Priebus: ‘Nobody Cares’ Whether Trump Releases His Taxes or Not

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KARL: "But now I want to ask you about the president’s own taxes. It was interesting; Secretary Mnuchin — Treasury Secretary Mnuchin speaking of the president’s respond to my question in the Briefing Room about whether or not he would release his tax returns. Said the president has no intention of releasing his taxes. Was he speaking for the president there? Because until then, I had been hearing you all say and the president saying that he would — needed to wait until the audit to be done. First of all, audit or no audit?"

PRIEBUS: "Well, his position is the same is that he’s under routine audit and when the audit is done, he’ll look at releasing his taxes. But let’s go back for a second. First of all, this was an issue on the table for the American people. They didn’t care. I mean I hate —"

KARL: "Well, polls suggest that they would like to —"[cross-talk] 

PRIEBUS: "— same polls that said he was going to lose and he won. Hang on. You care. Other people apparently that are involved in the news and journalists and —"