But I hate the bashing

returns, when you only have the first two pages of a 2005 tax return

please keep up.

I expect more from Rachel.

and more will come...drip, by drip, by drip.......Rachel just has taken the first small step in finally getting to the bottom of the orange one's tax returns.....I have no idea why so many DUers are putting Rachel done so horribly. It makes me sick!

and she believes she will.

Welcome to DU you..

Eyes wide open right?

That the Russian oligarchs paid 2.5x more then the property was worth was interesting IMO. Should make people more curious.

The alternative miminum tax also was a story, but this at the least should raise questions about dirty money.

Rachel got played by Bannon.

in one installment of a news program and are very good at trashing allies.

She teased something in a tweet as if it was a bombshell. They put a Countdown Clock on the show prior to hers. It turned out to be nothing.

"as if it was a bombshell..."

No doubt, you certainly need to infer as such, regardless of accuracy to better maintain the consistency of your narrative.

Did you hear the way Chris Hayes talked about the upcoming Maddow show?

to O'Donnell that she believes more taxes will be revealed. I think it was a great ending - telling people to send any info to her.

More than 70% of the people want to see Trump's tax returns and Rachael is making this a big subject. She is continuing on Lawrence O'Donnells show - and is great. Talking about Russian who paid Donald double for a house in Florida - need to see taxes to see what the deal is - etc.

This was just a counter move she's playing with obviously inferior opponents. She wasn't played by anyone who won't soon be outplayed. Personally, I think it likely that the leaker is Trump himself. It's probably his best one.

it will have been a dud. But, it's not as if Trump didn't have other options to send the return to.
Rachel used the return to promote a show on Trump's secret money ties to foreign governments and agents. The tax return was used as a stand in for the real complete returns that might explain Trump's strange support for Putin and opposition to NATO.

too.

Don't shoot the messenger please.

She has been connecting the dots with the whole Russia event. I applaud her on that.

We need to see A LOT more of this. We need to see from then - forward.

But it's more than we've had before.

But nobody's on the Russia angle like she has been. She's a world-class connecter-of-dots. I wish they were all like her. Just as I wish they were all interviewers like Joy Reid.

The connections to other countries can likely be found in those tax returns.

She tied it together very well.

I always enjoy her show. She has been doing a great job explaining the incredibly convoluted relationships between Trump etal and various and assorted Russians.

Rachel chummed the water.

Is, as others have said, to encourage this leaker or others to leak. Show what a large platform they will have...the fame they may garner.

The right-wing media will now claim that this proves that Trump pays millions in taxes and this exonerates him.

fell for it hook line and sinker. It was a total non story that took the Russia connection down for the day.

honest observations.

digging into the Russia connection but the tax form hype was like the Al Capon's vault story.

I like Rachel fine and admire her, but this should have been handled differently. First, the taxes weren't recent. Second, she only had two pages. Doesn't mean I'm still not with Rachel!

She was relentless about his corruption week after week, for months, and he was eventually indicted. I hope she can do the same for 45.

will turn out to be a brilliant journalistic judo move and is not remotely analogous to Capone's vault.

If Trump himself leaked this information, he made an astounding blunder as it served to raise more questions than it answers. We did learn several things from a mere two pages. But more importantly, it raised awareness that this is but the tip of a massive iceberg.

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." ~ Miles Davis

Rachel played what wasn't there like a stradivarius, particularly since she has maintained a reputation as a journalist who doesn't report wild speculation as if it were fact.

when we see it. Better to be talking about health care or Russia. If she had the supporting schedules that might have actually shown something it would have been different. As it is, Trump has bragged forever about paying no taxes so those 2 pages from 2005 are suspect because it shows he paid taxes. And tax day is a month away. When asked for his 2016 taxes he'll divert to the 2005 taxes that are supposedly now public.

...was saying from almost the beginning of the show that it was obvious that Trump leaked this "client copy" and that Rachel knew it and was using it for her own purpose. I don't have cable but I assume RM didn't say that. I wish she had. I do agree with LM that this will raise more questions that Trump won't answer.

going over Trump's money connections to foreign governments. The tweet was a teaser to get people to watch her show.
I think she used the returns well.

I thought she got that point across well.