emails sent to other irs employees during that period? last week, i understand the white house and the department of treasury stated they were providing all of their lois lerner emails which should help fill those gaps and answer that question. the treasury inspector general for tax administration has already begun an investigation of this matter and his report will provide an independent review of the situation concerning ms. lerner s computer crash three years ago. we are committed to working cooperatively and transparently with this committee and the six other investigations going on and we will continue to provide you with updates. this concludes my testimony. i would be happy to take your questions. thank you. commissioner, do you remember the name ralio sillio. did you ever hear the name gregory roseman? no. well kasillio is now on trial for murdering his
president obama s reelection. now there s new information on the timing of the computer crash that obliterated those e-mails. on june 3rd follow with me. on june 3rd, 2011, the chairman of the ways and means sent a letter to the irs over the apparent targeting of some conservative donors, june 3rd. ten days later lois lerner s computer crashes. ten days. erasing e-mails dating back more than two years. here s the e-mails from lerner s colleague. also tonight, another wrinkle in this story. from 2009 to 2011 when ms. lerner s e-mails were allegedly destroyed, the irs was working with an e-mail archiving company. that s convenient! thank god because they had a hard drive crash, their backup drives overwrote themselves so it s a good thing that they
has enough grist to keep it going through the election. you ve been in washington long enough to know there s oftentimes an alleged crime, but then the cover-up could become worse, certainly criminally. is that what we re seeing, an alleged cover-up that would be a disaster? the irs explanation is there was a computer crash. we don t have any evidence yet to the contrary. we have a lot of suspicious questions that are going to provide fuel to keep this story in the headlines at a time when it seemed to really have been pushed back and receded. if nothing else, what this is going to do is to provide a lot of kind of energy to mobilize the republican base through the election and i think that the investigation of the response will increasingly supplant, as you suggest, the investigation of the underlying allegation for the next several months. you can see the anger there. when he grill, like darrell issa
to help it steer to a save spot. it went off without a hitch. it bounced and he thought it would land on a neighbor s car but the crew grabbed the lead and pulled it down. no word on what caused the landing. the balloon was hauled away. that is about it. a stunning new report that shows the irs canceled their long-term contract with the e-mail storage company weeks after lois lerner s computer crash and the agency says it caused the crash of two years of e-mails that might shed light on the scandal. clita mitchell represents dozens of groups and she is back with us. how are you doing?
new controversy over those missing e-mails from lois lerner, the one at the center of the irs targeting scandal and why the irs canceled the contract with an e-mail storage firm just weeks after the computer crash blamed for losing the lerner e-mails happened. plus, can those e-mails ever be found? isn t that the $20 million question? we re bringing in a computer forensic investigators to answer that question coming up next. and why police in one city are getting military-grade electric bikes. check these out. the missions they re going to be used for. we re going to have a live report on that. and a real-life close encounter with a great white. how one guy got the incredible video. what happened coming up.