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Requirements a 01 c organizations these organizations are not supposed to be doing the types of things they are doing on both sides of the aisle. thats the root of the problem. paul ryan wants to yell at somebody and take some action. he should create a new 501 c 4 organization. >> also part of the problem taking the fifth. she is egg that the fifth. we cant get the emails. the servers are gone. the people she sent emails to, those hard drives are gone. everything is gone. where is the transpare...

They flefr liked the irss. >> oh, you do? you love the irs? you love it? you love paying taxes? >> angela? >> i love paying my fair share. theyre an easy target. liked to say one other thing. the way the republicans have presented this is lois lerner two years ago knew she was going to -- knew that she was going to do what she did so she erased all of these e-mails two years before there was an investigation. she then sent an e-mail to her i.t. people saying, ive lost awl these e-mails to cover ...

Backups e-mails were kept for six months. he pointed to a report about inspector general of the freshry department concluding while agency employees had acted improperly, there was no evidence of political motivation. >> i dont think that an apology is owed. there is not a single e-mail that has been lost since the start of the investigation. >> reporter: while agency says hard drives belonging to several other staffers also crashed, a number of republicans dismissed the explanation. >> they hav...

Lois lerner goes missing. now lawmakers turning up the heat. >> monday our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we learned six other hard drives of the people we are investigating were involved. you didnt tell us that. >> we told you on monday. >> on monday. >> what did you do -- >> because we asked you! >> what did you do with that information? >> you told us on monday because we asked you whether any other hard drives crashed. this sun believable. >> joinin...

>> you bury in a 27-page letter to the senate, asking for them to conclude the investigation that you lost lois lerners e-mails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. monday, our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we learned that six other hard drives of the people were investigating were involved. you didnt tell us that. >> we told you on monday. >> on monday. >> what did use -- >> because we asked you. >> what did you do with the infor...

Drives crashed and this is unbelievable! >> and the irs commissioner and republican congressman paul ryan facing off today in a very contentious hearing over the reported loss of two years e e-mails from irs official lois lerner and bring in the panel of the "usa today" columnist kirsten powers and julie case covers the white house for the associated press and charles krauthammer. and so are you surprised that he was so defiant to the panel, and that the republicans went after him tooth and nail...

Secr secret. >> while he has been on the job at the irs for six months, texas republican kevin brady says that the agency has hit a historic low. >> this is the most corrupt and deseatful irs in history. >> to say it is the most corrupt irs in history ignores a lot of history and it is a classic overreaction to a serious problem in which we are dealing with seriously. >> and ryan kept unleashing on him. >> and you told us monday when we asked you if any other hard drives crashed and -- you told ...

Congress republicans are so upset, because apparently six others also had their hard drives lost or their information lost because their hard drives crashed. its not just that that happened, but, again congress -- republicans are upset that they found out about learners hard drive, but then at the same time, the irs didnt tell them about the other six. its sort of the drip-drip-drip information fueling republican charges of cover-up. >> dana, i know youll work this story for us, thanks very much...

Comes to congress a couple years ago, misleads us and says no targets occurring. then it says it was a few rogue agents in cincinnati, then it said it was also unprogressives. all of those things have been proven untrue. this committee sent a criminal referral, a possible criminal wrongdoing just a month ago to the justice department. weve heard nothing. you bury in a 27-page letter to the senate asking for them to conclude the investigation that youve lost lois lerners e-mails during the time i...

Two years of lois lerners e-mails and other documents. what kind of coverage did that get? >> lets put this in perspective. absolutely nobody believes that story. everybody believes there is something very bad that went on there. how do they cover it? cbs morning gave it a story. cbs evening news, no coverage. abc morning, no coverage. abc evening news, no coverage. nbc today, no coverage, "nbc nightly news," no coverage. >> did they get to it today? friday, they buried it. by monday, it was eve...