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It could be that the father felt maybe i was a little too tough on him. maybe i was little too distant on him when he was a kid. so maybe ive got to help him now in a way that i might not otherwise have done? >> yes. and i think donald probably manipulated him very well. donald is a master manipulator of other people. his entire campaign from the get-go where people applauding his statements about racism in midtown manhattan, and the people doing it were actors he paid 50 bucks each. his entire ...

He doesnt say yes, i do. he just says that makes me smart, and those tax returns are never released. how would you advise voters to regard information like that? >> i wouldnt advise them at all because i dont know what his returns looked like at that point. >> but you do think its important for voters -- >> youre talking 30 years ago. >> but you do think that its important for voters to be able to see the candidates tax returns? >> i do. >> and as i understand it, you havent heard anything from ...

And back with us david cay johnston, who has been covering the adventures of donald trump for many years. kurt, its all about daddy. >> oh, absolutely. donald trump, he likes to portray himself -- he needs to portray himself as some sort of self-made man. but seriously, he was born with a golden shovel in his mouth. whenever he tried something, he failed. and whenever he failed, his dad build a him out. even when he had his success, it was only because his father cosigned the loan or his father ...

Bankruptcy was not through any personal skill, but because of an accident of birth, his wealthy father who set him up in business and build a donald trump out. kurt eichenwald reports that the tax records submitted to the new jersey department of law and publ safety concerning casinos showed five years of income, and that information showed that he declared $76,000 in income in 1975. $24,000 of income in 1976. 118,000 in 1977. and then in 1978, he reported a loss of 406,000. that was more than d...

Because, you know, thats a state that the governor and the state party have a lot of reservations about trump. theyre worried about losing portman. theyre worried about having down ballot damage from him, which he seems to be causing in a lot of places. >> okay. were going to leave it there. rick wilson, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, lawrence. coming up next, donald trumps accountant will join us. hell give us his views of what a presidential candidates du...

Business and build a donald trump out. kurt eichenwald reports that the tax records submitted to the new jersey department of law and public safety concerning casinos showed five years of income, and that information showed that he declared $76,000 in income in 1975. $24,000 of income in 1976. 118,000 in 1977. and then in 1978, he reported a loss of 406,000. that was more than double the amount of his previously -- his earned income for the previous three years. and then the next year, he lost a...

Go. there was such an interesting moment in the first debate, because donald trumps line has always been i borrowed a million from my father and i paid it off completely with interest. and thats his whole story. a million loan. he paid it off completely with interest. hillary clinton used a much bigger number in the debate. i think it might have been $14 million. >> 14 million. >> much bigger. and donald trump didnt contest it at all. he must have figured that shes got the research that has now ...

$70 million. its money he could not have gotten on his own. >> kurt eichenwald, another great report. thanks very much for joining us. and david cay johnston, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. coming up, mara teresa kumar will rejoin us to deal with this. >> senator, you whipped out that mexican thing again. and we are watching hurricane michael as it heads towards florida. the national hurricane center will have an updated forecast at 11:00 p.m. brian williams will have that...

U.s." eichenwald writes that officials at the counterterrorism center of the cia were so frustrated and so convinced an attack was coming, they suggested transferring so as not to be blamed when the attack took place. all told, its a devastating portrait. roger cressey is an nbc news terrorism analyst and was deputy for counterterrorism at the national security council on september 11, shgs , 2001. michael tomasky is special correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily beast. let me start with rog...

Attacks, i thought about why didnt we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didnt want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didnt you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the lead-ups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take s...