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Line dancing by the irs employees is only the latest problem with the agency. congresswoman carol maloney joins me and serves on oversight committee as well. thank you very much. what is going on with the irs? >> well right now, were having so many hearings on the irs, we have six this week on the irs. and in addition, thats just the house. then you have the senate having their hearings and then you have the independent i.g. continuing his investigations and then on top of that. you have the cri...

There was no concrete evidence linking anything these agents did in cincinnati. >> are you saying that you are not bothered by our money used having people dance around? what does that have to do with -- >> i certainly agree with you. but this isnt the best use of tax payer money. what this does isnt really promoting the kind of public interest it is creating a public spectacle that forwards a political agenda than it gets at actual truth here the american people deserve the fact of what actuall...

Expensive conferences, likes to have those free baseball tickets and presidential suites and doesnt necessarily want to see smaller government and accountability? >> reporter: i dont know if its too much of a stretch or not. well get the full ig report on the spending of the i.r.s. tomorrow and that will list everything. what weve learned already is pretty damaging. as you remember about the gsa scandal, when you had that guy in the tub with the sangria, the image does a lot, and these videos on...

Or not they spent well the tax payers money and that included what they paid for hotel rooms and many of the perks they showered on themselves. >> and it gets worse the watchdog group states the irs spent about $50 million of your money to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. that is a whole lot of line dancing or electric slide or whatever they were doing. with me is conservative commentator ann coulter and markham mel. what say you about that video? >> well, it re...

Go on this one. martha: i am. >> $4 million for one conference held in anaheim, california, in august of 2010. all right, 2600 people attended. they were given baseball tickets. as you said, martha, some stayed in the presidential suites which are up to $3500 a night. the irs did not negotiate the hotel room rates to bring them down. they didnt do that. and there were 15 outside speakers who were paid a total of $135,000, including one speaker who lectured on the leadership through art, for whic...

We are live on capitol hill. lawmakers are about to hear from the new acting i.r.s. commissioner amid questions about big spending by the tax agency, including $50 million it shelled out for employee conferences. some of that money going for videos like this one featuring i.r.s. workers line dancing. and then there is this one, a parity of the star trek tv show. the videos paid for by your tax dollars and recorded at i.r.s. offices, all this on the heels of the political profiling scandal where ...

Togas and whatnot. he went to jail. thats how the private sector deals with that. >> i dont know how specific it is, but i bet the fortune 500 companies -- >> well remember in the financial crisis some of the banks got in trouble because they had big parties and they were planned and were bailed out by the taxpayers and they had spa manicures and pedicures and they got in trouble for that. sitting there so patiently to make a comment in the block, thoughts on this overall. you were being very po...

So tightly with trying to do this research. >> he was a real pro. wasnt some guy, half cocked running out after tornados a real authority. >> meteorologists, scientists, engineer, knew what they were doing really did. when you think of the dangers they put themselves in. they were passionate. wanted to bring the research back home so we could learn. >> no doubt. moving on to this now. a story getting plenty of attention this week. a watch dog report about spending by the irs. it says the agenc...

In less than an hour, the house will hold the first of three congressional hearings on the irs scandals with the agency facing yet another unbelievable embarrassment, a video showing employees line dancing to taxpayer dlrs, using thousands of taxpayer dollars for a conference in 2010. tomorrow a treasury department inspector general report will be released exposing excessive spending at the irs and new acting commissioner danny warfel called the conference, quote, an unfortunate vestige from a p...

>> jarrod saltalamacchia says im out, no mas. >> wow. a little more subdued. both teams spooked by the thunder there. its one thing the yankees and the red sox have in common. they dont like lightning. up next, the irs is under fire, again, as i said for spending nearly $50 million on conferences for its employees, including this one where irs workers were videotaped line dancing. thats ahead. youre watching "hardball." the place for politics. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had tw...