and i.r.s. were all trying to sweep this under the rug until the i.r.s. whistleblower shapley came out and said whoa, hunter biden has made $8 million that he hasn't paid taxes on. the house got involved. american public saw the sweetheart deal and because of that pressure only now do we have charges on joe biden's son. >> julie: the "new york post" op-ed board making the point you just raised. this is the case feds should have brought against hunter biden in the first place. an excerpt reads this wasn't an ordinary accounting mistake. it was a scheme to not pay $1.4 million to uncle sam after dithering for years, hunter was originally offered a no jail, no fault misdemeanor plea. why? the evidence seems clear the justice department was burying it as a favor to joe biden. it took a small number of brave whistleblowers and a straight talking judge to stop the sham. now, the bidens would like to say if it wasn't for his last name he would not be indicted as he has been. these are felony charges. these nine additional charges brought up in california are jus

and yet somehow you guys decided you had to put the i.r.s. cuts in with the israel bill, and you all voted for it, happy as a clam. let's get away -- if you don't like the deal, fine. vote no. that's cool. but the idea that you're saying, oh, this is just the worst process in the world, apparently you don't like democracy, because that's what democracy is. you compromise and you work with people, and you do it all the time. are you against the substance of the bill? please stop tearing down this institution and tearing down this democracy. we have to try to get along with people we don't agree, but i'll quote "game of thrones." you don't make peace with your friends, you make peace with your enemies. you got to find a way to get along with people who you disagree request. and the chairman of your committee did an outstanding job of doing that in this bill. i urge everybody to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: the question is who gets to decide? that's the question. who gets to make these gra

the i.r.s. whistleblower said. they said he should be charged with all of these tax crimes. in fact, they thought he should have been charged with tax crimes in 2014 and 2015 tax years as well. but what happened? biden's justice department allowed the statute of limitations to expire so he could not be charged underneath that. it is good to see in california that the tax crimes that the i.r.s. whistleblowers suggested for 16, 17, 18 and 19 tax years in fact have taken effect. >> sandra: meanwhile one editorial board says the hunter biden charges indict biden's justice department, too, congressman. adding garland repeatedly had denied that weiss had benham strung in his efforts. once the whistleblower testimony and thousands of pages of supporting documentation shamed garland into finally making weiss a special counsel, weiss was able to bring these charges that could have been filed long ago if the biden-appointed u.s. attorneys in california and d.c. had fully cooperated. essentially garland ap

there is so much that the i.r.s. whistleblowers could have found out in their investigation of hunter biden but they were constantly obstructed, slow walked, and eventually thrown off the case. but the documents and the testimony that they have given to the house ways and means committee, i think an open and shut case against joe biden's involvement and his financial involvement. you know, there is, for instance, they talked about a search warrant that the f.b.i. had signed off to do with foreign agent registration act violations by hunter biden, which, of course, leads to joe biden because that's the person he is lobbying. and those -- that search warrant they had to take out the name of i think they called him political figure one and that was joe biden. that was the david weiss and his prosecutors there in delaware insisted that joe biden, even his code name for joe biden, had to be removed from the search warrant. every step of the way they were blocked from following those avenues. it doesn't mean that the evide

so i have the i.r.s. and the number of times we have come up here and just enraged during the inflation reduction act, democrats moved additional $80 billion to the i.r.s. and they tell us, it's for collection, and customer service. what would happen if i came to you today and said, have you ever tried calling the i.r.s.? and sat on hold and sat on hold and sat on hold. or got the call saying -- the response saying, could you call back another day. give us your phone number we'll get around to calling you back. i'm going to give them credit here. they tried an experiment. the i.r.s. actually did an experiment last year. this last tax season. and it served $13 million people. it was a jackpot. most people go, i don't like a.i. -- chat pot. i don't like a.i. when you call an airline today, most of the time do you think you are speaking to real human? what if i could call the i.r.s. and actually have the phone picked up right then and i could ask a certain question, does this -- where do i put this line, i h

according to the i.r.s. whistleblowers, both morgan anddalei were involved in the decision to not charge hunter biden with some of his tax crimes. they happened decideed to charge hunter biden for crimes in tax years 2014 so 2019. however, they reportedly gave a presentation on why the d.o.j. should not charge hunter for the 2014 and 2015 tax years. that is particularly concerning given the fact that those have now been allowed to lapse due to the statue utah of limitations. they also chose not to -- outside of utah. d.o.j. declined a question of multiple further questions. on september 14, 202, house judiciary committee issued systems for bothdalei and morgan, however, the justice department stone walled them again. his personal counsel directed him not to abear. on november 21 2023 the house committee issued a subpoena to morgan. however his counselor said that the d.o.j. happened directed him not to appear. september 7, hunters biden is indicted charging hunter bide within three felony tax offenses and si

democrats in the senate are more interested in siding with the i.r.s., expanding the i.r.s. to target american citizens than they are to stand with israel or to be fiscally responsible by taking money already appropriated and moving it over to pay for an emergency, that emergency being our friends being assaulted. our friends in israel being attacked, with young women being brutally raped, babies being killed, babies being kidnapped, innocent civilians shot in the street. we saw it with our own eyes. yet we have colleagues on the other side of the aisle who don't want to talk about that. they want to brush aside, oh, we can't talk about rape, we need to balance that, we're told, by the progressive left. republicans stood up alongside our friends in israel. we passed a bill that would fund them. we sent it to the senate and democrats in the senate chose the i.r.s. over israel. are we going to do our job to spend responsibly? we have a choice to make. when the funding of the government runs out in january and early february, we have a choice to make. and i hope republicans in

it flies in the case of i.r.s. whistleblower testimony which was going to this question of he got special treatment. if his name was biden it wouldn't have gone down this way. the point why didn't he take the plea deal, two misdemeanor counts. plus last month october the indictments on the gun charges plus these. why didn't he take that deal? he is looking at a harsher penalty. it is because he wanted the investigation walled off into just taxes and guns. they don't want to get into these questions. the latest emails raise why was hunter not registered as a foreign agent? we've got new windows into the burisma work. no one is surprised. not because he was a natural gas expert, they weren't asking him about his expertise in corporate governance. it was influencing washington and make charges go away in ukraine. >> bill: james comer wants to have this interview. he wants to have this hearing. i don't think it is going to happen. i don't know if you disagree with that or not. that's on the table right now. do you thin

the f.b.i., the d.o.j., i.r.s. and the president's political operation have all frustrated attempts to investigate the bidens. obstruction is a crime and no less of a crime if it is being used in the highest powers of government. take the politics out of this. there is no investigator in any jurisdiction in the world that would not continue to investigate this investigation with these facts. . . . .. the purpose of the impeachment inquiry is strengthen its ability to compel document production in response to congressional subpoenas. this will allow the house to continuities investigation whether president biden changed u.s. policy due to payments received by the biden family members from hostile foreign powers. or whether he knowingly allowed foreign powers to believe payments were being made and employ the biden members would enjoy the access to alter u.s. policy. the president and the president's administration were using government agencies to obstruct investigations into hunter and joe biden. this inquiry is wa

and yet somehow you guys decided you had to put the i.r.s. cuts in with the israel bill, and you all voted for it, happy as a clam. let's get away -- if you don't like the deal, fine. vote no. that's cool. but the idea that you're saying, oh, this is just the worst process in the world, apparently you don't like democracy, because that's what democracy is. you compromise and you work with people, and you do it all the time. are you against the substance of the bill? please stop tearing down this institution and tearing down this democracy. we have to try to get along with people we don't agree, but i'll quote "game of thrones." you don't make peace with your friends, you make peace with your enemies. you got to find a way to get along with people who you disagree request. and the chairman of your committee did an outstanding job of doing that in this bill. i urge everybody to support it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: the question is who gets to decide? that's the question. who gets to make these gra

tipped off the biden transition campaign in december of 2020 that there was an i.r.s. agent and f.b.i. agent in california who were going the next morning to interview hunter biden. needless to say they never got to interview hunter biden. >> bill: the story goes on. thank you so much for coming in today and we'll see what comes next. thank you, miranda, nice to see you today. dana. >> dana: the border spirals out of control, dhs officials making a stunning admission on the number of migrants released into the country every day. texas governor greg abbott is here to react. crunching the numbers on a christmas movie. why the home alone kevin mcallister would need a bigger budget. >> are these microwave dinners any good? i'll give them a whirl. for the kids. there's an old sayg in the navy that the toughest job in the navy is a navy wife. and if you've made the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you

you have i.r.s.ry notes about lesley wolf and what she did and what she excluded and wouldn't allow to happen. the idea that she allegedly maybe tipped off the biden family or the biden legal team with their ability to go out and subpoena documents, there is a lot of really serious allegations here. for her to not answer congress, that is just not acceptable. >> bret: we'll follow it all. jason, as always, thank you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> i just wanted to make sure we were home in enough time to enjoy the holiday season here. >> gillian: the great christmas getaway is in full swing. travelers are hitting the skies and taking to the roads. how crowded will it be? how crowded will it get? the sale of an american industrial icon is hitting a roadblock. why u.s. steel is facing some potentially intense scrutiny. >> the issue for us is the long-term security, viability and sustainability of the steelmaking operations in the u.s. owned by an american company and controlled by an americ

the i.r.s. can't do a whole lot. congress passed the bill.orium on claims and opened fraud invisions into 3 1/2 billions of claims, disallowed others and issued new guidance what is legally possible. the deadline for applying for this extends until april of 2025. we could be paying money out until then unless congress were to act. i won't hold my breath. >> molly: there was an awful lot of economic relief being offered during the course of covid. >> i didn't get any. i don't know about you. >> molly: it's amazing. years ahead of us. who knows. that was very interesting. appreciate it. mike. >> mike: molly, google's most searched words of 2023. hamas attack in israel, the war in gaza topped the list followed by the titan sub and turkey earthquake. hurricane. most searched people. damar hamlin who made a remarkable comeback after his heart stopped on the field during a game in january. then actor jeremy renner who suffered a terrible injury in a snowplowing incident. scoring a place in the top five travis kelce not on the list, taylor swift. my

from lesley wolf to i.r.s. investigators, the sub line is political figure one is president biden.s. focus on fara evidence only. there should be nothing about political figure one in here, end quote. joseph, is that a smoking gun or is that just one of several pieces of evidence? where is the context do you believe for that email? >> yeah, so that email i think is super important because it is a one-off example in writing of the constant concern following investigative leads that might lead to joe biden. and what i would like to say to that is the f.b.i. agents who draft evidence the affidavit, they believed they had sufficient evidence probable cause to support including political figure one in that affidavit. you look at what that related to. burisma, access to joe biden and access to the administration. there was ample evidence that was included in that affidavit that included supporting political figure one. it has a waterfall effect on the investigation. the emails we're searching for might not come through to the team. it has a down the road effect of not following normal le

this morning i.r.s. whistleblowers will testify about the biden family finances. chad pergram is on capitol hill with more. hi, chad. >> good morning. house investigators will also release a 78 page interim staff report looking at potential involvement of president biden in foreign business dealings by his family members. james comer contends some of the money came from overseas. >> what matters is the way the money was paid to joe biden was directly through influence peddling. now this is the second payment or series of payments to joe biden that came directly from china. there is no disputing that even the white house isn't disputing the money to repay joe biden, if it was a loan, came from china. >> republicans are aiming to hold a vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden next week. shapley and ziegler speak to the committee today. >> i'm from the banking industry. one of the things we always knew if there were these loan agreements that were floating out there with no actual loan document, that is tantamount to money laundering and tax eva

the i.r.s. whistleblowers have credibility. they have testified under oath. they are clean. is under oath now. she has to come clean. this is why we hear people talk in the open when they are under oath it is a whole different story. what hunter biden did yesterday was a dog and pony show. he will sing a different song when he raises his right hand to god and has to tell the truth under oath. >> martha: the judge putting donald trump's election interference case in washington on hold while the former president pursues his claim to the supreme court that he is immune as president at the time from prosecution. so it comes as special counsel jack smith is attempting to bypass the appeals court process of this. the usual next step in the process and he wants this to go straight to the supreme court. here is will cain's take on this and we'll get your thoughts on the other side, leo. >> the fact that jack smith is going to skip the appellate level of the federal justice system to try to go to the supreme court in order to preserve his trial schedule? he needs to make sure this ha

they're not going to pass israel aid with 100% paid-for by the i.r.s. money. but you may get half. that's how this place is supposed to work. you've got to negotiate and find a middle ground. we have lost that art in congress. i mean ronald reagan and tip o'neill beat each other up, then have a scotch at night and shake hands. we've got to have more of that. doesn't have to be scotch. so i think this month, coming month, we're going to probably get an agreement on border, ukraine, and by the way, i don't think we should just take what the president gives us. we have equal branches. we've lost the equality of our pwrafrpls. the executive branch is totally owns the legislative branch right now. i think we should be demanding from the administration what weapons do you want us to highlight? are you going to send long-range attackers? this isn't about being a rubber stamp of what the administration wants. it's got to be an iterative thing between us. in the end we're going to get, i think, good lethal aid to ukraine. we'll get the border pointed the right direction. israel will get fun

i.r.s. whistleblowers allege that wolf obstructed the f.b.i. from investigating president biden during a five-year long probe into hunter biden limiting questioning or leads about the older biden were waving investigators off a search of the younger biden's home after hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena yesterday refusing a deposition. offering public testimony while also defending his dad. here is a back and forth exchange in the white house yesterday about whether he should have done that. >> does the president believe that congressional subpoenas are something that individuals should ignore? >> i'm not going to speak to that. just not. >> he has been subpoenaed in his career. >> i will have you speak to the white house counsel on this. i'm not going to speak to that. >> house republicans say they are going to follow the process to hold hunter in contempt of congress. it is a lengthy process that has to go through committee first, dana and bill and then go to the house floor to be voted on. if it's approved by the house, it will be u

but when you have two i.r.s.with impeccable records apolitical who continue to come out with this thing called drum roll please fact and say this is what a forensic investigation is for boring most of us who aren't good accountants have a hard time accruing our taxes, these guys are. this is suspicious. i want to ask you something. how many times is joe biden going the lie to us before we say he is a liar? he looked at the camera during the debates and 51 intel experts wasn't the laptop. now he says he has nothing to do with his son's business dealing and dealing with his son's accountant who decides who gets paid what. joe, you will need money to give to hunter here. the traffic cop who has turned on the family. interesting behind closed doors. after a while no reason to call hunter, there was emails to go directly at him as well as text messages. he was using air force two as a corporate jet flying around executing deals. he lied to us multiple times. what else is he lying about? this isn't gray area or twistin

we know from whistleblower testimony they were slow walking the i.r.s. from being able to go after the investigation in 2014 and 2015. we know these things to be true so we will have an inquiry today. we'll seek the truth. we've been having to do all the work the department of justice refuses to do and we can hold him in contempt in the house of representatives and see where the process goes. the sweetheart deal he got from a judge and that judge -- that he got from d.o.j. and the judge slapped down the deal, now we're seeing the truth. now you have an indictment where they dance around refusing to actually go after joe biden in those years because they are trying to put this all onto hunter. the truth will come out to the american people this is a broad corruption involving the entire biden family. >> martha: it is significant as you mentioned, congressman, that he said my dad was not involved in the financial part of any of my businesses, because if people just roll back their memory bank they remember president biden on the debate stage saying my son

>> when they're late or whether there is a mistake or when there is something to be done what the i.r.sd government does is they ask questions, they ask for backup, they bring civil actions, what they don't do is take a two-count misdemeanor in june and turn it into a 56 indictment in december. why he was as everybody knows at the bottom of the barrel of his addiction to crack cocaine which explains a lot of his misconduct and also addresses whether he was in what they call a scheme as opposed to just being at the dullest part of addiction. >> sandra: what about that? is political pressure fueling this case? is being an addict a defense? >> well, being an addict is not really a defense. if you listen to what his attorney is saying, he is not addressing really the merits of the cases against hunter biden, which i submit are very strong. but there is the reference to the earlier case that would have resulted in this sweetheart plea deal. that plea deal is looking really good, i'm sure now, in the rearview mirror now that it is gone. now that it was rejected by the judge. it allows all thi

. >> martha: added i.r.s. agents to make sure people pay their taxes. the argument becomes he paid them later. it's all paid now. and that no one would be subjective to the treatment hunter is getting. i don't think that's true. most people if they didn't pay their taxes for several years and then decided to pay it would see great penalty. >> bill: the things dragging down hunter biden. meantime back to the story. you have to watch this one. we mentioned it a moment ago. we're getting word of a new attack on american troops overseas specifically in the green zone in baghdad, iraq. iranian proxies groups in eastern syria and western iraq and gone after the remote bases. this is not remote. it is the heart of the capital city. more than half a dozen mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound. original reports there were rockets. there were no injuries. meanwhile, while that's happening in gaza, israel is ramping up its ground invasion. now this is at the u.n. in new york city as the u.n. secretary general talks about a push for a cease-fire. do

house is on fire we done say hey, we'll put out the fire as long as you let us not pay for a bunch of i.r.s. agents is go after billionaires and wealthy tax cheats. you help them when their house is burning down and right now that's what we're watching in reehl with israel security assistance and humanitarian aid that we need to provide to the palestinian people in gaza. an overwhelming majority of members support standing with ukraine and standing with israel if we could get a clean vet on this bill on the floor it would pass. it's time for action. and let me say, house democrats, senate democrat, senate republican, we all agree on the need to support israel and ukraine. and i would even say a majority of the republican conference agrees. but we can be the get a vote on this as long as the far-right extremists of the republican conference continue to wag the tail of this dog in this house. mr. speaker, this is about the future of democracy for the world. the defining question for our great experiment in self-government -- self-governance is whether we can defend democracy at home and abroa

but later he said we'll only support israel if we cut $15 billion from the i.r.s. in the budget which would lose us $85 billion overall. fiscally foolish and morally wrong. israel should be supported unconditionally. and so should ukraine. two valiant countries whose existence has been threatened. these are existential fight ffers israel and for ukraine. what happened in bucha right after the war started, before the ukrainians were able to repel the russians, was similar to what happened october in israel. murders. rapes, crime. if we allow russia to win, which we will if we don't support ukraine, there will be three, four, five, 10 times what happened october 7 in israel, to happen to the women and the children of ukraine. because russians showed they have no respect for women. morality. or mankind. soy urge speaker johnson to put these bills on the floor, to support ukraine, to support israel, to support taiwan, to support democracy, and to support human relief in gaza for people who have been victims of -- innocent victims. please put these bills on the floor an

the ways and means committee we have jurisdiction over the i.r.s. and some very brave i.r.s. whistleblowers came forward and provided some testimony. and we have to keep that completely quiet. we are not publicizing this. these are private meetings. we are not there trying to get clicks because of this. we got hold of this testimony and we had to be mum about t couldn't say a word from thursday the week before until the way until thursday the next week i wasn't allowed to say a word about it. but we knew on the thursday we were going to be releasing the whistleblower testimony. that basically claims that there was an investigation into hunter biden. that the department of justice was slow playing it. was giving preferential treatment. there was inconsistencies on how they are prosecuting, moving forward with this investigation. that was to take place on thursday where we are going to release this information. for the last three years there could have been a plea deal announced with hunter biden. it was tuesday morning, this was to be released on thursday, but tuesday morning

and the i.r.s. asking for that review that was suggested in the testimony. [applause] >> i really don't need a mic. mr. thompson: the chairman is back now. have we created that parts of our own tax code, whether it be the ability to use certain pretax dollars and run them through what is supposed to be a charitable shell and through the movements of those monies we are actually functioning financing evil, whether it be coming back to our universities or around the world? and it's a running concern on the mechanisms within 501-c-4's, certain design, the way we do not get as much information on those who hit the value of a nonprofit. you have expertise on terrorism finance. how much leakage from this country is actually leaking into violence and functionally distopian evil in the world? >> thank you for the question. it's a very good one. i will say this, that in the 2000's at the height of the war on terror we were making sure that the nonprofit sector was not leaking into the world of terrorism. in the last 10 or 12 years, we have seen a significant dropoff

these are scams where someone claims to be calling from the i.r.s. regarding back taxes or from the local power company. these scams are particularly dangerous because they pretend to be communication from important institutions like government agencies, utilities or from banks. in your working with the industry traceback group have you identified gaps in federal efforts to prevent scam robocalls that make going after foreign callers difficult? >> thank you. yes. it is difficult. because they feel they're not going to face justice because they're not based here. they do shell companies. they get kicked off the network and find a new one. absolutely we've been effective in disrupting them. we've seen some of the impact, especially on the robocall side. if there's a scam volume is way down. but it's one of the reasons i agree with my colleague here, megan, that criminal enforcement against these individuals, these groups, organized crime abroad doing them is absolutely critical. that's the only way they're going to stop trying to defraud americans is i

the f.b.i., the d.o.j., i.r.s. and the president's political operation have all frustrated attempts to investigate the bidens. obstruction is a crime and no less of a crime if it is being used in the highest powers of government. take the politics out of this. there is no investigator in any jurisdiction in the world that would not continue to investigate this investigation with these facts. . . . .. the purpose of the impeachment inquiry is strengthen its ability to compel document production in response to congressional subpoenas. this will allow the house to continuities investigation whether president biden changed u.s. policy due to payments received by the biden family members from hostile foreign powers. or whether he knowingly allowed foreign powers to believe payments were being made and employ the biden members would enjoy the access to alter u.s. policy. the president and the president's administration were using government agencies to obstruct investigations into hunter and joe biden. this inquiry is wa

so, let's get on the i.r.s. agents hiring, we could spend more money on hiring more i. r.i.r.s.s or sending that money for aid to ukraine. thank you very much and have a great day. host: jude, akron, ohio, republican. caller: i was calling about the immigration. my grandparents came here knew czechoslovakia through ellis island. that was my father's side. my mother is part indian. if anybody should have a say about immigration and people coming here should be the american indians. this was their land. we took their land from them and i think they should be able to weigh in and up to them to decide whether at the want more people in the country because in all reality this is their country, not ours. host: do you have something else to say, judy? caller: i was going to say i feel like we committed genocide against the indians and killed a lot of tribes that to longer exist because of us coming into their country. host: the numbers are on your screen. republicans are republic republic. democrats are 202-748-8000, and independents are 202-748-8002. we have another 10 to 15 machines