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>> mr. chairman -- >> welcome to washington. >> well, there's paul ryan jumping to the opportunity there. as conservatives and republicans rail against the irs, you've got to wonder do republicans really want to get to the bottom of xdr this or are they using the irs proxy of president obama and the evil all encompassing government they run against? the political reporter for the "new york times" and ed rendell, the msnbc political analyst. nick, it seems to me that they got good political theater there today. and these people believe they were targeted, they believe they've been harassed by t...

He's still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. there's no indication. the reason that lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there's a rogue in cincinnati. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. we have 18 more transcribed interviews to do. >> we're getting to proving it. in all likelihood. it's just another issa -- here's another one. it's not just him. other republicans like hal rogers of kentucky, he's also on the committee, he chairs the house appro...

-- conservatives. we know president obama's irs denied it for months and months and months when they were doing it. we also know we haven't had an investigation yet. we don't know how high it went up. why not do the investigation? subpoena the e-mails. put people under oath. find out whether or not this was limited to the irs and just terrible incompetence. >> by the way, if you were the real investigator, could you find out, anybody, could you catch the connection if there ever was one between the white house and the irs in cincinnati? could you find that out by inquiring? i think the facts k...

Looking for political activity. that part we get. >> right. martha: the problem is they only did it to one side. if all those soros groups and other groups were also undergoing the same kind of scrutiny, just how politically involved are you there would be no argument, right? >> sure. there are legitimate questions you could raise. i live in washington. trust me, there are a lot of nonprofit groups probably shouldn't have that designation. martha: yeah. >> for 27 months not a single conservative group, rightly named tea party group received nonprofit status, not one, from the irs. meanwhile al...

Low-level operatives, of agents there at the i.r.s. in cincinnati, but at offices across the country and including lois lerner who, of course, last week went on administrative leave after she refused to quit and is getting paid $180,000 while watching television. >>brian: nbc went out and found letters shown to them. they requested information from an office in washington, so that shows it did go outside cincinnati asking for additional material for a tea party-type organization. they also say, it does note lerner's signature requesting additional information for one of the tea party groups ap...