Baquet made the comments the weekend of 9/10:
Dean Baquet, Bob Woodward say they would risk jail time to publish Donald Trumps tax returns
The article is dated 2016-09-14.
Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, and Bob Woodward, associate editor of The Washington Post, made the comments during a panel discussion this past weekend at Harvard University.
The Times received the tax returns on 2016-09-23:
The Time I Found Donald Trumps Tax Records in My Mailbox
In Metro, we get a lot of junk mail, and are regularly flooded with correspondence from prisoners in New Yorks penitentiaries.
But Friday, Sept. 23, was different.
I walked to my mailbox and spotted a manila envelope, postmarked New York, NY, with a return address of The Trump Organization. My heart skipped a beat.