raskin each will control 20 minutes. mr. comer: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in support of this bill which would name a post office in santa clarita, california after william bill reynolds. he earned a purple heart and bronze star. after serving, he moved with his wife meg to the santa clarita valley where he advocated for his fellow veterans. he passed away in 2021. and accompanying the u.s. president to danang in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war. i am proud to honor his service and work to memorialize the lives of veterans. i encourage my colleagues to support this bill and reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. raskin: i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise to support to designate the facility of the u.s. postal service as the william reynolds post office building. bill was brought up in the san fernando valley and son of w

james, demands jimmy raskin apologize for disinformation on the biden impeachment inquiry. we got that and also u.s. congressman french hill, mike johnson out of the box slamming democrat socialism for ruining america. i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. let's bring and retired major general dana, former joint force component commander in iraq, operations for u.s. central command third army base in kuwait and former deputy national security adviser under former president trump kt mcfarlane, it's good to see you both. first deal, general. it doesn't look like israel is setting the stage for the broader ground invasion and gaza? >> good evening. yes. israel has been conducting operations now more than a week. we've seen bombardment of gaza and gaza city from israeli jet fighter bombs as well as artillery. we have seen intelligence operations going on and psychological operations and cyber attacks and what we have seen in the last two days us israeli forces preparing routes for attack making sure ambush sites reposition sites hamas has put up taken o

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. >> tonight, the radical shift right in the house with come baseman jimmy raskin, and the remarkable scene inside a manhattan courtroom. the ex president was forced to take the stand. >> you may have seen mr. trump storm out. i saw a defeated man. >> new details on the horrific attack inside israel by hamas as the united nations warns of the increasingly dire situation inside gaza. when all in starts, right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. today, the ex president stormed out of a manhattan courtroom during of civil fraud trial after being punished by the judge for violating a gag order. judge arthur engoron imposed that order earlier this month after donald trump publicly attract a law clerk working on his 250 million dollar lawsuit. this afternoon, the judge ordered trump to the witness stand to answer for a new disparaging comment he made to reporters outside the courtroom about the judge and a person, quote, sitting alongside him. judge engoron said he found trump's testimony not credible, and find the president $10,000. the absolutely wild scene. we'll have

. >> tonight, jamie raskin on why a jim jordan speakership will mean for the country. then, the explicit democratic appeal for republicans to join them. >> we are ready, willing, unable to work together for a republican colleagues, but it is on them to join us. >> plus, new reporting on nuclear secrets shared with customers in donald trump's resort. >> mar-a-lago was a honey pot for the intelligence community. it's their worst nightmare. >> and why the republicans think they can run the dr. oz playbook again in pennsylvania. >> that's $20 for cruditÉs. it doesn't include the tequila. >> when all in starts, right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. happy friday. when last we left the house republican caucus, they were flirting openly with the idea of anointing donald trump as their speaker, speaker of the house for the entire united states. this is the man, of course, who system of on the same capitol building in an attempt to topple the duly look to government, a man who has since been indicted in 91 critical criminal counts on those events quest for j

jamie raskin. a consequence institutional law expert, congressman raskin has represented. so i just wanted to say a couple more lines about jamie, but obviously you all know who he is. he's the constitution, the law expert, and he has represented maryland's eighth district since 2017, of course, served on the on the january six select committee. and he's also author of several books and his most recent if you haven't read it, you should his most recent there was unthinkable, which chronicled his own trauma in early 2021 as it grieved the suicide of his son while leading the second impeachment proceedings against trump. so i was going to say, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome what you already have on with the show. all right. sorry about that. we didn't mean to crash the introduction. we know we were motion to go in. and so you're just too excited to be here. i, on the other hand. well, hello, gw and thank you, politics and prose, for doing this. and. thank you, cassidy, for suggesting me as your interlocutor. you're into your interrogator today. when you read the first

raskin. >> mr. raskin, you are reported as voting no. >> mr. gomez, you are recorded as voted no. >> how on my recorded. >> ms. cortez is reported as voting no. ms. brown is not yet recorded. ms. brown votes no. >> will the clerk please tally the votes. >> mr. chairman, the aye is 20 and no is 18. >> i do reclaim my time and i asked my question where in the world is rudy giuliani and that is how we got here, ladies and gentlemen. this committee is afraid to bring him before us and put him on the record. shame. the question was raised what does this have to do with it? it has everything to do with it. and professor, in your testimony you said in every impeachment inquiry, before hand, the house has identified some credible evidence of wrongdoing committed by targeted president and is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> our impeachment -- impeachment inquiry's utilized as a front-line tool to go fishing or for the first time seeking evidence? >> no, sir. >> would you say house republicans have made an unprecedented overreach of congressional power? >>

raskin, it absolutely is. we're putting the money to work today to take a variety of different steps. we're increasing the number of audits on our largest corporations, using analytics we've invested in to make sure we select the right corporations that are the highest risk of shielding income inappropriately. we've increased the number of audits on complex partnerships, something g.a.o. pointed out, how anemic our partnership audit rate is. and again, we're using invested new tools and analytics to make sure we're understanding the types of trends necessary to understand where those complex partnerships are that are actually evading taxes so we approve the efficiency of our audit. as mentioned earlier, we've launched an effort to get back taxes from millionaires and billionaires and we've identified 1, 600 high priority targets, if you will, of millionaires and billionaires and already collected in the early months over $100 million in back taxes. all of that is i.r.a. money being put to work. and as you ment

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>> i, mean raskin a spot on. the former president was very clear when he asked his maga republican extremists to save him. he asked him to start an impeachment. he is a twice impeached former president who has 91 indictments. he's facing both state and federal charges. he will do everything he can to distract from the fact that he has to go to court basically every single day. we have seen how that impeachment inquiry just fell apart with their first witness within 40 seconds of the opening statement. it's been a disaster for republicans. it was a disaster for him to make his frontline members who are in biden districts to take the votes where they or slashing every essential service that so many americans rely on, especially our vulnerable ones. he voted to slash 80% of the funding that helps with home heating services that people like minnesotans rely on come winter, which is not that far away. these are the kind of votes that he is forcing them to take in order to appease the former president and his minions i

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when you think about this idea of a consensus candidate, i appreciate chairman raskin's suggestions. think that liz cheney would get any votes. mitt romney and angus king same. but i have heard from some democrats who have floated other names like people currently in the house and hakeem jeffries himself the top democrat said there are members of this republican party who they could find to be palatable and almost partners. they're not talking about this as a coalition government, at least not in any real kind of a sense. what they're likely talking about here is giving speaker pro tem patrick mchenry some extra powers that he may not have right now to actually just run the floor. i'm not talking about this for the next year and a half or through the end of the congress. i'm talking about this through maybe november 17th, the day the government is set to shut down or maybe through the end of the year. then they would come back and actually try to figure out what a new speakership would look like. democrats are not under any illusion that they're going to get a democrat here. they don

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congressman jamie raskin is a democrat, he served on the january six committee as the ranking memberof the oversight committee. he joins us now. how much, how much insight do you and your caucus have into what is happening now? we were having a conversation today, we were really a pass precedent here. it hasn't really happened, no one knows what happens next. we had a conversation about trying to get this out, it's hard to say. what is your understanding? >> on the house floor on the democratic side, there were discussions today at the macro level and micro level. at the macro level, we are seeing this in the context of a series of attacks by the maga rules or ruling faction on the constitutional order, that began on january six, with the violent insurrection and attempted political coup to overthrow president biden's victory in the electoral college then went to the republicans trying to sabotage any investigation into what happened on january six. we know that kevin mccarthy pulled the plug on even their own plan for an outside bipartisan commission, and then we went from there to

jamie raskin, hakeem jeffries for election deniers as were a whole list of other democrats in addition joe biden, crime family, they are the real criminals. all the bribes, biden is is compromised. host: we're speaking to the house speaker race today. what do you think about that going on? she hung up. fillip in maryland. independent line. hi. caller: hi, how are you doing? i really am dumbstruck with all these republican people calling in and supporting trump. it makes me angry when they say that trump is worthy of the white house again. and jim jordan is one of trump's supporters and he's an election denier. he's an insur exist along -- since rexist along with insurrectionist along with trump. host: our next caller. caller: i would say to republicans, take it easy, take your time, think things over. give us the best speaker, not just somebody who didn't do anything. host: do you think jim jordan is the best speaker? caller: well, it's up to the republicans. i believe that mchenry is, they want to take their time. take their time. the situation is not dire. we're not desperate like ga

it's very complex for tunnel detection based on the abundant layers of sediment. >> reporter: raskinross section that israeli military could be up against. attack shafts near the israel border. defense shafts furthe back. artillery pads below the surface. and tunnels linked to apartment blocks and hospitals for escape. >> hamas terrorists operate under hospitals in gaza with network of terror tunnels. >> reporter: al she fa hospital is gaza's biggest. the tunnels that israel claims run under it in focus. hamas denies there are tunnels under the hospital, which says it's sheltering 40,000 displaced palestinians, treating the wounded and the helpless from israel's intensifying ground operations. amir ulo is an israeli reserve colonel and first went into a gaza tunnel in 2007. >> it's a small place, crowded, a dark place. >> reporter: since then, israel's military has been training in its own mock tunnels built by the u.s. army. in the past three days, israel has been dropping bombs to cave in hamas' networks. and there are international hostages in those tunnels. how does that complica

raskin. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> rushingthaller. >> jordan. >> jordan. rogers of washington. >> jordan. >> jordan. rogers of alabama. >> jordan. >> jordan. rogers of kentucky. jordan. rose. jordan. >> jordan. rosendale. >> jordan. >> jordan. ross. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. rouser. >> jordan. >> jordan. roy. >> jordan. >> jordan. ruiz. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. ruppersburger. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. rutherford. >> scalise. >> scalise. ryan. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. salazar. jordan. salinas. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. sanchez. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. santos. >> jordan. >> jordan. sarbanes. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. scalise. >> jim jordan. jordan. [ applause ] scanlon. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. schakowsky. jeffries. schiff. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. snyder. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. skolton. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. >> slyer. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. schweikert. >> jordan. >> jordan. austin scott. >> jordan. >> jordan. [ applause ] >> david scott. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. scott of virginia. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. self. >> jordan. >>

. >> while speaking to reporters, the house oversight committee ranking member jamie raskin expressedoncern over the speakership vacancy in relation to the israel-hamas war. he commented on the bidens's administration response and said democrats are unified in support for israel's right to exist and defend itself. upport in israel's right to exist and defend itself.

. >> raskin. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. reschenthaler. >> mike johnson. >> johnson. >> rodgers of washington. >> johnson. >> rogers of alabama. >> johnson. >> johnson. rogers of kentucky. >> johnson. rose. >> mike johnson. >> johnson. >> rosendale. >> mike johnson. >> johnson. ross. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. rouzer. >> johnson. >> roy. >> johnson. >> johnson. >> ruiz. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> ruppersberger. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. rutherford. >> the very honorable mike johnson. >> johnson. >> ryan. >> jeffries. >> jeffries. >> salazar. >> my brother in christ. >> johnson. >> salinas. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> sanchez. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> santos. >> mike johnson. >> johnson. sarbanes. >> jeffries, jeffries. >> jeffries. >> scalise. >> great state of louisiana, mike johnson. >> johnson. [ applause ] scanlon. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> schakowsky. >> hakeem jeffries. >> jeffries. >> schiff. >> hakeem jeffreys. >> -- hakeem jeffries. >> schneider. >> jeffries. >> jeffries.

and from capitol hill, a group of lawmakers led by maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin and hawaii senator brian schatz have introduced a resolution expressing concern about book bans across the country. the resolution cited data from pen america, which says some 1500 individual titles were removed from school classrooms and libraries across the us last year. pen america says that an increase of 33% from the previous year. and one more item on the issue of book bans. penguin random house is trying to spread the word about the issue this month with its banned wagon tour. the publishers band wagon vehicle is making stops in georgia. tennessee, louisiana and texas to showcase a dozen of the most frequently challenged books and to hand out free copies of those books. among the books that are featured on the bandwagon are maya angelou's i know why the caged bird sings. margaret atwood's the handmaid's tale and ibram kendi's how to be an anti-rape racist. and now a conversation with actor and author kevin sorbo. we spoke with the former hercules television star about his new children's b

why hasn't jamie raskin been referred to as an election denier? he questioned the 2016 election. host: he is not a house speaker candidate. as a house speaker candidate, should that be considered? caller: let me ask you a question. why is it president that somebody questioned the 2020 election? i realize the first six months after biden was put into office every elected republican who came on c-span, the first thing you all latched on was do you believe biden was president -- elected in a fair and secure election? host: in this case, we are talking about the house speaker election. don't you think that is pertinent to know? yes or no? caller: you guys never asked a single democrat that question after the 2016 election. guest: i would add in response to the caller's concerns that 2020 was different from past years were there have been embers who have questioned result or voted against results, absolutely, but in the but in the past, the loser of the presidential election would still concede. the fact that trump took so long to concede is loss in 2020 key point in one of the reason

raskin mentioned. would that be a free way to file. >> generally, no. >> they sell you a lot of things along the way, audit defense and the extra help that you can get. >> the softwear itself costs money. >> it call costs money. does that method involve low effort? >> depends, but it can. >> yeah, i think usually. >> easier. >> easier. and how about filers at mistake levels, who are you mistake-- >> fewer mistakes if the software catches your mistakes in real-time. >> yes, let's look at accountants, is that free? >> definitely not. >> definitely not, all right. does that involve low effort? >> it's a higher effort for the accountant, but low effort for the taxpayer. we all hear the stories about dropping off shoe boxes full of paper work. >> do they make minimal mistakes. >> i do, but i'd love to talk to you about holding them accountable about the mistakes they do. >> i'll follow that that up. look at irs direct file. a new option in 2024, a pilot program, correct? >> correct. >> will this be free? >>