who created i think you could call it a bit of drama. want to you to have a listen. did you form an opinion yourself whether or not mr. zemer man shouzem zimmerman should have been arrested? over time? within the first month or so. i would say no. you did not form an opinion? no, not within the first you heard other people expressing opinions. oh, yeah. but you were not taking a position yourself? no, because i knew i didn t have enough information. what s interesting, though, is it s not just how much information do you have, but how much information are you sharing, as well. apparently he did have an opinion, a pretty strong one. here is a part of what he wrote on coffee party progressive facebook page in march of last year. less than a month after the shooting happened. quote, seminole county justice system needs an enema and they
r eporter: and in addition to that, in march of last year seven senate democrats wrote the irs urging it to impose strict caps on spending by nonprofits. former irs commissioner mark everson told fox news that the irs pays very, very close attention to these types of congressional demands. but the point here is it s totally appropriate for chairman baucus to raise that issue, but anything that the service would do in terms of looking at c4s should have been evenhanded, and it wasn t, and that s the shame here. reporter: as hearings get underway, the first scheduled for tomorrow at 9 a.m., congress will want to ferret out who allowed this uneven approach to examining tax-exempt requests and whether it may have been part of a political culture at the irs. during the past two decades, individual irs employees
they don t think there s any link between this young man and terrorism, but the investigation goes on. bill: irs taking heat from both sides of the aisle after admitting to targeting conservative groups. meanwhile, this scandal touching off concerns over what this means for implementing obamacare. the irs has a major hand in this. doug mckelway s live in washington. some senate democrats seemed to change their tune quickly after this story broke last week, doug. reporter: that s right, bill. you know, the chairman of the senate finance committee, max baucus, was one of the first be members of congress to loudly call for investigations into the irs after the scandal broke. senator jeanne shaheen just yesterday called for an audit of the irs. but in 2010 baucus asked that 501c4s be more closely examined, and in march of last year seven senate democrats, including shaheen, wrote the irs you urging it to impose strict tax on profits.
many things that come across to people as abuse of power. and i think this feeds into the narrative. the president is developing a bigger and bigger credibility gap with the american people. that s a real problem for him, whether he had any direct knowledge of it or not. last year you sent three letters to the irs. did you ever get an answer? to who were the letters addressed and what made you send the letters? we sent them to the irs commissioner who you heard back in the clip saying march they don t do this. march of last year. over a year ago. they started with letters in march because there were reports and rumors about it, targeting and harassment of conservative groups and we sent him other letters and in every circumstance the response came back, they didn t admit to any of this. did they say they were still look or did they deny it? they just said they don t do that. meaning what, they don t target? right. apparently they do, they just
and the nation s top athletes running through typical drills with ease. the hermit kingdom releasing this video just days after it declared it was in a state of war. this is not the first time north korea has aired this sort of military readiness video. in march of last year, it pledged a sacred war against south korea. state video showed soldiers unleashing dogs in the snow, attacking an effigy of then south korean president lee myung-bak. a train is shown running over a cutout of the president. state tv also showed the military using rocket launchers to blow up an effigy of the then president who they called the leader of the puppet nation of traitors. but what s unusual about this latest video is the rare show of firing on a u.s. target, even if it is just paper. the pentagon says it remains unconcerned about what north korea says. the u.s. cares what it does. we haven t seen any kind of