Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150818:19:42:00
The irs saying it's begun notifying people. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams looking into how this happened and what steps the feds taking in the aftermath. pete? >> well, this involved an irs online application called get transcripts. a transcript is basically a line by line summary of your previous tax returns and if you weren't very careful about keeping the records you could go online or you could mail in but in this case the online thing is the issue. you could go in and get past returns. what the irs says is that people were using information they got elsewhere, people's name...