political persuasion we need a special prosecutor today. greta: if it comes back the president had no knowledge and totally confined within the irs is he still have responsibility of being the head of the country? absolutely. he set the tone for it going back to 2010 when he pointed out these organizations sometimes by name, hinting they are controlled by foreign entities. then you had eight to ten senators demanding investigation and threatening the irs if they didn t investigate, you don t have to be an einstein to figure out the sirs going to respond. it did. it played politics on a scale we ve never seen before. we ve had abuses but never on systematic scale. the amazing thing he didn t have to use secret meetings to do it. he did it right in and out public. is congress to have accountable and they have
from you. is anyone at the irs being held accountable. steve forbes joins us. good to see you. greta: how do we make sure there is a real accountability? we have real action to clean things up? i think ultimately the only way, yes, you ll have more congressional investigations which is very educational, but ultimately we need a special prosecutor who has subpoena powers. who has the power to call a grand jury and can do a start from people right on the ground and go up the chain right into the white house. we had an irs commissioner that paid 157 visits to the white house when his predecessor made one visit to the white house. you have to do it in a systematic way. i don t like special prosecutors but the abuse here they went after citizens all around the country of a particular
irs. let s stop the charade of being social welfare organization and admit they are political, play by the same rules that everybody on the committee plays when we are involved. representative, it s your kind of statement that have empowered irs toogh make determinations about which organizations qualify for the public good and which do not. in order to raise money, i filed an application with the irs in january of 2011 seeking to obtain 501 c 3 status. as of today i ve been waiting for 29 months without status. in the interim i launched $30,000 launch grant from a reputable nonprofit which director never seen this
oversight responsibilities. and it sploetd. they sent letters but they didn t move particularly fast? no, they didn t. we saw this in the late 1990s when there was a round of scandals, not on the scale today, but it took outside pressure to bring about a real change. so congress was but that is why you have to have a special prosecutor. if the house side is going to pursue investigations but a number of senators are guilty. one senator durbin went on tv on fox last weekend and admitted that he did it and said he was straightforward about it. so congress can only do so much. we need a special prosecutor. we have the whole record. it will go to the white house and not just irs and take remedial action and drastic down sides go of the irs. being a compassionate
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