Challengesscusses facing taxpayers with the complexity of new tax laws. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its tuesday, july 30, 2019. The Senate Continues its workweek today. At 10 00 a. M. Eastern, theyll have votes at 11 30 and lunches afterwards. The house will meet in the brief pro forma session later this morning. Were with you the next three hours on the washington journal. We begin today gauging your level of concern about the security of the 2020 elections. We want to know if you think congress and the white house have done enough to ensure the integrity of the incomes vote, which is now just over 15 months away. Give us a call this morning. Phone lines are open. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. Very good Tuesday Morning to you. Start
The u. S. Congress passed our first whistleblower law and they did it when whistleblowers sailors and marines had criticized the commander of the u. S. Navy and cooing criticizing him for mistreating british prisoners. So this was embarrassing to the u. S. Governor government. But think about it. The Founding Fathers put everything on the line. This wasnt an election. If they lost the revolution they are going to get home for treason. In the middle of that revolution they paused. They said every inhabitant of the United States should report waste, fraud and corruption even if it embarrassed the new government. And not only did they pass that law they then voted money for the lawyers for the bristle whistleblowers who had been thrown in jail and they released all the papers that were controversial, that were embarrassing to the government. And the whistleblowers won their case. Andand that was july 30, 1778. So this is not some token day. This is a day for every american to sit back and
Sailors, and marines, had criticized the commander of the u. S. Navy. Including criticizing him for mistreating british prisoners. This is embarrassing to the u. S. Government, but think about it. The Founding Fathers put everything on the line. This was not an election or paul. If they lost the revolution, they would get hung for treason. In the middle of thats revolution, they paused, and they said every inhabitant of the United States should report waste, fraud, and corruption to congress and appropriate authorities, even if it barest the new government it embarrassed the new government. They passed the law and voted money for the lawyers for the whistleblowers who had been thrown in jail. And they released all of the ,apers that were controversial that were embarrassing to the government. The whistleblowers won the case. 1778, so this30, is not some token day. This is a day for every american to sit back and say, whoa, whistleblowers have been with us for a long time and they have
Me in jail, and my government, the Internal Revenue service, paid me the largest reward in u. S. History. Sharyl as a manager at switzerlands largest bank, ubs, Bradley Birkenfeld found himself part of a massive, longstanding scheme to help wealthy americans evade taxes. Mr. Birkenfeld there were 19,000 offshore, illegal accounts with 20 billion in assets. Sharyl of americans . Mr. Birkenfeld only of americans. This was the america desk. Sharyl in 2007, he decided to blow the whistle the first banker ever to break open the legendary swiss bank secrecy. Mr. Birkenfeld they didnt find me. I sought out the doj, the irs, the sec and the u. S. Senate back in 2007. And the problem here is, is that when i gave them this information they were hostile towards me at the doj, from day one. Sharyl birkenfeld suspects hostility from doj, the department of justice, had something to do with ubss powerful connections. The bank was a top donor to thenpresident george w. Bush. Mr. Birkenfeld they had ov
Best arguments today to close the case. And nothing was off limits. Limits. He planned and he premeditated the murder of lynnsey donald, that is he had plenty of time to think about what he was going to do before he did it. It. When you investigate a little bit further is that nick obviously suffers from a severe illness and disease and so theres much more to this case. Still, the state argued luerkens Mental Health was not an excuse for his crime. Crime. Even dr. Rosell admitted that despite his depression he still had the mental capacity to understand that he was committing a crime. The Surveillance Video and the notebook that had luerkens allegedly plotting to kill donald was shown to the jury again. But the defense fired back, saying thats not the full story. Story. They act as if all you need is a video and a journal and that is not the case in this situation, thats not your job. Your job is to consider all the evidence. Evidence. In this case, the defendant Nicholas Luerkens has