secretary. i m quoting. the irs cannot operate with even a shred of the american people s confidence under the current leadership. i strongly urge that you and president obama demand the irs commissioner s resignation effectively immediately. john, there s only one problem. the irs doesn t have a commissioner at the moment. only an active commissioner filling in a vacant post. that s a bit of an issue, suspect it? reporter: well, it is, and it s important to remember that the guy in charge of the irs who testified before congress and said inaccurately, as it s turned out, that there was no political targeting, was appointed by president bush. he was completing a five-year term. now there s an acting commissioner. i had a twitter exchange with marco rubio s policy director today who said, well, wait a minute, the acting director did supervise several bureaus of the irs including the one at issue where these reviews took place. i guess the question is, how far down the chain do you g
because i think he knew exactly what he was doing. he should have told the president, i cannot say that, mr. president. i will not say that. i d have to resign before i d go out before the committee and try to promote such an idea, that our budget is going to pay down the debt. greta: well, you have been quoted as saying he will nevernever be secretary of the treasury. do you think he won t be voted by the committee and the senate. greta, i said i felt he must never be. we ll see, i ll just have one vote on it, but i do think that the senate needs to push back against this idea that people can come before our committees and say anything they want to, inaccurately, and then waltz in two years later want to be promoted to a higher office, the most significant financial office in our country, really, in the world, the secretary of
documents, andrea, that the attorney general could not lawfully give him. or documents that might interfere with the prosecution. well, finally last friday, chairman issa took those documents off the table and he is now requesting documents concerning a february 4th, 2011 letter addressed to mr. senator grassley, wherein the department wrongfully and inaccurately stated that there have been no gun walking. basically, that s what we re boiled down to today. this what is the meeting s all about. mr. issa wants documents that led up to that february 4th letter that again misstated the fact that gun running had taken place, again, gun walking had taken place, and second, he wants documents that may have
without retirement health care benefits and so on, when you know, so many have lost their jobs. what do you say to steve ratner who was in the administration. he on morning joe made the same point that the business of this kind of bain capital and what these funds do is to take over companies, some win, some lose. they re in the business of not creating jobs but of creating money for their shareholders. that s the case that mitt romney s been making. mitt romney was making the case as ratner pointed out inappropriately and inaccurately that he was supposed to be creating jobs. that s not what they do. but is it fair to attack them for a company that went bankrupt perhaps after he left? he was still the ceo of bain when that bankruptcy was filed. so it s not fair. he takes credit for everything that happened after he left that he considers positive and tries to walk away from this. he can t walk away from this.
firsthand what arizona has done in regards to our economic recovery. he wanted to talk about the book. and i thought that he was pretty thin skinned. the white house says the exchange was over and earlier meeting between them, quote, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book. but the president said he would be glad to meet with governor brewer again. newt gingrich got heckled in coral springs, florida, yesterday over his consulting work for freddie mac. now, no, this is a free country and people are allowed to come and be noisy. it s part of the american tradition. gingrich won applause from the crowd after telling the woman that noise without knowledge does not make a free society. and treasury secretary tim geithner expected to leave even if president obama is elected to a second term. he said yesterday he will do, quote, something else, and does not expect to stay on for a second term. elizabeth warren will be