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Don't think anybody's surprised about that it did go to the white house. now we have to get people to remember or not claim the fifth and take claim for the problems they created. >> megyn: brian, your situation alleges something even more sinister, it's bad enough to target groups applying for tax exempt status but you take it to another realm when you said tax return information, confidential tax information, was leaked to hurt us. now that's something -- people don't want to believe the irs will use the data we're forced to provide to them to try to hurt us politically or any other way. hav...

About the tax data and the irs promise toed to look into the matter but the report was never made public. this week an inspector general report revealed at this very same time, the irs had an entire team of specialists devoted to targeting certain conservative organizations raising new questions about trust in government. joining me now, ted olson. the former solicitor general of the united states under president bush. he represents koch industries and in february of 2012 he wrote an op-ed accusing president obama of creating a quote, enemies' list. mr. olson, a pleasure to have you on. i want...

Multipurpose guest, because you're also a tax lawyer. >> because i like you, that's why. >> greta: i'm curious, with the irs doing this, what is it sort of the usual time period for people to get tax exempt status. i know they got the run around. if you apply for tax exempt status, when should you hear back? >> within a reasonable amount of time. certainly not two years. doesn't take the irs that long to do it. i knew it was a phony story last friday when the story came out. when i was a former federal tax lawyer, did this work, we had strict jurisdictional limits within the irs, because we're...

Multipurpose guest, because you're also a tax lawyer. >> because i like you, that's why. >> greta: i'm curious, with the irs doing this, what is it sort of the usual time period for people to get tax exempt status. i know they got the run around. if you apply for tax exempt status, when should you hear back? >> within a reasonable amount of time. certainly not two years. doesn't take the irs that long to do it. i knew it was a phony story last friday when the story came out. when i was a former federal tax lawyer, did this work, we had strict jurisdictional limits within the irs, because we're...

Had to do in my judgment was to increase the number of people who are qualified in the world of science and engineering and mathematics. we have a huge shortage of thes. we had an industry there where we're doing very well and we don't have the people to expand the industry. >> you don't have the right skilled workers that the economy is demanding right now? >> that's right and we need to focus more on that. >> the rich get better every year over the past few years, infamous 1%. you're among these. i really want your view here. recent tax data from the irs shows $370,000 to get into the top 1%...