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investigator david johnson says someone mailed him the two pages of donald trump's taxes from 2012. the president earned $153 million that year. and paid $38 million in taxes. johnston revealed the tax returns last night on the rachel mado show. >> it came in the mail and there's nothing improper about journalist, if you haven't solicited something. >> the white house released, you know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push the story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. >>> just about 15 minutes ago, president trump posted this tweet about his tax returns saying, does anybody really believe a reporter who nobody heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns and the president calls nbc news, fake news. >>> a preliminary study estimates the republican plan to replace "the affordable care act" would deliver a hit to californians. an analysis by the state insurance exchange, covered california shows older people in particular could see a dramatic increase in their premiums if this republican bill passes. in san francisco, t

she brought on journalist david k. johnsonmous source actually left the front two pages of mr. trump's return in his mailbox. in the end it was widely criticized as overhyped and disappointment with the top line figures of earnings and taxes paid there are still far more questions than answers. >> and is there a chance that the return was leaked by the president himself perhaps willing to draw attention away from the russian question. don lemon. >> do you think it's a possibility he could have sent you this? >> oh, absolutely. donald has a long history of leaking information about himself. he doesn't think like the relevant of us do. he doesn't have the sort of framework that makes him look good or bad that the rest of us have. >> white house took aim at the messenger saying this, you know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push a story of two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. it's not illegal to report the contents of an illegally obtained tax return. it remains unclear when that

former "new york times" tax reporter david k. johnson obtained 2005 tax return and shows that he made about $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in taxes. according to white house, we have not received that tax return over here at cnn, but have obtained a scathing statement from the white house. put it up on screen. go right after the people who published this report earlier. you know you're desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago before being elected president. mr. trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his pleaees to pay no more tax than legally required. this being said, mr. trump paid $38 million even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $2150 million -- and dishonest media can make this part of their agenda while the president focuses on his, including tax reform to benefit all americans. this ju

. >> david johnson said without that law, the president would have paidle around $5 million less than the 3.5% of his income for 2005. last night the white house confirmed confirmed paid $38 million in federal income tax and more than 150 million in income in 2005. the return shows mr. trump wrote off more than 100 million in business losses. that reduced his taxes. the return contained no itemization. and white house released a statement that red in part before being elected president, mr. trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world. the responsibility to his company, his family, and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. the dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda while the president will focus on his which includes tax reform that will benefit all americans. the president has resisted releasing taxes since running for office. >>> today president trump will travel to michigan and tennessee. he will stop at auto testing plant near detroit. talk about safety of self-driving cars. and later hold a rally in nashville and lay a wr

david k. johnson, breaker of the story. and brookings institution. good to have you on. >> going to spend a lot of time with david. you can jump in at any point. talk about this. $38 million in taxes. >> didn't. $36.5 million. >> how is this not good for donald trump? >> i think it may be good for donald trump. one of the things that's strange about this, donald trump probably would benefit from releasing tax returns with a lot of people. would show his income which i think probably averaged at least or more than $81.5 million a year. put in almost the top 400 tax returns. why is he hiding his tax returns? i think he doesn't want us to know other things. what are the sources of income? who is he partner with? does he have divided loyalties? also has a long history of being deeply involved with serious vicious criminals, convicted felons and in particular major cocaine trafficker he risked his fortune to show loyalty to. maybe stuff in returns to tell us about the russians or criminals he's involved with he doesn't want us to see. >> the two pages came

ambassador norman eisen said he believes david k. johnson may have some exposure for putting these tax returns out. david, you say what? >> i don't think there's any exposure at all, because the law, which is well-settled, i didn't solicit this. i didn't go to the place where you work with the return and said hey, send it to me. i didn't ask for it. it came to me in the mail. >> you said you teach this. >> no, actually, i teach business and tax law of the ancient world, but i'm not a lawyer, but i teach in a law school. >> that's a class -- >> i teach in the, i promise you, you'd be fascinated. >> and you say. >> david's absolutely right. now there may be that someone broke the law in giving it to him. >> yes. >> if it came from the irs, if it came from someone who gave it, even though a protective order ordered by a judge said no one should disclose this. but david, i don't think, is in any risk at all. >> do you think you're going to get a phone call how you got this? >> we said how we got it, at the be wi web z website, which has crashed

according to this return mailed to "new york times" reporter david johnson revealed by rachel maddow. >> came in the mail over the transom, there's nothing improper if getting it over the transom. >> the president tweeted, does anybody really believe a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns? fake news. $150 million with $100 million writeoff making his effective tax rate 25%. the president had a tax than legally required. the president facing tax questions today as he heads to michigan to announce he's rolling back obama fuel stan darz and to nashville to push the health plan. >> to make insurance available to everybody, yes, that's what he intends to do. >> that's like saying everyone has access to a rolls royce, if you can't afford it, it doesn't feel like much access. >> reporter: 24 million people will lose coverage. >> slow down and get it right. >>> you're not going to get 60 votes to buy insurance across state lines. >> new numbers on the cost of health care and president's taxes with the white house challenging both. >> now, it's importa

investigative journalist david johnson says someone mailed him the two pages of donald trump's tax returns from 2005. the document $2005. the document shows the president earned $153 million that year and paid $38 million in taxes. johnston revealed those tax returns last night on the rachel maddock show. >> it came in the mail and there's absolutely nothing improper about journalist, if you haven't solicits something. >> the white house released a statement saying in part and i'm quoting, you know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. and just this morning, president trump posted this tweet about his tax returns saying, does anybody really believe that a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns and the president called nbc news, fake news. >>> a preliminary study estimates a republican plan to replace "the affordable care act" would deliver a significant finance hit to californians. an analysis by the state insurance exchanged covered california shows

david k. johnson who is the investigative reporter who first got this, and he says it was in his mailbox, and the president tweeting does anybody really believe that a reporter who never heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns? fake news. and then that statement you mentioned that he put out later, after the racial rachel maddow show. he put this tweet out. of course, what is interesting is that this set of tax returns is stamped with a client copy stamp already before even the show was over yesterday, people were questioning whether or not this was something that donald trump had planted perhaps as a diversion from some of the other stories out there right now. >> we have good news. the man that you mention, the man that obtained those tax documents, david k. johnson is joining me via phone at this moment. david, first i would love for you to address the tweet president donald trump put out. does anybody really believe a reporter that nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found m

that kind of speculation, you know i think david johnson, who wrote anti-trump book last year comparedident to p.t. barnum would be last guy trump would leak it to if indeed the president was behind it, i have no reason to believe. melissa: except it was good for him. that is the only thing. it showed, that it was always he didn't make any money. and he didn't pay any federal tax this proved that he made a ton of money. he paid a painful amount of tax, in my estimation, just absolutely kills me slim on treadmill and everything else washington wastes it on and dagger to the heart to see that. none of the allegations from hillary clinton. it does kind of seem like there was nothing bad in it for trump, for the president, pardon me, for the president. >> i totally agree with that. well it kind of helped him he had the motivation. i'm very careful about making these wild speculationwiout proof. melissa: of course. >> i don't think people on the right saying probably came from deep within the bowels of the irs should say that either. it said client copy. it is outrageous invasion of privacy

she brought on journalist david k. johnson saying an anonymous source dropped the first two pages of mr. trump's return in his mailbox. with only the top line figures on earning and taxes paid. there are still far more questions thannesses. >> now, the question hanging over all of it is there a chance that this return was leaked by the president himself perhaps to draw unwelcome attention away from the republican health care bill and the russia connection and all of that? cnn's don lemon asked the journalist who obtained tax return. >> do you think it's possible he could have sent them to you? >> oh, absolutely. donald has a long history of leaking information about himself. he doesn't think quite like most of us do. he doesn't have the sort of framework of what makes him look good or look bad that the relevant of us have. >> white house took aim at the messenger saying this. you know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. that'

in taxes that year and that came as rachel madou said she retaped the tax forms got friend david clay johnson a journalist that runs the site d.c. reports.org. >> he leaks material when they thinks it's in his interest. >> when you steal and leak federal employee it's a felony. and you have journalists asking regular people to commit felonies in order to aadvance a story. >> it is is "totally illegal to steal and publish tax kurnz " and said in a statement you know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push the story about two pages of tax returns. >> republican lead are in the white house doubling efforts to overall america's healthcare system. think help you get the measure through the house next week so senate can de debate it. he discussed the legislation by phone with house republicans and he sent mike pence and health secretary tom price to hear gop senators concerns. >> a new report from government accountability office cite sizes how metro drew up the safe track plan. watchdog agency says metro could ask done a better job planning and implementing the

>> guest: well, they could read david k. johnson riz book about donald trump or the "washington post's" reporters did -- he's from "the new york times" -- the "washington post" mark fisher did one -- good books boo start with you want too understand the biography and the life patterns of donald trump. >> guest: then the other books doing well are books about segments of the population that voted for donald trump. the best sell in that regard is vans' hi hillbilly eulogy." >> training -- strangers in their own land. >> host: do you sell "art of the deal"? >> guest: i think we have that. >> guest: yeah. not in stock this very minute. >> guest: might not be prominentlysive played. >> host: what's they thought process about your front window books you display in the front window? >> guest: our front window changes. we do it seasonally or theme mat likely. we have giant window sized poster that says, all are welcome and we're very proud of that. our graphic design person on staff, who is immensely talented, did that for us and we really

journalist david clay johnson said he got the two pages of the tax return in the mail.partial return are the president's sources of income, and the types of deductions that he claimed. >> but democrats are now being urged to not focus on the president's taxes so much and stay focused on the fight over health care. a lot of the argument now centers on the potentially damaging report from congressional budget analysts. >> yeah, so that report said the republican plan to replace obamacare, would result in millions of americans losing coverage over the next decade. cecilia vega has reaction from the white house. >> reporter: the president in the oval office with saudi royalty, asked about that report card on the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare -- >> cbo score mr. president? >> reporter: the president sat stone-faced, no comment. but his press secretary, not holding back, saying the non-partisan congressional budget office has been wrong before. >> its attempts to estimate coverage have been historically faulty. >> reporter: but the numbers are stark. in ten

david cay johnson, cacan you respond? >> amy, there is so mucuch in a statement, i inclung t the amout of tax presisident paid. not $38in dollars, million. it just makes my head spin. is absolutely well-established law in the united states when a journalist receives a documenent that they did not solicit, then they can publish it. there's nothing illegal whatsoever about publishing this. this is part of the effort of donald trump to confuse people and further his very authoritarian views. donald clearly talks a about his office as the president is a dictator. judges don't agree with him. bad judges, etc.. what happened here is, somebody familiar with my work, a and i'm very well known for my coverage of taxes, won a pulitzer prize, --e beeeen called the fact oh because of my exposes of the tech systetem, decided to send e ratherer than sosome other journalist the documents. maybe it was sent to others and they have not looked in their mailbox. my report on that is accurate. the white house confirmed it. the white house di

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

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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

johnson a look of intense hatred. he knows something that lincoln did not know at that point. david: frederick douglass is our only source for that at that point, which is fine, but he is riding in 1882. -- he is writing that in 1882. he could put a spin vast johnson hated me already. but one thing we have to say about andrew johnson, he had fundamental beliefs and values, and that was a problem. [laughter] david: one was white supremacy. it is rigid white supremacy. he did not want black people to have any political rights whatsoever. he had a vision for post-emancipation that was some kind of peasantry. but the second one we have not mentioned, states rights. he is a fundamental states rightist. you might say, wait a minute -- he was so against secession. but secession was political suicide. he was right about that. but other than that he in no way one of the power of federal government expanded. the reason he is so hostile to the freedmen's bureau, had so many more vetoes than the previous presidents put together was he thought this was an egregious overstepping of federal power

david k. johnson says it was mailed to him anonymously. >> and tracie, at this rate, did we learn anything from this tax return that's going to make a difference in the administration? >> reporter: yeah, so other than those basic numbers that you just talked about, there's not a lot that we learned. this is a snapshot of one year, 12 years ago. it was also interesting to take a look at what we what we don't know from this tax return we don't have schedules and attachments. woe don't know where the income came from and we don't know what he's paid or hasn't paid in the last 11 years. >> thank you. >>> 4:51 right now. a local nonprofit took the high road when it was left with hundreds of unused meals. >> n street village held its annual fund raising gala last night and instead of cancelling the event due to the snowstorm it donated the unused meals to the women in its homeless shelter. they help women with housing, employment and health services. >>> all right. want to turn to sheena parveen and talk ab

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

johnson is bitterly opposed to that. and again, you hear that voice and some of our political debates right now. david: we have students read the johnson veto message to read you don't have to tell them. they say, that is what they say now. got it. eric: mm-hmm. edna: i agree. i don't know that it is as complicated as all that when it concerns johnson. if that is the position lincoln is taking, i would believe it is about states' rights. johnson is no lincoln. it comes down to race issues. this man might be willing to see freedom. he is not willing to see a quality. it is about that. that is the bottom line. david: but johnson, as a member -- eric: but johnson, as a member of congress, he voted against giving aid to the starving people of ireland. in the famine. know, he didn't think the government should do much of anything. harold: let's think about another character. i've always been fascinated with his journey, well, maybe his up and down journey. he agrees to a post appomattox surrender that retreats from federal policy on emancipation. william t. sherman agrees to a surrender that retreats from

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

. >> reporter: a report from msnbc, independent award winning journalist david cay johnson claimed he received the first two pages anonymously in the mail. >> let me point out it's entirely possible that donald sent this to me. donald trump has over the years leaked all sorts of things. >> reporter: democrats have called trump the, quote, deflector in cheer. negative headlines, his failure to back up the claim that president obama wiretapped him and investigations on russia. this morning, the white huse fired back and called the tax document illegally obtained authentic. we still don't know key information like trump's source of income or charitable donations. >>> get ready to pay more to borrow money. today, the federal reserve is expected to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter point. analysts say consumers could expect a jump in credit card rates as well as hikes in auto, mortgage, and home equity loans. the central bank has signalled it could raise rates two more times this year. >>> work expected to begin to repair damage to an east bay reservoir that supplies water to si

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>> reporter: that reporter that he is talking about, david k. johnson, of d.c reports.com. he saided it showed up in his mailbox and he shared it with rachel maddow. concern those numbers and talking about the return before we even put it on air. $38 million. that's what president trump paid if taxes in 2005. according to this return mailed to former "new york times" reporter david k. johnston revealed by msnbc's rachel maddow. $150 million with a $150 million writeoff. >> 20% discount. would you like to have a 20% discount on your taxes in. >> the president had a responsibility to pay no more tax than legally required. >> he didn't pay any federal income tax. >> that makes me smart. >> during the campaign, mr. trump promised to release his returns after an audit. a white house adviser later said he would not. he is facing tax questions as he heads to michigan to announce he is rolling back obama fuel standards and nashville to support the tax plan. >> he wants to make insurance available to everybody. yes, that's what he intends to do. >> the congressional budget office sa

here is david k. johnsonis explosive story. >> what's the most important about this tax return though, rachel, two tax systems. you and i file tax twice. the regular tax system and the alternative minimum tax. if we didn't have the alternative minimum tax and donald trump in writing want to end the alternative minimum tax, he would have paid taxes at a lower rate than the bottom half of taxpayers. the poor in this country who make less than $33,000. as it is, because of the alternative minimum tax, he paid 36.5. not the 38 the white house statement says. they're counting his self-employment tax which is payroll taxes. 36.5 million he paid 24%. you know who pays 24% in this country. married couples with two incomes like my wife and i who make about $400,000 a year. donald trump and his wife made $418,000 a day. and the point of this is the top in this country, people at the top are not burdened the way we suggest. with. ainsley: cry me a river. my gosh. brian: this is why h and r block doesn't have a reality s

pulitzer prize winning columnist david j. johnson, also the author of "the making of donald trump." david, manafort is so central to all of this in terms of the fact that he is the campaign chairman and also the person with the longest history of relationships both to pro-putin figures in ukraine and putin-aligned oligarchs that all of these new questions about his financial transactions has me thinking at the very least, he must be lawyering up to the hilt right now. >> it may very well be at this point that paul manafort has been turned by the fbi. his actions make him vulnerable to a whole series of very harsh laws, good laws in my opinion to protect the national security of the united states that could strip him of every single dollar he has, including money he may have passed on to other people. so he and general flynn are the two people over whom the fbi would have the most leverage. and among the things the fbi is very good at is using leverage to get one person to tell about other people. >> and that is the reason that i keep coming back to manafort and flynn, and particularl

david cay johnson just got lucky in his mailbox today. >> send it to rachel.com. i am just saying. >> this goes to your point about why this may just be the tip of an iceberg of materials that could be discovered that way. if this was discovered that way, what else do people have out there that they might want to send to people's mailboxes. what we got here highlights how important a president's tax return can be and there are highlights of important questions by this president of his tax returns. >> all right, who are we kidding? >> you are not finished from this. come on over here. lets do a few more minutes on this. >> i will be more in a few minutes >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll continue our breaking news coverage of the tax documents that recently arrived in david cay johnston's mailbox, that's how we know this and that's how he got it. this information reveals the president's basic tax information of his 2005 return. and revealing -- tax returns like this is something that all presidential candidates and presidents normally do. they just release this, this

a journalist named david k. johnson says he received the summary in the mail anonymously. >> everyone that is prosperous, is on the alternative tax, if that tax didn't exist, he would have pay aid tax rate lower than the average paid by the poorest half of america. >> now president trump tweeted, does anyone believe that a reporter that no one ever heard of went to his mailbox and found my tax returns and goes on to call it fake news. >> and meanwhile on to president trump's claims that former president obama wired trump tower. today leaders say they have seen no evidence of that claim and the justice department is investigating on this topic and fbi director, james comey and the head of the national security agency will testify on march 20th. for the president today, mr. trump heads to detroit to talk regulations and the jobs in the auto industry and on to nashville to take on fuel emissions standards. >> another day of headlines out of this administration, thanks. >> the fbi and philadelphia police want your help find

. >> the reporter, david k. johnson received the top two pages in the mail, that's all he knows. he got it in the mail. he certainly didn't steal it and he has no idea who sent it to him. >> candidate trump throughout the entire temple before he became president said he wasn't going to show his tax returns and they're from 2005. because of the irs. so let's talk about the significance of seeing it now. what is it, for the american public to see it now. >> one of the things that we're not seeing is all of the stuff that comes along with the top two pages, the schedule c forms, how he invested his money, what he got for his money. those things have been left out all together because we're just looking at the top two pages. why is it important? at least it gives us the first glimpse, maybe a glimpse of a glimpse as to where he's going, how he spends his money, where he got it from. but the rest is yet to come. and hopefully it will come with all of those other appendages, perhaps 200 to 300 pages. >> where is he getting his money from? where is he spending his money? what are the ch

wouldn't you think, david k. johnson, if you're going to do this, right, and you're going to be in the inner circle of the highest levels in government, shouldn't you know all these figures? shouldn't you do your homework about these figures? >> at the absolute most benign interpretation of this, >> jared kushner's behavior is so reckless, so thoughtless. it is inconceivable he has access to the president and secrets in the white house. this is just beyond belief. this bank is a front for russian efforts to undermine other countries' economics. it had a nest of spies in it, as michael just pointed out, so kushner's behavior here is beyond belief, moronic, even if you assume benign. this is further evidence that there are questions about whether the president of the united states is loyal to the united states or has divided loyalties in all of his actions. >> yeah. matthew, you know russia. you know russia well. are you surprised by this and by the extent of these contacts between the trump team and russia? >> well, notwi

the documents stamped client copy was obtained by david k. johnson. he suggested it's even possible president trump sent it to him. >> he has a long history of leaking material when it's in his best interests. there's nothing improper about journalists getting over the transom. >> the president tweeted this morning does anybody that a report their nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found his tax return? fake news he said. nbc news will have much more at 6:30. >>> today the senate voted to confirm dan coates, president trump's choice for national intelligence director. lawmakers approved the former indiana senator in a vote of 85-12. mr. coates will oversee 16 intelligence agencies. >>> despite a republican backed plan to repeal and replace obamacare, millions of americans are still buying in. the government reports more than 12 million signed up for coverage under the affordable care act. another 765,000 signed up under an option called the basic health plan used in new york and minnesota. >>> now back to our first alert weather. we will not

david k. johnson says he received the two page tax summary of the president's taxes in 2005 in the mail unanimously and released them. and shows an income of $138 million and paid $38 million in taxes and tax rate about 25% and declared $103 million in losses. democrats still want the president to release his full tax returns like other presidents since nixon. >> they were merely, as we say in minnesota a cocktail weenie appetizer right? a tiny piece of what we want to see. >> and we are also hearing from attorney general, jeff sessions on the wiretapping claims. he says as the nation's top law enforcement official he never indicated to president trump that former president obama had him wiretapped. channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> world news tonight with david muir has more on the partial release of donald trump's 2005 tax return and the latest on the wiretapping allegations. watch all of that on channel 6 "action news" at 6:00. >>> closer to home. the employee was tacked in the store in th

that reporter is david k. johnson. he unveiled the first two pages of mr. trump's returns on msnbc's rachel maddow show. they show that president trump paid $38 million in taxes on an million. that's a tax rate of 25.3%. the white house confirmed the numbers in a statement but said the president paid no more tax than legally required. >>> president trump's second attempt at a temporary travel ban is set set to take effect past midnight tonight. it is facing several legal challenges right now. a federal judge in maryland held a hearing today on whether to lock that executive order. a judge in washington state could rule any time. yet another judge in hawaii has scheduled a hearing. the ban would block citizens of iran, libya, somalia, sudan and syria from entering the united states for 90 days and block all refugees for 120 days. >>> four people, including two russian intelligence officers are now charged in that yahoo hacking attack. personal information from about 500 million accounts compromised. charging with 47 criminal counts ranging from computer frau

were they released by somebody that was favorable to donald trump, the reporter david k. johnsonceived the forms, former "new york times" reporter that covered the tax business suggested maybe they came from somebody in the white house or from donald trump. who knows. are they a trend line? is that what it is for donald trump's tax payments over the years? >> shepard: if that was a trend line, we would have seen him. >> these are all questions and uncertainties that bedevil this issue for donald trump. >> shepard: they do. thanks, john. money won't buy you love but it can cover cost of fake friends. ahead, the companies offering to hook you up with strangers, pretty ones, that you can post pics on social media and be really cool. >> shepard: if you're feeling lonely and looking for a buddy, a company in japan may have something for you. fake friends. actors, really. they'll hang out with you and even come to your wedding for a price. lillian has the details, this is crazy. >> it is crazy. the company is called family romance. this is their website. it's crudely translated by goog

the 12-year-old tax return was mailed through the postal zf a service to david k. johnson.t does not break down trump's specific sources of income in a statement the white house said the illegally published pages revealed that trump is one of the most successful businessmen in the world, paying no more tax than legally required. >> she did hype this up, teasing an hour or two before the show, that she had the tax returns, wrote in parenthesis seriously, didn't mention it was only the 2005. it got retweeted thousands of times. the end result was that he did pay his taxes. >> for all the hype, particularly coming from rachel madow, the result was slightly, given the debate on this, in support of trump as opposed to the other way around. >> agree except for the fact it highlights the fact we don't know. this was only two pages of one year of a tax return and it sun usual that we don't vice president full picture. >> but that tax rate higher than some past candidates that got criticism on this topic. >>> president trump will visit michigan and revisit fuel economy rules which w

let's get to david k. johnson who broke the trump tax story,

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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