We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning and welcome to washington journal. The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump paid 750 dollars in federal income taxes year he won the presidency and another 750 the first year of his presidency. The president is still refusing to make his taxes public, as is tradition for those running for the nations highest office. The president has called the story fake news. We want to know what you think about it. The question of the day is the New York Times story saying 750 int trump paid federal taxes in 2016 and 2017. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. 202 7488002. And you can always text us at 202 7488003. And we are always reading on social media on twitter at cspan wj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The story of the day comes from the New York Times. The story saying that President Trump has paid only 750 dollars in federal income taxes the year before he won the presidency and the first year of the presidency. Lets show you that opening paragraph from the New York Times story. It says this. Paid 700 50 in federal income taxes year he won the presidency. And his first year in the white house he paid another 750. He paid no income taxes at all intent of the previous 15 years largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. This is the story coming from the New York Times this morning. It brings up the question of how did the New York Times find out this information. It says this. Obtainedork times has tax return data extending over more than two decades for mr. Trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his Business Organization including detailed information from his first two years in office. His personalnclude returns for 2018 and 2019. We want to know what you think about this. Make sure you call in and let us know. Lets see what the president himself had to say about this story. Its fake news. Totally fake news. Made up, fake. Totally fake news. Paid tax and you will see that. The irs does not treat me well. They treat me like they traded the tea party treated the tea party. They treat me very badly. Me veryn the irs treat badly. But they are under audit and when they are not i would proud to show, but thats just fake news. Times is doing anything they can. So stories that i read are fake. They are so funny. Phony. Bernardts start with calling from new york, new york on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. First of all, i believe the President Donald Trump. He has never lied to me yet so i certainly believe what he says. Hello . Of all host you are on the air. No head. Caller did you hear what i said already . Host yes. Go ahead. Caller i will tell you something about lies. George orwell. And the bible says there will come a day when the lie will become the truth, the truth alive. People who are on the web who believe in the lie think somebody telling the truth is telling the lie. Let me tell you a story nobodys talking about. You know who started black lives matter . Barack obama in his second term said, made this statement, when i leave all of this i will have my own private army. No news report or fake news asked him, i almost fell off the chair with that startling statement. Nobody asked him what he meant by it. But months later he went to an allblack college and thats where he gave a speech to the college kids and said i want to introduce you to the next great civil rights movement. He then introduced the two marxist trained black lives matter leaders and now you see the result. Thats barack obama has let loose the dogs of war. This is an attack on america. Is calling from st. Louis on the democratic line. Him to they have asked show his taxes and stuff. Im retired and i pay more taxes than he did. If its fake news, why dont you show us . He would not do that. The excuse that he cant do it. Not paying taxes. He ripped the taxpayers off. I pay 3000 with taxes and im retired. Pays 750 worth of taxes and this guy is not having the Police Shooting him in the back. Its a shame for him to use obama. Butow you want to use obama forget about it because its not going to work. Host from long island on the independent line. Caller from an independent perspective iv the times article as malicious gossip. An article when the brain surgeon told biden he has less than 50 chance of being normal were biden even stated they take a saw and cut off your head. The fact that a mentally impaired candidate is not being covered accurately by the media is anyone really dumb enough to believe that World Leaders are going to take it easy on a mentally impaired president . Host tom is calling from kernersville on the republican line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Reporting with the New York Times says. New york times is nothing but bias and it always has been. Report junk. Im also getting tired of hearing about trumps taxes. Ok . They have been after this man for the last four years. So democrats and New York Times and the media, get off him. Thank you. Host glenn is calling from madison. Caller if you run that tape back and watched Donald Trumps hes asked, he turns bright red like a beet. Weve got to get him out of there because new york is waiting for him with an orange suit. And i think there is a pair of handcuffs to go with it. Im not really sure. Weve got to get rid of him. Thats all there is to it period. Thank you. Host the executive editor of the New York Times had a statement in the New York Times about the information that they had and why they published it in the New York Times. Heres what he had to say. Some will raise questions about publishing the president personal Tax Information. But the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the press is allowed to publish newsworthy information that was legally obtained by reporters even when those in power fight to keep it hidden. That powerful principle of the First Amendment applies here. That comes from executive editor of the New York Times dean the cat. Calling from arkansas larry is calling from arkansas. Caller im not concerned about his taxes. The taxes are all put together by appropriate by the congress. So if hes going by the law, thats fine. The thing that concerns me the what the democrats have done for the last three or four years. They tried to overthrow an election. Thank you. David is calling from atlanta, georgia. Caller good morning. I found it really interesting who mr. Trump and mr. Cohen didnt pay any taxes at all because he was able to manipulate the system is the same way mr. Trump has manipulated the system. Tactics tohese other make sure no one has seen his taxes. Happened to look at the story of roy cohn on hbo and it was really incredible because mr. Trump was his mentee and he has followed his script to a t and how he does his business and the tactics he used. For the people who dont know hbo had ahn is, special on him. Its just really remarkable the relationship that he and mr. Trump had over the decades. Its really interesting to see that mr. Trump is playing from that playbook. Thing i would like to is like the lady said, shes 80 years old and she paid more taxes in her working life than this man dead. Common sense. Of ourets see what some social media followers think. 750 dollarsump paid in taxes. A Facebook Post says, i dont care about his taxes. If i had the ability to find some loopholes, i would and so would everyone. Says, those with a modicum of common sense know that trump is a lying conman. Another text that says, i imagine that a successful independent businessman has complicated taxes. Hes a great president thats winning for american taxpayers and the timing of this newspaper revelation the day before the debate is suspicious. Another post from facebook says, New York Times says it all. How many false premises have they published, mostly unreliable news. The tax cut for working people helped out great. Steve is on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I just wanted to say that this , soident donates his salary my taxes arent as complicated as his but he gives all that money away. Taxpayer dollars go, this segment is a waste of my time. Scotty is calling on the republican line. Good morning. Caller hello . What i want to say is im basically a democrat and it really doesnt bother me about taxes. Nt trumps i think its ludicrous that a man of his stature could only play 750. They are just doing this because of the election. Host do you think its ludicrous that he paid that little or that the story is being reported . Caller i just dont think a man with his kind of money could only pay 750 in taxes. Bottom line with taxes, most americans will try to cheat their ass off because they are against paying the damn irs. In fort collins, colorado on the independent line. Good morning. Caller that morning. I just cant believe americans are buying lets start off overtrump University Got 3000 lawsuits against collar workers that had to sign nondisclosures that trump ripped off. Lets look at the inauguration money hes in trouble with. Deutsche bank and the Second District court. Michael cohen coming out and saying yes, trump is a tax cheat because he overvalued his. Roperties for bank guy is a billionaire, how come he is selling trump winds and ties . Whats going to happen when we find out how much turkey afterfrom he let our brothers in arms the kurds get slaughtered on the border. Bei think this is going to deeper than people think and when hes out of office, a lot of stuff is going to come out about trump and what hes done, especially that Deutsche Bank because Deutsche Bank is basically controlled by the russians. There are other stories going on in washington today. We want to turn to Stephen Dennis to tell us whats going on in the senate need good morning. Caller great to be here. Host have we gotten any Immediate Reaction to the New York Times story on President Trump . I think we are seeing a lot of democrats coming out and saying this explains why President Trump has hit his taxes from the American People, which is something that president s since Richard Nixon have been laying out for the people. Taxes. E my taxes, i pay they like to brag about how much taxes they have paid so they can say that they arent hiding things. And now you have democrats saying this guy. 750 in taxes, he said he was going to come in and ask the system and they say this guy has actually cut taxes for people. I think this is something they can try to run on. Whether its going to change anybodys minds is kind of doubtful at this point given that there had already been reporting that there had been a number of years where he had not paid taxes and he responded that made him a good businessman. I dont see it hurting him with his base. I do think it is something the democrats can talk about and try to say whether they want to take into whether or not they have been trying to get his other Business Records to see if theres any discrepancy between what he was telling the banks and what he was telling the irs. Is other news going on especially with his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. What is going on on the hill today for Amy Coney Barrett . The senate comes back basically tomorrow. The rest of the week a lot of senators want to meet with her on the republican side. Youre starting to see democrats like Chuck Schumer saying they are not going to do that. They dont believe this is a havingate time to be Supreme Court hearings. This is the closest to an election that theres ever been an attempt to replace a Supreme Court justice. Thet of that is due to timing of Justice Ginsburgs death. Its less than two months before an election. The Republican Senate judiciary chairman Lindsey Graham has set up a very aggressive schedule with hearings starting october 12. He wants that nomination through his committee by september 26, which sets up a vote on the senate floor the week before the election. The democrats could try to do thingstempts to delay hours or days, but dick durbin said over the weekend there is really nothing they can do to completely stop it. And theres other things democrats want to talk about. Particularly on this case i think they are really focusing on the Affordable Care act. Onreme court hears that case november 10, this trump backed lawsuit that could potentially overturn the Affordable Care act depending on what five justices decide. Thats what they have been running on and they are doubling down on that. They think it is a lot more popular than it used to be. Are going to have to see how that all turns out. Host if democrats dont have the votes to stop Amy Coney Barrett, whats the advantage to even the laying it . Delaying it . I think their side is very upset and motivated by the potential for Amy Coney Barrett to overturn roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care act. There folks want to see them fighting. There are demonstrations outside the Supreme Court. Than 300 Million Dollars has flowed into Democratic Political campaigns in the past week. A record number. They are energized. They want to see those Senate Democrats fighting. Things likee some forcing votes on the senate floor. When you watch cspan you see all these form calls and nobody quorum calls and nobody ever shows up. Does that really delay things, ultimately it doesnt. If 51 senators really want to confirm her, they can do that almost at any time by just bringing her to the floor. I do think the republicans want to have these hearings. They want to show Amy Coney Barrett with her seven children. They want to show that she is an accomplished judge. Course arets of going to show up at those hearings even though a lot of them might not meet with her in advance. They are going to try to pick apart her judicial philosophy and try to get across to their voters and to swing voters that she is a threat to the Affordable Care act in particular and also other issues that folks care about like the dreamereamer daca case. They are trying to win over hispanic voters in states like arizona. These kind ofhad hearings right for an election and several endangered Senate Republicans will be on the committee and will be before the eyes of the public one way or the other. Its an opportunity and also a including for Lindsey Graham, who has money coming in against him. Host how will coronavirus change the upcoming hearings . Will we see her Walking Around capitol hill, visiting senators as we would have seen in the past . And who will be her escort for any of these upcoming senator visits . Whos going toar be walking with her. We have previously had folks like jon kyl being the socalled sherpa. I do think that on capitol hill there has been especially on the to wrangle its hard 435 house members tall wear masks and practice social distancing. Some of them just dont seem to believe in that. The senate side is pretty universal. Are seeing the huge reporters are trying to practice some safety. Its going to be challenging getting photos and video and the rest. Thats going to be a challenge for capitol hill to keep everybody safe. The republicans certainly want those photos and videos going out to the public. It might be a little more controlled than before. Host where should we keep our eyes this week . Where should we keep our eyes this week . Thing that we havent mentioned is weve got the end of the fiscal year. The senate is going to vote probably on wednesday just before the deadline to make sure that there is a stopgap funding provision that keeps the government open until after the election. This week might be the last chance in a while for there to be any kind of stimulus package. The house has been writing a 2. 4 trillion stimulus package. Airline aid runs out september 30. There could be a lot of layoffs. A lot of the airlines have said they would lay off tens of thousands of workers. A lot of these layoffs could happened in smaller states that might not be as possible profitable. Senators like Susan Collins are saying, we need to get this done. So far the sides continue to be far apart. The white house has signaled they are doing willing to do more than a trillion dollars. The issue remains state and local a. That is something the white house does not want to give to Speaker Pelosi and that is something she is insisting on. Unless the president changes course