I am delighted to im delighted tote welcome our esteemed panelist to discuss the Agencies Agency has implement solutions to all should have all full biography and to give a brief rundown joined by Fred Goldberg who had multiple irs treasury leadership roles and assistant secretary of treasury. And then to serve as irs commissioner through 2002 and a founder and director of shrink that tax gap and currently a Senior Advisor focus primarily on investments in the field of it and Business Services including leadership roles including cofounding American Management systems and finally serving as irs commissioner 2013 through 2017 is now retired previous work includes various positions at freddie mac omb as well aso the local dc government. Thank you to the panelists once again commissioner all of you were put through the ringer by lawmakers at multiple points my memories of your grilling are the freshest what advice would you give to the recently announced nominee for the commissioner as he
Cspan editor unfiltered view of government. And more including sparklight. Television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Three former irs commissioners discuss nearly 80 billion in federal investments in the agency under the inflation reduction act. The urbanbrookings Center Hosted the discussion. I am delighted to welcome our esteemed panelists who will discuss some of the challenges that the irs has faced over the years, as well as the opportunities that the agency has now to implement solutions. You all should have the full biographies of our speakers and panelists, but just to give you a brief rundown, were joined by fred goldberg, who had multiple irs and treasury leadership roles during the 80s and 90s, irs chief counsel, irs commissioner, and tax policy. He was subsequently a tax partner until 2017 and has been there ofcounsel. And we also have charles rossotti. The author of shrink the tax gap, im sure well discuss to. And a Senior Advisor focused on investment
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Longanticipated conversation. He was booked on the show once before, and we couldnt do it because of breaking news. But finally hes here. And finally glenn beck and i have something we agree on. And also tonight, the softening of donald trump continued, although even while he is softening before our very eyes he insists that he is still very, very strong. There certainly can be a softening. A softening. The softening. Why do it at all . Every once in a while i could probably do i could make statements maybe a little bit differently. Why did we have to hear about oh, the poor hardworking illegal with the children . If i soften things up in terms of statements made, that would be okay. Its very difficult to figure out what his actual policy is. Ill be able to make sure that when you walk down the street youre not going to be shot. Wow. You want to know where trump stands on immigration, youll just have to wait until a year ago. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists
Hes one of those optimistic people ive ever met in my life. Hes been saying that Hillary Clinton looks unwell. Im not a doctor. Im not a doctor. Can you open the jar of pickles. [ applause ] trump then admitted he thinks anyone over 35 looks like shes dying. He thinks the reason trump is behind in the polls, hes been too civil. And now the gloves are off the tiny gloves. This is the last word on campaign 2016. Donald trump is softening, thats his word, softening and sean hannity is softening. Sean hannity is openly devoted to donald trump than trumps friend. I dont know what just happen today the tv screen. Sean hannity has agreed with every single thing donald trump has said as a candidate, including Donald Trumps promise to deport all the undocumented people in this country. I think everybody about Donald Trumps plan is wrong, but its simply impossible to achieve. He cannot deport 11 Million People. Sure he can. Now that donald trump is abandoning at least, temporarily, the promise t