it is not allowed to criticize the fbi anymore with the top police state the democrats and their media service said we cannot criticize another part of the bureaucracy. the irs, the agency they just voted to double in size which makes me think, what are they hiding? it turns out quite a lot. here are some of the findings from recent performance audits from the irs. 17million unprocessed tax returns, nearly one third of earned income tax credit deemed improper one third of education tax credits improper on - improper. over $5 billion in the irs sent out nearly 100,000 threat letters demanding tax payment even though none were do a scheme they claimed would bring in $9 billion from the rich. and then just 14 million in revenue. and what they raised was 642 less than what they promised in a scheme to always target high earners and 73 percent actually targeted working americans so much for their latest promise to target only those over 400,000 we know that is be our - - bsd meet
digits fahrenheit. new york city could soon see its longest streak of 90-degree days since 2013. officials there have shortened their triathalon course for tomorrow. and in boston their triathalon has postponed altogether. one woman describes how the unbearable heat feels. what s it like in your apartment? hell. it s like hell? horrible. it s horrible. i sat outside here from ten to 4:00 this morning. as europe s heat wave moves eastward, wildfires have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. you can see here parts of greece and slovenia are blanketed with flames and smoke. just terrifying scenes there. according to the w.h.o., the heat wave has caused more than 1,700 deaths in spain and in portugal. these heat waves are dangerous. we got a look at the impacts of this extreme heat here in the u.s. and of course overseas and how much longer it will last. let s begin now with polo sandoval in new york. hi there, polo. so we know new york is under a
griff jenkins. jacqui: i m jacqui hinrich. they re battling brutal summer heat and steve has the latest for us, hey, steve. 104 degrees yesterday, it s supposed to be 100 all week and that hasn t slowed down the stream of mar grants crossing illegally. we ve seen small groups here in the morning and several pregnant women making that crossing. in recent days, large groups as well, sometimes 300 strong crossing the river together. many of the towns along the border region, overwhelmed by the numbers and it s been the recent policy of text s governor abbott to bus some migrants to northern cities. that s drawn the outrage of a number of mayors, including the mayor of washington d.c. and new york city. not only the federal government, but we need some of those states that have been giving people one-way tickets, we need them to understand that, this must be a partnership in this country, new york is going to do its share, but we have been overburdened shelter system now.
the padres playing great as well. such a great division. can you believe the angels collapse? yankees initiated that and sent them into a tailspin. really? they lost 12 or 13 in a row before they finally won. loaded with talent but struggling a bit. stock futures are on the rise as investors anxiously await the federal reserve s action to tame surging inflation. this as president biden lashes out at republicans for blocking his economic agenda. msnbc s stephanie ruhle will join us to break it all down and the challenges ahead. and we walter isaacson with us. we were talking about presidents and inflation before. jimmy carter, i mean, you know, he had volcker, volcker tamed inflation. right. but there were so many global forces, external forces, you know, we like to think in america that presidents control the economy. there s so many external forces right now. especially now. especially now with two years of covid, the pent up demand. i understand bi
that event in just a few minutes. but, first, breaking tonight, the average price for a gallon of gasoline in this country is soaring past the $5 mark, a figure never before seen in the u.s. wall street took the skyrocketing inflation hard. the dow losing almost 3 percentage points today. the s&p 500 dropping nearly 4. the nasdaq losing four and two thirds. president biden continues to put the blame on others, vladimir putin, oil companies, but an increasing number of americans are blaming president biden, according to the latest poll numbers. that is now leading many democrats to both publicly and anonymously question whether the president should seek a second term. white house correspondent peter doocy leads us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. a quick check of numbers that have changed since president biden s inauguration day, gas prices are now twice as high and the average price, the dow jones industrial average stocks are