aindictment with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. and should lois lerner be worried tonight that she is going to it today the house ways and means committee voting to justice department to consider criminal prosecution against the former irs official. lerner is considered the key witness in the irs targeting scandal. so far she has refused to answer any questions. laws were broken. i have not broken any laws. constitutional rights were violated. i have not done anything wrong. this was definitely a political decision. lois lerner targeted conservative groups because of their conservative beliefs. on the advice of my counsel. she was not truthful with congress. i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. this is part of the republican campaign. if lois lerner would come forward and testify, we might know the answer. and get, this included in the evidence of the ways and
you too. let s go off-the-record for a minute. i know how to get to the obama of the irs scandal. crowd sourcing. the irs should just turn over all the records and emails to us. we will dump them on the internet and let the crowd sourcing begin. we can scour them and get real answers and real fast. forget congress. there is no sense of urgency there. congress is getting answers. it s like taking forever, drip, drip, drip, like are on quay lewds. not getting audited or tax exempt status. no rush. president obama says he loves transparency. is he no help. he decides what happened before the facts are known and expects us to accept his pronouncement. remember his no smidgen of corruption crack? just today, after the smidgen remark, we learned of an email where lois lerner, of course is, angling for a job with president obama s political group organizing for action. now, that s cozy. i know the irs too, they are not going to like my idea. in fact, they are going to hate it and say can
means committee sent to the justice department an email lois lerner sent to irs colleagues. in the the email, lerner saying, and this was in january of 2013, she was hoping to get a job at the dc office of president obama s advocacy group, organizing for action. and then tomorrow the house rule oversight committee will vote whether to hold learner contempt it. representative trey gowdy joins us. good evening, sir. yes, yes, ma am. how are you? the story broke she said in response for something organizing for america. oh, maybe i can get a d.c. office job. i don t know if she is being flip and funny or trying to curry favor. your thought? well, it would be a whole lot funnier if she wasn t targeting crossroads at the same time she was, in essence, applying or amusing about applying for a job with a left leaning entity. one of the allegations of ways and means is that she violated people s rights
exempt division, lois lerner actually mentioned, maybe she wasn t totally serious. but she mentioned going to work for organizing for action which is the group that continued the work of the obama campaign after the election. you can t look at what s going at some of these branch offices without thinking of what s going on at the main office in washington and that s why i think you are going to see members of congress looking and asking for information to see if there is more of this going on around the country. they know, they believed that the sort the permanent bureaucracy of the government leans democratic. i think they are going to want to know more about this. i guess the irs has a lot of explaining to do. they do have a the love explaining to do. it s good that they are cracking down on such overt political activity. i would encourage everybody to go online and read this letter about lobbyist lerner. it s public. you can read how she named groups by name evading the
inspector general s questions and more. one thing everybody should be on the lookout for. the obama administration is trying to codify what the irs did when it targeted conservative groups into a new rule. now, they said we re postponing it it. and that just came out last week. the irs chief john kochisin we are going to. they didn t say woe are going to stop this effort. i think that the congress should give immunity to everybody who worked beneath or is a junior to lois lerner and then haul them all to capitol hill to testify with immunity. not immunity for lois lerner but for everyone who worked for her and see what they have to say. that s my thought. panel, thank you. thanks, greta. straight ahead. senator lindsey graham accusing former acting cia director mike morell of lying about