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democratic congressman brendan boyle from pennsylvania is with us.o point out you're also on the house ways and means committee. good to have you here, congressman. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. when we look at what is developing, seeming to develop this morning via satellite images, i want to listen to some of the language president trump used with kim jong-un, president kim jong-un, trying to come to some sort of a resolution. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. and then we fell in love, okay? really. he wrote me beautiful letters, and they're great letters. sometimes you have to walk and this was just one of those times. >> so kind of from one end of the spectrum to the other. if this activity we're seeing this morning, if it is an icbm, if it is something sent to a launch site, what does the president need to do? >> first, as the clips demonstrate, this president hasn't had a strategy when it comes to north korea, has been all over the

joining me, brendan boyle. welcome back. and means chairman richard neil is preparing formal request for ten years of tax returns, according to "the washington post." what do you and your colleagues km expect to find in them? >> first, thanks for having me back, alex. you know, in the modern era from president nixon and watergate on, we have had every presidential nominee release at least some years of tax returns. donald trump despite numerous assurances he would at some point release them obviously broke that norm. i think it is important and this is part of hr 1 we passed yesterday, that this president and vice president and all future presidential candidates release their returns up to ten years. i believe that that is in the best interest not only when it comes to president trump and his many questionable potentially nefarious relationships and the ways in which he could potentially be compromised by those who hold his enormous amount of debt, but it is beyond trump. this is something we need to solve for this president