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WALLACE: You said the president should keep his promise and release his returns. Why does that matter, especially at a time as beginning this week, you — the government is going to begin to consider tax reform?
LANKFORD: Right. I just don’t have an issue with anyone in the campaign time saying, “Yes, I’m going to do it, I promise to do that, will take care of that, will go through an audit,” to then say, the American people expect you to fulfill your word and to be able to do that. I don’t see that as an issue.
Now, the president has legally done everything he’s required to do with the financial disclosures. And I do not in any way think that Congress should in any way think the Congress should step in and compel that with some piece of legislation. I just think the president should be able to keep his word and be able to move on.
This will be a distraction through his presidency all the way through, that he can settle it.