the irs. a reminder, if the revenue is not collected in a fair manner that meets the rest of us pay more. the biggest threat to the irs right now is extremism of some of our colleagues. from the government shut down the looms in just five legislative days tour colleagues to cut her investments every chance they have gone, that only with this end up costing taxpayers money and adding to the deficit, but how can you argue with the success? i find this a wondering out loud about who wins with the irs is stored for its resources. perhaps our colleagues love a chance to answer that this morning. under republican funding cuts the audit rate on millionaires fell by more than 70% from 2010-2019. those are numbers of commissioner rettig and automated large corporations felt by more than 50%, i request an commissioner rettig. workers and families pay their fair share in the american people can count on us to ensure that wealthy and well-connected people are paying their fair share, too. while the promis

of the irs. our agency is an independent organization housed within the irs. i would not exactly say we are on par with the federal reserve, but we have the same interest in the sense that we look at administration of the laws. we do not opine on policy. we leave that to congress. what we do is we try to take the laws as written and work with congress and the irs to make recommendations as to how to administer it more easily and protect taxpayer rights. good or bad, i do not control interest rate. the importance of the independence of various organizations is critical. host: the caller said tax cuts and what it means for revenues. that aside, what about funding path cuts to the irs and what it does for revenues -- an ongoing effort to figure out how much money the irs should have worked whether it should be clawed back. any thoughts on that? guest: when you think about what the irs does, it ran is not the best. a lot of people once or twice a year when they have to do with the irs, they mumble ba

for the irs to do. host: an article saying that the irs expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in unpaid taxes thanks to the additional funding that the agency does have. tax revenues are expected to rise by as much as 561 billion dollars from 2024 to 2034 thanks to stepped-up enforcement made possible with money from the democrats inflationary reduction act which became law in august of 2022. erica, before we get to the calls, i want to talk about tax returns that are more simple. this year, the irs introduced a new way for some taxpayers to directly file their taxes with the federal government. can you talk a little about that program and its benefits and drawbacks? guest: that program is available in select states and will only be available for taxpayers who have very, very simple tax returns. if you have anything outside of basically wage income and claiming a couple of standard credits, like taking the standard deductions and the child tax credit, anything beyond that the tool is n

of the irs.ur agency is an independent organization housed within the irs. i would not exactly say we are on par with the federal reserve, but we have the same interest in the sense that we look at administration of the laws. we do not opine on policy. we leave that to congress. what we do is we try to take the laws as written and work with congress and the irs to make recommendations as to how to administer it more easily and protect taxpayer rights. good or bad, i do not control interest rate. the importance of the independence of various organizations is critical. host: the caller said tax cuts and what it means for revenues. that aside, what about funding path cuts to the irs and what it does for revenues -- an ongoing effort to figure out how much money the irs should have worked whether it should be clawed back. any thoughts on that? guest: when you think about what the irs does, it ran is not the best. a lot of people once or twice a year when they have to do with the irs, they mumble bad

for the irs to do.ost: an article saying that the irs expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in unpaidaxes thanks to the additional funding that the agency does have. tax revenues are expected to rise by as much as 561 billion dollars from 2024 to 2034 thanks to stepped-up enforcement made possible with money from the democrats inflationary reduction act which became law iaugust of 2022. erica, before we get to the calls, i want to talk about tax returns that are more simple. this year, the irs introduced a new way for some taxpayers to directly file their taxes with the federal government. can you talk a little about that program and its benefits and drawbacks? guest: that program is available in select states and will only be available for taxpayers who have very, very simple tax returns. if you have anything outside of basically wage income and claiming a couple of standard credits, like taking the standard deductions and the child tax credit, anything beyond that the tool is not ava

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what does the irs look for there? well, the home office deduction, neil, was eliminated completely back in 2017. so, where people are trying to take that deduction is what's called the schedule c on their 1040. so, the irs is simply going to those that are reporting income and expenses on that schedule c, looking for office expense and saying, let's go there and see what's going on. so, that's the red flag that's out there for people, neil. >> a lot, too, with donations, charitable and otherwise, if that gets extra scrutiny and they're sort of invisible percentages if you earn this amount of main and giving away this amount of money, sometimes it jibes and other times it doesn't. what's the rule of thumb there? >> neil, what happens there, people should only be deducting their charitable deductions that are legitimate, but what happens here, remember, the tax system for the most part, you're on the honor system. so what happens is, the irs will look at the trends, how much money people make and then how much they gene

of the irs.n independent organization housed within the irs. i would not exactly say we are on par with the federal reserve, but we have the same interest in the sense that we look at administration of the laws. we do not opine on policy. we leave that to congress. what we do is we try to take the laws as written and work with congress and the irs to make recommendations as to how to administer it more easily and protect taxpayer rights. good or bad, i do not control interest rate. the importance of the independence of various organizations is critical. host: the caller said tax cuts and what it means for revenues. that aside, what about funding path cuts to the irs and what it does for revenues -- an ongoing effort to figure out how much money the irs should have worked whether it should be clawed back. any thoughts on that? guest: when you think about what the irs does, it ran is not the best. a lot of people once or twice a year when they have to do with the irs, they mumble bad words under th

that was one of the themes from the hearing featuring the irs commissioner.nother thing that took place with how the wealthy pay in taxes versus what other people pay in taxes. questioning from lloyd smucker to the commissioner. [video] >> you have multiple times talked about high income earners . p talked about millionaires and billionaires. you have talked about complex tax returns. in the same sentence as tax avoidance and tax evasion. do you believe that million years at billionaires are all tax cheats? >> i do not. >> do you believe there is a reason for complex returns other than to avoid taxes? >> absolutely there is. >> what are some of those reasons? >> here's my understanding. cfos of major companies have a responsibility to their board and their shareholders to find the most tax advantaged status. and they should. >> it's not a problem for you if they took a legitimate tax deduction? >> never. if the return is accurate and complete and legitimate, great. but that is not the concern we have. that is not the issue. the issue was because the irs was n

dollars to the irs for the money they took in from the influence peddling schemes. where they disguised as loans and loaned off expenses from their shell companies so this is a problem, this is a big part of our investigation and then you look at president biden, he took an 1/4 of $1 million, made a quarter of a million dollars from influence peddling, no question about that. he never paid taxes on that. we've got a lot of tax evasion concerns in this investigation and trying to track down. maria: we had a meeting yesterday where the smoking gun is in terms of president biden's involvement and his family's influence peddling and i wonder what you view as the smoking gun. is at $40,000 that went directly to president biden and that would be 10% of the overall $400,000 that came from china or something else? what is your smoking gun that proves president biden was involved? >> we tracked those two payments, cordova million dollars he received from the family influence peddling team, no question about that. we've trashed the money to have the bank memorandums to prove

with the head of the irs over its new mission to make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. as hillary vaughn reports, the irs is announcing sweeping efforts to restore fairness, despite the fact that the top 1% of taxpayers paid a record high 45% of all federal income taxes. >> tax season is here, and while most of us are preparing our returns, the head of the irs is being grilled by skeptical lawmakers on capitol hill at a thursday hearing, commissioner daniel werfel talked about how the agency is preparing to process millions of tax returns, admitting they need to do better with digital security and customer service. but most of the hearing was focused on the fair share debate, with republicans criticizing a new multi billion dollar effort to target high income taxpayers. the irs is spending its windfall of $80 billion and fantasy land claims about how much revenue the agency thinks it will generate from increased audits and new irs data appears to back that view, showing the top 1% of taxpayers paid a record high 45% of all federal taxes in 2021. but werfel is pushing ba

the goal of the irs with the inflation reduction ac resources is not increase audi scrutiny on them soaway from where mos taxpayers are and they shoul know that when i get up in the morning and go to sleep at night, where my focus is from an enforcement standpoint is in those higher risk areas amongs the largest corporations, th longest complex partnerships and millionaires and billionaires >> if you do make more tha $400,000 and you're worrie about being audited. the big red flags the irs ar now looking for, partnership income, offshore profits, and, of course, those private jet deductions so tyler, when you're taking your vacations on your jet don't call them business >> don't call them business. these private debt reductions are for people usin them for personal trips an calling it business? >> that's right, and taking it as a business deduction. he says it may not seem like a lot of money, but some of th tax returns they are getting showed tens of millions of dollars of deductions for people that owe in private jets by the way just to mention, yo can see the entire interview with t

the irs is the most powerful collection agency on earth and being in debt to the irs can have serious consequences. oftentimes it begins with the irs sending you a collection letter but then escalates and before you know it, you're having your paychecks garnished. your bank accounts seized. >> even your home or business could be at risk. my problem, i hadn't paid my taxes in eight years. i was trying to take on irs by myself. i have five children. i'm trying to take care my kids . a lot of stress. i owed the irs over $10,000. they told me the possibilities garnishing my wages to resolve this debt, that i owed them. >> i owed a lot of money to the irs. almost $15,000. there was nothing i could do about it. i was just overwhelmed of what to do. these stories are all too common, but thankfully, there's optima tax relief. >> america's number most trusted tax resolution firm, optimist experts have helped thousands of people with stories just like these resolve their tax debt. i owe 50,000. i only had to pay 3500. and now my dad is clean and i don't owe anything. it was it was easy. like on

the irs has a report suggesting they are not complying with the law and we want to know how many irs have personal devices, how many have access to confidential taxpayer information and what are they doing to keep that information safe? the ccp would be interested in the tax information of american businesses and individuals so this is a serious issue and the irs needs to respond and ensure that americans confidential personal tax information is kept that way. stuart: i don't wish to be sarcastic but don't hold your breath on that one. >> that the experience we had with this irs, but we will keep pushing. stuart: the white house is ramping up its attacks on house republicans after they opposed the bipartisan border deal. watch this. >> house republicans have tried to stop the president from delivering the resources we need at the border. house republicans are going further and signaling they may refuse even to consider a historic bipartisan border security deal that would strengthen america's national security. house republicans change course from their years of playing politics with

coming up, this tax season, one of the biggest changes is at the irs itself. how a new program could change the way you file your taxes. and school lunch debt is piling up for families who are struggling to feed their kids. we talk to teachers and cafeteria workers in pennsylvania who want universal school free lunch. welcome back to, matter of fact, (♪♪) we come from a long line of cowboys. (♪♪) when i see all of us out here on this ranch, i see how far our legacy can go. (♪♪) more than 30 million children can't afford meals at school, many going without because of mounting school lunch debt. families had a temporary reprieve during the pandemic, when the government paid for every public school student to eat well. now, states are left to decide things on their own. only nine states officially have free meals california, maine, colorado, illinois, minnesota, new mexico, vermont, michigan and massachusetts. recently, south dakota lawmakers killed the bill for free lunch. advocates in pennsylvania are pushing for it. our correspondent laura chavez traveled to p

the irs is the most powerful collection agency on earth and being in debt to the irs can have serious consequences. oftentimes it begins with the irs sending you a collection letter but then escalates and before you know it, you're having your paychecks garnished. your bank accounts seized. >> even your home or business could be at risk. my father, i hadn't paid my taxes in eight years. i was trying to take on irs by myself. i have five children and i'm trying to take care my kids. a lot of stress. i owed the irs over $10,000. they told me the possibilities garnishing my wages to resolve this debt, that i owed them. >> i owed a lot of money to the irs. almost $15,000. there was nothing i could do about it. i was just overwhelmed of what to do. these stories are all too common, but thankfully, there's optimal tax relief. >> america's number most trusted tax resolution firm, optimus. experts have helped of people with stories just like these resolve their tax debt. i owe 50,000. i only had to pay 3500. and now my dad is clean. i don't hold anything. it was. it was easy. like one, two, t

irs is more than doubling audits on the wealthy you got exclusive comments from the irs chief abouton next. those of you with private planes, watch out, as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc, live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm joe kernen along with andrew ross sorkin. thank god we didn't buy that jet, you know what i mean? they're looking at private jets. >> i didn't buy with you yeah >> thank god >> thank god >> so you -- >> i went with another group no, i didn't. >> here are the futures right now, but thank god we didn't, right? like we were close >> close >> so close. >> look at the nasdaq! look at the nasdaq that's not -- >> one stock. >> you don't see that every day. >> that's a big percentage gain right now. the nasdaq that's helping the dow as well all the chip stocks are up let's look at the treasuries ten-year, just waiting for the next data point to see what happens. 4.31 is above where we were a month or six weeks ago when we were sure that we were going to get some cuts. mayb

she also reported to the irs. >> we made repeated attempts to contact the past year. we're told he's not commenting at this time. >> neither is the church nor their attorneys. that's the latest here chino hills. kareen wynter. >> all right. well, it's been decades in the making and now a connection between bart and the vta in the south bay is just a vote away from becoming reality. it would run trains on the east capitol expressway all the way to alum rock and connect to the milpitas bart station. the vta board will vote on a construction contract next month. if approved construction could begin in april. >> all right, taking a live look outside right beautiful shot from our mount tam cam overlooking san francisco on this. so lovely day, which promises to and today u.s. is to end and people employed like i'm doing it right now. i you finish my wife's story, which i hope to want to give it credit for something yeah, let >> don't put me down. tone was a little offensive to little authoritarian. still want to get you know, we don't have all day a claim. comedian richard

today the commissioner explained what the irs is doing with all that money congress gave them. >> 100hat buys you 700 audits of millionaires and billionaires and 200 audits of complex partnerships, 100 audits of large corporations. before the innation reduction act, there was a fayetteville mus bibbingture of the -- fayetteville mus picture of cafeteria in austin, texas filled with returns of paraphernalia and that cafeteria is clean and people are eating than us storing tax returns. reporter: one upside of all the funding is getting the refund checks out to everybody, the middle and lower class that are expecting them 3 now they're not storing the tax returns on the cafeteria, there's no mustard stains on the returns. stuart: hillary, very good. check the market and same situation, green for dow industrials up 160 and red for nasdaq down 63. a split market. tony ribbens is with us -- robbins with us and has a new book called holy grail of investing and he joins me now. tony, what's your top financial advice for this economy? >> well, everyone want as good grade of returns and most ar

irs said look we're going after the big guys, the big wil small businesses the irs has said, look, we'reations, the multinationals and the partnerships, but that is a concern as they're going to more than double audit rates on those $1 million plus, it could wrap in some small businesses as well. >> robert, thanks for that we'll have a whole lot more on e maetthrks, which are holding onto strong gains and nvidia after the break. more "squawk on the street" still ahead. that first time you take a step back. i made that. with your very own online store. i sold that. and you can manage it all in one place. i built this. and it was easy, with a partner that puts you first. godaddy. ♪ ♪ with a partner that put♪ ♪ou first. ♪ ♪ >>> stock setting all-time high as nvidia and tech seeing gains. bob pisani at post 9 watching an interesting day. >> it's fun to see the hype might actually match the expectations because if you look at most of this noo highs we're seeing is largely because of the tech sector. look at the major movers in the technology area. important thing about nvidia, it's number thr

numbers, the irs says.maller refund, on average, three of four tax filers are due to receive a refund. disappointing news for fans of nintendo, the video game maker will likely push back the release of its long awaited switch two gaming console until early 2025. that means it won't be available for christmas. on that news, shares of nintendo dropped nearly 6% in trading in japan, and taylor swift made a surprise announcement during the latest stop of her eras world tour. she told a sold out crowd in melbourne, australia, last night she will begin repeating songs during her acoustic sets. up until now, swift has followed her self-imposed ban on playing her surprise songs more than once during the tour. i'm pam cook, that's a look at your dollars and cents. >> all right. thank you, pam. well, as san jose dance school has been awarded $10,000 to offer free classes as new ballet's free program connects students in public. title one schools with dance education opportunities. the school says through that grant,

instead of supersizing the irs we could downsize the irs.t supersizing it. turn it into a collection agency, what about something like that? >> that's right, david. we made a down payment on that with the tax cuts and jobs act. when you double the standard deduction, a much larger portion of the american people actually don't have to itemize, don't have to go through complexity. take the amount of income, apply the standard deduction, apply the rate structure. that allows us to get people off addiction to many special interest breaks. it enables us to move toward greater fairness and reduce a lot of these deductions that included in code. if we get it down where secretary mnuchin discussed people could file taxes on a postcard, that is the objective but we have to do it sequentially. david: meanwhile, russ, spending very, speaking of ad exdids, this administration is addicted to spending more that they don't have. annualized we have a deficit $1.6 trillion. it is growing, the last quarter came in $530 billion for the last quarter. where is a

the time when the irs halted processing. that is a challenge. >> we increased our projections as we participate under current law. those projections were created effectively in november. we really had no idea what was sitting on those pieces of paper. we had no idea what the future claims would be. the anticipated there would be much stricter scrutiny going forward. as a result, whether the pipeline is a smaller share. there are more things in the pipeline in november. that is what the irs would be. >> great. thank you very much. we are here to be helpful. we will come back to you. i owe you a photo. it is a pleasure. thank you so much. >> c-spanshop.org is c-span's online store. browse through the latest collection of c-span products, apparel, books, home the gore success

challenges with the irs. we refer to ourselves as the safety net when all sales, our office is there to help taxpayers one on one. congress also gave us the authority to provide recommendations for the irs with respect to problems of service or administration or they focus on protecting taxpayer rights. we have the ability by the statute to provide administrative recommendations and also the ability to provide legislative recommendations. in our annual report to congress, we provide recommendations to improve administration, to make it easier to file your taxes. host: a line from that report to congress -- the year 2023 was one of extraordinary transition for the irs and taxpayers. cautious optimism. why do you have cautious optimism? guest: i think a lot of us are trying to put the pandemic behind us, but during those years, the irs was also struggling. like everyone >> we're going to leave this. finish watching it on the c-span now video app, we take you live to the floor of the house. 5856 as amended. the

the time when the irs halted processing. that is a challenge. >> we increased our projections as we participate under current law. those projections were created effectively in november. we really had no idea what was sitting on those pieces of paper. we had no idea what the future claims would be. the anticipated there would be much stricter scrutiny going forward. as a result, whether the pipeline is a smaller share. there are more things in the pipeline in november. that is what the irs would be. >> great. thank you very much. we are here to be helpful. we will come back to you. i owe you a photo. it is a pleasure.

deadline is now just two months away, the irs made inflation adjustments, raising tax brackets by 7%, clean energy credits were expanded and the lifetime limit is now gone. used electric cars now qualify for a credit, not just the new ones, and a turbotax cpx expert tells us why you should not wait to wait. >> file now. we don't know what's going to happen yet, and the irs commissioner did state if changes are made, that they would make adjustments automatically to people's tax returns. >> a reminder, the child tax credit did not go away, they were just reset to pre-pandemic levels. the average refund is around $1960 compared with about 2200, the same time last you. the deadline to file taxes is of course, april 15th. for more stories like this, join me and the team starting at 5:00 in the morning. you can also watch nbc news wherever you want. >>> all right, you saw this, kelsey and taylor sharing their love story after the win. we will share you the real the peninsula man, who was big on that moment. peninsula man, who was big on that moment. inw he is gett this ad? typical. politi

the time when the irs halted processing. that is a challenge. >> we increased our projections as we participate under current law. those projections were created effectively in november. we really had no idea what was sitting on those pieces of paper. we had no idea what the future claims would be. the anticipated there would be much stricter scrutiny going forward. as a result, whether the pipeline is a smaller share. there are more things in the pipeline in november. that is what the irs would be. >> great. thank you very much. we are here to be helpful. we will come back to you. i owe you a photo. it is a pleasure. c-span three. >> when it comes to venezuela, finding freedom and democracy for the

to tell the truth to the irs.ly business has done >> jessica: oh, my god. >> jesse: all we'r e saying jessica is wt e wantwh fair treatment.. t a mountain of evidence where the guy doesn't even have a business card. the bidens don't even have a web there's diamonds c missing,ar there's tax fraud. he's dia sitting down to dinnerh russian billionaires and then leaving them off the sanctions e list. donald trump you can see what he does. nosand one's complaining about . bidens are ripping people off o and then they're getting away with it.e we jusbit want -- ng >> jessica: can we talk about the fb i informant that was a total con. >> they're arresting the guy that blue the whistle. he's arresting the guy that blee the whistle on him jessica justh like they did with the israeli. how come they don't -- >> jessica: and i would argue that wasn't respectful. >> jesse: how come-- they didn' arrest the fbi informant who had the fbi collusion?t hoarw come they didn't arrest wi curveball that said there were l wmds in iraq? w

tristan leavitt the attorney for the irs whistleblower gary shapley who testified against hunter thist off, how does this fbi agent, who seems to be tainted, who is labeled as a 14-year informant, highly compensated in the past affect what your client has spoken about and testified on? >> no way. so the irs whistleblower is gary shapley zeigler brought forward extremely significant evidence how the case against hunter biden had been slowed. how it had been delayed how appointees by president biden had impeded bringing charges in california and the district of colombia. but they also testified that they were never even told about smirnov's allegations were contained in the fd 1023 from the fbi none of what they testimony. we are see what he says today doesn't affect the case the prosecutors in delaware have built about against hunter biden a lot of them end up in jail or missing. came out and said president biden's presence at that time a lot of these key events was noteworthy as well as i guess his push to be on the cefc board of china which was a -- which was one of those groups actu

the time when the irs halted processing.hat is a challenge. maybe john i should turn to you -- if we have numbers? >> we increased our projections of the deficit as we anticipate under current law -- [indiscernible] -- those projections were created effectively in november. at that point we knew there was a moratorium but we had no idea what was on those pieces of paper at irs we had no idea what the future claims would be. irs anticipated going forward there would be stricter scrutiny of claims going forward. as a result, whether the pipeline is a smaller share. [indiscernible] work is reflected in the recent estimate -- [indiscernible] has more information available that probably reflects, it's hard to say. anticipated there are more things in the pipeline in -- then we knew in november. still some certainty on how successful the irs will be in evaluating which claims -- [indiscernible] >> great. other? no? good. thank you. we are here to be helpful. if you have further questions, let us know and we will come back to you.

, credit card firms, they're all using ai to play defense the irs is also using it to go on offense the irs recently said it's going to turn to this technology to try to comb through complex tax filings and find people who are trying to cheat on their taxes. now, we know that uncle sam really needs all the help we can get when it comes to fighting financial crime. we know that fraud spike during covid, as the government handed out hundreds of billions of dollars in covid aid. and check fraud has been a particular problem, increasing by 385% since covid. and now the federal government has this new weapon as it's trying to fight financial crime and it's ai. >> matt egan >> quite an interesting story, 385% is a huge number. thanks so much, matt, still to come on news central, there is no way that charlie's grandfather would have gotten out of bed for this. we're going to talk to a man hired to play willy wonka at a wonka themed experience. that left kids crying parents calling the cops. wonka says he feels just as scammed. >> we'll be right back >> edmonton. they got to the best players in

the time when the irs halted processing. that is a challenge. >> we increased our projections as we participate under current law. those projections were created effectively in november. we really had no idea what was sitting on those pieces of paper. we had no idea what the future claims would be. the anticipated there would be much stricter scrutiny going forward. as a result, whether the pipeline is a smaller share. there are more things in the pipeline in november. that is what the irs would be. >> great. thank you very much. we are here to be helpful. we will come back to you. i owe you a photo. it is a pleasure. >> washington journal continues. host: welcome back. we are joined by philip bobbitt, a constitutional scholar at columbia university law school and distinguished senior lecturer at the un

forbes everybody paid the same and instead of supervising the irs we could downsizee the irs we would be talking about super sizing turned into a collection agency, what about the. >> that is right we made a down payment with a tax cut in jobs act when you double the standard deduction it means a much larger portion of the american people don't have to itemize or go through the complexity it's take the amount of income, applied the standard deduction and the rate structure that allows us to get off of the addiction too many special-interest breaks ana enables us to moverd towar greater fairness and reduce afa lot ofir the deductions that create the book under complexity and the code ildf we can get ita down to secretary mnuchin andxe they can file their taxes on a postcard that's the objective but we gotta do it subsequently. david: meanwhile the spending spree, speaking of addictions is a administration is addicted tse spending more that they don't 1 have.6 we have an annualized deficit of about $1.6 trillion and it is growing in the last quarter came in at $530 billion e last quarte

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withhold support either time. and major branch of the islamic revolution guard score, the ir gc is also named quds, the quds force which was headed by major general qasim sulaymani until he was assassinated by the united states has been a major force in streamlining regional resistance to the israeli regime and its puppet master and only source of survival, the united states. today the quds force is credited with not only enabling palestinian and other resistance groups across the region to procure their own means of defense, but also training them in elite. to warfare, whether it is the palestine liberation organization, the plo, or hamas, the islamic republic has been unwavering in its support for the palestinian struggle for freedom, and the iranians have said invariably that peace in west asia can only come when the palestinian issue is resolved. their solution is a referendum in which all the original inhabitants of palestine, including muslims, christians and jews, can freely express their opinions about. their desired system of governance with the latest israeli war on gaza, pale

the commissioner at the irs said we are doing this because we are concerned about the safety of our agentsbaloney. [laughter] >> they are doing it because we caught them knocking on matt tai bi's door when he was testifying on the weaponization of government. he's testifying and democrats are asking him to reveal his sources. they are attacking his free press rights and he explaining why you can't do that and he didn't have to divulge his sources. it turned out they owed him money it wasn't the other way around. sometimes, just by highlighting these things, you can have an impact. we just have to keep it up. we will also be focused on legislation particular where the government is involved in censoring american speech. you have a cause of action. we have legislation that mr. bishop and ms. hagan will introduce in the district committee we think will help address the situation. that is the most important thing. all this other crazy stuff, we can recover from it all but if they take away our first amendment rights -- we have five rights of the first amendment, your right to practice your fai

the irs whistleblower alleged the attorney general lied under oath. was the attorney general telling the truth when he said this? >> do we have the chart? was the attorney general telling the truth when he pledged not to interfere? >> again, i cannot speak to the attorney general's testimony. i can only tell you what my instructions have been. >> has there been political interference in the investigation of hunter biden and joe biden. >> not that i have experienced >> were the investigators allowed to investigate whether joe brian joe biden was complicit? >> there is an ongoing investigation >> i am asking about the corruption from doj? were they allowed to investigate joe biden or is the whistleblower telling the truth that the doj said joe biden is off limits no questions about the big guy? >> as to what is in scope are not in scope with the ongoing investigation i would refer you to special counsel weiss. that is not me hiding behind anything that is a long- standing policy -- >> you have a responsibility to the fbi. not to allow it to be a partisa

at least again possibly to the manhattan -- to the federal authorities. >> right, on the irs point, are you referring to the audit that the times has reported on? >> yeah. >> the audit is another issue we are not talk about a lot. we reported in the story in 2020 when we got his tax returns. we could see in that information that we got that there was a lot of data, there was not going on. we determine just based on that one audit that it has been going on for years, that he could face a penalty in excess of $100 million, and i would imagine that is growing every day with interest. that audit is going on inside of the irs. we have no visibility into it. we don't think that it's been settled, but we don't know. but that is another pressure that is potentially on him. that is a real issue, and added on top of the other ones, there are several judges that we saw yesterday with e. jean carroll penalties that he's going to have to pay, these are huge, and they are not things that you can just put off for another day. >> so if you're playing with this on your calculator, you're above $500

so it's making it easier for them to process through the irs to get started.right now there's no specific designation for this. this bill would allow it. um, another big bill. we've got that we've coauthored with other members is to give for the news media the same thing that congress gave for the film industry and the record recording industry years ago. but facebook, google, the tech companies have been very obstinate in lobbying against it. they have benefited from, uh, getting the revenue that used to go to local news outlets . >> oh, right. right um, i think that is already in the works. right. what's the status on that? >> we've introduced these collectively, these, uh, these four, three bills. uh, first with david cicilline, uh, from rhode island, who is my partner in this initiative. he has since retired. uh, so now, uh, representative jayapal from washington is carrying that bill with me. and then these other two have a number of authors. >> all right. um, can you explain how local journalism got into this dire straits situation ? >> well, we went fro

that to shames has scented both of the federal investigators to look at and the irs. >> not only if it goes to the irs but also the state tax department, new york city department of taxation and finance as well as the state department of taxation and finance. this number is substantially greater, even then the 500 million that everyone is talking about. >> looking forward to talking to my friend, thank you for being with us again. i suspect we will have more occasions to talk. as always, michael cohen is the former counsel to donald trump, the author of the books revenge, and disloyal, the host of that mea culpa with michael cohen. and political beatdown podcasts. i will continue this conversation with david cay johnston, his piece poses a simple yet persuading question with the former presidents influence over the gop, bound to create more disaster. will republican leaders speak truth to trump? plus, still to come, we will discuss the disaster that the house gop is in how it continues to fail to govern and how it is imperiling not just the business of congress but the whole of amer

the commissioner at the irs said we are doing this because we are concerned about the safety of our agentslaughter] >> they are doing it because we caught them knocking on matt tai bi's door when he was testifying on the weaponization of government. he's testifying and democrats are asking him to reveal his sources. they are attacking his free press rights and he explaining why you can't do that and he didn't have to divulge his sources. it turned out they owed him money it wasn't the other way around. sometimes, just by highlighting these things, you can have an impact. we just have to keep it up. we will also be focused on legislation particular where the government is involved in censoring american speech. you have a cause of action. we have legislation that mr. bishop and ms. hagan will introduce in the district committee we think will help address the situation. that is the most important thing. all this other crazy stuff, we can recover from it all but if they take away our first amendment rights -- we have five rights of the first amendment, your right to practice your faith, right

the irs would be at your door in a heartbeat.lay with the numbers, the eye is in your savings account and your church and others. this administration is doing that, how much more corrupt can you be? >> trace: to michele's point, material for battery come from china, difficult to get, very expensive and dirty to clean up, we don't have the power grid in california to support ev's, 35 million will not happen. martha's vineyard can become anything they want. migrants went there and they sent them home in 20 hours and that was end of that, they can be anything they want to be. >> kayleigh: relying on china for mode of transportation, great plan. college in oregon getting rid of grades to help with the gpa fixation. life, diabetes, there's no slowing down. each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day. directv sports central brings your games stats and scores together and now you can get it