More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
On Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on whether Donald Trump should release his tax returns: “Speaking of transparency....Are you on the record as Donald Trump should turn over those tax returns?” O’Reilly pushed back: “No matter what he does, he puts his tax returns out, the press – which wants him to lose....Trump knows whatever he does in that area, he’s going to be destroyed.”
Guthrie argued: “But isn't the principle transparency? Put them out and so be it, let the chips fall.” O’Reilly replied: “There is a principle involved, there is. But his tax returns are so complicated because of all his private holdings. If I were Trump, I wouldn't put them out. As a journalist, I'd like to see them.”