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These tax returns youve got. >> michael, one of the issues 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. wa...

Lead by a dictator and a person that uses a murder and all kinds of illegal tactics to promote his own self-dealing. theres no equivalency between the two. >> when you think about why the president was asked about why he seems to have an affinity for putin that was a killer and he said what about us? how did you feel about that response? >> i disagree but i think you have to ask the president about why he said that. i dont speak for the president but were sending a letter and having a hearing. w...

Was that washington was a cesspool of corruption and self-dealing. and today congressman price said yeah. im that guy, and im proud of it. not a single republican blanched at these ethical dilemmas. and it was all left to the democrats. >> well, one republican tried to compare these buying of individual stocks to other democrats on the committee who have mutual funds with hundreds of stocks in them, none of them individually chosen by the senators themselves. which is really completely invalid c...

And he was sort of saying no big deal today. if there is anything that donald trump or he seemed to stand for was that washington was a cesspool of corruption and self-dealing. and today congressman price said yeah. im at guy, and im oud of it. not a single republican blanched at these ethical dilemmas. and it was all left to the democrats. >> well, one republican tried to compare these buying of individual stocks to other democrats on the committee who have mutual funds with hundreds of stocks ...

That convention when he said, read my lips, no new taxes. then when the negotiators got to andrews air force base when he was told by jim baker and late dick darman, how important it was for them to make a budget deal. he did it. he suffered the consequences. he was not re-elected. the prosperity of the clinton years was really a tribute to bush 41. thats how each president leaves another president. some hopes some of the spirit that barack obama just expressed when he said -- you know, when he ...

And to my friends in the media who are rushing to normalize trump, who your blithely calling on parents and teachers of scared latino and muslim kids and little boys and girls of color to come together and accept whats happening while trump ushers in and emboldened kkk and an alt-right that will have a place in the white house. nothing at all has changed about donald trump. nothing. hes still the same, historically unpopular person whos under criminal investigation over trump university, whose f...

Charity itself, the donald trump foundation. just take their word. well show you on the screen in the box here. they basically copped to it in the new tax filings. the irs tells you just check here if you engaged in self-dealing. yep. the foundation checked yes. now theres news about this foundation that donald trump apparently hoped you would miss because he used what we kind of think of as the mother of all news dump days to drop it. christmas eve. thats the evening that trump chose to make th...

Yep. the foundation checked yes. now theres news about this foundation thadonald trump apparently hoped you would miss because he used what we kind of think ofs the mother of all news dump days to drop it. christmas eve. thats the evening that trump chose to make the unusual announcement that he says he will dissolve the foundation to avoid any appearance of conflict, although hes happy that the foundation has run for essentially no cost for decades with 100% of the money going to charity and we...

Money. so donald trump solicits donations from wealthy people for the foundation, then doles that money out under his own name, which would be a weird and pretty misleading way to run a foundation even if all that money was genuinely going to charity, but if that money is being used to settle donald trumps own personal business legal problems, that itself is illegal. that can be called self-dealing, and trump used his foundation to do things like that again and again. it was the time a man who w...

Allegations that he has made illegal donations. you could look at attorney general pam bondi in florida. that he has engaged in self-dealing. he didnt properly register his foundation in new york new york. no matter what good his foundation has done. donald trump will be attacked for these missteps there are a lot of legal issues surrounding his foundation. >> there are legal issues but that seems like thats a big part of the frustration for donald trump. mr. sneiderman democratic attorney gener...