president. no awareness. >> that's correct. and what i have said here from the briefing room, lawrence, is that the white house counsel was notified as is routine in washington, as you know from your experience here, that there was an ig review going on that was looking at conduct at the irs, very top line notification. and that was roughly three weeks ago. and that process was coming to a conclusion, which is why the notification went out. but we had no details, we had no specifics about what the allegations would be, or what the conclusions would be. and therefore, we had to wait for the report to come out. >> and as we know, there is probably no more sensitive interaction with the citizenry in the government than the irs interaction and yet the irs commissioner, you knew this, was resigning last year. the president had advanced knowledge of that. why has the white house done nothing, nominated no one, to