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How will it play out in the coming days? >> reporter: we expect the returns to be released within a matter of days, and we have already seen some information that has come out from the committee. last night two reports, with you, an investigation into how the u.r.s. conducts mandatory audits, and a separate report about how the tax returns, a top summary, of course. it found in just one year that the audits did not take place in the first two years of the trump administration. it wasnt until 201...

Critical information such as social security numbers, pin numbers, bank numbers, and once that is done, it will be released. i believe that it will be within a few days. >> i got to tell you, as i was going through the report, im not an accountant, its hard to understand whats going on there, right? what is -- what is the takeaway you want folks to glean from these returns, or does the committee want folks to glean from these reports when in fact they are released. >> well, i was shocked that th...

Audit such as it was and didnt hand over a lot of this material. so you could imagine that if and when these audits are completed and they havent been completed yet. irs may be doing more of its due diligence to find out again where the money came from particularly if were talking about foreign entanglements or whom he owes money to. again, that would be the kind of things irs could request. we dont know if they have or will be released, et cetera. but there are still a lot of puzzles here about...

From this summary report. what happens now? whats next? >> well, as you see, we will see later today the ways and means committee members having released the joint report, the joint tax committees report as well as our own report. right now our staff is working fiercely on the retaxs odaction those taxes and those will be released in several tadays. weve done our job, and weve looked into what should be done moving forward. know that the mandatory audit of presidential records is by regulation, ...

The new standard for audit confirmations would replace an interim standard that hasn't changed for two decades.

Healthy or helpful, if you will. >> i wanted to before we let you go talk a little bit more about the criticism from the committee of the irs and its auditing. the committee says its investigation revealed only one mandatory audit was started under the prior administration and the program was otherwise dormant at best. this is what democrats are using as justification for legislation. here is what democrat dan kildee of michigan said. >> -- in 2019 with the intention of determining whether we ne...

Take over. republicans attacking democrats for misusing their power and releasing donald trumps returns. donald trumps spokesperson also attacking committee democrats. nevertheless, they are moving forward. and also moving forward on legislation to mandate, mandate how presidents are audited under the abiding r s. and that something nancy pelosi in her final days as speaker plans to bring to the floor. montage, cnn, capitol hill. >> lets discuss with norman eison. hes a cnn legal analyst and for...

Treasury has over the years come under sharp scrutiny for allegedly spending money on unbudgeted projects

A separate vote on additional ukraine funding. most of my constituents do not want to have their money sent to ukraine, especially not without oversight or an audit. but that seems unlikely because speaker pelosi says we are ending on a very special session of the 117th congress with legislation that makes progress for the american people as well as support for our democracy. please be present for a very special focus on gem crazy wednesday night. >> to have can a complete total hero in the cong...

Thats a high bar to exceed. we were abled to exceed it, a republican-dominated supreme court found in our favor and the fact that we uncovered, showing that the i.r.s. was not doing its job in audit ing presidents tax runs does -- >> a lot of people see the timing when this vote occurred at the tail end of when the democrats have a majority, they see it as suspect and telling. i know the chairman of the committee said this is about the presidency, not about the former president, but was the ques...