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Everything on your taxes. that means, producing receipts, in the case of comey there was a question about a printer cartridge that he had bought two years earlier that he had taken a right off on. and whether he could come up with that receipt, or if there was an amex fee linked to back that up. as you are pointing out, comey had claimed dependence, to show that those dependence existed, that his children actually existed, he had to present a family christmas card. to the irs. a technical means ...

How much worse could it have been if there wasnt somebody telling donald trump, you cant do that. you shouldnt go to capitol hill. and we will see if pat cipollone confirmed on friday that he was one of those people. >> again, i wonder what he had to say to vice president mike pence who was no longer in the room but at the capitol, and actually, well really the one left standing. alex, elie, thanks so much. nice hearing from both of you. new tonight, the most intensive random audit the irs doe...

Returns. and i just assumed -- i took the irs at their word. and i just assumed that was right. i will say that my wife was suspicious from the beginning, and had a few choice words for me about it. an i should have listened to her. looks like maybe theres something else going on here. >> im going to be on her side naturally, andrew. of course, youre thinking about your wife. youre thinking about the idea that you believed at first blush, you trusted the fact that if you got the audit, everythin...

President trump and he had an op-ed that president trump did not have to provide personal tax returns before he was appointed. what do we know about him and any potential role of the selection of these two men to be part of this random audit? >> the irs in response to questions from us says the commissioner plays no role in the selection of this, that he had no discussions with the white house, any white house, about any particular type of audit, or law enforcement matter, so they pretty forcefu...

Returns. what are the chances that not one, but two people who former president trump considered foes would be targeted? "the new york times" reports that both former fbi director james comey and former deputy director andrew mccabe were subjected to this invasive audit. it actually is something that costs the person who gets it a lot of money, even if they did nothing wrong. joining us now is one of those two people, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director of the fbi andrew mccab...

Audit as a quote autopsy without the benefit of death. and the odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are roughly one out of 30,600. now, in the end, these audits didnt finds anything. mccabe told "the new york times" he and his wife owed the government a small amount of money which they paid, comey and his wife actually overpaid their taxes and this audit led them to getting a refund. but it cost $5,000 in accounting fees and comey had to turn over personal information and bank...

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Reaction. i had no idea that jim comey had been subjected to the same audit. i didnt know that until the reporter who wrote the story contacted me, kind of out of the blue. we got the letter, i think, in october of 2021. and so the letter says, you know, on its face, youve been randomly selected for this research program that is designed to, you know, give the irs information about how people are meeting their tax obligations. so i just took it at face value and assumed it was actually random, i...

Former FBI director James Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe were both selected to undergo rare, intensive audits, which take months to complete and cost thousands of dollars...

Occurred, the irs was run by a trump appointee. comey, who said trump demanded his loyalty in a private dinner, was fired four months after trump took office. it led to robert muellers investigation into possible links between the trump campaign and russia. it also led to mccabes promotion to acting fbi director before he, too, was fired one day before he was set to retire. in a statement to the "times," the irs notes any allegations of wrongdoing are passed along for further review. a trump spo...