that seems to have fallen out. the magazine hasn t really been publishing pro trump stories anymore as they ve been cooperating with authorities but there has been this suspicion that they are close. so them targeting bezos who obviously the president is not much of a fan of raised a lot of eyebrows. that said, the national enquirer has adamantly denied for a long time that they were influenced by trump or political forces in their coverage and they re silent tonight. i reached out, haven t heard anything back from mr. howard who wrote the story or anyone else from the national enquirer. thank you very much, oliver. i want to make the point here as oliver references, david pecker is cooperating right now in the investigation the southern district of new york investigation into michael cohen. all these catch and kill, they would get the stories that were bad about
there s public reporting coming from the senate that it was not his father, it was other individuals, and we want to find that out. we don t want to jump to the conclusion. we also think that this is something we could have found out two years ago, but we want to put this to rest. so yes, we re going to answer that question in short order. any timing on the subpoena for that or you said just short order? i ll let mr. schiff make that news. president trump has now said in a tweet you re talking about these investigations. you see them as very worthwhile. you re talking about people who work for the national security committee and community who are coming to work for you and choosing to do so to work on these investigations. the president said, the democrats and their commits are going nuts. they never did this to president obama. there would be no time to run government. we know of at least 20 investigations right now. are you worried about democrats getting mierd red in these i
were close that this could have actually influenced the election, not just generic in big picture but very specific. ahead, breaking news, the head of amazon, jeff bezos accusing the national enquirer of extortion after it revealed his affair. in it bezos is also naming president trump. plus the showdown over trump s taxes. democrats making their first move, though will they actually get trump s tax returns? the third stair always creaked.