afternoon the government, they will -- go after the government, they will go after you that happened to matt taibbian an unannounced home visit before he was to testify. there is more, taibbi tweeting that irs opened a case on him this past christmas eve, a saturday, right after he wrote a report to intel's community's ties with big tech. he it not owe money to the irs, the feds owed him a big pile of cash, if you raise a red flag on the feds will they beat you with a flagpole, joining me matt th taibbi.. >> thank you. kennedy: this seems like clear irs retaliation, had you ever experienced anything like this before. >> never, i first found out after testifying on the hill in march, i thought it had to be a coincidence, there was no way it was related. now we have more information about it, i don't see an innocent explanation. kennedy: what other information came to light after the meeting. >> the big thing was date of the open case. they have a new assign date for my case, that is december 24, 2022, i came to attention i remember that day well, i was preparing i think the biggest of twitter file s

journalist matt taibbi joins us now. i've been going through the letter that congressman jim jordan sent to the commissioner of irs which lays out the timeline here. i put it up briefly on the screen here. so this was regarding the 2018 tax return. a letter the irs claims was sent to you on october 24, 2019, a second letter was sent to you on march 3rd of 2020. the irs produced neither of those letters to the judiciary committee. examination of your 2018 tax return on christmas eve, 2022, happened to be a saturday, assigned an agent for a face-to-face contact on january 27, 2023, contact initiated the day that you testified before congress. ultimate determination was you didn't owe any money to the irs, in fact, they owed you a substantial refund and the case was resolved a few days later on march 21 of 2023. how are you struck by all of this? >> well, initially i was reluctant to comment about this story because i thought it was possible this was an innocent mistake or a coincidence, but now i don't think there is doubt

the irs opens up an investigation into matt taibbi and his 2018 tax returns on christmas eve, the same day he blew the whistle on the fbi collusion on twitter. and they also showed up at his house. watch this. >> this was somehow politically motivated, at least it had the appearance of that. this is quite brazen, what they're doing can. they had to know that this was going to come out. also visiting me on my, at my home on the day i'm testifying before congress, that shows you that they're probably not terribly worried about the optics of all this which i think is even more concerning. maria: wow. jim jordan is launch. ing an investigation into this. -- launching an investigation. he told me there's no way this is a coincidence. you also had the irs whistleblower who was removed from the hunter biden tax probe. he testified behind closed doors to the house. what's going on at the irs? >> you know, we saw this same playbook under president obama. remember when they went after tea party groups at the very beginning of the tea party movement. they sic'd the irs on a lot of these tea party

matt taibbi, they are going to his house, even though they know he didn't owe anything to the irs. my colleagues are trying to get 87,000 more irs agents hired. i asked him about this question of the history going all the way back when he was with the obama administration. he basically denied it. we asked him what are you putting in place. all he said was we can't discuss it. liz: we do not work for them, they work for us, grover. we see this behavior coming out of what's going on in d.c. a lot of trump voters feel president trump was railroaded. grover, the other thing is, james comer just revealed in the timeline about what happened with this fbi document, the 1023 that allegedly shows vice president biden involved in bribery. thofficials in ukraine in 2020 said they were offered $5 million in bribes to end the probe into the founder of the energy company burisma. the ukrainian official said there was no connection to hunter biden and joe biden. they repeatedly said that. but this is the largest cash bribe ever seized in ukraine. the american people desire of to know before 2024

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they opened this file on the reporter, matt taibbi, after his ninth article came out about what was goinggs. okay? >> right. >> that day -- this was the 24th of december. this was a saturday. the irs is working on saturdays normally? this was the night before christmas. this was christmas eve they opened this file. what were they looking for? they were asking for whether he had a concealed carry permit. that's private information, so people don't break into your house and steal things. voter information, you know, how he's registered to vote. all this background, because they claim that four years ago they had a question about his tax return. they claim they'd sent him letters on it. they could not show a single one when the republican leadership in the judiciary committee said please send us the proof of your letters. no letters. and then they showed up, when he was testifying before congress, and they sent an irs agent to his home, just to leave a note, to let him know that we know where you live. this is scary, scary, not usual stuff. >> grover, the irs says the routine process, this i

the irs opened a tax investigation into journalist matt taibbi on christmas eve of last year, sat dayts showing government officials pressuring twitter to censor content. on his twitter account yesterday taibbi said the details came from a new letter to the irs commission are by house judiciary chair jim jordan. journalist saying the manufacturer was meant to intimidate. listen. >> this is quite brazen what they're doing. they had to know that this was going to come out. also visiting me on, at my home on the day i'm testifying before congress, that shows you they're not terribly worried about the optics of all this which i think is even more concerning. >> reporter: those sensitive documents taibbi exposed came from the state department, the pentagon and the cia. for its part the irs told the committee it was trying to assure the reporter was not a victim of identity theft. they had tried to contact him earlier by letter. however taibbi said neither he nor his accountant received the letters. house judiciary chairman jim jordan is not buying it either. listen. >> maybe the fbi will c

and you see matt taibbi, michael shellenberger who's on the network quite a lot who runs public, andn twitter files and everything that they've learned from that. i think that one of the things we have to understand is people now pay attention to who these individuals are within the news-making process. they have opinions on them, and there's another element of this too. thanks to social media, that allowed a lot of people to see the privately-held opinions of journalists whose bylines they were reading on much more structured pieces many ways that undermined any kind of view of objectivity. that's had a real impact. howard: they thought they were just talking to their friends. >> exactly. howard: twitter might also be part of this revolution, though it's not clear under elon musk will content creators or be able to make enough money to the make a livingening -- living. >> yeah, and that's one of the big questions moving forward. twitter has tried to roll out these abilities to have really long threads combined into one post, they've tried to make it easier for people to pay and subs

going good with the economy, unemployment, inflation around 2% below 3%, trade deals, meetings with matt taibbime coming back from north korea, all of a sudden donald trump junior had a meeting with somebody linked somehow to a russian official. ambassador haley just in my studio set every time i deal with a world leader there was a sense that donald trump is going to be impeached, they want to know what's going on, the russian officials were laughing at her and saying there's chaos in america. you know we didn't do any of this and she didn't know what to make of it. stuart: you can understand why donald trump is mad as hell and speaking out about it, you understand his anger because these people tried for the four years of his presidency to wreck his presidency, undermine it and undermine america. it was a disgrace, i think it was the worst and dirtiest political trick in my lifetime and i am mad as hell and i understand trump's position. brian: it is anti-american. hillary clinton new about the russian investigation and got him as president-elect and tried to destroy his four years in office

. >> greg: do you want to hear matt taibbi describe his writing?re between a tooth cleaning and watching a fawn die on the side of the road to. [laughter] >> so he didn't like it. >> he didn't like it. >> jesse: this man has totally lost his mind for the media has picked him back up and rehabilitated him. he was fired in a disgraceful act. he destroyed the reputation of the bureau, trump smoked them out for blackmailing him with a fake dossier, kicked him to the curb, he immediately leaks and cooks up this entire two year hoax and sells his rights to what, some publisher? he makes a couple of million. than he writes a novel and the media is coming back why did you like to us for two years, let's help you sell some more books -- now he's claiming the fbi doesn't have it in for republicans -- they spied on trump, they arrested three of his campaign managers and they helped joe biden and they helped hunter. this guy with his outfits and novels, just go away. >> greg: these things never end. what about this document, why are they dragging their feet on

the house judiciary committee obtained that document reels irs opened examination into journalist matt taibbi and 2018 tax returns opened this investigation on christmas eve last year he said the same kapublished the report on twitter said they checked to see if he had a hunting fishing license for concealed weapon congressman what is going on? this is corruption in plain sight. >> your friend irs checking to see if you got haunting license if registered to vote a concealed carry permit that is frightening opened investigation as you pointed out saturday, christmas eve december 2022 opened it then, of course, the kicker is they knock on his door the agent comes to his door after first searching -- background search not from door at the very moment he is testifying in front of congress, about how big government and big tech worked to censor american speech if that isn't frightening i don't know what is maybe fbi is telling us one big consequence okay but i kind of doubt it everyoneive talked to about that says there is no way this was chance, this had to be there anybody they were s intentiona

i don't want a journalist like matt taibbi being threatened when randi weingarten gets away with lying and you can was off. >> lawrence: it is interesting democrats talk about dirty cops and now you have dirty cops handed to you on a platter and they have no response. voters thank you. i will head back to you, guys. >> ainsley: excellent job. >> joe: hoe great is that group. >> ainsley: thank you for getting up early and being with us, we'll talk to them again coming up. >> lawrence: ainsley, i had a headline earlier in the show about california, palo alto, talking about gas stoves and we're all from the south and being coo with gas stove, that is how you get a quality meal. now they are making certain exceptions? >> ainsley: what is happening, they said no more gas stoves, there are environmentalists banning this in new buildings and you apply to build a restaurant, you have to have an electric stove. you have celebrity chef andres building a restaurant and said i want my gas stove, so he filed a lawsuit and plans to open. they said, don't sue us and you can have this gas stove. other

>> yeah, well, look, as an example when we on the weaponization committee had matt taibbi there, the irs shows up at his house. how coincidental is that. it's absurd for someone not to know and understand they did it in order to intimidate him. once again, i have to come back to the fbi if i could. i'm a former military officer, i want to protect our country. but when people say it's time to disband the fbi to delegate those authorities to others such as u.s. marshals, there's a growing number of people in congress who begin to feel this way and the reason being is we go back to accountability. they look at what they've done in the last ten years. my gosh, you could go back to martin luther king. if they intend to, how do we plan to stop them and once again, for those who say, you know, maybe the fbi we could delegate those authorities and actually completely defund them, you can understand why american people feel that way about that. maria: yeah, by the way marjorie taylor greene told me that the informant is not missing but he fears for his life. james comer on sunday said that th

journalist matt taibbi was the target of some unusual irs tactics after he uncovered government wrongoing in the twitter files and here's what he told john roberts about that experience. >> i'm curious that they opened an investigation into you on christmas eve of last year, which happened to be a saturday. how many folks at home think that they could ever get in touch with anybody from the irs on christmas eve, particularly on a saturday, yet they're coming an investigation into you. >> yeah, they're opening an investigation into me on saturday, on christmas eve, on the same day that i just released a report about the ties between the fbi and other enforcement agencies and tech platforms, and it was a three-year old case and i didn't owe them any money. so all of those factors combined to make the optics of this really strange. you would wonder what supervisor would be calling an agent on a saturday and asking them to come into work to open up a case on that day. >> trey: which brings us to the fbi. the former director admitted he did something to president trump he would not have ev

have you followed the twitter files story that got the irs to do a full circle new yorking at matt taibbi's door when they found out what was going on behind the scenes of the fbi and others to suppress certain stories? first and foremost was the communication to suppress the hunter biden story. which people seem to just avoid. >> ainsley: i don't know if you don't watch certain networks that are coverage it. i don't know if you would even know about this. remember after the election, we went out, man on the street, and we were interviewing people and saying would it have affected the way you voted if had known about hunter biden's suppression? and people said yeah. maybe. so there was that poll that said 5% or 18% would have voted a different way. i don't remember the number it. would have affected the election. >> steve: good for david barber for cnbc that asked that question that got that answer. >> brian: he didn't expect that answer. what conspiracy theorist stories are true like the laptops that not sitting down talking to mr. levin. is he not a conservative thinker. you don't know th

the irs opened a tax investigation into journalist matt taibbi on christmas eve of last year. it was a saturday. three weeks after he exposed documents showing government officials pressuring twitter to censor content. on his twitter account yesterday, taibbi said the details came from a new letter to the irs commissioner by house judiciary chair jim jordan. the journalist said the move was meant to intimidate. listen. >> this is quite brazen, what they're doing. i mean, they had to know that this was going to the come out. also visiting me on my, at my home on the day i'm testifying before congress. that shows you that they're probably not terribly worried about the optics of all this, which i think is even more concerning. >> reporter: the sensitive documents taibbi exposed came from the state department, the pentagon and the cia. for its part, the irs told the committee it was trying to insure the reporter wasn't a victim of identity theft. and that they had tried to contact him earlier by letter. now, taibbi said neither he nor his accountant received those letters. house

. >> we will introduce today's witness matt taibbi a journalist and author. he previously worked for "rolling stone" that right-wing publication "rolling stone" were so many republicans work at and he's written several books about american politics and culture and as i pointed out and "the wall street journal" pointed out yesterday on the front page was named by the ftc -- michael shellenberger is a journalist and one of the authors of the twitter files and cofounded several non-profits including a breakthrough it as a environmental progress in a california peace coalition another right-wing republican organization or his work focuses on crime and drug policies homelessness and climate. we welcome our witnesses and thank them for appearing today and we will begin by swear you in. please stand raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm under the penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give this his chair and correct to the best of your knowledge so help you got? that the record show both eyewitnesses have answered in the affirmative. thank you

the enforcement action, the most recent outrageous example of this, journalist matt taibbi was testifying before the house committee, the weaponization of government, the day he was testifying, and irs agent ends up showing up at his home. how common is that? i find a lot of tax returns, never had an irs agent shall but my home or my place of business. how unusual is it to have an irs agent show up, anybody's taxpayer home. the issue with tax returns. >> i want to repeat something i said. >> a general question. and the tax return. >> for all taxpayers to see what they can expect from the irs in terms of when we might call you, when a home visit might occur. it is something we want to make sure taxpayers have understanding of. mostly if the irs is reaching out to you it is not the irs. as part of -- >> this is pretty well-documented, irs agent showed up, put a note on mister taibbi app stores, called him and four days which he did, explained what the situation is. i find that unbelievably unusual. i'm asking you as irs commissioner, does that happen often? how unusual is that, that an irs