welcome back. prompt is in mar-a-lago tonight, nearly 1,000 miles from the unprecedented rally in washington, d.c., the president leaving the white house in chaos. his top lawyer in the investigation quit, and ousted hr mcmaster. let s start with you, john. new york times is reporting that the president told bolton he wants to cut down on leaks. i think most people would agree leaks are an issue. congratulations and, you know, it goes on and on, but now there s speculation does that mean he ll fire a lot of professionals on the national security council? what do you think? that s the risk. all of a sudden there s a loyalty litmus test that doesn t have to do with qualifications, but how much of a loyalist you re going to be, and that s
tax return from the internal system official use only. we immediately called for an investigation. they first investigated us to see if anybody on our side had obtained a copy of the irs version and leaked it and then the investigation quit. and we filed a series now of freedom of information act requests trying to get to the bottom of who committed this crime. it is a felony up to five years in prison for somebody in the irs to have done this. shannon: and you have filed a number of questions and freedom of information act requests trying to find out who was the person now having determined it did come internally from the irs. what has been the latest response in your push to see who did chit thi commit this c? the latest response is down right orwellian. we received a response that said any investigation for violation of the irs rules is itself protected taxpayer return information that they cannot disclose to us the