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Theres only one democrat on capitol hill with the authority to officially demand the tax forms. ways and means richard neal. michael cohen back on capitol hill today. hell be finishing his testimony to the house intelligence committee behind closed doors. his appearance comes one day after the new york state finance department slapped a subpoena on the trump organizations insurance broker aon plc. just a few days after cohen dropped this potential bombshell. >> to your knowledge, did the provi...

Patient zero. he is the first example, really coming forward and saying that, saying, look, i am an example, probably closest to the son of being swayed, being conned. i am paying the ultimate price. most americans wont pay the price michael is, not going to prison. that is pretty much the theme of his opening statement and will come up a lot today. i also want to go back to heidi and let us not forget, this is the beginning of the end for donald trump, talking about inflating his wealth, he wou...

Thats kind of why we only know where they spent some of the money because thats all they had to put on their tax forms. there has been some reporting, and basically what its said is everything was overpaid. this was a group of people who were rather wealthy people, used to putting on rather spectacular events and organizing it at the very last minute. so you had some striking examples of hairstylists and makeup people being paid for, for hundreds of people. just very extravagant expenses. >> and...

>> shepard: at one point, there was a suggestion that we could file on a piece of pain they are size. as things move forward, it will be more complicated this year, huh? >> yeah, it is. you and i spoke about this months ago. i took a shoot of paper and said the new tax forms will be the size of a postcard. thats number 1. you have a different form. many different forms. some people will be unfamiliar. theyll have questions about that. and then you also have within 2018, the new tax cuts and jobs...

Manafort of filing false tax returns, faming to fail foreign tax forms. >> we are learning that george papadopoulos has been sentenced in the mueller probe to 14 days. >> bob mueller gets michael cohen to plead guilty again. >> michael cohen pleading guilty over lying to congress about a trump tower project in moscow. >> federal judge today said the man donald trump chose to be his national security adviser sold his country out. it comes despite muellers recommendation that flynn serve no prison...

Yurl. we have not verified this claim. what does this tell you? that that are ready? >> it began at the beginning of the -- after the election where president trump refused to step down. the appearance of impro pryty is whether or not is almost irrelevant. they have involved in the creation and orchestration of the inauguration is what lead to this investigation. here, again, stepping away from the company and from impro pryty would have been the best course. we are in this situation. >> do you ...

Jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment. that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller, but reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to a halt. >> in a cnn op-ed, whitaker said mueller was crossing a red line by looking into the finances of trump. he vowed to run a fair department with high ethical standards. you may want to remember richard neal. he is expected to chair the house ways and means committee. he is the guy who would ask to see the presidents tax returns...

>> i do agree that its absolutely essential that those tax returns be made public for a number of reasons. one is that as everybody else suspects, i imagine they are going to give us information on the complexity of his returns, the methods that he used to avoid or evade paying taxes, and also it will give some sense of what his real net worth is, and that goes to his truthfulness. this is a person who has lied thousands of times about little things, so i would imagine theres a lot in the tax do...

Him of crossing legal lines with his tax forms. thats an amazing allegation against a sitting united states president. and the fact that trump broke with tradition of all of his modern predecessors by refusing to release his tax returns when his opponent in the election released years and years of tax returns means hes not entitled to any benefit of the doubt. and so the information the "times" was looking at revealed how he got rich and they dont have current information about where he is now. ...

Its almost inherited tax fraud. tax evasion. a kind of crookedness as mike laid out, with he see it passed on to him, which means its even more important that we should see his tax forms, right, because more than likely what he learned from his dad, we will find he did himself and he continues to do. >> some would call this really it matches the profile of a man who has grown up with no responsibility, just awash in cash, no sense of right and wrong and brings his sham to the presidency where ul...