Interview with David Cay Johnston
Laura Coates Live
CNN
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In line of succession for no throne except the one the president just flushed. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm glad you got it. That is a keeper line. Thank you very much for that Anderson. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello everybody, I am Chris Blumel and welcome to Primetime. So the Trump |
| 0:18.0 | Administration has until tomorrow to turn over the president's taxes and tonight we have more |
| 0:24.2 | reason to want to see them. A new window into the president's personal finances that shows |
| 0:30.0 | some very interesting irregularities. We have two men who work hard at lifting the lid off the |
| 0:36.6 | Trump records. They're here to break down the numbers and the questions. Also here, the billionaire |
| 0:42.6 | leading the charge to impeach the president. Mr. Tom Steyer, he has a new addout and it is going |
| 0:48.1 | after Democrats accusing them of blowing it is what he calls a weakness actually a strength. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's test his case and we hit 23 Democrats running for POTUS today. A historic number but also |
| 1:02.0 | a historic mistake, a radical idea that could turn this mess into a winning message. It's Friday |
| 1:09.0 | adjacent. What do you say? Let's get after it. It's a big number from the president. $434 |
| 1:20.3 | million in income for our president during his second year in office. It's a wow number. No |
| 1:27.2 | disputing that but it isn't the story. The story is where did it come from? This president broke |
| 1:33.3 | president by maintaining his interest in the Trump org, increasing the need to see the taxes. |
| 1:40.6 | One thing we do know is that that income includes more than $40 million from his Trump |
| 1:45.5 | International Hotel in Washington, D.C. It's one of the few listed interests to show any kind of |
| 1:52.0 | real growth. Joining me now, two men who follow his money closely. Trump biographer David K. Johnston |
| 1:59.4 | and Ilya Maritz, co-host of the Trump Inc podcast from WNYC and pro-publica. Interesting. |
| 2:06.5 | For all the talk about how great the economy is, revenue gain in short supply for the president's |
| 2:12.0 | portfolio. David K, what do you see in here that people need to know? Well, first of all, his |
| 2:18.7 | income isn't $434 million. That's the revenue of his businesses. Fair point. His income is likely |
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