legal authority to demand. here s what mnuchin said. we will protect the president as we would protect any individual taxpayer under their rights. we would protect the president as we would protect any individual taxpayer. translation, he s probably not going to try and protect the president from having his he s going to try to protect the president from having his tax returns released. now, the president has consistently refused to release his tax returns since the 2016 campaign, claiming he can t release them because he s being audited by the irs. i m being audited now. a minor audit. it s und routine audit. like, retune. but as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returned. i d be very proud to. we re three years away from that routine audit. just that justification has come under considerable scrutiny when michael cohen appeared before the house oversight committee and said this. he had said to me was that what he didn t want was to have an enti
audited by the irs. i m being audited now. a minor audit. it s und routine audit. like, retune. but as soon as my routine audit is finished, i ll release my returned. i d be very proud to. we re three years away from that routine audit. just that justification has come under considerable scrutiny when michael cohen appeared before the house oversight committee and said this. he had said to me was that what he didn t want was to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run through his tax return and start ripping it to pieces and then he ll end up in an audit and he ll ultimately have taxable consequences, penalties and so on. so that s an interesting point, that basically said he didn t want to release his tax returns because he might end up in an audit. so could you presume from that statement that he wasn t under