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Im dara brown. Today could be another showdown for irs commissioner swron. The House Committee will continue grilling him about missing emails that may have contained evidence about the agencys targeting of conservative groups. Several angry republicans are accusing the agency of covering up a scandal. At least one lawmaker compared the lost emails to watergate. Im joined by nbcs tracie potts in washington d. C. What can we expect today . Well, dara, you can expect to hear from a white house attorney who used to be at the irs. This is a back and fort forth about whether or not she would testify. She is scheduled to be here on capitol hill in about two and a half hours. Meantime, the committee that started out investigating whether the irs unfairly targeted conservative groups, now some of the Committee Members want a special prosecutor to look into why evidence disappeare ....