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Possible information, documents, e-mails, et cetera, that might give rise to admissible evidence in our case. therefore, the government, the irs specifically was under an obligation to have what's called a litigation hold. they had to retain any information about how the irs was processing applicants for tax exempt status and so when everyone learned that lois lerner's e-mails were lost as were six other members of the irs in her circle, they were already under an obligation to hold that stuff. they could not have been recycled to servers. >> that's what's so alarming and startling about your ...

Discrimination. now, once they filed that lawsuit, the irs should have been retaining all e-mails, all documents, anything related to viewpoint discrimination under what's known co-loek wally as a litigation hold. the irs idea that, oh, this is what we did, we recycled our e-mails, oops, the computer crashed. it really doesn't hold here because they were under a legal obligation to be keeping this information. >> just so viewers understand, viewpoint discrimination is illegal because the zost couldn't discriminate against people for having certain political views. that's what the lawsuit is al...