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The presidential audit program. thats the program in which the president and vice presidents tax returns are audited when a new administration comes into office. brooke? >> thank you very much. the key witness in the middle of the scandal says he doesnt believe joe biden did anything wrong and his testimony doesnt stop there. we have part of the transcript for you and the damning text messages linking an investigation to presidential meeting, a former federal prosecutor will pick through each ...

Almost as an afterthought. under federal law, chairman neal has the right to request the presidents tax returns, which he did, back in april. ever since chairman neal has been quietly arm wrestling the treasury department for them. that case was a real sleeper until late august when chairman neal suddenly released a mountain of legal filings and buried in there was this bombshell. quote on july 29th, 2019, the committee received an unsolicited, the word unsolicited is underlined in here, an unso...

Presidents taxes. now that whistle-blower has been flying under the radar. we get our first heads up in august when the famously understated chairman of the house ways and means committee, ritchie neil, let it slip. chairman neil has the right to request the presidents tax returns which he did in april. ever since chairman neil has been quietly arm wrestling the treasury department for them. that case was a real sleeper until late august when chairman neil suddenly released a mountain of legal f...

Of the president or vice presidents tax returns according to multiple people familiar with the document. officials dismissed the whistleblowers complaint as flimsy because it is based on conversations with other officials but congressional democrats were alarmed by the complaint now circulating on capitol hill and flagged it to a federal judge. they are also discussing whether to make it public. the existence of this whistleblower complaint was first disclosed in august in august who wrote that ...

Alarmed by the complaint, now circulating on capitol hill and flagged it to a federal judge. they are also discussing whether to make it public. the existence of this whistle-blower complaint was first disclosed in august in court filings by the house ways and means chairman richard neal who wrote that the complaint reveals, quote, potential inappropriate efforts to influence the mandatory audit program. democrats are demanding president trumps tax returns be released in accordance with a law th...

Returns, he basically argued that this audit program was not enshrined in law and wanted to look at whether or not there was undue political influence depending on whether youre a democrat or republican coming into office. right now every time a new administration comes in, the president and vice presidents taxes are audit. that program is pretty secret. theres not a lot of information known about it. this whistle-blower is alleging theres undue political pressure. im continuing to try to call s...

Whistle-blower is a registered democrat. that is the bias. the ig acknowledged the bias in his statement that said didnt change the facts of the whistle-blower complaint. the attorney for the whistle-blower declined to give us a comment. more breaking news, "the washington post" is reporting new details on another whistle-blower, this one a career official from the irs. cnns lauren fox joins me now live. what can you tell us about this "washington post" report? >> "the washington post" reporting...

Appointee who was seeking to improperly influence the presidential audit program and that would be significant because again, back in the spring when richard neil requested the presidents tax returns he did so under the guise that they needed to learn more about how the presidential audit program was being audited. we do know there was this whistle-blower because back in court documents there was a letter to steve mnuchin and it said that a person had come forward back in july expressing the con...

Audit program. the administration has dismissed this claim, arguing that this was hearsay, that this person didnt have any direct knowledge. we learned about the individual filing with the house ways and means committee because richard neil, chairman of that committee, wrote a letter to treasury secretary steve mnuchin. if you remember the presidential audit program is at the center of that lawsuit that house ways and means chairman richard neil filed for the presidents tax returns. basically he...

Improperly interfere with the annual audit of either president trump or vice president pences tax returns. keep in mind, president trump as we all know has refused to release his returns, doing obviously interfering with that audit could be a serious violation of the law. lauren fox is out front. so, lauren, what else do you know, have you learned about this whistle-blower complaint? >> erin, we do know the presidential audit program is an automatic program when a new president and a new vice pr...