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Front but word gets spread pretty quickly. thats almost certainly why the number jumped from 100 million a few years ago to more than a billion in claims last year alone. >> thats stunning. stephen, thank you. >> my pleasure. lets go off the record for a minute. capitol hill, what a nightmare. republicans and democrats fight over almost everything and that means nothing gets done in washington. but what about waste? its staggering how much there is. you would think that republicans and democra...

In bogus refund. thats a huge problem and one going on for years. instead of handling it and being good stewards of your money, politicians seem like they dont give a damn. congress has oversight power. their job is to stay on top of the irs. but its not just the politicians. its the media, too. when you mention waste to the media, they say, well, thats just washington. thats a lousy attitude. ways of stealing, stealing for you. time someone gives a damn. president obama and jonathan gruber di...

Dont potentially speak the language, even, or havent traveled there or have no experience there, it sends a message to those populations and to the anti-american elements to those populations that the united states governor had the has no interest in an engagement and contradicts the notion that president onbamas debate in 2008. it is fundamentally incompatible with the notion of critical, diplomatic interests. >> stay with us. if you thought the irs could not get worse, boy did you think wrong....

Dollars on election activity. and almost -- most of them are conservative. and most of them are doing things which you couldnt tell a difference between them, the social welfare group. >> right. >> and a political operation. and thats what the change. its not like big money is leaving politics because you can still give money to superpacs as well. >> right. >> what the administration wants to do, they want to make sure 501-c4s are not as powerful. superpacs have to say who gives money to them. 5...

Group told the irs it spent on political activities in 2012. this week, the obama administration proposed new rules aimed at decreasing the influence of groups like crossroads gps on the right, and even the league of conservation voters on the left, by tightening the definitions of political versus nonpolitical activity. it will require groups to be more careful about how the money is spent and how the money is reported. its an issue that the president talked about at the beginning of the gops p...

Challenge. somebody has to be the adult in the room and it needs to be the president, and if we cant be were not going to see any resolve. >> neil: take a gander. thank you very much. that phony irs spying? apparently still spying. this guy is not sloughing it off of he is just digging in. youll never believe what in the guy digging in just dug up. ♪

For extra scrutiny based on their name, without any evidence of political belief, and obviously the example we used is tea party, and if youre a tea party, you get secondary screening. if youre not, you dont. so, again, completely unequal treatment, and targeting of a particular group because of their political beliefs. >> neil: do you know whether thats the case, congressman, or to give the irs its due, no one is coming out to talk to us to give their due -- this might be were continuing someth...

Tamt exempt dollars. >> you keep cutting me off, but let me give you facts. eric holder said there may be criminal investigations. sean, im representing one of the groups. they say they need an exception of time, why, because of criminal investigations of irs officials. thats pretty clear although we havent been contacted by anybody with the fbi but theyre saying theres an investigation. number three, the lois lerner e-mail back and forth to the fec lawyer was going on when there was not even an...

Uh-huh. the ways and means chairman calls it must stop immediately and others in congress say the irs investigation must go much deeper. >> the public deserves to know. and the congress is conducting a legitimate oversight function in doing this. so, yes, there is some explaining to do, and i think were asking for that explanation on behalf of the american people, on behalf of people from the right and the left who believe in free expression. >> irs officials say they have made changes. they say...

That were very real in the beginning to him are now phony as we speak. just a string of the presidents reactions to these and other crises. take a look. >> endless parade of distract distractions and political posturing and phone scandals. >> phony scandals. >> foamy scandals. >> fake scandals. >> endless parade of political posturing posturing and phony scandals. >> here whats it weird. when the irs came to light, benghazi, the initial reaction predictably and hopefully was that the administrat...