Same time. We will get the latest. Plus, we will speak with Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who just obtained two pages of Donald Trumps 2005 tax returns. It shows most of the taxes trump paid were due to a special tax on high earners that he is now trying to abolish. But is there any hope the nation will see more of trumps Tax Information . Pres. Trump the old one who cares about my tax returns are the reporters. The only one. I won. I mean, i became president. I dont think they care at all. I dont think they care at all. I think you care. I think you care. Amy and we help look at how the state of arkansas is looking to execute eight men in 10 days. Arkansas says the state supply of the sedative midazolam will soon expire. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Calls are growing for President Trump to release his full tax returns after part of his 2005 return was made public tuesday. Two pages from trumps tax return were obtained by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston of dcreport who appeared last night on the Rachel Maddow show on msnbc. The 2005 tax return shows trump earned 153 million or more than 400,000 a day. Trump paid out 36. 6 million in federal income taxes, much of it in the form of whats known as the alternative minimum tax, which trump now wants to eliminate. The document also shows trump wrote off more than 100 million in business losses to reduce his federal taxes. This morning, President Trump tweeted does anyone really believe a reporter who nobody heard of which was mailbox and found my tax returns . That is despite the fact the white house confirmed the authenticity of the documents tuesday after maddow teased the scoop. The white house continues to refuse to release any other tax returns from trump. Well have more on trumps tax returns later in the broadcast with journalist David Cay Johnston. House republicans are demanding changes to the republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act after the Congressional Budget Office said the plan would lead 24 Million People to lose their Health Insurance within a decade. Some republicans pulled their support following mondays report, including florida congresswoman ileana roslehtinen, who tweeted as written the plan leaves too many from my district uninsured. During a news briefing tuesday, White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer conceded that millions would lose their Health Insurance under the plan as it is currently written. This is spicer being questioned by cnns jim acosta. So getting back to the Congressional Budget Office score, would you concede that there will be some coverage losses . Ofat there will be millions people who will not have Health Insurance as a result of what youre doing . Again, sure, except you have to look at the current situation. You are mandated by law to buy insurance right now under obamacare. Amy demonstrations against the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare continued as hundreds braved a blizzard to tuesday protest outside House Speaker paul ryans office in racine, wisconsin. Also on tuesday, President Trumps pick to run medicare and medicaid seema verma was sworn in by Vice President mike pence after she was confirmed by the senate monday. Vermas Health Policy firm helped design indianas Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care act, during which time she worked closely with Vice President elect mike pence. President trump is looking at appointing marc mukasey, who has represented former fox news chairman roger ailes, to replace Preet Bharara as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. Bharara was heading up an investigation into fox news at the time trump fired him after bharara refused to resign. If nominated and confirmed, mukasey likely be forced to recuse himself from the Ongoing Investigation into whether fox news failed to inform shareholders about numerous settlements of some of the more than 20 women who have accused roger ailes of sexual harassment. Meanwhile, Michigan Democratic congressman john conyers is demanding the Justice Department reveal all pending investigations into the Trump Administration and the trump familys businesses. In a Statement Issued saturday, Congressmember John Conyers cited the firing of manhattan u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara, writing it is particularly problematic that the administration would fire mr. Bharara, given that mr. Bharara could be reviewing a range of potential improper activity emanating from trump tower and the trump campaign, as well as entities with financial ties to the president or the trump organization. Commerce and conyers wrote trump has tapped Goldman Sachs banker James Donovan to be deputy treasury secretary. If confirmed, donovan would work directly for another former Goldman Sachs banker, not treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Trump has also tapped another half dozen more people tied to Goldman Sachs to join his administration, including National EconomicCouncil Director gary cohn, trump chief strategist stephen bannon, securities and Exchange Commission chairman nominee jay clayton, senior white house adviser anthony scaramucci, and senior counselor for economic initiatives dina habib powell. White House Press Secretary sean spicer said tuesday President Trump is extremely confident the Justice Department will find evidence to back up his unsubstantiated claims that president obama tapped trumps phones during the 2016 election. He feels very confident we will ultimately we will vindicate him. Amy spicers comments came only one day after spicer tried to back away from the claims, saying trump did not literally mean wiretapping, and that trump did not mean it was ordered by president obama directly. The president use the word wire tapping to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that. That is, again, it is interesting how many news outlets reported this activity was taking place during the 2016 election cycle, and now were wondering where the proof is. This many of the same outlets in this room that talked about the activities that were going on back then. Amy that was sean spicer, speaking monday. Spicers claim directly marchts a march for 4 tweet by the president in which the wiretap claim is made without quotation marks. The tweet read how low has president obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is nixon watergate. Bad or sick guy the deadline has now been extended for the Justice Department to turn over evidence supporting trumps unsubstantiated allegations Obama Wiretapped him to the house intelligence committee. The Justice Department failed to meet the first deadline. South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham has also demanded the fbi hand over any evidence about the alleged wiretap to the Senate Judiciary committee, saying tuesday if the agency doesnt respond to his letter theyre about to screw up big time. Reflecting the growing an acrimonious divisions within the Republican Party over its Embattled Health care plan, the far right wing news outlet breitbart previously headed by white house chief strategist steven bannon, has published an audio recording of an october Conference Call in which House Speaker paul ryan says he would never defend thenrepublican president ial nominee donald trump. To do things i want to make really clear. Im not going to defend donald trump. Not now, not in the future. You have probably heard i disinvited him for my first Congressional District gop event this weekend i do every year. I will not be campaigning with him over the next 30 days. Amy speaker ryans comments came after the release of the this 2005 videotape recorded by access hollywood showing trump boasting about sexually assaulting women. Pres. Trump i just start kissing them. It is like a magnet. And when you are a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. Amy that was donald trump. Despite speaker ryans pledge during the Conference Call, he began working with President Trump immediately after the november election, vowing to help lead a unified republican government. Legal challenges to President Trumps revised travel ban are mounting as the order is slated to take effect at 12 01 p. M. Thursday. Federal judges in both hawaii and maryland are slated to hear arguments today claiming the ban targets muslims and is a violation of the first amendment. Trumps executive order would bar refugees from entering the country for 120 days and would bar all people from iran, libya, syria, somalia, sudan, and yemen fromntering the country for 90 days. President trump met with saudi Arabias Deputy CrownPrince Mohammed bin salman at the white house tuesday, during which the two reportedly discussed their opposition to the landmark 2015 iran nuclear deal. Price mohammed and President Trump were also expected to discuss u. S. Arm sales to saudi arabia for the ongoing saudiled war in yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians. Amnesty international urged trump to block future arms sales, writing arming the saudi arabia and bahraini governments risks complicity with war crimes, and doing so while simultaneously banning travel to the u. S. From yemen would be even more unconscionable. The white house has reportedly instructed the state department to look for ways to cut more than one third of its budget. This could include slashing in half the United States annual 10 million in funding for u. N. Programs such as peacekeeping, vaccines, and childrens aid. The outline of President Trumps preliminary budget is slated to be released on the new york thursday. Times reports Trumps Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch has multiple ties to colorado billionaire philip anschutz, an oil baron who now also owns railroads, real estate, sports teams and stadiums, and conservative newspapers like the Weekly Standard and the washington examiner. Judge gorsuch has represented anschutz and his companies. Anschutz, whose fortune is estimated to top 12 billion, went on to lobby the Bush Administration to tap gorsuch to the federal appeals court. The Senate Judiciary committee is slated to consider gorsuchs nomination for the Supreme Court next week. Voters in the netherlands are heading to the polls today in a closely watched president ial race, which pits Prime Minister mark rutte against farright politician Geert Wilders. This is wilders in the final debate before todays vote. If we dont there to see islam for what it is, the problem will not only be jihad, but islam itself. In the netherlands in a free western countries could no longer exist. We should not tolerate this. Amy that was farright politician Geert Wilders who has been surging in the polls in recent days. He has vowed to close all mosques and ban the koran, if elected. He was found guilty by a dutch court of inciting Racial Discrimination last year. Hes also called for the netherlands to leave the European Union. The European Court of justice ruled tuesday that Companies Across the European Union can prohibit workers from wearing headscarves as part of companywide policies banning all religious or political symbols. Religious freedom groups came out against the ruling. The open Society Justice initiative said it will lead to muslim women being discriminated in the workplace, but also jewish men who wear kippas, sikh men who wear turbans, people who wear crosses. It affects all of them, but disproportionately muslim women. Reuters is reporting that russia appears to have deployed special operations troops to an airbase in egypt near the border with libya. Citing unnamed u. S. And egyptian officials, reuters reports the deployment signals a possible russian intervention in the conflict in libya on behalf of Libyan Military commander khalifa haftar, who opposes the u. S. And u. N. Backed government of National Unity based in tripoli. Egypt has publicly denied any Russian Troops on egyptian soil. The wall street journal is reporting expanded authority by trump to carry out lethal drone strikes a reversal of president obamas policies of limiting the cias ability to carry out such strikes. Meanwhile, nbc news has reported Trumps Administration has taken steps to make it easier for both the pentagon and t cia to carry out lethal drone strikes. The moves involve declaring parts of yemen and somalia areas of active hostilities, giving the agencies greater powers to carry out strikes. A federal grand jury has indicted highranking active and nine retired navy members as part of an investigation into a bribery scandal known as fat leonard. The Justice Department says the nine have been charged with accepting luxurious dinners, trips, gifts and the service of , sex workers as bribes in exchange for handing over classified military information to singaporebased defense contractor leonard francis. Acting u. S. Attorney in san Diego Alana Robinson said this is a fleecing and betrayal of the United States navy in epic proportions, and it was allegedly carried out by the navys highestranking officers. The Senate Armed ServicesCommittee QuestionedMarine Corp Commandant general Robert Neller on tuesday over the growing scandal over an inviteonly 30,000person Facebook Group where male marines have been posting thousands of naked or sexually suggestive photos of their fellow female marines, along with a barrage of misogynistic comments, including some saying the women should be raped. This is new york senator kristen gillibrand. Investigated and found guilty, anybody. If we cannot crack facebook, how are we supposed to be able to confront russian aggression in cyber hacking throughout our military . It is a serious problem when we have members of our military denigrating female marines who will give their life to this country in the way they have with no response from leadership. Amy and newly released Research Shows hate crimes in major cities across the United States surged more than 20 last year. The data released monday by the center for the study of hate extremism at california state university, san bernardino, shows there were more than haterelated crimes committed in 1000 2016, a 23 percent increase over 2015. The centers director brian levin says the number of hate crimes appears to have increased following the election of President Trump. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace re