so what is the white house saying about this "new york times" bombshell report? >> reporter: wolf, good evening. as of now the white house is not saying anything about this report. of course, they have known the "new york times" has been working on this for a very long time. the president declined repeatedly to talk to the newspaper about it. the white house simply is not commenting at all. in fact, aides are trying to get their hands around all of this. this is one thing that president trump has never wanted to talk about. his finances. any suggestion he is not actually as wealthy as he is, suggests he is or how he got his money has always been something that's got under his skin. his tax returns, he's never wanted to release. we'll see if he talks a be that tonight at this rally in mississippi, were ut this cobut day expressing optimism and frustration at the supreme court battle he says is rallying republicans five weeks today before the midterm election. >> nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> reporter: president trump standing squarely behind em

tell us about the bombshell report in "the new york times." >> reporter: "the new york times" is reportinghat donald trump was involved in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including allegations of outright fraud, that "the new york times" said they reviewed confidential tax returns, financial statements and spoke with several people that worked with donald trump's father as part of their investigation. they said that they found that trump and his siblings helped to reduce their taxes by setting up sham corporations to disguise millions of dollars in gifts they received. they say they also found that trump helped his father take improper tax deductions and helped trump -- and trump had helped to formulate a strategy to undervalue his real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars. this all goes to efforts by donald trump to help prompt -- you know, increase his wealth, which comes, of course, as donald trump has said, you know, he's a self-made man. this "new york times" investigation shows there were some tax schemes involved in this, wolf. >> and there were other details in

. >> what we have seen with the washington post and "the new york times," for example, what a difference every day makes. every additional day the washington post or "the new york times" seems to discover something we did not know the day before about brett kavanaugh. >> yeah. and to the extent that this process is allowing for there to be more reflection, not just on the specific allegations against him, but whether or not he's the right person for this job both in terms of his temperament and his politics, but also whether or not he was truthful with the committee, whether there was anything that he spoke to under oath that may not have been the whole truth and nothing but the truth. all of those stories, even if they don't go to shedding more light on the original accusation that started the extension of this consideration process, they may get him in trouble in terms of whether or not he lied about stuff he didn't -- whether he lied about stuff to congress. >> well, rachel, it won't surprise you that donald trump got very ugly tonight on the rally stage, talking about dr. ford and do

. >> what we have seen with the washington post and "the new york times," for example, what a difference every day makes. every additional day the washington post or "the new york times" seems to discover something we did not know the day before about brett kavanaugh. >> yeah. and to the extent that this process is allowing for there to be more reflection, not just on the specific allegations against him, but whether or not he's the right person for this job both in terms of his temperament and his politics, but also whether or not he washere was anything that he spoke to under oath that may not have been the whole truth and nothing butse st th don't go to shedding more light on the original accusation th this con sickening, just really this con sickening, just really sickening. >> god bless you, my friend. good luck, lawrence. thanks. >> thank you. >>> as i said, of course donald trump just couldn't resist and so in a rally in mississippi, he started mocking dr. i didn't say teen blasey ford on his rally stage and he reduced her hours of credible testimony to the senate judiciary commit

first of all, why wouldn't they audit you. >> you're asserting that these three reporters from the new york times have discovered all of this tax fraud, when hundreds of irs auditors didn't find it? i mean, that just isn't plausible. incidentally, this is about the fourth or fifth time, the new york times has run this story, i remember they ran the story six months before the election. they keep repeating the story -- >> no, this is new. >> it's all new? it's not new. >> a lot of this is new. >> i did this investigating, i did it where a team at abc news. it would be comical if it weren't so scary at the time. i would have phone dialogues with donald trump, every time we would give him his net worth. he would double it. >> for someone to take $100 million and turn that into a $10 billion business. that's one hell of a businessman. >> do you know -- >> look at the enterprise, every city in america has a trump hotel. the real estate development. i mean he's an incredible businessman. >> we're going to take a break because there's a lot to chew on here, we have facts and then we have feelings about

i mean this is a report from "the new york times." usually i don't see articles this long except for in "the new yorker," right? >> it's the most granular investigation i've ever seen. >> it's amazing. >> on this. >> i got to tell you, if we can talk for a moment about sexual abuse allegations and brett kavanaugh. i spoke at georgia state today. every single young woman in the audience and just about every single person in the audience was paying attention to this, is concerned about it, and about someone being on the supreme court who just had the allegation, whether it's true or not. it was surprising to me to see young people so connected to this particular story, and i think ignore those young people who are of voting age at your own peril. that's what i think. >> how many of them were saying, as young men or young men thinking about young men, that this was about them? that they're worried about young men and false allegations the way the president is putting out there? >> not one. nobody was. nobody is worried about young men. th

he's been to "the new york times" a couple of times. >> at times when the publisher of "the new york times" has a meeting with him, you decline to go because you don't feel like attending off the record meetings? >> i don't think the executive editor is supposed to be in off the record meetings with heads of state. that's a personal issue. when i was a washington bureau chief i never met barack obama because i didn't think the washington bureau chief should talk off the record to the president. my view is whatever the president wants to say my readers should know. so i felt -- a lot of my staff disagrees with me, by the way. i think the publisher has a different job but i wouldn't meet off the record with the president. do you think that "the times" is a little too liberal? >> it's funny. i actually don't. you look startled. the editorial page is liberal. "the new york times" is made up of a lot of stuff. i would make the case that our business section carries with it the fact that we have a business section. carries with it the view, the obvious view that capitalism is an important p

it's one of the largest investigative articles ever published in "the new york times." en it dropped this afternoon, we got fairly quickly this statement from new york state tax authorities. quote, the tax department is reviewing the allegations in "the new york times" article and is vigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation. joining us now, susanne craig, investigative reporter for "the new york times," one of the by-lines on this piece. congratulations. >> thanks. thanks for having me. >> first, let me ask if i screwed anything up in reporting your reporting here. this is an opus. >> no, keep going! >> how long is this progress -- you give us a little hint when the president over a period of weeks did not respond to a request for comment. >> it's interesting. the story actually started with -- our investigation started the night you had the tax returns from 2005 on your show. we came in the next day and were really surprised that he had made money that year, because the last time we left off with him was in 1995 and we had three pages of his tax retu

of that because system native she made of an ad is an ad is an ad is the way i feel about it the new york times should not be in the business of managing people's opinion of goldman sachs there is no way that i can take as seriously the new york times reporting on goldman sachs knowing that they have just been on this content creation journey together native advertising is just an effort to confuse readers to think that they're getting something other than that ad. standard practice at the new york times and other outlets is to label the content so readers know when it's been paid for by a client however london's large circulation free newspaper the evening standard shows us where the lines between a business and a tauriel can be blurred to the point of a ratio. back in may an exposé democracy revealed that the standard was offering not just branded content but money positive news and favorable comment pieces that would appear to readers as journalism when the story broke the standard quietly postponed the. but last year unlikely six p. could stand that strong syngenta agri business joint glowi

this is the "new york times." the so-called paper of record. ry much if any other news organization, any other news platform had that as part of its record. that it would be consider the paper of record, and used by so many in manhattan, and washington, d.c., and l.a. as the first thing they read for a source of information. what do you think about that? >> well, it's appalling, and it's hard to argue with numbers like that, that there are problems with the way "the new york times" approaches stories and they go back decades. they also hid a lot of the death from famine in the soviet union. they have a legacy of shading their news coverage to match political or other goals and even we see it up to the recent weeks with the way they cover these stories. what's frustrating is there is no industry that has less self-reflection than journalism. despite the failures, despite the problems that are objectively, they have failed. they failed in how they covered the 2016 campaign and actually the "new york times" was probably better than most and still w

but this folks is the "new york times." s the "new york times" running this video on its front page of its website. to equate our president who is growing our economy and creating jobs for all ethnicity and trying to level the playing field for our country in trade. it's a smack in the face to history. as professor alan dershowitz said to fox business, and i quote, to think the president is a nazi is to deny the holocaust existed. the media's hatred of this president is in one word extraordinary. it's really kind of a blind hate. a hate for a person, a hate that fails to consider any of the policies. that requires a little bit of intellect. they have to think about what is going to affect our nation. meanwhile i would remind the "new york times," i would remind this yale professor and anyone else who throws around words like fascism and adolph hitler. the "new york times" would never have been able to be critical of him. and i wouldn't have been able to challenge him like i did here, watch. >> helsinki. you got a lot of crit

the audit is done, i will release. >> and kyra phillips live tonight from washington. and you're learning that authorities are now investigating this new report from "the new york times?" >> reporter: david, the new york state tax department is reviewing the report now in "the times," but the president's lawyer insists that president trump had virtually no involvement whatsoever with these matters relating to his parents's kate. david? >> kyra phillips with us tonight. thank you. >>> next, as we're on the air at this hour, the tornado watch across much of the northeast. several states at this hour from ohio to connecticut after a tornado already touched down in pennsylvania. the likely twister near erie. a confirmed tornado making a direct hit on this nursing home nearby. let's get right to ginger zee, she's been tracking it all afternoon. ginger? >> reporter: david, at least three reported tornadoes in pennsylvania, and a tornado watch right where i'm standing. let me take you to the map. when you see a watch, that means conditions are right for a tornado. when you see a warning, the red boxes, that means you have to take cover immediately. now, you see that severe th

this source telling the new york times that. as soon as he entered the consulate a fight started and was put into a neck cold and apparently was choked to death again according to this official speaking to the new york times and then this is vital as well this official saying that the team then gave the body to what is described as a local collaborator to dispose of meeting the saudis don't know where the body is was going to be interesting is the coming hours as we expect potentially more leaks by the turkish government as we've seen in recent days the longer this is gone all the more leaks we've seen the longer this investigation has gone on the more leaks we've seen so there's also been it's interesting to say there has been a statement made by the president president urged one saying basically that he's taken on board all its responsibilities to continue with this investigation and to get to two to a firm conclusion we do not know when any kind of results from either the joint investigation or indeed the turkish investigation

the front page of the international edition of the new york times now. it focuses on the russian fertiliser giant advocating tighter regulations on fertiliser. the paper says farming products might not seem an obvious source of geopolitical tension, but with moscow working to widen its sphere of power, the prospect of a politically connected russian company cornering a key part of the european agricultural market has raised sharp concerns. the japan times leads with president trump's plans to exit from its nuclear weapons treaty with russia, saying that china has been left alone and unconstrained to amass a missile arsenal that puts us and japanese forces at risk, according to observers. and finally, a story in france's le figaro featuring contemporary artist grayson perry, and saying how contemporary british artists such as perry and bansky are leading the field. perry presents his first french solo exhibition dressed as his female alter ego, claire, referring to what he calls the "them and us" mentality in british society, which he says arose during the

nermeen: on wednesday, president trump attacked "the new york times." he tweeted -- "the failing 'new york times' did something i have never seen done before. "timesed the concept of value of money" in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. never recovered from bad election call!" amy: "the times" article was based on public records as well as tens of thousands of confidential documents including bank statements, financial audits, accounting ledgers, cash disbursement reports, invoices and canceled checks. the documents include more than 200 tax returns of the late fred includeut do -- don't the president's personal tax returns, which he has refuseto release. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders responded to the article during wednesday's press briefing. >> i'm not going to sit and go through every single line of a very boring 14,000 word story. the only thing -- i will say one thing the article to get right, it should the president's father actually had a great

being a part of that system native made of an ad is an ad is an ad is the way i feel about it the new york times should not be in the business of managing people's opinion of goldman sachs there is no way that i can take as seriously the new york times reporting on goldman sachs knowing that they have just been on this content creation journey together native advertising is just an effort to confuse readers to think that there. getting something other than an ad. standard practice at the new york times and other outlets is to label broad content so readers know when it's been paid for by a client however london's large circulation free newspaper the evening standard shows us where the lines between business and the tory can be blurred to the point of a ratio. back in may an exposé by open democracy revealed that the standard was offering not just branded content but money can't buy positive news and favorable comment pieces that would appear to readers as journalism when the story broke the standard quietly postponed the scheme but last year a likely six figure d. around standard struck with syn

times." many decades ago the irs reviewed and signed off on these transactions. "the new york times" and other media outlets' credibility with the american people is at an all-time low because they are consumed with attacking the president and his family 24/7 instead of reporting the news. well, criminal prosecution is unlikely because of the statute of limitations, but the new york state tax department has launched a review of the allegations. "the new york times" is calling its story historic saying the paper had to bring in extra workers overnight just to print the story, which runs 14,000 words and takes up 8 pages. >>> president trump's taking direct aim at the woman who accuses his supreme court nominee of sexual assault. at a campaign rally last night the president said brett kavanaugh's life is in tatters and he ridiculed christine blasey ford as the crowd erupted in laughter. a stunning reversal from just days ago when the president called dr. ford a very credible witness. abc's emily rau has more from washington. good morning, emily. >> reporter: good morning, maggie

who did "the new york times" assigned that story? n july on twitter revealed that she was anti-kavanaugh and nonetheless they assigned her to do that and then later in the day "the new york times" said we probably shouldn't have sent her, but it's just another one of those things. >> you had to deal with this. sara sanders is now stuck in that job, i feel sorry for her, felt sorry for you at the time. it's never been this bad. >> it gets worse every day. i think steve's point is exactly right. not that they send a reporter in the entrance were publicly stated her hatred and her animosity towards brett kavanaugh and conservatives in general, but then "the new york times" afterwards said she might not have been the best person, we stand by it. i think nbc, "the washington post," all these other -- they have lost all sense of objectivity to the point where for all of their talk about lying in truth telling and facts, the other day prior to the hearing andrea mitchell on air talking about how many people helped brett kavanaugh prepare his

but then you look at the story, the big headline this morning in the "the new york times" washi about back in 1985, brett kavanaugh was in a bar fight. and then you read it and it is -- >> he threw ice. >> he threw ice, exactly. who did the "the new york times" assign that story? a woman who, back in july, did a -- on twitter, revealed that she was anti-kavanaugh. >> unbelievable. >> nonetheless, they assigned her to do that and then later in the day "the new york times" said, you know what, we probably shouldn't have sent her, but it is another one of those things. >> sean, you had to deal with this. sarah sanders is now stuck in that job. i feel sorry for her. i felt sorry for you at the time. it is just bad. >> not only did they send in a reporter from the "the new yorkx times" who had publicly stated her hatred and animosity to brett kavanaugh and conservatives in general, but "the new york times" said afterwards while she might not have been the best person, we stand by it. they've lost all sense of objectivity to the point where all their talk about lying and truth telling and f

the times and why is this so significant. because it goes to the heart for the trump self proclaimed origin story the new york times saying this is an origin myth donald trump said on the campaign trail during the presidential election he's a self-made man taking just a million dollar loan just a million dollar learned from his father and transforming it into billions of dollars and a huge property empire around the world the new york times saying no that's not true he was receiving money from a very early age by the age of three he was already earning two hundred thousand dollars a year from his father's generosity by the age of eight he was a millionaire and then four hundred thirteen million all told was given to him by his father in today's in today's money the new york times pointing out that all they have to do is put that money they say in an index linked fund linked to the s. and p. five hundred and he'd be worth two billion dollars without having done anything right now so this goes to the heart of this idea that he is self-made he is always saying i did this myself with no help from anyone else and i can give that ma

he released a statement which reads in part "the new york times" allegations of fraud and tax evasionre 100% off and highly defamatory. there was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. the facts upon which the times basis of false allegations are extremely inaccurate. all of the state matters were hired by licensed attorneys, licensed cpas and licensed real estate appraisers who followed all laws and rules strictly. liz, of course one of tobacco to all of this. bucking tradition come of president trump is not his personal tax returns. he says he's been on it for the better portion for a decade will not release under the circumstances. "the new york times" article as lengthy as you will find will certainly raise more questions about what might or might not be enough tax reforms -- forms. elizabeth: how did "the new york times" get the tax returns and will be published those so people can fact check its work. i will be the next story. great to see you. thank you so much. turning to amazon, the online giant is set to raise its minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour starting november 1st. that will

i want to give credit to your colleagues' bylines and for your strong reporting in "the new york times more on breaking news right now. >>> democratic congressman ted lew is joining us. thank you for joining us, congressman. >> thank you, wolf. >> what is your reaction to the new report from "the new york times"? >> i have two indiscernible reactions. the first is that a senior trump campaign official is now actively trying to mislead and trick voters, in this case republican voters, and that may violate the law but certainly violates accepted norms of campaign behavior. second, what we have here are techniques such as fake online identities, the manipulation of social media, that look very similar to what the russians did. in "the new york times" article they say that israeli plans were never executed, but we know the russian plans were. i think it is important to know who else knew about rick gates' attempt to solicit this kind of trickery and manipulation of social media, and i think it is very important for the special counsel to get to the bottom of this. >> you are a former prose

and then there is some editorializing from the "new york times." it says, a millton friedman doctrine. it has the title, the only social responsibility, et cetera. then it says in this article millton freeman, says that the author, milton friedman. i will read this out. calls such drives for social

the breaking news. will congress act on this "new york times" report? i'm going to ask the congressman whose job it would be to help lead an investigation. >>> also, just breaking, also from the "new york times," a letter written by brett kavanaugh back from 1983, calling him and his friends obnoxious drunks. >>> and trump making a very telling statement. >> it's a very scary time for young men in america. ♪ whether it's a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected, pnc will be right there when you need us. because when it comes to your finances, if you focus on today, tomorrow has a way of working itself out. rewards me basically aeverywhere.om if you focus on today, so why am i hosting a dental convention after party in my vegas suite? because hotels.com lets me do me. who wants to floss me? hotels.com. you do you and get rewarded. we used to play so beautifully together. now... we can barely play anything... even cards with the girls. (vo) if you have bent fingers and can't put your hand flat, talk to your doctor. it may be dupuytren's contractur

his public adversity with the "new york times" is notorious. as the "new york times" that published a shred of a tax document that he filed in the '90s which showed a billion dollar carryover loss. he lost $1 billion in one year. he was able to carry it over for ten years, therefore pay no taxes in any of those years. perfectly lawful. perfectly lawful. but it appears scandalous. wait a minute, he made all this money and he doesn't pay taxes. they have been after his taxes for a long time. my guess is that they soundly consulted legal and tax experts on this before they went with it, because this is the most serious allegation of unlawful behavior of a pre-presidential donald trump that i have seen. trish: oh, boy, oh, boy. i made the point earlier today and i think this is valid. politically speaking, people don't really care. politically speaking, people don't care whether, you know, his father gave him $1 million loan or $400 million. they look at that and say still, he's successful in his own right. but that's the politics of it. legally, it

news alert. but the time it covers from decades ago, that might. kevin corke her with reaction. >> always an interesting time here at the white house because you just never know between "the new yorkd "the washington post" what might come out next. in this case, it's the times, as you pointed out with a scathing article about the president's finances in the past and the 1990s, in particular finances involving him and his father's business dealings. i should point out, charles harter is an attorney or the president, a private attorney. he said the times has it all wrong and they are completely inaccurate. we have a statement and i want share part of it with you. i can give you this just to give you a sort of a sense of what charles harter, the president's attorney is saying about this huge piece in "the new york times" this afternoon. he says "the new york times" allegations of fraud and tax evasion are 100% false and highly defamatory. there was no fraud, or tax evasion by anyone. the facts upon which the times bases its false allegations are extremely inaccurate and all state matters were handled by licensed attorneys, licensed cpas and licensed real estate appraisers who followe

reporter: this is very, very lengthy article released by "the new york times," david. to break it down you have to separate this in two different buckets. the first "the new york times" says it has gone over documents, interviewed people, et cetera in this lengthy piece. they say that president trump's image he is this self-made billionaire that barely relied on his real estate developer father for help is essentially an overblown image. when they have gone through the documents over time, tax documents, et cetera, they claim that president trump's father gave him another of $100 million worth over time, even dating back to his infant years. that is the first part. the more damaging part that the "new york times" claims, i'm not sure we should say damaging but the more explosive part that the "times" claims is the following, this is how they begin their article, quote, president trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, instances of out right fraud that freightly increased fortune he received from his parents. an investigation from "the new york times"

times" expose broke tuesday, the new york state department of taxation and finance said it has opened an investigation into t the times' allegations of fraud and tax evasion. republican senate leader mitch mcconnell said tuesday the fbi is wrapping up its investigation into sexual mimisconduct allegations against brett kavanaugh, and that he's prepared to call a vote on president trump's supreme court nominee by the end of the week. >> we will get an fbi report soon. it will be made available to s senatorstor and only will be allowed to look at it. that is the way these reports are always handled. amy: "the washington post" reports fbi agents spoke on tuesday with a former georgetown prep classmate of kavanaugh's named tim gaudette. he hosted a party on july 1, 1982, which investigators have been zeroing in on. according to his own calendar, kavanaugh drank along with two other classmates who were identified by christine blasey ford as present at the gathering when she was allegedly sexually assaulted. the investigation barreled toward a rapid conclusion as lawyers for d

as the fbi expands its investigation tonight, here's what the "new york times" has published. a copy of a 1983 letter written by kavanaugh. and he writes his high school buddies should warn the neighbors that we're loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us, which sounds pretty different from what brett kavanaugh said about drinking beer in his testimony to the judiciary committee last week. >> i drank beer with my friends. almost everyone did. sometimes i had too many beers. sometimes others did. i liked beer. i still like beer. >> and there's more, kavanaugh signed that letter bart. hmm. where have i heard that before? oh, yeah. >> he references a bart o'kavanaugh. vomiting in someone's car during beach week and then passing out. is that you? >> bart is a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem. now, as part of his therapy, or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fiction naturalized book and an account. i think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close to what for char

on the campaign trail and so on it's a story as far as he's concerned it's a myth as far as the new york times is concerned with this reporting the story is he got a million dollars from his dad he transformed that into a multibillion dollar international empire the new york times says no he was receiving huge amounts of money from his father from a very early age he was earning two hundred thousand dollars a year when he was just three years old according to the new york times he was a millionaire by the age of eight and all in all in today's money he received four hundred sixteen million dollars or four hundred thirty billion dollars i'm sorry four hundred thirteen million dollars from his father so that isn't really a self-made man who had to work incredibly hard in order to achieve where he got and part of his dog was always look i can do that same thing for the united states now because of my incredible dealmaking skills the other the second part obviously is the allegations of illegality that the new york times it's quite another shame at least saying it's presumably the new york times l

and tonight "the new york times" has discovered corroborating evidence of the incident that chad ludington just described. "the new york times" has obtained the new haven police report of an incident that occurred in 1985 in which brett kavanaugh was questioned by police who responded to a bar fight in new haven. in the police report dom says that he got into a fight with brett kavanaugh and his friends in that bar after brett kavanaugh threw ice at him. according to "the new york times," a witness to the fight said that chris dudley, a yale basketball player who was friends with mr. kavanaugh then hit the man in the ear with a glass, according to the police report. mr. kavanaugh did not want to say if he threw the ice or not, the police report said. the police report referred to the incident as quote, an assault. professor ludington told the story this way to "the new york times." mr. kavanaugh threw his beer at the guy, the guy swung at brett, mr. ludington, continued. at that point mr. dudley took his beer and smashed it into the head of the guy who by now had brett in an embrace. i the

early age by the age of three he was earning two hundred thousand dollars a year according to the new york times by the age of eight he was already a millionaire as a result of his father's generosity in fact the new york times points out that with this over four hundred million dollars that he received or in today's money from his father he could simply have put that into a trust fund that was indexed to the s. and p. five hundred and he'd be worth two billion dollars right now without having done anything so this goes with the hope to the heart of that story it's also significant because as you said just in the deal times says illegality was involved that the only reason there was so much money sloshing about in the trump family was because they were evading taxes by underestimating their property portfolio by hundreds of millions of dollars by setting up shop in corporations and so on so about's quite significant at least potentially for donald trump because of the investigations that may now may not pop up politically perhaps not so much because his base really doesn't care about this stuff

the new york state taxation authority regarding the blockbuster. the tax department is reviewing the allegations of the "new york times" article and vigorously pursuingate avenues of investigation. quote/unquote. one of the questions. whether or not you think the irs, which, of course, a division of the executive branch, and administration, will do anything in state divisions on this, and there might be an investigation. >> of course. guess what? there ought to be's anybody with this amount of money and goes through these kinds of processes, i think they all have interactions with the irs. i hope the president and his family have done everything by the book and i have no problem with any government agency looking into things. i have a problem with, if this is a witch hur-huntwitch-hunt, what they do to conservatives during the obama years. go after people trying to speak freely and because they were conservatives. if that's what this turns into, i'm against it. turns into an honest assessment by an agency, i have no problem with that oversight. >> should the president release his taxes like everybody else? >> i think the president should do whatever

now, the one still terrible silver lining in the "new york times'" report from last night was the part where current trump administration officials tried to sell the "new york times" on the fact that they were quote confident that trump was not actually spilling secrets in these calls, they're confident in that because president trump rarely digs into the details of the intelligence shown and is not well known in the specifics of the covert activities. this is supposed to be the silver lining. you can see why this is terrible. don't worry about the president stilling anything and those calls, he can't absorb anything all that secret. he doesn't pay attention to his briefings. that was the glass half full part of this amazing story in the "time's" last night. well the glass is not all that number. nbc news reports today that, in fact. president trump has been disclosing sensitive information in these calls that he has been making on his insecure private phone and that the chinese have apparently been listening in on all this time. current u.s. officials tell nbc they have been worried f

the "new york times" reports that the small loan was at least $60 million or in today's numbers, that million. so now let's get into the details. how did fred trump avoid or evade taxes? let me take you through some examples. the times reports that fred trump's 1995 gift tax return on that return the trumps claim that about 7,000 apartments were worth about $41 million. but in 2004, a bank valued those same assets at $900 million. the paper says this strategy helped the family save hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. another scheme the paper highlights, the times reports that fred trump allegedly transferred millions to his children to a company he created called all county building supply and maintenance. he used this company to pad receipts for goods and services by 20 of 50% so the company could drive up rent for thousands of tenants according to records and documents acquired by the "new york times" and nearly all of that markup allegedly flowed to the trump children. an attorney responded there was no fraud or tax evasion by anyone. the facts upon which the times based fals

i love me "the new york times." as far as i'm concerned, "the new york times" is the eighth wonder of the world. i do not want to imagine an america without "the new york times" or with a lesser "new york times." but when it comes to how they handled the information that they had about fbi interests in two presidential candidates in 2016, at some point there presumably will have to be a little bit of a come to jesus moment about that, because that was a heck of a thing for "the new york times" to have sat on and not published, especially given how dead the horse was they were aggressively beating at the time every day when it came to hillary clinton's e-mails. they knew trump was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation at the fbi at the time and they didn't tell us? "the times" has sort of apologized for that halloween 2016 story since it ran. they've never run a correction. they've sort of explained their own disappointment in it. but now we know. thetimes knew trump was under active fbi counterintelligen

the new york times is reporting that missing sound. was assassinated on the highest orders of the saudi government was last seen entering the saudi constance in istanbul a week ago the report comes after a turkish newspaper published photos of fifteen saudi nationals who police want to question over his disappearance. u.s. state department and the u.n. is calling for a full and transparent investigation and jamal khashoggi it's a parent's washington says it's concerned about the whereabouts of the jobless. and police in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a well gary and journalist that's here old victorian era never was raped and killed in the northern town of roos she's been investigating alleged forward with a new funds involving businessmen and politicians. a bangladeshi opposition leader has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister terry graffman was tried in absentia after he went in self-imposed exile in two thousand and eig

the future holds for these new korea neighbors politicians borders of blood. and watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now the new york times is supporting a missing saudi journalist was assassinated on the highest orders of the kingdom because it was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago times article cites a senior turkish official al-jazeera has not yet been able to verify that report turkish newspaper daily sabah has published photos of fifteen saudi nationals of police want to question over his death disappearance the washington post says u.s. intelligence intercepted communications of saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him. and u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has denied she's planning on running in the two thousand and twenty presidential election observers are ending her post she says she's taking time out from public office. five months of fighting in eastern libya has forced many families to seek help in the capital tripoli they fled the city of daraa now which is besieged by a self declared army battling to control the oil rich region a spot moved up to go ahead reports some a

peeling off the on i don't know as "the new york times" -- onion as "new york times" reporter says. ith charlie gasparino to talk about it right now. neil: we'll talk about the weather. thank you very much, kristina partsinevelos, reason that loss for the year. how it became an issue, could he have written that off as stages in since? could he have not paid any taxes? could donald trump found himself in positioning thanks to the loss, carry it out and write it off one return after another for better part of a decade. hence the argument that a lot of clinton folks making not paying taxes. we don't know the tax record. we don't know a lot about this. this would not be the first family of great wealth, particularly in the real estate arena, laws get tricky and complicated to try to dodge the taxman. anyway they can. question, did they do it really? did some funny stuff come up? charlie you and i covered businesses for donald trump for many decades. i always thought that he shortchanged his dad in talking about the influence he had because i think you and i both knew the father enough to

what we're seeing right now, you have a dockment, "the new york times" with 14,000 words on this. spent almost a year reporting on trump's tax forms. so yes, the new york state has -- authorities have said they're looking into it. they issued a statement to fox business today stating most importantly the tax department is reviewing allegations in "the new york times" article and is rigorously pursuing all appropriate avenues of investigation. we know trump has said essentially he's been a self-made millionaire. he had a $1 million loan from his father. allegations in "the new york times" article says otherwise. it says he received $60 million from loans from his father and other money was passed on. there was a shell company to pad expenses happened he's been given money from his parents and from fred trump for decades. we had response from the white house. sarah sanders dismissing the allegations. listen in. >> totally false attack based on an old recycled news story. i'm not going to sit and go through every line of a very boring 14,000 word story. >> so it's not only fair. you