delivered $80 billion to the irs over the next 10 years. the fund allowed the irs to hire new staff, to modernize all of its technology and to audit wealthy tax cheats who had been getting away with murder. the posterboard behind me illustrates this is a win, a win for low and middle class americans. these ira backed improvements achieved, as you can see, achieved 87% peak levels of performance and service success as a result of their implementation. 87% higher than any other time timeof the dramatic increase fra previous tax filing year alone. .5 million more calls cutting the wait time down that 86%. serve more than one or 40000 additional taxpayers and clergy backlog of unprocessed 2022 individual tax returns with no errors. you've got to be doing something right to have those kind of numbers that are certifiable and verifiable. those are real and tangible and show investment don't take my word for it. by the way i would ask unanimous consent to be entered into the record showing the agency will continue to prioritize high income individ

that is not true in the irs. it takes time to process the information and move it into an online account. that old system written is cannot move quickly enough with the online solution. not only do we need to move to the cloud in to a smarter and more manageable architecture, it's also going to be more secure. it is a keystone for a lot of the efforts. we do have some good news. in april, after this filing season, we are going to turn on that modern system for the first time and we are going to run in parallel with our legacy system. hopefully get it up and running. are making progress. we have enough money? we have a modernization budget, as people have pointed out. currently at 60 billion and very, very large and. that has been underfunded in underfunded. in order to run those trains, we have to borrow from the modernization budget to pay for the base budget. we the budget and we might not have enough money. the answer, we have enough money as long as congress appropriate base budget. is often a two run the dail

before the irs whistleblowers emerged. the timeline vote of when weiss reneged on that and said you need to have criminal charges involved in a guilty plea for hunter biden but the pr situation is changing around the case rapidly. the timelines one neatly. weiss is not said he change his mind because of the irs whistleblower. that seems to be what moved the needle in terms of what u.s. attorney weiss needed from hunter biden in order to protect the appearance of integrity in his investigation. host: let's go to the democrats line, marilyn, good morning. caller: good morning, ladies. i think this is him obvious desperate attempt by the republicans and the so-called conservatives to paint joe biden as crooked as donald trump. they will bleed this out up until november, 2024 so they can have the position to say biden has been investigated just like trump. the difference is, there is no evidence that president biden has done anything nefarious or illegal. compare that to donald trump and the man has been indicted four times, 91

if you look at data from the irs, the most recent data covering 2020, which was when the 2017 changes went into effect, the top 1% of taxpayers paid an average 26% of their income, while the bottom payers paid a rate that was less than 8 times that. if you look at tax shares, the top half of taxpayers pay about 97% of individual income taxes. the bottom pay about 3%. the income tax system is highly progressive, even given lower rates on things like capital gain income and carried interest. even with the current structure of the tax code, we have a highly progressive system the united states. host: minnesota, john, republican. caller: i have seen something where institutional big banks are now exempt from paying taxes on it. wondering if that was true or not. guest: if they are organized as a corporation or partnership, they are going to pay taxes. one thing that did come to mind is an exemption in the tax credit. credit unions are exempt from paying corporate income tax, even though in many instances, they compete directly with banks, offer similar services. in that case, there is no

it's exactly what the irs whistleblowers have highlighted, why they came forward. ct that hunter biden was supposed to be in the halls of that building going through a congressional a subpoena through depositions and he defied that by standing on the footsteps of the capitol and doing a press conference, the fact that he is the president's son and he's doing that is creating a very severe constitutional crisis. maria: r so are you going to follow up on this, the fact that kevin morris' people told you he was unable to give you time, he couldn't come to talk to you because he was overseas between thanksgiving and new year's, and there the you are watching him right under your nose in washington? >> we absolutely are. it's just, it's just not adding up, and they're not being honest for if how they've been communicating with us. he was supposed to be out of the country from thanksgiving to new year's. that's why he couldn't come in for questioning. but clearly, he was not out of the country. this is just a pattern that we've been seeing throughout this entire investiga

this particular case, the irs is trying to make up for that by moving the tax brackets.ot the tax rates. all it is doing is giving you more room to accumulate taxable income before you jump into the next bracket so is it helpful? absolutely but it is also a mirage because americans really aren't gaining anything. they are barely keeping pace with purchasing power. that's what it is about. do you ultimately have more money in your pocket to be able to purchase more things? and the answer is right now, no. you don't. edward: could this affect spending next year? >> reporter: looks like americans are spending whether they have extra money or not. we see credit card debt going over a record $1 trillion and counting. looks like the american consumer wants to keep buying stuff. if they are going to have extra money in their pocket or so they think, are consumers going to continue to spend the? i believe that they will. it seems people are getting more optimistic about what's happening because inflation is coming down. keep in mind that inflation is cumulative. when they say ye

well, i'll tell you the irs whistleblower story says something quite differently. leblower stories say? >> we've released over # 1100 pages of materials from the irs whistleblowers, maria. haas week we had the two of theo of them testify before the ways and means committee. we released that information. they highlighted 327 different e-mails from biden to hunter biden and his business associates. and it's so, it so happens to be all around the time of when official government activity was taking place including multiple trips to ukraine. in fact, before his first trip to ukraine in 2014, you saw five e-mails of just hunter biden to eric sharon which is the -- eric schwerin which is the architect of the 20 plus different llcs that the biden family has used from one account to another. no one needs 20 different companies to transfer money unless they are trying to hide the financial implications of it. maria: well, this is an incredible story, mr. chairman. i mean, we've been covering your reporting and your investigation from day one, and if it's absolutely stunning

that's where one you have these felony charges comes really into play where the irs or the justice departments saying that hunter biden is claiming false deductions, including a $10,000 payment for his membership in sex club, among many other things, renting a lamborghini, paying tens of thousands of dollars to luxury hotels. he is claiming those things are business expenses when the justice department says, no, those were personal expenses. one of those things particularly was this. he claimed this as a business expense, according to the stead put $27,000 into online porn. all tv this taken together is quite a serious set of charges. hunter biden's attorney abbe lowell says we will take you to trial if you charge them. they are on path to trial related to a guan charge in delaware. now in california we are expecting that and the statement, if hunter biden's last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. they are ready to fight and they are ready, too, to say that he is a political victim and also probably very likely to highli

on the telephone call picture first context it's not the irs. you always get something in writing. i realize that's a rather simple rule, much harder, much harder to find the simple red flags with the sophistication of ai. mr. wiseman, i know you the website scamicide which features a tremendous amount of information about scams. you been doing this for about 12 years, the scam of the day. it's hard to believe you have that much content but that tells you the gravity of the problem. your work give much thought pervasive and persistent scammers are and how diverse the tactics are when tardy witnesses. this committee has been collecting data on scams targeting older adults for about ten years now. we've seen trends that change and new technologies that emerge. obviously some of those are set forth in the fraud book, but in the time that you been running operating the website, how have you seen technology change and tactics shift? and maybe what's your advice for us as we look forward down the road, especially with the advent of ai? [inaudible] >> y

can we use that without funding the irs? this is disgusting, frankly the house voted through $14.6 billion necessary for israel it is what they requested. we did that a month ago, chuck -- sorry, oe good morning >> andrew, did you hear that we're talking about chuck schumer. he called me chuck >> isn't that great? >> you can call me tim >> there you go. >> chuck >> the interesting concept, joe, we paid for it we took the money out of the huge pot of money that democrats gave to the irs. >> andrew, we need that money, don't we >> we do we have to figure out the border >> we need the money for the irs. i'm take rying to get you invol here >> the idea it comes from the irs makes no sense whatsoever. >> the fact it makes no sense. personally, you are talking to somebody who would have paid for it without a pay for you are $33 trillion in debt and the idea is lets find something to pay for it. >> you don't take from the place that makes revenue from you and makes it harder to collect revenue. >> that is a different discussion the

the irs announced today it will waive some back tax penalties.applies to those who failed to pay less than $100,000 in back taxes for tax years 2020 and 2021. the irs said the reason is because of its temporary pause on automatic reminders of the outstanding balances during the pandemic. more than 5 million people, businesses and tax-exempt organizations are eligible for this release starting this week. i will post links to the other stories you voted for on my instagram. >>> educators are looking for new ways to reach their students and a florida teacher is drawing inspiration from the gridiron. mary martinez teaches third grade in miami. she's gone viral for her football themed lesson plan. she does things like having her kids track receiving yards to help teach addition. she uses football penalties to enforce classroom infractions. martinez explains some of her reasoning on the today show. >> while i love the dolphins and want them to be perfect like 1972, the losses are my favorite because it's where the lessons come from. it's where we are a

the former prosecutor whom irs agents said kept them from investigating the biden case the way that they thought it was leading and they thought they say fit today, she's answering questions about all of that behind closed doors with congressional investigators. that happened one day after the president's son risked a contempt charge, which is likely headed his way, and dodged their questions after he gave what amounted to an opening statement of his own on the sidewalk outside congress. no doubt though leslie wolf was likely asked about this based on the irs whistle-blower accusations against what she did. >> did u.s. attorney leslie wolf confirm your investigative effort that you had sufficient probable cause for search? >> yes, she did. >> thanks very much. you told congress that u.s. assistant attorney wolf said whether the juice was worth the squeeze. that's a quote. and that optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant. optics? have you ever run into that? >> i have not, no. >> have you, mr. zeigler? >> i have not. >> martha: i remember that c

including overseas, and $7 million was the amount that he had, and he failed to pay 1.4 million to the irs. now, as they are explaining all of this in the tax charges, there is going to be a major case in california in federal court that hunter biden is going to contest likely and go to trial, but the prosecutors have a lot of meat on the bones about what they want to say happened in 2018. that is when hunter biden in his memoir talked about being a drug addict and where a lot of the expenses really became quite outlandish with a lamborghini rental, and hotels and things that were doing when taken together are quite shocking, and when the prosecutors are saying that the felony charge here, and the thing that he did wrong in the year of 2018 that is so egregious is that he was saying to the irs, these are business deductions and business expenses, and in fact, they were not, and the prosecutors are saying they are personal expenses, and that you have to pay taxes on the money, and just to highlight how of in depth this is, one of the pieces, $27,000 is a business deduction that he wrote dow

before the irs whistleblowers emerged. e timeline vote of when weiss reneged on that and said you need to have criminal charges involved in a guilty plea for hunter biden but the pr situation is changing around the case rapidly. the timelines one neatly. weiss is not said he change his mind because of the irs whistleblower. that seems to be what moved the needle in terms of what u.s. attorney weiss needed from hunter biden in order to protect the appearance of integrity in his investigation. host: let's go to the democrats line, marilyn, good morning. caller: good morning, ladies. i think this is him obvious desperate attempt by the republicans and the so-called conservatives to paint joe biden as crooked as donald trump. they will bleed this out up until november, 2024 so they can have the position to say biden has been investigated just like trump. the difference is, there is no evidence that president biden has done anything nefarious or illegal. compare that to donald trump and the man has been indicted four times, 91 d

the only people that turned out to be consistently accurate, the irs. nd by the way, you have been following the story of kevin morris who apparently made a loan of $4.9 million. but as of that, didn't you discover that one of the reasons he thought it was important to help hunter out financially was because the issue of taxes would be front and center in the 2020 presidential race? >> yes, he actually an email saying that there's going to be political and personal peril for hunter biden if he doesn't start paying his taxes. this occurs right in 2020, right? he meets hunter biden at a joe biden fundraiser. those emails came out yesterday. kevin morris is mentioned as an unnamed person here. the david weiss confirms that kevin morris was starting to pay an unnamed person. but we know and b, kevin morris started to pay hunter biden's bills, including his rent and his tax bills, starting in the 2020 timeframe. so that story has now been affirmed, too. there's a lot to dig in in any other presidency. if a donor came in and started giving millions of dollars

every american should applaud these men for their courage to expose the truth. irshistleblowers also revealed that investigators were prevented from following evidence that could have led to joe biden. the house oversight committee's investigation of the bidens influence peddling schemes reveals how joe biden knew about participated in, benefited from family cashing in on bidens name. hunter biden's corporate entities implicated by today's indictments funneled foreign cash that landed in joe biden's bank account. unless u.s. attorney weiss investigates everyone involved in the biden's fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear that president biden's doj is protecting hunter biden and the big guy. your reaction to that, newt gingrich? >> look, i think that a practical level, when you look at all the information, what you have is essentially what i call in a recent newsletter, the delaware sopranos. this is a crime family. they were willing to sell out the interest of the united states. as somebody said the other day, you now have an effect a chinese russi

the irs trying to shut down a tax credit designed to help small businesses during the pandemic but thatost taxpayers $230 billion and it is still growing. jeff flock all over this story. good morning. wait till they turn off the spigots. >> reporter: congress turned on. what happens when they turn it on, it is hard to turn it off. it is a firehose at the moment. seemed like a good idea at the time but it was the midst of the pandemic as we wanted to try to keep people in their businesses and in their job so the cares act got past, $2 trillion in spending, the employee retention credit is part of that, donald trump signed that, bipartisan bill and it was a good thing, a lot of people think, at the start. if you lost 50% of your revenue they would give you a tax credit. not a lot of people took advantage of it so they expanded. so if the government shut your business down you could get it, came out to $26,000 an employee eventually so companies began to spring up offering to help you get that refund. it was long after the pandemic simmered down. company is like innovation refunds, wonder

the irs whistleblowers when they came forward highlighted it. >> is it about those three issues? ribery, influence peddling and money laundering? >> it could be a multitude of numerous items. we are continuing to follow the facts. >> james comer, is that with this is about, those three issues? >> yes, sir. >> jim jordan? >> it's the standard in the constitution. typically with impeachment, articles of impeachment it's been bribery, abuse of power, obstruction of justice. those are the things we are looking at. we want to get the facts and we will make a determination. >> this will get interesting in the days, weeks and months ahead. thank you all for being on. >>> when we come back as biden about to cave on republicans border demands? we will check in with west virginia senator joe manchin. we will talk to him about the no labels party. could it be a factor and 2024? straight ahead. but with my moderate-to-severe eczema, it hasn't been easy. now, i'm staying ahead of it. dupixent helps heal your skin from within. so, you can clearer skin and noticeably less itch serious allergic r

then we can get 2x back on what we spent on the irs and the deficit will be gone, right?p. there are tens of billions of dollars, at least, of unpaid taxes that are widely believed by economists not just cbo, to be easily recouped by the government, if there were stronger enforcement. particularly audits of those making over $400,000 a year. >> why do you think -- >> but you're right, joe, that there are diminishing returns. you can't just simply, inevitably, increase auditing of every american. >> why is it a political issue, if it's so obvious. that sounds like you're saying that one side of the aisle just likes tax evaders and their friends are all rich, and they don't want them to have to pay taxes. is that what you're saying about republicans that are against the funding of the irs? >> yeah, pretty much. >> joe, i didn't make that point at all. what i said was that it scores as not paying for -- >> that's not. >> you had senator marshall on -- >> you don't worry about weaponizing the irs again? you were there for lois lerner, weren't you? maybe you weren't. >> yes, i

the irs, believe me, will never miss the $36 million. irs wastes that much money between bites of oatmeal at breakfast. and if we do this bill, people can enjoy their seafood and they can appreciate the fact that it is safe. shrimp. so for that reason, as dp in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent -- as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 3533, which is at the desk, mr. president, and zest # 3533, as -- zest 3533, is the seafood import monitoring program audit program. i ask that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. wyden: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, i just heard about this legislative idea a few minutes ago, so i really have very little information about it, but what i can tell you is we already know what the bottom line is. the amendment offered

liz: the biden white house has a big problem. irs government whistle blowers again refute and contradict the white house narrative on a big way in the house impeachment probe and ied explosives and normally founded war found at u.s. border and fueling calls to shut the border now. is it right that one man can destroy the entire trump empire? we're talking new york judge who alone tides that in the new york fraud trial. when will that come out? we'll debate it. plus, a big red flag and we've got shipping giant suspending shipping in the red sea because of houthi attacks. why did president biden take the houthis off the u.s. terror watch list? we have new developments and former president obama parachutes in to rescue biden. can that really stop the president's polls hitting again now record lows? i'm elizabeth macdonald and the evening edit starts right now. liz: house oversight and house judiciary congressman andy biggs. good to have you on the show and merry christmas to you. this is a significant development this area of investigat

this isn't just about not paying the irs $1.4 million that the federal government said he owed them inhe years 2016 through 2019, it's also the federal government, the justice department, the special counsel office of david weiss saying that hunter biden lied to the irs. that he was not forthcoming about the money that he had. they're saying that he had $7 million that was incoming to him and it wasn't going to where it should have been, his taxes. here is a quote from the prosecutors in the 56-page indictment yesterday. between 2016 and october 15th, 2020, the defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels an rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other items of a personal nature. in short, everything but his taxes. one of the areas, fred, that this indictment particularly goes into detail is about 2018, that's where these three felony counts are all around, and it is about personal expenses that he was making that were not for personal -- where he was saying that they were for business expenses, rather than personal expenses, and that is a really ri

what we do know is what is under investigation, what the irs whistleblower said should still be soft.about hunter biden acting as a foreign agent. did he not report this for the ukraine, china, russia come other countries and then where did the money go and why was the money moved, shell companies, was there any money laundering there. and then there is an impeachment inquiry, did any abuse of power take place slowdown or impede the investigation into the financial problems here? >> just for the viewers at home, a money raising event, it does not look like we will be addressing these chargers. can you tell us what chance do they have. >> if you look at this 56 page indictment, it looks like the facts on the government side, and hunter biden was ready to plead guilty. it is embarrassing to see how much money he's laid out. hunter biden was spending things he can't mention on family television and not around christmas time. spending all this money when he could've paid the irs, showing us that it's not just simple mistakes. this is a guy that had millions of dollars, millions of dollars

tristan leavitt is the attorney for the irs whistleblower gary shapley who has testified against hunterthe mvp of this whole investigation to get to the truth if that's what you are into. what was your take away from the tone and tenor and the texas of that speech yesterday. >> someone thinks they are above the law. i worked on capitol hill for 8 years. you don't get to set the rules of your own depositions or response to subpoenas. that's a law and you have to abide by it. for someone who has evaded taxes and all kinds of things with impunity this must be another part of that game. >> brian: you want to put that in context that deal was going to basically exonerate them from everything. that blew up. they said the fact that that deal blew up is because his last name is biden. what do you say? >> well, if you look backward in time, you can see that abbe lowell and hunter biden defenders act three of the play. the investigators found serious evidence of crime in the beginning. that's why they recommended felony charges for multiple years starting with 2014. the year that hunter biden tri

this is the biggest money grab since the government created the irs. ats? install a red light camera and watch the money pour in. and worst of all this all stems from the infrastructure bill. our tax dollars. we're paying the government to fleece us. peninsula, ohio, population, 500, are you ready. averages 1,800 speeding tickets a month. a month. thanks to its new biden speed cameras. the town is on pace to make an extra million dollars this year just from writing tickets. and to make things worse, if you want to fight it in court, they charge you a hundred bucks. most people just say screw it and cut the check. doesn't matter anymore if you're right or wrong. if you're tinted, you'll pay either way but peninsula, ohio, is just a drop in the bucket. this is happening everywhere. there are more than 200 towns across the country using biden's new speed cameras. west harvard, connecticut, is getting a dozen new ones. portland is about to double its army of cameras. georgia, california, everybody gets a camera. each one is about $60,000 but who cares, we'r

what bothers me is he it took the irs and doj so much time to go after hunter biden and this reflects poorly on the integrity of the federal government and i want to add that we have to accuse joe biden of not practicing good parenting the way his son is carrying on with all this money, spending it on liquor, ladies and everything else that he perhaps ought not to be doing but getting away with not paying more than a million dollars in taxes over what aappears to be like a four-year span is ridiculous and makes the average american all the more distrustful of the federal government. maria: but even this is making me more untrustful as well, john, because, look, the doj had all of this information weeks ago. the doj and the fbi knew all about this tax evasion a month ago. but they waited until the testimony on the record behind closed doors was a couple of days away. hunter biden was supposed to testify on wednesday for the house oversight committee and he was supposed to answer serious questions about why he accepted millions of dollars from communist china and now he's got this to hi

and then also, it'll be a whole lot easier for families to get their financial information from the irsally populated onto the fafsa form, which also really saves you time. skip a bunch of questions, make the whole process go by a lot faster. john: bringing up this new form, revising the form, why has this taken so long? danielle: well, the education department says that it has been a monumental undertaking. i think they've used that exact phrase several times in talking to them. and in part because you have to overhaul the existing system, systems that haven't been updated for 30 or 40 years in some instances. they have to meet new security standards set by the irs to make sure that information that they're populating onto the form is secure. all of these moving parts and pieces are happening at the same time as the department has a laundry list of policy projects to try to get done, including making it easier for public servants to get loan forgiveness, to make it easier for people who have been paying back their loans for 20, 25 years to get some loan forgiveness as well, in addition

spending all this money on a luxury house, right, kaitlan, and it's always interesting they wrote the irso be the last creditor to be paid. what is worst case, best case for hunter biden out of this? >> best case is that his attorneys go just totally all in on fighting these charges before anything gets to a trial in any way that he can, and getting them tossed in some way. one of the things that we know that they want to do is they want to ask the courts to recognize that he had a deal with the justice department, that they couldn't bring charges like this, that's something they're clearly going to test in court. there's also the possibility that they can go to court and fight these, we got a quote from his attorney abby lowell yesterday, he said if hunter biden's last name was anything other than biden the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. >> we build off that point, is that true? >> i don't think so, i think it may be true with respect to -- there's another case, a gun case out of delaware that deals hunter biden possessing a firearm five years ago for

worse yet, the irs seems to have adopted a legal strategy. they're basically a new legal strategy to avoid accountability. by issuing what they call proposed rules. proposed rules means that you're working diligently to get the permanent rules in place, okay? if you can't get them in place, then nothing should go out. there shouldn't be any credits. there shouldn't be any of these incentives until you actually get wu'er act together. not only they don't get them together. they say they can't get them close together before 2026. they say it might be later than that. that's what is they're using. that's the gimmick. that's the legal strategy, to basically usurp the law. then the irs can break the law, implement in a way that they wish it was passed and possibly avoid any judicial review. they're trying to push into the market quicker than what we can basically produce and rely on ourselves e.v.'s. that's the bottom line. and car companies have changed and done that to put themselves in a position where, without the credits and without the incent

growing at the department of justice and at the irs. er david weiss there was information that came out that he wanted a charge in d.c. he wanted a charge in california. but he wasn't allowed to do it. the attorney generals there weren't working with them. then he became the special counsel. when he got the special counsel designation now a couple months later the charges actually come and might lead credence to the fact that the attorney general. merrick garland was stymieing this investigation from the very beginning but because of public pressure, and weiss getting the special counsel status. freeing him up to actually charge relevant charges of crimes that potentially hunter biden had committed. again, i don't think any of this would have happened it. would have been all politics just the house. but, for those whistleblowers credibility follow coward and share with the american people spotlight on it. if they can tie this to joe biden. i think you are right, laura, democrats are going to look for off ramp and look to the hair gel gov

one more quick biden from the irs whistleblowers who was on fox today. e was overwhelming. this was about access to the administration. access to hunter biden, to the administration. i'd seen through the countless e-mails that have been turned over. the evidence clearly did not support removing political figure number one. >> what he is saying is there were plenty of evidence leading to joe biden, but as kevin said, leslie wolf limited the inquiries into joe biden. >> that is what is part of what the congressional republicans are hoping to get out of the impeachment inquiry, which is to what extent did the biden administration handcuffed, direct, hint that they didn't want doj or the irs to look into the connections to joe biden? that is the lightest of the charges. >> the woman who limited that investigation meantime, former u.s. attorney leslie wolf testified before the house today. didn't say much. areas jim jordan talking about that. >> ms. wolf refused to answer most of our questions, and we had a number of exhibits where she sent in the e-mail. she

the irs knew it. chin e fbi,a knew it. >> ukraine knew where the money was goiny wag with hunter high e on crack when he wired ten grand to a club and then deductedre it as a business expense. special prosecutor dave weiss writes in the indictment, quote, the defendant claimed the business expenses, including approximately 388 grand in business related travel. >> despite having done little or no business in that year. all right. so the special counsel said hunter didn't do any business in 2018, but got paid $2.1 million. >> s o the special counsel is charging hunter for not paying taxes on bribesg . >> professor turley had a great line. like ar it's like arresting a bank robber for speeding away from the crime scene withourobber ftw mentioning why he was speeding or where he was coming froit mea what a ridiculous way to keepmi president biden out of troubleng . >> we caught your family taking bribes, mr. president, but he didn't payee taxes on the bribes, which is against the law. >> don't worry about

the irs whistleblowers were key. let's face it. the biden have been operating something called biden, inc. i didn't coin that term. that was coined by politico years ago. so the press was on to the bidens. they knew the bidens were selling influence, trading out the family name. but once he became president, once he became the candidate of the democrats, they buried it all. they undermined our investigation. senator grassley was listening to russian disinformation, does that sound familiar? it's been a massive cover-up. you see the corruption between the news media but you also see corruption from the federal law enforcement, fbi, intelligence agencies, which is as big a story if not bigger than the corruption of the biden, inc., crime family. kaleigh: it's a huge story. look, i look at the testimony from joseph zeigler, from these whistleblowers. gary, these are not partisan figures. these are people who are not republicans. these are people who have integrity and came forward and said we watched our investigation be stymied time a

now, in addition, the irs will be informing some 5 million taxpayers that they are eligible for penalty relief. the group includes individuals, businesses and tax exempt organizations earning less than $400,000. cybersecurity experts say gift card scams are on the rise this year. messing with gift giving this season. scammers are tampering with cards and stealing the barcodes. we told you about this. some of the plots are convincing online shoppers to pay with gift cards that are not actually from the retailers. >> that's a huge red flag. there's a lot of scams that are perpetrated where the scammer is asking for a gift card, such as like a grandparent scam or a utility scam. >> here are three tips to avoid getting scammed one. check with your finger for stickers that are covering the barcode. stickers may have a phony barcode to be scanned at checkout. two beware of websites that check your gift cards. balance they may end up taking your credit. the card number and then your pin to drain the balance. and then three. check for ripped or wrinkled wrap ring wrap ring. the thieves often re

sulaimani who was also assassinated in a us drone attack near baghdad international airport back in 2020 the irher sign of tel aviv's frustration and weakness in the region and yesterday as we covered for. here on press tv and irgc spokesman said that the assassination of the top iranian military advisor by israel reveals the regime's desperation and that iran will respond appropriately, this assassination, this terrorist attack by the israelis was carried out as uh they continue with incessant genocidal war, asymmetrical war against the besieged palestinians in gaza. for well over 80 days now uh they have uh killed 21 palestinians at least uh 21 because so many still remain under the rubble and have not been accounted for and a large portion of those killed have been innocent women and children. joining us now on hand is our correspondent who's uh joining us from uh the uh venue where the uh processions are taking place right now in tehran zamam hussein. are unanimously calling for justice and they are denouncing and condemning the israeli regime's aggression and crimes. now right over there i

the irs is increasing the interest penalty for people who underpay their taxes.he interest penalty on estimated tax underpayments was increased from 3% to 8. self-employed workers and independent contractors run the risk of being hit with the underpayment penalty, since they tend to make quarterly payments. according to the wall street journal, the irs took in more than $1.8 billion in penalties from those who underpaid their estimated taxes in 2022. well, for many of us, the holidays are a happy time of year, but for so many others, it can be very stressful. mental health experts say the pressure to buy gifts, host parties, travel to see family and friends and deal with fewer hours of daylight along with colder weather can be overwhelming thing. they suggest setting and sticking to a routine, getting good exercise every day and eating right. they say it also helps to prepare for situations where other people might irritate you and think of how you'll handle that. >> you know that i'm seeing these family members. i know it tends to be stressful, but just being aw

the irs whistleblower alleged the attorney general lied under oath. was the attorney general telling the truth when he said this? >> do we have the chart? was the attorney general telling the truth when he pledged not to interfere? >> again, i cannot speak to the attorney general's testimony. i can only tell you what my instructions have been. >> has there been political interference in the investigation of hunter biden and joe biden. >> not that i have experienced >> were the investigators allowed to investigate whether joe brian joe biden was complicit? >> there is an ongoing investigation >> i am asking about the corruption from doj? were they allowed to investigate joe biden or is the whistleblower telling the truth that the doj said joe biden is off limits no questions about the big guy? >> as to what is in scope are not in scope with the ongoing investigation i would refer you to special counsel weiss. that is not me hiding behind anything that is a long- standing policy -- >> you have a responsibility to the fbi. not to allow it to be a partisa

it took them five years -- the irs. ook them five years to file these charges against hunter bide when other americans would have been hit immediately in and now he's raising russian disinformation? why now? what -- tom, take on the timing of this. is he going to plead the fifth and not testify about bribery allegations against him and his father about biden family corruption? >> well, the whole thing is off the wall, liz. i mean, it makes absolutely no sense. i guess the first thing i would point out is that this indictment that he says is somehow russian disinformation, i mean, this is from his father's department of justice. this is from officials appointed by his father who are serving in his father's administration. [laughter] the second thing i would say is that anyone when reads this indictment sees it is a very serious document with an unbelievably detailed factual summary of exactly what hunter biden was doing, all the money he got in, all the taxes he failed to pay. and, of course, the way he was spending his m

if you look at data from the irs, the most recent data covering 2020, which was when the 2017 changes effect, the top 1% of taxpayers paid an average 26% of their income, while the bottom payers paid a rate that was less than 8 times that. if you look at tax shares, the top half of taxpayers pay about 97% of individual income taxes. the bottom pay about 3%. the income tax system is highly progressive, even given lower rates on things like capital gain income and carried interest. even with the current structure of the tax code, we have a highly progressive system the united states. host: minnesota, john, republican. caller: i have seen something where institutional big banks are now exempt from paying taxes on it. wondering if that was true or not. guest: if they are organized as a corporation or partnership, they are going to pay taxes. one thing that did come to mind is an exemption in the tax credit. credit unions are exempt from paying corporate income tax, even though in many instances, they compete directly with banks, offer similar services. in that case, there is no neutrality

the two irs whistle-blowers that came before the ways and means committee just this week provided 567 different emails that speak otherwise. in fact out of those 32emails that the irs whistle-blowers provided they were from joe biden's fake accounts and 54 of them went directly to hunter biden's business associate eric swearing. the chief architect of the 120 plus shell corporations that the biden family use to send foreign millions to divide amongst family members. there are so many issues here, the president said the at beginning he knew nothing about his son's business dealings. we know that is a lie. he said then he wasn't involved in his son's business dealings. we have seen otherwise now. longs like he probably benefited from it with more than $240,000 of quote loan repayments from james biden to himself. stuart: is that enough to impeach? >> well, we're following the facts, stuart. i will not get the cart before the horse. we are pushing towards an impeachment inquiry that will help leverage the enforcement, to push this administration to stop stonewalling us. there are severa

the irs also increasing the thresholds for several other tax provisions, including the earned income tax credit with families now eligible to receive $7,830 if they have three or more qualify children in washington matter. rivera, fox news ktvu. >> fox two news at five starts now. >> the ocean is a very powerful, powerful thing that you don't want to mess around with. >> now at five, a simple message that will help save lives. today, avoid the coast bay area beach towns are getting hammered by rough surf. good evening. >> i'm greg lee and i'm julie julie haener. dangerously large waves behind the safety warning tonight. this evening, santa cruz county has now dropped its evacuation, warning residents in the pajaro dunes area were told today to get ready to evacuate at any moment. that's because of large breaking waves and high tides causing safety concerns along the coast. residents have been told to avoid areas in rio del mar where a high tidal surge spread debris and forced closures. >> dangerous surf up the coast in pacifica. this is a live look at sharp park beach. you can see th

the irs tax thing, i don't want people to pay more taxes than she has to.is not her taxes that matter, we know about her taxes because everyone in her family is being investigated on selling our country out. talk about impeachment and how that is a bad word because democrats use it so frivolously. what know ares in congress have to do better job of explaining justice department failed in its mission and charter and this is an investigative tool to get answers and we as american people, not just republicans, republicans, democrats, independents want to know if the current president has done things to sell our country out, we deserve to know that. >> emily: i agree wholeheartedly, for a president who nonstop hammers how everyone should pay their fair share, he loves to label the wealthy and privileged and corporations, this is a constant tune he keeps plucking and this is apparently a family that did not instill same values in their own children as written in indictment hunter spent millions on lavish lifestyle, everything but paying your taxes and ashley thi

now the irs is extending olive branch. it stops sending out collection letters during the pandemic and americans dead has been growing with interest and penalties and many people probably don't even know exactly how much they owe and walmart are expanding their partnership to buy now pay later company will now be at 4500 walmart's self-checkout kiosks buy now pay later options have risen 40% this holiday season over last year. american start cooking christmas dinner at 09:36am. according to new research, a pill of 2000 adults revealed how early households start to put together the much anticipated meal with taking about 3 hours prep. the whole thing this is commissioned by bakery brand saint pierre and conduct by one poll. and the study also found the ideal time to eat. 03:45pm in the afternoon and it takes 3 days to eat up all the leftovers. well, tesla, cyber truck, the electric pickup may soon be able to function as a boat. well on musk says the company will offer a month package that enables the cybertruck to traverse a