Waters. This is live coverage on cspan. Playing] you are looking live at a rally outside the u. S. Capital to protest as the tax policies of President Donald Trump and his administration, demanding the president release his tax return. Several hundred people gathering outside the capital today. Marches thatf 180 has been organized across 48 states and the district of columbia. Nationalhe marches are , a similar march in it is meant to symbolize trumps cowardice, according to a tax march executive committee. The marches going on all across the country. 48 states for the district of columbia, london and japan. This is live coverage as we wait for the march to get underway. Again we are looking at a rally outside the u. S. Capital. This is one of what organizers in the180 rallies district of columbia, asking for the president to release his tax returns. During his president ial campaign and following the election, mr. Trump has her peter they said he would not release his tax returns because he is under audit by the Internal Revenue service. He further said the only people interested in his tax returns are the media, not to the public. Was iesidents response became president , i dont think they care at all, i think you care. Several Media Outlets have obtained some of his tax returns last fall when a New York Times reporter declared a 916 million loss in 1995 and more recently msnbc gave a look at two pages at its 2005 returns, showing he paid 38 Million Dollars in federal income taxes on a. Eported income of 150 million these rallies are taking place across the country, including a dozen of them in florida. And also internationally in london and japan. We are waiting on speakers who will include senator ron wyden of oregon. Him circulating the crowd. Live coverage on cspan. Are you ready . Are you ready . Are you ready . [applause] a couple of things to get started. If folks could fill in some can get good pictures. Those folks up front, we love your signs. We cant get them on television with cameras behind you. Im with the working Families Party and i can tell you without question that on the saturday there are absolutely no place than right here with you, demanding donald trump release his tax returns. We appreciate you joining the tax march. Our democracy is better when we are together, and when we resist and march together. Today we are going to hear from elected officials, activists, marchers, and a special guest from comedy central. A have all come together to demand donald trump release his tax returns and develop a system that works for all of us. Equitablefair more tax system, not one that just works with the wealthy and wellconnected. It is long past time that our tax system, our economy and our democracy works for the benefit of americans who look just like us. Two of our most sacred values, transparency and accountability. In this country Public Servants are accountable to the people who elect them. They work for us. And we have every right to know about the financial dealings and potentials of our elected officials. To march. Ame here ,f you want to stay engaged please take your cell phones out end you will be among the first to learn about the resistance movement. If you are posing on social use the note that they are here to assist you. They areried wearing form safety vests. If you have any concerns please reach out to them. There will be a first a tent at the end of the march. If you lose your friends and i promise you it does exist. And we dont want you guys to go home alone. Thank you for being here today. They will lead us in the invocation. [applause] good afternoon. I dont believe there ever has been a gathering such as this for taxes. Grateful you are here because we are standing up to say that we the people care about our tax policy and what our president does with his tax return. We know we should be able to see it. There is a fair amount of scriptural stories in the christian tradition where we experienced disbelief. We experiencing the women going to the tomb where jesus was laid being surprised, bewildered, stunned. We should not be among the bewildered. We should be among the people areknow that they leadership is transparent and ofl share with us the truth what his tax status is. But we have work to do. This desk call the spirit of the divine, whatever name you used to address what i like to call the holy spirit, the breath of mischief, the breath of change. Rests of godn that to move in us, to know that this whereut a hundred percent all are engaged in our care. Free our ears that today we may hear the true fact is that we to fuel our movement. Free our hearts. Free our bodies that we may march and act and claim this moment in history. Most of all, free our nation that we the people may create a system that works for all. Not those at the top, not those in the middle, not those in the the 100 because we the people will form the more. Erfect union let us pray. [singing in foreign language] listen, you people who wrestle with all of your diversity, all of your humanity has one, this week the Jewish Community is holiday of the passover. It is the story of our liberation from slavery and oppression. It is not just a story about it isatural intervention, the story of sending a message to the pharaoh through demonstrations of just how powerful people can be when they join together and demand change. It is not just a story about how god intervened in Human History to redeem the enslaved israelites. It is a story of people who stood up and made the change happen. The rabbis taught that it was an israelite who steps in the sea, that it was his faith in the possibility of redemption that caused the seat apart. I stand here as a representative of different facets of that story. My greatgrandfather was a rabbi and he immigrated to this lastry and changed his name to ben moshe a, son of moses. Also implying he was of the people who struggled and travel to find freedom. I inherit his last name and passion for service in the Jewish Community. There is a repeated mandate throughout the bible to care for the widows, the orphans and the strangers. Mandate through social services because of our taxes. Efforts tolanthropic support nonprofit organizations dedicated to this work. That our leaders support these efforts. But i dont just stand here is a person who has taken on a legacy of service. I am also a daughter of the late former ceo of aig. Away i father passed inherited the financial legacy of his work as a corporate executive. It feels especially important to share that fact because i am the rich to benefit from unfair tax systems and loopholes and i am standing here to say it is wrong. I also understand personally that taking on public roles in leadership takes away the right to privacy that other citizens enjoy. When you choose to make your life public, when you choose to represent the tax paying citizens you have the responsibility. Transparency in your business endeavors and personal life and multiple arenas is the work of gaining the trust of the people you are leading. We stand together demanding work be done. We stand here declaring that we care about creating fair systems of taxation that support our communities. Especially those with the greatest need. [singing in foreign language] to repairk together this world through truth, through transparency, through a fair system for all. Thank you. This is what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. [applause] thank you for a beautiful indication. I want to take moment to thank our partners. Please give a public a big for the applause working family organization, stand up america, the american , americas of teachers for tax fairness and indivisible. Overnight it has been very incredible, tremendous. I want to introduce one of the movements, senator ron wyden from oregon. Please welcome senator wyden. My friends, today my message for the president is short enough to tweet. America we are to say it gloves off is time to knock off the tax ripoff. No more Cayman Island accounts for the insiders. No more tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas. Breaks for wall street. Pain,height time for more red white and blue jobs in america. We are taking the gloves off to knock off the secrecy and publicly release your own tax returns. This closing tax returns. The very lowest ethical bar for a president. We are going to insist that he declare it. We are taking the gloves off to knock off business as usual andtion, where the nurse the cop has their taxes taken whereout of their wage they campaign pay what they want when they want to. So there is your saturday tweet, we are taking the gloves off, knock it off. Knock it off. Knock it off. Knock it off. It may not be loud enough to get to maralago. Mouth that isnt somehow clear enough, let me put it another way. You have citizen speaking on behalf of millions of others to insist that the president take two concrete steps. We want real tax reform that demonstrates the peoples interests, not your interest. We have honest answers about ,he right off, the check off and any ripoff that twists and skews the tax code. It is way out of whack. Seniorhis as the democrat. We have one set of rules for the fortunate few that includes the president and higher pricey accountants. Paying what they want and when they want to. And then have another tough set of fools for the construction workers and the firefighter. We need a system that gives working people a fair chance. Sen. Wyden that bromley that brings me to deal number two and deals with a 1600 pennsylvania, maralago or lots of other true properties. Trump properties. We believe, mr. President , you must meet the same test as every other president , democrat and republican, since watergate. Each of those president s thought the public had a right to transparency and accountability and each of them publicly released their taxes. Has tossed this Great American tradition in the trashcan like a teenager trying to hide a lousy report card. And it seems to me, its particularly on my mind today when i think of the millions of people who are still working on their taxes and trying to make this form get in sync with this one and talk about simplifying t down the road but while all of those working families are trying to finish their returns, they have a right , they have a basic right to know whether the president pays his fair share. [applause] returns, it is all there in black and white. Maybe we can get the masters to the whole array of questions about his connections, especially to russia. [applause] well, to close this off, i have actually proposed legislation, we have more than 20 senators sponsoring it in the senate congresswoman waters is going to talk as well, the legislation says that within 15 coming a nominee at the party convention, the candidates would be required to release at least three years of tax returns. That does not seem to be too much. [applause] and this time of year, the bill says that a sitting president would have to release of the returns annually. We would be getting it now. [applause] sen. Wyden and because we are taking the gloves off to say knock off the secrecy, i have asked the chairman of the finance committee and the ways and Means Committee in the mixing, am going to ask we have asked the chairs to use their authority to obtain the president s tax returns forward to for review. [applause] today, here in washington, in my hometown of portland in a modest sized , people, mr. President , what your response to 2 questions. The first is why wont you do whatever republican and democratic president has dunces watergate . Why wont you do it . Meetresident, why want you for the lowest ethical bar, not a high one, the lowest ethical bar for a president and publicly release your returns . Tell us why you will not. We are tired. We are tired, friends, of the stonewalling and we have had it with the excuses. So today in washington and in more than 100 communities across the country, we are going to say and say it loud and clear, we are taking the gloves off to have off the secrecy and asked for the publics demand that the president do what is right for the American People. [applause] . . Knock it off knock it off [cheering] sen. Wyden i am so glad, i am so glad that today we have given birth to the new grassroots knock it off movement. And i will close just by saying that the reason it is so wonderful that you are here have and we are going to thousands of others in the communities around the country is that political change, as much as we respect our capital, political change does not start in the government buildings and then trickle down. Political change is not tripled down. Trickled down. It is bottoms up as people like yourselves, together come to gether with a strong message it that your interests, your interest is what a president has got to address, not personal interests. Thank you for being here. I am proud to be the first of the knock it off movement sprint i will be behind you every step of the way. God bless. Thank you all. [applause] knock it off knock it off knock it off knock it off knock it off knock it off [cheering that applause] cheering and applause i would like for you to do me a favor and give a big progressive warming welcome to one of the incredible members is somebody i admire. She is the president of those who fight daily for an america where we have an is to say. Please welcome, heather mcghee. Where we have an equal say. [applause] equal say and an equal chance for all of our people. The most, our name means the people. The people will of our great country are being cheated out of the fruits of our democracy. Because of this weekend, millions of americans are spending their hardearned money to washington and tuesday capitals and we do it because is our duty. We do it because it is right. And we do it because this country has invested in us and we believe in what americans can do together. [applause] heather we pay our taxes because we think our families and neighbors deserve clean water, safer roads, schools worthy of our children. , sometimes, without shame, our families and our neighbors deserve help. Help affording a doctors visit or rent or food on the table. And why is that . Because Committee Jobs do not pay enough to pay the bills and it is not their fault. [applause] what our taxess due for us, for our families and neighbors. That is who we work for. We are gathered here today to find out who is donald trump working for . [applause] heather what is he hiding . Is he working for the defense contractors . Do a budget grab off 54 billion for defense were we have a bigger military that a next several countries combined event the next seven countries combined . Is he working for the defense contractors who are clamoring after the trough of the idea of trumps stupid wall . Cuts to mealsby on wheels and sesame streets and libraries. [booing] heather awol to keep out a wall to keep out the undocumented immigrants who pay 23 million in state and local taxes. Micro to farm worker is probably contributing more in this country than you are. [cheering] whater we want to know each rope hiding and who he is working for. Is it the polluters who are cheering his cuts to the epa . The polluters who sacrifice the next generation and the name of next quarters profit. Polluters who put money into republicans and they give us a asthma, lead poisoning. Know what trump is hiding him who he is working for . Today, there are 200 a cross of the towns and big cities across town for big cities because we are fed up. We are set up with the billionaires bragging they pay next to nothing in taxes. We are fed up with fortune 500 Companies Paying their lobby is more than they pay in taxes every year. We are fed up with our families and neighbors and getting stuck with the bills and told there is not enough money to fix it be once andflint and the was virginia and arizona and all around the country. [applause] Donald Trumps friends and family, his Goldman Sachs cabinet and the members of his country club in palm beach, the bankers who bail out his bad deals and the russian oligarchies he is swapping favors with they are all part of a cobol that is achieving america. Cheating our families and neighbors to the tune of 400 billion a year. The irs saiduch of we are coming up short because of tax dodging by corporations and the superrich. [booingg] we are every year coming up sure. They say there is not enough of money to keep the schools open up. They have to cut bus lines and shut down after school programs. They tell us tuition is going up a you can forget about prek for your four year old. Across the country, americans are calling bullshit. [cheering] [chanting] yourer donald trump a billionaire friends, we know what you are hiding. We know where the money is. We are sending you the bill. Thank you. [applause] how do you follow that . I told you im she is incredible. A role model. Love love love heather mcghee. One more time, heather mcghee. [applause] the honor of introducing somebody was a great state , andate for d. C. , a lawyer advocate on the first lines of congress, please welcome congressman jamie raskin. Congressman raskin hey. Lets hear it for the revolutionary patriots who created america. [applause] by tax was conceived protesters like you chanting no taxation without representation proud americans, we does the sloping off and raise it on behalf of 700,000 tax paying patriotic systems and the Nations Capital or denied voting representation in that building right and there. [applause] the ceos areaskin well represented in this administration but they pay little taxes but the patriotic people of d. C. Paid millions and have no representation at all, we are not to take it anymore. The first of americans will overthrow king who imposed taxes on Small Businesses but exempted his tycoon buddies in the east india east India Corporation to payated the commoners for his lavish expenses in traveling jones of the royal of the royalnts family. A king who never paid his taxes or disclose have entanglements with foreign kings and dictators. You could hear us from maralago, reading the constitution. We havent no kings here. We have no slaves here. We have citizens with equal rights. We allow no titles and no america nobility in you may get your secretary of state who has the title of why putin of friendship. We do not allow our president s of members of congress to collect presence or offices or titles or payments of any kind from forward printss, kings, dictators or state owned banks and corporations. Article one, section nine, look it up. In america, no one is above the law