lerner s e-mails because of a computer crash. republicans not all buying that explanation and now lawmakers are waiting to see an inspector general s report on that damaged hard drive. could this report give them some answers? tammy bruce is a radio talk show host and fox news contributor. emily sussman is campaign director for american progress action fund, also the former executive director of young democrats of america. thank you both for joining us. thank you. let s look at the timing here. in 2011 the house ways and means chair, dave camp, sent a letter to the irs asking about conservative targeting. ten days after this, learner s hard drive allegedly crashes. there were back up tapes, apparently no attempt was made to retrieve the data from the tapes for six months and after six months, they re recycled. in fact, two months after this alleged crash, the irs canceled the contract of the company in charge of backing up that data, sonasoft, without ever asking them to retrieve t
doesn t believe it. he says those e-mails are out there and he s offering $1 million from the irs budget to anybody that can produce the e-mails. and he has a warning for anyone knowingly keeping those e-mails secret. if you help to hide evidence in what will ending up being a criminal case, guess what, you re part of the crime. so take your pick. a million bucks to come up with all the e-mails, or go to prison as part of the crime, your choice. congressman gohmert is offering $500,000 to anyone who can provide information on who may have destroyed the e-mails. meanwhile, the irs says it s working to try to comply with the house ways and means committee s request for more documents on the e-mails and computer crash which supposedly erased all those e-mails. there was a letter sent to the
chairman of the committee saying, quote, we will get as much information to you next week. i had hoped to provide you with responses today, but critical information is still being collected and verified. that letter was sent yesterday. but koskinen cautions that the irs already has provided a seven-page document to the committee outlining what the irs knows about lerner s computer crash and what irs employees already have done to, quote, collect miss lerner s e-mails from other sources. all right, molly, thank you very much. well, the supreme court speaks out and a television streaming website, aereo is listening. it s shutting down for now. it is a company that provides television content to its subscribers via the internet. earlier this week the court found they are violating laws users are being refunded for the rest of the month. and there s much more ahead
and he cautions in that letter the irs already provided a seven-page document to the committee that documents that the irs knows about the computer crash and what they have done to collect the e-mails from other sources. we will see what next week brings. thanks, molly. two people were rescued from a single engine plane that wound up in the delaware river. the plane was found this morning after air traffic controllers reported they lost contact with the aircraft. a white house review of the department of veteran affairs verified problems raised by the investigators. the report says the department had a corrosive culture. reporter: the white house says the department of veterans
this doesn t increase the amount of spending for the government because it comes right out of the irs s own spending. look, despite all the poor woe is us stuff from the irs commissioner, they have the best of hardware. they ve got the best of software. they can afford this. reporter: irs commissioner john koskinen says he hoped to provide more information about the missing lois lerner e-mails and her computer crash to congress next week. koskinen sent a letter yesterday to republican congressman dave camp, chairman of the house ways and means committee, says, quote, it s very important that the congress and treasury inspector general for tax administration receive complete and accurate information in as timely a manner as possible. that information should be coming next week. he says he wanted to provide the documents yesterday, but said there is still critical information that s being, quote, collected and verified. patti ann.