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We may learn more about that irs scandal. It involves former director lois lerner. Her irs group flagged criteria that certain groups. The new claims that tax agency has lost all traces of those emails because of a computer hardware failed. It was determined that it was dysfunctional and that with experts no email could be retrieved. Recycled in the normal process. Was it physically destroyed . Was my understanding. Was it melted down. I have no idea what the repsychler does with it. That was three year ago years ago. Dana bash, it does sound a little fishy. Lawmakers wont get any answers now from lois lerner. Definitely not from her. Shes kpleeded the fifth. What is going on as we speak is really contentious and really partisan. This irs scandal originally was more bipartisan because democrats understood the political problem of the irs appearing to target any american, never mind just the tea party. At this point, it is incredibly divided with republicans pulling no punches and frankly the new irs commissioner whats only been there six months put in place by the president is pulling no punches either. I want you to listen with one of the exchanges with the chairman of this committee, dave camp frustrated he wasnt getting answers and saying there needs to be a special prosecutor. What ive learned in the last week calls into question every document and response the irs has given or for that matter has failed to give this committee and the only way i can see hope of establishing confidence is appointing a special prosecutor. For the same of the agency and to restore the trust of the american people, will you support the appointment of a special prosecutor . There are six investigations going on of this event. Yes or no . The ig is already investigating can you give a definitive answer to this committee . Yes or no, do you appoint t thement of special prosecutor . Im asking a question that requires a yes or no answer. I think i think regular order. I think the appointment of a special prosecutor after the six investigations ongoing and the ig investigation into this matter ongoing would be a monumental waste of taxpayer funds. Is that a yes or a no . Thats a no. Thank you. Reporter he also argued that the irs itself has already spent 16 million trying to recover documents and answer congresss questions about whether the why there were inappropriate questions to Tea Party Groups and others who were trying to get tax exempt status. Just to give our viewers a little bit background because we dove right in here with these exchanges going on here. The idea is that just last friday Congress Learned that emails from a twoyear period from lois lerner are gone and they are gone for good because as we heard today, the hardware that she had these emails on crashed and was now destroyed. So the tension in the room is really the disbelief by these lawmakers aa that this was really steroid ask destroyed and they have no chance of getting at it. After this investigation has been going on for so long, why the irs didnt Tell Congress about it. It took two months for them to Tell Congress. Especially in this day and age where everything can be saved and recorded and documented. Thank you very much. Well get back to you as we get new developments. Also happening on capitol hill right now, the House Veterans Affair Committee tries to peel back another layer of the v. A. Scandal. Why were executives were given hefty bonuses while stone walling treatment . A new audit shows the problem is worse than first believed. V. A. s own accounting more than 400,000 receipt vans waited longer than three months for an appointment. Summer driving season, giving the pinch on your wallet. Some gas prices are closing in on levels we have not seen since 2008. If you wonder why, you only need to look at iraq. Christine romans is here to explain. Christine, here we go. Here we go and you are absolutely right. Motorists are really upset about this. The highest june for gas prices in six years and they are feeling it. And heres why, iraq is the fourth largest proven reserves of oil. Its been slowly regaining its Oil Production over the past few years and now youve got this conflict. Already youve got a major pipeline closed even before today. Now youve got this part of the country is still safe. This is an oilrich producing area youve also get these concerns about a refinery thats been cane over by isis rebels. Youve got some Oil Companies trimming down the number of people they have on their facilities. All of this is a real problem. Oil prices rising, when they rise, gas price rises are not very far behind it. This is what the year looks like. Just this month, oil prices up 4 . What does that mean for gas . June last year, you were paying about 3. 60. By may of this year, already up to 3. 64. Today were talking 3. 68. Experts tell us it could go up to 3. 86. Just because really the iraq situation and then Hurricane Season is this fall, thats when you can sometimes get a lot of volatility because of whats happening in the weather and u. S. And the refinery situation along the gulf of mexico. Its a little tricky time, and people you are going to feel it when you fill up your gas tank this summer. This is when people get out open the road and drive and do their vacations. Have a great weekend. Still to come, chatting with other people, eating a meal, sleeping through the night, its all in a days work for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl, now trying to restart his life after he was held nearly five years by the taliban. It is very interesting look at this life and part of his daily routine is story telling but it isnt once upon a time. Well explain after the break. And 9 grams of protein. 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A landslide was triggered very close to the university of minnesota medical center. Some 20 medical workers were evacuated. No patients had been affected and today engineers are saying the facility, luckily, is stable. It has been a full week since Sergeant Bowe bergdahl stepped off a military jet in san antonio and began the hard work of readjusting to ordinary life after nearly five years in taliban captivity. Experts have been introducing bergdahl to the Media Firestorm that eyou ruptd erupted after his release in exchange for 5 taliban detainees. We go to martin now. Whats an ordinary day in the life of bowe bergdahl. Routine is the keyword here and i mean that in a number of ways. Routine as in typical, normal. As best they can make it for him and as in a predictable and regular schedule. We have a to do list on a daily basis. Lets take a look at some of the things. Eats and sleeps on a normal schedule. Sounds pretty typical but thats important that he gets up at a certain time, goes to bed at a normal time and his meals are served at regular scheduled interviews. He shares a floor with other patients. Its a huge medical facility. Hes got a typical room im told nothing special except there is security outside of his room, not to prevent him from leaving but to prevent those who are unwanted from coming in. He also interacts with less than a dozen people. There are hundreds of people at that hospital to help him but he only interacts with about 12 and the emphasis is on telling his story. What i mean by in a is he sits down with a small group of people and recounts everything of his captivity. Its the if you are time they have actually heard it in his own words and no inquiry about his disappearance. I asked about this general thats been appointed to investigate how he came to leave post. Ive asked has the general made contact . I was told you have to ask the pentagon about that. I was told investigation is not part of reintegration. The controversy has been around how he disappeared. Whether he walk off, his disappearance in afghanistan in 2009. We dont know yet. Hes not participating with investigators yet. No questions about that have started . Heres the information, of course, it would be easy to see. Could that be used in a Court Martial . We dont know. The focus is getting him well. Not the investigation. They sinkl arent saying much about that. So the reporting has been he hadnt maybe you heard he hadnt spoken to his family . When is he expected to meet with his parents . We dont know. He said for the moment he does not want to speak with his parents. Ive told that has not changed in the week since. For the reason, i am not told and those ive spoken with do not know. We dont know when it will happen. There is a large menu that the experts can pull from to help him come home and perhaps it wont be with a reunion at least for now. It the fascinating. Still to come, another offensive recording believed to be l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Youre nothing but a fraud and a liar and a cheat and im suing you for conspiracy. Oh, boy, here we go again and again and again. What do these new ragefilled recording mean for sterlings legal battle over the Clippers Team . [ male announcer ] west didnt end where columbus landed. Not on the banks of the mississippi, or even the coast of california. The new ram 1500 ecodiesel. With 9,200 pounds of towing and 28 highway miles per gallon. West will never end. Guts. Glory. Ram. West will never end. Listen up, thunder dragons, its time to get a hotel. Hey, razor. Check this out. We can save big with priceline express deals. Hey you know what man, these guys aint no dragons. Theyre cool. These deals are legit. Yeah, were cool. Shes cool. Were cool. Priceline express deals are totally legit. Check this, thousands of people book them everyday and score killer deals. 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Threatening doctors who certified him as mentally incapacitated. Im not incompetent. You are [ bleep ] incompetent. Apparently nothing can stop the profanityladen voice mails by Donald Sterling. He can still contact witnesses as a brutal lawsuit between his wife and he. Im suing you for conspiracy. Sterling threatening two physicians who diagnosed the owner as mentally incapacitated, both presenting their evidence in court on behalf of shelly who is vying to uphold the negotiated sale. Im going to call ucla now and im going to get you fired from ucla because you are nothing but a tramp. Sterlings calling were nothing more than a rant. With a doctor who had diagnosed him with signs of als mime alzheimers and dementia. How dare you. What a horrible woman you are, all you did was go to the Beverly Hills hotel and drink liquor, ive got two deck calculations from people in my house that all you did was and drink and complain. Im going to take you out, odonnell i took that as a death threat. Sterlings Attorney Says his client said no such thing and the billionaire fierce intimidation caught on tape might be ieth not be might not be enough for shelly to win the fight. So what does this all mean for sterlings legal challenge to his wifes sale of the clippers . I want to bring in Stephanie Elam and danny sew value less vs savalas. No one wants their medical records released. You can understand him being upset about that. But recording voice mails, he should know better. How much do these new recordings hurt him and will they be admissible in an actual trial . Yes. Theres a huge distinction to be made. When you talk ton a phone conversation, that conversation may be protected by wiretapping law but its a totally different game when you leave a voicemail because you are willingly allow yourself to be recorded. Thats what voicemail is so that will come in as evidence. The moral of the story is be careful what you say on the phone, but even more careful if you are leaving a voicemail because not only can the recording possibly be introduced, but it can be transcribed and the effect as evidence is pretty compelling and the moral of the story for Donald Sterling is stay away from the telephone. Switch to telegrams, use smoke signals. Stay away from anything that will record your voice because look i have sympathy for his attorneys, weve all had a client that makes you go like this once in a while and the clients they ultimately make the decision. Danny, i know you are an attorney. I dont have sympathy for his attorneys. Number one, they are not in trouble. They are getting paid a whole lot of money and number three, they can advise him to be quiet or sell the team. I dont feel sorry the attorneys. They are making out like ban ditz. I will agree with you with that. This entire filing is based on them being in fear of their life. The real effect is Public Relations and its brilliant strategy. Its now on the internet and all of us can read about the rantings yet again, chapter, two, three, and four of his rants. Youve waited apparently. What if sterling wins blocking shelleys right to sell would you tell his permission . What will this mean for the nba . The nba is paying close attention to what is going on here. Theres another party who is very interested in how this is working out and that would be steve ballmer. His lawyer has been present for this because he wants it clear that shelley sterling has the right to sell the people. Thats part of the reason why they are going to Probate Court on july 7th, for that 4day trial there. To make sure that is clear. The nba is also wanting this to go through. If it comes out that she doesnt have the right to sell and we have heard from her camp that Donald Sterling has gone back and forth on whether or not he is blessing the sale, the nba could reenact those moves toous ter the sterlings. If we dont see anything happening by the end of summer here then we could have this conversation coming back up and as we also heard adam silver telling rachel nichols, its not a done deal until its done. Everyone is very curious how this is going to play out and all of this is out there and i should also point out that shelleys camp is also saying that they needed two doctors to that one party wasnt capable of running the business. They now have three doctors saying that. It will be interesting to see if they say they have another doctor to say that by the time we get to the trial. You said could be coming up. It will be. And youll be covering it. Appreciate both of you. Have a great weekend. 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Bottom of the hour, white house addressing the border crisis head on. Vice President Joe Biden is in gawt mel la right now. In the meantime, the department of Homeland Security chief, jade johnson is in texas along with several high ranking officials visiting Border Protection facilities to see firsthand what is being done about this crisis. I want to go to ed who is in dallas. Lets start with jay johnson in texas. What does this mean with this crisis at the border for the white house . Reporter its a serious problem thats not going to go away any time soon and also is important to get the message out there, especially thats part of what price President Joe Biden is doing in Central America is starting to spread that word and urging parents not to send their kids up north in hopes of, you know, whether or not they are trying to take advantage of some sort of amnesty or whatever they might have in mind is getting that message out there, that this is not a smart move. In fact, the chief of the Homeland Security Department Just last week was talking about that and trying to get that message sent out as well. A Processing Center is no place for your child. Putting your child in the hands of a criminal Smuggling Organization is not safe. Reporter donald, its a serious situation. They had predicted or Border Patrol officials have predicted as many as 60,000 unaccompanied children might be making their way to the utilizes, that estimate has been bumped up to 90 rk thour. Its what the administration is calling a human marion crisis and one that doesnt have any signs of slowing down. Why dont you stick around. Vice President Biden is extending his trip through Central America. He is meeting with the president of guatemala. Among the influx of people at the u. S. Mexico border, many of them are from honduras and guatemala. Lets start with michelle. What can we expect, michelle, to hear from the Vice President . I dont think any big announcement is going to come out of this, but i think this shows just how important this has been for the administration, they have been wanting to publicly show they are getting out in front of this problem, especially if those numbers are going to keep growing, but the goal of the Vice President today is to meet with the president of guatemala, also top officials from honduras and he wiel salva they want to talk about the problem and address these rumors that weve been hearing about in latin america. Number one, if you are an unkpd minor and you make it to the u. S. , you are going to be able to stay. That is not true. All of these kids have to be put into deportation proceedings which also requires legal representation and housing. Thats become a huge expense for the u. S. The other rumor is that soon theres going to be some kind of Immigration Reform and the border is going to be tight, going to close, now is your chance to try to make it across, don. Rosa, youve spent quite a bit of time in Central America lately. Whats the motivation . Whats driving the immigrants north to the u. S. . Give us some background. What i kept on hearing on the ground was first of all the violence, and ill give you a quick an he can dote. Ive talked to families in these neighborhoods in honduras. They tell me here is what we face, you are at home and all of a sudden dozens of men run inside your home, these are gang members, they hold you at gunpoint. They take everything that you have. If you say anything, they will kill you. They go from neighborhood to neighborhood terrorizing people and giving kids an you will mate up, you either join the gang or you die. Theres also extreme poverty. In honduras, 65 of the people there are in poverty and theres one more thing and that is to reunite with their families in the United States and very quickly, don, i talk to a honduran official who tells me that in the past few days, a baby, months old, was reunited with her mother in the United States. Now, this baby was brought here by a smuggler and dropped off in the United States. Its those type of stories that we keep hearing and what michelle is saying, theres this rumor, these are kyotes who make a lot of people smuggling people into the United States. They tell people that all you have to do is get to the border and gain access to the u. S. Of course, that is not the case. Ed, whats the sense, you heard michelle talking about the legal challenges, dealing with the red tape, how much it would cost, so many people coming over the border now. Whats the sense of people on the border, do they think these people should be sent back, integrate them into their communities . Whats it like on the ground there . Its one of those points of contention that there are a lot of people, especially along the border, who might feel sympathy for a lot of these folks, but this is an incredibly dangerous trek that a lot of these kids and i dont think we can put too fine a point on this, for people, even for adults to be smugled from Central America through mexico, its incredibly dangerous. Imagine doing that if you are someone under the age of 18 in the hands of some of these people. Theres along some of these border communities, a great deal of sympathy, in some corners, you might be raising a lot of sympathy and wondering why in the world would someone put their child through that dangerous experience. I appreciate all of your reporting. Thank you very much. Meantime, Congress Getting worked up over the irs scandal that claims political foes were targeted. Were going to go back live to capitol hill next. Its very contentious and let you in on some of it. 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Hes actually in those hearings. Paul ryan is not a happy man today. No, hes not at all, and he is one of the many republicans during this hearing grilling the irs commissioner and the issue is that on friday Congress Found out that over two years of emails that lois lerner had on her hard drive are gone. Thats what the irs says and now weve learn that the hard drive was actually recycled and destroyed. Theres no way for congress to check and make sure thats actually the case. So thats the backdrop here. Listen to what happened with paul ryan. Sitting here listening to this testimony, i just i dont believe it. Thats your problem. Nobody believes you. Come on now. The Internal Revenue Service Comes to congress a couple of years ago and misleads us and says no targeting is occurring. Then it says it was a few rogue agents in cincinnati, then it said it was also on progress sieves. All of those things have been proven untrue. This committee sent a referral to possible criminal wrongdoing just a month ago to the justice department. Weve heard nothing. You bury in a 27page letter to the senate, asking for them to conclude the investigation, that youve lost lois lerners emails during the time in question during a hard drive crash. Monday our investigators ask your agency whether any other hard drives crash and we learn that six other hard drives of the people were investigating were involved. You didnt tell us that. We told you on monday. On monday. And what did you do with you because we asked you he does have a point. He has several points, does he not . Yes. Several points, but one thing i want to say just again to put this in a little bit of context is that number one paul ryan is certainly a wellknown republican, but hes a policy wonk. He doesnt usually play the role of partisan attack dog and he was so worked out and he said something every american can relate to, why can the irs demand american taxpayers keep seven years of tax records and they cant save their emails. Youve heard a democrat said come on now, democrats are apologizing to the witness, for being badgered. One of the democrats very also asked was he responsible for hiding the president s birth certificate and things like that. Big picture, heres whats important to keep in mind. The irs scandal, we did story after story, its really died down as we get closer to the election. The fact that these emails were destroyed and that congress is republicans are so mad about it, has brought it back up to the fore, and made it much more of an issue again. Certainly has and more to come. Keep an eye on that. Still to come here on cnn has violence rages on in iraq, both sides new blood and terrorists are using social media to call for help from muslims in the west. 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That military acue men is now being matched by their social media outreach, some of the conversations are in english, really trying to outreach to a much broader global community, trying to get some bounce off this high profile assault that they have had in iraq. They are reaching out across a number of social media platforms. This is their strategy to draw in more fighters, more recruits as well. And more money as well. They have taken control of this chemical storage facility. It was where they were created. Weapons that were used against iran in the 1980s during the early 90s, 91, the site was bombed. In the mid 90s, u. N. Weapons inspectors went in interest and tried to make it safe. I was there in 2002. What we saw at that time indicated that those weapon systems were rusting, lying around from the state department that they are not militarily useful but dangerous. One of dangers too is that the isis fighters, four most senior members of saddam husseins army are most familiar with this themselves. Good morning to you. Is the president s plan the right move . The president doesnt really have a lot of good options here. Theres about zero support from america to send any kind of troops back in, even 300, a lot of people were very upset about. There just isnt a lot of appetite to reengage. Theres a lot of problems here at home that americans want to focus on after ten years of war over there. Major general, whats the difference between these special ops advisers and troops on the ground . Because most americans see this, you are sending people over, its actually troops on the ground going. I think the main difference is where they are going to be located and also when you talk about boots on the ground, when you are speaking to a military person, usually you are going to talk about a combat unit, something on the order of an army brigade with supporting arms and all the things that are necessary for it to sustain itself in a combat region. What the president has done is appears to be kind of slicing the middle of it down. He sends our version of the 300 spar tans who are supposed to be over there and help reverse things. Your viewers might be more interested to know whats the goal all this . Is it about the away game in iraq or the home game here at home . Its the hybrid situation so to speak. Is it the right move . I think hes between a rock and a hard place and its the only move. When you ask is it the right move, you got to look again and say whats the goal . If the goal is to get status quo ante with a strong iraqi state, including everyone, hold your breath. Yeah. Yeah. Iraq and a hard place. The violence spreading in iraq is a lot difference spreading in the last few years . Why is that . Its very different. Weve receiver seen violence like we have seen now. Does that mean they are going to be able to go forth toward baghdad and hold baghdad . No, i actually dont think that will be the case for baghdad but it is significantly different in terms of the strength of the group, the Financial Capabilities of the group, and the fact that now you have a raging war on the border over the border in syria. So what were seeing now is a perfect storm of violence, the potential for a safe haven in parts of iraq, and you have problems because of weaponry and people flowing over the border from syria. So i do think its very different from what weve seen in the last couple of years. I dont necessarily think they are going to be successful in being over taking baghdad. They might be able to cause some problems there. The ramifications might be even more dire because whats going on in syria and what have you in the middle east. Its going to be interesting to watch. I appreciate all of you. Thank you very much. And later today, cnns kate bawled baldwin is going to sit down with president obama and ask him about sending special ops to iraq. Bulldog ah, the dog days of summer time to celebrate with your mates, grill a few dogs eh, hot dogs. Bacon burgers. Dachshund mattress discounters 4th of july sale . Bulldog that cloud reminds me of. Radio announcer the tempurpedic cloud collection. Bulldog thats it radio announcer now with 48 months interestfree financing basset hound free financing . Radio announcer or get a queen size serta pillow top on sale for just 597. Bulldog thats a ringer of a deal radio announcer the 4th of july sale is on now. Dog come on, lets go bulldog hey wheres everyone going . Mattress discounters u. S. Soccer fans anxiously awaiting sundays match against portugal. Round two in fighting the group of death. Espn and unit i vision are hoping to top. Are u. S. Fans getting on the world soccer bandwagon or is this fair weather fandom . Heres cnns jason carroll. Reporter whoever says the United States doesnt have a case of football fever hasnt been to chicago or new york. How does this compared celebrating here to celebrating in australia or anywhere else. Its good. World cup, lets go. Once again making our way through the australian nyc bar in new york city. Its packed. Were going to make our way through here. Down to the bar. Were not going to get a drink. On this day, just about everyone here is an usa aussie unless of course you are dutch. If you do win, make sure you make a quick exit. Yeah, yoit. We will. Early disappointment for australia but celebrations catching on in miami, chiles fans rejoicing after scoring against spain. Off to los angeles. A goalie safe bringing mexico to its feet. And in kansas city, cheers for team usa. A record 16 Million Viewers tuned in for mondays match against ghana, the u. S. Team still a long shot but still in the hunt. World cup frenzy lighting up social media. Watch as tweets ripled across the United States before and then after team usas winning goal. The world cup on instagram going viral. In the end, it doesnt matter if its the thrill of the victory or the agonee of defeat. Its game on. As you know, there are a lot of italian americans in new york city, just about an hour from now, when italy takes on costa rica, its going to happen at noon. You can imagine a lot of tv sets are going to be tuned in for that. Anyone rooting for the netherlands . Buler, buler, buler. Stick around. I want you to talk with john berman with me. The world cup has some haters crawling out of the woodwork. John berman had this message for you. Listen. Like billions of people, i love the world cup and like millions of people, i enjoy tweeting about the world cup. So imagine my outrage when people on twitter complain that they are sick of reading tweets about the world cup. Theres even an app now that lets you block all world cup tweets. Come on. Really. You would rather read tweets about the Grilled Cheese someone had about lunch or the cable anchor who are too conservative or too liberal, you would rather see that than tweets about a beautiful game played by beautiful people. They are hot. They play in front of beautiful fans. Even if the answer to that question is yes, even if you dont want to read about that, you are missing a huge opportunity. Do you know how easy it is to infewer yat youre peens. Just call the game soccer instead of football. Soccer, soccer, soccer, you hear that. Thats the sound of dutch people throwing shoes at the tv. All right, you can call me when you want a game beckham. Why would you pass up the chance to ridicule these people on twitter or share these experiences . So for all of you who dont want to be part of this, why dont you just lock the doors, shut the windows, and play with yourselves. john berman. I cannot defend you. You are on your own, my friend. John berman, oh, my gosh. Jason, you heard that. Whats wrong with you . This is john bermans coffee. Im taking it away. What is wrong with you, man . Some of the comments i got on facebook, one of them said i sounded like the white don lemon. No comment. No comment. If you are going off on people and you are too liberal and too conservative, then, yes, you are the white because im too liberal and too conservative now. Where do you stand on the issue o