i'll see you at the end of tomorrow. >> tonight on all in. >> reducing the irs does not make a lot of sense to me. >> ignoring ukraine, ignoring gaza, the maga conditions for aid to israel. >> making it much easier for the ultrarich to cheat on their taxes. how the heck could that be their highest priority? >> tonight, the republican plan to make billionaire tax cheats great again. plus, what's happening with hostages and the humanitarian collapse inside gaza, as the israeli invasion continues. then a day before his adult sons testify, is the indicted ex president already violating his gag order? and senator sheldon whitehouse on subpoenas for republican megadonor's over lavish spending on supreme court justices. >> i would like to keep that, friends. >> when all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. the united states congress began this week with the speaker of the house and both of its chambers in session. the last time that was true, we were an entirely different world. just remember, it was on october 3rd, when a small group of maga republicans fired the last speaker, kevin mccarthy, plunging the house into chaos. it was just four days after that on october 7th that hamas broke through the border between gaza and southern israel and slaughtered 1400 people in israel, including men, women, children, and taking another 200 plus hostage. israel then enacted a complete and total blockade in gaza, cutting off basically all food, water, and fuel. three weeks of sustained airstrikes and now a ground invasion, all of which together have cost thousands upon thousands of civilian lives. the gaza health ministry, which is controlled by hamas, -- statistics have proven broadly accurate in prior conflicts says the death toll in gaza is over 8500 people. here at home, political battles are being waged over a new military aid to israel, along with additional aid to ukraine and its ongoing war against russia. which president biden has asked congress to authorize. something -- previously not able to do, as the house didn't really fully exist. it was in this liminal space with an interim speaker, with no formal powers. it took three weeks for the republican conference to get its act together to finally elect a new speaker. but now that louisiana republican mike johnson has been sworn in, the house republican majority is ready to govern. speaker johnson is laser focused on what really matters, the most important issue on the minds of the american people, making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes. not only does johnson want to uncouple aid to ukraine from the aid to israel bill, against the will of both the white house and the bipartisan consensus in the senate, he's also demanding that any money for israel be paired with cuts to the irs, whose job it is to audit the very wealthy and make sure they are paying what they owe. and while johnson and his maga confederates are referring to this plan as a way to offset the spending, it's actually the opposite. independent alysts including a nonpartisan congressional budget office point out that gutting the irs actually raises the deficit rather than lowers it, because more funding for the irs means more accountability for rich folks trying to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. which means, does, more revenue for the government. cutting that funding, meanwhile, means less revenue for the government and thus higher deficits. it's expensive. today, speaker johnson met with secretary of state anthony blinken, who presumably made the white house's case for -- leaders of both parties in the senate made it clear, the speaker's alternate plan was a total nonstarter. >> the house gop bill is woefully inadequate and has the hard rights fingerprints all over it. it makes aid for israel, who's just faced the worst terrorist attack in its history, contingent on poison pills that reward rich tax cheats,. in short, it makes it much, much harder to pass aid for israel. it is insulting that the hard right is openly trying to exploit the crisis in israel, to try and reward the ultra rich. >> well, let me just say that conceptually, conceptually, senator schumer and i are in the same place, in the sense that we view all of these problems as connected. ukraine, is part of it. obviously, israel enjoys overwhelming support, but we think it's also important that we have a part related to asia, and that's taiwan. >> here's an interesting thing. for decades, about partisan policy consensus in washington, especially under republicans, and one that i think there is reason to be a little skeptical of, right? ? has been that defense spending doesn't count, doesn't need to be offset, it should not be a consideration when discussing strategies for deficit reduction. that has been a hard-core republican view. now, this latest ideological twist in the republican -controlled house that military aid for israel should be offset brings us, i think, to a really interesting question. what maga republicans actually believe? what does the party stand for? what is it trying to do as a governing entity? when donald trump was president, the answer was pretty clear. the maga movement stood for loyalty to donald trump above all else. that fact was made was explicit when the party decided not to even have an official platform in 2020, instead, ostensibly defaulting to a platform of whatever donald trump -- now. but without trump in office and especially during a protective battle for the speaker's gavel, as we've been covering on this program, i've got to confess, it's been hard to gauge, like, what are you doing? what are you guys doing? what are you trying to do? to gauge, what even the lines of factional fisher are? what is the maga caucus want? i mean, on the core issues, it seems like all of the major candidates for speaker were basically -- -- -- all hold extreme unpopular opinions on reproductive rights, namely, they want to ban abortions. they all want to slash domestic spending for the most for people in america, the social safety net. all but one supporting donald trump's attempted coup. and yet, for a while, it fell acknowledge that was the most united party but now this, i think, is really important and cannot be overlooked. or overstated. now that they have done it, they got their act together, they've chosen a speaker, he got the unanimous dissent of the caucus, then our ready, back to govern. day one, agenda item one. maga mike johnson a sense to the speakership and he's made his party's single guiding principle as clear as day. amidst all this, amidst everything that we've been covering, the images coming out of the middle east, the testimony that is so brutal and wrenching, the war in ukraine, russia, the number one priority for house republicans is what it has always been, they want to cut taxes for rich people. i mean, that was famously the only real legislative domestic policy accomplishment of the two years republicans control congress in the white house under trump. what did they get done? a big tax cut for corporations and rich people. it is once again the single binding policy ghoul, the north star for maga republicans -- washington. even amongst geopolitical crisis, involving one of america's closest allies, the maga movement will first, and foremost, above all else, focus on what it really cares about. making it easier for the yacht owners in america to commit tax fraud and get away with it. -- domestic policy adviser of president biden, she's taking part administration's new plan to combat antisemitism across the country and she joins me now. i want to start on the domestic policy front because it is something you have worked on and i have to say, i really did not, well, i should've seen it coming, but what is your reaction to the first big ask of that new republican leadership, being like, we want you to defund the tax police, basically? make it easier for people to cheat on taxes and we won't vote for aid unless we get that? >> well, i think it's a basic repudiation of the need for aid for israel, for humanitarian aid. the idea that they are saying that we should, in essence, make it easier for people to further very wealthy, the extremely wealthy, to cheat on their taxes by getting rid of irs enforcement is ridiculous. it has nothing to do with this issue, it has nothing to do with the crisis that actually really destabilizes the consensus on emergency funding. we don't have, quote, unquote, pay force. and again, this is not even a pay for because it adds to the deficit. so, it's not actually paying for the money, it's actually not a pay for for israel, because for the usual funding because it actually makes our budget deficits much worse, by making sure we have less revenue coming into the federal government. so, while it's a stop to peoples donors, it's actually not an answer in any way, shape, or form to the problems that we are seeing and honestly, in this moment of crisis it really speaks to a lack of seriousness to take on this international challenge and aid to israel, as well as aid to gaza that is so vital right now. in addition to our support for ukraine and the critical investments in border security. >> just on that point, i want to just hammer that home, it's the opposite of a pay for. that's also part of what's so wildly almost sublimely perverse about it, right? so first of all, the concessions that you don't offset the sort of emergency funding but if you're going to offset it, which is pay for, you need to raise revenue. this is the opposite. this is the irs commissioner danny werfel, daniel werfel, he says it will cost 90 billion dollars. all those funds to increase -- to all of the highest levels, he says, leaving money on the table, 90 billion dollars is more of -- than the amount of military aid being asked from the total of ukraine. i mean, that's a lot of money. >> absolutely and honestly, these are the moments where the letters and deficit reduction are just totally hypocritical. because in this moment, at this time, where we do face international crisis, where we are called on for leadership, where people talk about their support for israel, they actually are making it more difficult to pass this. this is a nonstarter in the senate and honestly, they are making this package much more expensive by getting rid of irs enforcement, which is really a bad ensuring that we have revenue into the federal government. so, it really rings hollow on every front. support for israel, support for national security, and a focus on deficits. >> now, i know your portfolio tends to be domestic policy, that's what you've been focusing on. i'm not going to ask you about specific foreign policy questions. i mean this. but i do want to ask you about the work that you are doing, meeting with jewish leaders on the antisemitism and what you've been doing, what you've been hearing has, obviously, people are still reeling from the awfulness of the attacks, but also, some of the truly vile stuff that we have seen jewish stars being repeated in perry, the images out of dagestan in russia that people chasing down an airport looking for jewish folks. what have you heard from the folks that you are meeting with? >> well, we have seen in the last several weeks a rise of antisemitic actions, acts. violence, threats of violence, and here in the united states, on college campuses and elsewhere, we saw, obviously, this weekend, an incident at cornell where there were specific threats against jewish students. all of this is horrifying. the president put forward the first national strategy to counter antisemitism. part of that was increase actions by the department of education, so before this, before october 7th, they put forward guidance that made clear that antisemitism is prohibited discrimination. in the last several weeks, they've been reaching out to college campuses and department of justice, the department of homeland security have also been engaged to just focus on the fact that violence or threats of violence against individuals or groups are just -- they are being prosecuted and there has been information out today about what's happening, what happened in cornell, but we are seeing a significant rise. i will say at the same time, in the country, we are seeing a rise in anti-muslim, anti-arab, islamophobic acts. obviously, we were heartbroken when the president expressed how heartbroken he was about the murder of a six year old child in illinois. so, we have also been combatting islamophobia and, you know, really, the presidents message here is that there is no space for hate in this country, that regardless of the events internationally, we stand against hate and our department of justice, department of education, and the department of homeland security are acting in accordance. >> all right, we, neera tanden thank you for making time tonight. i appreciated. joining me now is -- chief of talking points memo. i have to say, josh, like mike johnson rolling out, going after the irs on a bus passages past even a caricature. i can imagine, of a priority from republican house speaker. were you surprised? >> yeah, i kind of was. you know, i have pretty low expectations of the new speaker, but you know, the thing that differentiates him from a lot of the freedom caucus, he's just as right wing, he's extremely right-wing, but he's not another one of these republicans who's, you know, going on twitter and sharing pep a the frog memes, right? he's just a little more genial, he's a little softer. so, i expect that he would try to maybe get past this hurdle a little more gracefully. but as you said, this is kind of like a caricature. it doesn't even save money. it's almost, you know, republicans increasingly, is almost a philosophical basis of this is sort of like neener neener-ism, right? it's just like oh, you want that? you have to make it easier to cheat taxes and we are holding the football, so you've got to come to us. like, it's not even when, it seems stupid and kind of gross in a way that i think a pretty broad cross section of the electorate would see it that way. you know, aid for israel and ukraine is not just like liberal issue in this country. there's a lot of people who are pretty engaged with this. so, it did surprise me. >> yeah and on the sort of stupid, i mean, sometimes you know they're sort of these poison pills or sort of devious things that we are going to make you vote this terrible way for a thing that you want, we are going to jam you up, you will have to vote for, you know, whatever we think. you're going to have to vote to say you want to defund the police or whatever we think is the thing that puts you on the ideological defensive, as a sort of way of using our power. in this case, a must pass bill, you've got a bipartisan consensus in the senate, you've got the white house. i'm not saying the merits of it, i'm just saying the political reality. you can't unilaterally, this is the same place, they are in the same place of where we got to, which is, you can't unilaterally govern the entire u.s. government from a slim house majority. and it seems to me we are right back to where we were on that. >> that really is why kevin mccarthy was fired. it's exactly right. they have this very slim majority and the freedom caucus said, you promised us we could have everything. >> that's right. >> because we hold one half of congress and when he couldn't do that, they said, you betrayed us. and maybe kevin mccarthy did promise that, but that was a dumb promise, right? 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