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Pages of previously-confidential financial records that really describe the inner workings of fred trumps real estate empire. >> it really is amazing reporting that you and your team did. so was this legal? >> so, you know, there are parts of it, right, that are perfectly legal, like putting donald trump on his payroll, right, and paying him a salary. but what we also described in this story is that the amount of money that fred trump passed on to donald trump through gifts and inheritance was r...

Fines for tax fraud, and the new york state tax department is now reviewing your reporting, "the new york times" reporting, and in a statement they said theyre vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation. so what other potential consequences for the president? >> well, i mean i think part of it is we -- it is very difficult to know how -- first of all just to step back for a moment, you know, we document in our year and a half of reporting 295 different revenue streams that fred...

A w-2 at the end of the year, theres really not much you can do to cheat on your taxes. it just isnt possible. however, if you own businesses as the trump family did, you have essentially carte blanche to cheat the irs and the irs is never going to come back to you. the one risk that the trumps run as a result of this story is that if congress, particularly the house of representatives goes to the democrats and the democrats have oversight possibilities, they could subpoena the irs to get all of...

Personal tax returns, to see how that -- how that money ultimately got reported in donald trumps personal tax returns. thats something that this story doesnt do because we didnt get donald trumps personal tax returns. what we did get is we got over 200 tax returns that are pertaining to fred trumps business empire and to various trump family partnerships and trusts, and those tax returns for the first time actually give us a window into precisely how much money flowed from fred trump to donald a...

Tax schemes and, quote, outright fraud that greatly increased the wealth he received from his fathers real estate empire. the report totally contradicts mr. trumps claims of being a self-made billionaire. ill get reaction from the senate intelligence committee member, senator abc ngus king a our correspondents an analysts are standing by. first, lets go to kara. tell us about the bombshell report in "the new york times." >> reporter: "the new york times" is reporting that donald trump was involv...

First. but i think clearly what "the new york times" has done is a very substantial piece of reporting, just by the sheer bulk of it, and it really leads to the authorities and perhaps even the irs to review their records to see if laws were broken and what the consequences may be, as i think jeff toobin pointed out. theres unlikely to be criminal consequences because the statute of limitations has long since run, but there may be some civil consequences. but were a ways from that now. i think e...

Demonstrations there in boston. one group calling itself the boston free speech coalition. its progressives, conservatives and independents. i had a couple guests on earlier today, one who is a former skin head and one whose representative of the -- law center that this group is known to cultivate fear and that is one of its objectives. that group and demonstration being met by counterprotests, people who say they were there in the name of peace and unity. we understand from our sarah reporting ...

And he stopped in the middle and i saw him reach in the passenger seat on the floor. he bent down. came back up and he had this rifle and he pulled it out like this and started pointing and he went back and forth like this just shooting. and he stopped. he reloaded and he did it again. >> reporter: four marines killed in the attack. three people jird. the police chief tells us the officer shot in the leg is in a lot of pain but good spirits surrounded by friends and fellow officers. navy sailor ...

Jail on charges of defacing a public monument but support for them is just huge. a crowd funding page raising more than $100,000 for their legal bills, thomas. >> sarah reporting there for us in columbia, thank you so much, sarah. appreciate it. same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states but not everyone agreeing with the decision by the supreme court and some opponents say theyll decline to perform same-sex marriages based on religious liberty. francis is here with more. francis? >> seeing that...