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The more e-mails, wikileaks releases the more lines between the clinton foundation, the secretary of states office and the clintons personal finances, they all get blurred. all of the money funneled into the clinton foundation from corporations. it was pure and simple pay for play. security to the clinton foundation for a big fat pile of cash. >> donald trump often attacked the clinton foundation as corrupt, those were the days. a new washington post report, though, raises some big questions abo...

Tax returns now. if we are going to have uniform application of the laws, then i think my call and that of some tax law professors for a criminal investigation by the irs is more than appropriate. >> i just have to ask you this because youve covered this area for a very long time. you won a pulitzer at the times for your tax reporting. think for a moment hillary clinton admitted that she had broken tax law on documents she signed that the clinton foundation had violated irs tax law and engaged i...

Dollars in his foundation from some foreign government on the day he was inaugurated in 2017, we wouldnt know about it until the end of november 2018. it makes it a very difficult way to -- very difficult place to watch. its a back door that foreign governments or businessmen could use to influence truck in a way that is really hard to watch until much later. >> hook me up, what are you look at next? give me an advance of questions youre asking. >> a couple of things. one, how much did trump pay...

An irs finding that was false. joining me author of the making of donald trump and a tax law expert. how often it is that you just get an admission in a foundation filing saying, yes, we engaged in self-dealing? >> well, a number of people will admit, chris, to wrong doing if they are fearful that theyre about to be prosecuted. some attorneys will tell you dont do anything if youre subject to prosecution. some defense lawyers will stel tell you straighten up your act and clean it out. in this ca...

Everybody knows, he has refused to release his personal and corporate tax return, david fahrenthold joining me, what did you find? what does it mean? >> one of the most basic rules of running a charity is you cant take money out of a charity and buy things for yourself. money for charitable purposes, not for your own. what trumps foundation did today with this new filing is they admitted to the irs that in 2015 and also in the past, before 2015, they had violated those laws by using the charitys...

Wants to retain public confidence in what hes going to do as president. and number one, hes got a full time job thats not going to allow him an awful lot of time to do his business matters which is why i think he says well im getting out of managing that business. im going to have the kids do it. and number two, he doesnt want to be accused of self-dealing or put this businesses and his children in a position where they are going to be subjected to ingrash yags by private interests. so he has to...

What trumps foundation did today with this new filing is they admitted to the irs that in 2015 and also in the past, before 2015, they had violated those laws by using the charitys money to benefit somebody associated with the trump foundation, most likely, trump himself. >> and thats not all. youve got a quote for an expert here who basically says irs chief counsels office says why did the trump foundation admit to self-dealing in prior years, so this new thing you found is them saying, yep, we...

A stunning admission in the ongoing story of the trump foundation. the foundation has literally admitted in its most recent irs filing to violating a ban on self-dealing or using a charitys money to benefit yourself. and in the same 2015 irs filing it has admitted to a similar violation in the prior unspecified year or years. raising the possibility donald trump himself signed under penalty of perjury and irs filing that was false. here are the details. the trump foundations irs tax filing obtai...

Sustainable for a long time. one thing i would point out with the exception of the hotel story, which is an excellent "washington post" story. every one of those is something we learned from the foreign press. were not really being told a whole lot from his transition team and not getting traditional readouts other than it was a good phone call. they talked about world issues. >> totally different than in the past. >> there is a huge drum beat on editorial pages that trump does pay attention to ...

To call for this recount. this is an active discussion taking place. >> what does it mean to have 7% fewer in the places that used different counting? >> they dont know, from my reporting, they dont know, they just know this anomaly exists, and they feel it warrants an audit. theyre not saying they know, theyre just saying we should look into it. >> it was an interesting piece theyre looking at. thank you both. appreciate it. coming up, self-dealing is when a money to the people who run the ch...