welcome back to hardball. call them the shutdown boys. they are angry and being led into battle by ted cruz. yesterday senator cruz rallied a group of house conservative red hots to defund a deal to fund the government. it was a familiar cast of characters at yesterday s cruz confine including michele bachmann, steve king and louis gomert. cruz wants to use the government funding bill to destroy the president s actions on illegal immigration. he wants to add a poison pill to defund the department of immigration. we will not allocate taxpayer dollars to lawless and illegal amnesty. the simple thing that i would
goes on. louis gomert from texas who hasn t ever seen an immigrant that he didn t think brings a disease to this country and went on the house floor to compare the invasion of children into our incursion to mexico to seek out poncho via. over the weekend maryland became the latest state to say not in my backyard. the federal government has decided not to use a vacant army reserve building to temporarily house undocumented children after state officials objected. the bottom line is the community doesn t want it, the representatives from congress don t want it, the department of health and human services shouldn t be looking at it. and advocates for immigrants are speaking out. i was 13 years old when i migrated to the united states to find my mother who had previously come to the u.s. running away from my father because he used to beat her and abuse her. i think people forget to realize that these children could be their children.
doesn t believe it. he says those e-mails are out there and he s offering $1 million from the irs budget to anybody that can produce the e-mails. and he has a warning for anyone knowingly keeping those e-mails secret. if you help to hide evidence in what will ending up being a criminal case, guess what, you re part of the crime. so take your pick. a million bucks to come up with all the e-mails, or go to prison as part of the crime, your choice. congressman gohmert is offering $500,000 to anyone who can provide information on who may have destroyed the e-mails. meanwhile, the irs says it s working to try to comply with the house ways and means committee s request for more documents on the e-mails and computer crash which supposedly erased all those e-mails. there was a letter sent to the
18 to 20,000 people and the white house said no. tonight we invite you to join chris wallace for his special featuring dick cheney and his daughter, liz, who will share their thoughts on iraq and the rise of a terrorist state. airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. turning to matters here at home, louis gomert has a creative solution. he s putting out a million dollar bounty. this comes as irs chief tells its house ways and means committee his agency should get congress what it s demanding by next week. molly is joining us now from washington in our newsroom with more. molly? reporter: uma, the irs says two years rort of lois lerner s e-mails are destroyed and unrecoverable, e-mails possibly relating to the irs targeting scandal. but texas congressman gomert
i think our value ares hold that government has a role to play in our lives. remember, this was part of the agenda. this is part of the talking points part of what they campaigned on, part of what they came to washington to do. she raises a good point. are there republicans in congress that want to be unpopular in certain parts of the country? in a certain way, that s are right. you have to think about the absurdity of someone who has like a louis gomert, someone on the far right with so much contempt of government that they want to be elected to serve in it? it makes no sense. they didn t come to govern or get things done. their measure of success is the number of things they can keep from happening. during the government shutdown there was a wing of the party that was delighting that the government was so small at that point. that basic services weren t provided. they thought it was great. you know, on issue after issue, the tea party pulls the