president. his attorneys found them while cleaning off an office at the penn biden think-tank. he used the office from 2017 to 2020. it immediately handed them over to the national are chives. the day after. the discoveries prompted an investigation. merrick garland traveling with the president in mexico today has tapped a trump-appointed u.s. attorney to handle this. dana: months after the f.b.i. raided president trump s mar-a-lago estate in response to the alleged mishandling of classified documents by the former president. is the f.b.i. taking it easy on president biden? documents that are classified are not under protection and they re being accessed and do they know? do d they get all the documents? how come the f.b.i. isn t looking at all the documents to make sure there aren t more there? that s why they did a raid on trump and should be doing the same thing on biden. dana: alexandra hoff is covering the story from the white house. a lawyer for the president
the world. so right now we have 8300 revenue agents, 2700 revenue officers, 2,000 special agents and 8,000 examiners. why would we need 87,000 more on top of that? who would they go after? it s really nuts. remember last year when they were going to the whole thing bubbled up about having if you use venmo small business, 600,000. it s in there. 600. it is so crazy and nuts. we don t need any 7,000 more i.r.s. agents, examiners and officers and 79.6 billion we don t need to put in there. they say there is a tax gap. taxes owed but not collected of $458 billion. i don t know where that number
$458 billion would be created in revenue, that s far short of $1.4 trillion. the interesting analysis is the conservativism in the republican party, republican senate that we ve heard that people are undershooting the growth projections. that in tend with everything combined in this bill, the growth will in fact make up for the revenue decreases over the course of ten years. only time will tell. it s the most interesting element about this. this is something that you can t prove, something that no analysis is showing, but something republicans are pinning this bill on, their belief that the growth will be provided based on what they re doing. it s something that we re going to have to wait and see if it happens here. phil, so many fascinating angles to this. you ve been following this work and the congressional work to get this to the floor. before we get back to the substance, though, help us
senator bob corker in h the center. all of his leaders around him as he threatened to bring the bill down altogether. at least in the near term. his issue? the deficit. that s always been the case. republicans thought they had a fix, essentially put a trigger into place that would snap tax increases back into place both on the corporate and individual side if the rosy growth projections we ve been working with didn t actually come to pass. here s the problem. that idea ran afoul of senate rules. here s another problem. the joint committee on taxation earlier in the day released a dynamic score. the biggest problem, that proposal, that plan, that analysis only showed $458 billion of increase the revenue because of their proposal. that meant the bill would still cost a trillion dollars. there was no deficit trig ner place. that was senator cocker s
that s always been the case. but republicans thought they had a fix. essentially put a trigger in place that would snap tax increases back into place. if the rosy growth projections they ve been working with didn t actually come to pass. here s the problem. that idea ran afoul of senate rules. here s another problem. the joint committee on taxation released what s kpaucalled a di ma nam mick score. that only showed $458 billion of increased revenue. because of their proposal. that meant the bill would still cost $1 trillion. that was senator bob corker s problem. could have sank the entire bill. he eventually went on with his colleagues but the issues were laid bare. the reality right now is this.