rachel maddow overplayed her hand here and i think it's wrong to sort of-- just because rachel maddow happens to be a liberal, it's wrong to lump her in with the rest of us. we want to see all of your tax returns, every presidential candidate, democrat or republican has released years and years of tax returns, beside one, donald trump. eric: let me ask you, gina, do you think this was as on par with steve harvey's miss universe flub or worse than the oscar flub last month? what are your thoughts? >> i think it was worse, here is why, this was an intentional attempt to undermine a president, to distract from the things, the real news, things that matter, like that people want to blow us up. like the amazing job that president trump is doing regarding jobs. like recovering economy and a stock market that's strong. those are the things that the american people are really interested in. this has become the birth certificate issue of the trump presidency. no one wants to hear about that anymore and rachel maddow absolutely ensured that. eric: lisa. >> i think it's hilarious. there's an ass

rachel maddow touting an exclusive reveal of president trump's tax returns.being large, these pages are straightforward. the first amendment gives us the right to publish this return. it is not illegally published, nor are we fake. pinch me, i am real. abby: viewers realize there was nothing to reveal. carly shimkus, waited and waited and waited and nothing. the tax returns, the suspense, intrigue, everyone on social media was talking about this which caused rachel maddow's name trends. we have trump tax returns seriously, the headline was the fact she got her hand on the returns itself. a total bust and complaints keep coming in. you utter buffoon, your exclusive donald trump paid his taxes. another person writing rachel maddow just revealed trump's tax returns paid 38 million taxes in 2005. she just got to trump reelected 20. look at the from donald trump junior, good night all, thank you, not sure that is what she was looking for. she said during the show the big take away from all this is president trump's tax returns were obtainable. abby: a nothing burg

plus she is the host of the "rachel maddow show" on msnbc, rachel maddow is here! >> steve: yeah!and applause ] >> jimmy: fun show tonight. and we have great new music from khalid, everybody. this is good! [ cheers and applause ] this kid's good! khalid, this is the kid. he's very young. isn't he, like, 19 or something like that? >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: he put something on soundcloud or something. is this the true story, or did i make this up? >> steve: yeah, it's true. >> jimmy: he put like a song on soundcloud. he's just a high school kid. he's like, "oh, well, i was doing the song." and he does this. no, he doesn't sound like that. [ light laughter ] and then, he puts it soundcloud, and it just takes off. and he hears it on the radio. >> steve: aww. >> jimmy: and he is a high school kid. and then, this thing just started, just getting bigger and bigger. now he is going to play with the roots tonight on "the tonight show." [ cheers and applause ] that's what it's all about! kid's good, man. i love stories like that. guys, you know we're always ♪ harder better faster stronger ♪

rachel maddow.usical guest khalid featuring the legendary roots crew. >> questlove: 639, saskatchewan! yeah! >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: a-ha! hey! welcome, everybody! welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome! welcome to "the tonight show." this is it, baby! [ cheers and applause ] this is it, baby brother! >> i love you, jimmy! >> jimmy: love you too, sir. i'm your host, jimmy fallon. you guys, we have ice cube on the show tonight! [ cheers and applause ] we also have rachel maddow on the show tonight! [ cheers and applause ] hot show. hot show. of course, rachel's in the news because she got a hold of donald trump's 2005 tax return on her show. a lot of people were saying, though, it didn't really show much. [ light laughter ] so, i guess last night people had to pick between watching "this is us" or "this is nothing." [ cheers and applause ] we'll talk to her about that. but get this, the tax return apparently had a client copy stamp on it

msnbc's rachel maddow releasing two pages of president trump's 2005 tax returns. the documents revealing that the president paid roughly 25% tax rate on about $1553 million in income. president trump hitting back does anybody really believe that will a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mail box and found my tax returns? nbc news, fake news. >> i'm not quite sure what the tweet receivers to, does anybody believe he went to his mail box and found the tax returns? the fact that it's fake news doesn't have any relevance to the fact that the white house was quick to say that yes the president paid $38 million of tax on $153 million in income. this is actually, you mentioned this at the top, may the began a pretty good story for this white house but the white house is professioning out abling over it, in a statement saying quote you the know you're desperate for ratings when you're willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns over a decade ago:. you mentioned his effective tax rate. let's put up a page of comparison here so you c

when rachel maddow disclosed two pages of the president's tax returns. president tweeted nbc, fake news. but even before she got out the news, the white house confirmed the returns were real. >> they talked to us before they aired it to let us know they were doing the segment. it showed it's illegal to publish tax returns. to leak them and publish them. there is an act that prohibits that on another citizen. the idea they would hype the idea they obtained an illegal document and hype it to show the president paid $38 million, an effective rate of 28% tax. the fact that he's a wealthy man and he does pay taxes. for nbc to continue from that point forward to start perpetuating a faults narrative about what the president did. that is unbelievably dishonest. it shows the lengths to which nbc will go to get raiding. howie: johnson said it was in his nail box. does anybody believe he went to his nail box and found my tax returns? >> this is a former reporter that is running a blog, and somehow someone believes he's the best way to get out key news. it's a litt

>> it started with the tweet from rachel maddow tweeting the story.ense and intrigue and people thought it would be a big bombshell and it turned out it wasn't. >> he paid $38 million in taxes and took a big write down of $103 million. more on that later. if you add up the lines for income he made more than $150 million in that year, mazeltov. >> bill: >> people were expecting more and were served a bore side dish. >> bill: they turned on her as quickly. >> and you're offering a big thing and i think reporters felt similar to how the rest of america felt. let's look at a tweet from a man who summed it all up in a nutshell. he says, after that ridiculous speculative long-winded tin-foil hatted opening maddow had nothing. nothing, my god. >> bill: here is matt drudge. maddow will get huge ratings but so many saw the fail. andy lack runs nbc. >> others feel it was a gift to president trump handed on a silver platter because it showed he paid a quarter of his salary in taxes which is right on the money about $38 million he paid in taxes. donald trump jr.

>> tom: middle of the week, you go over the hump. >> andy: rachel maddow and trump's taxes, paul, welcome, first of all. man, blew it. [laughter] you said they gave maddow a lot of grief for hyping this up through the first commercial break, that's tv 101. that's up slowly, i totally agree. the problem is what she was hyping up turned out to be nothing. i think that's the problem. >> i disagree, when the sitting president refuses to share his tax returns and we seasoning that comes from the media which the sitting president really doesn't have any respect for, it proves the value of the thing that he's dismissing. >> andy: i don't agree with that, what i mean is, there were no bombshells. in the actual -- >> i agree that there were no bombshells to serve the cause that rachel maddow probably found, but a lot of really interesting information. >> andy: michael, you said you couldn't watch the show and you compared it to geraldo opening al capone's vault. that seems unfair to me, at least for that the part leading up was interesting. >> i'll give you that. what maddow needed was a third pag

rachel maddow at msnbc or president trump? >> i said when they look at that nfl -- envelope, they're going to find bannon's finger prints on it. it's the president's tax return. somebody has them and has been leaking them. don't think from his anger that he knows who did it. the leak and its exposition of rachel maddow on msnbc has blown a hole that he hasn't paid any taxes. $38 million on $158 million is a lot of money. it's higher taxes than mitt romney paid, warren buffet or maybe even his secretary. >> shepard: and the tax rate back then was 25%. the tax rate picked by bernie sanders is 13%. the tax rate paid by former president obama is 18%. comcast, which owns msnbc pays around 23, 24%. so president trump, donald trump then, is paying a higher tax rate than his critics. >> indeed he is. bernie sanders is paying 18%? >> 13%. >> the man of the little people and paying the little people's tax rate. but this damages the case made by the democrats against the president. you heard talk that he went 18 years and he paid nothing

the big news was made when the rachel maddow program revealed

got a nice victory thanks to rachel maddow.tuart: who said that? >> cnbc. stuart: well, well, well. >> van jones and people have made her out to be a dimwit on this and the rollout was atrocious, took 23 minutes of her show to actually reveal th this. >> if she knew what was on the two pages, why on earth did she do that? he paid 38 million. liz: and ginned up a conversation. you can't get two pages, connection to russia and the mob, that's what they tried to talk about during that show. ashley: because they didn't prove their point they're saying that donald trump himself probably leaked it, because it's in his interest. stuart: it's an embarrassment. ashley: it is. stuart: an embarrassment. donald trump, in fact, he's just tweeted this, this morning, about that tax return leak. here he goes. does anybody really believe that a reporter who nobody ever heard of went to his mailbox and found new york-- my tax returns? nbc news, fake news. do remember, please, last week, a new york times reporter had tweeted an invitation to any

if it was easy for tonight's boom before rachel maddow show on the air. the white house had statement and was able to say, here is what we maid much left and center. why not provide that information for others. given that kind of transparencies would put so many people's mind at ease, why not just do that. >> how many people come in contact with the tax returns of a wealthy individual because obviously, a lot of journalists are using this as an opportunity, whatever form they choose, hey, anyone out there has more of this, let us know? >> that remains to be seen. >> before this president, you would say listen, you don't see these kinds of leaks out of the government. this is an unprecedented time. president trump has not run for a period of time of his organization. for the most part, the trump organization is not a large company. it is a rather small staff and a family business. it is not like there are loads of people who are touching these tax returns. the fact that this is coming out tonight, some are saying well, if it was, president trump or someone

why rachel maddow this is legal.rian: this nicholas kristof of "new york times," begging people, if you have donald trump's taxes, send them to me. i don't know if that is legal. donald trump tweeted this out. does anyone really believe that a reporter who nobody ever heard of, david k. johnston, went to his mailbox and found my tax returns at nbc news? fake news. i look for donald trump to weave that somehow because he tends to go off the prompter into his washington or, not washington, michigan or nashville speech today. steve: he did say it is fake news. we had david bossie, counselor to the president of the united states on this program an hour ago. and he says this is just more of that fake news stuff that has hounded mr. trump. listen to this. >> this is con this continuatiof this fake news store fog on to undermined this president for the last two years. all throughout the campaign and all throughout the transition. all we heard at campaign the president paid no taxes. the president paid no taxes. the presiden

some tweeting, is rachel maddow filibustering her own show?el maddow release trump's tax returns? what is she hiding? very little information coming out of those returns. >> tucker: he has paid a lot more in taxes than bernie sanders, how hilarious is that? we will be back. didn't recognize our grandson. (woman 2 vo) that's when moderate alzheimer's made me a caregiver. (avo) if their alzheimer's is getting worse, ask about once-a-day namzaric. namzaric is approved for moderate to severe alzheimer's disease in patients who are taking donepezil. it may improve cognition and overall function, and may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. namzaric does not change the underlying disease progression. don't take if allergic to memantine, donepezil, piperidine, or any of the ingredients in namzaric. tell the doctor about any conditions; including heart, lung, bladder, kidney or liver problems, seizures, stomach ulcers, or procedures with anesthesia. serious side effects may occur, including muscle problems if given anesthesia; slow heartbeat, f

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as we continue our conversation with msnbc's rachel maddow. asked her overall impression with trump's first 50 days in office. >> putting aside the personality stuff and, like, the chaos and the personnel, if you just look at what they're doing in terms of policy, i think it's been interesting to see that they haven't been able to do anything successfully on any of the stuff they like to brag about, they like to talk about, that he campaigned on. muslim ban has been a disaster. mitch mcconnell asked this week, is mexico going to pay for the wall? his exact quote verbatim was "uh, no." yeah, who's going to pay for the wall? the coast guard, fema, tsa, or you and me, taxpayers, you know? the thing about the wall, the muslim ban, the health care rollout is an absolute disaster. it's very scary what they're proposing in terms of health care, but politically, it's absolutely dead. i don't think anybody believes that it will ever pass the senate. they haven't tried anything on taxes. remember, they were going to do a $1 trillion infrastructure plan?

rachel maddow didn't.r who got it in his mailbox didn't. >> kimberly: according to him, then donald trump is guilty. because this guy said look, maybe donald trump sent it to me and put it in my box. >> eric: you are can't leak your own documents. >> kimberly: what he was suggesting so ridiculous. >> eric: brian williams and rachel maddow knock yourself out. where did this document come from? >>juan: where what was it stamped? client copy. maybe that's why the suggestion came that it came from somebody within the trump camp? >> greg: brian williams will announce that he found it himself. [laughter] >> kimberly: they got hit hard. anything about your girl mika? >> from what she said about outnumbered. still your girl? >> eric: i was on "outnumbered" when this was going on. >> meghan: she said i'm legs in a dress, forget my ivy league degree and we're a top ten cable news show absolutely ridiculous. i'm offended and support your team here at fox. thank you, kimberly. >> eric: i know scarborough is he a frien

rachel maddow thinks maybe russia knew in 2005 that he would be elected in 2016. that's pretty pathetic and the media should know better but they would rather put their radical left-wing agenda than tell the truth to the american people. that's why they never invented obama and colluded with hillary. already debunking this russia story and conspiracy, coming up. last week they reported the fbi has found no evidence of collusion between trump and the russians. just like james clapper had said. that is officials that are inside the agency, they are frustrated how it is now being represented by this media that is corrupt. tonight they have another bombshell story. here is the headline. hillary clinton supporter pushed trump russia computer narrative investigated by fbi. according to the report, computer scientist and indiana professor pushed the theory into the left-wing media that a computer server connected to donald trump was communicating with a russian bank. now the fbi did in fact look into it. they found nothing to indicate collusion between the trump campaign

some tweeting, is rachel maddow filibustering her own show?y won't rachel maddow release trump's tax returns?ad what is she hiding? very little information coming out of those returns. >> tucker: he has paid a lot more in taxes than bernie sanders, how hilarious is that? we will be back. ur brand new ca. nobody's hurt, but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. isjust wanna see ifa again? my score changed... you wanna check yours? scores don't change that much. i haven't changed. oh, really? ♪ it's girls' night they said business casual. i love summer weddings! oh no. yeah, maybe it is time. maybe i should check

rachel maddow didn't..who got it in his mailbox didn't. >> kimberly: according to him, then donald trump is guilty. because this guy said look, maybe donald trump sent it to me and put it in my box. >> eric: you are allowed to leak your own documents. >> kimberly: i know. what he was suggesting so ridiculous. >> eric: brian williams and rachel maddow, knock yourself out. where did this document come from? >> juan: what was it stamped? "client copy." oh! maybe that's why the suggestion came that it came from somebody within the trump camp? >> greg: brian williams will announce that actually he found it himself. [laughter] >> kimberly: they got hit hard. anything about your girl mika? [laughter] >> from what she said about "outnumbered." still your girl? >> eric: i was on "outnumbered" when this was going on.ir she took a couple of shots. >> meghan: she said i'm legs in a dress, forget my ivy league degree, and we're a top ten cable news show. absolutely ridiculous. i'm deeply offended. and support your team

. ♪ yes, it was rachel maddow's y2k.s we sit on the brink of a nuclear showdown with north korea, this manic mouthpiece fixates on a 12-year-old tax return belonging to trump. boy, did she sell it like a timeshare in a florida swamp. >> it's been a little bit of a hullabaloo this evening. >> people were tweeting at me "shut up." >> we have significant breaking news. donald trump's tax returns have surfaced, at least a portion of donald trump's past tax returns. this is the first time we believe any federal tax returns for donald trump has been obtained by anyone, certainly any news organization. >> greg: oh, my god. rather than tell us anything up front, she tap dances like a barefoot drunk on hot sand. >> tonight we have this exclusive first look at the reporting, and what they have obtained. in just a second, we are going to show you exactly what it is we've got. whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in general, whether or not you care what's in his tax returns, it ought to give you pause. his explanation

johnston, of a nonprofit news organization covering the trump administration and also with us rachel maddow, post of the rachel machaddow show. >> you tweeted around 8:30 that you have this. the only previous information that we have from donald trump about how much he pays in taxes and how much he pays is what we just heard -- hundreds of millions of dollars that he pays in taxes? >> we don't know what this indicates about other years. one of the things david has been able to document over the years is he found when he was looking over trump's businesses, casinos. >> negative income. >> one year and next year, you know you have to watch things like big losses that he takes over a number of year. this year, we havejust been published tonight. you see him carrying over a hundred million dollars of a previous year's loss, that explains a lot about how he's able to minimize tax burden rs over the years. this raises more questions. >> 1995. this is our only 21st century information. on that $100 million loss that's on here. there is nothing we see in these pages that identifies what that $103 m

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rachel maddow hit an all new low by focusing her show on trump's 2005 leaked tax return.e ap, "people want to draft me as an activist all the time. describe that role to me.e i'm not, the reason i know i am not is that i stopped doing thae in order to be the person who explains the news and delivers the news instead. a very clear line for me." she does think she is a journalist which is hilarious but michelle malkin is with us. it's not really worthy of a discussion in any way. this is serious in a lot of ways. >> the ms and msnbc stands for maddow stinks and sabotages nbc. i'm glad to see that she has clowned herself. even many of her allies among the progressive movement on the left were smacking their skulls after salivating over the hype. i think it is worth discussing this very fundamentalte question about who is a journalist. if you are some elite liberal from an elite college who gets her pedigree from oxford and brags about her title as a rhodes scholar, it doesn't matter that your sole experience as a so-called journalist was a radio host for bancroft air america

and speaking of which, rachel maddow. ( laughter ) what the (bleep)? made me stay up till 9:00 p.m. to tell me that trump pays taxes? listen, rachel, telling everyone that you have trump's tax returnes when you just had two pages of his 1040 from 12 years ago that is not trump tax returns. that's like saying, "i have a tape of trump saying the "n" word" and you go and press "play," and trump goes, "nintendo." that's not what we expected, rachel. it's not what we expect. so, basically, rachel maddow showed that donald trump paid $38 million in taxes, which is low, but still, the whole thing is kind of a victory for donald trump. but then this morning, trump registered a couple things in the loss column. the first came from republican congressman devin nunes, who trump hoped would deliver evidence of his imaginary claim that obama was spying on him. the results? >> about the issue with the president talking about tapping trump tower, that evidence still remains the same, that we don't have any evidence, that that took place. >> trevor: wow. no evidence to

and speaking of which, rachel maddow. ( laughter ) what the (bleep)? made me stay up till 9:00 p.m. to tell me that trump pays taxes? listen, rachel, telling everyone that you have trump's tax returnes when you just had two pages of his 1040 from 12 years ago that is not trump tax returns. that's like saying, "i have a tape of trump saying the "n" word" and you go and press "play," and trump goes, "nintendo." that's not what we expected, rachel. it's not what we expect. so, basically, rachel maddow showed that donald trump paid $38 million in taxes, which is low, but still, the whole thing is kind of a victory for donald trump. but then this morning, trump registered a couple things in the loss column. the first came from republican congressman devin nunes, who trump hoped would deliver evidence of his imaginary claim that obama was spying on him. the results? >> about the issue with the president talking about tapping trump tower, that evidence still remains the same, that we don't have any evidence, that that took place. >> trevor: wow. no evidence to

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 says 24 million people would lose coverage. >> fewer people buying coverage.

rachel maddow's about to show a 1040 form!he show starts, she does a 19-minute-long monologue about why it's important to see a president's tax returns, then "we'll see donald trump's taxes after this." she seacrested us. went to the commercials. once she got back from commercial she showed what she had. which was two pages of tax return from 2005. no specifics no deductions. this is the first two pages. the only thing we learned is that there's a j. in melania. who will heretofore be referred to as the fijrst lady. according to the first two pages trump made $150 million in income, paid $38 million in taxes in 2005. some people were surprised he paid any taxes at all. which you can't blame them for that. 2005 was an off year for everyone. johnny depp made that willy wonka movie. kanye west and george bush had that problem. harry potter's goblet caught on fire. and donald trump accidentally paid some taxes. it happens. listen, here's the thing. donald trump is never going to release his taxes, or the kracken, or melania for th

>> this was protected by the first amendment, rachel maddow says. but if it was solicited by the reporter, that is not protected speech. i think the first amendment argument -- >> sean: i will give her the benefit of the doubt but she has a right to report. laura is rolling her eyes and when she rolls her eyes that's bad for me. >> if donald trump paid what was the equivalent of about 25% in federal income taxes, i think he needs a federal tax attorney. if i were trump, i would not be worried about this at all. he depreciated his assets, probably has some losses. big deal. but jay is right, there is a federal criminal violation here. clearly if this was done by the irs or a legal entity that helped trump with his taxes, it sounds and it seems more like this is someone burrowed into the federal bureaucracy who is trying to make hay of this and trying to capture another news cycle. i did not think it looks bad for trump at all. what does the story? 25% in federal taxes? that is a lot. >> the story here is not that donald trump paid a lot of taxes, whi

rachel maddow had a grand time with it. of equated it to opening al capone's vault and it backfired mightily against them. does this put the whole tax crisis saga behind donald trump? >> you know i think one of the greatest moments in this trump presidency is seeing rachel maddow stretch it out and have this almost y2k moment almost like starting at the oscars and she looks at the tax return and she says oh he paid 38 million. did she actually read the tax return before trying to get people to watch it because you made yourself look like afula gave donald trump one of the greatest political moments where he could say actually i did a lot in taxes. i think we could agree the tax code as data. he paid $38 million in taxes and paid a higher tax rate than barack obama did and then "msnbc" did and even hillary clinton did. thank you "msnbc" and thank you rachel maddow for reaffirming the falsehood and doing it on live network television in prime-time. we thank you for doing our work. charles: they prove that he's a successful ki

if rachel maddow and johnson were directly involved in the theft, there's an issue. the courts have a very high standard for direct involvement like paying them -- paying off the other person. i t see where you get a case here by any supreme court president. >> there really is another concept which is willful blindness. charlie: i think they can. charles: diane, let me ask you. you have a couple of issues here. someone got these against the will of the president of the united states. so that would hint or allude to the idea that perhaps they were stolen in some way. so receipt of stolen property even if it's some material that happens to be true. you're saying the media is completely immune to any kind of prosecution from that? >> there's absolutely no evidence that these documents -- charles: if evidence were to come around or there was a lawsuit that eventually unearthed this evidence, would there be culpability for msnbc and rachel maddow and others? >> no, because they received these anonymously and mailed to johnson who is a pulitzer journalist and tax expert. i

rachel maddow would do this big reveal. that's why she was so tentative in her delivery because she knew the bottom line was, it belied every notion that msnbc has been promulgating that trump is a tax dodger. >> melissa: or he's not rich. >> or that he's not rich. >> melissa: the trump administration said it was ridiculous, that they were behind this. lot of people speculated because it turned out so well for him and it was embarrassing for msnbc. he said that's not true. it did end up on a pr front being a very good night for him. do you think for you, i mean, you got blockbuster ratings. there was a happy ending to that story, obviously. a career boom. >> i was the most famous unemployed person in america. that's why i took that job to open al capone's vault. i found nothing. i had 22 job offers the next day. who knows what happens to rachel maddow. msnbc is doing its job. rachel, i know, is a fine broadcaster. but there is no doubt that this favored donald trump. took the obamacare debate off the front pages for awhile,

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donald trump isn't that stupid but rachel maddow is for saying it.e old-fashion way and made a few political contributions and that would have taken care of it. you don't pay $38 million, that's the dumbest thing i have ever heard. good grief that's off the rails. heather: that's what he thinks. president trump revealing first budget proposal laying out plans to deliver on campaign promises. >> one of the commitments i made is we are going to straighten out the whole situation for our veterans. we build a military so great that none will dare to challenge it. we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. heather: so where exactly is the money going, here to break down the budget is the chair of business and finance at king's college in new york city, bryan, thank you for coming so early. >> great to be here. heather: budget losers, this is where cuts will be made. education, 9.2, hud, 6.2, agriculture department and epa and state department 13.5 and 11 billion for other departments. so a lot of people taking a

mosts before msnbc host rachel maddow revealed the documents on air. >> the first amendment gives us the right to publish this return. >> in a statement monday night it shows mr. trump paid $30 million in income. a tax rate of 25% adding that it's totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. msnbc said it received two pages from journalist david kchlt johnston who received a copy of the return in his mail bakraoui from an unknown source. >> it's entirely possible donald sent this to me. >> it comes as james comey was asked to respond to a letter, asking him to hand over any evidence. >> they're about to screw up big time. if they keep running to the intel committee and nottance that letter. >> they're also trying to salvage their health insurance plan after the budget office projected it would leave more americans uninsured than before obamacare was enacted. >> a mistake like mine that had medicaid expansion, we have considers. >> the white house says it is now working to make changes to the bill. and the bulk of his tax bill, $31 million, was due to the alternative minimum tax

. >> rachel maddow breaking the news. >> what can you tell us about how you got these pages? >> digging out from a nor'easter that could have been a whole lot worse. >>> and ben affleck gets personal, revealing his battle with alcohol. >>> "early today" starts right now. >> good morning. >> i am francis rivera. >>> a bombshell. the country getting its first glimpse from donald trump's taxes. billionaire, donald trump, reported about $152 million in income that year and paid the alternative minimum tax of $38 million, and the news broke on msnbc's rachel maddow's show. >> what can you tell us about how you got these pages? >> came in the mail, and there's nothing improper about journalist getting it over the transfer, and donald trump has leaked all sorts of things, and the very sleazy girl on girl pictures of the first lady in the new yo"new york post" may h come from donald, and donald has a long history of leaking material about himself when he thinks it's in his interest. >> now we are hearing from the president via twister saying does anybody ever believe a reporter who n

is also a law prohibiting the distribution of such material, legal experts say that as long as rachel maddow not steal the returns, it is unlikely she would face charges. tonight, maddow is saying the only thing she was focused on is getting the story right and she is "really psyched" she broke the story in the first place. martha. >> martha: thank you. joining me now with more, brit hume. good evening to you. ed ladled out beautifully. what he think about all of this? >> it is a journalistic fiasco. perhaps, a promotional coup, we are still talking about this. almost 24 hours later when, as a substantive matter, i didn't amount to very much. whatever extent it meant to anything, donald trump makes a lot of money and pays a lot of taxes, which is certainly not what a lot of people who were suspicious of him have been suggesting about them, which is that either he wasn't that rage or maybe he didn't pay any taxe taxes. neither turns out based on the sliver of evidence to be the case. >> martha: in some ways, it was suggested during the report last night, it may donald trump looked pretty good

rachel maddow coming -- rachel maddow, think she leaked copy of the president's tax returns. no questions are coming as to where they came from. to your home anonymously? is it possible he could have sent them to you question mark >> absolutely. he may have been the source of the three pages that went out last fall. if it wasn't donald or someone in his direction, it was someone who thought that the public should see this. larry: his tax rate, 25%, slightly lower than average, much higher than the 14% that the former gop nominee mitt romney paid in 2011. autria: happening right now, a vote that could change the face jummy olabanji following this from the live desk. netherlandse in the have been lining up for hours to cast the ballots. dutch voters are picking up a new parliament. it could change the landscape of the european union and bring an end to their open immigration policies. the moderate incumbent prime minister is in the lead at last check, putting close second, his far right opponent, who campaigned to stop what he calls of theamization netherlands. we will be watch

rachel maddow deflecting the blame.he msnbc host suggests it was her viewers fault for getting too excited about what turned out to be a two page document showing the president had millions of dollars. she said just because i've information on the president doesn't mean as a scandal. if other people leapt to that conclusion without me indicating it was that is external to what we did. i think that statement is a tornado of stupid and i don't like reading stupid things. >> ari: it didn't take her long to blame those few who watch her. she's got the dead sea scrolls, so i can't wait to see -- >> harris: msnbc is upset with her. the nb's don nbc part of msnbct with her. >> meghan: she had a countdown clock, they were promoting it. >> gillian: what were we supposed to get out of this tweet? it happened 17 minutes before she went live that night. >> sandra: i'm wondering, your perspective from the white house, what was the white house doing when that tweet went out? do you think the white house was scrambling? what happened?

thank you, rachel maddow to bring to your trump fading flowers as successfully as the many made -- paid $40 million in taxes in 2005. lita epstein, michigan cochair a co-owner of vast oil corporation. thanks for joining us this morning. the president is headed your way this afternoon. talk about that in a moment. do you think this is a distraction over the bigger tod. all eyes on this date this one in his direction. he is committed to producing jobs, addressing regulatory reform, making the automotive industry competitive. all of these unsubstantiated claims about tax refunds are vile, inappropriate in off the right path the president has a fondness for the economic reinvigoration of the country. true to really see you think an issue to explain why she had to release tax returns that the american people do not care reie automotive industry. maria: we'll talk about that. >> and he even paid more than those in his income bracket in the top 1% paying an average of 22% and he paid about that. it was actually a very good night for donald trump in the white house. the press response to this w