do with partisanship. let's 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 you're doing here. i'm just questioning that some of the thinking that the chairman of the committee. is there any evidence on your side of the aisle that there was any interference from the white house? >> i think it's important to remember that what we heard in the committee hearing today was that this is an audit, and that the investigation, although the -- mr. george could not confirm verbally in the hearing that the investigation was continuing, i think that's the impression he left upon all of