For one last visit. For viewers who havent seen 0 one of your 20 appearances on the Program Since 2003, remind them what the National Taxpayer advocate does the National Taxpayer advocate is appointed by the secretary of treasury and serves in the Internal Revenue service and had the organization Taxpayer Advocate service to help taxpayers solve theirproblems with the irs and im charged with meeting making administrative recommendations to congress , to mitigate those problems and this is sort of in dispute resolution area and the complexity of the law and things like that. After 18 years, why are you stepping down . I reached a milestone birthday and want to have enough energy for the next phase of my life really 18 years is a long time. Of your final projects has been to sketch out the complexity of the taxpayer system. We will show viewers a map here that your office has helped sketch out, why are you doing that . . We had had a roadmap as a teaching tool for my employees, a very hi
Your thoughts on the president s Foreign Policy. What is your confidence level . Democrats 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001, an independents, 202 7488002. Join the conversation on twitter cspanwj, or go to facebook. Com cspan. The phone lines are open. We will get your thoughts in a minute, but many foreignpolicy headlines in the papers with running from iran to iraq, afghanistan. We begin with the fight against isis and iraq. Here is the headline in the Washington Times this morning. Take a look at what defense secretary Ashton Carter had to say up on capitol hill when he testified before the senate. [video clip] sec. Carter we have an obligation to support those fighters, and we will have to decide under what conditions in what way we will make that tactical decision when we introduce them, but i think the main thing is that we increase that number from what is now a very small number, and im not surprised that it is running on television, into a much larger number. I think we ca
This memorial day weekend, book tv features three days of nonfiction books and authors. Here are some programs to watch for. Tonight at 10 00, on afterwards, amy goodman interviews tamara thet sleeping gian,t how working class will transform america. On sunday at 10 00 115, an interview with the editorinchief of one world. He discusses his work with the likes of jayz and the author of the awardwinning book between the world and me. Sunday evening at 10 00, a Book Release Party for steve hilton and his book more human. A former Senior Adviser to David Cameron an cofounder of crowd we need to redesign our economic and political systems to meet the needs of americans today. Then on monday, memorial day, an extra day of book tv featuring on the intellectual life of thomas jefferson. A talk radio hosts on the importance of the 10 commitments and npr on the right to die movement. Go to book tv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Now a look at th economice state of Silicon Valley with Tec
In my give rise to the appearance of a conflict of interest. Wisdoms in its infinite allowed to the independent counsel law to expire. The attorney general retains the authority to designate an individual was a special counsel. The irs and how untruthful they have been. Legislation that reenacts the ethics in Government Act of 1978. So an independent counsel can be appointed. I have a great deal of respect for the two members before the committee today. Ive been fortunate to work with both of them. They have called for the impeachment of the irs commissioner. They led she obstructed justice and committed perjury. Their ownch conducted investigation into the socalled irs targeting scandal. It uncovered various management problems there was no evidence allegations of criminal behavior. Or that he deliberately misled congress. There is no evidence that the commissioner acted in bad faith. This includes over 78,000 emails sent or received by lois lerner. Hard to challenge this as an attemp
This is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Its tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie chlgt we have willie in for matt this morning and this battle between apple and the government just got even more interesting. Remarkable twist yesterday when one of the Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley, bill gates, came out on the side of the government against apple. And now weve seen titans of industry and Silicon Valley line up on differing side. A top story is politics. And the first test out west in the republican president ial race. Todays nevada gop caucus and of course next weeks super tuesday contests are looming large for both parties today. Lets start our coverage with peter alexander. Peter, good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump in the drivers seat in this race and yet his rivals have barely toochd them. Tonight the sauk can you say will pit trump against marco he spent a lot of his childhood here and has more f