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Former irs commissioner mark everson praises koskinen efforts to address the concerns. he says any new regulation must work to restore confidence in the agency. >> the service needs to call it absolutely down the middle. the problem with all the c-4 mess last year was that there was a clear tilt, if you will, towards more examination of conservative groups and that is just, just unacceptable. >> reporter: by the way, more than 150,000 comments poured in on that newly-proposed federal regulation coming from both the right and the left. jenna? jenna: big story today. of the big story moving forw...

Specifically for obamacare. before i let you go, i have to ask you this. a lot of people are wondering, if i don't sign up for obamacare, the irs is coming after me. remember, it was played out to us that if you didn't sign up for it, that you would be hit by the irs with some sort of a fine. do you see that actually happening now? >> well, there will be penalties. but the real question -- one of the real questions on the act is, are the penalties sufficient to deter folks from not getting the care? and 1% is not that much for some people, especially if you look at high deductibles. we don't k...

Website and effectiveness and whether or not people can use the website. mark everson said it is a heavy lift. do we have any indication or idea of how well equipped the ears will be in carrying this out? >> the problem is, even if the website is working, and even if they have all of the information they need to penalized people who signed up, they can't penalize the way they normally do. when congress was trying to sell this bill, they leaned back on enforcement, because they knew the public would object to that. they didn't give irs the enforcement. they can't confiscate propero put liens, t...

You've assigned to the case? >> maybe able to do that. i would have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head, no. >> if that's not enough the new inspector general report says more than 1,000 irs agents have been abusing their government credit cards. yes, the ones that you and i pay for. joining us now from new orleans with reaction, the former commissioner of the irs under president george w. bush, mark everson. >> thank you for having me. >> you were a former irs commissioner. you heard the director's testimony where he claim to have no ...

How many agent investigators you've assigned to the case? >> maybe able to do that. i would have to get back to you. >> can you tell me who the lead investigator is. >> off the top of my head, no. >> if that's not enough the new inspector general report says more than 1,000 irs agents have been abusing their government credit cards. yes, the ones that you and i pay for. joining us now from new orleans with reaction, the former commissioner of the irs under president george w. bush, mark everson. >> thank you for having me. >> you were a former irs commissioner. you heard the director's testimo...