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Floor. But far right members of the house are threatening his speakership over funding for the war torn country. Well have more of the dysfunction on capitol hill in just a moment. Well also bring you the latest from arizona following an emotionally charged meeting in the State Legislature over the civil war abortion ban. Plus an update on the attempt just days before the Jury Selection is set to begin. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, april 11th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. A day after an Arizona Supreme Court ruled a 160yearold near total abortion ban is enforceable, republicans in the State Legislature blocked efforts to repeal thalaw that ....
Eight minutes after the mueller hearings were gavelled to a close, the president s lawyers were in court filing an emergency writ to try to block his tax returns from being released. we ve talked a number of times about, a, historical it is he kept his tax returns from public view. right. did you sense there may be more urgency around that issue now? certainly the white house seems more urgent about it. might well be. there s a historical parallel to that because in 1973, richard nixon, there was a leak from his taxes, showed he paid a thousand dollars in 1970, 1971, and so, therefore, there was a clamor for nixon to show why he had paid so few dollars on very big income. so he released his taxes 1969 to 1972. irs looked at it, so did the joint committee on taxation of the congress. they felt that he had under paid his taxes by about $475,000. the diamond in the chandelier here, rachel, is that that committee also went to the irs ....
I was struck by the fact that eight minutes after the mueller hearings were gavelled to a close, the president s lawyers were in court filing an emergency writ to block his tax returns from being released. we talked about how a historical it was. did you sense there might be more urgency? might be. in 1973 richard nixon there was a leak from his taxes showed he had paid $1,000 in 1970 and 1971 so therefore there was a clamber for nixon to show why he paid so few dollars on very big income so he released his taxes 1969 to 1972. irs looked at it so did the joint committee on tackizatixat the connecticgress and felt he paid by $470,000. the diamond in the chandelier here, rachel, that committee ....
Campaign. so, did mueller look at trump s taxes or didn t he? and shouldn t someone, given what mueller just said about the financial basis of trump s compromise by russia? i mean, if you didn t think this was urgent before, it was weird, right, this is the first president to not release his tax returns, and it has been interesting to see democrats pursue them and a fascinating legal matter at this point, but it s never been a more urgent manner than it is today, after mueller directly linked the president s compromise to russia to the foreign entanglements and the business pursuits that he secretly maintained concerning the government of russia that he lied about, that russia knew about and that russia could expose at will. now, given that new urgency around the president s taxes, i should tell you that literally eight minutes after the close of the mueller hearings today, eight minutes after the second hearing was adjourned, the president filed an emergency writ in federal court to t ....
Block his taxes from being released in new york state. an emergency writ, eight minutes after the hearing wrapped up. nervous much? the other thing i think that nobody expected today from robert mueller was his blunt accusation, his blunt assessment of what the president did with regard to russia, when it came to them releasing the stolen material that they had hacked from the democrats to try to benefit his campaign. if we could put up slide six, this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks, donald trump, october 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is a like a treasure drove. donald trump, october 21st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. ....