citizens and not the irs. jonathan: we ve only got about ten seconds here. should elon musk on twitter except that free speech as free speech? he seems to be banning people now that he doesn t like. i believe it that was about was he doesn t mind if people are actually criticizing him his issue was that people were putting the exact location of where he and his family weren t putting them in jeopardy. there is a back-and-forth. elon musk is a character that w are all starting to figure out we will see what happens in the future. i like to see free speech and see us protect their first amendment rights as americans make sure that they are following that. i think a lot remains to be see by elon musk but he s a controversial character appeared . that is for sure. claudia tenney, thank you very much for being here this evening . president biden headlined at town hall in delaware friday an relayed a story about awarding metal to a us servicemember in
agents are going through. jonathan: he should go there. just on the question of irs agents pay or that will bring washington post op-ed. it s a false equivalence to say that we are hiring a lot more irs agents to watch americans. they set in this op-ed and this is a quote, in the mid-1990s the iris template 15,540 revenu agents to audit taxpayers. today that number is 8,200. so they are saying this is simply bringing the irs back to the strength of it should be. so why should the money be take away and why do we not need mor irs agents. why do we have a simpler tax policy where we have less taxes and more freedom and more prosperity where we have less irs agents on the truth is irs agents are typically there to assist customers. psalm dupree dino who assists
americans who have had some tim both while recovering from the pandemic restrictions but by stepping away from their job, they could have been free to watch these hearings are what w saw was a record low. people were interested in the want to read stories about it and they didn t want to see it, news coverage. but the idea that this committee s report is somehow going to galvanize the election dream on. jonathan: okay, gentlemen, thank you so much thank you for talking with us tonight. the demonstration is broken and unwelcome record in 2022, intercepting the largest number of firearms brought by passengers to airport security checkpoints per tsa officers have found more than 6300 firearms this year 88% of which were loaded in an effort to ste
difference from 20 years of fighting, you know, a war with so many casualties and so much death. that s been the almost disorienting things from so many veterans i ve been talking with, to watch americans side by side working with the taliban, the very people they fought when they went in and now leaving the country to the taliban the way it was when the united states went in 20 years ago. john hudson, thanks so much. joining us investigative reporter for the washington post, craig whitlock, author of the book the afghanistan papers, out today. also with us mike barnicle. craig, there s a lot to talk about and reflect on, and that s what your book does with more than 1,000 interviews that you conducted to put this together. what did you find in part one as you break this into pieces? the initial mission. just from the beginning sort of