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Former irs commissioner mark everson praises koskinen efforts to address the concerns. he says any new regulation must work to restore confidence in the agency. >> the service needs to call it absolutely down the middle. the problem with all the c-4 mess last year was that there was a clear tilt, if you will, towards more examination of conservative groups and that is just, just unacceptable. >> reporter: by the way, more than 150,000 comments poured in on that newly-proposed federal regulation ...

Specifically for obamacare. before i let you go, i have to ask you this. a lot of people are wondering, if i dont sign up for obamacare, the irs is coming after me. remember, it was played out to us that if you didnt sign up for it, that you would be hit by the irs with some sort of a fine. do you see that actually happening now? >> well, there will be penalties. but the real question -- one of the real questions on the act is, are the penalties sufficient to deter folks from not getting the car...

Website and effectiveness and whether or not people can use the website. mark everson said it is a heavy lift. do we have any indication or idea of how well equipped the ears will be in carrying this out? >> the problem is, even if the website is working, and even if they have all of the information they need to penalized people who signed up, they cant penalize the way they normally do. when congress was trying to sell this bill, they leaned back on enforcement, because they knew the public wou...

Youve assigned to the case? >> maybe able to do that. i would have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head, no. >> if thats not enough the new inspector general report says more than 1,000 irs agents have been abusing their government credit cards. yes, the ones that you and i pay for. joining us now from new orleans with reaction, the former commissioner of the irs under president george w. bush, mark everson. >> thank you for having me. >>...

How many agent investigators youve assigned to the case? >> maybe able to do that. i would have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head, no. >> if thats not enough the new inspector general report says more than 1,000 irs agents have been abusing their government credit cards. yes, the ones that you and i pay for. joining us now from new orleans with reaction, the former commissioner of the irs under president george w. bush, mark everson. >...

That information. ill get to that. >> mike: the irs itself, former irs commissioner mark everson there bad leadership of the irs. basically the irs is a mess. this is what he had to say. >> a convergence of really bad mismanagement. you cant take your hand off the rudder. its a large organization and you have to be looking at all of it. commissioner said i didnt particularly interested in this piece of agency. i stayed away because it is sensitive. >> its kind of like the secretary of state sayi...

>> this is a serious matter. i always felt when i was at the service that everybody did their level best to call it right down the middle. so this targeting is very unfortunate and totally wrong. now, i am actually, you may find this hard to believe, rather more reassured by director muellers testimony than the opposite. because when something is handed over to the bureau, you want it to go into its normal channels. you wouldnt want this to be a political brouhaha. he has a lot to worry about, t...

How many agent investigators youve assigned to the case? >> maybe able to do that. i would have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head, no. >> if thats not enough the new inspector general report says more than 1,000 irs agents have been abusing their government credit cards. yes, the ones that you and i pay for. joining us now from new orleans with reaction, the former commissioner of the irs under president george w. bush, mark everson. >...

Embarrassing than that? >> when a congressman moves in on you, they own that court. he kept on pounding away at that question, who is leading the investigation -- and the f.b.i. director did not know. >> it makes i think they are not investigating. they wanted it to go away. >> who have you spoken to, i dont know. >> one conservative group has been contacted. >> we looked at that a couple weeks ago. these are serious crimes. there is a whole body of laws involving irs con conducting, that is who...

The iceberg. we would be totally shocked if we really knew what was actually going on. a different debbie writes no but it is our fault. we are supposed to keep our government honest and we dont do it. steven says no, so what do we do about it? mark says i didnt trust my government even when i worked in it. now, it is time for our creep of the week. tonight we have multiple creeps. two named but there could be up to 20 of them. they is set a new low for being a creep. the two men named jose mont...