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And for the record, individual number one is president donald j trump. michael cohen was sentenced to three years for his crimes. he spent more than a year in federal prison and a year and half in home confinement after the outbreak of covid. but at least up until now th person who cohen says directed him, the person who signs th check that we all saw, has not been punished now of course at the time this is all happening back into 2018, donald trump was a sitting president th united states. the department of justice is a long-standing rule that sitting president cannot b indicted, which, i think, is fine, reasonable on its own, makes sense but we would later come to learn that there is lot more than that going o behind the scenes in the department of justice accordin to reporting for the new yor times, shortly after he became attorney general in 2019 william barr set out t challenge the prosecution. when barr was sworn in, cohe had already pleaded guilty and ....
Trump s tax situation. including some of what he paid or rather didn t pay along with his history o devaluing his properties for taxation purposes while over valuing them for loans and insurance and essentially all of what we kno comes from the extraordinary pulitzer prize-winning 201 investigation from the new yor times david barstow suzann craig and russ buettner. from the monumental 2020 follow-up from rescue or suzanna craig and mike mcentire those reports are truly th definition of good journalism. with the 2018 investigatio revealing donald trump s ric history of dodging taxes along with the financial benefits of being born into hi father s real estate empire. and the 2020 report revealin how trump paid no income tax a all for ten years between 2005 and 2020 and the paltry sum of 750 buck in federal income tax in eac of his first two years i office which we now have confirmation of an which are also the same two years whic ....
You know, the unspoken spangle behind us and our operation. it s riveting journalism it s gonna get the perfect time, as we re looking at the fina report from the committee. in new tranche of transcript that just came out and dum recklessness robert draper, thanks for your time thanks for reporting staff writer for the new yor times, great to see you. great seeing you. happy holiday. just a minute we are going live to capitol hill where our very own rhino thi has been reading through these transcripts, the spread ne ones that the january 6t committee just released in the last hour. he s gonna join us next to tel us what s in them. stay with us hello, world. or is it goodbye? you know, it seems like hope and trust are in short supply. [clap] now, as businesses we can blame and shame. or. [whistles] we can make a change. [clap] we can make work, work for our communities. create more equal opportunities. [clap] it s time for business to show its true worth. ....