BOMBSHELL: Rachel Maddow Unveils Donald Trump’s 2005 Tax Return *This story is still developing and we will update it as the details come in.* Rachel Maddow made a bombshell announcement on Tuesday evening that her show had obtained copies of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return. And on her show Tuesday night that Maddow unveiled Donald Trump’s tax return. Maddow confirmed that she had received the 2005 tax return from Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston. Both Johnston’s website DCReports.org and Maddow’s Maddowblog.com crashed Tuesday night. Maddow began her show by reraising the question of why Donald Trump has...

Update: BOMBSHELL: Rachel Maddow Unveils Donald Trump’s 2005 Tax Return     According to a report by the Associate Press, the White House released some numbers they claim are associated with Trump’s 2005 return. The White House claims Trump made more than $150 million in income in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year, according to the Associate Press. In an update to her earlier tweet, Maddow sent a follow up confirming that they have Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return. Maddow tweeted “What we’ve got is from 2005… the President’s 1040 form… details to come tonight...

Republican Senator: Health Plan Not What Trump ‘Promised’ Lousiana Republican Bill Cassidy said Tuesday that the Republican Obamacare replacement bill does not reflect the promises Donald Trump made during the campaign. “That’s not what President Trump promised,” Cassidy said on CNN Tuesday. “That’s not what Republicans ran on.” Senator Cassidy also said that he is concerned that the Trump administration is attempting to discredit the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. “You have to have an umpire, even if the umpire occasionally gets it wrong, because otherwise you are only accepting analysis by people with motivations that define certain answers, and so...

Disqualified Trump Hire, Monica Crowley Now Foreign Agent For Pro-Russian Ukrainian Oligarch Monica Crowley was named by Donald Trump to a high-level national security position in his administration but a plagiarism scandal prevented that from happening. Now Crowley has a job lobbying on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch. Anyone, surprised? Monica Crowley registered with the Justice Department’s National Security Division as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian steel magnate who has advocated more favorable positions towards Russia. Crowley’s work “will include inviting government officials and other policy makers to attend conferences and meetings, such as the annual Munich Security...

Chuck Schumer: Republican Health Plan ‘In Trouble’ On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Republican Obamacare replacement plan is collapsing. “The bill’s in trouble,” Schumer said during a press briefing. “It’s in trouble in the House; it’s in even more trouble in the Senate; and we Democrats are unified in opposition.” Schumer’s comments come a day after the Congressional Budget Office report showed that 24 million people will lose health insurance under the Republican plan. With 14 million people losing coverage in just 1 year by 2018. “There are, I think, more than 10 Republican senators, some...

Trump To Stop Considering Climate Change Impact From Government Reviews: Report According to a new report in Bloomberg, Donald Trump plans to reverse an Obama administration environmental standard by removing climate change as a factor in making government decisions. The decision would impact environmental reviews of industry regulations, appliance standards and pipeline projects, the Bloomberg report noted. The Obama administration added the climate change consideration as a means to help the federal government consider longer term climate impact related to environmental reviews. President Obama required that government agencies submit formal environmental reviews that included the possible economic harm and impact...

Graham Fires Warning Shot At FBI: You’re ‘About To Screw Up Big Time’ Republican Senator Lindsay Graham on Tuesday fired a warning shot at FBI Director James Comey warning him that the FBI would be “about to screw up big time” if it had failed to respond to his subcommittee’s letter asking for “copies of any warrant applications and court orders” related to wiretaps of Donald Trump. Graham sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey and the acting deputy attorney general last week requesting any information they might have about wiretapping that targeted the Trump campaign before the election. Graham’s subcommittee will be...

Pelosi Demands Speaker Ryan Remove Steve King From Leadership For Racist Comments House Minority Leader on Tuesday demanded that House Speaker Paul Ryan remove Steve King from Republican leadership after his racist comments over the weekend. Pelosi said, “When Republican Congressman Steve King made his latest disgusting and racist statements, I called on Speaker Ryan and the Republican leadership to immediately strip his Chairmanship of the Constitution Subcommittee.” Republicans are facing questions about King’s comments that civilizations can’t be restored “with someone else’s babies.” “Since then, Congressman Steve King has doubled down on his statements, so I am doubling down on...

Republican Senator Confirms ‘There Is No Three-Phase Process’ Republican Senator Tom Cotton on Tuesday shot down the claim from the White House and Paul Ryan that there is a secret “three-phase” health plan. “There is no three-phase process. There is no three-step plan. That is just political talk. It’s just politicians engaging in spin,” Cotton told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. Health and Human Service Secretary Tom Price said on  NBC’s “Today,” that Republicans have a “three-part plan.” Price tried to argue that the CBO report showing 24 million people losing insurance under the Republican plan is not complete...

Schumer: ‘Only Winners In This CBO Report Are Health Insurance Executives And Wealthiest Americans’   Chuck Schumer: “The only winners in this CBO report are health insurance executives and the wealthiest Americans.” pic.twitter.com/gYb5TYD18u — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 14, 2017 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted the Trump-Republican health plan after the Congressional Budget Office report showed that 24 million people will lose their health care by 2026. Schumer said that the “only winners in this CBO report are health insurance executives and the wealthiest Americans.” “Everyone else gets a cold shoulder,” Schumer continued. Chuck Schumer also pointed out...