uncle calls and tells you there s a conspiracy theory against him because his computer isn t working. it s effectively the equivalent of opening too many browsers on your screen and then your computer crashes. the appropriate response is not to keep trying to open browsers on your screen but rather to just step away for an hour and then reboot it. that s effectively what happened here. you know, in this day and age in 2019, tech has become such a great scapegoat and such a great target for myriad reasons. some of them legitimate having to do with issues like data privacy, hate speech, fake news, and for some of them that are illegitimate having to do with conspiracy theories about anti-conservative bias, which i can assure you at global companies operating at the scale of a company like facebook just quite honestly do not exist. can we go back to the irony here, charlie. the president has come out, for example, in defense of
might be missing. joining me from los angeles, cnn senior political analyst ron bronstein. good to see you, ron. this is incredible right? i mean this is a story of a alleged computer crashes, backup tapes. where is it heading now, that we have a number like 24,000? 24,000 potential e-mails that the irs watchdog says had been erased. you can see why republicans on the committee investigating this are so frustrated. there s no question that the erasures according to the irs the person investigating this occurred after there was a document request in place. on the other hand they concluded there was no evidence that it was done deliberately to destroy evidence in the investigation. that they could not prove that it was not simply part of the routine destruction of redundant e-mail records. and so i think it s enormous frustration. you can understand why
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e-mails weren t destroyed only makes them all the more suspicio suspicious. but the kicker, the deputy who said they might not be gone, did say at least at least 20 other irs staffers had computer crashes and that may make it impossible for the irs to find documents from those individuals. he is not saying the records have been found. he is saying they are looking into the possibility there is a back-up tape somewhere are that didn t get recycled. carl cameron, thanks for shortening it all up. time to check in with bill hemmer who s in for shepherd. smith. bill, you didn t break any of his gadgets over there today, did you? not yet, but it is early. what do you have coming up? there s still time. good day to you. live in the next hour, a real american hero receives the nation s highest honor for bravery on the battlefield. you will meet former army staff sergeant ryan pitts. fought off hundreds of enemy fighters in afghanistan after he had been seriously wounded in one of the
other. gra do you gratuitous. there is a point democrats can t defend this anymore and going home on a tough campaign and answer questions about this. they can t stand by the administration s line which is is that apparently if you work for the federal government, especially at the irs you are allowed to have computer crashes. have faith in the government when the government keeps doing stuff like this. today we went to capitol hill to ask chairman issa about lois lerner. she did break laws. she did break regulations. and she was an active participant in targeting conservatives who she objected to for their political beliefs. she was active participant in trying to undo what she saw and the president saw as the damage of the citizens united supreme court decision. and i think that s at the heart of this. the president doesn t like what the supreme court says. she doesn t like it. and they think they are going to overturn it.