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Criteria that identified for review tea party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status, based upon their names than intervention. after reading the report tuesday night, president obama called the practice intolerable and inexcusable after promising action monday. >> the american people have to be held accountable. its got to be fixed. >> reporter: irs officials said they acted on their own. the report says pangers were ineffective -- managers were ineffective in governing the tax-...

The king and queen will be named during prom on june 1st. cnn newsroom with carol costello begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining me. im carol costello. what did they know and when did they know it? 40 years later that simple, iconic question from the watergate era once again hangs over the white house. some republicans are accusing the embattled obama administration of abusing its power and your trust. unlike anything weve seen in generations. >> never seen any...

That looks out, that supposedly looks out for the little people, all they do is throw the little people under the bus. and, i mean, were getting tired of it. it is going on here with the irs. its going on with benghaziment i mean, when are they going to accept responsibility? when is somebody going to act like the adult and say, you know what? the buck stops with me. thats what it comes down to. this administration, they dont give us answers. you guys have been covering benghazi. talking points ...

Politically motivated? >> reporter: what it determined is that from the people they interviewed that this was done as a time saving measure not as a way to politically target these groups. but in the same report, very clearly, it says that it was not appropriate because they didnt take into account the fact that the public would perceive it and specifically these tea party groups and others would perceive it as exactly that, politically motivated. >> yeah. dana bash reporting live from washingto...

Dramatic to turn the tide, that he needs to fire someone. >> reporter: i think youre already seeing perhaps the way paved on that because last night the white house put out a statement from president obama saying at least when it comes to this controversy involving the irs that he is having his treasury secretary hold accountable the people in the irs who are responsible for this. i think when you see the report, thats going to mean not necessarily just the folks at the irs who executed this but...

E-mails they have shown us in some case but have not been turned over to us. and i dont want to prolong this any more than anyone else. what i want is the truth. in addition to that of the irs admitted to targeting conservatives, even if the white house continues to be stuck on the word "if," now, my question isnt about whos going to resign. my question is, whos going to jail over the scandal? >> the national press secretary for the republican national committee joins me live now. thanks for joi...

American beverage institute, many thanks to you. >> thank you. it is the latest scandal for the obama administration. conservative groups fighting with the irs over how it treated their tax-exempt applications. and now a criminal investigation is under way. twenty-five thousand mornings, give or take, is all we humans get. we spend them on treadmills. we spend them in traffic. and if we get lucky, really lucky, it dawns on us to go spend them in a world where a simple sunrise can still be magi...

Report says. >> reporter: hi, rt.ca it details how irs agents crossed the line with excessive scrutiny delaying tea party groups applications for tax-exempt status in some cases for more than three years and asking for information they simply shouldnt have like for the groups donors and members. the inspector general does not recommend punishment for the people involved. the president now says that is up to the treasury secretary and later today well hear from the attorney general who says these...

And our values as americans. i think the actions that we have taken are consistent with both. >> reporter: tuesday, reporters questioned holder in a medicare fraud event and pressured white house press secretary jay carney with a briefing. >> reporter: the president is a firm believerer of the press to be unfettered. >> reporter: republicans are seizing on these new controversies. >> reporter: but we do know this, we cant count on the administration to be forthcoming about the details of this sc...

We expect this to be a tough hearing for him. >> that hearing at 1:00 p.m. eastern. he is due to testify on the specifics before the house judiciary committee. holder is a busy man these days. he has launched a criminal investigation into the irs. you know, irs employees have for the past 18 months targeted conservative groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their names. a new treasury department report puts it this way t.irs inspector general found the irs acts used inappropriate cri...