he diminishes the seriousness of the issue which for conservatives is a terribly serious matter. after all lois lerner herself, the person at the center of all of this from the irs she apologized for targeting conservatives. i don't know how the president can say. this greta, here's what the associated press reported the day the story broke from a.p. the irs apologized friday for what it acknowledged was inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election: so his own administration has acknowledged the wrongdoing and the administration is trying to back walk it and act as if it was nothing. >> next two weeks report outs of senate bipartisan committee senator hatch. irs improperly destroyed 422 backup tapes containing 1300 to 24,000 emails to and from lois lerner and they did that destruction nine months after the irs received congressional order to protect such evidence.