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Sarah Sanders Says Congress Is Not "Smart Enough" for Trump's Tax Returns: A Closer Look - YouTube
Channel: Late Night with Seth Meyers
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-The president
is still resisting calls
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to release his tax returns
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while complaining
about immigration laws.
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For more on this,
it's time for "A Closer Look."
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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President Trump
has been resisting calls
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for over three years
to release his tax returns.
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Last week Trump said he would
love to release them but can't
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because of a fake audit
that definitely does not exist.
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And he just kept repeating
the same words over and over.
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-While I'm under audit,
I won't do it.
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If I'm not under audit,
I would do it.
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I had no problem with it.
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But while I'm under audit,
I would not give my taxes.
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There's no law whatsoever.
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Now, I will say this.
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I would love to give them,
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but I'm not going to do it
while I'm under audit.
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It's very simple.
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-Every time Trump
answers a question,
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he sounds like a scientist
insisting on giving a TED Talk
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despite a recent
massive head wound.
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"A black hole
is a hole that's black,
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and it's black because it's
a hole where there's no light,
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because it's black
and it's a hole.
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And that's why they call it
a black hole."
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"Dr. Trump, maybe we could
finish this up tomorrow?"
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"But I haven't even gotten
to the black hole part yet."
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Also, this part right here
is the best part.
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-Now, I will say this.
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I would love to give them,
but I'm not going to do it.
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[ Laughter ]
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-He tees it up like
he's about to switch gears
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and then just
repeats himself again.
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It's like if you ask someone
to marry you
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and they said,
"Well, it's awfully soon
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and I'm a little afraid
of commitment,
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but I will say this.
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No."
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[ Laughter ]
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Knowing that the audit excuse
is a transparent lie,
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Trump has, in the last few
months, moved on to a new excuse
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that his tax returns
are too complicated
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for people to understand.
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That's what he said last year
after Democrats won the midterms
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and gained the power
to request them.
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-As I've told you,
they're under audit.
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They have been for a long time.
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They're extremely complex.
People wouldn't understand them.
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They're done
by among the biggest
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and best law firms
in the country.
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Same thing with
the accounting firms.
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The accountants are a very,
very large, powerful firm
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from the standpoint of respect.
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A highly respected, big firm.
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A great law firm.
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You know it very well.
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They do these things.
They put them in.
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But people don't understand
tax returns,
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and it is a very big company,
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far bigger than you
would even understand.
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But it's a great company.
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But it's big and it's complex
and it's probably feet high.
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-All right, first of all...
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I don't want to hear
how big and complex it is
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from someone who also says
it's feet high.
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Second, the only thing harder to
understand than your tax returns
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is that answer.
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We need an audit just to figure
out what the hell you're saying.
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Like, honestly, please,
what does this mean?
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-A very, very large,
powerful firm
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from the standpoint of respect.
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-Why --
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Why does the president
of the United States
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always sound like a spam e-mail
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asking you for your
Social Security number?
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"Hello. I am with a very large,
powerful firm
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from the standpoint of respect.
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Will you please send
your bank routing number?"
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For real?
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For real, maybe Congress
would have more luck
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getting his tax returns
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if they just used his syntax
in the request.
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"Mr. President, some would say
best president,
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we're writing to request
your tax returns.
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Are willing to send truck
to pick up, as they are so big,
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massive even, from your many
large and successful businesses.
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Wow!
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We realize they will be
very, very too complicated
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for us to understand,
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as we are small from
the standpoint of intelligence,
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but would be fun to see them."
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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Yeah.
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"They make a very good case.
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I think we should
send them over."
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Now, the law is clear.
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Democrats have the power
to request Trump's tax returns,
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which they did, and the request
went to the IRS, not Trump.
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It's not up to him.
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And yet on Sunday, his
press secretary, Sarah Sanders,
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insisted Trump
would not turn them over,
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and she even took Trump's
argument one step further,
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saying members of Congress
were literally too dumb
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to understand them.
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-This is all about
political partisanship.
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-This is a dangerous,
dangerous road.
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And, frankly, Chris,
I don't think Congress,
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particularly not this group
of congressmen and -women,
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are smart enough to look through
the thousands of pages
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that I would assume that
President Trump's taxes will be.
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-Okay, now,
this is what she wants.
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She's trolling us.
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She wants us to get all mad
and riled up
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and point out all the ways that
Trump is actually the idiot,
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because that's
their only move --
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to just take whatever
we say about Trump
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and turn it back on us,
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and we're just too dignified
for that.
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We will not stoop to her level.
And I'm just kidding.
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Here's a bunch of dumb [bleep]
the president's said and done.
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-Our hope is a word and world.
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Through their lives
and though their lives.
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They sacrifice every day
for the furniture --
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future of their children.
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10,000 known or "suspested"
gang members.
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Nancy Pelosi, or Nancy,
as I call her.
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-What is that?
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What -- What is --
Wait a second.
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Is that toilet paper?
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-It's tremendously big
and tremendously wet.
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We appreciated very much
Tim Apple.
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China has total respect
for Donald Trump
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and for Donald Trump's very,
very large a-brain.
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-"Very, very...
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Very, very large a-brain."
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Yeah, no, but we're too stupid
to understand the tax returns
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of someone who's
clearly suffering
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from what's known
in the medical community
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as degenerative
Italian stereotype disease.
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He'll start his next
press conference by saying,
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"I use-a my very large-a brain-a
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to make-a the pizza pie."
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Now, I will concede
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if Sanders is talking about the
Republican members of Congress,
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then, yes, some of them
are not smart enough
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to understand
Trump's tax returns,
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like the guy who vaped
during a congressional hearing
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or the guy who brought out
a giant meme of Ronald Reagan
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riding a velociraptor
and holding a machine gun
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or the guy who brought
a snowball onto the Senate floor
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to claim that global warming
isn't real.
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But if you compare that
to the Democrats,
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specifically the new class
of freshmen Democratic women
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who took office this year,
it's different,
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like California congresswoman
Katie Porter,
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a law professor
and consumer advocate.
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Earlier this year,
she grilled Trump's pick
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to lead the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau,
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Kathy Kraninger,
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who has no experience
in consumer protection.
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Porter specifically asked her
to explain the difference
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between an interest rate
and an APR.
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Now, I don't know
the difference.
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I looked it up three times
this morning,
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and I still don't remember.
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And I can guarantee you
this guy doesn't understand it,
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but the director of the bureau
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that's in charge of protecting
consumers from predatory lenders
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should absolutely understand it,
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and yet when Porter
asked Kraninger
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to explain the difference,
Porter had to explain it to her.
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-Could you please explain
to this committee
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the difference between
an interest rate and an APR?
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-So, the APR
is the extrapolation
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if it were a one-year term.
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-Ms. Kraninger,
the annual percentage rate --
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and I'll be happy
to send you a copy
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of the textbook that I wrote --
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explains that the APR is derived
from the finance charge,
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the amount financed,
and the payment schedule.
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-Damn, she literally pulled out
the textbook she wrote.
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[ Cheers and applause ]
That is --
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That is every academic's dream.
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"You don't know nothing
about monarch butterflies!"
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"What? Oh, my God.
Are -- Are you [bleep] serious?
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I wrote the book
on monarch butterflies."
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While Trump is resisting calls
to release his tax returns,
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he's also been suggesting
breaking the law
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when it comes to immigration.
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Now, here's what's going on.
It's very simple.
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Trump hates the fact
that migrants
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can legally come to this country
and seek asylum.
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He's been whining about it
for months,
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complaining that migrants
have the right
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to make their case to a judge
in a court of law
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with the help of a lawyer.
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And he did it on Friday
and yet again today.
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-We have to do something
about asylum.
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And to be honest with you,
have to get rid of judges.
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They have to get rid
of the whole asylum system
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because it doesn't work.
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And, frankly,
we should get rid of judges.
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We have a stupid system
of courts.
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It's the craziest thing
in the world.
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We then have to ask them
a couple of questions.
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Lawyers are telling them
what to say.
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They read a little page
given by lawyers
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that are all over the place.
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You know, lawyers.
They tell them what to say.
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People come in.
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They read a line from a lawyer
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that a lawyer hands them out
online.
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The asylum laws
are absolutely insane.
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They're given a statement
to read
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by lawyers that stand there
waiting for them.
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Read the statement.
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-I think Trump is just upset
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that they can read
prepared statements,
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because he can't read
prepared statements.
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Whenever he reads off
a teleprompter, he Magoos it.
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So he can't get rid of courts
or judges or lawyers.
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So now Trump has moved on
to a new idea,
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and he clearly thinks
this new idea
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is a brilliant
political maneuver
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that will turn the tables
on Democrats.
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Trump said on Friday he wants
to start sending migrants
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to liberal cities
that would welcome them,
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or so-called sanctuary cites.
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-We are looking at
the possibility --
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strongly looking at it,
to be honest with you.
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California,
the governor wants to have
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a lot of people coming in,
refugees coming in,
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a lot of sanctuary cities,
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so we'll give them
to the sanctuary cities
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maybe to take care of.
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We'll bring them
to sanctuary city areas
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and let that particular area
take care of it,
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and let's see if they're
so happy.
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They always say,
"We have open arms."
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They're always saying
they have open arms.
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Let's see if they
have open arms.
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-Man, Trump's press conferences
are so crazy,
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now the people
standing behind him
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have to wear helmets
and harnesses.
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[ Laughter ]
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"You'll be standing
behind the president."
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[ Laughter ]
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So that's your brilliant
chess moves --
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to send poor migrant families
fleeing poverty and violence
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to cities that actually
want to welcome them.
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This is one of the
dumbest attempted trolls
I've ever heard.
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We've all --
We're actively volunteering
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to take in more refugees,
and Trump is like, "Oh, I know.
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I'll let them take in
more refugees.
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That will show them."
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It's like if a friend
volunteered
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to pick you up from the airport
and you were like, "Oh, yeah?
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Well, if you're so good
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at picking people up
at the airport,
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then why don't you come
pick me up at the airport?"
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And you'd be like, "Okay,
I'll see you at the airport."
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Whether it's on immigration
or tax returns,
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there's one consistent theme
in Trump's behavior.
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He just doesn't think
the law applies to him.
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The Constitution grants people,
including immigrants,
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certain inalienable rights.
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And it also gives Congress
the power
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to investigate the president.
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But Trump can't seem
to get that through his...
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-...a-brain.
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-This has been "A Closer Look."
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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