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According to politico, aides responsible for setting up firewalls have held discussions about establishing what is known as a discretionary trust. according to two source briefed on the talks, such an arrangement would allow trump or his family members to reap some of telephone legal benefits of a blind trust, but could also give them some insight into how the trump businesses are faring while also allowing trump and his family to continue to make money from those investments. joining us now, ch...

And unraveling. the article has two sources quoting the president as saying i hate everyone in the white house. there are few exceptions. or few exceptions. but i hate them. gabe sherman reports according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist steve bannon told trump that the risk to his presidency wasnt impeachment. but the 25th amendment. the provision by which a majority of the cabinet can vote to remove the president. when bannon mentioned the 25th amendme...

About taxes. joining us now, bruce bartlett, a former deputy assistant secretary at the treasury and also with us, david k. johnson, founded d.c. report.org. a nonprofit news aings to cover the trump administration. david is former tax reporter for "the new york times." and, bruce, we want to start with you because you were there at the revolution, at the tax revolution that began in republican governance during the reagan administration where there came the notion that the tax reform as done by...

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Circumstances? thats a question that they have yet to answer and, in fact, we are not going to have a formal briefing today but because the president is heading to wisconsin, there will be a gaggle on the plane. you can bet that question will be asked and one more point, theres a lot of concern now by people who want tax reform that this is going to hold it up. until he releases his tax returns, the democrats are going to say, how can we have tax reform when we dont know how its going to affect ...

But ask david a quick question. saw the white house push back hard against rachel maddow today. when you went this them with the returns, what was the reaction? >> they like me wanted to do everything they could to stlemt, make sure not a setup of some time. number one concern. ive been running around tying down details consulting people. checking numbers. published at d.c. report.org. >> but sent to the white house? >> i sent to sean spicer who didnt reply and made clear would be a big story an...

Over his taxes. this after our rachel maddow revealed last night a portion of the presidents 2005 federal tax return. something that hes refused t do in the past. two pages that we obtained by david k. johnston, a reporter for the website d.c. report.org. a longtime "new york times" reporter and an author of a book on donald trump. the forms show that donald trump paid $38 million in federal taxes on $152 million of reported income after writing off $103 million in business losses giving him an ...

Question. we saw the white house push back very hard against rachel maddow. when you said that you had the returns, what was the reaction from them? >> they, like me, wanted to do everything they could to vet them to make sure this wasnt a setup of some kind. that was their overwhelming concern. ive been running since 5:00 this morning, tying down all sorts of little details youre never going to put on the air to make sure we had, consulting with people, checking the numbers. >> you sent them to...