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sanctions. we will not get any sanctions because the other countries will not go with it. host: ok, we are all out of time on capitol hill right now. before the senate finance committee testimony to be had about protecting taxpayers from schemes and scams during the 2015 tax filing season. that is the topic. we will bring you live coverage on c-span. welcome. the committee meets to talk about growing criminal activity that is threatening taxpayers across the country. these criminal acts are prevented by themes hiding behind telephone lines and computers, preying on august taxpayers on august taxpayers and robbing them of tens of billions of dollars a year. we are here to hear about federal and state officials on the fight to catch these crooks and protect taxpayers. first, i would you talk about one case in particular. in one very large number, by the way. this is a hearing that is long overdue as far as i am concerned. we will get into it. i have to apologize that ....
caribbean citizens who have joined the islamic extremist requests you made a comment people have gone from the caribbean. to syria. can you give us a little bit more where they are coming from what you think they are doing, and whether you have seen any indication they are trying to come back? like in our own country there is a small number reportedly that have gone radicalized one way or another in the west. larger numbers in western europe. i would suspect they will get good at, while they are in syria, killing. pick up job skills in terms of explosives and beheadings. everyone is concerned if they come home. one would expect they would come back at least as radicalized as they were with couldn t a job skills they picked up in the fight. we have any indication of any scheme to attack the u.s.? no. but the smaller countries, as i say, we take for granted in the u.s. that we have a functioning legal justice system and fbi. layers of clean police men and women. a lot ....
blue, declaring that the victim has want a lottery. in order to declare the winnings, they must first pay the tax to the irs. the lottery scam often, but not always, originates from outside of the united states. in the end, the victims pay the money, but they never received any lottery winnings. just as serious as these scams the risk of taxpayer refund identity theft. the irs has made improvements in identification of identity theft returns before fraudulent tax refunds are released. continued attention is needed to effectively combat this crime. for example, the irs still does not have timely access to third-party income and withholding information. most of the third-party information is not received by the irs until well after the taxpayers begin filing returns. the deadline for most information returns with irs is march 31. yet, taxpayers begin filing returns, this year, on january 20. this gap in time prevents the irs from conducting validity checks. legislation wo ....
close what is a gap and prevent a known or suspected terrorists from buying a gun or explosive in this country. in 2009 attorney general holder expressed the obama administration support for the legislation. i introduced similar legislation last year. the question comes for the law enforcement element of the administration to come forward and be supportive of this because the national rifle association, even opposes this. this is terrorists. we have people coming into this country meaning to do us harm, and they can go in and buy a weapon to carry it out. that is simply unacceptable. so i want to bring it to your attention you know. we have to come together and prevent this from happening. your biggest concern is the lone wolf. the lone wolf can come in unarmed, he can buy explosives the gun. this must be stopped. director comey: thank you senator? senator feinstein: no comment director comey: i have nothing intelligent to say about that. i m focused on the upper is a s ....
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: ....