President s family is still making money from the trump name. nbc news reports ivanka trump, the president s daughter and senior adviser, took in $4 million from her stake in the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. just last year. meanwhile, a plethora of agencies on both the federal and state level have been conducting investigations into possible criminal conduct by the president and his allies including the department of justice, the new york state attorney general, the new york state department of taxation, the house judiciary committee, and the house ways and means committee. my next guest has firsthand experience conducting congressional oversight, curt bardellla. former spokesperson for the
That. this april president trump if he s fulfilling his tax obligations, filing returns with the irs, he s a new york resident. he ll be filing state tax returns with the new york state department of taxation. those new york state returns contain most of the same information that s on his federal returns. so new york state could pass a law it wouldn t just be governor cuomo who would have to be on board with this. they could pass a law directing the department of taxation to disclose the president s state tax returns. how unique would that be and would there be problems as a result of that? i don t think it would be unique in that presidential tax transparency is not unique. in the scheme of american history it s not unique at all. if you go back to 1862, we