Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170419:08:56:00
Office in martinsburg, west virginia, somebody sent president nixon's tax information to a reporter. a reporter at the "providence journal bulletin" in rhode island. that reporter then published a story on it and what we learned from that leak and that publication was over the course of two years, president nixon had paid next to nothing in federal income taxes. he was earning $200,000 a year as president of the united states, but he was paying the government in taxes basically the same amount as if he was, quote, a wage earner with one exemption in the $7,000 income bracket. so he faced an on...