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Anyone can understand it. all i did was -- they wasted our time and they wasted our money, besides the fact that he talked to both sides of his mouth that he would give us the public those taxes. it took these guys six years. >> one last question -- your committee previously published to reports about trumps taxes which showed the irs failed to conduct a mandatory audit during his presidency. what can be done about the irs? how can americans have confidence in the leadership. it was a clear fail...

Managed to get elected to congress in new york without anyone noticing that his entire life story seems to be alive? >> i want to take question with one analogy you gave. george santos, its like mr. ripley without the talent. i admire his shamelessness and lying. its remarkable, the fact that hes been able to get away with it. it shows a failure to audit -- a failure of democrats in new york. it shows a failure of the media who did not do some basic research. they didnt even go to wikipedia. thi...

Not even fill the 87000 irs agents with u.s. citizens, they were looking to hire foreign contractors was to address the backlog project returns that have not been processed, going back to 2000 and i think of these were folks that are going to go out an audit everyday working-class americans on the middle class and lower class folks that are struggling to get by and that to me, his the most #think that this administration couldve done and that is saying something of the long list that exist out t...

>> mr. trump insisted his returns for, quote, extremely complex. im under a routine audit and i will be release it as soon as the auditor is finished, it wil be replaced for the committee report shows no audit of mr. trump until midway through his presidency. democrats accuse the irs of giving the former president the pass paid. >> americans should be greatly outraged by that and by the failure of the irs under trump to do its job to audit him. >> mr. trump said -- he warned, quote, this is a da...

Pay small contractors or people that hes interrupted transactions with just to make new demands. so, sure, hes hired a bunch of smart people. but if you were truly smart he would have paid some taxes knowing that eventually all of this would come out. and for him to imagine that it wouldnt come out i think was really foolish. >> it did take a very long time to come out. what do you make of the fact that his charitable contributions in 2020 were zero? >> well, isnt that remarkable? he, in the pas...

Isnt gonna do anything about trumps tax returns. obviously. what can the senate to? what can democrats in the senate to? what can the finance committee to, for example? >> well, they can do anything that the house ways and means committee could do, except introducing a tax bill. so, they can hold hearings about why was donald trump not audited, and when the audit was undertaken, why was it severely humbled, and who hobbled the auditors and that case? they can demand to see the business records t...

>> or maybe he doesnt want the american people, all of you watching tonight, to know that hes paid nothing in federal taxes. >> that makes me smart. i paid millions of dollars in taxes. millions of dollars of income tax, and, let me just tell you, there was a story in one of the papers -- i paid $38 million one year. i paid $27 million. >> show us your tax returns. >> democrats frame the request for the returns around congressional oversight. they asserted that the irs wasnt doing its job conduc...

Whole pillar of his political identity. on the audits, tell me what you think on the audience. >> yes,-ites interest and i wanted to, theres misinformation there about the audits. like everything with donald trump, has more than one criminal investigation. and here in my little, worldly of more than one audit. and this audit, theres mandatory presidential audit, that everybodys been talking about, so that started when he became president in 2016. and that time period. but theres also another aud...

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