continues. congressional republicans demanding answers. administration officials denying targeting. then, on may 10th, 2013, a bombshell. irs official lois lerner says in some 75 applications irs officials stepped over the line. an official says workers wrongly singled out organizations which used tea party or patriot in their filings. and on may 15th, 2013, the president goes public. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency but especially in the irs. congress now aware the targeting did occur called on lois lerner to testify. i have not done anything wrong on may 23rd, refuses call for resignation and placed on administrative leave. associated press reports the irs agent in the cincinnati office believed closely monitored by higher ups in washington. on june 19th, the department
corruption. that was president obama talking about the irs scandal back in february. and just yesterday, the president brushing aside the problems plaguing his administration, again. staples the news that s coming off is just these are just washington fights. they are fabricated issues. they are phony scandals that are generated. you heard the president phony scandals, fabricated fights. joining us representative and former irs lawyer michele bachmann. good evening, congresswoman. good evening, thanks for having me on this evening. well, the president said not a smidgen of corruption just a couple months ago and now he is saying, is he repeating again phony scandal and of course now we get the news about targeting congress or senator grassley. your response to the president? well, there is no question this is a scandal. it s a scandal of epic proportions. big enough it could bring down the presidency. the only thing that s phony are all of the denials coming out of the whit
of justice launches its own investigation assigning more than a dozen fbi agents to the case. putting barbara boxerman a financial backer to president obama in charge of the investigation. we want you to investigate the circumstances surrounding the selection of barbara boxerman to head this investigation. in january of 2014 a doj official leaking to the wall street journal even before the investigation ends that there will not be criminal charges. on june 24th, 2013, the irs announces some liberal groups were put on the be on the look out list. the inspector general saying there is no evidence the irs ever actually scrutinized those groups. on august 2nd, 2013. oversight committee chairman darrell issa subpoenas the treasury department and the irs for all communications sent or received by lois lerner. february 2014. the irs learns that many of lerner s emails are missing. lost, due to a computer hard drive crash but doesn t tell congress. in march 2014, lerner
returns to congress to testify, again, pleading the fifth throughout the hearing. i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. the next day, the irs promises it will release all of lerner s emails, even though they were aware of the hard drive crash months earlier. and then on june 13th, the irs finally informs the house of representatives that they have lost lois lerner s emails from january of 2009 to april of 2011 you can t keep six months worth of employee emails? one senate investigation, one justice department investigation, and four irs commissioners later, the search for answers continues. wow. so are americans buying the claim that crucial emails simply vanished? let s take a look at fox news poll this week. 76% of those surveyed believe the missing emails
corruption. that was president obama talking about the irs scandal back in february. and just yesterday, the president brushing aside the problems plaguing his administration, again. staples the news that s coming off is just these are just washington fights. they are fabricated issues. they are phony scandals that are generated. you heard the president phony scandals, fabricated fights. joining us representative and former irs lawyer michele bachmann. good evening, congresswoman. good evening, thanks for having me on this evening. well, the president said not a smidgen of corruption just a couple months ago and now he is saying, is he repeating again phony scandal and of course now we get the news about targeting congress or senator grassley. your response to the president? well, there is no question this is a scandal. it s a scandal of epic proportions. big enough it could bring down the presidency. the only thing that s phony are all of the denials coming out of the whit