the i.r.s. came along and said this is an obvious scam and they developed a rule that shuts down the scam. it says if you create this scam, make believe charity as a way to circumvent the cap on state and local deductions, we're going to disallow the deduction. so the i.r.s. ruling shuts down the scam, maintains the deduction cap, whan my democratic colleagues want to do right now is have a vote to invalidate the i.r.s. ruling. in other words, have a vote to keep the scam. that's what the vote is today, to make sure that we destroy the i.r.s. ruling and we keep this scam in place. you know, one of the ironies of this whole debate is our democratic colleagues voted against our tax reform because they said that it was too much of a tax cut for the rich, despite the fact that our tax reform shifted the tax burden from lower income taxpayers to higher income taxpayers while saving money for everybody. the relative proportion of taxes paid increased for wealthy people, decreased for low income people

thisime, from the i.r.s.k shields and ramesh ponnuru the widening investigation into president trump. and, much more. >> woodruff: returning now to our main story, the eastern country of ukraine lies at ntthe heart of the impeach inquiry. we've sent special correspondent simon ostrovsky there, to reporr on what' and what's not in the story of hunter and joe biden. >> reporter: how did ukraine find itself suddenly in the middle of an american impeachment investigatatn? the heart of e matter are ev16ts that took place in 20 when former vice president joe biden threatened to pull a biion dollars in loan guarantees from the struggling post-soviet nation, if itsal prosecutor genasn't fired,t fi echoing the demands of other allies and the international monetary fund, who wanted ukraine's judicial system rid of corruption. but, president donald trump alleges that biden did this in neder to stop anestigation into a ukrainiany company called burisma, which his son hunter served on the board of. >> somebody ought to lo

the leaders of the i.r.s. finders in my role we were 2 brothers omar and. members of a powerful clan they are revered as heroes by their young followers. but most muslims on mindanao have no sympathy for the ideology of the so-called islamic state other can share reef is a leading figure in the local muslim community he knew them out of brothers because of his long beard he has been dubbed bin laden as in osama bin laden. sharif likes the nickname even though he says he is opposed to violence and said that to the local i asked fighters. visiting me in my house and you have convincing me to join them sometimes get told me please join us we will make you us our army. yes and he will make us our leader actually when you have talking with me he said. you join us because we cannot trust anymore people have been governments because they are always betraying us yes so that's why i did become. bad because. sharif did not join the group led by the mountain brothers he told them he could not fight because he had heart disease. islamic state called on its sympathizers

citizenship until they received letters from the i.r.s. demanding that they file their annual return some of them was 67 years old when these letters arrived on their doorsteps what they've done now is filed a suit with the european commission this is against france because they're concerned that banks here in france might end up closing their accounts or they might actually be blacklisted from financial institution causing so much worry at the moment france banks here in france are exempt from having to give personal details of the account holders to the i.r.s. and other institutions but that comes to an end at the end of 2019 after that banks will have 2 choices either hand over those details which could see these accidental americans being taxed or close down their bank accounts and know either of which is something that these accidental americans are happy with so they say that they've filed this case because handing over this data would be in breach of. data previous c. and they say that they've been to the french government asking fo

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made for important points that he said it was important for him 1st he said cooperation against the i.r.s. has to continue that's very very crucial. for germany for turkey and for all of the allies the other point he made was that the cease fire should continue after the sochi agreement deadline expires which is going to be next tuesday by 6 pm and he said he got a guarantee from a little bit later in the question part said well we're not talking about guarantees here let's just say we gave confirmation the other point that was important for germany is that what i call the legal international law how the 2 countries perceive this turkey's military operation there is very different and. so that was another point that high cost made and finally he also said the most important thing actually which is what is coming up next week is the meeting in geneva where a new syrian constitution is going to be discussed so a political solution to the syria problem was the most of their final points that i must meet all right now you know i want to ask you about this proposal by germany's defense ministe

phyllis in the sights of i.r.s. starts october 24th on d w. coach of a. good link to news from africa. or links to exceptional stories and discussions. from the news as easy and white with safety deputed comes much traffic join us on facebook at g.w. africa. with him how to be gun did go sutlers were biased i know if i had known to the boat i would be that small i never would have gone on the trip you know i would not have put myself and my paris on time dangerous but it's the theme of the whole thing to give a flavor with. that one they're willing to give them i had serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there but much i'm going to. want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for migrants. a very warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture coming up in the next quarter of an hour germany and its former colonies are cooperating on the return of looted up from colonial times. talk of climate change is on all our lives and a frankfurt book fair climate fiction is booming. and will be strutt

who teamed up with kurdish fighters in the battle against the i.r.s. they fear a turkish invasion is imminent. this greenlight a trump gave her the one will actually complicate the crisis and the region of the gun. that will provide islamic states with an opportunity to regenerate and control areas such as rock and terrorism or again the. turkish president reject tie up at 01 gave the kurds a stark warning that suited him there is a phrase that we always say. we can come any night without warning. and our determination remains because it is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups. trunk's decision has triggered widespread criticism even within his republican party so the current stepped up on nobody else worth the fight if we abandon him good luck getting any help american but actually radical islam al-qaeda and isis hours later appear to try to placate critics by issuing a stern warning to ankara that right now we're at a position where if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing w

the vote is about getting rid of an i.r.s. rule that hinders state programs like the ones i mentioned. my republican colleagues have always proclaimed that they are defenders of states' rights and the tenth amendment. here's an opportunity for them to walk the walk, stop the i.r.s. from making life harder on taxpayers and local economies. i urge them to vote with us to appeal this rule, and i yield the floor. mr. thune: madam president. the presiding officer: majority whip. mr. thune: is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we're not. mr. thune: okay. over in the house today the ways and means comtd is marking up speaker pelosi's prescription drug bill, the latest installment in the democrat campaign. like other government plans, the so-called medicare for all bill, the pelosi drug bill will ultimately leave americans worse off when it comes to access to care. madam president, there's no question that the american health care system isn't perfect. high drug costs are a problem, and one in four seniors reports di

this is according to the i.r.s. . so we are going to win this thing. war. which took place in 2006. do you think it is part of mind to tackle the causes of migration at source perhaps rather than imposing stricter controls along its external border is this one of one of the issues that really has to be dealt with. going from the states where the migrants come from. difficult to identify. what we can do we. can really act alone you know. so. we have to influence the politics and. prevent the mind wants from coming from. what we can. post on the. policy so close in the. poll on the ports was a good policy because actually. more government. one of the. monuments of what we are going to witness. a lot of people will die like the boat which capsized. even. though it was and so people die and we're going to do with them as. they were and there will be no longer any blue so the red sea and the sea oh no that is already taking place means just finally we have about 30 seconds paula we've heard a money well mccrone recently say there are 3 resources to accommodate lots more in europe that's

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the film of the sights of i.r.s. starts october 24th on d w. this is the w. music live from the good man on a mission to stop the fighting a u.s. delegation heads to turkey to try to protest a cease fire and cool to syria u.s. vice president and secretary of state tried to dissuade her to end its assault from the cup but turkey's president is vowing to push ahead regardless also coming up how close to a deal. and european union negotiators appear to be on the brink of an 11th hour sit agreement on.

for some it's only been a few years since they fled from the advance of i.r.s. now they're back on the road with no clear destination. t.w. correspondent is standing by for us in istanbul and here in the studio is our foreign policy editor sedar thank you very much to both of you to tell us more about the turkish military offensive that is now underway how is that expected to unfold. well the turkish army launched a ground offensive a lot snipe just hours after the over a shit started with airstrikes and shelling since then some fierce clashes have been reported from border towns in northeast syria so that 6 pack did to continue today the turkish army get support from an unclear about syrian opposition fighter group called the syrian national army so in terms of manpower and equipment the turkish side is clearly outnumbering outgunning the syrian kurdish fighters but these fighters there in northeast syria have also said they are determined to fight back until the very end to defend the territory so this is likely not going to be a swift and smooth military oper

namely 11000 fighters against us died in the war for the united states gold to get crushed about the i.r.s. so i think it was very very hot what i'm thinking turkey saying about this well if you look at turkish mainstream media you can see kind of celebration off this military operation but if you listen to few what is left of the opposition media then you can see people are serious is causing the issue they are worried that this is going to of course be bad for turkey. they don't see the safe zone as a realistic solution how are you going to move these people are you going to force them to leave turkey and to go to areas probably which they didn't even come from so it's there's a big discussion going on in turkey of course how is this going to be financed not just the safe zone but even the military operation how long is it going to go so there are a lot of questions. i think however there is a certain degree of consensus in turkey that such an operation however it is conducted is necessary in order of 2 to pursue goals of national self-defense now why is this timing from the purely milit

for some it's only been a few years since they fled from the advance of i.r.s. now they're back on the road with no clear destination. all right let's go to turkey now where correspondent yahaan is standing by for us good morning to you yulia tell us more about the turkish military operation. well the turkish army has launched a ground offensive last night just hours after the soap aeration started officially with our airstrikes and shelling some fierce clashes have been reported since stan from the border towns in northeast syria and this is expected to continue today the turkish army is not doing this alone they are partnering with ankara backed syrian opposition fighters from the so-called syrian national army and turkish officials are very keen on the emphasizing that this is all according to international law that they're only hitting military targets so positions and ammunition depots of kurdish fighters there in syria the turkish media as well they are dominated by pro-government outlets are emphasizing that this is a security operation and i quote them h

the i.r.s. and they surrounded the old you don't make this the most readers we are the protesters we didn't notice that existence yesterday and the day before but today we cannot just leave the old the sponge. officers and personnel out surrounding streets and they do strangers so what's coming next it's up to the decision that would be taken by. the the politicians whether it has to go to the street yeah. i really i'm joining us there from beirut where we know it's a developing situation i'm going to let you hop off and do some more reporting and then we'll check back with you again in the next hour to see how the situation is shaping up thank you so much muscle thanks and let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world and the united states several drug companies have reached a last minute settlement over their role in the country's opioid crisis that's according to a report in the wall street journal the settlement was reached just as landmark federal trial was

with her are tormented by thoughts of what might have happened to the others were they seized by the i.r.s. fighters are they long dead. or missing. trying to hide my suffering from other children. it turns when i pray to god to ask him to take my life. but when i see my children. i still so young. i will go about that in every little my request and instead ask him to give me more years to live the good one among. one. who can provide. most of the children in the displaced persons camps don't go to school most of the families are poor. family an important person has come to visit some miracle talk she's running for the senate and if she wins she will be the 1st muslim senator in a quarter of a century she's critical of the way deter take conducted the campaign to retake or just one of. the degrees of all of this is just the kind of announcement of our liberation but the real liberation is not living in this kind of the ways on this is not the way we were this is not the kind of life we want this is not the kind of freedom that we want for children missing amongst 1000 people missing is not

as my colleague, french hill, the i.r.s. already contains this information. astly, i would say, if we want to criminalize private ownership of businesses, why not do that n the beginning rather than failure to comply to report to an agency that exists? would be addressed by the executive branch and they've this through by the way bill addresses the problem. we don't need another database crushingbe abused or a mandate that will harm law-abiding americans and be criminals. i urge support of my amendment, in opposition of the bill without it, and i reserve the time.ce of my the chair: the gentleman from ohio reserves the balance of his time. the hat purpose does gentlewoman from -- seek the gentlewoman from california? ms. waters: to claim time in opposition. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. waters: i strongly oppose the davidson amendment because it would gut the bill. to ensures of working criminals, terrorists, and enemies of the united states can loopholes to cloak their dangerous acts from law amendment , this heedlessly tries to jettison the

the present government has now made the tale with the i.r.s. which involves. cuts in public spending and the austerity which they hasn't made the case that in the last few years you know rhetorical objecting let me ask in quito why indigenous groups operative angry with the reynolds plans and this i.m.f. agreement that he reached. in the uk that the answer to it is the. increase in prices really affect the horses or a city with more people who are. resources more of the people who are least in rural out. there who are everything you say in their market in the city if you see this guy over the east orange so is the thing. more underemployment is that people who are. and so what do the protesters want right now they're obviously demanding. more rhino resign but if he does that which is he seems not to be interested in doing right now then what i mean how does that solve the economic crisis ok if you do the. nation of. us here in the neighborhood i go to them a couple of days ago they were. in moreno in down there were. these were legally they were asking the bri

full of the sights of i.r.s. starts october 24th. this is the news live from berlin mixed signals over the chance of a breakthrough island's prime minister says he's hopeful the remaining sticking points can be overcome. sages in brussels warned that time is running out also on the program turkish president project i've heard one prepares to meet a senior u.s. delegation seeking a cease fire in northern syria but he says he will not bow to pressure from washington on the ground and russia says its troops are patrolling to contain the conflict. and a major speech by hong kong leader carry live was cut short after she shouted down by pro-democracy has been forced to leave the podium. plus the fight to end violence against south africa's with. south africa look even in countries where these wolf. is used. woman is working to reclaim the space where she was a soul searching to find a friend was kept. a welcome to the program. officials are warning that significant issues remain in the way of efforts to secure an agreement on the u.k.'s d

so the i.r.s. did what the law directed. it enacted sensible regulations to shut down these bogus tax avoidance schemes. but it did so in a thoughtful manner. carefully considering more than 7,700 comments and creating a safe harbor for certain donations to avoid unintentionally avoiding actual charitable giving. it's ironic that democrats are now calling for a tax cut, mr. president, for the most well-off americans. based on nonpartisan data from the joint committee on taxation, 94% of the benefit from passing this c.r.a. would flow to taxpayers with incomes of over $200,000. 52% of the benefit would go to those with incomes over $1 million. in fact, repealing the salt cap would result in millionaires receiving an average tax cut of nearly $60,000 while the average tax cut for taxpayers with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 would be less than $10. so put that in perspective, mr. president. the choice here is very clear. today we have an opportunity to vote no, to vote no on the democrats' proposed tax cut for millionair

we will make sure there are projects they have planned for expenditure within the next 3 years per i.r.s. guidelines. one note that was mentioned earlier, we are pleased to report that we did sell the last series bond for affordable housing last week, about 93 million and then we also sold the final series for the parks bond, which will be a port project, so that's in the amount of 3.1 million for that final port project. right now, we're just starting to do our work on vetting projects for both the public health and transportation bond to determine what size we will be bringing forward for issuance in the spring and we're evaluating some refinancing opportunities, given the low interest rate environments for our g.o. bonds. >> is the market looking favorably op our bonds? >> most definitely. we still have 2 of our 3 credit ratings are aaa and the next is aa-plus. that's a good thing. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> can i ask something. >> sure, please. >> on the 22b road improvement bond, do we have a scope for that yet, a description? >> i know rochelle is here in the audience. >>

for democrats still on the fence as to whether to repeal the i.r.s. regulations on the salt work-arounds, you ought to study this chart very closely. so i ask a question to the other side -- could you with a straight face argue that a vote to protect these worker-arounds is not a vote to provide a massive tax cut for the weert? because this chart shows it's helping the wealthy. for democrats who intend to vote for this tax scam anyway, i don't want to hear any more long-winded speeches about how the tax bill of 2017 benefited the wealthy. the fact is after tax reform, the wealthy now shoulder a larger share of federal tax burden than they did under the prior law. this was made possible by reforms to the regressive tax expenders such as our capping of the salt deduction. what's more, these reforms allow us to target more tax relief to lower and middle-income taxpayers. state work-arounds to the salt cap are nothing more than state-sanctioned tax shelters. by voting to undermine that cap, democrats are voting to enrich the wealthy taxpayers who they per

there are now two, or possibly two, from the intelligence community, but there is another one from the i.r.sho is separately alleging that there has been some sort of political appearance of the annual audit of the president or vice president's taxes. russia may soon be running off whistles at the rate we're going, all they people coming forward could only bolster the case that democrats are currently pursuing, alleging that the president may have commit indeed high crimes or at the misdemeanors. >> ronato, when with you look at the text messages, is there anything that stands out to you that would be a red flag? >> yeah, there's some messages there highly incriminating. one message, for example, you have one party to the message saying, well, you know, this is very problematic for me, the tradele or withholding of aid contingent on this investigation, and then of course of other side is saying, well, there's no actual quid pro quo here. let's take this off-line, let's take this off of text, right? whenever you have people who are suddenly wanting to end the conversation and take it off of t

been improper influence by the administration on the handling of president trump's tax returns at the i.r.slly? so that's the other whistleblower. we don't know what's going to happen to that. but -- >> stephen: that is a whistle i would like to listen to. >> yes! >> stephen: i hear that train a-coming. it's coming around the bend. >> they're, apparently, trying to get legal clearance in the house to release that whistleblower complaint as well. so that would be of interest. >> stephen: i-- i understand that-- and i didn't notice this before, but when it was pointed out to me by one of my producers, it makes sense, that you rarely play the president's statements or even talk about him specifically. you talk about the news surrounding the administration. you don't actually give him a lot of screen time. >> yes. >> stephen: why is that? ( laughter ) >> life is short. ( laughter ) you might-- ( cheers ) you might at any time fall down and be on crutches for a whole summer. would you want to spend the summer watching clips of the president to explain them after. that isn't really true, what i t

people is a worthwhile housing program just like the homeowner housing subsidy program through the i.r.swhich is over $140 billion a year. if we can afford $140 billion a year in housing subsidies for homeowners, we sure as hell can do better than $34 billion a year in housing subsidies for poor people. amy: i want to thank you both for being with us. of course we'll continue to follow this issue not only in san francisco and los angeles but around the country. i want to thank jennifer friedenbach, executive director on the coalition of homelessness based here in san francisco anand paul boden, executive director of wrap, the western regionalal advocacy project, a homeless advocacy group. when we come back, the trump administration recently revoked california's authority to set stricter auto emission standards but the state is fighting b back. stay with us. ♪ break] amy: from ondara. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we're on the road in san francisco. the golden state is in a legal battle with the trurm -- trump administration over tail

hell's gonna happen-- >> here's what you get to do, you get to go to sleep at night and know that your i.r.so go to sleep at night and know that your payables are paid. you get to go to sleep at night and know that you're actually gonna make money. i'm gonna do whatever it takes to put a manager in charge that meets my standards so that you don't have to be there seven days a-- >> i don't like surprise like this! >> well, you know what? you're gonna continue to be surprised. you're also gonna be surprised when you get a check at the end of the year and you can actually put it in the bank. >> that's enough, you're out of here, you're gone. it's my company. >> yeah. >> you don't like it? get out. okay, if i-- >> you're a minority partner. i'm 100% in charge. when you took my check and you agreed that i'd have 51%, and i told the employees that i was 100% in charge, i wasn't kidding! >> you better be right. you better be right. you better be right. >> i know i'm right. >> because if not, ali and i are [bleep]. we-we--walking back on the street. we lose our home. we lose our cars. we're done. >>

the present government has now made the tale with the i.r.s. which involves. cuts in public spending and austerity which they hasn't made the case that in the last few years you know rhetorical objecting let me ask in key to why indigenous groups operate to caylee angry with reynolds plans and this i.m.f. agreement that he reached. in the uk that the answer to it is the. increase in prices really affect their horses or a city with more people who are. resources more of the people who are least in rural are out. there every day to say in their markets in the cities you see this guy on. the east orange so. the thing that people who are more interested in them is the people who are. and so what do the protesters want right now they're obviously demanding that more rain no resign but if he does that which is he seems not to be interested in doing right now then what i mean how does that solve the economic crisis ok if you do the. nation of. us here in the neighborhood i go to them a couple of days ago they were. in moreno in down there were. these were legally the

handled with a bit of care after all over the last few years there have been repeated claims that the i.r.s. leader had been killed in 2017 for example russian forces said that he was likely killed and asked strike in syria and as we just saw in that report of course he was highly lucid he was a fugitive he wasn't a man who made many public appearances so over the years there's been a lot of uncertainty and speculation over whether he was in fact still alive and now the white house i haven't given any official confirmation yet and but a senior pentagon source folk to newsweek magazine and and. said that he had detonated a suicide vest killing himself after u.s. forces had stormed his compound and into that and that pun the pentagon official also said that they're awaiting d.n.a. and biometric tests to confirm his identity and the white house announced that donald trump is about to give a major statement now everyone's expecting that to be about back daddio of course and if indeed it is then it will be interesting to see what sort of hard evidence might be presented there of course what's th

♪ >> sandra: the "washington post" reporting on a second whistleblower complaint emerging from an i.r.sally claiming an employee at the treasury department may have tried to interfere with a tax audit belonging to president trump or vice president mike pence. the president is, of course, in a longstanding fight with democrats over his refusal to release his tax records. we'll bring you more on this as we get it. >> in many senses we have a presidential confession on ukraine. that's why we're moving so swiftly on that involving an upcoming election. taxpayer dollars that were appropriated and misused by the president and i think every time he confesses to a crime it limits the number of other witnesses we probably have to talk to. >> bill: some of the democratic reaction. eric swalwell after listening to 9 1/2 hours of testimony. want to bring back andy mccarthy. as i say hello again to you we're about an hour and 15 minutes from the inspector general going behind closed doors and one of the major headlines and the president leaving for walter reed. it said democratic demands test trumps

handled with a bit of care after all over the last few years there have been repeated claims that the i.r.s leader had been killed in 2017 for example russian forces said that he was likely killed and then asked strike in syria and as we just saw in that report because he was highly lucid he was a fugitive he wasn't a man who made many public appearances so over the years there's been a lot of uncertainty and speculation over whether he was in fact still alive and now the white house i haven't given any official confirmation yet and but a senior pentagon source folk to newsweek magazine and and. said that he had detonated a suicide vest killing himself after u.s. forces had stormed his compound and intimate that punch that pentagon official also said that they're awaiting d.n.a. and biometric tests to confirm his identity and and the white house announced that donald trump is about to give a major statement now everyone's expecting that to be about baghdadi of course and if indeed it is then it will be interesting to see what sort of hard evidence might be presented there of course what's t