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>> reporter: text messages should have been turned over to lawmakers under existing congressional sbs. republicans see a cover-up. >> miss lerner says would you i got rid of emails when the computer crashed two years earlier but i better double check on this intra office instant messaging capability we have here at the internal revenue service. >> reporter: lerner has pleaded the fifth amendment and refused to testify or cooperate with congress. thousands of her subpoenaed emails were lost in that computer crash. one democrat read a statement from her lawyer. >> the facts are miss lerner didn'...

>> it's extremely unlikely for those losses to occur. >> reporter: and being called to testify before two house committees. house ways and means investigator said they first knew about destroying the e-mails in february but told them they would produce all communications. >> i certainly took him at his word there would be a new openness when he came in to head the irs and that certainly hasn't happened. >> reporter: orrin hatch said he believes the e-mails were intentionally destroyed and so far the majority leader isn't drawing conclusions. >> i talked to senator wyden today and he and senato...

>> i do, bret, and i wrote about this at length in my book, a whole chapter on the attack on benghazi. this was the fog of war. my own assessment careened from, you know, the video had something to do with it, the video had nothing to do with it. it may have affected some people, didn't affect other people. i think the conclusion to draw because we were not just monitoring what was happening at benghazi, once it began to unfold, but remember we had a very dangerous assault on our embassy in cairo that same day which was clearly linked to that video, so i was trying to make sense of it, you kno...

Al-sharia has claimed responsibility. how did that report come to you? >> it came to you as the secretary of state. it was orally delivered. it was a monitoring of a facebook account that said that, and then as you know and as i write in my chapter, that was reversed. >> ansar al-sharia didn't fully pull it back. they didn't participate. >> there's no doubt terrorists were involved. there is no doubt and i from the very beginning and in my statements as you know and as i write in the chapter, said that these were attackers. now, who was leading them? we think we now have one of the ring leader...

Reason that lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there's a rogue in cincinnati, it's because this is a problem coordinated inll likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. >> did he go too far in calling jay carney the president's press secretary a paid liar? >> yeah. he's actually done a very good job on benghazi and all of these issues of trying to find the truth. he's right. ms. lerner didn't take the fifth amendment because it was some rogue. i don't know where this goes but it's very disturb that she would take the fifth amendment and the prio...