Every single president and every single Vice President has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. And they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the Trump Campaign never made sense. Being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. Also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. Even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed . Any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. Those would be closed. So why not release those earlier tax returns even if you dont want to release the current ones for which there isnt an excuse not to do anyway . Whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
general, whether or not you care whats in his tax returns, it o
i m going to take you back to berkeley, california. these are live images right now of protests on the ground. today is the big tax day protest. a lot of people gathering around the country to try to convince the president to release his tax returns. so that was happening. but as you can see, there are clashes happening as well among the different people who have come to this scene. we are told by folks on the ground that these are both pro-trump and anti-trump protesters who are now clashing in the streets here. there have been four arrests at least so far. and a couple of people have been injured, according to the berkeley police spokesman, byron white. he said the injuries were relatively minor, which is good news. the officer who was treated and released, someone threw pepper spray or tear gas into the
i had to work so i wasn t able to be there. i m so sorry. we had a great time. i heard it was really great. let s talk first i m going to get back to the russia stuff but i first want to talk about tax day protest. what do you think can come out of this. donald trump made it pretty clear he s never going to release his tax returns. do you think public pressure can change that? absolutely. i do believe in the power of the people. i think it s very important for us to resist and to demand. he must show his taxes. every president since fixon has shown their taxes. i think the people have a right to know. we really need to know about donald trump because we are still trying to figure out all of his business entanglements and his conflicts of interest. and so he has not answered many questions. even though we thought he had placed all his businesses in trust, we find that has not happened. so people all over this country are filling out their taxes, they are trying to do the right
these races are only about setting the cycle for 18 months and energizing. we love this panel so much, we re going to keep them all. this is a hostage situation at this point. they re not leaving. tara, evan, jimmy will join us again. coming up at the top of the hour, live coverage of the tax day protest as activists demand donald trump release his tax returns. up next, my guests will tell me who won the week. how to win at business. step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses.
riot gear. we don t know but we know these are pro and anti-trump it s actually not a tax day protest, from what i understand, from what i ve been told they are clashing over their difference in opinion over the way this country is currently being run. all right. i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york and here s a look at the headlines. thousands of protesters hitting pavement to release trump s tax returns. these are the largest protests since the women s march after the inauguration. an explosion in syria. at least 100 people were killed in a blast near evacuation buses outside this city. and it only took about five seconds for president trump this week to bottom line his new