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Speaker 1: I'm Katherine Cowdery. Wall Street is pulling back from all

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Speaker 1: And that's a Bloomberg business flash. You're with Kathleen on

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Speaker 1: Bluebird Radio. Matt Miller here filling in for Kathleen Hayes

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Speaker 1: with Pim Fox on taking stock. We are gonna dive

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Speaker 1: into the world of politics via taxes right now. He

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Speaker 1: brought in Mike Nitza's executive editor for Bloomberg Politics and

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Speaker 1: the Clintons. Mike put out their tax returns for two

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Speaker 1: thousand fifteen today. We know we've seen the Clinton's tax

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Speaker 1: returns since the seventies or back to the seventies, but

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Speaker 1: today we learned they made another eleven million dollars, paid

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Speaker 1: thirty and gave away about ten percent to charity. That's yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's true. They finally checked this box. It's a traditional

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Speaker 1: one for presidential candidates to check. And uh yeah. It

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Speaker 1: hasn't created uh that much talk today because it was

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Speaker 1: you wonder how much money did Donald Trump make? I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Clintons have made a hundred fifty million since two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven. He's he done better? How much does he

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Speaker 1: pay in taxes? They've paid about a third of all

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Speaker 1: a very political um and to this release of the

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Speaker 1: can't release his taxes because he's under an i R

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Speaker 1: messages from the campaign. UH. Paul Mana for his campaign chief,

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Speaker 1: and asked them if there are rules prohibiting releasing your

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Speaker 1: tax returns if you're under audit there it's been reported

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Speaker 1: just something that Trump has chosen not to do. But

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Speaker 1: can he release his tax returns from previous years? And

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Speaker 1: that too, H's it's totally within his control to release

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Speaker 1: his taxes for previous years and also taxes. UH and

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Speaker 1: this most current one. Is it a possibility that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump pays no tax? Well, the New York Times ran

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Speaker 1: that that that is true, and that has been true

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Speaker 1: in the past. Uh in in some some years ago,

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Speaker 1: so interesting because Donald Trump has made one of the

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Speaker 1: I should say that he's against inversions because he doesn't

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Speaker 1: he's he's uh been able to navigate that kind of

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Speaker 1: I know. Thanks. Mike meets that he is an executive

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