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Tax-exempt status. max baucus is investigating wrongdoing. in 2010, he was one of several senior democrats who pressured the irs for more scrutiny. in this 2012 letter signed by chuck shumer and others, singled out karl roves group. karl rove is a senior official behind a 501-c-4 charity. his organization exists to elect and defeat specific political candidates, the senators wrote. crossroads spent tens of millions to defeat democrats. the top democrat on the committee holding tomorrows hearing ...

Word obama is in it. and i think the right has been focused on reminding its base over and over and over that what theyre in washington to do is to get at barack obama. only a third of the people that were targeted by the irs, there were democratic groups that had their review of their 501(c)4 takes time and some of them got their c-4 continues. theres a focus and its all about one person, barack obama. theyre able to convene the scandal culture in washington. lets face it. a lot of people in wa...

Association, et cetera. the 501 c-4 is a specific nonprofit known as social welfare groups think civic leagues and local volunteer fire departments which according to the irs function merely for the purpose of betterment and social improvements. unlike their cousins, however, c-4s may engage some some political activities, this is according to the irs, so long as that is not their primary activity. its a marquee definition thats given c-4s a whole lot of wiggle room to play politicses. c-4s are ...

Political groups should be getting social welfare designation understand the 501 c-4 provision. these of basically election groups. they should be under the tax code and if they were, then theyd have to disclose their donors. so if the irs had done this right in the first place, they wouldnt have nationed the question of targeting any particular political group. they just should have said, no, these groups shouldnt have been under this particular provision. >> i totally agree with you 100%, ther...

>>gretchen: it is 6:31, almost 6:32 on the east coast. another huge story today. that has to do with i.r.s. and the looking into conservative groups trying to get 501-c-4 status. these inquiries came out of the cincinnati, midwest office of the i.r.s. but could it have been those underlings been the ones who directed the i.r.s. now it turns out it maybe washington or probably are most likely washington connections to this. what should be the end result? should the person in charge of the i.r.s. ...

He visited asu in 2009 and the university would not give him an honorary degree because he was so new. >> president crow and the board of regents will soon learn about being audited by the irs. >> after that of course came the birth of the tea party in 2010. some of the conservative groups suspected they were treated differently by the irs but the irs commissioner appointed by president george w. bush and retired in november assured congress that was not the case. >> an organization theres absol...

Inappropriate. >> reporter: that admission resulted in condemnation, but whats making the irss problems worse, it appears irs officials, even lernor herself, were not up front with congress. in 2011, her agents were targeting tea party groups, as well as others dealing with government spending, government debt, or taxes. cnn learned she disclosed to share what she knew both in letters and face-to-face meetings with congressional investigators. and in march of 2012, nine months after lerner was i...

Dropped or reduced at her disciplinary hearing. the outcome could be the difference between seeing danica within a matter of hours or months. >> so they read you your rights on march 15. you understand your rights? okay. so im going to charge you with the c-4. im going to dismiss the c-3 because the officer said once she gave you the directive to stop, you did stop, okay? how do you plead? >> guilty. >> jennifers guilty plea on the lesser of the two charges means she will be out of solitary in 1...

Could the nylon bag been inside of this other bag? they dont know, but theyre very confident that theyre looking for black nylon bags. and, you know, to johns point, go through your receipts. if you have any receipts of anyone buying two pressure cookers. thats where this is going. any tip like that could help break it, but it shows you they dont have any tip lines. >> in terms of the device itself, the pressure cooker, weve seen this used before overseas. its been described as crude, as unsophi...

Were small. initial tests shod no c-4 or other high-grade explosive ed i t attack were crude ages he fact that two bombs were used there, ia cta level of sophistication. having made these bombs befo, its not easy you cant just gett on the internet, make two of these bombs go off fairly closely tother. sobo h se peence, somebody practiced >> repte srces tell cnn that one, possiblywo unexploded devices also were found. potential treasure troves of clue about who may have made the bombs. >> and oth...