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Originated out of washington that might have had connection to the white house, but they haven't proven it while you'll have democrats continue to complain that this is a cherry-picked witch hunt because original findings by russell george, the ig, in his report were withheld. that, in fact, some liberal groups had been targeted as well. so there's going to be a lot of back and forth. and the irs needs some cleaning up. but there is no evidence yet connecting this to the white house, and there is not still an explanation for why only a few liberal groups were targeted versus all of the conserv...

Indicia that that person had a reasonable fear of death or grievous bodily harm. >> okay. but if you're in your home and you -- i don't want to go too far from why you're here testifying today, but i want to clarify, though, that part of self-defense is you under any circumstance the reasonable belief that you have to act to avoid imminent great bodily harm. >> oh, yes. no question to that. >> there's an objection. >> i'm sorry. >> objection is the framing of the question is counsel's version of the law. >> i'm going to sustain the objection and state to the jury at the end of the conclusion o...

Gregg: oh, yeah. >> new developments in the scandals rocking the irs at this hour. if "wall street journal" reporting the political profiling didn't originate from cincinnati. workers apparently in shock when higher-ups like lois lerner tried to pin the targeting of conservative groups on them. congressional investigators got the directive from a local manager who said washington wanted it. all this emerging as the households a hearing into the $50 million the irs spent on lavish conferences that we've been telling you about. the agency shelling out your hard earned tax dollars for things like...

Term. >> listen to the now ousted acting commissioner of the irs testifying today. i'll play a little clip. >> i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their work load selection. the listing described in the report while intolerable was a mistake. and not an act of partisanship. >> is that argument going to work? >> god bless him for standing up for his friends and colleagues at the irs but that was the ultimate bureaucratic answer. he disputed, i don't think this is targeting because he thought targeting would be nefarious. h...

And sometimes we get it wrong but it's very -- it's rare that we get it wrong. this was one of those terrible tragic times when, you know, there was an assessment shared by the ambassador and shared by others that turned out not to take into account the militants attacking that night. so i can tell you there are, as you say, trip wires but what we're going to try to do is elevate the discussion and the decision-making so that there's not any doubt that everybody is on the same page, that we're not missing information, we're not husbanding resources and there by making less than optimal decisio...