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William wilkins, did it just spring into his head, i should go ahead and target these people for extra layers of scrutiny? did he get word from somebody else he should do that? did he get word from somebody at the white house? we do not know yet. we know he is a life long democrat who in 2008 helped lead the defense on jeremiah wright's church when he was being investigated by the i.r.s. he did that work, mr. wilkins said, on behalf of the case absolutely free pro bono. >>brian: this guy has an expertise in 501-c-4 and c-3 applications. yet people testified he was out of the loop on this. you ...

>> no, i do not. >> some democrats isolated the problem the same way this program has, which is the conflict between the law as written and the 1959 regulation, written by the irs which misinterprets the law. the law, as we now know, the 501 c-4, operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. in 1959, they said suddenly that 501 c-4's could be primarily engaged in social welfare, not exclusively, primarily. the 1964 bureaucratic change has created the problem we have today. irs agents trying to determine if an organization is primarily engaged in social welfare, which most tax attor...

>> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbi's charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. it's going to take a long time, correct? >> well, it's interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4's and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that soon it doesn't affect the lawsuit. there is also discussion from the tax advocate which is executive branch inside the white...

>> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbi's charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. it's going to take a long time, correct? >> well, it's interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4's and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that soon it doesn't affect the lawsuit. there is also discussion from the tax advocate which is executive branch inside the white...

Lawyer and take the fifth. >> there is no doubt that bad things happened and the fbi's charge is to find out whether they were criminal or not. i have got 60 seconds left. this lawsuit that you are filing, this class action lawsuit is going to take years. it's going to take a long time, correct? >> well, it's interesting. we are already seeing the irs trying to do a couple things. the new acting commissionerrerrer werfel. we represent all the c 4's and c 1. we are analyzing it now. they dual that soon it doesn't affect the lawsuit. there is also discussion from the tax advocate which is execut...