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You showed a tape of douglas shulman the irs commissioner answering the question about whether or not they were targeting groups. targeting groups. tell

>> the epa accused of slappin fees on conservative groups which are normally waived, while giving over 90% of green groupsv its not only unfair, but not good for the you economy. >> everyone is so sick of the favoritism at this point. oarlock, you get conservative groups that cant fight back, they cant challenge this green agenda. it is inevitably going to cost more. who is paying fororit it? certainly not the companies that have to enforce the rules. its you and i. so you watch these energy pri...

Contributed $840,000 to political causes, but an overwhelming majority of that, two-thirds of that money, benefited democrats and liberal-leaning organizations according to a study by the center for public integrity. the irs commissioner in 2010 when conservative groups first became a target was douglas shulman. according to the federal elections committee, he contributed $500 to the dnc in 2004. uma, back to you. uma: doug, thank you very much. gregg: and we are waiting for the president, obama...

Targeting groups of certain affiliations. we need to not just scream at the top of our voices which is what it feels like the republicans are doing. >> it certainly does. jon, can you explain this to me. there appears to be a themmatic of hypocrisy. we have darrell issa who votes against the shield law for journalists but then tries to link the pursuit by the department of justice of the associated press reporters and condemns that. then, of course, we recall his pursuit in relation to benghazi....

Report, but look, the irs has two big problems here. number one of course is just the concept of targeting groups when theyre looking into the tax-exempt status, or any status, frankly, based on their political beliefs. that is simply a no-no and it is something that the irs has admitted to. they deny that it was for political reasons but they admit that it was inappropriate to do. but the second big problem that the irs has is congress itself. congress feels duped and misled because congress ha...

Theyre applying in a nonpartisan way. >> is it known at this point who came up with this ludicrous idea for the irs to actually go after groups based on their politics? >> who came up with it, no, not yet but we probably will find out more about that later this week when the irs actually unveils its inspector general report but look, the irs has two big problems here. number one of course is just the concept of targeting groups when theyre looking into the tax-exempt status, or any status, frank...

To go. there is a contingency team or extremist team, ill refer to them, assigned to the commander in chief and local areas. where were they that night? why werent provisions made to have forces within range and just an hour away from benghazi. why werent they deployed ready to go to take action in any of those areas in the middle east or north africa? it makes no sense. they totally ignored their responsibility, partly because they didnt want to admit they had a problem. they were trying to per...

That have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then thats outrageous and theres no place for it. and they have to be held fully accountable, because the irs as an independent agency requires absolute integrity and people have to have confidence that theyre applying in a nonpartisan way. >> is it known at this point who came up with this ludicrous idea for the irs to actually go after groups based on their politics? >> who came up with it, no, not yet but we prob...

It is not low-level people because the acting commissioner himself has said i knew about it last year. that part of the story not true. in the meantime not only apparently is the i.r.s. targeting groups, does look as if they have leaked out some of the information to various organizations. for instance, in december of 2012, propublica got a copy of the application for tax-exempt status for crossroads g.p.s. which is karl roves outfit. and it was from the same i.r.s. office in cincinnati which se...

You showed a tape of douglas shulman the irs commissioner answering the question about whether or not they were targeting groups. targeting groups. tell