How they trumped up story of the president s tax return took an interesting turn. A lot of interesting twists and turns. First of all, new fox news poll finds the Approval Rating has slipped five points in the last month. Down to 43 from 48 in february. The president is getting some good news from the leak of one of his tax returns. Even though the information appeared quite favorable to him, President Trump was today professing outrage over the leak of his 2005 2005 tax returns. I have no idea where they got it but its illegal, and youre not supposed to have it and its not supposed to be leaked. And its certainly not an embarrassing tax return at all. Asked but its an illegal thing. Theyve been doing it. Theyd have done it before and i think its a disgrace. The returns show the president paid about 38 million in tax on 153 million in incom income. The effective tax rate was 25. 3 , far more than the 18. 7 president obama paid in 20 for 2015. Since senator sanders is such a good socialist, i think he would want to pay his fair share. I am expecting news any day that hes going to send a couple hundred thousand into the irs. Sticker democrats ignored the disparity, instead insisting that if the white house could confirm one years tax return, and should release more. For me, they were merely a little, as we say in minnesota, a cocktail weenie appetizer. It was a tiny piece of what we want to say. Hot topic today. The return was stamped client copy, which may have limited who had access to it. The white house had its own copy last night and had a statement ready. When Joe Scarborough suggested President Trump leaked his own tax return to distract attention from the health care fight in ad russia, Michael Cohen spat back on twitter. As the president s personal attorney, i know who has his taxes. You better have proof to back up your claim and big mouth. We dont know why he paid such an minimum tax. One expert told fox news its possible for a developer to pay an enormous amount of alternative minimum tax because of the completion rule. And then in subsequent years, get most if all if not all of it back. Bret there is still no evidence trump tower was wiretapped during the 2016 campaign. Thats the word from top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee. As chief intelligence correspondent catherine heritage reports, thats not the end. Fbi director comey and mike rogers to testify monday, House Intelligence Committee leaders that theyve seen nothing that backs up the march forth allegations on twitter. I see no evidence of that. It supports the claim President Trump made that his predecessor had wiretapped he and his associates at trump tower. Evidence remains the same. We dont have any evidence that took place. The president suggested he would be vindicated in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Wiretapped covers a lot of different things. I think youre going to find some interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. Committee chairman and Ranking Member want more information about whether communications were picked up by the Intelligence Community. Incidental intelligence collection happens when a foreign target like the Russian Ambassador is tracked. In the process, phone calls and Text Messages of an american citizen are picked up. Fox news told thats how mike flynns medications were captured. Congressman sent this letter to the cia, and other leadership asking them to confirm how Many Americans were ensnared and whether privacy rules for protecting their identities were followed. To speak of what i remain concerned about is whether or not there is additional collection were not aware of and if any of that information was put into any intelligence reports. And whether or not additional names were unmasked. Sticker democrats want more information about roger stone, political advisor associated with the Trump Campaign who confirmed and downplayed contact with julian assange, the head of wikileaks as well as the hacking entity that spilled the emails from the Democratic National committee. Used to publish documents damaging to secretary clinton. Dianne feinstein and chuck grassley, the committee has direct oversight, met with director comey and offered nothing to reporters. Bret thank you. More on this with the panel. President trump is on the road in part to make his case to the public that they need to repeal and replace obamacare. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel looks at the hardsell facing capitol hill. Vice president mike pence was on capitol hill trying to promote Republican Health care proposal. He met with the republican study committee. G. O. P. Leaders look at finetuning the legislation. Working out some final details to make the bill even better. There are some great conservative wins. Supporters. 2 the wall street journal editorial page, calling it the best chance in a generation to control a runaway government. Some republicans are reluctant. Want to make sure the Cost Increases for seniors are taken up. That is problematic. Some critics are not shy about expressing their complaints. The leadership in the house is weak need and kneed, so thee giving you something that is half as much as obamacare but doesnt fix the problems. Groups calling for a major overhaul. Quick to blame Speaker Paul Ryan but he points out its not just his plan. The major components are intact. This is something we wrote with President Trump, we wrote with the senate committees. New fox paul has the repeal and replace of obamacare is at 7 . House Budget Committee taking up this package, the top democrat says its in trouble. This piece of legislation is an legislative quicksand. Its thinking of its own weight and every time republicans try to move one way or another, its sinking faster. Lindsey graham sounded the alarm as well. Its mortally wounded. I dont know if it died yet. This is the last best chance for republicans to Pass Health Care by themselves and screw it up. Graham is the mongo suggesting if the president cannot get the right bill, he should let obamacare collapse and challenge democrats to fix the problem they created. Bret mike emanuel live on the hill. Thank you. I sat down with the senates top democrat, minority leader Chuck Schumer. We started by discussing the future of obamacare. Democrats are united. The places that would feel the loss, the repeal of aca the most, are rural red state areas. When our senators from the writer states that trump carried go home, they are getting huge support for not repealing. Bret you do say that fixing obamacare is necessary. And do you disagree that it would implode if its left to go . The cbo in their report, and cbo to us is reliable, the head of cbo was recommended number one by tom price. Now the secretary of hhs, chosen by donald trump. He said its not going to collapse. Our view has been simple. Once President Trump and speaker ryan, leader mcconnell say they are no longer going to repeal, of course we want to make aca better and we will work to improve it. If you repeal it, you cant do it. You have nothing. They are having a great deal of trouble replacing it. Bret the markets for obamacare show demand has leveled off. Prices for premiums and deductibles are skyrocketing for a lot of people. Some states go up and some go down. Bret how would democrats fix it . There are some ways. There would have to be compromises with the republicans. Republicans. We moved give the state Insurance Commissioners more authority to limit the price increases. Bret why not put out your plan . You cant do it if youre going to try to repeal act. Once you repeal it, what are we building on . Bret candidate trump ran on it. You have 11 democrats up for reelection from states were 82 or more of the counties were won by donald trump. When they go home to those counties, they are hearing, dont repeal. Candidate trump ran on repeal without showing what the replacement was pure he said it will cost less and cover more people. Thats clearly not the ryan plan. Bret to clarify, you say if obamacare is left as it is, you do not believe it will implode and that prices will continue to skyrocket. I believe thats right. We would be willing to Work Together to fix it. Bret today after the release last night of President Trumps 2005 tax returns, does it rebut some of the claims, including secretary clinton, that he paid no taxes. The Trump Campaign said the numbers are accurate. It is two pages of one year. The real nub is what happened over ten years . Where is he getting this money from . The key question is, are there russian sources and might those have affected or will affect President Trump . Everyone knows, contrary to republican beliefs, has been softer on putin then traditionally republican candidates, president s, senators have been. The question is why. Everyone should know. When he makes a deal with russia, whatever it is, you dont want anyone suspecting its done because hes got hotels there. Seven countries on the list, saudi arabia, which had more terrorists come into the u. S. , including the ones involved in the world trade center. Saudi arabia wasnt on the list. There is speculation. I dont know if its true or not. He didnt put them on the list because he had hotels there. Bret they say that visa checking in saudi arabia is adequate enough. The six countries dont have that. Why do more terrorists coming from saudi than other countries . Are you saying they should be on the list . Every country ought to be vetted. I think they did a poor job of it in general. We should tighten up everywhere. Bret you use words when talking about the Trump Administration, President Trump and russia. You used the words collusion and coordination. What you really mean is conspiracy, aiding and abetting, both of which are crimes. Are you alleging President Trump or his campaign committed a crime . What i am saying is that not that there was a conspiracy. There are enough questionable acts. We saw what happened with flynn, to have a full and thorough impartial investigation. Putin, in my opinion, is an evil man. Hes a bully. If there is potential there was collusion, people should know about it. Im not saying there is. I am saying there ought to be an investigation. The Justice Department should appoint a special prosecutor. They could look into things independently and you could have the investigation go quietly alongside. Bret you want to get something done with this administration. I said two things to President Trump. First, i said, he ran as a populist against the republican and democrat establishments as a change agent but seems to be governing from the hard right. Most of the appointments are hard right. Bret you voted against elaine chao. Why would you do that . I said i am for a big infrastructure built but you have to do it with real spending, not tax breaks. Elaine chao did not commit to it. Bret you are talking about policy. When you get to the infrastructure policy, you can argue all day about it but when people are nominated to positions and all of your colleagues dont have any problem with elaine chao, why do you vote against her . I told you why. Bret you are arguing policy. Youve talked about this white house, and Many Democrats have, calling its chaos. I have. Bret by slow walking the confirmations, who you know could be approved at the end easily, isnt it dragging it out and isnt it contributing to whatever chaos . These cabinet nominees, every nominee deserves a full vetting. That is our responsibility. Doesnt mean rubberstamp. Lots of them had huge financial entanglements. The president said he was going to clean the swamp. Well, the cabinet is filled with billionaires, wall street people. Third, so many of the cabinet people have different ideas than what the president campaigned o on. Bret do you think you have hindered President Trump . In comparison to president obama and how senator mcconnell and the republicans dealt with it. President obama was better prepared. Bret what do you think you can get done . What you think you can negotiate with the president and get across the finish line . One quick, easy example. The wall street guys pay less taxes than their secretaries, many of them. If you put that bill on the floor, we would do it. Infrastructure, if its real money and can build real new roads, we would work with the president. And trade. My views on trade, i voted against nafta in 1994 even though president clinton asked me to vote for it. My views are closer to trump than obama or bush. I would be willing to work with him on trade. They havent sent us anything infrastructure. We put out a plan and have gotten nothing back. He started on the aca. He knew it would create partisan divisions. If he goes to a huge tax break, democrats are going to oppose him. Bret what about border funding . You voted for more security. Theres going to be your request, possibly tomorrow. Bipartisan bill got the support of a lot of republicans, called the schumermccain bill. We have better production on the border than a wall would be. They havent cemented it. The major basis of it is a wall. Bret you are not ruling out funding request on the border . If donald trump would look at the bill that senator mccain and i passed, he might agree with 98 of expert he should look at it. Bret senator Bernie Sanders in New York Times magazine on the future of the Democratic Party was asked what the party currently stands for. Heres what he said. You are asking a good question i cant give you a definitive answer. Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the titanic so long as they have firstclass seats. Heres a guy who won two dozen states in the election, primary peer hes a member of your senate leadership. And he cant say what your party stands for. I dont know when the quote came about. We are working together. He has supported our infrastructure bill. He was one of the sponsors. Yesterday we put in a bill for family leave, real, good paid family leave. This is part of our democratic proposals. He is on it. On trade, we are working. We stand for a strong economic message aimed at helping the middle class and those trying to get there. We believe donald trump, who campaigned like that, is actually acting as a president for the very wealthy and special interests. They are doing it on most of their proposals. In 2016, we did not have a sharp, strong economic message aimed at the middle class. We will now. Bret theres a question inside the caucus about which way it goes. Does that go towards Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren . Does it go more centrist . Seems like its going that way. On economic issues, a strong, bold economic plan, we will have Bernie Sanders onboard. We will be united on the strong economic message. Thats number one reason we lost in 2016. We didnt have it. I blame myself and everybody else. Bret does neil gorsuch get in . I have some doubts. I think hes been a judge who favored the wealthy economic interests over the middle class. Bret are you still going to push to stop neil gorsuch . Not a single democrat has come out for him. Most have not come out against him. People are waiting for the hearing. Bret are you worried the Nuclear Option is going to be used . I hope not. Harry reid, when he changed the rules, did not do the Supreme Court at my suggestion. I said its an important position. I said cabinet too but he didnt listen to me. Its so important, you should get 60 votes. Bret youve known donald trump for a long time. He recalled how he helped democrats. Despite the politics and the political evolution, do you observe any differences between the man you knew and the man who is now president . I will tell you have a lot of his personality traits are the same, whether you like them or not. As a president and president elect he has moved further to the right and how he campaigned. Bret can you negotiate with him . Certainly if he recognizes our values are here and negotiating doesnt mean were going to do this which he did move all the way over there. Bret senator schumer, we appreciate the time. Thank you. Great to be with you. 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