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Returns. he might end up in an audit. >> can he be blackmailed because of his financial and business venn clu ventures including by foreign government? >> i know the opposition, the first thing they will ask or say is he released his financial disclosure forms. i believe there are other things we can learn from his taxes. do you have any idea what he can

Could you presume from that statement that he wasnt under audit? >> i presume that hes not under audit. >> the reason why i bridge this up, im also only democrat that specifics on the committee of ways and means. chief tax writing committee in the house of representatives. its the only committee that the house of representatives has jurisdiction to request an american tax returns. that includes the president of the united states. my constituents need to know whether the president has financial t...

Because he might end up in an audit. so could you presume from that statement that he wasnt under audit? >> i presume hes not under audit. >> and the reason why i bring this up, because im also the only democrat on this committee that also serves on the committee of ways and means. the chief tax writing committee in the house of representatives and its the only committee in the house of representatives ha thats jurisdiction to request an americans tax returns and that includes the president of t...

Investigation into the white house security clearance process, over what he calls grave breaches of national security involving people that he says had access to classified information who shouldnt have. this is an interesting case, craig, because even the republicans on the committee, when they controlled it, acknowledged that there were some problems with the security clearance process, and started their own inquiry last year. they appeared to get nowhere. the white house rebuffed their reques...

He has become close with jared curb near and ivanka trump. he gained the trust of the president as well. one way he maneuvered himself, he joined weekly lunches mostly held on mondays. after the president invited him and generalicle tow join in on the meetings. there is a lot of chit-chat and tv watching, too. two sources told us thats when president trump got to know and like ayers quite a lot. ayers may face questions about how he has been able to make a lot of money over his short career in p...

His financial disclosure forms. >> were calling for an investigation because there are a lot of unanswered questions. whitakers treasurer says he was paying off debt, but the fec filings show that the only expenditures he made was for rent. he also said he didnt solicit these donations, so he doesnt appear to know why they were received either. >> reporter: the financial disclosure forms, which were edited at least five times in the last two weeks since whitaker was appointed acting attorney gen...

Letter law of the hatch act, which says public officials are not allowed to receive donations. >> reporter: when reached by phone on wednesday, whitakers campaign treasurer, bill, couldnt explain why four individuals donated to whitaker in 2018 but told cnn that the unsolicited funds from backers of republican candidates went toward roughly $49,000 in outstanding campaign debt. whitaker had lent his own campaign money in 2013, something the hatch act allows, but it wasnt listed on his financial ...

Sessions did. john, it raises questions under those rules because now were learning from these financial disclosure forms, as laura said, my watch dog group crew together with american oversight has been doing intense work on this. they started fussing with these forms the day we asked for them, john. and they raised questions about his political affiliations, all the money that he got to attack hillary clinton. so theres too much smoke here. somethings deeply wrong. >> jennifer, lets focus on t...

$49,000 in outstanding campaign debt, and thats something the hatch account allows but was not listed on his financial disclosure forms. >> we are calling for an investigation because there are a lot of unanswered quiz. whitakers treasurer says he was paying off debt but the filing shows the only expenditures he made was for rent and he did not s solicit these donations. >> the financial disclosure forms show $15,000 in other income as a legal analyst for krrpb while his critics now raise additi...

He was talked out of it reportedly by his then-white house counsel who warned him he could get impeached if you do something like this, it could be contribu contributeable to an idea of abuse of power. maybe, maybe not. in either case, he didnt do it. "the new york times" dropped that bombshell. once again, that story winds up stepping on a good headline for the president because he kept his word that he would answer the questions of this special counsel and he did that. robert mueller right now...