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Year and harassed them with question after question and in a few cases, leaked their donor lists. sometimes leaked them to left wing groups. that is despicable. this is just raw political abuse. brook rollins runs one group that was abused. the texas public policy foundation. what happened to you guys? >> well, john, what happened to us in the spring of last year, 2012, our donor list and as a 501 c 3 charitable organization, which is what our organization is, we have to file with the irs a list of larger donors. but as you know, that list is suppose today remain anonymous and the irs in retur...

Organizations involved in limiting expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights. tea party groups long complained about irs delays along with improper requests for donor lists. it wasn't until may of 2013 with an inspector general's report coming that irs official lois lerner confessed the irs had gone too far and apologized. she argued, however, it was only because one irs office was swamped by a surge of applications, though at the time tea parties were targeted in 2010, the number of applications were actually falling. officials in washington insisted the improper ...

The look out for tea party mixes. president obama repeatedly criticized conservative groups that already had tax exempt status calling them shadowy, insidious and even worse. >> this even not just a threat to democrats, this is a threat to our democracy. >> when he did that and was backed up by this amen chorus of democrats it's like a bunch of people blog a dog whistle and the people inside the i.r.s. heard it. >> the criteria had been broadened to quote organizations involved in limiting expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights. tea party groups had long complai...

You were in the white house and administration. who to you think did it? >> this is -- what i think happened is we the congress set up a weird situation in which we allow political groups to spend on elections with secret donor lists, et cetera. we tell the i.r.s. you make sure they are not partisan organizations. so, i think what it seems like so far to me is that somebody whether in washington or cincinnati or wherever in the i.r.s. got in their head. okay, well, here is how we'll figure out who is partisan. does it say "tea party "give them an extra check. >> eric: who? we agree on that. we...

Getting top notch hotel rool, free drinks, all at a $34 million soirn california conference. and the more than 2,000 people who did attend, they got gifts for coming and enjoyed a keynote speaker who cost taxpayers more than $27,000. and house ways and means committee opened hearings yesterday to take testimony from members of tea party and other conservative groups that say all during these conferences, they were mistreated by the irs. listen. >> the copies of our own tax returns that we have in our organization are clean copies. we filed them with the icht rs electronically and when they get...