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game? lets bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book "the 100-year their mono. -- marathon." michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. >> thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour -- fury around speaker pelosis itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? >> well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to dea...

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.

Billion. 46 of it is going to a new enforcement budget which means a supersized auditing team. by the way, theyre not going to go after rich people because rich people have armies of lawyers and accountants who will battle against any of these irs audits, and theyre not going to go after the earned income tax crept because the irs doesnt want to be the seen as going after low income americans. the middle class that is going to get teed up for this, and you might as well just get a guest room rea...

What McCarthy is suggesting isn’t in Build Back Better. McCarthy is criticizing a different proposal, but he leaves out many key details.

President in some peoples eyes. >> carol, thats an insult to the president who has not only doubled the number of border patrols but also tripled the enforcement budget. what rick perry is doing is perhaps finding a solution that he can, but that is perhaps not the best use of the national guard at this moment. look, again, all of these crises, whether we talk about the iranian deal that once again not only secretary kerry but others have been involved in or the situation in gaza where secretary...

Highlight the importance of gun control in the united states. frankly, gabby giffords, her husband describes the meeting with the president. he conveyed to the president after giffords came out of her coma. her husband says to president obama, we were trying to think of what gabby wanted to convey to you. gabby would want to convey to you come back to arizona. take a look at the border and see what is happening at the borders. we have a very serious problem. >> donna, do you agree with that? mic...

Highlight the importance of gun control in the united states. frankly, gabby giffords, her husband describes the meeting with the president. he conveyed to the president after giffords came out of her coma. her husband says to president obama, we were trying to think of what gabby wanted to convey to you. gabby most importantly would want to convey to you come back to arizona and take a look at our border and see what is happening at the borders because we have a very serious problem. >> donna, ...

The irs. but the irs is the governments big profit center, every dollar spent on irs enforcement actually makes money for the federal government. here is how the acting irs commissioner explained that to house republicans last month, when he was hopelessly asking for an increase in the irs budget. >> we have asked for kind of an increase on the enforcement budget of $412 million that would yield more than $1.6 billion in annual enforcement revenue, which is a return on investment of 6 dollars re...

Do? i know you control some of the dough that funds the irs. you know, you need the irs, right? i mean at least theres an argument you need the irs and you cant defund them and -- what could you do to force force mr. werfel to give you answers and for the irs to get in line. >> hes going to understand today we could not in good conscience keep appropriating money for an agency that abuses rights. were not going to spend more money until we get answers. they need the money to do the job. we need ...

I would only add that if you outline a policy to release strategic petroleum reserve in a moderate amount over a set period of time, that would really wipe -- if you thought there were speculate torse that would wipe them out and convince them to get out of the bids of speculating the price is going to go up. the government would be releasing the oil reserve. so, if you -- >> greta: i dont get that you are so -- i dont get that you are sold on the presidents idea to do that then. you are not sol...