testimony for house, ways means committee. good morning everybody friday, dana has the day off. jacui, welcome back to new york. jacqui: i am jacqui heinrich. veteran tax crimes investigator claiming cover up by the justice department using political interference. shaply saying he was so concerned the way federal prosecutors were handling this case he felt obligated to go pubic. when i saw the egregiousness no longer became a choice. it was something i don t want to do but have to do. jacqui: live at the justice department. david? reporter: gary shaply behind closed doors, members house side. shap ly has been with the irs 1 years as an investigator. he was essentially told the slow walk the investigation. he is still irs employee. we know via various sources that is the hunter biden tax investigation that began in 2018 coming up on half a decade. he joined the probe in 2020. he is going to meet with staff members if they are still in town before the holiday weekend. h
the fed scrambling to tame prices for seven consecutive rate increases bringing interest rates to the highest level in 15 years. chairman power makes it clear that at the final meeting of the year there is more work to do and more payment had. you wish there was a completely painless way to restore price stability. there isn t. this is the best we can do. but i do think that the markets are confident that we will get inflation under control we are certainly highly committed to do that. bringing in our panel. and editorial board member kyle peterson. mary, i appreciated the candor of the fed chair what this will take that what are your lessons of policy? what you have to take away from that clip is that jerome powell understands the importance of credibility if that is not a credible manager of inflation, then it gets out of control. it was just over one year ago that jerome powell said that transitory may not be the best way to describe the inflation problem and since t
this war that a father of two is returning to this week. reporter: kate, this is the retall reality of the war on the front line in ukraine where they are fighting day after day, and they are saying that the russians have a meat grinder tactic of wave after wave where there are mass casualties on side after side, but they want the world to see what is happening, and what the soldiers are going through, and we have heard from the armed commander of the armed soldiers who has said that the war is at a stal stalemate, and both sides are locked in just to hold on to the ground and just to hold on to the trenches, and really, oleg is perplexed. he says that ukraine at the moment is not winning this war. but seeing in terrifying detail what these soldiers are up against on the front lines is so important. anna, thank you for that great reporting and bringing it to us. sara? and now to the war in the middle east, and a cease-fire violation that is blaming hamas, and hamas bl
now present biden calls it a whacko notion. how many americans receive welfare, under tanif $500 a month, food stamps, $372. they can stay on if they look for work, 20 hours a work. conservatives say it is not so much to ask able bodies adults to meet the standard. americans say it is perfectly appropriate. so right now you have a stal stalemate. unable or unable to work. republicans say they want to drive more americans into the workforce, jacqui? jacqui: democrats put a red line on the medicaid portion.
that is a stal stalemate. paul: is that where we are? because there is some talk that russia made planning the offensive planning through belarus that would be aimed that they are in a position for those new offenses. and i don t think that they had that combined arms capability to do that we have seen multiple failures in russian logistics and the russian president this week and with those russian failures and things like getting encrypted information