let's talk about the i.r.s. in my years of public service in the state level or congress, i never got a single call from a constituent said, the thing we want you to do is add more people to the i.r.s. and president biden decided he wanted to double the size of the i.r.s. and go from 80,000 people to add not up to 87,000 but to add an additional 87,000 people and even according to the congressional budget office, they confirmed that it would break president biden's promise. you heard it over and over again, if you make less than $400,000 a year you won't pay more. maybe they are redefining what lower income means because if you are making less than $100,000 those new i.r.s. agents will be going after you, the mom, the single mom working two jobs at a restaurant. and so we step in and say no. we have to end that madness. over a billion cuts to the i.r.s. for them to stop doing just that. another big area of savings. a lot of people take out loans, a loan to buy their first home. i know that is harder under the bi

in new letter he says an i.r.s. agent provided a false name to an ohio taxpayer to gain entry into their home to confront her about delinquent tax filings. the i.r.s. agent identified himself as bill haus, alias. when he arrived at the marion, ohio home of a taxpayer whose identity is being protected. when the taxpayer objected to the agent's tactics the i.r.s. agent insisted he can go into anyone's house at any time. following this visit the taxpayer alerted marian pd. a police officer contacted agent haus verified he is an i.r.s. agent. haus filed a complaint against that officer. jordan says this is a clear case of i.r.s. overreach and is also similar to a december i.r.s. house visit to the home of reporter matt taibbi. >> everyone i've talked to about that fact pattern says no way it was chance. this was deliberate. targeting the guy who elon musk picked to do the twitter file and give us all kinds of valuable information. >> we don't have a response yet from the i.r.s., bill. we can tell you that the i.r.s. las

jordan saying this to the i.r.s. chief. the behavior from an i.r.s.o an american taxpayer providing an alias, using deception to secure entry into the taxpayer's home and then filing an inspector general complaint against a police officer examining the matter is highly concerning. to be sure. it was the first time the taxpayer had heard about any late payment. no prior notification. the incident causing concern among more than just politicians. listen. >> it's not supposed to be happening in the united states of america. this is something you associate with a totalitarian government, very frightening. >> when the taxpayer's attorney reached out to the agent's boss they said there was no money owed and the case was closed. i.r.s. is not responding to request for reaction to the news, of course, it is a holiday. the second time in recent months that i.r.s. agents showed up as a taxpayer's house unannounced. matt taibbi got visited by an agent when he was testifying about the twitter files. harris, this is especially concerning for taxpayers, there is a

if you called i.r.s. with a question, you waited on the phone for maybe five minutes instead of 30 or more from years past. if you got your tax refund in a reasonable amount of time, there's a difference. and if you're one of the americans who attempted to evade taxes and ended up paying your fair share, you can thank the inflation reduction act for that. this historic legislation has enabled the i.r.s. to be better funded, better staffed and better at getting hard-earned money back to the people. and my constituents have noticed. when we legislated $80 billion over the next decade to modernize i.r.s., republicans set out spreading disinformation and fear, agents coming out to get you. they were wrong. they knew that was not the case, but they wanted to demonize i.r.s. anyway. instead, what happened, we saw improvements. in one of the most immediate results from a bill i've ever seen, wait times are down to four minutes across the country. tax returns are arriving without months' long delays. in my own of

the claims being made by this i.r.s. supervise re agent are raising more questions about how senior leaders in the government handled the investigation into the first son, hunter biden. the white house has repeatedly said it had nothing to do with this probe. attorney general garland saying the same. the u.s. attorney in delaware is the one that had the ultimate authority over what transpired but this whistleblower sat down with bret baier last night says that same u.s. attorney was limited not only in what he could pursue but where those charges could be filed. >> i was there and i witnessed this personally. he started with he is not the deciding person whether or not charges are filed or not. >> not the deciding person on when charges were filed with hunter biden. who was? >> so ultimately this, if you follow the path of where the venue leads you, it went to d.c. u.s. attorney's office in march of 2022 and they presented this case to them. at the same time as that was occurring. >> gary shapley says he is cooperating w

thank you. >> martha: one i.r.s. agent already making headlines for explosive testimony in the hunter biden case. now another whistleblower is making waves claiming u.s. attorney david weiss was not the one making the decisions and was not really in charge. david spunt live at the justice department with the details on this. hi, david. >> hi, that first whistleblower is i.r.s. supervisor special agent gary shapley. he is 1 of 2 from the i.r.s. who came forward to sound the alarm. the second whistleblower who worked under shapley as a case agent came forward with his own op sirvations. he wants to remain anonymous. his attorney refers to him as mr. x. he says it was clear to him that donald trump appointed u.s. attorney david weiss in delaware was not calling the shots. according to mr. x he, meaning weiss had to follow the normal process. go to washington, d.c. he really wasn't in charge. he had to follow the process. three weeks ago david weiss wrote and signed a letter addressed to jim jordan over in the house of r

. >> martha: i.r.s. whistleblower testified behind closed doors last month that hunter biden received preferential treatment by the agency. supposedly a lot more. now the transcript of his exclusive testimony could be released to the public. david spunt live at the department of justice with the latest. >> it could be released as soon as today. things always get delayed on capitol hill. we'll see what happens from the ways and means committee. this is an interview done last month, six-hour interview done with an i.r.s. supervisory special agent saying a high profile investigation was slow walked at the direction of the department of justice. it is gary shapley. he can't see the name of the investigation for legal reasons because he is still employed by the i.r.s., we know via multiple source eaves he is talking about the hunter biden tax investigation. he spent that time behind closed doors last month. hunter biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges. he owed 100 grand in federal income tax each

i.r.s.er show hunter made it clear in one conversation with the chinese executive his dad was not far away. the one message reading i'm sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. today house speaker kevin mccarthy said it raises only more questions. >> the thing people don't realize is every single day we bring people in. this is why you get you have the bank statements now and why you know about the 1023 and whatsapp. we're continuing to do our information different than anybody else. >> last week reporters were frustrated that most questions about hunter biden were not addressed. the last time we heard the president talk about this was in california last week. >> i'm very proud of my son. >> i'm very proud of my son. looking to see if the president adds anything to that. he has an event in infrastructure any minute now. no indication this hunter biden scandal is impacting the president's re-election plans. he is set to go to

these are real life people with real positions of authority and responsibility in the i.r.s.dling this case saying that there was preferential treatment involved that may go back to the question earlier, why did it take five years to handle this? >> dana: all right, byron. thank you so much. this is breaking news, as you said. we have a lot of questions still but we are getting more answers. we have a statement from the white house saying the president and first lady love their son and support him as he rebuilds his life. they make it clear in the statement they will have no further comment on this. imagine this might be hard to do in a debate situation, but that's what they will try. >> bill: thanks for that, byron. we have a bunch of people at the top of the hour. i don't know how much this is a surprise today. as we've been watching this story develop over time and talking to all the great legal minds that have informed us how these matters are handled, it seems like it played out. a lot of people predicted it. when it comes to the gun charge and the tax evasion charges. >

i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. >> bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. >> because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. >> bill: "new york post" reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. >> good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whistleblower and confirmed and insisted that david weiss the u.s. attorney in delaware, trump appointed u.s. attorney in delaware said privately several times behind is scenes he was not pulling the strings and not in charge. it directly contradicts what garland has said for a year that weiss was in charge. shapley said weiss insisted he was not calling the shots. watch. >> i had him repeat that because i knew how important that f

watch. >> as an i.r.s. criminal investigator we need to understand all the financial flows of money. whether it's president biden or elsewhere we need to follow the investigative steps to insure that happens and they were just not allowed in this particular investigation. that's the crux of one of the issues here is we weren't allowed to ask questions about dad, we weren't allowed to ask about the big guy. we were precluded from following that line of questioning. >> julie: president biden strongly denies being involved in any of his son's business dealings. he had previously claimed that he never even talked business with hunter. new information making that harder and harder to believe, though. whatsapp messages from hunter show him using president biden and the biden family name. he texts bidens are the best. bidens plural. not talking just about himself. who could that other biden be? congressman james comer chairs one of the committees investigating. watch. >> we think there are several more but again -

programs such as v.a., disabilities benefits, medicare, medicaid, passport issues, and all too often the i.r.s. and refunds. dedicated caseworkers like margaret are often a godsend to so many constituents who are often overwhelmed or far too often ignored by our massive bureaucracies right here in washington. margaret is up there with the best of them. mentoring other caseworkers in the state and region with advice, contacts, and problem solving techniques. i want to thank you, margaret, for all you do for the people of the great state of minnesota. with people like you, our constituents get the best assistance that they deserve. once again thank you, margaret. mr. chair, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2 p.m. today. for the outlook of the financial system before the house financial services committee. watch live beginning at 10 eastern on c-span3, c-span now our fee mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> since 1979, in partnership with the cable industry, c-span has provided com

compliance, employers have to report to the i.r.s. information they have provided for their employees. as part of that process, employers are required do submit their employee and spouse or dependents' personal identification numbers or social security numbers. but here's the catch. if during this process, the employer unknowingly submits incorrect information or the i.r.s. believes an employee is wrongfully claiming a tax credit, the employer faces a financial penalty. making matters worse the employer has to. while the statute of limitations violation is limitless. the i.r.s. takes 18-24 months, two years to crunch the numbers on all this data they receive. that means the small business is left in limbo, waiting to hear whether the government will find them in violation of the law. the bill before us gives us flexibility about what information they have to provide on behalf of their employees and families and extends the window for any potential violation and establishes a statute of limitations so those small businesses who have li

cut i.r.s. funding and end the president's freeze on student loans. >> bill: some conservatives are threatening to out mccarthy and progressives weren't happy. the speaker doesn't seem to be phased. >> congress made a lot of promises with this deal that were not met on paper. i can't remember the last time congress made a promise it could keep. >> people should understand a strong no vote that we had tonight is just as important to the white house and to the president and to people across this country who are saying stand up and fight for us. >> we have a big board from the progressives that say it is a bad deal. we stood up to that. >> don't we all made history. this is the biggest cut and savings this congress has ever voted for. it wasn't an easy fight. i had people on both sides upset. but i was focused on you and i will stay focused on you because i'm waking up tomorrow going after everything we didn't get here today. >> dana: the drama shifts to the senate. chamber needs to pass the bill b

one of the i.r.s. whistleblowers revealing more about the federal investigation that led to what many are called hunter's sweetheart plea deal. he is sent to seal that deal in less than a month. the more relearn and the more people saying scrap that deal. hello, i'm julie banderas in for harris. prosecutors say hunter failed to pay taxes in the tune of $1 hundred thousand in 2017 and 2018. gary shapely claims the true number is almost 600,000 for 2017 and even more than that for 2018. he says the plea deal essentially lets hunter off the hook. >> there is still outstanding tax due owing above that 620,000 because of this deal they'll never recoup. the most substantive felony charges were left off the table, which would have been evasion, for 14, false return for 18 and 19. >> julie: he says his team was prevented from looking into things that could have led them to president biden. the president on the topic deny, deny and deny again. >> president biden: i have never spoken to my son about his overseas

listen to the i.r.s.stleblower what he thinks about that message. >> the importance of that message as an i.r.s. criminal investigator we need to understand all the financial flows of money. we're working an investigation on hunter biden. trying to assess a true and accurate tax assessment for him. so if there is money that is going elsewhere, whether it's president biden or elsewhere, we need to follow the investigative steps to insure that happens and they were just not allowed in this particular investigation. >> dana: what do you think of the whistleblowers claims? >> well, certainly i'm not in a position to confirm or refute them. but they are absolute alarming. that's just one of the claims he makes in the 212 pages he gave sworn testimony to majority and minority staff for the house ways and means committee. you mentioned that three committees have asked for testimony from various members of the department of justice and f.b.i. what's important to understand is these three committees are involved f

one is a high level career i.r.s. agent. the other, and this individual has spent years in the criminal investigations and then we've got a second whistleblower and neither of them has a political axe to grind. they talk about rob walker, the guy who set up the llc's saying that joe biden actually made an appearance at a meeting with hunter and that walker and the others set up the deal with the chinese energy conglomerate cefc. and then we've got bob olinsky that has already told us, lieutenant retired that joe biden came into another meeting with hunter and the chinese. and specifically, that there was money, a percentage put aside for the big guy was held "separately with the association hidden." who do you believe there? >> rachel: big, if true. james comer and chuck grassley, jim jordan, nancy mace have all gone on tv and talked about things and it's a very intricate story. i can't follow all of it. i don't know all the names as well as you do. but i know they haven't been able to produce the goods yet. we were promised

the attorney for the i.r.s.er insisting that a trump-appointed federal attorney was denied a request from the justice department to be named special counsel in the case. david spunt is live at the d.o.j. with details this morning. good morning, david. >> good morning to you. one month from today hunter biden will appear in federal court in delaware to enter his plea, attorney general merrick garland and other d.o.j. officials are pushing back on any claim that u.s. attorney david weiss was blocked from prosecuting hunter biden last year. he have is the u.s. attorney that entered into the plea deal with hunter biden. authorities say he has full authority over the probe from the beginning and garland said he never came to him for a special counsel appointment. >> i don't know how it would be possible to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. >> we reached out to david weiss to clear things up. according to the whistleblower he said something opposite in 2022. according to shapley t

william: two i.r.s.stleblowers claim that the investigation was interfered with to favor the president's son. a lot of political intrigue going on right now. weijia, are you surprised that hunter biden was brought to this state dinner? the same week this plea deal was announced, he was welcomed with full fanfare. weijia: no, i wasn't surprised and the white house's response was, you know, this is still the son of a president and i don't think that the strategy right now is to run away from it. i think they wanto show that he is a real person. that he is unlike some of his republican counterparts, who the republicans have been trying to compare him too, he fesses up. he admits wrongdoing and there is a clear separation between the white house and the dodge -- doj. what ha of that is what the biden team is tryi to portray. it made sense to me that they didn't try to hide him. they didn't want toave an had de something even further wrong. they wanted to show he is, in fact, trying to rebuild his life after

republicans taking away i.r.s. full enforcement will lead to higher deficits and higher inflation. the chair of the committee tells us we don't need regulation of our well-capitalized banks. why are they well-capitalized? because of our regulation. and i do want to focus on whether our banks really are well-capitalized. mr. powell, are banks well-capitalized if you value their assets at today's fair market value, where we have experienced higher interest rates and the value of the debt declines and are they well-capitalized even if you assume that depositors will not leave their money lying in the banks but the obligation the bank has to its depositors are valued at full face value but the marketable securities and loan portfolio is priced at today today's -- at today's interest rates? chair powell: i think you have to look at the capital requirements as they are. mr. sherman: well, that's the problem. our capital requirements are not -- are hide the facts that are unpleasant. if you don't hide the facts, are we well-capitalized? chair powell: traditionally, it has increased the va

struggling under the wait of record inflation and the response in democrats, increase the size of the i.r.sget americans. that makes no sense. an out-of-control border that is ignored by the white house while killer drugs like fentanyl infiltrate our communities and 110,000 individual tragedies occur through overdoses. think of that. 110,000 families in 2022 lost a son, a daughter, a mother, a father, a sister, or a brother, and we're doing nothing about the border. that makes no sense. and we're facing a very real threat from china, and joe biden's green new deal policies, they're only going to shift our opec to cinopec. that makes no sense. we could go on for hours bewe don't need to. you stop and try something new, that's common sense. joe biden has got to go. [cheers and applause] if you want to ensure that joe biden is a one-term president, i hope you're going to join our campaign by visiting dougburgum.com. and remember i'm running for president. and if you want more smalltown common sense in washington in our big cities, we'll make that happen. and if you think we need a governor and

as far as the i.r.s. goes, the money that went to the i.r.s.o put in more people so it would run more efficient so we can get more tax dollars from people. nobody's targeting anybody. it's helping them work more efficient. saying that they are coming after you, nobody comes after you. and i'm really tired of all the lying about immigration. the numbers are down. it's far from perfect. but the numbers are down. but they want to impeach the secretary mayorkas. he's just trying to do his job when congress refuses on the republican side to help make policy. i actually heard a congressman the other day in a hearing tell a panel member that it's not their job to make policy. that's a lie. host: all right. got your point this morning. we are going to move to bill. bill is calling on the republican line from hendersonville, tennessee. caller: yes. thank you very much for taking my call. i haven't watched c-span in a long time and i turned it back on and see it's just like it was. you take one republican for about five democrats and independents. and i

. >> the lead i.r.s. agent investigating hunter biden telling congress they uncovered evidence the president's son pressured a potential chinese business partner to move ahead with a deal by invoking his father. if true, that would seem to contradict comments from president biden that he was not involved in his son's business deals. >> i said do you plan to talk to the president and she said chuck, no, i don't plan to speak to him about this and i don't plan to address this from the peedium. in many ways creates more questions here about this issue. >> sure does. >> sandra: ben domenech, editor for the spectator joining us today. we a lot of times catch the white house press briefings during our hours in the afternoon. it seems there is some sense of growing pressure on this white house to explain these conversations that that's whatsapp messageing implies that the president was sitting with his son. he says he has never discussed any of these his dealings with hunter. where does all this go next? >> well

biden representatives have said that hunter biden previously paid back the i.r.s. what he owed. so they are treating this almost like an also ran moment of justice. well, he already paid the money back and he is going to plead guilty to this and guilty to that. we'll cover every second of it but the durham report is next and we'll certainly focus on that. leo terrelle, thanks for getting us started. >> thank you for having me. >> harris: fox news here. a race against time for the people in the tourist submersible. five passenger, one crew. the craft caries 96 hours of emergency capability. the oxygen supply will last until thursday afternoon if the timing is just perfect on that timeline. and if nothing has happened to the sub. the sub missed the launch actually. the launch happened and an hour and a half into that they lost communication. we don't know how far down it actually reached off the coast of new foundland in labrador, canada in its dive to see the titanic. a coast guard rear admiral saying this. >> we launched a c-130 aircraft to search to conduct and aerial search bo

whistleblowers and opposing investigations to i.r.s. whistleblowers.get the evidence to be evaluated. so it is rather ironic to hear democrats complaining about the lack of evidence when they are trying to stop the accumulation of evidence. the public supports these investigations. >> bill: what i heard from grassley, he would not tell us whether or not he thought there was something illegal on the document. a lot of republicans are already on that band wagon. he is not. call for number one. we'll go back to the interview. he wants the f.b.i. to do its job. that's what he said. watch. >> put it this way, there are accusations in it but that's -- it is not for me to make a judgment about whether these accusations are accurate or not. it is up to my job to make sure the f.b.i. is doing their job and that's what this is all about as far as i'm concerned. public's business ought to be public. >> bill: they are allowed in and read the document. brings other colleagues in and see the document. if the f.b.i. doesn't make a move, this allegation is dead in the

one of the i.r.s. more about the federal investigation that led to what many are called hunter's sweetheart plea deal. he is sent to seal that deal in less than a month. the more relearn and the more people saying scrap that deal. hello, i'm julie banderas in for harris. prosecutors say hunter failed to

more questions still popping up on the hill after an i.r.s.histleblower told congress that hunter mentioned his dad when speaking to what chinese business partner. it says i am sitting with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. what is strange is that the president has repeatedly said he never discussed business with his son. kevin mccarthy said today congress has plenty of reasons to keep digging. >> i wish none of this would have ever happened or go forward with somebody in elected office. now we found the president has lied to us and said they never dealt with anything in china. now the whistleblower says he was in a meeting with a chinese company as the vice president. >> we did hear from the white house special counsel's office last week -- and they said as we have said many times before the president was not in business with his son. as we've also said many times before the justice department makes its decisions in its criminal investigations independently and the white house has not be

of course we have seen that with the i.r.s., yeah. we will dig into it today. i'm so glad you were here across two important points of breaking news, thank you very much. >> they lost power or knew they were in trouble deep undersea there was no emergency beacon received on the surface that confirmed the location. maybe they got entangled or trapped in the the titanic. >> harris: that was navy veteran with me yesterday in "focus" and what people are up against in finding the submersible and five passengers. they could be more than the 12,500 feet in the ocean. the u.s. coast guard is sent to give an update -- set to give an update about 1:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon. so we're waiting for that to come up. it has been saying a canadian aircraft detected underwater noises. that bit of hope comes as there is also very little oxygen, about a day's worth left inside that sub. back in 2018, this is part of what's also coming out today, an employee of oceangate, the company that owns the sub, warned the company's owner that the tourist submersible had a potential fo

want you to hear the media this week taking swipes at the credibility of the i.r.s. whistleblowers who spoke out against the investigation into hunter biden. >> i'm a whistleblower lawyer. this guy is not one. >> this guy is a complainer with a political axe to grind. >> gillian: "new york times" put quotes around the word whistleblower even though we now know that gary shapley, at least, followed all the protocols necessary to become a government designated whistleblower. twitter user fired back one called them scarecrows. president biden sat down for a rare tv interview days after his son's criminal plea but wasn't asked one question about it. listen. >> the president of the united states is here at the table. 46th president of the united states, joe biden, thank you for being here. >> president biden: thank you for having me. >> this is very exciting for us. >> president biden: exciting for me. >> you said today, and i know that you have a lot of power but i can't imagine you can't -- you said this court is not normal. what did you mean? >> president biden: what i

being a single mom and a student, she didn't have enough time in her busy schedule to work with the i.r.s., but she had time to give us a call and that's all that mattered. and my diligent team were able to step up for her and help her retrieve $9,000 from her tax return. these are just two of the many stories and constituent cases that our district office worked so diligently to close over just the past five months. in under six months and under half a year -- and i am so grateful for all the work they have done for you. i'm a combat veteran but i'm also a business man. and i believe that constituent services, customer service is why i'm here. customer service, serving you is my number one priority in congress. i've served my country in combat, but the chance to serve you in this community is an honor of my lifetime. we are ready to continue to serve the good people of michigan's 10th congressional district. thank you for trusting me to be high above the best. and with that, mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in

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overturning the keystone pipeline, and required a 15d minimum wage for federal contractors and allowed the i.r.s. to spy on americans and their bank accounts. meanwhile, that same year, only 143 bills passed by congress were signed into law. this means executive branch agencies imposed more than 20 times as many mandates as actual legislators. these regulations are not without cost. accord together american action forum, federal agencies collectively finalized $200 billion in regulatory costs in 2021. equivalent to more than $600 per u.s. household. in 2022, we saw an additional $117 billion in regulatory costs added to the bottom line. taken with rules from previous administrations and according to the competitive enterprise institute, the total annual cost of regulation is almost $2 trillion. or about 8% of the u.s. g.d.p. if we are a country for comparison, u.s. regulation would be the world's eighth largest economy, only behind france. if members of this chamber impose that kind of cost on taxpayers, we know what we have. we'd all be voted out of office. yet the biden administration continue

one of them while he is sitting at that table testifying to the judiciary committee, the i.r.s. is knocking on his door. parents, catholics, journalists, guess who gets it the worst? guess who gets it the worst? whistleblowers. if you dare come forward and tell congress what is going on, look out. they will come for you. they will take your clearance, your pay, they will even take your kids' clothes. ask mr. o'boyle who testified in front of this committee as well. we'll hear the facts and details about the whole false trump/russia narrative. crossfire hurricane investigation, and hopefully -- hopefully it will help change things at the department of justice. regardless of what the biden administration and garland justice department do, i know what republicans in the house are committed to doing. we will work to dramatically change the fisa law and we will do everything we can in the appropriations process to stop the federal government from going after the american people. now recognize the ranking member for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on june 8th, grand

he was required by law to pay on or before april 17, 2018, to the i.r.s. at hartford, connecticut. knowing and believing the foregoing robert hunter biden, his legal name did willfully failed on april 17, 2018, in d.c. and elsewhere to pay the income tax due. so that's -- we're talking about 2018 here. we are going back five years now, over five years, five years just a couple of months ago in april just to give you an idea how long this investigation has gone. count two during the calendar year of 2018 back in 2018 the defendant, who was a resident of d.c., it says let me just look at this and says while knowing and believing all of the foregoing robert hunter biden did willfully fail on or about april 15, 2019, to pay the income tax. we are looking at dates of 2018 and 2019. also that illegally possessing a weapon when authorities say he lied on that form. but as far as a court appearance that is murky and sketchy and not clear right now. i'm told that it is possible hunter biden does not appear for several dailies potentially even several weeks. at some point he will have to mak

and we have the i.r.s.18 asking to charge hunter biden with felony tax evasion and felony tax -- making false statements. they were shut down. they were told no. so now here we have hunter biden skating, in essence getting a wrist slap for the same charges. i think the democrats -- joe biden supporters in the media will make the case it's apples and oranges, very different. but look, the issue here is justice and blind justice. that's what all americans regardless of your political party need to focus on. host: let's go back to our phone lines. let's start with carolyn calling from baltimore, maryland, on the democratic line. carolyn, good morning. caller: hi, good morning. thank you to c-span. i am calling first of all, there has always been a two tiered system for african-americans always, and always will be in the future. i am calling for your comment that you made on the black lives matter. 61-year-old black woman, i walked in the protest in some of them. there were thousands of protests that were peace

and we have the i.r.s. asking to charge hunter biden with felony tax evasion and felony tax -- making false statements. they were shut down. they were told no. so now here we have hunter biden skating, in essence getting a wrist slap for the same charges. i think the democrats -- joe biden supporters in the media will make the case it's apples and oranges, very different. but look, the issue here is justice and blind justice. that's what all americans regardless of your political party need to focus on. host: let's go back to our phone lines. let's start with carolyn calling from baltimore, maryland, on the democratic line. carolyn, good morning. caller: hi, good morning. thank you to c-span. i am calling first of all, there has always been a two tiered system for african-americans always, and always will be in the future. i am calling for your comment that you made on the black lives matter. 61-year-old black woman, i walked in the protest in some of them. there were thousands of protests that were peacefu

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