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He has yet to show us that he will put country before self. we have seen the amount of self dealing that continues with president trump not divesting himself from his businesses. this guy can change things around net operating losses and erase the hundreds of millions of dollars he could potentially owe the government in taxes that he has been rolling forward. people want to see president trumps taxes. when guys like steve mu mnuchin are faced with these road blocks it is pretty tough. >> you ar...

Are democrats going to sign on to this? >> democrats will not. what youll find with democrats, the most compelling case so far they have made against trump has been on tax reform because they basically said, we are not going to help you with tax reform unless you release your taxes, which is something you saw was asked today again at the briefing that secretary mnuchin said wasnt going to happen. but that is a compelling case for the democrats to make. its not just opposing him, its saying were ...

An autocracy. he walks through how donald trump is in a way smoothing out and disrupting the kind of institutions in america that would hold him accountable. and david in his piece says it is not really about trying to set out to be an autocrat, it is about setting out to enrich himself. when you look at vladimir putin and the way others have shown how he has parked money with oligarchs around the world, with money parked in all the places he has helped enrich others, i think that is something w...

Office. the self-dealing and personal enrichment opportunities government provides for the already very rich. thats all part of the progressive diagnosis in terms of whats wrong with republican governments. then, there is something else here that is very different. there is also this existential scandal whether this administration didnt just benefit from a foreign intelligence operation, theres the question whether its part of one. if you are a democrat opposed to the trump administration, if yo...

On the other hand there are the betsy devoses of the world using generational family wealth and hard right wing activism and epic donations to grab yourself a cabinet positions and create qualifications for high public office. the self-dealing and personal enrichment opportunities government provides for the already very rich. thats all part of the progressive diagnosis in terms of whats wrong with republican governments. then, there is something else here that is very different. there is also t...

Which the new president apparently approved over a dinner with jared. second was a massive air strike in a civilian populated area of mosul in iraq. the u.s. and iraqi forces had dropped leaflets reportedly in that neighborhood telling civilians to definitely stay in their homes, to not leave. and then u.s. planes came in and apparently bombed that exact same neighborhood. there are reports of as many as 200 men, women, and children, all civilians, killed in their homes. after the united states ...

Dropped leaflets reportedly in that neighborhood telling civilians to definitely stay in their homes, to not leave. and then u.s. planes came in and apparently bombed that exact same neighborhood. there are reports of as many as 200 men, women, and children, all civilians, killed in their homes. after the united states reportedly told them to stay in their homes. and then bombed their homes. so take your pick from this scandal menu. thats even setting aside any issues about self-dealing and conf...

About self dealing and conflicts of interest and the president appointing his children to high ranking sensitive government positions and the question of whether the president is profiting from the presidency or receiving payments from foreign governments through his businesses. if you set that stuff aside, the self dealing stuff, we are already changed as a country because before now any one of these scandals that i just mentioned in washington or around the country would be nationally riveting...

That trump himself has raised when he has been repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly asked about his tax returns. number one, hes said people dont care about it, only reporters care about it. thats not borne out by the polling data and the persistent activism around this issue. the other issue hes raised is, yeah, yeah, its been a tradition since nixon but it wasnt before then and i want to go back to what it was like before nixon. was there controversy around presidential taxes, around quest...

Was there controversy around presidential taxes, around questions of self-dealing and presidential financial disclosure before nixon that we should see as materially informing these kinds of see it informing these kinds of decisions kobe bryant. >> and those scandals and not the president and people around him were wheeling and dealing and some of them got into big legal trouble over that. in dond trumps case, we got something unusual and you and i said many times before, first president who nev...