democrat congressman steven lynch of massachusetts, for a special prosecutor if they don t get questions answers. liz mcdonald is here and found new information. here it is. democrats asked the irs to look into the targeting in the middle of the election year and big name senate democrats. senator max baucus, senator chuck schumer, al franken and senator carl levin. ten democrats in total pressured the irs to look into abuse of nonprofit laws. they said political nonprofit. stuart: max baucus sent the initial letter 2010? september, 2010 to then irs commissioner do you go shulman, the irs commissioner to say on the stand yesterday he wasn t aware of anything. and it s undercut by the letter. stuart: in 2010 and what about 2011. 2011, the irs used key words such as tea party or patriots with the computer spread sheet launch directing the irs targeting and the leading democrats in the senate sent letters to the irs about this targeting at that point? they think that
of loan some showers to start the day out toward reston and an leesburg, you can see that that working south of there frederick as well. you may be getting a shower shortly. as we get into the daytime houre here and especially this this afternoon, we will see additional showers in terms of along the frontal system. let s switch to the next map. m. the cold front bringing rainshowers, the rainshowers out to the west and west virginia,i and depend, this is going to bee making a slow progress through the region here later today, showers and less thanty ofy of clouds in the forecast plentn of clouds in the forecast and fe the decent chance that today will be our wettest day. warm and muggy, it s 72 degrees, and 70 dulles and bwi marshall.a highs today about 80, cloudy clu skies returning and showers andd thunderstorms likely thisnd afternoon and thiser evening, ad we re still setting up for aup great looking weekend. weekend. i will have details on that intn the next couple of
heart of a presidential campaign, you knew it could potentially hurt the president and you didn t want to do that? we won t know the answer to that today. no, i think mr. shulman s testimony yesterday, he said he sort of knew it, but didn t know the whole thing. it was under investigation. right. he knows it s under investigation. the question, whether you knew where the investigation was leading, how far along, and, carol, i could also add there is sort of another side show going on, not in this congressional hearing room, but over at the white house, which is sort of well, what did the president know and when did he know it? what did the president s aides know and when did they know it? we know council at the white house knew april 24th, informed the white house chief of staff, who then told some other top officials, because they were clearly trying to figure out a way to do some damage control. they knew when this story came
frankly, we haven t found out much so far. an fbi investigation into this. dana, this thing could drag out for months and months and maybe years. absolutely. this is the beginning of the congressional investigation. eric holder, the attorney general has said in no uncertain terms, the facts will lead him where they go, and this is going to be a national investigation. not just an investigation into that office that we ve learned so much about that primarily does these tax exempt the tax exempt division, not going to happen. this could go on a very long time. and, again, talking about what s happening as we speak, lois lerner the key person. politics, no question in my mind, one of the things that republicans wanted to ask, did you not tell your superior, the guy sitting next to you, doug shulman, you knew it was the
represented a lot of very high-powered people in washington and around the world really, he has said, don t do this. don t say anything that could potentially incriminate you down the road. you said you really hit on, carol, talking about the fact that doug shulman, head of the irs during all of this, he said he didn t know about it, one of the questions that won t be answered is why, and that, of course, goes to lois lerner. why didn t you tell anybody or at least the commissioner, when you found out about this two years ago, and what that does speak to is potentially taking the politics aside here, the real heart of the mess here, which is a real bureaucratic mess. people think of bureaucracy and can t even imagine how kind of ugly it is. this is exposing the underbelly of bureaucracy and kind of the ultimate mess in that people apparently in this group, in this division, tax exempt