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That information. i'll get to that. >> mike: the irs itself, former irs commissioner mark everson there bad leadership of the irs. basically the irs is a mess. this is what he had to say. >> a convergence of really bad mismanagement. you can't take your hand off the rudder. it's a large organization and you have to be looking at all of it. commissioner said i didn't particularly interested in this piece of agency. i stayed away because it is sensitive. >> it's kind of like the secretary of state saying, the jewish people are concerned about israel so i'm not going to go into the mideast you fe...

>> this is a serious matter. i always felt when i was at the service that everybody did their level best to call it right down the middle. so this targeting is very unfortunate and totally wrong. now, i am actually, you may find this hard to believe, rather more reassured by director mueller's testimony than the opposite. because when something is handed over to the bureau, you want it to go into its normal channels. you wouldn't want this to be a political brouhaha. he has a lot to worry about, terrorism investigations and other things. so i think this is going into the normal process. that's...

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...

Embarrassing than that? >> when a congressman moves in on you, they own that court. he kept on pounding away at that question, who is leading the investigation -- and the f.b.i. director did not know. >> it makes i think they are not investigating. they wanted it to go away. >> who have you spoken to, i don't know. >> one conservative group has been contacted. >> we looked at that a couple weeks ago. these are serious crimes. there is a whole body of laws involving irs con conducting, that is whole set of crimes. >> alisyn: in the defense, even the former irs commissioner mark everson, it's no...

The iceberg. we would be totally shocked if we really knew what was actually going on. a different debbie writes no but it is our fault. we are supposed to keep our government honest and we don't do it. steven says no, so what do we do about it? mark says i didn't trust my government even when i worked in it. now, it is time for our creep of the week. tonight we have multiple creeps. two named but there could be up to 20 of them. they is set a new low for being a creep. the two men named jose montano and marcellus peter of california are currently on trial accused of the brutal gang rape of a ...