the i.r.s. was also to attend this oversight and the potential claims of the whistleblowers. sadly, mr. horton was unable to attend due to death in his family. this is certainly recognized as a legitimate excuse and my thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family in this tough time. but we do have with us today tom fenton, president of judicial watch, who will be testifying here today about the body of work that he has conducted as it relates to the use of clinton foundation as a vehicle for pay-to-play transactions. and finally, mr. phillip hackney, an associate professor of law at the university of pittsburgh. he rounds out our first panel and will discuss the allegations against the trump foundation that we have -- where there has been the subject of media reports as ell. we've also received documents that are part of a larger 48-page whistleblower claim ubmission. approximately 6,000 pages of documents. the claims allege abuse of charitable organizations status by the clinton foundation.

in doing so, our committee has worked to make positive reforms to the i.r.s. and i'm proud this legislation includes language from my bill, the improving assistance to taxpayers act which will bowls steer protections by requiring the i.r.s. to respond promptly to directives. specifically, the i.r.s. would be required to respond to taxpayer advocate directives within 90 days. implementing these changes will improve accountability and more efficiently address system attic issues within the i.r.s. not only does h.r. 88 take important steps to make our system more accountable but includes provisions that will provide certainty to our agricultural community in central illinois. representing the country's largest agricultural district, i have seen the positive impact of the bio diesel tax credit on our agricultural community. they have been hurt in the past by lapses in this credit which has hindered their ability to plan for the future. h.r. 88 provides a long-term extension and a path forward for the bio diesel tax credit which will provide assurances for our produ

in fact, the i.r.s. is required to redact this information when releasing a nonprofit's public tax dollars. the guidance does nothing to affect the information that is publicly available. so why does the i.r.s. need to stockpile this information? for safe keeping? hardly. several years ago, the i.r.s. had to settle a lawsuit. a worker broke the law and leaked, leaked an unredacted copy of a group's confidential forms. of course, that information ended up in a left-wing organization on the opposite side of the issue. a few years before that, california, which had begun demanding its own copy of this private information, accidentally, accidentally published the private information of donors to over 1,000 nonprofits registered within that state. these aren't isolated incidents. they are part of a disturbingly hostile climate for certain kinds of political expression and for the free exchange of ideas. we have seen angry activist mobs deal out personal harassment and professional sabotage to individuals with

i discussed yesterday, there is neither any valid accounting reason nor a disclosure reason why the i.r.s. needs access to donor lists of the kinds of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations in question. the treasury department has said the i.r.s. simply does not need tax returns with donor names and addresses to do its job in this area. in a climate that is increasingly hostile to certain kinds of political expression and open debate, the last thing washington needs to do is to chill the exercise of free speech and add to the sense of intimidation. the senate should take a stand for america's privacy and the first amendment and reject this misguided resolution. and later on the senate may consider a resolution by the junior senators from utah and vermont that pertains to the situation in yemen. effect, these members -- in effect, these members want to end the limited american assistance to the saudi-led coalition that is supporting the u.n.-recognized government in the civil war in yemen. i'll oppose the motion to proceed to the sanders-lee resolution and would urge members to join me in voti

so during a time when we found that the i.r.s. was overreaching in terms of its authority, i was chairing the oversight subcommittee there. and we moved into tax reform and i chaired the tax policy subcommittee. and now i've recently chaired the health subcommittee. and it's at a time when we were able to take on a great challenge of the opioid crisis along with trying to break through a series of problems as it relates to regulatory burdens. steve: you have been in the minority. you have been in the majority. what would you tell your colleagues as they now move back to the minority with the leader pelosi about to take over as speaker? rep. roskam: well, i've also served in the minority and the majority in both the illinois house and the illinois senate. and so i know what it's like to be in the room. and i know what it's like to press your nose up against the glass looking in to the room. and so for a new republican majority, they've got to be -- they've got to maintain a level of cohesiveness and that's -- that is -- that is one

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into kurdish controlled areas on its southern border and caressed sees the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for hygiene turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still in the i ask control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of i asked territory. for some analysis now let's bring in ghettos steinberg he's a middle east expert from the german institute for international insecurities fares here in berlin good see again so we just heard about the retaking of the stronghold how gene in that report can we safely say now geater that islamic state has been defeated in syria militarily it has been defeated it doesn't control controlled territory anymore no towns but it did still. on the ground the coalition forces count between counted between four and six thousand fighters in iraq and syria comb

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into code controlled areas on its southern border and caress seized the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for hygiene turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still on the ice control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of i asked territory. all right well let's first bring in a correspondent on shell of ora who is tracking these fast moving developments for us from beirut and so they came they saw they want to i mean is it as easy as u.s. president donald trump claims in a tweet that the u.s. have defeated the so-called islamic state in syria have they been defeat it. well first it's not been easy at all and it's not just being us or the support provided by them that has defeated to a large extent territorially that has defeated isis to a large extent to totally. and if you notice that i

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into kurdish controlled areas on its southern border ankara sees the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for hygiene turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still and i ask control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of highest territory. sports now and bundesliga leaders bursa dortmund has suffered their first ascent of the season in a shock two one loss at this of dos the result throws the title race open and gives just another big boost in their battle to avoid relegation. it was pats on the back all round between these players with dusseldorf and don't mind on good form going into this one marco royce thought he'd got the visitors off to a bang after just fifteen minutes but christian pulis sick was interfering with play from offside to leave the referee with no choice but to rule it o

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into kurdish controlled areas on its southern border and percy's the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for hygiene turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still in the highest control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket device territory. are bullish bring is that correspondent moron she is in beirut for us i'm sure going to need to you know we're getting reports that republicans in the u.s. congress are disputing what the president has said about islamic state being defeated from where you are can you confirm or deny that has the u.s. really defeated so-called islamic state in syria. but first of all the entire credit perhaps cannot be given to the united states because in syria even the iran backed militias have talked to the islamic state but of course american backed as the official s

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into code controlled areas on its southern border and caressed sees the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for hygiene turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still on the ice control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of highest territory. now with just one hundred days to go before britain is set to leave the european union the european commission has revealed its plans to deal with a no deal brics that they outlined measures aimed to avoid disruption in key sectors like air traffic and financial trading british citizens residency rights would also be protected but new restrictions on trade and travel would come into force among the british trucks would lose rights to carry goods into the e.u. and british people traveling with pets would face a border checks. now with time running out

times became a fairly critical mission here's here's a look back at the last couple of months on the i.r.s. as leading up to the landing. and that from space after spending months in zero gravity alexander gassed had to be helped out of the tiny so used capsule that ferry to him and his crew back to earth through to fifty years on the feels like coming home although i am in kazakhstan in a place i haven't been to before it still feels like coming home. you know. his fellow astronauts the russian surrogate procopio off and american serina anon chancellor both seemed exhausted but all are said to be doing well. the capsule was docked onto the international space station in the i.s.a.'s which has been home to the astronauts for the past six and a half months despite several setbacks the crew performed dozens of scientific experiments on board and guest later became the first german to take over command of the i assess he used his unique perspective to offer insight on environmental issues via social media before he left the i assess guess sends a message to future generations. when looking do

if the existing rule requiring disclosure of major dark money donors to the i.r.s. wasn't casting enough sunshine, that's not a reason to bring on total secrecy. that's not a reason for bringing on darkness. it's a reason to say you want to be on the side of more sunshine. a number of other colleagues on the finance committee, senator mccaskill, senator whitehouse, a champion of disclosure, we're all in favor of more sunshine. to me, this argument as well just doesn't stand up. we think that making as much public information public ought to be the policy of our land. now, one thing that's clear to me from my conversation this election season is voters do not want more secret spending from more anonymous wealthy donors and foreigners leading to more political ads. it's now impossible to escape all these ads on television. sort of pitching a tent and camping out in the woods until the second week of november, you can't get away from it. people hear all of these charged up political ads, but much of the time they have no way of determining who is behind them. you get to

in addition to reforming the i.r.s., this bill also provides needed certainty to businesses by making certain -- certain tax cuts permanent and extending others so that families and businesses know what to expect from our tax code in the future. while our economy is booming, businesses of every size i meet with in my district in kansas consistently say that the number one thing they need from washington is certainty. we owe it to job creators and workers to provide that certainty so they can plan for future expansions and other decisionmaking. to support workers and families, this bill makes it easier for businesses to provide retirement plans for more employees who previously didn't have access to them and allows families to save more for retirement. to support entrepreneurs and small businesses, this bill will allow new companies to write off more of their initial startup costs and allows with s to not get hit taxes. and it helps impacts impacted by recent wildfires, hurricanes, by allowing victims to access retirement accounts without penalty. as i said in a recent op-ed in fox new

to congress, y have lied to banks, you have lied to the i.r.s., you have lied to the american people, have committed all these crimes of deception for personal greed and ambition, and he then gave cohen the sentence. however, it was reduced fromt whatuld have been. under the guidelines, cohen would have gotten four or five years for the crimes he pleaded. guilty to to so getting three years, the judge was saying, okay, you're reditng a little bit of for helping out, but if we wipe ning theay we're under american democracy and electoral system. >> woodruff: what about cohen himself, andrea? whatid he have to say? >> last summer in the croorm he ndme in, was relaxed, looked straightforward,hen he gave this impassioned appeal ent wase said the presid correct in calling me weak. i was weak because i did not stand up m and, instead, i covered up his dirty deeds. and that was an extraordinary admission for a man who really came to public light when the dossier was released at the beginning of the trump presidency, which, at that time, said that cohen had tried to cover up the russia collusi

one of the problems is that we have severely cut the resources of the i.r.s. over the last decade. and we need to -- we need to restore those. so i think, again, it's looking at every aspect of government operation as opposed to just what are we going to do on health care and what are we going to do on the tax side? >> what other ways do you want to address the debt? >> well, again, i think -- those are the fundamental ways. looking for ways we can save money. dealing with the prescription drug cost, for instance, which is part of our agenda is also a very important key in reducing the annual deficit because we spend a lot of money through medicare and medicaid through prescription drugs and the medicare part d law that was passed in 2004. the -- the government is prohibited from negotiating with the drug companies on price which is insane. and we're going to change that, i'm sure, at least we'll attempt to change that on the house side. again, i think ultimately, we are going to have to deal with programs like medicare and medicaid and social security, and it's one of those things

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into kurdish controlled areas on its southern border ankara sees the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats help yes precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for her turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still in the i ask control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket of i asked territory. i want to bring in correspondent and she is tracking these fast moving developments for us from beirut good evening to you so let's start there with with what the u.s. president claimed today that islamic state is now finished and we see right there the flight four hundred can continues is that then at the beginning of the end of islamic state i mean or is it is black and white as trump claims. well islamic state has broadly dorothy been defeated in city on top of that are such that they continue to have some sort of rule boston areas and i'm successful dr

victory over the i.r.s. in the euphrates valley is within reach. but now turkey is threatening to march into codes controlled areas on its southern border ankara sees the kurdish fighters as terrorists. these threats yes it's precisely now when we're making gains in the fight for turkey threatens an offensive in northern syria. and that's bad news for the people still in the i guess control not everyone has been able to flee thousands are still trapped in the last pocket device territory. here in berlin chancellor angela merkel's cabinet is due to approve legislation that should help skilled workers from outside the european union find jobs in germany the country urgently needs people to fill more than a million job vacancies now the proposed law would simplify the process for recognizing professional or a vocational training to greece from abroad it would also eliminate the requirement that employers have to check whether a german nationals are also able to fill of billable rather to fill the vacancy and that would allow qualified non e.u. nationa

this week it shows that so you supply a spacecraft as it pierces the earth's atmosphere bound for the i.r.s. s guess capture the images from the cupola observatory of the space station and fuse them together as a time lapse video. all right awesome meanwhile the i.s.a.'s will soon have some space neighbors china says it has launched a lunar probed balun for the dark side of the moon news agency said a long march three rocket carrying the lunar a probe launched from the southwest china some experts estimate the probe will take fourteen days while other sources have said it could take as long as twenty seven days the biggest challenge will be establishing communication with the far side of the moon which is unreachable by direct signal and in visible from earth. aria to the day is nailing down the conversation of course continues online you'll find us on twitter in there i did over years or x.l. a lot or i don't forget to use our hash tag the day when i was some images of astro alex on board the i s s and some of the in means ink sites he has seen from up there in orbit over the past three hu

all right awesome meanwhile the i.r.s. says we'll soon have some space neighbors china says it has launched a lunar rover balun for the dark side of the moon news agency said a long march three rocket carrying the lunar a probe launched from southwest china some experts estimate the probe will take fourteen days while other sources have said it could take as long as twenty seven days the biggest challenge will be establishing communication to the far side of the moon which is unreachable by direct signal and in visible from earth. the day is nearly done the conversation of course continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the w. news or at my hand oh absolutely laraque and don't forget to use our hash tag today or leave you now with some images of astro alex on board the i s s and some of the amazing sights yet seen from up there over the years three hundred fifty day suspension or. believes the bright lights of civilization behind. to capture stunning images of nature. or just landscapes little but the stars a bo

but all of the i.r.s. offices are closed. so i'm puzzled. what do we do? how do we return and we can't make a move until they make a move and we're for all intents and purposes, i'm assuming we're not retired until they receive their paperwork which they can't receive it until we turn in all of our equipment here. host: some of the experiences of federal government workers calling us here. five more minutes on c-span, c-span2, c-span radio. your calls and comments. mitchell miller from wtop radio in the nation's capital who covers politics on capitol hill. shutdown update. senate was in session for four minutes today. no end in sight. senate to hold a pro forma session monday. back to kansas city, missouri. democrats' line this time. and marie. go ahead, marie. caller: yes. i am concerned about schumer and pelosi. i'm democrat but they got their minds closed. they need to open up. talk to the president. and get this out of the situation that they're in now about the wall. all they have to do is sit down and talk. that's all i have to say. host: all right.

arguing, no, no, he committederious campaign finance violations, he defraud it did american people and the i.r.snd if that's not give answerrous sentence it will give a message to otherle pehat they can do the same. so it's a very difference sentencing hearing. >> woodruff: you were saying th were speaking democracy itself depends on how the sentencing turns out. >> that s right, ands interesting because the judge said there was a point at which --ohen obviously asked for no jail time, and the judge said to him, you cannot just wipe the slate clean. you have lied grto cons, you have lied to banks, you have lied to theav i.r.s., you lied to the american people, you have committed all these crimes of deception for personal greed and ambition, and hehen gave cohen the sentence. however, it was reduced from what it could have been. under the guidelines, cohen would havet ten four or five years for the crimes he pleadedy guo today. so getting three years, the judge was saying, okay, you're getting a little bit of credit for helping out, but if we wip these away we're undermining the american democrac

and means committee or finance commit year they're thor iced to request anyone's tax returns for the i.r.s for investigation. dana bash is on the phone. it sounds like you had quite a conversation with rudy giuliani. >> good evening, john. as you mentioned, the news of the evening comes from our colleague lauren fox, who was told by a source that the incoming ways and means chairman richard neil will start to move to get those tax returns, because that law allows him to do so, and he's made pretty clear he'll have at least a matter after the first of the year. well, as you can imagine, this is something the president and his team are not thrilled about. i did speak with rudy giuliani, who said his belief is they have to have reason for wanting them, and he says he fails to see a reason. he also said they will fight in court and think that they could win unless they have a specific allegation that's leading them -- and by them i mean the democrats -- to find a reason for that request. >> i think the law is pretty clear. this may be a hard fight for the president's lawyers. thank you, dana,

charities stay way away from that line because they don't want get in trouble with the i.r.s. trump used the chrity for a prop for his campaign. in the iowa cesauce held a fund-raiser meant as a kind of counter-programming for a republican debate she was skipping. he raised money for veterans and money from other peoplflowed into his found auction. in the successive days when he was campaign hg in iowae would stop his rallies in iowa and say, "bring forth the local veterans charity i have selected. eck from thent c donald j. trump foundation." they would say t, "mr.mp, you're so generous," and after they sat sat downtown rally would continue. he used it to bowl her the persona that he was rich, rich enough to give money away like nothing, and that he cared abouu veterans b that's who got the money. his charity, this theoretical independent entity, made all that possible. >> brangham: lastly, i mentione the trump chen might be involved in this. what's their legal exposure? dewhat's their involve ndent foundation? >> donald trump was the president of this foundation and has been

but to the i.r.s. i have been led to believe that there is an ongoing investigation with the f.b.i.though the d.o.j. is not independently confirming that. but based on the conversations they have had and others it sounds like there is a real investigation going on to hopefully provide real fruit. >> martha: we will watch for that hearing because it has been going on a while. a lot of people wonder if there is an investigation there. we'll see what you find out next week. all of you find out. thank you, congressman, mark meadows. pleasure to talk to you. >> thank you. >> martha: up next a heisman trophy winner becomes the latest target of twitter trolls digging up dirt from the athlete when he was 14 and 15. ben shapiro next. >> i worked my whole life to tul fill my goals. but at the same time, i know that there is higher power looking down on me and enables me to do all things. for that i'm grateful for the many blessings that god has blessed me with. today... back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just

and one of the problems is that severely cut the resources of i.r.s. the last decade. to restore them. lookingthat again it is at every aspect of government operation as opposed to just to do on e going healthcare or the tax side. host: what other ways do you to address the debt? are the fundamental ways. we are looking for ways to save money. drug g with prescription costs for instance which is part our agenda is also a very in reducing the annual deficit because we spend medicare oney through and medicaid on prescription drugs. d law that are part the assed in 2004, government is prohibited from negotiating with the drug ompanies on price which is sthaeu sthaeu insane. we are going to attempt to that on the house health side. ultimately we are going to have to deal with medicare and medicaid and social security. that one of those things will have to be done on a bipartisan basis because nobody walk the blank on those. host: do you think that is feasible? guest: we have done a good job restraining growth in medicare or eight years partially because of affordable care

good-bye to the i.r.s. and fed. for those who in anyway cause issue with salmon, be serving the god agreed that maintain back gap on. i'm fishing for warriors to engage. taking the world stage. a lot of love and rage to turn the page. it's time to free the animals of their torture and the eyes of almighty there's no difference between us and them. and the true promise land is beneath our feet. >> thank you. please submit the balance of your comments and thank you for your comments about animal agriculture. next speaker, please. >> sir, please. you are out of order. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you mr. alexander. >> does the clock start now. >> john mcmannus, president golden gate salmon association. you know, for the second bell you have, i can imagine a trapped door. [laughter] it could be kind of fun. i feel like i've been here a bunch before. this is the vote that will be taken tomorrow. if the state board votes to adopt the framework, which we hope they will, we hope that the sfpuc will not be party to

it includes the department of commerce, nasa, national park service, the forest service, department of transportation, h.u.d., i.r.s. staff and i can mention many, many others. so the purpose of the unanimous consent request that i will be making is to tell our federal workforce we're going to continue to fight to keep government functioning. we hope we can get it done in the next five hours, but for any reason we miss that deadline and we have a government shutdown, that by this action we are telling you that when we have appropriations restored, you will be compensated during this period of time. and with that, madam president, i would ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 290, s. 2274. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 290, s. 2274, a bill to provide for the compensation of federal employees affected by lapses in appropriations. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to consideration of the measure. mr. cardin: i further ask the bill be considered read a third time and passed an the motion

i.r.s. domestic terrorist bombed the mur ra building in oklahoma city killing 168 people, injuring 680 more, the national rifle association sent out a fund raising letter denouncing the federal agents of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms as, quote, jackbooted thugs, close quote. former president george herbert walker bush reacted with anger. he denounced that vitriol by the n.r.a. as, quote, a vicious slander on good people. end of quote. he publicly resigned his n.r.a. lifetime membership placing conscience ahead of political position. the terror of war, george herbert walker bush did not confuse politics with war. he did not mistake political opponents for enemies. he understood that people can have differences of opinion and both still love the country. our sadness at losing him seems partly a reflection for our own deep, deep yearning a nation today for the kind of leadership and character and integrity and honesty and courage that he brought to the office of presidency. in his first inaugural address, president lincoln pleaded with the nation on the knife's edge of war. he sai

moreover the inauguration's accounting was provided both to the federal election commission and the i.r.s. in compliance with all laws and regulations. these funds were raised from private individuals and were then spent in accordance with the law and the expectations of the donors. the names of donors were provided and no impro pry tease have been found with the donors. this is what was said to my by a senior staffers this morning. sort of what's happening with the ninth circuit trying to disrupt the trump legal agenda out west. you see the manhattan office, the southern district of new york targeting the trump orbit in the east. she said they will remain strong. >> sandra: kevin, the president is said to be whittling down the candidates for chief of staff. where do things stand on that this morning? >> it's not ayers, mulvaney, you or me. the list is now down to five people. listen, as i've shared with you previously the president will make this decision on his own. this won't be sort of a decision by committee. still trying to replace the chief of staff john kelly is a very important o

and unregulated exit new elections or even a second referendum the only sure thing seems to be that nearly everyone will be unhappy. well i.r.s. for it seemed to be held political at its healthy british newspaper the observer based in london and i asked him why the prime minister recep may well go ahead with the brags that vote in parliament is what he said i would guess she would probably go ahead with that to fail to release the huge broad. which in any normal person would be the end of a prime minister or issues bigger than a she could the entire country because every party is not the province of the holder every party within it is up to the split. there is a big question as to who would be done better than. to to sort it out and the answer is nobody knows who would be better the first though i think despite the fact she might indeed she will probably lose it i think she will probably stay on as prime minister the question is then what what we do about threats there are loads of possibilities she could either go try to go back to brussels who negotiated some better deal very unlikely could very well have it all possibly ca

benefit iran and russia others question whether the i asked most or a group has in fact been defeated two of america's allies britain and france say i.r.s. isn't finished yet and the battle to clear them out must go on. if president trunk gets his way the american troops currently in syria will start leaving the country as soon as possible trump posted a video on twitter explaining his move i've been president for almost two years and we've really stepped it up and we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home i get very saddened when i have to write letters or call parents or wives or husbands of soldiers who have been killed fighting for our country it's a great honor we cherish them but it's heartbreaking is no question about it it's heartbreaking now we've won it's time to come back they're getting ready you're going to see him soon these are great american heroes about two thousand american soldiers are currently stationed in syria officially as instructors and advisers to rebel forces that includes kurdish troops with the sitting d

transparency from their government, this rule would allow special interest to hide their donors from the i.r.s. it's been eight years since the supreme court citizen united decision, a decision which gave corporations the right to spend unlimited, unchecked, and more often than not, undisclosed money on our elections. for eight long years more and more money has flowed from corporate coffers into campaign ads and political expenditures and republicans have defended it every step of the way. let me demonstrate the magnitude of the dark money pumped into our recent elections. in 2016, outside groups spent $1.4 billion, much of it funneled to trade associations and nonprofits. in 2018, outside groups spent more than $1.3 billion. these funds weren't spent by the candidate's campaign committees but by groups that did not have to reveal their donors and dislow it to the public. spending by independent, outside groups reached an all-time high of 49 million in this year's congressional elections in my own state of new jersey. when state and county parties spent about $8.1 million. in other words, out

the wection. marcus owens is a former i.r.s. torney. >> that it was used apparently as a private "slush fund" for donald trump. a the victims here are the united states government and the taxpayers of the united states. >> reporter: attorney general underwood is moving forward with a lawsuit against the trump whundation, which seeks nearly $3 million in restitution, and would ban president trump, along with three of his children, donald jr., eric, and ivanka, from running any charities in new york for ten years. jeff? ha glor: all right, weijia, thank you very much. there were signs of a breakthrough today to avoid a partial government shutdown this week. the white house did signal a ompromise on president trump's demand for $5 billion in border wall funding. now, democrats and republicans in congress are trying to agree on a government spending plan. if they don't reach a deal by the end of friday, more than 800,000 federal employees could be forced to work without pay or face temporary layoffs just days before christmas. the tr

i.r.s. domestic terrorist bombed the mur ra building in oklahoma city killing 168 people, injuring 680 more, the national rifle association sent out a fund raising letter denouncing the federal agents of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms as, quote, jackbooted thugs, close quote. former president george herbert walker bush reacted with anger. he denounced that vitriol by the n.r.a. as, quote, a vicious slander on good people. end of quote. he publicly resigned his n.r.a. lifetime membership placing conscience ahead of political position. the terror of war, george herbert walker bush did not confuse politics with war. he did not mistake political opponents for enemies. he understood that people can have differences of opinion and both still love the country. our sadness at losing him seems partly a reflection for our own deep, deep yearning a nation today for the kind of leadership and character and integrity and honesty and courage that he brought to the office of presidency. in his first inaugural address, president lincoln pleaded with the nation on the knife's edge of war. he sai