Well, so like for example, how much fraud was there in the CARE Act when we had COVID? How much fraud was there in it? We had two- what, it's $2 trillion, right?

It, it, they're, they're still trying to figure it out.

They, they don't know how much because it's something that they're still trying to wrap, uh, you know, they're, they're, they're, they don't have all of the information yet.

So I know, I think like with the, uh, Small Businesses, uh, Administration where they administered all the PPP loans, there might be something so far, but like $33 billion I think I saw.

But that's just what they know about.

There's gotta be more than that.

Uh, uh, to your point overall, the anti-fraud task force that's led by JD Vance has identified 260 billion, but you know, in 2024, GAO said that we lose up to $521 billion a year in fraud from the federal budget.

Is this proposal something they're looking at doing administratively, or is this something they're planning to try to move legislation after the midterms?

It would be an absolute abyss of disaster, wouldn't it?

And it's not just about how much something would be assessed at, it destroys your business potentially.

If you have to sell off part of your business in order to satisfy a debt, you might not have a business if you're a privately held company.

That's one of the real dangers is how it could affect small businesses, it could affect jobs.

And so there's a proposal in California for one of these wealth taxes.

They've also had one in Minnesota.

They're gonna try to bring it back In 2027, voters need to pay attention to that.

And let me guess the people behind it, because I don't actually know, but let's say multimillionaire Bernie Sanders, or is it multimillionaire Liz Warren? Who's behind this mess? Last word to you.

All they do is sort of placate the elites to make them think that they're doing the right thing when they're actually hurting the country.

Sure.

Let's take New York, for example.

Let's look at price controls.

That's always a socialist agenda.

We, Mamdani, rent freeze.

What do you think a rent freeze is going to do? Well, those landlords are either going to end up selling the buildings because they're not going to be worth anything.

But because we just don't have that level of... historical consciousness about it it's back in a big way with the democrat party uh like how bad do things need to get from a sorry well like what is so wrong with the affordability and prosperity situation in america right now that is attracting people to this way of thinking

It should be an even playing field,

shouldn't it? It should be, Steve.

And it's a power, and it's a power to destroy, as Senator William Roth wrote a book about that was actually the title the last time that they engaged in massive IRS reform back in the late 90s.

And this is why it's an affordability issue.

because Americans do not have trust in the IRS and there are no clear rules of the road.

When you file your quarterly taxes with the IRS, they're estimated taxes for a reason because you're just guessing.

You don't really know.

Last word to you.

This is a big deal.

Well, David, the IRS is an additional tax on Americans every single year.

And just talking about businesses and compliance costs, $8.8 billion every year that they spend on compliance costs, trying to figure out what the IRS is going to do because they're always moving the goalposts.

It costs the economy 4.3 million new jobs every year.

And this is the thing that I find most interesting.

One third of small business owners fail to take tax exemptions that they're entitled to because they're afraid of being audited.

Not so much the math, but tell me about how jobs are affected so I understand.

Well, if you don't have to spend money on compliance costs, you could spend money to hire people.

So Chuck, what is this obsession with race that just permeates every Democrat, every left-winger?

I think it's part of a divide a- and conquer type of strategy.

That's what this is really all about.

The, the Democratic socialists are all trying to convince you that it's a rigged system, and AOC, Mamdani, uh, Hong, El-Sayed Th- they k- are having a hard time doing it because they are actually people of privilege according to, you know, what they lay out.

If the system is rigged, how have they been, been able to achieve so much success? They're all college educated.

In, in, uh, the case of El-Sayed in Michigan, he's a Rhodes scholar.

Uh, so, you know, it...

Is that an unfair comparison with the Democrat socialists?

What's the trap?

The trap is that the left doesn't wanna build, and they wanna use all this as a pretext to do nothing, which is exactly what China wants.

There, there are a few things that are going on right here.

Okay, so China is pushing a lot of anti data center information through their state-run media.

They've also got somebody named Neville Roy Singham who runs non-profits in the US, and he's, he's funneling money into this campaign.

It's on moratoriums.

Um, secondly, AI kind of being a newer technology, people are apprehensive.

Do you think the industry and political leaders who realize the potential economic benefit of AI data centers are beginning to catch on how they need to message this to the average American?

These are small insurrections, are they not?

Steve, they've got more resources than most cities, $825 million in over 100 organizations in Newark at the Delaney Hall protests.

And I mean protests, they're riots.

And you talk about the encrypted signal checks, everything is done with an intent to conceal.

Conceal and then allow them to organize so that way they can coordinate their movements, they know what law enforcement is doing.

They use tax-exempt status also as a sword and shield.

They use it to raise money, and then they use it to hide who's behind all of it.

How do you see these people that are prosperous in America and are benefiting from the freedoms we have and the ability to have to make anything happen, any dream come true, and then they turn around and attack this country? It is the most confusing thing in the world to me, Chuck.

But why aren't they participating in these CMS programs that, that are supposed to lower prices for Americans?

It's a great question, because they get an awful lot of subsidies, and in this particular case, the Trump administration negotiated lower prices for weight loss drugs, like Ozempic, for seniors.

And the FDA has already told us these drugs save lives.

They lower the risk of heart attack, lower the risk of stroke, improve the overall quality of life.

All the insurance companies had to do was say yes, and they refused.

And so now, as regards to this program, they're trying to find a workaround for it, but it's going to deliver less for the, you know, for the seniors, and it's gonna cost taxpayers more.

So for insurance companies to be saying that they're doing anything about helping to drive costs down, uh, I strongly disagree with that.

But is this one of those situations? Is the insurance cabal too big to fail, or should we try to bulldoze and, and start over?

Want to get your take? What do you think about this list?

Well, it's putting money back in the pockets of Americans.

The Pennsylvania mom at the State of the Union, no tax on tips.

She combined it with no tax on overtime, expanded child tax credit.

She's saving $5,000 a year, her family.

There was the DoorDash woman who was at the White House this week.

I said she was saving $11,000 a year.

So for a young person like me, kind of just starting out doing taxes and trying to get it right, do you have any tips for the best way to go about this process every year? I feel like leading up to April is always a stressful experience for me.

I mean, have they no shame?

Steve, they really don't.

And the irony is you have Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, talking out of both sides of her mouth.

She was at an event recently and said that she wanted to recruit New Yorkers to come back from Palm Beach to New York.

And then the other side of her mouth, she's talking about an exit tax.

Hey, I'm going to keep you here and prevent you from leaving.

You can't have it both ways.

Oh, the irony is something, isn't it?

How is that even possible?

Well, Steve, there's actually another report now that says there are 197 in one location.

But what makes this so bad is that Dr. Oz has said, the CMS administrator, that it's $3.5 billion in fraud that's under investigation.

So it's not total fraud, but that's the total amount of money that's under investigation.

But what is really so terrible about this is that people knew in March of 2022, the California state auditor issued a report to Governor Newsom and the state legislature warning about this exact thing, talking about excessive clustering of hospice organizations at single locations and also listed several other fraud indicators.

They've known about it for four years and they've done absolutely nothing.

Your thoughts?

They are.

Do you see that being the case in this upcoming midterm?

Absolutely.

This will be the number one issue.

And it's why we founded this group, the Coalition for Affordability and Prosperity, to aggressively set the contrast because it's a big contrast.

Voters can either choose Main Street, free enterprise ideas, or they can go down the failed decline of big government.

And we've seen Democrats campaigning on affordability.

They talk a lot about it.

And so that's also something that's got to be addressed, I would imagine.

Good to have you.

It- look, we don't feel like there's enough being done right now to talk about affordability and paint the contrast between the two choices, because [laughs] there's a big contrast.

There's either the managed decline of big government solutions that the Democrats are, are slapping the affordability tag on, or you can take free enterprise out, and that's time-tested and true.

It bankrupted the Soviet Union.

Guaranteed basic income is, is one of these programs, managed decline.

You have to think about why these recipients are there in the first place.

And, and David and Dr. Gina, these people are actually victims.

So Chuck, uh, what happens here? What are your predictions? What can Republicans even do at this point? 'Cause it's getting late in the game.

That's a big part of the problem, isn't it?

It is.

And that's exactly where Singham fits in.

He's been in China since 2017.

He had a consulting business here, excuse me, a tech company.

He sold it for a billion dollars.

And what he does now is he has a consulting company in Shanghai that's run by himself and some other members of the Communist Party.

Tell us about what you're up to.

What else do you know? Tell us more.

Well, it's not a surprise.

The nonprofit tax exempt status structure in the U.S. has been abused for quite some time.

And what Singham is doing is he's in the grip of the Chinese Communist Party.

He's over there in Shanghai.

All the activities of citizens over there and the government, they're fused.

with the government, with the military.

When do you think it will get the actual even more traction than just on conservative outlets? Because I feel like the liberal media doesn't pay attention to it at all.

Does it concern you that this case will be tried in Minnesota? I mean, you got a lot of activist judges out there all over the country, but especially in blue states.

It would concern me.

I mean, it just, look, I think that there's a lot more investigating that needs to go on.

And you've had the Rene Good incident where I think that was more cut and dry.

And then obviously the other incident that happened with Mr., I think his last name was Preddy.

But, you know, the one big thing that stands out of all this is that you have a lot of these people who are on the streets, Amanda, and they are putting themselves in a position for bad outcomes.

When you put yourself into the middle of a law enforcement investigation and they're, you know, these are not good people that they're going after.

Does this type of rhetoric from the left, in the face of some pretty good video evidence to the contrary, does this hurt their message?

Good morning.

David, great to be with you.

It's a federal investigation.

There was a nice agent involved.

He's a federal officer.

But I want to make a couple of points quick.

People have been dissecting this for days.

What about that? I think that might, is that more controversial?

How does it make it so far up the chain before it's finally captured?

amanda it's a great point so two of the people that were involved in this took 20 million dollars in grants and one of them is a former campaign staffer for ilan omar he got 3.2 million dollars he pled guilty in august of 25 another one took a 16 million dollar grant and she had her election day victory party at his restaurant in 2018.

Tim Walz, as I said, has been also connected to these fraudsters.

Keith Ellison, Congresswoman Omar received campaign contributions from these people.

The Somali community in Minnesota is very politically active.

There are roughly 100,000.

But what's also interesting is that 75 percent of them are allegedly on welfare services.

That's the accountability.

Can people not speak freely in this country without taking life and limb in their own hands?

Well, there are people out there that don't want that.

Antifa is one of them, and they're the group that was causing all the violence at Berkeley.

Now, of course, Antifa is a loosely affiliated kind of organization.

Where they're really backed is by these nonprofits, these 501c3 left-wing nonprofits.

And one of them that was present at Berkeley was a group called By Any Means Necessary.

And they were distributing flyers of Charlie Kirk being shot with his picture.

Where do we go from here on this? I mean, what is the next step?

How can the IRS step in to this process?

Well, thanks for having me on.

The IRS can step in by stripping the groups that are supporting Antifa of their tax exempt status.

And what that will do is cut off the money train.

And that's what needs to be done.

That will have the most acute, immediate impact on what's going on.

Antifa has become a real problem and DOJ is cracking down.

What say you?

Good morning.

Good morning, David.

It's great to be with you.

And the IRS will be treated, I assume, just like any other federal agency.

As you mentioned, they've got money for five days from the Inflation Reduction Act that takes us through October 7th.

And then I would suspect, as you heard President Trump say, I mean, there could be cuts to the federal workforce on the way.

One thing that's very interesting to note is that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration just came out with a report.

But the problem is they're looking for equal outcomes, not equal paths to get there,