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Conservative republican manager. and the screener explained why he started using the search term "patriots." he said, "i used patriots because some of the tea parties wouldn't -- they would shorten their name to tp patriots. i thought okay, i will use patriot. and i would see tp patriots." richard wolffe, that's from a guy whose job it is to evaluate how much politics your 501c4 is going to engage in. that strikes me as a perfectly reasonable search term. >> especially because they weren't targeting them for their politics. they were targeting them because they were pretending to be educationa...

Treatment of an applicant in his 25 years in authorizing grants. >> people that make donations to a 501c4 that is not a tax deductible amount. we're not getting any money from the taxpayer. we're saying if we want a group or make a donation that at the end. year or whatever it's been taxed when the person earned it to begin with. this is an outrage. we're taking money from starving children to find us. >> republicans are looking for a conspiracy. mr. issa says he can feel it in his gut that someone has broken the law. an irs commissioner appointed by president bush and investigated by a republ...

You and republican colleagues don't believe should bee1 fleeñi from political targeting but you should be free from any scrutiny at all. >> andrea: what? then he tries to defend theelf wh fox news with megyn kelly earlier today. >>çó use the first amendment rights. nobody at t irs stopped them from doing it. >> that ignores the reality of the testimony. because a lot of people don't wanti] to donate groups that stamp of approvalqfá of officially becoming 501c4? >> that was not testimonyq under oath. i don't know if he offered proof. >> is he lying to that? >> no. ms. kelly you are putting ...

There was a big uptick in these applications. i decided to do a little research. i have an excellent research assistant and she found a list, sirs. i'm going to put this on foxnews.com tomorrow. the link to the official docu regarding the completions by fiscal year. follow me on this. this is 501c4, tax exempt organizations and elsewhere under the direction of lois lerner most recently. applications for tax exempt status peaked in fiscal 2007. they peaked at 87,638, and have been in decline every year since then. in fact the last and most recent year, 54,522 for tax

Empower bide statements like that, or president obama, quite frankly, that led to the mess we are. >> greta: have you received tthe authorization -- >> yeah. the national organization for ht the other groups were. we already are authorized as a 501c4. it an illegal digs closure of our tax returns. >> greta: given to an opponent. >> the head of the human rights campaign at the time had been named national co- of the obama national re-election campaign. they were seeking our donors intimidate them from giving further money to support our cause. a a felony, five years in prison. it's a serious fe...