Good evening, everybody. I'm Laura Cotes, and this is CNN Tonight, and look, there is a lot going on this evening.

And we have, with breaking news on Capitol Hill, we'll begin with that tonight, because the all-powerful House Ways and Means Committee,

which is led by Democrats, as you know, for now, voting tonight to release the former president.

Donald Trump's tax returns to the public. The Committee's vote was along party lines, and it's a giant defeat for Trump.

So it was, he's fought for years now to keep all of his tax information, private, citing audits, and the like.

And also tonight, it's worth saying that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is on his way to Washington, D.C. at this very hour.

He will meet with the president of the United States tomorrow at the White House, as expected, and may also address a joint session of Congress.

And now here's a CNN exclusive tonight, for just saying that Trump's former White House ethics lawyer, told Cassidy Hutchinson,

remember she was the star witness of the January 6 hearings, that person apparently gave the her the advice to give misleading testimony to the Committee.

And yes, I said, a White House ethics lawyer, so you try to figure that out, if you can.

I want to start now with CNN chief congressional correspondent, Monoraju, who is live on Capitol Hill tonight.

Mono, a lot is going on. Let's begin with those taxes. When are we going to learn more about these taxes and maybe even see them?

Yeah, we can actually see these very soon, and it could be a significant amount of information that Donald Trump has spent years trying to protect and not release the public, containing he was under endless audit, going to court to battle them, ultimately turned over to Congress just a few weeks ago.

And now tonight, in a party line vote, House Democrats voting to move ahead and to release these into public. Now what we were talking about here is six years of Trump's tax returns, including tax returns for eight affiliate businesses.

We also expect to see IRS audit reports, as well as two reports, the joint committee on taxation, which is a nonpartisan group that analyzes taxes.

We expect that report to come out tonight, as well as the committee's report analyzing these tax returns. That also will be released tonight according to committee officials.

Now when I asked the chairman of the committee, Richie Neal, about whether or not those returns, the actual returns themselves will be in public, he said they'll come out within days.

I'll put the view of the tax returns. It's going to take a few days, but we believe that it's only days. It won't go well beyond that. The staff is on top of it.

One of the things that we are going to take great pains to do, you might have heard the end of it tonight when you were in Longworth, and that is the redactions that have to take place to protect some very important, considerate, so security numbers, pen numbers, banking accounts, those sorts of things.

But the ways of me and staff, and I have faith in the Republican staffers, but them serve as a check on what it is that we want to do, but they are on a reaching accommodation to make sure that those protections are built in.

So those, that information will take a little bit more time to play out, but time is of the essence here. Democrats are only in power, Laura, for just a couple of more weeks before Republicans take control of the House on January 3rd, which is one big reason why Republicans crying foul as Democrats in their final days of power here moving to do something that they have been demanding for some time, seeing Donald Trump's tax returns in public, and we should be able to see those very soon.

I mean, part of the reason there has been the delay, though, as you know, was the claims that because he was being audited, he couldn't possibly hand things over from the candidacy, of course, throughout the presidency, and now up to this point in time.

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