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As noted by the witnesses in Opening Statements and the committee members, one of the challenges that the criminals are out there watching the Internal Revenue service. They realize that they . 1 trillion goes to the irs on an annual basis and 300 74 billion in refunds. It is a very ripe target for them. As iris continues to try and advance its filters in advance to new approaches to the fraud the criminals change because it is a lucrative environment. Our audit staff continues to look at the filters the irs has in place and comment and recommend additional or improved filters. We have seen improvement in some of them, but if he can that it continues to be a major and challenge to keep up with communal enterprise. Thank you very much. This has been a superb panel and thank you for the wonderful work that you are doing in our state particularly for older people. I think ....
There are some who say we need an executive branch of the presidency that has no restrictions at all. We dont really want to have a vote and all of this. Sort of like commanderinchief, you do that. But when it comes to diplomacy that is still unfinished, and still a work in progress, they want maximum constraints and lack of maneuverability. I think that is the fair, sort of analytical, statement. What i think is unfortunate, and have seen this over the past years, is the perceived costs of making National Security issues. I do think that the real costs in the world, how we argued around the world because of these letters, because of almost shutting down parts of the department of Homeland Security to protect us from terrorists, the perceived costs have gone down. And i hope we can rebuild that center of internationalism. Host we are going to dig our viewers in about 15 ....
Some russian making a mistake, a loose nuke idea. Do you lose sleep over that . Director brennan it has the potential for some type of cycle that was not the intention of either side. When there is a lot of violence going on that will provoke a reaction. And just a quick series of reactions to that. Whether we are talking about ukraine or the situation between north and south korea, that spark has the potential. That is why it is important to call attention to these issues. This is the time to try and keep those a bay. Charlie how do you do that . Director brennan very active diplomacy. Sometimes you need to bring to bear various tools of power. The u. S. Has a lot available to it. There are sanctions and other types of international activities. The u. S. Recognizes rightly that there are not unilateral solutions. It is important for us to work with our partners and engage in those multinational countries. Charlie can we include in our partners china . Director brennan absolutely. Chin ....
These candidates, including Pete Buttigieg, take this stage until Iowa Democrats. These results come in. 2016 would put you at about 170,000. Because thee results are particularly paramount for pete thats significant because the buttigieg. High watermark was 2008. You have a candidate who has the obama year we were talking essentially hinged his candidacy on winning the midwest against about, that was at 240,000 in donald trump next november. 2008. There was a lot of expectation and that chance to do that is right here in this state. When you look at the midterm turnout, when you look at the democratic participation in now, what we are looking at, all we can work off of right now are special elections for the last couple years, so many of those those entrance polling numbers. Here. That is why the Buttigieg Campaign ....
We want to start off this hour by going back to dasha burns watching a spirited caucus process at kennedy elementary school. Whats going on now . Hey, rachel, a lot going on. Some unexpected turns. Last time we talked to you it was right after the first alignment and Warrens Group here did not reach viability. I have an update for you. Warren has reached viability. [ cheers ] they got two Amy Klobuchar folks and one from tom steyer. Pete buttigieg getting a lot though because amy [ cheers ] Amy Klobuchar did not reach viability. There were 27 people in her group and theyve split off. Mostly between buttigieg and biden so lets talk to a couple of these folks here. All right. You were with amy. Now youre with pete. Tell me what happened. Well, amy wasnt viable so i moved over to pete. Im kind of looking for someone a little m ....