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Pay these bonus. ses when the sequestration went into effect, the automatic spng cs th theeder spng cs th theeder did ere not supposed to pay discretionary bonuses to employees during the sequestration. interestingly thhous interestingly thhous blatch werfel who has since been named the acting commissioner of the irs. part of that memo does say if you're required by law to pay the bonuses, you have to. so there is a contract between the employees at the irs and the agency, and that contract called for the bonuses. there is a clause in there, however, that would allow for some renegotiation if ...

Have proposed all sorts of ways to make paying taxes easier and simpler. the automatic, you know -- the automatic file that would cover up 80% of taxpayers. and republicans and conservatives kill it every time because they want more than anything complexity and they want people to feel frustrated and angry. >> the finance committee, we used to have hearings every april about how complex filing was. we had experts come in who filled out their own tax returns tell us how long it would take them, 28 hours. and we would say, okay, here's our solution to that. we can do it this weigh. no movement f...

Dreaded irs, you have opened up this little attack window on the health care bill. >> i mean, the grandest irony in all of this, because of agitation in the legislative process, it's actually in the law, the affordable care act, that essentially cannot actually be enforced. they're actually statutorily barred from reaching in and garnishing the money that they would need to enforce the provision. so actually, at the end of this whole chain of logic, they can't enforce the mandate to begin with, because of precisely those complaints. you're exactly right, which is part of the problem here is, t...

>> appreciate the reporting. joining me now, mark geragos who is co author of mistrial. also, former l.a. deputy district attorney marcia clark author of "guilt by degree." mark, your reaction to this verdict, you've been saying all along the defense was focused on making sure jodi arias isn't given the death penalty. what happens now? >> i think all they were doing all along, was trying to get the jury to not give her death. and this is not unexpected. in fact, it's interesting. they had on the verdict form the ability to say premeditation, felony murder, or felony murder and premeditation. a...

Author of "guilt by degree." mark, your reaction to this verdict, you've been saying all along the defense was focused on making sure jodi arias isn't given the death penalty. what happens now? >> well, i think clearly, all they were doing all along was trying to get this jury to not give her death. and this is not unexpected. in fact, it's interesting. they had on the verdict form the ability to say premeditation, felony murder, or felony murder and premeditation. and they split 7 to 5 on that. i think that they're leaning right now towards not giving her death. but frankly, i understand what...