stephen kohn, welcome back to "democracy now!"out this unprecedented award to brad birkenfeld who has just gotten out of jail. >> well, it is the largest whistleblower award in history, but birkenfeld turned in the largest financial fraud. he turned in 19,000 felons and $20 billion in one unit. but we also know 33,000 people are turning themselves in, and the total amount of u.s. dollars in illegal offshore accounts is over $5 trillion. that is the estimatedestimation. the irs tried to change the dynamic when the justice department prosecuted by the birkenfeld and one of the most absurd and misguided efforts, they took a person who turned in the keys to the kingdom, the first whistleblower to expose exactly how the legal swiss banking work and illegal offshore banking was working across the world, and instead of using him, the persecuted him. the irs now is turning that around. the irs -- i think one of the reasons they had to give such a big award is because they need informants. they need other bankers to step forward. with the