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
To publish it. It is not illegal for us to publish it. Watch this question of this revelation tonight brings forward. This 1040 report and getting into reporters hands, there is reasonable to expect that there is more out there and well see more of this come up. You know how much the president made and paid in that one year. We only have two pages. There is still a long list of questions that could be answered by the president if you want to release more or anybody else does of this source that gets it in our hands. Thanks for being with us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now, it is time for last word of lawrence o donnel. Rachel, you know normally at 9 00 p. M. I have some stuff to do to prepare for a 10 00 p. M. Live tv show. All that stuff, i made sure it was done at 8 59 p. M. I got to watch every minute tonight. This has been an amazing
out on this program that there is absolutely no proof and never has been proof that any of Donald Trumps relevant tax returns are being audi
You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
With a board and publicly available stocks. It has been, at the core, more of a family business. In later years, some would argue more of a Licensing Business and so we have this core relationship. A lot of people cant blame the president for saying the closest thing i have to a cabinet or Board Of Directors is my family. Were seeing a president run his administration and effectively the entire federal government the same way he ran a small private business with no stock holders, no board no oversight at all really and this is where hes comfortable. You have to step back. All the things rachel said about ivanka trump are true. Shes been very successful in the Business World sort of in the same way her father has been. But you have to step back and say what is her credential tool
be in the west wing effecting policy, advising the president. Shes a senior a person as there is now all because she is the president s daughter. This move may mollify some of the complaints and concerns by eth
I wont sugar coat this, this is a disappointing day for us. Democrats are declaring victory. Today is a great day for our country. Its a victory. Tonight, senator Bernie Sanders on how it fell apart after seven years of promising repeal. Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. [ cheers and applause ] and where we go from here with Michael Moore. I think we have to let obamacare go its way for a while. And another escalation in the devin nunes debacle when all in starts right now. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. Good evening from los angeles, im chris hayes. Obamacare is alive and trumpcare is dead. And the Republican Party with control of the white house and majorities in both the senate and House Of Representatives is reeling tonight after failing to
achieve what has been their single biggest goal for the past seven years and the numberone agenda item of Donald Trumps presidency. Minutes before it was due for a vote