Odonnell good evening, and we are going tjoining us. We are going to begin tonight with the final 14 days to the election, and the frantic moves tonight by President Trump, who is tied or trailing in nearly every swing state poll. Tonight, the president is not only ramping up his Campaign Schedule with plans to make as many as five stops a day in the final sprint to november 3, hes also ratcheting up his rhetoric. Before heading to pennsylvania tonight for a rally, the president cut short a scheduled interview with 60 minutes correspondent lesley stahl. Earlier in the day, he demanded his attorney general investigate his campaign rival, joe biden. And he continued his assault on both the format and the moderator of the next president ial debate, a woman, and that debate is scheduled for this thursday. A recordshattering 33 million americans have already cast their ballots, either by mail or in person, suggesting this years turnout could be the largest in american history. And tonight,
Live from moscow thanks so much for joining us today r. T. International Daniel Hawkins welcome to the program. And we start with breaking news this hour the Prominent Russian opposition activist that accent of ali is out of an induced coma or spittle treating him and brought in made the announcement in the last hour its said to be too soon to say if you suffered any lasting damage germany said last week it would poisoned with another shock nerve agent a trauma is denied any involvement but International Pressure against moscow has been building were going to go live now to berlin and peter all of a to bring us the latest peter thanks for coming on the line there what more do we know so far about the violence condition. Well the shot at a hospital here in the german capital put out a statement on monday afternoon in which they said that Alexei Navalny had been no woken from the juiced coma that hes been in for over 2 weeks now here in berlin the statement went on to say that he was slo
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There are a lot of new people coming on and a lot of people that were there, thinking about past, have stuck around, because they know it is a new day. We have some amazing speakers to discuss the current state of the irs, priorities, the hiring and staffing plans, and what is on their desk. What we can expect in the year or two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployed division at the irs, based in washington, d. C. To my left is don fort, chief criminal Investigation Division isthe irs and to my left nina olson, National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios are online. Im going to leave you to review them, but they are amazing individuals. They have done tremendous work on behalf of the taxpayers in this country and it will be a great evening. So let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs in their divisions. Then we will go into some q a and certainly open it up to the
Have stuck around because they know its a new day. We have some amazing current priorities and staffing, some hiring plans and what is on their desk. And what we can expect in the year in two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business and selfemployed division of paris based in washington d. C. To my left come immediate left is don fort chief criminal Investigation Division ira sent to my far left is nina olson tax tier National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios or on line and if you want to review them they are amazing. They have done tremendous work on behalf of the taxpayers of this country and its going to be really great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs and their divisions and then we are going to go into some q a and certainly opened up to the audience for any questions that you might have. Marybeth, can you kick us off . I want to thank the ada for inviting