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Do with partisanship. lets listen. >> as acting commissioner, i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. the listing described in the report while intolerable was a mistake and not an act of partisanship. >> congressman reichert, i respect everything youre doing here. im just quest...

>> thanks for having us. >> sean: thank you both. amazing story. that is all the time we have left this evening. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. thanks for being with us. well see you back here monday night. >> greta: tonight, horrible customer service. that is what the outgoing irs acting commissioner calls the ers targeting of conservative groups. horrible customer are service. but members of congress are calling the irs a lot of other things. >> we provided horrible custom...

>> sean: thank you both. amazing story. that is all the time we have left this evening. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. thanks for being with us. back here monday night. >> greta: tonight, horrible customer service. that is what the outgoing irs acting commissioner calls the ers targeting of conservative groups. horrible customer are service. but members of congress are calling the irs a lot of other things. >> we provided horrible customer service here. >> we will admit that...

By the irs had nothing to do with partisanship. lets listen. >> as acting commissioner, i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection. the listing described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake and not an act of partisanship. >> congressman reichart, i respect everything you...

The outgoing head of the irs gets grilled by lawmakers. a house committee just wrapped up a hearing. lawmakers are investigating the irs for targeting conservative groups. steven miller told lawmakers it was not political, it was in his word procedural. >> i do not believe partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described in the treasury inspector generals report. ive reviewed that report and i believe its conclusions are consistent with that. i think what happened here wa...

Statement before i take your questions. first and foremost, as acting commissioner i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes we made and poor services we provided. the american public deserve better. partisanship or the perception of partshisanship has no place the irs. it cant even appear to have a role in determining tax exempt status in the organization. i dont believe politics motivated the people engaged in the treasury inspector generals report. i belie...

When dealing with these tax-exempt groups. as we look at this, remember the time frame, 2010 through 2012. that spans two national elections cycles. martha: what were hearing here this morning is the argument from the irs that the reason for all of this was, quote, a lack of leadership, and this idea to target these conservative groups was simply an effort after citizens united to cull through the thousands and thousands of applications that they had for tax-exempt status and that this was simpl...

People in the exempt organization in cincinnati, the lower level people who were working on this, he said no. was there any outside influence? and he said no. so when the chairman, and i brought his languaglanguage, st off his opening remarks saying its the latest example of culture of cover-ups in this administration, there was no evidence today to support that. it was politicization of a very, very sad chapter by people who were works and who misworked. >> lets take a look. heres steve miller....

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