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This could have been done at a much faster pace so a lot of people didn't suffer. why didn't you step up the oversight and put feet to the fire on the irs. >> we just found out about this a week ago. and in that short time we wanted to schedule a hearing with the current director to see where things were. clearly this investigation is going to be ramped up. i'm not sure in the directions we are going to go. we did not get the information we needed to get in today's hearing and we he have to go to the next level. >> greta: most prosecutions start at the bottom and not the top in terms of questi...

Organization but you really in the treasury department. they are federal employees just like everybody else. represented a number of them by a union but these are h bonuset outstrip most everybody in the federal government. >> greta: is it like ear marked for bonuses? >> if congress wanted to crack down on this they could crack down on this. $92 million in the last four years. >> greta: i just asked this, the oversight committee is. there is a difference between oversight and investigation. if you do your oversight we don't get to the investigation because is you monitored and make sure that w...

I actually understand why he reduced himself. he was consulted in the underlying investigation. >> he said that because he deals with the reporters and then, of course, they found a real -- they did you go around a little bit more are and found a connection and then they threw that excuse out. about the bigger issue for me is that then he said that this is the biggest leak that he has ever seen in his entire career and he says that it put americans at risk. but you yet he never talked to the president about it, huh? hmmmm. this is the problem with this entire situation here with the irs. with ...

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Mark tapscott at the washington examiner uncovered the numbers and also says that a bonus that high generally has to go to the office of personnel management and then to the president for are approval. >> greta: she has gotten them during the obama administration. has been around the irs for some time. did she ever get them in the former administration? >> the biggest bonus was $34,000 under president bush. the irs gave out $92 million in bonuses from o the ground '9 to 2012. $5,500 an average of $5,500 employee. they have this kind of culture of bonuses at the irs. >> greta: it must be approp...