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Tweets that said i don't understand how anybody but straight white men could vote for republicans. that is against the law. you cannot do that as a federal employee. >> that is right. they cannot engage in political activity while on federal duty. and these tweets, there are a bunch of them, suggesting that people should contribute to the obama campaign. it was a clear-cut case of misbehavior on the job and the way we learned about the hard drive failure was with the inspector general looking into this activity and discovering that fec officials, somebody in the organization, destroyed that ha...

About two minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house here's what's happening today. israel accepting a proposed cease-fire deal, but hamas quickly rejects it. that rejection underlined by a barrage of rockets into southern israel. protests like the ones in murrieta, california, are expected in oracle, arizona, today as a bus carrying 40 illegal immigrant children heads into town. another hard drive failure by one of lois lerner's former colleagues. former election commission employee april stance's hard drive disappeared after she was fired for violating campaign laws. ti...

Was delivered on june 13 to congress and the treasury, inspector general for tax administration, it was determined last week that several additional custodians may have experienced hard drive failures during the search period. it's not unusual for computers anywhere to fail. especially at the irs in light of the aged equipment irs employees often have to use, in light of the continual cuts in the budget these past four years. since january 1 of this year, for example, over 2,000 irs employees have suffered hard drive crashes. it's important to remember that a hard drive failure does not automa...

Wealth management at charles schwab. you are looking live at capitol hill where lawmakers are telling the irs commissioner they expect answers over those missing e-mails. mike emanuel is there with the very latest. his refusal to apologize last week rankled some folks. how about tonight? >> expect something tough stuff. since we were told about ten days ago about the hard drive failure, killing lois lerner's e-mails, some are asking about backup systems. the irs had a contract with a company that develops software that automates the backup and recovery pros for microsoft exchanges and server...

Servers. >> the e-mails should not be stored on the end user's machine. it should be stored on the servers. you can access from multiple locations, and in the event of a hard drive failure, which i imagine are very common, you would have access to those e-mails. >> reporter: among the questions being asked now are missing e-mails from lerner and six others at the irs a coincidence or a cover-up. >> i would want to go back and during that time period take a random sample of irs employees and recover their e-mail. if i was unable to recover the e-mail of those subpoenaed, that would be a curious...