affiliations. the next day in comes william will conditions convince who wilkins who met with the president and put additional comments on the draft for guidance. it all goes into play the 24 and 25th of april where these two head, showman and wilkins go into the white house. gretchen: yet the white house is telling reporters asking questions that those two gentlemen were there not to discuss the targeting of tea party. brian: they were there for the easter egg roll. gretchen: you remember that answer from doug shulman. he had been to the white house for countless times and he said to go to the easter egg roll no inn a snide way. if you re at the white house for eight hours and then the next day these guidelines come out, are you really talking about the easter egg roll or obamacare? brian: we can go to the former office of management and budget director and find out what they talked about. but we can t find him. steve: he s still on vacation. meanwhile, later today, it loo
presidential appointee by the name of william wilkins. he is in the office of chief counsel. he and lois lerner apparently were forwarded the applications by tea party organizations from carter hull who testified last week. yeah, wasn t just me. i wanted to approve them, but i had to send them up to washington. that s mr. hull who fingered mr. wilkins. now, what exactly was mr. wilkins doing at the white house just before the guidelines on how to target organizations came out? brian: how this? on april 24, doug shulman goes to the white house, meets with the chief of staff, who by the way, the former chief of staff, jeff sites, who is still in south africa on vacation. he would have a lot to say. they meet for 8 1/2 hours. the next day, april 25 and after that they give out guidelines for analyzing and green lighting or red lighting or putting into the delay of game category all those 501 c 3 organizations that might have tea party
0 i didn t realize this when i saw the first photo but look closely. she had on a pollka dot similar to the one diana wore when she walked out of the same hospital wing 31 years ago. steve: they took the baby after the photo op and put it in the ranger and drove off to the castle. meanwhile, president obama is set to deliver a major speech on the economy today as he lays out his vision for the middle class. there are also reports that the white house is trying to figure out how to lend some assistance to the broke city of detroit. we re live in washington, d.c. where down there they were talking bailout, weren t they elizabeth? yes. in several pending speeches this week the president wants to remind americans he s focused on the economy. the white house is exploring on how to lend assistance to the now bankrupt city of detroit. the administration s latest initiative kick off today as president obama travels to illinois and missouri where he will be pushing new policy proposals in a
individuals. the treasury inspector, russell george, says every one of the tea party cases that came up for review were pursued where 30% of progressive party using the words progressive and so forth were pursued for further investigation. number one. number two, let us not forget when doug shulman was the irs commissioner he visited the white house 157 times. what on earth was he talking about with people in the white house? i want to ask morgan that, but you said so what? what do you mean so what? 150 times not going to the white house? was he rolling easter eggs? what about obamacare? even the great darrell issa has finally admitted, finally said he never said this had anything to do with the white house. come on. enough already. morgan, the fact is some people still think where there is smoke there is fire. the irs guys are going 150
tax-exempt office. bolo lists and long delays in processing applications were among the practices that prompted an investigation which found that the irs had targeted conservative groups for applying for tax-exempt status. a number of high ranking officials have been replaced since news of the targeting first came out. this is just over three hours. [inaudible conversations] okay. we all set? you ready? yeah. okay. do you [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. good morning. it s been six weeks since the irs first revealed that they were purposefully targeting conservative-leaning organizations, and this week additional irs documents revealed that the term progressive along with others were also included on the be on the lookout list or bolo. and i want to make one thing clear: no taxpayer should be unfairly targeted. it s wrong x this committee is working to insure that it will never happen again. the committee s welcomed all groups that feel