we'll see if the irs is reaching out to you it is probably not the irs. we -- >> know, so, i think this is pretty well documented. an irs agents showed up. put a note on mr. tybee's door. called him four days, which he did. they explained what the situation is. i find that unbelievably unusual. i am asking you, as irs commissioner, does happen often? how unusual is that? an irs agent shows up to taxpayers home and house them, give us a call. throw on top of that and irs agents showing up at a taxpayers home that taxpayer just happens to be testifying before the house judiciary committee on the weaponization of government against u.s. citizens. the chances of that happening are infinitesimal, but it happened. i'm just saying, in general, how often does the iris show up as the first notice that there may be an issue with the problem of taxpayers return? making a personal appearance to the taxpayers home. that part of your procedure? it doesn't happen very often? >> again, i want to be cautious in the answer to make sure i am not violating a prohibition. >> t

to have the irs take that type of action. again, the chances are so infinitesimally small that in irs agents would show up at a journalist door the day that journalist is testifying before the house committee. so i will also be requesting that all the documentation, all the information on that specific case, i believe mr. taibbi has already issued a waiver for the irs to provide that information. i'm asking if you would comply with those requests, to turn that information over to myself and to chairman jordan? >> as long as we can do it consistent with section 1603, yes. >> okay, thank you. >> senator blackburn is next. >> thank you, mister chairman. and welcome back to us. just tacking on to what senator johnson was saying. i think it's important to note, with the lowest learner scandals and targeting that took place at the irs, you are very familiar with that because you were brought in to help clean that up. when there is the perception that people are being targeted and there is anecdotal evidence and that information make

from the irs plan and from g.e.o. eports with a plan that was released in early april, the word technology was referred to many times but i haven't seen a specificity of what is needed. i know there's a motivation on our side because our offices are getting bogged down through quests and we can't even help our constituents to the extent we need. we would love to see the specificity laid out, knowing that i'm sick and tired of saying what he's tech modernization. if i need at one more time with seven layers of additional things specifics that we need to do for these folks, that is the area that i want to get to. i will add my comments from the gentleman, my colleague from arizona. i'm ready to begin and actually get this work done before we had on thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of more employees to assist in that doesn't work currently. let's fix that and then figure out where we need to go in a future. i definitely need to stop, thank you. >> thank you for staying on schedule, the chair recognizes mr. barr

one of the irs will. i knew attempted. but with the additional money from the ira, armed revenue agent will be hired to accomplish these audits customer service work that is without bending over for the fact there. lester secretary yellin sent a letter to republican directing him to be efficiently provided by the ira with abusive race historical audit rates on families and small businesses under $40000 a year. former commissioner also sent a letter to congress reiterating this fact. without objection like to enter both letters into the record breaker xo ordered. thank you. you seven letter sent by congress state audit rates will not rise relative to recent years for households making under $40000 a year? rex idea protects the additional money provided by the ira desirous plenty hire a 7000 revenue agency. guns too often families and small businesses clutched you not. thank you. commissioner, americans are tired of a two-tiered system so wealthy and well-connected to put out one rules with those who use withholding played by

always look at the irs is all-powerful. the core principles of our system is your innocent until proven guilty. it seems the irs operates on the opposite principle you are guilty until proven innocent print that's a lot of presumption people feel sensitive about it. i know you had extensive dialogue with my colleague mr. scooby on the situation and a lot of the eyebrows that raised all the said here he is tense testifying at a sensitive issue and he suddenly has irs agent at his door. and i understand you cannot talk about that but there were a couple of issues surrounding that one of those is that chairman jim jordan actually asked you about providing some of the requested documents to chairman jordan to do in fact provide those documents that were requested by jim jordan? >> i need to check britt i'm not sure i can answer that question in this setting. >> this is a document request response and answer so you should be able to answer the question. next i apologize congresswoman. it is my understanding if i answer the questi

why would the irs want to get into this now? een the normal way that tax administrations around the world have operated there definitely benefits witith having thehe irs prprovide a prododuct becauseses all the informatioion. so the idea is that you would be able basically to see what information the irs has on you, and that would be w-2s. 1099, you know, all sorts of information and you could just load it into to this direct file product that the irs would be building. but you could also just download it and send it to your software that you purchased offff the shelelf, or you could have it downloaded to your return preparer if you went to someone. is this the irs is trying to do good in a way for people that almost sounds crazy coming out of my mouth. think the irs has its own interest in this as well as the benefit for the taxpayer. so 40% of individual taxpayers have w-2 only income and are non itemized. and those are very simple returns. and for them to be able to just see the w-2s out there and then have them into a product

we put in $80 $80 billion te inflation reduction act so that the irs could over a decade make sure it serve its customers, the taxpayers won't have to spend hours waiting on the phone to get an answer to their questions. so that the wealthy taxpayers can get audited, which was to bring in billions of dollars to our budget. instead, what is hapr the past decade is the irs has been drained of its funds and people have left the irs, especially those with the expertise to audit those wealthy taxpayers. we want to bring that back but most of all we want to make sure the average taxpayer is able to get their refunds quickly and that there is not this backlog for the average taxpayer. announcer: congresswoman judy chu joining us from the canon rotunda as it is known, where our cameras are this morning. she is a sitting congressman since 2009 and in her eighth term. taking phone calls online. for democrats, republicans, and independents. sean is in colorado, line for republicans. go ahead. caller: i am a rancher in colorado and this inflation reduction act -- i also raise food in colorado. th

how concerned should people be about these harassing house calls from the irs? three most fearsome government agencies are the doj, fbi, and irs because they have the power to take your freedom, destroy your life, and bankrupt you and in this particular story, we're hoenig in on the irs. all three agents are completely out of control, but in this story, brian, what it shows is that the irs has been fully weaponized since the obama years , against average americans , and your question to gerri was a critical one and i hope we get answers to it about the political nature of this , if in fact that exists. you know, coming on the heels of matt taibbi getting a home visit unannounced by a treasury agent on the same day he was testifying about government abuse in congress, this is terrifying. these are the tactics of a totalitarian dictatorship. the american people should not live in fear of their doj, fbi, and irs which by the way we all pay for. we are paying for these government agencies to live in terror that you might get a knock on the door. this is all the hallm

a scary report the irs is barreling into american households, the homes and businesses. . american tax reform rover norquest will weigh in, lied after this. ♪ maria: welcome back many americans for tax reform tracking reports of irs agents who are showing up at private homes and businesses unannounced. this map shows five of the visits in 2023 including the home of journalist matt taibbi on the same day he was testifying to congress about government abuse. joining me is americans for paxx reform president, grover norquist. great to have you. what's going on? >> well, you wondered what the government was going to do, the irs was going to do with $80 billion to hire 87,000 more agents. we were told they were going to work on the phones and maybe answer the phone if you tried to call in for help since most phone calls don't get answered at any useful way. point of fact, we found some rather disturbing things. these are all from press reports so this is tip of the iceberg. where irs agents are showing up at people's houses. you mentioned the reporter who they showed up at his

the proposal. there's 69 billion from biden's irs. green energy give aways to save $70 billion, it makes the tax cuts and jobs act permanent. that would cut 2.4 trillion in taxes. tell us more about this. >> well, we provided an alternative to the more deficits, more debt, more spending, more government of the joe biden administration. we balanced the budget in seven years. we don't touch social security or medicare for current or future recipients in the near future. what biden is doing is allowing entitlements to go bankrupt in ten years. we cut taxes, make the tax cuts perm negligent, cut spending by over $16 trillion over 10 years and we balance the budget to set this economy on the right course for the american people. cheryl: a lot of this, in particular redirects equity, military funding. we had a congressman on last hour that has an issue with a woke military if you will. can you expand on this point about equity military funding, is this the drag shows we've heard crazy reports about or what does that mean to you? >> absolutel

and so i think more funding for the irs is certain reasonable. the president overstates the case. part of the last-minute deal that the president struck with the speaker clawed back some of the irs funding that slated to go relative to the president's budget. that would reduce tax revenue, but by an amount that is less. but as a general matter, i think the president is right, that we should be helping that agency. >> plenty on the lines for you already this morning. plenty to talk about in the wake of that deal they signed into law just this past weekend. independent, you are up first. caller: good morning, my name is steve. i believe that the voting age should be 16. they are allowed to drive. i believe that the republican party is afraid of the young people in this country -- host: that with the topic of the previous hour and i appreciate your thoughts on raising the voting age. we are talking about the economy right now and federal spending. any thoughts on that front since we have michael here to talk about it? caller: well, i just believe that the republican party is afraid o

soon at the irs new and let it run out. they could have gone after him. i doubt you would get that treatment john solomon. what else might we learn in the days and weeks to come? 3 i think the second thing you will learn tomorrow is that the fbi never shared the e-mails that they had exploited from hunter biden's laptop after corroborating the laptop with the irs showing that he was talking with his own colleagues acknowledging he had not paid taxes on $400,000 of income from ukraine and burisma. we were told there is nothing there. hunter biden had e-mails. i've made them public. they showed that he knew he had owed taxes, back taxes on the burisma money. the irs agents were kept from that information and they were kept from the other bombshell. you had congressman comb her on. he revealed the fbi whistleblower and the informant that allege the $10 million bribe. the irs agents were looking at those very transactions did not know that the fbi had a confidential human source providing that information since 2017. the irs was blinded by the fbi and justice

according to the irs whistleblowers, the u.s. ey's office investigating hunter had charges ready to go last year. but, when they tried to charge him, biden's justice department said no, off limits. they blocked it. irs whistleblowers revealed this to house republicans today. listen. >> testimony shows that u.s. attorney of delaware david weiss tried to bring charges in the district of columbia around march of 20202. and was denied. weiss sought special counsel status from the doj in the spring of 2022 and was once again denied weiss sent set to bring charges california in the fall of 2022 and had that request denied in january of 20 # 23. yet, u.s. attorney general merrick garland told congress that weiss had all the authority necessary to pursue the charges. >> jesse: so the attorney general lied to congress. and his justice department stonewalled charges on hunter twice. blocked it. and when delaware tried to override the decision by applying for special counsel status, the attorney general said no. and when the charges actually

e >> he has exclusive new details from the irs whistleblowerxc who accused the feds of giving hunter preferential treatment. but first, tonight, we begin beg with the blockbuster testimony of special counselin durham. >> way too late and too few indictments. but anyway, it was on capitol hill today delivering some much needed truth som to the tinfoilt liars and collusion. truth is, that never happened in the democratic party. and of coursin thee, they're wib accomplices in the media mob. they were the ones peddlingou i lies to you in this country form three years, and some of them even getting pulitzer prizes as result. now, first up is the congenital liar himself, adam schiff.this w >> now, this was interesting today. he couldn't believas.e a foreigd government would actually call up an american citizen call up and offer dirt on a political opponent. >> and i'm like, really, adam? because adam schiff is the only one in america thatdy tha actually talked to somebody that he believed to be a russian. t d to be wasit was a russian prankster. and guess what? we got the tape.t th listen,

among other potential crimes according to the irs officials. last night a big celebration to rub it in faces. joe, hunter and attorney general merrick garland all celebrated together! at a state dinner at the white house. according to garland we are not allowed question his conduct. any criticism of the department of justice is attack on democracy. watch this. >> some have chosen to attack the yesterday department as components and employees by claiming weep don't treat like cases alike. this institutes an attack on an institution essential to american democracy. and essential to the safety of american people. nothing could be further from the truth. you heard me say many times that we make our cases based on facts and the law. those are not just words they are when we live by the way we enabling decisions. would you feel hunter biden's lawyers are very angry accusing the irs whistle blower illegal activity releasing a text hunter threatens a chinese businessman with retribution from his purth saying i'm here with my father and like to understan

if it come true when the irs whistle blower is sayings we the start family. related to the violations you had. . the testimony the biden administration blue it off >> president respects the d. justice independence. respects the rowel of law and that is had you will see under the administration i will not speak to the anything related this. this is not the main priority of american families. >> nothing to see here. you will not talk about the economy we know that. in the the priority. dei is the main priority. iel. the doj spending years covering up this skandzal for bidence. come on. joining me now donald of house oversight committee. congressman. the garland testimony and the congressional role here begin this testimony, we know this david weiss sent an all right to year-old an on june 7 that they will rely on and they have relied on saying, i have been granted authority over this matter. and including responsibility for deciding when or whether to file charge and making the decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution consistent with fed

this is somebody, 14 years in the irs and he knows how to do tax cases. t misdemeanors. limited resources on the criminal side for the irs, when they get into it, they want a felony. we have a two-tiered system of justice. there are two people, joe biden is one of them, can't be investigated, that is inconsistent with the system in the republic, which is no one is above the law and there is equal justice in the law. that is where this case falls apart. >> brian: think about the dichotomy, we need president trump's taxes. we don't know what we're looking for, but we need them and they try to find something. here they say, we want to find out how much taxes you should pay. no, we will not do that. how much your dad? no, we will not do that. can we find out where the 17 million, we will not do that. they had to go through bank records to find how much taxes he owes. they were able to do this with james comer, but not with david weiss, the da. >> yeah, they let the statute of limitations run on the two years when he had filed false tax returns claiming the bur

the irs whistle-blower, one of two. gary shapley sits down with me. if you're following this, you'll want to see it. >> thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> i'm bret baier. "the story" starts right now. >> martha: thanks. we're looking forward to that interview. we're going to talk to the attorney for him in just a minute. i'm martha maccallum. so today, "the story" is georgia ron desantis of florida. he joins me shortly for a one-on-one interview with presidential hopeful. lots to discuss with the governor. stay tuned for that. that's coming up. and the plot thickens daily in the hunter biden story. what the president's son told a foreign business partner, "the bidens are the best at." we'll tell you what they're the best at when it comes to foreign dealings and making big million dollar deals with these companies. the shakedown that is also suggested yet another one in these new text messages basically send us money or else. that's coming. but first, daniel penny, the marine veteran facing criminal charges for the death of jordan neely on a ne

why does the irs need deadly force? t: so let me say that there has been a lot of misinformation about what the funding for the irs would look -- would go for. it would go towards making sure there is the ability to hire people when those irs agents retire and it would go toward making sure we have the expertise we lost over the past decade because of underfunding of the irs. it does not mean there will be armed agents with guns coming to your door. i do have to say that there are a small amount of irs agents that are basically law enforcement agents, so those are the ones that do have training in weapons but they are there in the most serious of cases. they are a very small group of agents but are a necessary roof of agents. the irs has a big job to do, and it affects every taxpayer in this country. what we need to do is have many layers of service, which means we need to increase -- we need to ensure you are waiting on the other end of the line to get your questions answered and so if you are not getting a refund, you

trump's right or the regular right. >> one could use the actual power of the ire as to get people to pay their fair share to our government. connor, ron desantis is still number two in the primary polling, two is great better than four, but he is not getting closer to trump. he doesn't appear to have any other tricks in his bag. do you think it will change? >> it could maybe down the road but i think for reasons that he won't control, you cannot compete with trump's ability to attract media attention. i know what this feels like iran against someone who was better known than me in the state and more of a magnet for me to come forth and i was, and that is how desantis is starting out. we know who he is because we follow politics all the time, but the people who are going to really determine this election next year are not paying attention at all, and the one named dane those donald trump, and certain polls and everything else they will continue to show how much they aren't familiar with him and it will be very hard for desantis to catch up with that especially with ideas that are so du

if it is true what the irs whistleblower is saying, we will start impeachment efforts. st >> stephanie: /* >> steve: you have the whistleblower and different stuff. >> speaker mccarthy: the irs whistleblower took copious notes, took down dates. the attorney general said you had all power and you did not. >> steve: people are looking and it looks suspicious. given stuff you have uncovered, have you found joe biden broke any rules or does it look fishy? >> >> speaker mccarthy: more than looking fishy, the family created companies when he was vp. we see foreign governments have paid. if you have a company, why do you not have offices and why go to the companies, none of it smells right, they talk about the big guy. i believe firmly, we have to have constitutional reason of where to go and follow the facts. everyday we find new facts. >> ainsley: are there people behind the scenes? most americans don't know how to set up a shell company. >> speaker mccarthy: there are people in the administration holding back from providing the information. i had to call christopher wray to

frankly, had not been like demagogues are the irs. not exceeded to it. overall, this is a good agreement. >> you are right about the demonization of the irs over the last couple of years has been striking. without any kind of substantive explanation for it. >> look, andrea, on the irs building was inscribed a quotation, taxes are what we pay for civilization. if we expect the vast majority of law abiding americans, vast majority of people who get their taxes withheld from their paychecks, to meet their obligations, we owe it to them to make sure that the wealthiest and most fortunate of our citizens, who don't get withheld on their income, because it's not coming in wages, that they meet their obligations as well. yet less than 1% of people reporting over $1 million in income were audited last year. we really have to do better as a country. it was a start and it's a tragedy that it has been cut back. >> on the debt ceiling, it looks as though they are coming together, that the senate leaders think they can get this thing through. do yo

put them together the durham report the 103 report the irs whistleblowers everything we know about fisaying emails. >> listen. there's no doubt there was a whole government effort multiple agencies the fbi the justice department u.s. attorneys offices the irs and the intelligence community, to protect joe biden's viability to be president in 2020 and it man fesses itself in so many ways and the flip side is to sully donald trump's chance at reelection and take some undeniable things in the open because of jim jordan comber grassley johnson people who worked for four years to get this to the american people when fbi had a tip paul manafort had a longer with stuff in it they got a warrant and raided it. when the fbi agents learn that hunter biden had his business records moved to storen they met probable cause for search warrant and turned down. when the fbi wanted to interview anyone they wanted russia conclusion mat earth of credibility they did it but when irs agents tried to interview several people were told you can't ask questions about joe biden and can't interview these people inc

let's get the rest of the irs agents, the rest of the work requirements. let's cut more because we are in a big debt. this is fabulous. this is one of the best nights i have ever been here. i thought it would be almost impossible just to get to 218 .now it is a whole new today. they have woken up. maybe they listen to our speeches. i don't know. >> you obviously got a majority of your conference -- speaker mccarthy: over two thirds. >> should this quiet rumblings from house freedom caucus members about the motion to vacate? speaker mccarthy: yes. >> conference members have been vocal about issues with this bill. some said you violated promises you made in january. what is your response to that? speaker mccarthy: did i say i would cut the biggest spending cut in american history? i probably suppressed my promise. if you take the non-defense veterans out, it is lower than 2022. we got some work requirements. we said we would cap spending. we got six years of that. so i'm not sure which promise i can make that i couldn't keep. >> now that this deal is passed,

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shapley, that's the irs whistleblower, a similar request to prosecutors in the central district of californiawhich also includes los angeles, was also rejected. why those two places important? because this is where the unsavory activity is alleged to have taken place. mr. shapley testified a second former irs official who has not been identified, told house republicans the same story. that episode was confirmed independently to the "new york times" by a person with knowledge of the situation. >> steve: so mr. shapley, what he -- he was actually on cbs last night. and we just ran a little clip of him. he is a republican. but he says, look, i have never engaged in politics. i have no political motive. is he only speaking out because hunter got special treatment. and he -- there he is right there. >> he said that felonies could have been charged, in particular. we know that hunter paid back taxes on what was owed. but, as it turns out, mr. shapley said that hunter wrote off things as business expenses that we would go to prison for. essentially. hunter wrote off money that he paid for hookers. h

but this whistleblower says something the fbi and the irs knew before the laptop went public. what can you tell us? >> laura i'll say first of all i watched theed whistleblower today, credible, competent in everything that he said added up, made sense, consistent with department of justice and u.s. attorney manual policies. where as what merrick garland said doesn't add up and as you said that was us attorney. but two things really stood out from what the whistleblower said tonight in his interview. one, we can stop speculating that this was a sweetheart deal for hunter biden. he said it. he said the most serious felony charges were left on the table and he pointed out the special agent report that went to the prosecutors, including ausa lesley wolfe, laid out all of the elements for those felony charges and she agreed they were met. and at some point after that, that got reversed. by who and when, we don't know, but those are things that, you know, we're going to need to drill down to find out. but really the most compelling thing that he said, laura, was when he talked about

it's the irs and fbi whistleblowers saying there's malfeasance going on in the justice department. can't they just say here's the document and rebut it? why all the mystery about it? >> yeah. i've got -- that document should be seen, but i've got to address what kirby just said because i thought that the justice department was independent. i thought there was an investigation into hunter biden. i thought they didn't prejudge outcomes. well, it appears that they do, which is why that response was totally unacceptable. there have been nine biden family members who have received money from multiple foreign countries, 20 the llcs in this complicated scheme. we know romania made 17 payments to the biden family, 16 of which were while biden was vice president. so there needs to be an investigation into this. a thorough one. republicans are doing it. but kirby is only allowed to get away with responses like that, because after all the revelations about the romanian business dealings, "the new york times" headline was house republican report finds no evidence of wrongdoing by president bid

according to the irs whistle-blower, a critical meeting with weiss last fall prompted a surprise. he told congress u.s. attorney weiss was present for the meeting and surprised us on the charges saying i'm not the deciding officials whether charges are filed. three weeks ago weiss signed a letter to jim jordan, we obtained a copy that says as the attorney general stated, i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. garland denied weiss from investigating hunter biden and said weiss controlled the probe from the beginning. >> i don't know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy skeptical of the attorney general's statement and is threatening to escalate the situation with an impeachment inquiry depending what comes out of this story. listen. >> if it comes true what the irs whistle-blower is saying, we'll start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general. >> karine jean-pierre at the white

has been complicit and has been covering up this investigation pretty heard from the irs whistleblower this weekend. what i want to do is cult merrick garland, the attorney general pretty want to happen to congress under oath and ask him if he voted for the code red. the more we learn about this, the worse it gets. i think this is going to go down is where the most corrupt president most corrupt administration in u.s. history. i cannot express how angry i am. the more that i learned about this the part worse it gets and the fact they were blocking this investigation of corruption and money laundering, literally the biden family sold our country out. it is unbelievable in obscene and every american should be angry about this. maria: house oversight committees uncovered a whole host of evidence and the chairman james: told me last week that he thanks it could be upwards of $40 million that you can identify of money taken in by the biden family. how long it's been going on? what can you tell us about your investigation right knowledge of influence peddling? >> our investigation will at th

you heard what he said about the irs. ng that was very important to you was regulatory reform. you came on the program the week before the bill passed the house, and you were very optimistic. you changed entirely by the time the bill got to the senate. what happened many terms of the regulatory reform in the rains act that that you were looking for? >> first of all, maria, it's a different bill, it's a different bill entirely. i was very optimistic because the house had passed a fantastic bill, limit-save-grow. it had this feature called the rains act in it. the rains act essentially says new major regulations half the force of law and have a big impact on the chi wouldn't be self-executing. congress would have to enact them. it would make a major difference for our economy, department and deficit ultimately. but -- debt and deficit ultimately are. by the time we got to last week, the house had introduced an entirely new bill, one written in scent by kevin mccash mccarthy and -- mccarthy and joe biden, one that nobody had

the house ways and means committee. moments before he publicly released new transcripts from two irs whistleblowers who say the hunter biden tax investigation was botched and influenced by politics. irs supervisory special agent gary happen isly told congressional staff he saw a 2017 what's app. message from hunter biden to a chinese businessman writing: i am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. tell the director that i would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand and now means tonight. president biden has repeatedly denied discussing any business deals with his son. happen isly came forward publicly last month. >> there was multiple steps that were slow walked at the direction of. >> another bomb shelled announced today involving david weiss in delaware. the same federal prosecutor who announced a plea deal with hunter biden earlier this week in this case. >> testimony shows that u.s. attorney of delaware david weiss tried to bring charges in the district of columbia around march of 2022 and was denied. >> doj officials tell fox news this

the shots. weiss asked his office to review charges. a second former irs official told house republicans same story, episode confirmed to times and the newspaper did not respond to comment, but reporting is out and confirming small portion of what was said, which is david weiss was doing his job. charges were for not paying taxes in 2014 and 2015. i guess he just wound up getting away with and david weiss hitting roadblocks along the way. the whistleblower is saying weiss wanted to be named special counsel and was denied. merrick garland is denying that happened fchl true, remember what kevin mccarthy said on "fox and friends" this week fchl it comes true what the irs whites saying, we will start impeachment inquiry on the attorney general. >> if you are not watching our show and reading the "new york times," you did not get that, because "new york times" buried this whole thing. paragraph 21 underscores issue republicans are facing. this is tremendous potential scandal involving the president of the united states. if the majority of the country does not k

authorities under something that they call 6103, we were the only ones able to have the information from the irs whistleblowers. in order for that information to be made public we had to vote to make it public. that's why we did it. so that the public can see this information and here it and the facts can continue to lead to further progress. >> the three countries that are referred to china, romania and one other country, ukraine. it was $17 million. of that $17 million you have been able to trace back over $8 million to hunter biden that he received himself? >> right. $8.3 million. when you look at the different payments and gifts, hunter biden received a portion valued at over $140,000. he received a dime and. >> he got the porsche from the guy and because extend. to get a car from that guy too? >> i don't know. i don't recall who it is from. i just remembered the announcement. >> i would like a car, az zero six corvette with the package. i am on a list to get one. but my name has not been called yet. >> if you change your last name to abide in you might that car. >> touche, congressman. you

the part where irs agents wanted to bring more serious charges, let me tell you, that happens all the every case is worth by a prosecutor, like where i was, and an agent, fbi, irs, whatever it may be. it is the most common in the world for a chance to say, let's charge him all the way to the max, sometimes beyond the max. the job by the prosecutor is to say, hang on, let me look at. maybe some of these things that you are gung ho to charge with their badge and their gun, don't quite make the law, and the agent wants to go here, and the prosecutor says, legally, we need to bring it here. if we look at the universe of what could happen to hunter biden for tax fraud, there are basically three outlooks. the most hardest would be tax evasion, which would be a felony, apparently what so many agents want. the middle is the nonpayment, which is the misdemeanor. and some tax cases involving nonpayment get resolved summerlea. i had tax cases where my supervisor said that we are not doing the, send it over, so that they can file a lawsuit. he comes out in the middle ground here, not bothered by

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the house ways an means committee revealing explosive irs whistleblower testimony in the biden family influence peddling schemes with a text message from hunter biden threatening a chinese business man to fulfill a commitment or face retaliatory measures from his father. then sitting vice president joe biden and, quote, everybody knows. testimony also revealing government agencies working together to interfere and stop normal investigative steps in the probe into hunter biden's taxes. >> we have credible whistleblower testimony alleging misconduct and government abuse that is resulting in preferential treatment for the president's son, hunter biden. maria: the chairman of thousand ways and means committee, jason smith is here this morning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. he will break it down for us. joining the conversation all morning long, pinion enterprises founder and gop ce strategist, e pinion is here, radio show host chris markowski right here, right now. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ well, she wants to be the queen and she thinks of -- maria: house ways and means committee

attorns ths, the irs anc intelligence community to protectt jo joe biden's viability to be president in 2020. and it manifests itself in so s many ways. and the flip side of it is to sully donald trump. the chancesulls reelection. and let's just take some real irrefutable things that are now sitting out in the open because of the great work of jim jordan and james colmer and chuck grassley jn and ron johnson and people like that who've worked for four years to get this in fron fr year gett of american people. when the fbi got a tip from the associated press that paul manafort had a locker with evidence in it, they were able to get a search warrant d with and raid it within a fet days when the irs agents and the fb thei agents learned d hunter biden had his new business records moved to a storage locker. they met the standard for a probable cause to meet a search warrantn met, and thee turned down when the fbi wanted to interview anyone they wanted in russia, collusion, no matter their level of credibility. crtheyt. le but when the irs agents went to try to interview several people, th

because of the allegations from presire the irs because of the whistleblowers and the doj are garland, what he is sayingly ifd what david weiss are saying privately are two different things. right. and if it comes true, what the irs whistleblowe ime trur sayine going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney generas sayil. fa >> now, that was speakermi kevin mccarthy this morning related to the conversation we just had merrick garland's testimony when he was asked abou t the biden administration just kind of blew it off. the president respects , the department of justice, independence, if he respects the rule of law. and that is what you're going to see under this administration. so i'm not going to spea wilkree to any any anything that is related to that. orit this is not the main priority of american nothing to seeyo here, because you're not going to talk about the economy. we know that that's not the main priority, dci, that's. the main priority now. just the dojl. spending years covering up this massive scandal for the bidens. al come on. joining me now, congressman byron don

the irs -- >> the irs is planning to hire 20,000 new employees in the next two years. let's hope a lot of them are just like this guy who sat down for testimony in front of the house ways and means committee. sat down with brett. it is something that everybody is talking about. it's in the new york times and the washington post if is a question that steven nelson asked the president yesterday when he was trying to get on the chopper. i don't think the president liked the question. watch this. >> president biden, how involved were you in your son's chinese -- text message. >> no, i wasn't. >> were you? >> no! >> your son said you were there. he is calling your son a liar. >> this is the same guy when he was vice president contacted the government in ukraine and said you to fire this prosecutor that is going after burisma. my son is on the board, or i will not give you a billion dollars, i will not give you this american money unless you fire him. >> the house oversight chairman putting all of the pieces together, he calls them a crime family. >> it feels like they feel