legal risk if we bring felony charges they llri be reduced to misdemeanors and we re investigating a whole slew, as you mentioned, of other felony charges, so the first time in my tenure when this came up, we took the decision let s table the hush money situation. we referred to it in the office internally as the zombie case because it arose from the dead, went back into slumber, rose from the dead and happened a number of times so decided to keep the zombie case in the grave for the moment until we got further down the road of investigation then toward the end of the investigation as i ve said, we intended to join those charges with the more consequential charges that we hoped to bring regarding the years of false financial statements. ial mentioned in the introduction that there were at least nine different sort of
he pled guilty to a federal elections it s not clear from the language of the statute. then another crime, that raises misdemeanor to a felony, can be a federal offense. it may be that that works, it may not be that that works, it s an undecided issue under new york law. so when we first looked at, it we saw edgy, there s a real risk here, a legal risk that if we bring felony charges, they ll be reduced to misdemeanors. and, we are investigating a whole slew, as you mentioned, of other felony charges. so, the first time in my tenure, when this came up, we took the decision, let s table the hush money situation. we refer to it in the office, internally, as the zombie case. because it rose from the dead, it went back into slumber, and arose from the dead. it happened a number of times. so we decided to keep this is on the case, in the grave, for the moment, until we got
charges, so the first time in my tenure when this came up, we took the decision let s table the hush money situation. we referred to it in the office internally as the zombie case a because it arose from the dead, went back into slumber, rose from the dead and happened a ea number of times so decided to keep the zombie case in the grave for the moment until we got further down the road of investigation then toward the end of the investigation as i vi said, we intended to join those charges with the more consequential charges that we hoped to bring regarding the years of false financial statements. i mentioned in the introduction that there were at least nine different sort of criminal areas of inquiry about potential criminality that the r d.a. s office was looking into at the time you joined. you say one of them was the hush money payment to stormy daniels. another one was taxes, potential improper business expense deductions, deductions of consulting fees in his
ukraine has done more than any nato has done and to cut russian down to size, and china has to have buyer s remorse over their partnership with russia, and china has to be seeing now the west has been awakened from their post cold war slumber and is ready to do something to help ukraine to fight for democracy and freedom and liberty in the face of this brutal russian onslaught. dan, on the flip side of that, the united states has been forced to spend tens of billions of dollars, and focusing on china seems to be compromised yet again. how much has that hurt the u.s. posture in east asia? well, look, i think the united states i saw this from my decades of service at the cia. we could talk all we want what
cannot do it until the audit i finished, obviously. it is under, i i will revisit when the audit i completed. my tax returns are very simple, they are under a minor routine audit as they have bee for many years every year i get audited at the appropriate time hourly slumber right now amateur routine audit, nobod cares. now, when donald trump was candidate there was no way o verifying whether he was actually being audited as soon as he became president he became subject to a one lin provision in the irs handbook, also dating back to the 70s, the handbook specifies that th individual tax returns for the president and the vice president are subject to mandatory review so, during his presidency donald trump was being audited like every other america president, right wrong! that is the big revelation i tuesday s report from the hous ways and means committee which found that the irs did