Say you want to run the IRS. If you want to be in charge of the Internal Revenue Service, one thing you might need is a facility with numbers. Um, you might need to be good with numbers for Trump's handpicked choice to lead the IRS.Him being good with numbers sounds like this. Three and a quarter now. Half three and 1/2.400. But a four. Four and a quarter.4 and 1/2. We're selling the cell phone there. Four and a quarter.4 and 1/2. Hit four and 1/2. We're 75 500 5 and a quarter. Five and a half.I yield back. ...

happy to have you here. Um, so it was the summer of 2016. It was June 2016 and it was a terrible crime.Um, it happened in a small legal office, a legal office that specialized in uh, real estate and in immigration matters. Um, at this little legal office, somebody saw smoke coming out of the stairwell at that office. They called the fire department.Um, firefighters showed up and they did what brave firefighters do. They charged right into that burning building. Firefighters immediately found the source of t ...

a diversion. That's what a federal judge called Donald Trump's Justice Department's request to unseal the grand jury testimony in the criminal case of Gain Maxwell in which she was convicted of sex trafficking for and with Jeffrey Epstein, who said he was Donald Trump's closest friend for 10 years. Diversion is what Donald Trump is all about now more than ever. Donald Trump doesn't want the news media attention on his old friend Jeffrey Epstein and what the Epstein files might say about Donald Trump where w ...

It is time now for money power politics. Donald Trump has picked EJ Anton as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antony is the chief economist of the Conservative Heritage Foundation, the same organization responsible for Project 2025, and no surprise, he's a longtime critic of the BLS. We're also following major news in the AI race. Nvidia and AMD are expected to pay the US government 15% of the money they earn from selling AI chips to China. That essentially makes the Trump administra ...

It is day 204 of the second Trump administration and today Donald Trump announced he will take over Washington DC's police force and send in hundreds of National Guard troops in an effort to fight crime. Tonight, a White House official says those troops will be on the ground as soon as tomorrow. Trump says Washington is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, even though DC police statistics show violent crime there is at a 30-year low.My colleague Gay Gutierrez has those details and gets us started ...

Over two million lives have been saved because of mRNA technology. It helped us develop CO 19 vaccines in record time. People are going to die because we're cutting short funding for this technology. People are going to die because we are cutting short funding for this technology.That person is Dr. . Jerome Adams. If he looks familiar to you at all, that's because he was surgeon general in Donald Trump's first presidential term, saying now that people are going to die because of a newlyannounced decision by ...

a diversion. That's what a federal judge called Donald Trump's Justice Department's request to unseal the grand jury testimony in the criminal case of Gain Maxwell in which she was convicted of sex trafficking for and with Jeffrey Epstein, who said he was Donald Trump's closest friend for 10 years. Diversion is what Donald Trump is all about now more than ever.Donald Trump doesn't want the news media attention on his old friend Jeffrey Epstein and what the Epstein files might say about Donald Trump where we ...

Plan to add five Republican seats to the Texas congressional map is on hold as state house Democrats keep their walk out going. For the eighth day, the Texas chamber failed to reach a quorum. They need 100.Today, they only had 97. That means Republicans do not have the votes they need to get those seats. But this isn't just happening in Texas.Republicans across the country are trying to redraw congressional maps to their advantage. In Missouri, Republicans are pushing to split the district of Emanuel Clever ...

In Washington DC, homicides are down 32%, robberies are down 39%, armed carjackings are down 53%, assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 27%. In Washington, DC, the rates of burglaries and assaults with a dangerous weapon are at their lowest point in 30 years. Nevertheless, because he's so tough on crime, President Trump today deployed hundreds of National Guardsmen and women into Washington DC.send the US military to become the police force in Washington DC. The lead in the Washington Post tonight, quot ...

Governor Gavin Newsome is appealing straight to Donald Trump to stop the Republican plan to rig Texas's congressional map. Today, Newsome sent a letter telling Trump he'd prefer to let independent bodies draw congressional districts, not partisan legislatures. But he wrote, "Cal cannot stand idly by as this power grab unfolds." Not sure if that message will land with a president who says the quiet part out loud.I think we get five and there could be some other states. We're going to get another three or fou ...