something to talk about. plus, more of my exclusive interview today with congressman benny thompson who s the chair of the january six committee. we ll give you more the hunter before we talk about everything from where the country goes now to the direct line he sees from january 6 to 4 for president trump. and, southwest airlines is finally getting their travel troubles under control. after leaving thousands of passengers stranded for days. we are talking to the vice president of the southwest flight attendants union, about how this debacle might have been avoided. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say. . we after years of legal wrangling, americans are finally getting a look at former president donald trump s financial records from before and even during his time as president, now, donald trump infamously bugged nearly 50 years of tradition by refusing to just close this financial records to the public. and, this is a problem because nearly every presiden
loopholes. would anything in the inflation reduction act affect what donald trump was able to do with these tax returns? i think the biggest thing in the inflation reduction act with the roughly 80 billion dollars that are added to the irs. one of the things that comes out of this investigation by the ways and means committee is, that the irs didn t have enough resources to really go through all of these. again, this is such a complicated. stuff for folks to understand it at home, basically the irs have to figure out what all of these companies are, and whether the deductions that he is, claimed the exemptions, the charitable deductions, are actually legitimate. each one of which can be its own investigation. so, i think that money is probably the biggest thing. there were some efforts to close loopholes in the tax code. some of them didn t make it through because some of the senators on the democratic side didn t love them. kyrsten sinema, in particular. but some of the other ones w
not at the level of over a billion dollars that made those loophole closures were aimed at. we have to go, very quickly, the irs as opposed to audits a president while they are president. it is something that happened. it is a formality. something it happens to every president. they didn t an audit donald trump. the reason they re getting is because we, too many pastors? does that stand up to muster. the reason they are giving us that there weren t enough resources. and it just really, there is a report from an irs agent basically saying that the pastors are part of it. in order to understand what underlies all of these claims, you have to go investigate all of. them we it seems unthinkable to me that irs, with tens of thousands of people working there, it didn t have the ability to do that if donald trump s administration had wanted donald trump s taxes looked out, they would like to. i think it seems unthinkable to me, i was. well maybe some folks that. home john allen, thank y
that s what dr. king called the right to vote, the most powerful, important tool to end oppression, and to create opportunity, but it s unfortunate that while two of our colleagues on the democratic side didn t join us, not one rop joined us, even on the bill. forget about the rules change. you would have thought that the 16 republicans led then by senate mcconnell, the republican leader in 2006 who voted to the extent of the voting rights act then that what s the difference between 2006 and now, that 16 of them that voted with us then did not vote with us last night. had they voted with us, we, in fact, would have passed these significant pieces of legislation to guarantee the sacred right to vote, and there would have been no rules change necessary. yes, i m extremely disappointed but that won t stop us from using the justice department to
reasonable doubt. all of a sudden cries for impeachment from the democratic side didn t seem super unreasonable thinking about the ideas of dereliction of duty or abuse of power or the fact he just regularly lies and what type of abuse of power that is and how irresponsible people thought that is. you saw donald trump completely weakened in front of putin. it was it s crazy. you just brought up the i word. i did. i ll say it again. impeachment. fellow democrats are throwing things at the television. is that worse than treason? no. but on the raw politics. yeah, yeah, why. that will embolden republicans. i question the potency of the russia issue politically in midterms. i did. what i would be watching for is whether or not it changes.