jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, jacqui. hey, gillian, good evening to you. u.s. officials revealed today that the u.s. has not formally requested a phone call with chinese president xi jinping despite president biden saying yesterday that they expected to be talking soon. we re learning that they re hoping that secretary of state antony blinken will first be able to smooth things over and make contact with his chinese counterpart at the munich security conference next week. but, if no meeting ends up happening, it will be a telling sign of where u.s.-china relations stand. chinese spy balloon lifted from the ocean store from south carolina. quantico. we learned a lot already from the balloon by surveilling it while it was flying over the country. we re going to learn even more, we believe, by getting a look at the guts inside it. but u.s. officials are warning we may not learn much more about the three likely harmless objects sho
democrats are not only paying for this $700 billion tax and spend package by raising taxes, super sizing the irs to bring more muscle on so they can go after taxes. the tax reduction act the senate passed over the weekends gives the irs $80 billion to add agents to their roster spending money to bring in more money. this is six times the current annual budget of the irs. half of the $80 billion goes to inflation efforts, having auditors pour over taxes with a fine tooth comb to make sure they re paying their fair share. we also empowered the irs to go after wealthy tax cheats so that we collect taxes that are already to you and owing from very wealthy people that try to hide their income. not contribute to the country. the white house and the irs commissioner insists that audit rates for anyone making less than $400,000 will not increase. but last year half hoff all irs audits were people making $75,000. republicans say there s no way that the irs can guarantee that a bee
Leaders. A new report out of the region stays the attack could come today or tomorrow. President biden has a familiar warning for iran tonight but also seems to concede an attack could be coming soon. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich picks up the story tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. Since hamas attacked israel on october 7th. President biden has repeatedly warned iran not to escalate conflict in the region through its proxies. Now that iran is vowing direct action, including potentially against u. S. Troops as well, President Bidens going a step beyond the word dont. My expectation sooner than later. Jacqui when imminent attack on israel expected President Biden delivering a short warning to iran. Dont. Jacqui turning around to spell it out. We are devoted to the defense of israel. We will support israel. We will help defend israel. And iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. Jacqui iran reportedly issued the Biden Administratio
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