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Melissa murray in for mehd hassan for nearly half a century it was an obvious, clear norm if you wanted to be th president of the united states you had to show the american public where your money came from it was a norm that began amazingly, with richard nixo during the watergate scandal i 1973, when nixon released hi tax returns to fight off accusations of corruption. in fact, it was nixon's ta filings sparked one of the mos famous quotes in america politics >> i look on this kind o examination because people hav got to know whether or not their president as a crook, am not a crook, i have e...

The law around d.c. is very, very clear. having concealed weapons is absolutely illegal. trump said according to hutchinson, they're not here to hurt me. let them in. if trump is aware of it, if the secret service is aware of it, trump was clear they were not there to hurt him. if they have weapons, convey that warning to others. >> well, and i think we know pretty clearly based on the noose erected on the capitol grounds and hang mike pence, one of the people they wanted to hurt was mike pence. talk to me a little bit about the sort of order of operations. if trump detail knew that there was ...

If a crime was committed here and whether or not it's prosecutable. >> ryan, just to be clear here, the committee gave the doj a lot of these transcripts earlier in the month of december, is that right? or are they getting some on the 23rd of december just like we all are? >> that's not exactly clear. the way bennie thompson described it, if they ask for something, we're going to give it to them. so it's not like they handed over the entire tranche of transcripts. it's not just transcripts, it's the video of the depositions, emails, documents, that is all theoretically something the department...

The question is what does he have to say? will he talk about how this full relationship played into perpetuation of the big lie. >> joits, help me to understand something. in some of these transcripts we gain an understanding that john eastman himself at points indicated his strategy regarding pence and fake electors was not going to hold up in a court of law. yes, but trump heard about this. once he gets something stuck in his head, it's hard to convince him otherwise. i'm paraphrasing. that's the essence of it, right? there's a consciousness of guilt, if you will. how do you convince the you...

Happened as far as the political fallout, probably for trump not much, except that it adds to a reall bad three or four weeks fo donald trump and, you know, people ar starting to look at othe potential candidates for 2024. so, i do not think thi necessarily hurts him with his base i am just happy to say that we get to have his taxes in ful view >> so, this is not all about donald trump, someone else has also failed here according to the house ways an needs committee the irs should have audited trump's tax returns, how did this oversigh even occur in first place? >> i think that is a 64,00 doll...