it best. i will remember being on sets like this in 2012 after the first debate that he conducted. he s had bad debates happen and they do happen. good debates happen. as the president said maybe he isn t as great a debater he used to be. i would tend to say it wasn t his greatest debate. it is 90 minutes. in a campaign and in an administration where he has achieved enormous things maybe it wasn t a great debate that he has been a great president. fellow democrats voicing their support for the damage also deserve scrutiny. let s be crystal clear donald trump is a liar and lied over and over in that debate. president biden told the truth, he was honest, he showed the kind of man he is, he took on donald trump on the issues he needed to take him on and i am proud of our president. both candidates hit the campaign trail friday delivering these messages to voters. we are in a battle for the soul of america. i look around at the pride, hope and light that all of you, all
absolutely donald trump should release his tax returns. [ cheers and applause ] it keeps happening. republican members of congress get badgered by their constituents into holding town halls so that these members of congress can hear what their constituents have to say so they can ask them direct questions face to face and time after time when these republican members of congress get asked a direct question about it face to face by their constituents they tell their constituents, o.k., yeah, i, too, would like to see donald trump release his taxes. we have seen that with congressman steve knight from california. we have seen that from congressman david young from iowa. we have seen that with congressman matt gaetz from florida. and others. time and time again we have seen this. but then when they come back to washington and they have a chance to vote on that they vote no keeps happening. they say one thing to their constituents, that i come back to washington and, ooh.
investment. we will be in moscow at some point. why did he think so? were there financial ties with russia that would give him such confidence about that pronouncement which he made shortly after he signed this tax return? so 2005 might be kind of a weird year for him. may have been an outliar in donald trump s financial history, in his tax history for any number of reasons the only way we will know that is if we get his other taxes to compare it to. that s why presidential candidates don t release a year of tax returns. they release whole swathes of them so we can understand the financial entanglements that might affect the president of the united states while he or she wields immense power hopefully on
high-ranking positions unless the fbi comes to the senate and describes ongoing investigations into the trump/russia attacks. so the russia investigation stuff is about to get public, some of it is obviously happening behind the scenes, some of it is being disclosed secretly to individual lawmakers. we re about to get public disclosure of some kind of monday. senators are demanding ev more public disclosure beyond what we re going to get from that hearing. it s getting a little hurly-burly on that issue and in general it got a little hurly-burly today in washington. i should also, last night there was also the publication of the first federal tax returns from donald trump. which it turns out raise all sorts of interesting questions. we ll have more on that ahead tonight. but, again, where we started. the news that has just landed like an anvil on the trump administration and their hone and dreams comes from a federal court tonight in hawaii, of all
billion lawsuit. the lawsuit was dismissed. mr. trump appealed, his appeal was thrown out. he lost the appeal. he lost. he couldn t prove his billionaire status in court. he could not prove anything timothy o brien claimed about his net worth was false but it was clearly something that drove him nuts. donald trump is very sensitive about his net worst and that book, again, came out in 2005 and what we ve got is donald trump s tax returns for 2005. 2005. a time when he might conceivably have been acutely motivated to try to portray his finances as super heroically as possible. so maybe this was an atypical filing for him. and there s one more reason why 2005 was both potentially a unique year and also a year that desperately makes you want to see other years to compare it to this and that is that in 2005 donald trump reportedly entered that year into a partnership with a development company