journalist david kay johnson, who received the forms and honestly in the mail, said there was nothingproper" about showing the documents before adding -- >> is entirely possible that donald sent this to me. donald trump has over the years leaked several things. the electoralng campaign, hillary clinton constantly attacked him for his refusal to disclose his tax returns. >> maybe because you have not paid any federal income tax. reporter: last year, "the new york times" revealed a tax form that suggested that trump avoided hang federal income tax by using a loophole. say it shows he is a savvy businessman, but critics say he is dishonest. host: all that comes as trumps revised travel ban is due to go into effect tomorrow. it is already facing court challenges around the country today. several states are trying to derail the executive order affecting travelers from six muslim majority nations with a judge in maryland already hearing arguments in court from the american civil liberties union. hawaii's lawsuit is heading to federal court in honolulu while washington state, the one that su

pulitzer prize-winning journalist david kay johnson made the announcement on msnbc's rachel maddow show, based on documents obtained by johnson, trump paid $36.5 million in taxes for a tax rate of roughly 24%. that percentage is below the 27.4% average for taxpayers earning $ m according to data from the congressional joint committee on taxation. the white house numbers closely mirrored those released by johnson who claims he received the return unsolicited. >> came in the mail and there's nothing improper about journalists, if you haven't solicited something, getting it over the tranceom. and it's entirely possible that donald sent this to me. he has over the years, leaked all sorts of things. >> every republican nominee since richard nixon has release the tax returns. in the documents distributed by the white house still leaves questions, including source of income, how much was donated to charity and foreign income among other things. >> and the other question is whether or not the president or somebody with the administration might have leaked it to rachel maddow or that reporter or

pulitzer pry winning journalist david kay johnson told ms nbc rachel maddow he got front and back of the president's 1040 form in his mailbox. >> what we don't have here is this describes the types of income but not the sources. >> okay. >> that is what we need to know hoist the president getting money from. >> maddow says first amendment protects publication of the return, tradition of the releasing presidential tax returns, began, with richard nixon. >>> bucks county man prosecutors say abused children over 40 years has a preliminary hearing this morning. fifty-eight year-old william thomas faces child rape, child porn grave and other charges. police say a man buying a home in the falls township trailer park found details of the abuse written on plywood and they traced to it thomas a handy man at that park. police say several victims have come forward and there may be more victims. >>> well, it hasn't hit theaters yet with you already beauty and beast is setting a box office record, we have to tell you. >>> then if your carpets are filled with salt and grime from yesterday's storm

ms nbc rachel maddow showed, the david kay johnson claims he got the front and back of the president's0 form in his mailbox. >> what we don't have here, which is this describes the types of income but not the sources. >> okay. >> that is what we need to know, who is the president getting money from. >> maddow says release is protected by the first amendment, president trump is first chief executive since the watergate era to refuse to release his tax returns. >>> well, charges related to two separate hack ago tax that compromise more than a billion yahoo user accounts are expected to be announce today, bloomberg reports four people are accused of hacking yahoo, three are in russia, one in kenya. the justice department is expected to release a statement but it is not clear which hacking incident the charges will stem from. breaches occurred in 2013/2014 yahoo said hackers stole data like names, e-mail, phone numbers but user financial information was not affected. >>> katie, did you sleep well last night? >> i slept, shortly, briefly and here we are again. it does feel like we never lef

ms nbc says it obtained two pages of the 1040 form from journalist david kay johnson who received a copyf the return in his mailbox from an unknown source. >> let me point out it is entirely possible that donald sent this to me. >> reporter: it comes as law maker continue to press fbi director james comey to respond to the letter asking him to hand over any evidence to support mr. trump's wiretapping claims. >> they are about to screw up big time if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter. >> reporter: republican leaders are also trying to salvage their health insurance plan, afternoon none partisan congressional budget office project it will leave more americans uninsured then before obama care was enacted. >> medicaid expansion we have deep concerns. >> reporter: white house is now working to make changes to the bill. hena adan qualifications for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> former first lady michelle obama's lunch program may be in jeopardy under trump administration. lobbies group the skew nutrition association is recommending tweaks to nutritional standar

with us tonight pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist david kay johnson who has been delving into the trump campaign's financial ties with russia. david, we keep saying this is highly unusual, this is unprecedented for a president at the six-week mark to have this much interest and investigation. but how much broader in your mind should this go? >> oh, i think we need to thoroughly and openly investigate donald's 30-year involvement with russians and all the money he has received. to channel richard nixon, people have got to know if their president is compromised. and donald has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the russian oligarchs. he just appointed as his commerce secretary wilbur ross, who is the vice-chairman of one of the biggest banks involved in laundering russian money. the other vice-chairman was an appointee of vladimir putin. a disgraced german banker from deutsche bank right after the bank was fined $650 million for russian moneylaundering. all of that was laid out by jim henry in a report at my news service d.c. report that well ahead of everybody e

david kay johnston, editor and founder of the d.c. report.org which published that report and the author of "the making of donald trump." david cay johnsoneat to say you, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> we started looking at the fertilizer guy through the lens of him having bought this florida mansion from trump for more than what trump paid for. it seemed like a way for somebody to pay donald trump more than $15 million. what got you started on him and on the mystery of his plane showing up so many places that trump is? >> well, the report that we ran, which is about 10,000 words long, was written by jim henry, who has also been tracing bankers and wealthy people for as long as i have. 40 years or so. we've been looking at these es that he has with russian garricks, remember, they're state sponsored criminals and they're dependent to stay alive on being in the good graces of vladimir putin and when he wants them done, they do them. in the case areybolovlev he paid money to putin. when jim henry developed where this plane was we said what's going on here? one or two cases okay. we can't put dimitry rybolovlev and tr