welcome back. this week, more pressure on the trump white house over ethics issues. one democrat saying he has an answer to get to the bottom of all of it. you may have seen kellyanne conway caught criticism from both parties when she pitched ivanka trump s merchandise. has donald trump ever shared business revenue with conway? nobody knows. trump has never released his tax returns. as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returns. he ll release them when the audit is finished, he said. all of this, the trump s assets and financial relationships are a question mark. he may be betting everybody will forget it or move on. but now there are house democrats who say they have a way to make donald trump release his returns. they point to a somewhat obscure provision in the tax code that empowers house committees upon written requests to make the irs furnish a tax return of any
foreign emoluments clause of the constitution. you can be president of the united states or you can be a tycoon, but you can t try to do both at the same time. reporter: the president today scoffed at the lawsuit. without merit. reporter: one of the goals of the lawsuit is to force trump to release his tax returns, which he had promised to do once an irs audit was completed. as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returns. i ll be very proud to. reporter: but now his aides say that may never happen. he s not going to release his tax returns. we litigated this all through the election. people didn t care. they voted for him. reporter: the president has said hotel profits from foreign governments will be given to the u.s. treasury. and today the white house revealed that the president last week resigned from all his companies. so we see the paperwork right there, and we heard the white house say just as you pointed out, he has resigned from his companie
how the great recession transformed governments by john judis. the financial crisis and recession had many effects, but perhaps the most lasting will be that it unleashed a wave of popyism in the western world. judis provides a very intelligent guide to this phenomenon, which is by no means over. and now for the last look. i pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes but as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returns. i ll be very proud to. imagine if everyone s taxes were available with a click of a mouse. in norway, you don t have to imagine that. that country has a transparent tax system where income earned and taxes paid are public information. the fard guardian points this out. just this friday, the 2015 taxes of all norwegians were published online for everyone to see. the searching is not anonymous. norway s apartment requires logs
thing. first, i pay hundreds of millions of dollars in tax. many of her friends took bigger deductions warren buffett took a massive deduction. sorrows, who is a friend of hers took a massive deduction. many of the people that are giving her all this money that she can do many more commercials than me, gave her, took massive deductions. i pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. but, but, as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returns. i ll be very proud. to. thank you, new trump. we have a question from spencer moss. spencer? good evening. my question is what specific tax provisions will you change to ensure the wealthiest americans pay their fair share in taxes. get rid of carried interest. one of the greatest provisions for people like me, i give up a lot when i run because i knockout the tax code. she could have done this years
as soon as my re routine audit is finished i ll release my returns. we have a question from spencer moss. spencer? good evening. my question is, what specific tax provisions will you change to insure the wealthiest americans pay their fair share intachs oo. one thing i would do is get rid of carried interest. one of the greatest provisions for people like me, i give up a lot when i run because i knock out the tax code. she could have done this be years ago. she s a she was a united states senator. she complains that donald trump took advantage of the tax code. well, why didn t she changing it? why didn t you change it when you were a senator? the reason you didn t is all your friends take the same advantage that i do. you have provisions in the tax code that frankly we could change. but you wouldn t change it because all of these people give you the money so you can take negative ads on donald trump.