martha: i think grayish and gold in middle. bill: i would go to grayish. martha: we got to go. i don t understand the whole controversy. we have story for bombshell discovery in the irs scandal. allegations that potential criminal activity is at play in the disappearance of low which is lerner s lois lerner s emails. were they lied to.
but they don t want to do that. so the idea is just keep bringing up what went wrong? what went wrong was they were targeting groups on the left and right on the middle but no direction from the white house. congressman, is there any reason to believe that somebody in the white house i mean, anybody the the white house ever made a call over there and said screw the right wing groups? there s no evidence of that whatsoever. and chairman issa knows that. keep in mind, chris, what i was trying to do today was follow up on something that chairman issa had been involved in. that is getting a proffer from ms. lerner s attorney. and basically he would have told us what her answers to those questions would be. and it would not be binding on the committee. and they could still pursue her any way they wanted to. but he didn t even want to hear that. that s why he shut it down. and the attorney had offered to do that. let me ask you about a personal aspect. did you feel personally
you bring on so forward in a soviet style show trial company who you know is going to plead the fifth. you just ask these questions. isn t it true this, isn t it true that, knowing they will not answer. rather than bring forward people who might tell you what happened. what happened at the irs as you know was a problem. there is something to investigate. it s not a political witch hunt, but something went wrong. but they don t want to do that. so the idea is just keep bringing up what went wrong? what went wrong was they were targeting groups on the left and right on the middle but no direction from the white house. congressman, is there any reason to believe that somebody in the white house i mean, anybody the the white house ever made a call over there and said screw the right wing groups? there s no evidence of that whatsoever. and chairman issa knows that. keep in mind, chris, what i was trying to do today was follow up on something that chairman issa had been involve
questions that the chairman just asked ms. lerner, where she asserted her fifth amendment rights, those are the kinds of questions that can be answered in a proffer. so, i wanted to ask the chairman whether the committee can schedule a time, preferably this week, for all committee members to hear the proffer from ms. lerner s attorney. and with that, i yield back. mr. ranking member, i just want to know for the record i find it supreme irony that the chairman of this committee would unilaterally decide an american citizen has waived her fifth amendment right, while actually exercising his fifth amendment right to not answer your questions on behalf of the minority of this committee. thank you very much. and so that was congressman
lerner will not testify this week at a house hearing into the agency s alleged targeting of conservative groups. according to her attorney, she ll plead the fifth. california republican darrell issa heads up the hearing on wednesday. yesterday he told reporters he does expect lerner to testify. republicans believe because she read a statement before issa s committee last spring, lerner s waived her right to invoke the fifth amendment. and afghan president hamid karzai ripping the united states for its role in his nation s 12-year war. karzai tells the washington post the common cause he s shared with the country has eroded because of civilian casualties. he adds that u.s. forces should have focused more on hitting taliban havens in pakistan and less on afghan villages. karzai has refused to sign a security pact with washington that would keep some u.s. troops in his country beyond 2014. all right, north korea now flexing its muscle again, firing two short-range missiles into the