Stay updated with breaking news from 501c 4. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Investing in workplace organizing is one of the surest ways to build a thriving and inclusive American democracy — and disrupt movements that fuel division and dysfunction.
Don’t miss Monday’s livecast – previous popular livestream to a Global Audience
Because of course everybody knows. >> he hypnotizes people into voting for him. >> everybody who gets audited feels like they're being targeted. we're all human. that's our first basic reaction. why me? why my office? >> and we all know one group was denied their status. and it was a group of democratic women. so at the end of the day, yes, people should not have been reviewed by these terms. >> so president obama weathers this storm? >> yes. >> you have to look at who the so-called victims are. unless you are trying to form a 501c-4, this story isn't about you. peggy noonan also said, i know ...
All the political groups out there that are taking tax exempt status for being, quote unquote, educational? >> well, this is the issue. it just should be done in a completely nonpartisan way. but these are -- these 501c-4s, in order to be tax exempt, in order for people to give them money and also not be disclosed who they are, the 501c-4 has to spend at least 50% plus $1 on actual social welfare. so some of these organizations have been -- you foe, it looks like they've been spending more an on just pure politics. it's a legitimate inquiry by the irs. what is in no way legitimate is this be b...
Doesn't that war continue today? don't we need to be in pursuit of those people? >> yes. >> sean: how would you do that? >> notion of the smarter. before we went into iraq i was on record. i thought we have, not thought, we do, we have the military surveillance capability to see them roll out any weapons of mass destruction. we could have watched that happen and we could have gone in and annihilated that situation. i thought if we went in we would become involved to a civil war to which there would be no end and i'm an trade that's what has happened. >> sean: best of luck we are going to follo...