Transcripts For FOXNEWSW On The Record With Greta Van Suster

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW On The Record With Greta Van Susteren 20150203

You look at the fact that the irs has the power of intimidation, they are coming in and saying we are going to delay your tax returns because we cant get our ability together. And the president s responds is lets give the mess more money. You get more money, you get a bigger mess. Thats a major problem be. I will tell you what unglues me. A lot unglues me but this in particular. The federal employees, according to our research federal employees owe 3. 3 billion in back taxes. That means if they dock the federal employees on the payroll for the back taxes they owe we would have an extra 1. 3 because he only wants 2 billion. I might add congressional employees, 714,000 of them owe 8. 6 owe 8. 6 million. And the executive office of the president has 36 who owe taxes to the United States taxpayers. Unfortunately greta here is what is happening as well. Some of those employees, more than 1,000 employees are getting bonuses on top of their pay inspite of the fact that theyre in trouble with the irs. So, is this going to happen . Federal employees owe 3. 3 billion. We know who they are. We know where theyre and the president wants 2 billion. Thats a quick fix. Well, if we can negotiate that out we would be in better shape as taxpayers. The bottom line is the president thinks that the answer to all problems is just a little more money. And now the definition of a little is 2 billiondollar increase versus what we suggested is a 3 cut. A 3 cut you are able to continue to do those things that are important for the taxpayers. Unfortunately, what we see instead of focusing on how do we make sure that the taxpayer that has a miserable time until april the 15th every year has an opportunity at the end of the tunnel. The way that you do that is by making sure that we have an irs that is responsive to taxpayers. They are not. You have got the house. You have got the senate. The republican party. If you want to clean up the irs and you have oversight and im not going to lay this on you. But, you know, its time to clean house and to fix it we even got a situation where you have got the commissioner, testifying last year that he no more emails. We find out yes there are emails. I mean every single day we read terrible stories about the irs. But nobody does anything. Hopefully tomorrow, well start that conversation. I think senator hatch and those of us on the finance committee. We are going to sit there and ask specific questions on the 500,000 hours of for union act tiftsdz on the the fact that it costs 23 million to taxpayers or the lavish conferences 50 million in conferences. Think about glavment ask the question. Why you cant collect that 3. 3 billion in back taxes of federal employees. Why the executive offers has 36 scofflaws on the payroll. While you are at it, can you find out why reverend al sharpton is on a tax payment plan why the rest of us have to pay our taxes and he doesnt . Its interesting when you look at the dynamics of the politicization of the irs what you will find quickly there are some things that do not meet common sense whatsoever and we are just discussing some of them. We will go further, when you look at healthcare. Gov you are going to hire the very people who couldnt get that right to fix a problem that you are spending 20 of your budget on, billions of dollars. Doesnt make any sense to me. Senator always nice to see you, sir. Thank you for having me back. More budget news tonight president obama releasing a huge new budget today the president asking the congress to spend 4 trillion yes, trillion has a t in it republicans are blasting the proposal calling it a plan to raise taxes and increase desk. Our on the record Political Panel is here a. B. Stoddard and political correct rick klein. Why is it i mean, i dont know not making apologies to the obama administration. President obama wants 2 billion extra. The money is out there. The money is owed. Why dont they try to collect whats owed . The argument for the irs and this is a tough one to make you spend money to make money. Hiring more people means can you collect more of it. That hasnt worked so far. I think senator scotts point is a good one. It takesit take fundamental reordering of the agency. We have seen the scandals in the past. We havent gotten the sense of moving in the right direction. Under the environment see congress have to act on the things the president just proposed ponying up any more money. I couldnt with a straight face if i were the president ask for 2 billion more knowing that federal employees owe 3. 6 billion and 36 people in my own office owe taxes. A. B. , your thoughts on this budget you . Ither take a stab at the irs or move along to the other partive. I agree with rick, unfortunately, that it does need to be overhauled top to finish. Republicans talking privately cant enforce anything because its such a mess and they dont have enough budget to get it on the right track again. Thats terrible it . Literally has to be. And actually democrats should really run on this and talk about this. Its a popular issue with the american people. And they should talk about how important it is to overhaul the irs. The budget is not a piece of legislation, you know, your viewers should not be confused. This is an aspirational Campaign Blueprint for the next run for president. President obama dearly hopes that it remains in democratic hands. The white house when he leaves office. Can you look across it and see. He knows republicans are going to agree only on easing some sequester restraints and defense spending. Probably acting on arming the Ukrainian Army and sending some more support perhaps to people on the grouni6 e 7 i3df ;cabv;yd wauopjn4nn jv d . A5 o. na 7 [arud76d]zgikpf i guess, you know its almost like, i realize they all do it. Nice term aspirational its gaming the american people. Im not as nice as a. B. Its a term they throw around. Its a budget day term. Its gaming the american people. For instance, the stimulus act was supposed to really rev up the economy. All this money was going to go pour into the treasury so we wouldnt have to do this. That didnt happen. Aspirational gaming of the american people. Nobody wants to zero in and solve these problems. In some ways this actually is less aspirational in the sense that this is the administration admitting there is no more big deals that are left. Right now we are looking at tiny things. If they can get some buy in on the infrastructure spending, they would be through the moon on it republicans at the table on defense spending. Happy about that small pieces. Big stuff intittlezment reform not going near that here. The real structural spending stuff not here. Most of the taxes here these are things the Administration Knows the republican also never go for it. Wouldnt they be embarrassed everybody in washington the president and the house and the senate that has gotten to this that we have aspirational budgets. Irs asking for wanting tore money and they still mishandle money. Wouldnt you think someone would be ashamed . I dont know. I would be. I dont know if we are seeing a lot of shame on capitol hill or coming out of the administration. But, this is a dance that they are doing. There is a new republican majority in congress. President obama is trying to make it very clear to them for better or worse, that he is not willing to work with them. So he continues to say he is. But in everything he does from the state of the union to his Budget Proposal to really what his lt. S are are lieu tenants are doing on capitol hill. Now we move in gaming to lie when you say you are going to do something and you dont and have nittany lion tension of doing it thats a much harcher word. Im taking the last word on that. Developing now, it is grim. Isis not stopping terror group beheading another hostage. Just hours ago president obama saying this. The truth of the matter is that we are doing exactly what we should be doing to make sure that while were pushing back isil we are not creating another situation in which we are deploying massive numbers of u. S. Troops. Former Homeland Security secretary and former pennsylvania governor tom ridge joins us. Good evening governor. Good evening. Nice to be with you. The president says we are doing what she should be doing while we make sure we push back isil not deploying massive numbers of u. S. Troops. Exactly an interesting word. Im not sure what anybody know what is his strategy is clearly we can and should be doing more. The notion of avoid sending in massive number of troops that sounds like political statement than a political assessment of what is needed on the ground. Wrong on both counts. Clearly what he should be doing is recognizing the problem at large and that is radical islamist. Thats one. Check that box. He wont do that. Check that box he wont do that arming person member go the kurds directly under baghdad extreme influence from iran and taking some of that equipment we took in kuwait and giving it to the pershmurga. I think more saturation bombing strikes. They started off in very modest way three or four air strikes. It is certainly a capability we can bring to the fore. And ultimately probably going to need more troops on the ground. Not massive deployment of troops. I expect that the military commanders on the field will tell threw are certain needs for special operations people that would be forward deployment of those people in certain situations would not contain but you need to defeat this cancer. I mean we wake up every couple days and another person has been beheaded in the most evil vile way. The question that i have are we winning the war against isis . Yes or no . Winning or not . No. If we are not then we are not doing exactly what we should be doing. Isnt the point . Thats the painful thing. If were losing, our strategy is not working we better come up with a different idea or go home. Precisely. Containment is not a strategy. Containment means maintain the status quo. Containment continue to take hostages. Containment means they will continue to wreak havoc in that region in syria and iraq. That motion of notion of continuing do military involvement. Allies engage with troops on the ground because containment will get us nowhere. This whole situation will be postponed until the next administration has to deal with it this president s responsibility to be a lot more aggressive now identify the problem, radical islamists are there. They are al qaeda. They are in arabian peninsula, north africa. Taliban and they are there. Lets identify them and make sure that everybody in the world finally yandz that america gets it and were not interested in contains isil we are interested in defeating them. I think and i think we have got the to get the whole world on board. I think japan is now real interested in getting involved in this. A lot more nations as this grows. You know i thought i was deeply disappointed the president missed an opportunity to march in paris with other leaders. He could have corralled them and put them in one room. I dont think this is anything we can do alone. Someone has got to show the leadership. We are the last super power. Somebody has got to gather the leaders of the world to do this. Greta,both our friends and our foes look to american leadership. There is a vacuum there its a global scourge. It requires a Global Response and traditionally, historically the most importantly the Global Leader is the United States of america. The commander and chief is president obama lead. Governor, nice to see you, sir. My pleasure. This is a fox news alert. Another blizzard kicking off in the midwest and stretching across the northeast. No one in the path is spared by wicked weather. Commuters stranded hundreds of flights cancelled. Many in the dark with no power at this hour. On the record Live Team Coverage takes you deep into the hardest hit areas. First fox meteorologist janice dean is tracking the storm. Janice. You are lucky greta. You didnt get in on this one. Look at the snowfall totals. The top five here for chicago, looking at detroit third biggest snowfall for you and for boston, the biggest snowfall in a seven day record here for the boston area with close to 3 feet of snow for them. This is the storm system. We were watching it yesterday move across the midwest, giving historic totals in some cases. Its now moving across the northeast, seeing light snow. In boston and providence clearing out of the connecticut area as well as the tristate area. But look at the temperatures in the 20s and look at the winds. The wind gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour. The cold artic air is moving. In what im concerned with overnight tonight is the flash freeze that we are anticipating across the try state area. Parts of new jersey philadelphia as well where we have got moisture on the roads, on the power lines on the sidewalks, on the bridges, that is going to freeze. Its going to be impossible to travel overnight tonight and even into tomorrow. So, of course, listen for your local School Closings and, of course to stay off the roadways because i think thats going to be a concern. Winter weather advisories, warnings still for new england and then we have these advisories that have been set up because of the flash freeze and the extraordinarily cold air that is moving in within the next six to 12 hours. This is wind chill. Four is what it is going to feel like in new york. Six in philadelphia. Minus digits as you go to new england. This snow is not going anywhere for new england. Then greta, we might have another storm heading into thursday and friday this is the european model, watching it very carefully that groundhog was right. Back to you. Yikes okay janice, thank you. And now to the midwest. Chicago Ohare Airport buried under more than two feet of snow 1500 flight cancellations. Blizzard conditions virtually shutting down chicago. Fox news correspondent garrett heene is there. Garrett . Greta, schools were closed government buildings were closed. This blizzard shut down one of the nations largest jails cooke county jail more than a third of its elm employee why hes couldnt employees couldnt get to work today. Fifth largest snow storm in chicago history. Show you main roadways though. City officials have been very hard at work to make sure these have been cleared overnight and throughout today. You see, there is not a lot of cars out here still though. The reason is because these side roads over here you can take a look it is still just a mess. Folks have been outside shoveling to get these cars out all day and it was only in the past half hour that we finally saw a snowplow going down this street for the first time in 36 hours. Folks out here say these plows are not getting out here quick enough. City officials though say there is just so much snow on some of the main roadways they are getting into to it as quick as they can. Greta, just just as janice said folks arent getting too excited because another storm is on its way greta . Garrett, thank you. And it isnt just chicago. Boston is still getting hammered with snow. For them its a 12 punch after last weeks storm. Molly line is right outside of boston where i think she has been for a week. Molly . Greta, the great pileon continues. One of the multitude of piles you are seeing across new england. 2 feet of snow in boston. 3 feet west of boston and here we go. Another foot or so in boston. That caused the mayor to go ahead and cancel schools tomorrow. Another thing that he cancelled that he wanted to squeeze in was rolling rally to celebrated the super bowl. That has now been pushed off to wednesday because of all the snow they have got to move around and find a place for it all. Janice dean was talking about very cold temperatures expected. Not just today but into tomorrow and road conditions. They have been terrible all day here on the local roads and on the local highways. Really, really cold. That is not expected to improve in the coming hours. Thats something to watch. We have been fortunate in the sense that we havent seen as many Power Outages as we did in the blizzard last week because we havent seen all those big wins. At the same time its those roads that are particularly dangerous. Greta . Molly, thank you. And it isnt just the boston area and the midwest. New york is getting clobbered again. Snow slush, creating treacherous conditions. Olivia is in terry town, new york lydia . Good evening, greta. Definitely we are getting clobbered. I can tell you it is very cold. It is very windy. We are here along interstate 87 north of new york city. Can you see blacktop here behind me. The main roads they are free and clear blacktop. But its those secondary, those tertiary roads very icy and could be potentially dangerous. I saw a lot of accidents and spinouts. Now ice, speaking of ice. Problem on the seven train. Elevated subway train there was so much ice that people were stuck on a train for two plus hours and if you have ever ridden the subway like i have i can tell you it gets very crowded in there they were packed like sardines very claustrophobic. Fortunate no one was hurt but ice was a major problem. I have spoke to a lot of new yorkers about todays storm. They are taking it in stride. They said we didnt get clobbered last month. But we did get quite a few inches of snow here. 10 inches north of the city. They are taking it in stride. After all last year i remember basically living in my parka and snow boots. But then again, as we have been talking about, you know what . Spring is still 45 days away. Back to you, greta. Which seems like a lifetime at this point. Lidia, thank you. I know. The storm is threatening more and more. So stay with fox news throughout the night for the latest on this dangerous winter storm. 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