organization. she was making half a million dollars a year when these payments went out, and it s a related party, like, why are you paying and the irs doesn t look kindly on this when you have an officer and then a related party who is getting compensation and bonuses and could potentially be illegal and it s something that they would be looking at. for donald trump it reduces his taxable income he s paying out these bonuses, potentially going in some cases we know to his children and that could also be avoiding the gift tax. so there s a lot going on there, and they re looking at that one issue. and is this also a tax break for the corporation in that they well, it would it s reducing donald trump s taxable income and so there s just less tax being paid that the irs would be wanting. joyce, the pushback, of course, from don junior and others is this is penny
security forces. and especially the women. the women and girls who were able to be educated for the last 20 years under american leadership and as you pointed out this morning on the toda show don t want to return to the middle ages. no, this is 20 years and you have to think of this as this has not just been 20 years, but a generation. the average age in afghanistan the median age is 19 1/2. so most people in this country have been born under the american presence here. that includes women. that includes girls. all these young people who have a different kind of expectation and they don t want to go back to living under medieval taliban rule by any stretch of the imagination, but they feel powerless right now as this militia group which has been fighting against the united states for 20 years and has gotten better at fighting by sharpening its knife against american armor for so long as it
antibecause they couldn t get us on something bigger and the pushback also countering that, rebutting it from one of the prosecutors were the corporations that wanted to cooperate make amends and don t take us twice to the supreme court to fight any cooperation and stop anyone from voluntarily testifying and they haven t been brought before the grand jury. this pushback is a strategy that we ve seen before from the former president and people in his orbit. you ll remember that during the mueller investigation when he was being investigated for obstruction of justice, his lawyers and those around him began to minimize obstruction as just the process crime even though we know it s significant and goes to the heart of the justice system. so now we see them minimizing. it s just fringe benefits, what every other company does, a scheme that was persistent over 15 years and that saved them hundreds of thousands of
cases regular afghan army are walking away. the taliban will arrive and they will have a negotiated surrender, surrendering their weapons and surrendering their bases and the afghan, and the taliban will, in some cases give them money, bus fare home in kind of an act of humiliation say thanks for your weapon. here s a few dollars, actually around $100 per person now go home and don t come back. that has happened about 50 times in the last two months. so there is a real serious concern that the afghan security forces without american support are in a state of collapse, and that s the ground forces let alone their air force or their use of sophisticated weapons. some of this is a lack of confidence, some of this is because the afghan security forces feel a little demoralized. they feel like they are being abandoned and they are worried what could happen to them in the future, but the signs we are