you, we have a special holiday weekend of all in, here, alertly or than usual. i d hope you are somewhere warm and comfortable to set in. we will be here for a while. we have something to talk about because we finally have, finally have, donald trump s tax returns. today, house democrats released thousands of pages of the ex president s tax records, covering six years, from 2015 to 2020. of course, that was the period when trump both campaign for president, and subsequently the president of the united states, formally in the white house. the release of this information is the culmination of a years-long quest, undertaken by a whole bunch of folks, civil society lawyers, reporters, democratic members of congress alike. you will remember from the moment that donald trump came down the golden escalator in trump tower, june 2050, and to announce his candidacy, there have been a ton, almost endless questions about his finances, particularly his potential financial conflicts of, in
Is as well. And cnn politics reporter to koppen. Former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. He is considered a star witness. In exchange for his guilty plea. What is to be expected from him . Yes, thats right, fred. I mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. He was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manaforts world. But this is the man who was, you know, supposedly according to prosecutors side by side with manafort as much as this went down and may be the one to testify, you know, exactly what he was thinking and doing and intending, which is so important when youre building this criminal case. You know, he also is sort of the connection to trump world. That we havent seen as much. And thats what has to be what peo
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absolutely. that s the ongoing story with this investigation. where different sides are challenging the credibility of each player. and manafort is a very important part of the trump campaign. and what we re learning from the trial is who he was before the campaign, the kind of money he was making. and also his desperation some ways for money right at the time that he joined world of trump. so this is very crucial to the overall investigation in many ways. challenging the credibility of those who are attacking him so to speak is very important. and, michael, while this case thus far, the way it s been rolled out, be very embarrassing for manafort, you know, delving into the amount of money he made, how he spent it, his fashion sense and all that, but incriminating? well, i think we have two trials going on here. part one is the fraudulent tax