david: holding the irs accountable for bad behavior. duced in the senate aimed at doing just that. senator mike enzi, one of the cosponsors of those bills joins us now. senator, you write in a "washington examiner" op-ed i like ad lot, if kids learn bad behavior has consequences why can't the irs? is there really no accountability there? >> it appears there isn't. we had people who were rehired after misconduct or poor performance so bad that their folder was marked, do not rehire. david: unbelievable. by the way we put up a graphic about that. 213 people in one year at the irs who were fired for apparently good reasons, for legitimate reasons, were rehired. what does that tell you? >> it tells us we're not holding them accountable like i expect my kids or grandkids to be held accountable. so senator burr and i put together two bills. one of them prohibits the irs commissioner from rehiring people who have been fired for cause. and the second bill, kind of lists the causes. and i have listed those. threatening an audit for personal gain.

sweeney and james of the fbi and the irs. and the agents who work for them. we do many cases with them and their fair dealings and what they do is inspirational i cannot express the gratitude for the hard work they did in this case. that's assisting the united states attorney and rachel i kate move on and on they are satisfied with being public servants. thank you again. >> can they tell you for a candidate? >> coming up wednesday morning, the host of the online program they discuss the progressive presidency. then and will join us to talk about resistance and how the trump haiti left lost its collective mind. . . who waged a secret japan. abdicating overlord about how the allies land the d-day invasion. you are watching special tuesday night edition of a tv on c-span2. at the fdr library in hyde park new york, gives college professor susan dunn talked about u.s. efforts to mobilize for world war ii. she is the author of "a bleprint for war" about the first 100 days of the roosevelt administration. his 45 minute event was part of the roosevelt reading festiva

just like out the poem it was the irs that finally caught up with tom pendergast and was indicted 1939. he went to jail at leavenworth the federal penitentiary and pendergast was nothing and he died of natural causes. truman came to his funeral he just became vice president and came to his funeral during wartime on a military plane and then this controversy. and then week later he dies and truman is president of the united states. so truman so what we are trying to do is complicate that history and i've done that a little bit with this interview but we are building a website that will include currently we have 9500 scams with letters they had written to one another and it is an interactive website to combine with new scholarship so we reached out in 2015 to 18 different professors that were professionals or historians to produce? there are new ideas or topics that have not been explored in any type of depth. we are taking website versions and those would go on the website. >> so element that looks something like this. when the graphics are finished. we have eight or nine different cate

this was a deliberate effort -- she was in and out of the irs, why does the head of the irs need to beout of the white house dozens of time. the communication, collusion between the white house and the irs was constant and -- and showed up in behavior, there was no -- also the irs remember would take the list that you can contribute to naacp privately because back in 50's the court ruled bad people were trying to get to the national association, ncaap to go after donors and they said those are secret, they are legally secret so you don't harass donors. ashley: we will have to leave it there grover. i'm sorry, it is very unsatisfying, i guess you can put it to rest for now but horrible dark mark in history what that episode was. grover rhenquist we appreciate it. the market is been up 20 minutes for now, the dow up 57 points, gaining a little bit of momentum, 25,369. coming up next, we have a guest that says he knows thousand save endangered species. he will take a cue from what the american bison, he started eating them. we will explain after this. retail. under pressure like never bef

that was bad enough, but only later when i read your book that i found out the fbi, irs with the next thing. >> the story i heard was it was very keen in a beverly hills steakhouse and very trendy at the time because a whole gaggle of hollywood stars and walked into the restaurant. fbi agents and irs agents aren't necessarily used to that sort of thing, so i think they had trouble paying attention to conversations. [laughter] so in answer to your question, how did i put it all together. the first draft was about 60% or 70% longer than the final draft. even before that come a moment where i was in the basement of the national library in argentina going through newspapers from 1978 trying to learn as much as i could about a world cup the list in the of being very problematic. i thought to myself, how the heck am i ever going to tell the story? there's so many characters in so many moving parts. ultimately, the answer was a lot of cutting and a lot of just removing material that seemed extraneous. i had an editor who is of the old school. so old-school that he edits with pencil and ups v

the attorney general's office passed on evidence for a possible irs investigation to determine if donaldself may have broken federal tax laws. mark owens ran the nonprofit division of the irs for 10 years. >> the evidence that the new york attorney general has collected suggests close to conclusively that the donald trump foundation was used to support and facilitate donald trump's political campaign. >> the attorney general's complaint lists other examples of trump foundation self dealing including paying off a $100,000 lawsuit settlement with a notation in the president's own handwrite think. the veteran's charity seems the most egregious. >> donald trump handed over the keys to his charitable foundation to his plolitical ca pain. >> here did not address the irs case and focuses on a politically motivated unfounded prosecution. he said the president's foundation raised and donated over $19 million to charitable causes, operated with little to no expenses and states virtually every penny raised went exactly where it should, to support those most in need. as for politics, we have been un

and in a letter to the irs commissioner, the attorney general's office passed on its evidence for a possibletigation to determine if donald trump's foundation and donald trump himself may have broken federal tax laws. mark owens ran the nonprofit division of the irs for ten years. >> the evidence that the new york attorney general has collected suggests very strongly and in fact i would say close to conclusively that the donald trump foundation was used to support, to facilitate donald trump's political campaign. >> the attorney general complaint lists other examples of trump foundation self dealing, including paying off a $100,000 lawsuit settlement with a notation in the president's own handwriting. but it is the veteran's charity stunt that seems the most egregious. >> donald trump basically handed over the keys to his charitable foundation to his political campaign. >> trump foundation attorney did not address a possible irs case, instead focused on what he believes is a politically motivated, unfounded prosecution by new york's attorney general. in a statement, he tells cnn the presiden

commissioner david cotter, the attorney general's office has passed on its evidence for a possible irsnvestigation to determine if donald trump's foundation and donald trump himself may have broken federal tax laws. mark owens ran the nonprofit division of the irs for ten years. >> the evidence that the new york attorney general has collected suggests very strongly and in fact i would say close to conclusively that the donald trump foundation was used to support, to facilitate donald trump's political campaign. >> reporter: the attorney general's complaint lists other examples of trump foundation self-dealing, including paying off a $100,000 lawsuit settlement with a notation in the president's own handwriting. but it's the veterans charity stunt that seems the most egregious. daniel borokov is head of charity watch. >> donald trump basically handed over the keys to his charitable foundation to his political campaign. >> trump foundation attorney did not address a possible irs case and focused on what he believes is a politically motivated unfounded prosecution by new york's attorney g

and the irs or elsewhere would know he had income for spending, the guilty man and steve barryman has magic power only irs agents could have, fbi agents can't do that. it is a huge obstacle, they need someone from the irs without order of a judge, they explain 5 times that i don't understand it but if they get a judge's order to look at tax return without an irs, it is impossible to charge them with tax crimes, he sees this and goes bingo, never paid taxes. it is another to never file. and jack warner, him -- they are best friends who ended up at odds with each other. and the british investigative journalist doesn't know what it means and puts it out there. the irs agencies it and notices looking at the magnifying glass but back in the check he photocopied and scanned on the internet, the cancellation market was merrill lynch. usually sent the text to the caribbean with secret accounts but he sent it to his broker at merrill lynch and this -- he could subpoena merrill lynch and get all the guys that interact to build a case with that income. because it was merrill lynch in the cayman

. - you owed a lot of money to the irs. - 32 million. and his personal life-- off the rails.ling on the road is not healthy for marriages. harvey: there's a story about shirley. somebody sent her the invoice for the birth of a baby. not her baby, but your baby. but willie changed his life and turned things around, save for one indulgence. you had a house that was burning down, and you ran in to save two things. what were they? - trigger. - yeah. and a big bag of weed that was really good ( bleep ). willie nelson, one of country music's greatest icons. willie, i cannot thank you enough for doing this on your tour bus. thank you so much. it's nice meeting you. my pleasure. you, too. you, too. and the idea of talking to willie nelson on 4/20 is a particular honor. well, how about it? yeah. - on your tour bus. - we're still here. yeah. i wanna understand how you became this prolific, amazing guy, and i wanna start with childhood. tell me what this is. well, that's a picture of me and my sister bobbie, who still plays piano with us every night, and she and i have played a lot of m

the teaated story, party groups successfully sued for being the irs unduly harassed years ago. at kind of investigation took place? it was run by the same people who botched the russian collusion story. i was never big on the conspiracy theories, but there this left-wing viewpoint in the fbi that refused to investigate the irs scandal. drain the swamp is an appropriate comment. he should lose his secret clearance and so should the rest of the clowns. if they are not doing government work, get out. i think it is simple. i appreciate the time. host: let's go to david calling from detroit, michigan on the democrat line. caller: thank you for allowing me to express my opinions on this. trump really is transparent. i think we give him too much credit and we assume he is a clever guy -- he is very transparent. i will tell you why. he said right from the beginning "i love the poorly educated." he never took his foot off the pedal with that. i listen to these people who support trump, it's very thatus, it is very clear these are poorly educated people and it is scary because they play i

in a letter, the attorney general office has passed on its evidence for a possible irs investigation umps foundation and donald trump himself may have broken federal tax laws. mark owens ran it for ten years. >> the evidence that the new york attorney general has collected suggests very strongly. in fact i would say close to conclusively that the donald trump foundation was used to support two facilitate. his campaign. >> the attorney general complaint lists other examples of trump foundation self-dealing including paying off a $100,000 lawsuit settlement with a notation in president the's handwriting. it's the veterans charity stunt that sees the most egregious. >> donald trump handed over the keys to his chartable foundation to his political campaign. >> trump foundation attorney did not address a possible irs case. and instead focussed on what he believes is a politically motiva motivated, unfounded prosecution. he says the president's foundation raised and donated $19 million to charity causes. operated with little to no expenses and every penny raised went exactly where it should

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we have breaking news when it comes to the irs. scinating because it is something the state of new york, new jersey, connecticut, have been following. what the irs has done has blocked -- moving to block the state taxrt cap. they were offered away to pay into -- joe: i wonder if this is a lot of bloomberg readers. scarlet: we will have this story in just a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton with first word news. cautionsnistrators there is a lot of uncertainty with forecast regarding hurricane lane. the storm is expected to have a major impact on the hawaiian islands. the winds are now clocked at 130 miles per hour. >> i watched a lot of forecasts in my life and anytime you see a 90 degree turn to the west over the next 48 to 72 hours, there is a lot of uncertainty. what is for sure is that hawaii will be impacted by hurricane lane. the question is how bad. right now, the system is setting up to be a significant rain event. mark: officials say more than 30 inches of rain are possible in some areas

one with the irs and the other with the aclu. the aclu came out in the courthouse, which are church but in our courthouse in the other with the irs censoring what can and cannot be said in churches and nonprofit with threat of losing status and of course the back bone of battle, but always challenging the irs. and what's interesting what happened, what happened in that particular, our church was filled with every media you can think of. i mean all of them. nancy pelosi's daughter was there. she was doing a documentary for hbo. i preached a sermon on two presidential candidates and from the pulpit endorsed one, urged our people not to vote for the other and lights and clicks and flashes went off in the next they have sent a copy of the sermon to the irs and along with the letter and said here's what i did. i'm not trying to hide anything, but i don't believe i'm violating the law. i challenge you to come after me. the other 32 bit something similar. the irs did not think they got together and said let's do it again. the freedom su

it is an accountability issue that raises the ire and concern. if there was accountability, then these issues would not raise the kind of protests and the ire that one speaks. i have to push back on this false stereotype, this false stereotype that every african-american doesn't have an education, every african-american is born of an unwed mother, and try to create a pejorative image of black america. that is not true. we have an incredible, the highest high school graduation rates in black america in american history. that happened under the bomb. .- president obama we have one of the highest college matriculation rates among young african-americans than ever before. it is a myth there are more african-americans in jail than in college, african-american men in jail than colleges. that is a myth and it is not true. i have to address some of the caller's points are based on stereotypes and myths that simply do not hold up to the facts. since we work in this space and look at these numbers, and our organization is immersed in the community, i always

but his cooperation in special counsel roshl mule -- robert mueller's investigation drew the ire of the president. >>> and rememb blake left for high school in san mateo on monday morning. his truck went off skyline boulevard, hit a tree, and fell about 45 feet down an embankment. today students wrote letters to him and decorated his locker with stickers and his picture to honor his life. a prayer service was held at the school. the school's administrators says black will be remembered as a kind and caring young man. it's not clear what caused the crash. drugs and alcohol were not factors. >>> and attempting to make the justice system equal for the rich and poor. california is getting rid of cash bail for people awaiting trial. opponents are gearing up for a fight. >> reporter: the bill was signed by the governor yesterday and it will replace the current cash bail system with a risk assessment system. the exact details on that are yet to be determined. the governor says this is the way for the rich and the poor to be treated equally. local judges will be deciding who can leaf jail befor

what if you thought you would be audited by the irs or have your business boycotted? k about irony, kimberly stroferl literal solid discussing free speech and she is se censored talking about free speech. ed: saying the president is stifling tuvment. rachel: facebook says we mistakenly removed these videos and restored them because they don't break our standard. any reduction in contented distribution have you experienced we are very sorry and continuing to look into what happened with your page. like you said, todd, seems like they are issuing an apology just about every week. these videos don't seem that controversial. todd: george will talking about baseball u run. ed: national past time. do not talk about that. to have haded to we want your comments friends at friends@foxnews.com. what do you think about the censoring of prager university. it continues on. turning to headlines we begin with a fox news alert. former secretary general of the u.n. kofi annan has passed away. he died peacefully at hospitals in switzerland after a short illness. first black african to t

what this did, wolf, it essentially lowered his taxes when we reported this to the irs. one of the accountants who was on the stand today described exactly how this was done, to deceive some of the banks that paul manafort was doing business with. again, part of what he is facing here are charges of bank fraud. so, again, this is central to that case. and of course now that we've heard from one of the account t accountants who is saying that they participated in what the government says was a conspiracy, we're beginning to see really what the government is trying to do here, which is that these people were helping paul manafort hide money from the government, lying to the banks in the process, wolf. >> it was intriguing, some of those residences were in trump tower in new york city. and i suspect that's something that they're looking at as well. what do we expect to hear from rick gates, who was the long-time deputy to paul manafort? deputy trump campaign chairman when he eventually testifies. he is cooperating with mueller. >> right, exactly. he was given a deal with the

chief justice roberts found a way for the irs to win. but there is a major question exception to chevron deference. in the net neutrality regulation, judge kavanaugh confronted the major questions doctrine and embraced it as he should. he said this applies here as well regulating the internet in , this way is not -- is a major political and economic question and congress has not spoken clearly. we are not going to defer to the agency. we will decide this ourselves. he took it a step further and not only did you not get chevron deference from judge kavanaugh. you would say you wouldn't even have the authority to regulate unless there were a clear statement from congress to the contrary. that is the second way in which you might see justice kavanagh narrowing the chevron deference. the third, i won't spend as much time on it is fascinating. i would encourage you to go read the story lecture that he delivered last fall that they published in january. there he explains a deeper concern with chevron deference with it being misapplied and sugge

i-r-s money next year.that's about 3-million more than before the tax cuts were signed into law and the irs issued new tax withholding rules...but the i-r-s says there's still time to make changes.the i-r-s is encouraging taxpayers to head to its website.....and use this withholding calculator...to see..based on your current withholding...if you'll owe money or get a refund.oregon senator ron wyden accuses the trump administration of purposely misleading americans about the tax cuts..."be very careful, making more money now, you're going to have under withholding."the i-r-s says it's wants to work with taxpayers to clear up any confusion.and the tax man is encouraging you to call or write or log-in to the irs if you have any questions.in washington, i'm mark meredith. and we are following breaking news tonight. a live interview on a fire burning in martinez in next. baby boomers, here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don't even know it. a virus that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for year

the irs said, no, you cannot do that. affects the red states, where this has been happening in georgia, south carolina and arizona where you can donate to private schools and get a deduction on your federal return. so a lot of people basically upset about this. both in the high tax states like new york, as well as the lower tax states where the credits were very popular. david: we have heard a lot of talk about this, the tax reform bill was passed last december, but are many people doing it? are they really doing this? laura: right now, the terrible conservation work around was the most popular 1 -- the charitable work around was the most popular one. both new york and connecticut have options. in new york, it is an optional system that employers can opt into and pay state taxes for their employees. it seems that that is legal. but it also means employers might lower wages to make up for pain those taxes, which is -- paying those taxes, which is not popular. in connecticut, it is a mandatory program, but for a small set of

the irs and the treasury were very careful to do this in such a way that it really won't hurt some of charitable contributions, such as tuition plans and things like that. so those will be okay. it's the salt work-arounds that are going to be declared improper and nullified. >> i wasn't necessarily surprised by the move by treasury, this is the move of the tax plan and the reason they changed the rules. >> exactly. >> at the same time, these are already high-tax states and not all wealthy individuals that live in the states, hit by high state taxes. the salt deduction was even for the middle class of new york, let's use new york as an example. that was a good thing for the middle class folks and that's been taken away. doesn't this mean that the states have to now figure out a way to cut down on their expenses, their spending, their bloat, if you will? >> up until now, they've been able to pass along the taxes to the federal government through the state and local tax deduction, now they have to rethink that. now taxpayers have to feel much more of that burden and so states will have t

but chief justice roberts found a way for the irs to win. but there is a major question exception to chevron deference. in the net neutrality regulation, judge kavanaugh confronted the major questions doctrine and embraced it, as he should. he said this applies here as well. regulating the internet in this way is not -- is a major political and economic question . congress has not spoken clearly. we will not defer to the agencies. we will decide this ourselves. if we had more time, i would explain -- he took it a step further and not only did you not get chevron deference, you would say the agency wouldn't even have the authority to regulate unless there were a clear statement to the contrary. that is the second wave you might have justice kavanaugh narrowing chevron deference. i would encourage you to go read the story lecture that he heritage foundation published in january. there he explains a deeper concern with chevron deference with it being misapplied and suggests that we should narrow it and only allow for difference -- deference when

sweeney and james rodna of the fbi and the irs. and the agents who work for them. we do many, many cases with them. and their determination and their fair dealing and their vigor with which they pursue the cases is inspirational. to the prosecutors in my office, i cannot express the gratitude for the hard work that they did in this case. and that is assist the united states attorneys griz wold and maman and mckay and the deputy chief of the public corruption unit and russell capone, the chief of the public corruption unit. for all of these people, i could go on and on about their many virtues and talents but the one important thing is they all are satisfied with being known as public servants, prosecutors and law enforcement agents who are doing their job. thank you very much. >> can they tell us who the candidate is? >> all right. there you have the deputy u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york in manhattan right there. robert kuzani saying michael cohen pled guilty. unlawful campaign contributions in his words and he will pay according to the deputy

know, nixon was trying to -- his enemies list was looking at the -- you know, who -- how we can sic the irst violence towards journalists because of the way donald trump talks about the fake news media, being disgusting, the enemy of the people. he's embarrassing us internationally. but worse, i think journalists are starting to feel threatened by his presidency. >> as a historian, to hear the president of the united states refer to the press as an enemy of the people, has that ever happened before? >> it's horrific. i mean, you know, nixon, i mentioned, kept an enemies list, and was starting to go after people, but he is really trying to incite violence against reporters. how else can you interpret it? if they're the enemy, you're supposed to stamp out the enemy. and he doubles down on it, plays games with it, thinks it's funny. and so i think we have a big problem with donald trump's -- it's because he's not a reader in the end, but his misunderstanding of even what the role of journalism is in our constitution, the first amendment. >> so, morton, you were actually on president nixon's en

. >> the irs. also, the prosecutors from the united states attorney's office from the southern district of new york who prosecuted, i will have a brief statement and will not be taking any questions. today, as you heard, michael cohen pled guilty to eight felony charges. five of those dealt with tax evasion for the years 2012- 20, he failed to report $1.4 million in part in income. approximately $2.5 million that money was from interest payments from personal loan that he failed to report, $1.3 million of that money was from the operation of that medallion business. $100,000 of that money was from brokerage commissions, over $200,000 was from consulting fees. that is over $4.3 million, over a five-year period which translates into a loss to the nicest treasury of approximately $1.3 million. in addition, in count six, mr. cohen pled guilty to false statements from a financial institution in connection with an application for a home equity line of credit. in that application, he failed to disclose mor

yesterday gates admitted he falsified financialts docum and hid millions of dollars from the irs and also testified he stole from manafort wle working for him. >>> this morning the little league team takes the field in connecticut. >> the d.c. team takes on the berlin little league team. the team lost its first game of the regional tournament this pastd. weeken our entire area, including the washington nationals isng roo for the team. all of these young players are part of the nats youthaseball community. >>> the team is the first ever n predtly black little league team to advance to the regionals. the game is on espn this morning. > we want them to make it to bristol. >> yes. it's 4:36 right now. still ahead a brawl at a beauty salon. we'll tell you which trement sparked this scene. >>> investigatingfter having a baby, a mother'skills called to queinst add the activia 2 week probiotic challenge to your healthy routine and see how activirt with its billions of live and active probiotics may help support ur digestive healthf live and active probiotics so you can take on your day. start

manafort obviously does not have to, but if his lawyers wanted to bring up he has never been audited by the irs, that would be the way to do it. that is what the defense team wants. prosecutors sn s now say they w call rick gates to the stand. paul manafort's right-hand man during the campaign. gates pleaded guilty and is now cooperating with the special counsel. finally, paul manafort's bookkeeper testified that sure, he may have made millions, but by 2016 he was flat broke and maxed out the credit line. the bookkeeper said that manafort and gates were sending out fake inflated business statements to banks to get loans. that gets to the heart of the bank fraud case. the government keeping hammering home the lifestyle details. a landscaper talk about how much paul manafort paid him. $500,000 for the upkeep of hundreds of flowers and the landscaper called the largest personal pond in the hamptons section of long island. paul manafort spent $2.2 million on home entertainment technology. including $10,000 on a karaoke system. a lot of details prosecutors packed in. we will hear more from his accou

sweeney and james robned of the irs and the agents who work for them. we do many cases with them. and their determination and their fair dealing and their vigor with which they pr suh their cases is really inspirational. to the prosecutors in my office, i cannot express the gratitude for the hard work they did in this case. assistant united states attorneys andrea griswold and nick roose and tom mckay as well as the deputy chief of the public corruption unit and russell capone, the chief of the public corruption unit. for all of these people, i could go on and on about their many virtues and fanlts talentalents are satisfied with simply being known as public servants, prosecutors and law enforcement agents who are doing their job. thank you very much. >> that was robert kazami. he is the deputy u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york there. you heard him lay it all out. but there's a big sort of meatball hanging out there on the plea deal. we all know what michael cohen -- what the government has essentially offered not to do now and what michael cohen has offered in e

no.ushes him down and he americ he preserved health insurance for millions of americans and f invoked the ire of conservative republicans who will never forgive him for that moment. it. it was one of the proudest and most courageous moment in the history of the senate. i was beere honored to be here n have a chance a chance to thank him personally that night. tha i also i also remember when you came to the floor speak andce. remind us all of us why we ran for this great t office sure tof title like senator but it isch much more not only in honor but a challenge for us to do something with this title to solve the problems that face this country i didn't always agree with john but i always respected the fact you wanted the senate to be an institution serving the people in this country and solving problems that we face. john was principled and when we courageous there were times when we had differences and i can agt recall when he came to illinois a campaigning on behalf of a state enesid john supporter for president he returned the favor by campaigning against me.chn you might wonder in this wo

sweeney and james rodnet of the fbi and the irs and the agents who work for them. we do many, many cases with them, and their determination and their fair dealing and their vigor with which they pursue their cases is inspirational to the prosecutors in my office i cannot express the gratitude for the hard work that they did in this case and that is assisting the united states attorneys andrea griswald and rick gruss, and rachel, and the deputy chief of the public corruption unit and russell capone, the cheap of the public corruption unit. for all of these people, i can go on and on about their many virtues and talent, but the one important thing is they all are satisfied with simply being known as public servants and prosecutors and law enforcement agents who are doing their job thank you very much. >> new york attorney robert kazami there in lower manhattan. an incredible confluence of events, two men within the space of an hour have been found guilty of federal law and both will be going to federal prison. for more, let's bring back in editor-at-large john harwoo

so just like al capone it was the irs that finally caught up with tom pendergast. in 1939 he went to jail at leavenworth. pendergast was nothing by this point, by 1945 and pendergast died of natural causes. truman came to his funeral so truman who just became vice president came to the funeral of tom pendergast during wartime on a military plane. a bit of controversy and a week later roosevelt died and truman was present in the united states. so truman could never completely distance himself from his bed around with the machine. he owned it. he said that pendergast always kept his word and he wasn't going to end his friendship paid what we are trying to do is complicate that history. i've done a little bit of that in this interview but we are building a web site that will include -- currently we have about 9500 scans of original documents. we have photographs letters written to one another back then i mentioned the court cases that unveiled voter fraud is a crime and an interactive web site that will combine the original documents with a new scholarship so we reach

the fbi, the irs investigating the bank fraud and other possible crimes related to his taxi medallion business. this is why this case is being handled here out of new york and is not part of the mueller investigation. these are his separate business dealings and questions of whether he broke any laws regarding bank fraud and tax fraud. "the new york times" this weekend reported that it involves bank fraud totaling close to $20 million. that's being looked at by prosecutors and the fbi. so that is ongoing. but what is newsworthy here today is the timing. we've known that there's been talks ongoing for weeks. the issue now is it all may be coming to a head today in lower manhattan. we'll know more within the next hour or two, whether they have formally reached a deal. or if not, if it falls apart, then it's our understanding from several sources reporting, sarah fitzpatrick and tom winter, prosecutors would then attempt to move forward with an indictment and just charge him in the days or perhaps week ahead. but as of now, the goal, we are told, is for the two sides to reach a guilty pl

one was with the irs, and the other with the aclu. politics to this point, the aclu came after us for a copy of the 10 commandments in the courthouse, which our church put in the courthouse and the other was the irs censoring what can and can't be said in churches and nonprofits with threat of losing tax-exempt status, and, of course, the alliance for defending freedom was the backbone of that battle but i was one of 33 pastors across the nation that challenged the irs, and, actually -- [applause] >> what's interesting, what happened, in that particular battle, our church was filled with every meeting could you think of, all of them. nancy pelosi's daughter was there. she was doing a documentary for hbo. from the pulpit, endorsed one, urged our people not to vote for the other, and lights and clicks and flashes went out. but then the next day i actually sent a copy of that sermon to the irs, and along with a letter and said, here's what i did. i'm not trying to hide anything. but i don't believe i've violated the law. i believe your j

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gates who failed to disclose the earnings to the irs. gates the exampled to testify against manafort during the trial. manafort could still try to plead guilty and cooperate with special counsel. also at any time, the president hoz the power to pardon him. >>> president trump seemed to defend manafort on twitter this morning, saying, looking back on history, who was treated worse, mob boss, killer, and public enemy nub one, number one, or paul manafort, serving solitary con finalment and -- confinement and convicted of nothing. and he called on the attorney general to squash the russia investigation. he wrote this is a terrible situation and jeff sessions should stop the witch hunt right now. bob mueller is conflicted and 17 angry democrats doing the dirty work are a disgrace. robert mueller is a republican as is his boss. the president has long railed the administtion separation of families is third and final day of a hunger strike outside the federal building in oakland. they're angry the families still have not been reunited. they'll b

according to the government, well very simple to hide that income from the irs. not complicated. if it is proven, it would be tax evasion. the big price of the day came from the judge asked the prosecutor why he was using a particular witness to introduce a document. the judge said why are we, are you going to, your going to offer mr. gates, aren't you? >> had been described as many observers as the prosecution's star witness. to help sort through the cases fast second day, joined by nick ackerman. and news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian. >> much to the annoyance to prosecutors, judge ts ellis likes to make himself a part of the theater. luxury goods paid for by wire transfers. and as you said, this is money that prosecutors say he parked there to avoid taxes. he then used it to pay for example a million dollars, a million dollars for suits over a period of four years. $3 million paid to a contractor who is doing various improvement to his hampton vacation homes. and trying to get in evidence of his luxurious life styles. the judge was pushing back for th

i-r-s money next year.that's about 3-million more than before the tax cuts were signed into law and the irsssued new tax withholding rules...but the i-r-s says there's still time to make changes.the i-r-s is encouraging taxpayers to head to its website.....and use this withholding calculator...to see..based on your current withholding...if you'll owe money or get a refund.oregon senator ron wyden accuses the trump administration of purposely misleading americans about the tax cuts..."be very careful, becasue in their effort to make it look like they're making more money now, you're going to have under withholding."the i-r-s says it's wants to work with taxpayers to clear up any confusion.and the tax man is encouraging you to call or write or log-in to the irs if you have any questions.in washington, i'm mark meredith. (live) taking a live look outside at san francisco's embarcadero.... (anchor) time now to check on our weather... with meterologist mabrisa rodriguez. an upper disturbance will dig into northern california by tomorrow and kick off a modest cooling trend in the bay area in the

give that kind of information to his accountant if he was trying to conceal that information from the irs. so the court says so he now wants to provide evidence for the jury that says look, there is a trail in these documents that could lead to the truth in that. that seems like a pretty flimsy argument. >> i agree with you. the person sitting next to me said, wow, if that's the best argument you've got, he's in big trouble. the facts were that paul manafort had disclosed to his accountant the names of some of these entities that he controlled, but he told them that they were clients, not that they were his own entities. so it's about three steps removed that he's disclosing this and doing this crime in broad daylight. so if that is the best argument that they have, i agree with this spectator that they are in some trouble. >> it does seem to -- remember, this is a mueller prosecution. we've got all of that lurking in the background. this is adjacent to the case, it doesn't have to do with the trump campaign, doesn't have to do with collusion, that's been very clear both in terms of what

defense wants to say that there was all these issues with manafort, then why wasn't he audited by the irsthe other thing here quickly is that this case is moving quickly. >> yeah. >> we can see it wrapped up by the end of next week. prosecutors ors intend to rest r case. we will see if there are witnesses who testify on behalf of manafort. >> it's moving really fast. thanks so much. >>> let's talk about this with defense attorney who represented rick gates for a time and a former federal prosecutor, shan wu. you worked with gates for a while. if you were working with manafort, would you put him on the stand? >> that's the million dollar question for defense counsel. i am reluctant to put a client on the stand. it's pressure for any witness, much less a criminal defendant. i would really have to kind of vet him to see how he comes across that way. it may be though the only chance they have to humanize him to the jury. right now, actually, it's very early in the trial. i think things are going well for the defense at the moment. >> i can't tell if it's early or towards the end it. it's movi

the irs allowed tax information to be used for political purposes. lyndon johnson ordered the cia to spy on antiwar protestors believing that the soviets or chinese had to be behind it because he could not wrap his mind around the idea that american students were on their own so deeply opposed to his policies. particularly with so much weight behind civil rights and the great society programs. it has to be the soviets, it has to be the chinese directing these students. this is a direct violation of the charter which prohibits domestic intelligence operations. the name of the operation, operation chaos, it's like they're not even trying to hide how nefarious this is. it's 300,000 names with indepth files and 700,000 people. no evidence found for any of them. not entirely related to our class but nonetheless worth noting, also reveals things like the cia conducted drug experiments on citizens and infill rated religious and media and academics in the united states and efforts to assassinate foreign political leaders. this was a gun that was supposed to g

with that no vote, he preserved health insurance for millions of americans, and he invoked the ire of conservative republicans who will never forgive him for that moment. it was one of the proudest, most courageous votes and moments in the history of the senate. i was honored to be here and have a chance to thank him personally that night. i remember when you came to the floor and spoke at the desk which is now bearing the vase of roses in tribute to john mccain and reminded all of us why we run for this office. sure, it's a great title but in a lot of americans never get close to a title like united states senator. it's john mccain and too many of us it's much much more. it's not only a great honor, it's a great challenge us to do something with this title, to solve the problems that face this country. i didn't always agree with john but i respected the fact that he wanted the senate to be an institution serving the people of this country and solving the problems that we face. john was principled, courageous time and again. there were times when we had our differences . i recalled wh

do you have to notify the irs on that? e judge re-read the portion of the jury instructions that said, yes, you do. that was really the only thing that i thought was significant because that's really a question that could be answered and that's crucial to some of the counts. >> a smart question related to very complicated overseas banking rules. that tells you the jury is plugged in right there. do you make anything of it? we got 18 criminal charges, 27 prosecution witnesses, no witnesses called by the defense. the constitution says you do not have to present a defense. the constitution says the defendant does no the have to testify. from your experience, does that matter to a jury? are they in there saying, why, why did paul manafort say nothing? why didn't they give us anybody to challenge? they challenged rick gates in cross, but why didn't they bring anybody in to help us? >> i think that's in the back of their minds a little bit, but i think that jurors tend to really follow the judge's instructions. when they're told

sweeney and robnett of the fbi and irs and the agents who work for them. we do many, many cases with them and their determination and fair dealing and vigor with which they pursue their cases is really inspirational. to the prosecutors in my office, i cannot express the gratitude for the hard work that they did in this case and that is assistant united states attorney andrea griswald and tom mckay, the deputy chief of the public corruption unit and the chief of the public corruption unit. for all of these people, i could go on and on. john: the prosecutor loves to hear himself talk. he's going the talk for some time at length about the righteousness of the fbi and government administration. i guess he's forgetting a few years of j. edgar hoover. i want to break this down a little bit here because the 2012 to 2016, there was the tax evasion. i'm joined by liz peeke because all this is not associated with the president. i don't want to diminish this whatsoever but it was supposed to be about russian collusion. >> whatever happened to that? john: that's right