we re going through a similar dance right now after the president s son pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges drawing a chorus of conservative criticism for a sweet settlement that includes only probation, but now we come to the irs whistleblowers who have been all but ignored by the press and, of course, we have to be cautious about unproven claims. but the new york times, to its credit, broke with the pack by saying it confirmed independently based on a source that a second unnamed irs official claims david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, asked, the oj for special powers to the doj for special powers to pursue the case outside the state and was turned down. whistleblower gary shapley has said he was not the sole decision maker in the case and that he was constrained in the probe. you convinced looking back at this now that this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? there were definitely hindrances that aye never seen before in my 14
weissmann who will join us in a few minutes, but we begin with the news that has made today one of those days that we will simply never forget around here. a global outpouring of grief after queen elizabeth ii passed away earlier today at the age of 96. the queen, who has reigned over the united kingdom and 15 other countries all over the world for 70 years die at balmoral castle, that s her summer home in scotland. all four of the queen s children were by her side in her final moments. these pictures show princes andrew and edward along with her grandson arriving at balmoral earlier today. her son charles is now the king taking the throne as king charles iii. he calls the death of his mother, a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family, adding this, quote, during this period of mourning and change my family and i will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect ask deep affection in which the queen was so widely held. it is difficult t
and president trump said he wasn t given any head s up that the search was happening. how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? i didn t have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trump s attorneys. let s bring in a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. today the doj will submit their proposaled reed redactione judge. and of course this will all be unser seal, but you ve been through this redaction process before. what do you anticipate the redactions will look like, will we actually learn any new information? it is interesting, i have been through literally hundreds of these. and what the redactions will look like, you will see the affidavit and it will and i
difficult because hay can t pass anything. olivia, one thing you have to say about kevin mccarthy with all the pressure and cross-pressures that he s under that in contrast to a certain president, he is very accessible to journalists. he is. and, you know, there was a moment when he was the minority leader where i think a few reporters were calling him out saying he wasn t doing press conferences as he was facing different scandals. but since he became speaker, we re giving him credit, he s been accessible, he s been holding sort of weekly press conferences like pelosi did except he s doing them in a different matter. he s doing them standing up or outside his office, and he wants people to see the capitol is open and accessible. so we do have a lot of access to him. howard: after the break, how the president sold the press on using bidenomics and how should the media deal with rfk jr. s falsehoods?
and then the ncaa says canceling $10,000 is like pouring a a bucket of ice water on a forest fire and that biden must recognize and regard student debt as a racial issue. is that valid criticism? sure, and that is why it is such a difficult problem. tremendous cross pressures on the white house here, you ve got strong constituents saying that we need more help and then you have the larger economic concerns as you said. the inflation ground has moved under the feet of the administration since the beginning of joe biden s term in office. now, the inflation problem seems to be getting a little bit better now. it may have peaked but it is still a concern and that is the basis of a lot of criticism from republicans as well as some democratic economists like larry summers. and i d caution people that this could be a game changer for so many families, but anybody