well, if you re a republican of any type, well, it s now, youu o know, your face another baselessw baseless investigatioe more special prosecutors. and , of course,al with anto extreme bias. according to a new report from john solomon, jack smith, help the irs target conservatives duringthe irs lois lerner irs . now, this is thee same same prosecutor that conducted a hyper aggressive prosecution against the formerggressiv virga governor , bob mcdonnell, over, quote, bribery charges.ges we those charges werere tossed out by the us supreme court, but not before mcdonnell s life was ruined. so, yes, there is rampant political bias at the doj,th the highest levels of the fbe h we don t have equathl justice under the law. at t. jo jim jordan will be investigatintigatingg. and then you have congressman coleman on the other side will be investigating hunteriedt and joe. and by the way, he shouldice mih be worried that equal justice might be deat d forever. and if that s true, thist country, y
then kind of pushed the irs into the action that lois lerner. er took. we now know that ultimately the treasury department inspector general found the pursuit of thoseiv conservative nonprofits to be unlawful, irregulaer, d. unwarranted. ar the investigatiooun and prosecution of bob mcdonnell, then the virginia governor , he was s on many people s short listto to be a vice president , maybe in 2012.they and they accused him off corr corruption and bribery. they convicted him. but then when they got to the supreme court, the supreme court said, listen, the teamh sv smith supervised stretch, acts way beyond what the law meant. and they overturned in a veryrn embarrassing case. veoverturned the public integriy sections, prosecution of bob bob mcdonnell, one of losse the biggest losses in recentrece public integrity section history. sont in two cases, pursuing conservatives same outcome stretched the la two casw end up getting into some sort of controversy. unbelievable. and the supreme
not a constitutional republic anymore. it with more editoa consonal rei investigative reporter, just the news.com. john solomoneditor-in-. in john , what did you find outb about this prosecutor? well, in his earlier run of the justice department, not once but twicestice , he was ind in cases where the justicein department was accused of stretchin cases w thi pushing the limits of the law to pursue conservatives. the firs pursuet time occurred 0 when congressional investigators started to find ouional inve t what was the origins of the irs.as the origins of lois lerner targeted conservative groups scandal. remember that big scandale of t by one of the worst in the obama administration? hewell, they found out it all wn began with an email that jack smith sent. he was at that time, the head of the corruption unit atuption the justice department called the public uic integ integrity and he sends a letter after the citizens united supreme court free speech case saying, hey,urt maybe we co
harris: peter doocy, thank you very much. our next guest believes the settlement and the apology are a good start, he says the investigation into irs targeting should be reopened. tom, good to see you on this friday. why reopen the case? what would it be about? it would be about the abuse of power. abuse of power mean something was done inappropriately. can we trust the last administration, the politicized justice department, and the fbi to honestly investigate the irs? i don t think you can. pretty much every document we have about the irs scandal became came up because of us and one of the key documents we found was the fbi and justice department were lurking with lois lerner irs to