agreed. he took assertion that it is rooted in the obama administration in the warning we must seek truth not political gain. that s his quote. dana baschuck is live on capitol hill. this is one of those day, where committee hearings can be really boring or electric. i think this is the latter. give me the headlines from what you have been watching. i think the first question the people want to know, did we learn anything new about why this happened? the answers that the acting commissioner is giving, steven miller, is he insists it s because they got flooded with letters for tax exempt status, they doubled, allowing some of these groups to engage if political activity. they used a shortcut. he said over and over, it was fought targeting tease conservative groups, but they used a shortcut they shouldn t have done. but as you can imagine, that s one issue that members of congress are not satisfied with. most importantly, that i are not
a moment. and also in about 15 minutes time the speaker of the house, john boehner, is going to hold his weekly news conference and i think it s safe to say there could be some fireworks. dana baschuck and jim acosta join me live now on capitol hill and our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin stand by in new york. first to you, the speaker of the house set to hold the news conference. i can only imagine that the damage control has just begun. that this is almost all out war. that s right. you know, just so you know, there is another issue going on here on capitol hill today. that is that the house, once again, for the 30 something time is going to vote to repeal obamacare. that is probably going to be the thrust of what the speaker will talk about. he will probably do a little gloating of when it comes to the irs and other issues. i ashleigh just had a chance to speak to the chairman of the house ways and means committee
applying, certainly, in the numbers that the tea party were. so i think everybody needs to take a big breath:find out how they get approved. so what are theirge das? again, we need to know a lot more, but we feed perhaps a little less hysteria, too. well, without question, i think the facts are critical and hopefully those will start coming out, starting with maybe tomorrow s hearing. who know, dana baschuck, jim toobin, thank you for that. also making news, an 8-year-old girl stabbed to death, murder charges against the suspect who is not even old enough yet to drive and happens to be her big brother. coming up after this.
leave, he is still the floor per congress when they do tear oversight into what exactly happened at the irs. stand by on that. still with the same topic. the irs in that scandal. jim acosta, congress woman michelle bachman for many people has been the face of the tea party. this morning, jim, he was out in full force with her concerns and her supporters. can you give me the feel essentially for what the case is and the take-away she made? reporter: that s right, actually. she is the chair of the tea party caucus. it was interesting to hear dana s reporting there about dave kevin saying what did stephen miller know and when did he know it? because michelle bachman was here surrounded with tea party members and the house and senate. she was asking the question, what does the president know and when did he know it? so there were shades of those kind of watergate-nixon questions being asked here. i asked the congress woman, what
status for their groups. one woman i talked to, a home school mom she called herself said that her organization receives really no donations, but yet she had to go through question after question from the irs in order to get her tax exempt status. they feel all of that is unfair, ashleigh. all right. jim acosta, thank you. don t go away. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin on this very issue. you are hearing jim acosta s reporting and da michelle bachman s concerns and dana baschuck and it stems from what it means to be a 501(c)(4). who goes for this keen of status. how many on either side of the this equation may have come up against road blocks from the irs. so far we are hearing a lot from conservative groups. with rehearing more of the progressive liberal groups as well. do we all need to take a big step back and wait for the numbers before the accusation continue to fly so fast?