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>> in an executive session, the committee voted to release donald trumps tax returns. chairman neill indicated that the republicans opposed releasing the tax returns but said that the meeting was in his words fairly cordial. the chairman revealed at the top ranking republican on the house committee asked to participate in the examination of donald trumps tax returns. thats once the committee obtain them. and chairman neal allowed his republican counterpart and the republican staff of the committ...

Will extend into campaign season after the former president has announced he is once again running for the white house. >> paula reid, thanks so much. the house ways and means committee is discussing to discuss what, if anything, they plan to do with trumps tax returns. the former president never made his returns public on the campaign trail you will remember. the committee has them and now has the ability to do just that. >> cnns lauren fox joining us live from capitol hill. what is the lates...

>> its a fore gone conclusion that they are going to release them. the democrats have the majority. they are going to go into executive session. they are going to vote. because evident the majority, they are going to release them. the question is when, whether thats today or tomorrow, but i feel, and i hate to say this, i feel like this should be getting -- i thought this would get more attention because of the clambering for so long for these tax returns. the public is finally going to see the ...

Future looks like of the committee if they use this section of the tax code to reloose this information. we expect they will meet today at 3:00 and go into the closed-door session and then have that discussion. after that they will come out of the executive session and they will vote on whether or not to release this information. but it is a significant day. because it really could, if they release some of this information, shed light on the former presidents taxes and whether or not he paid tax...

Kicked out of the room and have a wide-ranging discussion about what they want to do with the tax information about former president donald trump. at that point they will vote to come out of the executive session and then we will see with our own eyes how they vote and what they decide to do. this is an important day for the former president, obviously, this is something that his lawyers have been battling in court for years. this is also an important day for oversight for house democrats becaus...

It is coming to the public, it is going to trickle out between now and the end of the year. >> if they vote to release any of trumps tax information, how are the republicans planning to respond? >> yeah, republicans are really readying that response, jake, and they held a press conference right before the members went in before the executive session, and railing against the democrats saying that if they release any information saying that any americans tax information could be public, and they a...

They argue its one-sided. its messy and gets messier when you bring congress into it. >> on one hand the doj might be concerned about the optics of it being a political investigation but on the other hand its important evidence to supplement what they already have. thank you all so much, paula, jennifer, evan, appreciate it. soon on capitol hill a key house committee is expected to vote on whether to release details of former president trumps tax returns to the public. the house ways and means...

Chairman richard neal fought for in court to have access to, and he has had access to this information for about a month, and committee members have had access for a couple of days and getting ready for the meeting. we know that once they are ready to vote, they will come out of the executive session, and we will see what they vote on in public, jake. we expect that it could come in the next hour or two. >> sarah, the justice department has been waiting for the evidence and the transcripts from ...

Hill for us. lauren, explain to us how this could all go down today. >> well, in just a matter of hours, ana, that meeting youre referring to will get started on capitol hill and the expectation is quickly after they begin meeting they are going to go into an executive session. that means closed door session and kick reporters and camera out of the room then they will deliberate what decision they want to make about releasing any of the former presidents tax information. it is going to be a crit...

Meeting, this mock-up is the first that the members can confirm what theyre talking about. even before the supreme court decision a month ago, richie neal, the chairman has to be very cautious what he could say about the tax records only telling me, repeatedly, that he was going to see this through so thats what were seeing today. were seeing the executive session, that the committee will hold a vote to release all or part of the tax returns today. they wouldnt be bothering to meet on the issues...