Good morning, it is wednesday, march 15th. Im katie tur alongside cal perry and louis burgdorf. This morning the world is learning more about Donald Trumps taxes. The president refused to release them throughout his campaign, the transition and his administration. But last night Rachel Maddow got ahold of some of them. She revealed two pages of the 1040, but no itemized pages. It showed 38 million paid to the federal income tax, 150 million in income and 103 in losses. Nothing to show how he made his money were included. These were obtained by someone from dc. Org. The filing apparently came in the mail. Who sent them . Its a mystery. If you havent solicited something by the way, let me point out, it is entirely possible that donald sent this to me. Donald trump over the years has leaked all sorts of things. The president paid a tax rate of 25 because of the alternative minimum tax. Mitt romney by comparison paid 14 and took heavy fire during the 2012 campaign. As maddow prepared to go on the air, the white house acknowledged the documents writing, quote, before being elected president , mr. Trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. That being said, mr. Trump paid 38 million even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than 150 million, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that. Despite this substantial income figure and tax paid, it is totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. The Dishonest Media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the president will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all americans. The white house added, quote, you know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. Now republicans have come under pressure to compel the president to release his tax returns, but most have resisted. House republicans shot down a democraticled effort to compel the release of the documents. Under the tax code, the house and Ways Means Committee can get to Donald Trumps tax returns in a closed door meeting and choose to make all or part of them public. Walter jones of North Carolina and mark sanford of South Carolina joined in the effort to release his tax returns. They were the only two republicans who voted for that, by the way. And Susan Collins says this is necessary as they probe into his ties to russia. What do we make of this, katy . What was this . Was this a big moment . I think that any time you see any of Donald Trumps tax returns, be it two pages of a 1040 from 2005 or something from 1995, or the most recent tax returns, its a big deal because he doesnt want to show them. And why does he not want to show them when all of his modern predecessors since nixon have done so. So that shows us how hes run his business. Hes not done that. Hes claimed hes successful. Certainly we saw he made quite a bit of money that year, but why is there so much secrecy beyond that . What money did he make in the subsequent years . How much is he leveraged . How much tax did he pay later on . These are all questions we dont have and questions the American People usually gets answers to. And frankly, his explanation that he had a responsibility to his business, et cetera, doesnt really make any sense because they are his personal tax returns. What happens today . Does he come out to show the graphic that says, look, i paid 25 and thats not bad . I think that is what youll see in the briefing. But remember, this is also a distraction, which is why donald trump sent them, im not saying, i dont know, but from the other big stories of the day, and that is that health care is not doing well in the house. And donald trump has russia hanging over his head. And the fbi could potentially come out and reveal what they know between donald trump and what happened in the election with russia. We dont know. Its a distraction, potentially. Thats the mo of this administration. Speaking of health care, well talk about that all day. But well bring in the republican quest to Reform HealthCare Coverage now seeming to sputter amongst the ranks in the light of the prementioned cbo report. The president heads to a rally to sell his plan today. He talked with key stake holders by phone with paul ryan and tim mulvaney. Senator ted cruz talked to the president yesterday to find a way to vote yes on the house bill as well, but earlier in the day he called the cbo report trouble. The most troubling aspect of the cbo report is that it underscored my biggest concern about the current draft of the house bill. Which is that it does not do enough to drive down premiums. The bill as drafted would not pass the senate. And i would point out, if its not going to pass the senate, it raises a good question of why house members would want to vote for this bill and pay the political price for voting for this bill if it is doomed to failure in the senate. This is it. If we dont get this through, the goal of repealing obamacare and instituting a system that will be patient centered is going to be unbelievably difficult. Now the political pressure is increasing. A packt backed rand paul came ot to say, the American Action network has begun running ads supporting kevin brady who backed the plan and in 30 markets of conservative congressmen who oppose the president s plan as of now. The Republicans American Health Care act versus Obamacare Obamacare is full of jobdestroying mandates. The new plan eliminates them obamacare puts bureaucrats in control. The republicans plan puts patients and doctors in charge. Tell congressman yoho to vote with President Trump. The cbo report that came out, did it in any way, shape or form change your position on the bill . No, not at all. The cbo, if you look historically, they have been way off on certain things. If you look at the original costs of the Affordable Care act, it was 860 billion. But truth be known, it was over 2 trillion. Its only off by a factor of 2 trillion. So the cbo is a good starting point but its not the end result. Joining us is daniel litman, a reporter for politico and coauthor of politicos playbook. Daniel, thats why youre up so early, i assume. Well two to politicos call last night that President Trump had with republicans. We have heard the president is open to negotiating. At the same time, were hearing from house leadership the plan is basically set. So what is the state of play right now . I think the house leadership, they have to say that the plan that they presented is going to pass the house. But i think President Trump realizes that he has to do major surgery on this bill. And he has to really involve the Senate Republican leadership. And just senators in moderate states who are raising real questions as to whether this is something that would pass the senate. Because as they make the bill more conservative, they also have to make it more liberal, more moderate, to get and have a good chance of passing in the senate. Hes got to get more conservative in the house, more liberal in the senate. Lets talk about another piece of the puzzle, which is breitbart. He is taking paul ryan to task when he published the leaked audio of paul ryan saying he wouldnt support President Trump back during the campaign after that 2005 access hollywood audio came out. So what was the attempt here, was that to remind President Trump that paul ryan didnt have his back and potentially get him not to have paul ryans back . I think it is to take paul ryan down a notch. And because breitbart is read in the highest ranks of the administration among trumps top aides, they want to take a shot at paul ryan and reince priebus, who is ryans close ally, and say, if you mess this up, guys, were just going to keep beating you. And that almost shows that breitbart isbannon. Because bannon cant direct breitbart anymore. So they go off the reservation. And they are criticizing people inside the tent. And so it just shows the influence that they have, but it does seem like theyve always criticized paul ryan. Steve bannon used to bash staffers who praised ryan. We will find out how this plays out. Also well question whether steve bannon doesnt have anything to do with breitbart any longer. That question still hanging out in the air. Politicos daniel litman, thank you very much. Thank you. And the cleanup is underway across the northeast as millions of residents work to dig themselves out from yesterdays powerful winter storm. At least two deaths are being blamed on all the snow and ice in east hartford, connecticut, and gilford, new hampshire. About 150,000 were without power yesterday afternoon. Here in new york city, crews worked overtime to keep the city that never sleeps moving. Mass transit is slowly returning to full speed after widespread Service Suspensions and delays. In the citys burorough staten island, police were forced to play cowboy after a barn was blown open. And in the hudson valley, life was brought to a standstill as upwards of two feet of snow fell in some parts leaving some drivers stranded on the road. And the conditions were so bad at one point that the snowplow ended up overturned on the side of the road on new yorks route 9. Now in massachusetts, a similar picture with central and western parts of the state seeing a foot or more of snow. Our crew in worchester captured this drone footage of the snow creating whiteout conditions, pretty scary there. In boston, it was also a scary scene on the i93 yesterday as the d. O. T. Traffic cameras captured a tractortrailer spinning out of control on one of the citys bridges. And travelers are hoping to have better luck today taking the friendlier skies. Nearly 7,000 flights were canceled yesterday and another 4,700 were delayed. Joining us with more on the massive cleanup in new york city, blake mccoy. Blake, things are starting to look a little better, but i know it is really cold this morning creating icy conditions. Reporter yeah, it is bitterly cold. This is a city that was virtually shut down yesterday. This morning, a lot of people are going back to school and work. And there is still a lot of snow on the ground. Check out these big mountains of snow in times square. Theres another one back there. If i walk over here, you can see look at the streets. They are still covered in snow. And another big mountain of snow and ice over there. Thats because normally with the marked snowplows, it gets warm enough that this will melt away. Thats not the case with this storm. The actual air temperature is 20 degrees and feels like Single Digits. So a lot of the snow is stuck around. You will want to wear snow boots heading out today. This is going to be a messier morning commute than a lot of people expect, even though the city didnt get as much snow as they were expecting with the storm. Coming up in a half hour, well talk airports because thats where the even bigger mess is. But for now, back to you. Blake mccoy from a messy times square. Thank you. And march madness has begun. We have highlights from the first four. Fantastic. I know youre super excited. I cant wait. Plus, the texas congressman is facing backlash over a town hall. What he said to a constituent that was caught on camera. Those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. Imagine if the things you bought every day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. With the united mileageplus explorer card, youll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes. Priority boarding. And 50,000 bonus miles. Everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. The united mileageplus explorer card. Imagine where it will take you. Its about moving forward not back. Its looking up not do. Its feeling up inking up living up. Its being in motion. In body in spirit in the now. Boost. 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And heres what he said. My opinion is that there are some issue that is are totally federal issues and there are some issues that the proper issue is at the state level. Most laws with Domestic Violence are state issues and handled by the state of texas. Well get a check on the weather now with meteorologist bill karins. We didnt get as much snow as we thought in new york, but it is still a very messy morning. But upstate new york, 40 inches in some spots. The big cities, if you want to call it spared, it changed over to sleet. Sleet is still a pain to clean up anyways, but interior sections were crushed. The storm itself is up in canada. Still leftover snow in western new york and northern portions of new england. The area that got hit the hardest . Eastern pennsylvania and Central New York. The highest total i found, this is almost an unbelievable number. Bridgewater, new york, 20 miles south of utica, new york, 41 inches from a trained weather reporter. We know thats probably true because we have numerous reports near 30 inches. Binghamton, new york, the biggest snowfall from one storm, 31. 2 inches. At last report, it was still snowing this morning. Albany, new york, 17 inches. And because of the sleet that mixed in, central park ended up with even inches. Boston logan, 6. 5. Yesterday a lot of people got stuck inside. And the windchill is 7 in new york, zero in buffalo, 4 in detroit. At lalanta has a windchill of 1 today. It feels like the middle of winter out here in so many locations of the east. And we have freeze warnings for all of the southeast this morning and for tonight. 68 Million People at risk of a freeze. And at least the west is warm. At least we have someone that we can Say Something positive about, but thats about it. And its not going to warm up any time soon in the east, unfortunately. Im going to move back to california. Youre going back to california . Im doing it. 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Everybody is talking about the giant storm, the huge blizzard to hit the east coast. I heard that 120 Million People were affected by todays snowstorm. 120 people worked from home on their march madness brackets. Thats right. Welcome back. Time now for sports. In the first set of ncaa tournament tipoffs, today ohio and st. Marys are the first team to advance. With 23 points from the smallest player in the division i basketball, 55 point guard junior robinson. Robinsons goahead jumper with 1 30 to play put st. Marys back on top where they held on for the 6766 win. But it was a nailbiter. In the other first four matchup, kansas state and wake forest squaring off for the right to face sixth seed cincinnati in the first round. Instead the wildcats earned kansas states its first tournament win in a half decade, 9588 for them. And to the nba and cleveland, lebron james knocks his tenth tripledouble to help the cavaliers get by the pistons, 12896. 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