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melissa murray in for mehd hassan for nearly half a century it was an obvious, clear norm if you wanted to be th president of the united states you had to show the american public where your money came from it was a norm that began amazingly, with richard nixo during the watergate scandal i 1973, when nixon released hi tax returns to fight off accusations of corruption. in fact, it was nixons ta filings sparked one of the mos famous quotes in america politics >> i look on this kind o e...

law. but what caused this search now? what triggered the apparent approval of attorney general merrick garland and fbi correct director christopher ray, what can we read into this? >> searching the home of a former president for possible crime would require approval by the justice department and a federal judge would have to agree probable cause has been committed. we have not heard from the doj, thats not unusual, of course, the news is drawing a surge of criticism from republican bac...

Released this information in the audit that was performed was a very shoddy audit that did not ask for backup materials. basically did not make him prove his tax return at al even though we are dealing wit very big numbers, very complex tax return, each of these year of so, it is going to be fascinating for the committee, might be in the house but migh end up being in the senate because the house is changin over and leadership, i have feeling that the republicans are not going to touch this, the...

Archives and records. jason, great to have you here and get your perspective knowing what you know about this process. how do you get from that point, from boxes being retrieved from mar-a-lago, to a search warrant being executed and documents being seized? >> the national archive staff has tried to do the right thing. the presidential records of the trump administration are not supposed to be at mar-a-lago. they are supposed to be under the legal custody of the archivist of the united states. a...

Backup materials and quoting from the people who gave interviews, in a world people care about those things and the truth really mattered, i think it would have an important result. given to the person who has the biggest microphone in the world, we dont live in that world. >> thank you. >> happy thanksgiving. >> you as well. a scathing op-ed just published by the former navy secretary and what he has to say about president trump. and an explosion and fire at a texas chemical plant and conce...