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You are in charge! >> while your fellow americans are losing their jobs and their health insurance and their homes you do not spend $4 million at a conference for which there is no accountability. >> judge jeanine: that was congressman jason chaffetz as well as tre gowdy from the house joa oversight. $125,000 for event planners. $17,000 for an art person. art teacher who draws while he is on stage. and $11,000 for a happiness expert. it is the public that needs the happiness expert after we see ...

Famous little phrase no bid contracts. when you corruption, you have supreme who have to amend their w-2s because they are taking gifts that the conference. people who were spending all kinds of money on no-bid contracts, would you change your are mind having heard there were no bid contracts here? >> i think at this stage that was horrendous management is what i would say. there was a misguided effort to sort of build morale in the agency and do things like this and there is no place for that i...

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...

We are just seeing the tip of 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 cree...

Famous little phrase no bid contracts. when you corruption, you have supreme who have to amend their w-2s because they are taking gifts that the conference. people who were spending all kinds of money on no-bid contracts, would you change your are mind having heard there were no bid contracts here? >> i think at this stage that was horrendous management is what i would say. there was a misguided effort to sort of build morale in the agency and do things like this and there is no place for that i...

Famous little phrase no bid contracts. when you corruption, you have supreme who have to amend their w-2s because they are taking gifts that the conference. people who were spending all kinds of money on no-bid contracts, would you change your are mind having heard there were no bid contracts here? >> i think at this stage that was horrendous management is what i would say. there was a misguided effort to sort of build morale in the agency and do things like this and there is no place for that i...

If you look the irs organization versus the day the ig report, we have new commissioner, deputy services and enforcement, commissioner for tax-exempt government entities. >> that is new leadership but who has been held accountable? >> well i think the leaders that were replaced certainly i think the fact theyre no longer holding positions of public trust, that is part of the accountability. >> so so resignation is accountability, is that what youre telling the american people? lois lerner being ...

Pulled out into the open and, then you have a complete airing of the facts. martha: do you have confidence, mr. everson, do you have confidence that is going to happen? talk about the breach of trust and people not, the irs losing credibility as we heard yesterday from mr. werfel, that is such a serious american break of trust. people sign their, you know, returns. they you know, cross their ts and dot theiris, theyre so concerned they will get backlash. to hear, these folks are protected by civ...

What happened at the top in terms how long they let this go and the fail lure, failure to address it, particularly the undermining of the relationship with congress. you have to have good relationships with the congress if youre going to unare agency correctly. martha: i think people want to see that good relationship bear out in, you know, a very clear and transparent way, and acknowledgement. i have to get this so far out there that people say i get it. i think people have been punished. i thi...

Party in 2010 and theyre very concerned about this, and rightly so, frankly. this will be with them as a foundational element of their view of this agency for decades. my experience of the service up and down was that people tried to be impartial and do their job without any concern as to politics. so thats why this is so -- so sad and so disturbing. >> agreed. mark everson, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> there are several hearings on the irs mess this week in washington. s...