It's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a quick episode previewing Tuesday night's

Vice Presidential Debate between Democrat Tim Cain and Republican Mike Pence.

And if you're wondering who they are, we'll get to that in a second.

I'm Tamara Keith, I cover the White House and the campaign.

I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

And I'm Ron Elving, Editor-Corerespondent.

So before we get started, it's been a busy weekend.

So it started when Donald-

I presume you're talking about college football.

Oh, yes, and NFL.

So it started when Donald Trump went on a pre-dawn Twitter rant attacking the former

Miss Universe Alicia Machado and telling America to, quote, check out sex tape.

One that does not seem to exist.

Typical presidential fair in an election year.

So over the weekend, the New York Times published a story based on leaked pages from Donald

Trump's 1995 tax filings that reveal Trump could have conceivably paid no federal income

tax for about 20 years.

But we don't know for sure.

Can we just start with saying that part of what makes this the New York Times story even

more intriguing is how they got the documents?

Because that Suzanne Craig, who is a veteran Wall Street reporter, was just checking her

snail mail and there was an envelope dressed to her and the return address was mysteriously

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