host: jim on our line for , with nina olson.r: if we eliminated the had aal income tax, and small transaction tax instead, maybe 1% or less, every single transaction, even on wall street , stocks, bonds, the rich will naturally pay more because their transactions are bigger and more of them. with this computer technology now, the tax can be applied and taken immediately on every transaction. individuals will have more and all this filing and everything else. information is out there. what is wrong with a small transaction tax on everything? ideas like that are very interesting and if congress and the administration ever get around to looking at cumberland's of tax reform, i think all ideas should be on the table. there are people who talk about transaction tax who have a and a salesalue tax tax. what rate with that have to be? you look at other countries and some of the models i have seen, i do not do the work itself. i do tax administration and try to make sure taxpayers are treated fairly and decently under the law. but we hav

nina olson? >> yeah. you know, we see in my office the taxpayer advocate service so many cases of this back and forth and back and forth. i want to say a few things about customer service. i mean, i try to talk to my employees this way. the irs is the most power creditor in the united states if not the world and, you know, it holds the power to really harm people's lives. and with great power you have to have great courtesy and great care how you use it. and you have to give the taxpayers of the united states the feeling that the irs is not going to come down with a sledge hammer on you if you've just made a little mistake like lost a receipt. i've always felt audit is not about assessing more taxes or giving a refun. it is about educating the taxpayer or educating the system that the irs learns something, that it didn't know. it missed something or the taxpayer learns what they did wrong. and this then can go forward and be compliant going forward. and the way you approach taxpayers is to give them the b

then irs taxpayer advocate nina olson will take calls and kweps about your filing options and this year's tax topics. watch live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >>> tonight on c-span3, today's pentagon briefing with defense secretary ashton carter and joint chiefs of staff chair general joseph dunford. a look at the water contamination in flint, michigan. a house appropriations subcommittee meeting on the president's budget request for the general services administration. defense secretary ashton carter and joseph dunford briefed reporters on the latest strategy to defeat isis. including a new ability by dod to disrupt the use of the internet. from the pentagon, this is 45 minutes. >> listen, thank you. can everybody hear me? thanks for being here. chairman and i really appreciate your being here. look forward to talking to you, both of us this morning. i will start. i just had the solemn honor of laying a wreath at the african-american civil war memorial here in washington honoring the 200,000 african-american soldiers and sailors who served in the u

irs taxpayer nina olson will take your calls and questions about your filing options in this year's tax topics. be sure tax topics. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live beginning seven eastern. during the discussion. [inaudible] speemac@washington post.com, this is the headline of the republican party's implosion over republican party's implosion over donald trump's candidacy has arrived. joining us from georgia, thank you for being with us. >> anytime you have the first sentence of your story including enclosure and and questions whether they can come together this election year's spells trouble for the gop, can you explain. >> the. >> is a historical moment within the republican party, anything unlike unlike i've seen in the post- george w. bush era. a chaos and division between the grassroot conservative who are backing donald trump were unhappy about illegal immigration or elite side of the party at the trump and they're not now at odds with each other keeping with presidential process aware watching in real time as a major political party implodes on itself. >> we co

then irs tax payer advocate nina olson will take your calls and questions about your filings options and this year's tax topi topics. be sure to watch "washington journal" live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >>> the presidential race moves forward now with super tuesday. all eyes are on 12 states as the republican and democratic candidates try to increase their delegate count. right now, hillary clinton has a large lead over her democratic opponent, senator bernie sanders, with 544 delegates. donald trump currently leads the republican field with 82. >> at washington post.com this is the headline of the republican party's implosion over donald trump's candidacy has arrived. joining us from atlanta, georgia is robert costa, who is following the story for this super tuesday eve. thanks very much for being with us. >> great to join you. >> any time you have the first sentence of your story including the word implosion and questions among the republican leadership whether they can come together this election year spells trouble for the gop. can you

taxpayer advocate, nina olson, will take your calls and questions about your filing options and this year's tax topics. be sure to washington c-span's "washington journal" live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow morning. join the discussion. >> a look now at republican party strategies for attracting latino voters. this is part of the american university latino public affairs forum. analyzing the immact of the latino electorate on the 2016 presidential election. this discussion is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> we are ready to begin. f people can get settled in. i'd like to welcome everybody. if i can get people's attention. i'd like to welcome everybody to the second annual latino public affairs forum here at american university. i'm delighted we are convenienting this forum for presidentialp studies in the school of public affairs whose director will say a couple words of welcome in a moment. but who has been extraordinarily supportive as always. our two centers are committed to foster state-of-the-art research on topics that fit within our mandate. latin american and latino