The IRS whistleblowers.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The IRS whistleblowers. On Wednesday, two whistleblowers from the Internal Revenue Service testified in front of Congress about the investigations into President Biden's son, Hunter. The whistleblowers, IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapley, alleged that the U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss and other prosecutors slow-walked the case and showed preferential treatment for the president's son. Shapley first went public with his allegations in June, but Ziegler was not identified until last week.
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| 1:00.4 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the IRS |
| 1:05.6 | whistleblowers who testified before Congress last week, what we learned from their testimony, and then, of course, |
| 1:13.4 | some of the reactions to that testimony from the right and the left. |
| 1:18.3 | Hope you guys had a great weekend, and as always, we'll kick things off with our quick hits. |
| 1:33.6 | First up, the Justice Department is threatening to sue Texas over the use of buoy barriers that were placed in the Rio Grande River to deter migrants. |
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| 1:45.0 | hires, improving airports, and updating airport security. |
| 1:49.5 | Number three, a tornado in North Carolina damaged a Pfizer plant that makes anesthesia and |
| 1:54.9 | other common drugs in hospitals, creating concerns over potential shortages. |
| 2:00.4 | Number four, Israeli parliament passed a contentious law that limits the power of the Supreme Court |
| 2:05.8 | just hours after tens of thousands of Israelis marched 45 miles in protests of the changes. |
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