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Congress, go to the hearings. he is going to fire everybody he can legally fire who has been involved in this. and they have got to look at changes. how can you put obama care under the internal revenue service? remember. is this the administration which will not profile terrorists but profile patriots? profile constitutional groups? i mean, this is almost madness. >> here is the time line of the irs' position on the issue. according to reports obtained by the associated press the findings seem to contradict public statements made by the agency's commissioner. in march of 2012, irs commission ...

Targeting. >> on saturday, the irs put a statement reading, "senior leadership was not aware of this level of specific details at the time of the march 2012 hearing." >> so, they were saying it was low-level employees in ohio. that was on friday. >> it goes on to say, "senior leadership did not have this level of detail, but the associated press reports that back in june of 2011, the official who heads the irs division that oversees tax exempt organizations learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted. just two months later, in august of 2011, staffers in the irs' rulings and agreement...

That because she was just about talking about what the -- what the irs said. >> here is the time line of the irs' position on the issue. according to reports obtained by the associated press, the findings seem to contradict public statements made by the agency's commissioner. in march of 2012, irs commissioner douglas schulman testified there absolutely no target adding that the investigations were, quote, the kind of back and forth that happens to people. >> a year ago, absolutely no targeting. >> on saturday, the irs put out a statement reading, quote, senior leadership was not aware of this...

2011, according to an irs inspector general's report expected to be released this week. but then irs commissioner douglas shulman sent this to congress in march 2012. >> yes, i can give you assurances, as you know, we pride ourselves on being a non-political, non-partisan organization. there's absolutely no targeting. >> the irs says senior officials like shulman didn't know about these problems at the time of his testimony. on friday, the agency admitted mistakes were made, but insists they were in no way due to any political or partisan rational ail. >> and we certainly find the actions take...

Time of the march 2012 hearing when the commissioner told congress that there was no targeting of people. the timeline does not contradict the commissioner's testimony. while exempt organization officials knew of the situation earlier, the timeline reflects the irs senior leadership did not have this level of detail. the timeline supports what the irs acknowledged on friday that mistakes were made. there were not partisan reasons behind this. let's begin with mistakes were made. it has such a ring because there's no kind of ownership of mistakes were made. there's no subject matter to this sen...