reporter: in addition to that, we know that the propublica , the investigative journalism group published confidential irs filings on six conservative groups. somebody within the irs had to have sent them that. former chair of the council of economic advisors, austan goolsbee admitted in a conference call he divulged confidential irs information how koch industries is organized. he represents koch industries. we were concerned at a orchestrated campaign starting at the top of the white house to attack and disparage the koch family and their enterprises. reporter: olson adds for the government to send its tax agencies after organizations or people critical of government is very, very scary. jenna? jenna: one of the big questions is how high up does this go, doug? we re hearing that former irs commissioner douglas shulman, spent a lot of time at the white house.
its tax agencies after organizations or people that are critical of government is very, very scary. the treatment that koch industries has gotten from this administration has been controversial. i mean, they were named repeatedly in barack obama s re-election campaign by team obama. they were demonized by team obama. private citizens again. then it was detelegraphed in a letter by tim mussina that specifically said and you tell me whether this was a harbinger of things to come, when you attempt to drown out the people s voices through unlimited secret contributions to push sue a special interest agenda that conflicts with what is best our nation, you must expect scrutiny of our actions. isn t that appalling? what was done by the koch family and their contributions was permitted and explicitly
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political list and my no longer with us list. which is awesome, by the way, babe ruth meets abe lincoln. it will be a party. tweet me at bshactman using the waytoobbq. right now, let s get to our top story here on this friday. lois lerner off the job at the irs this morning, two days after refusing to answer questions on capitol hill about the tax agencies targeting of conservative groups. lerner, who was placed onned a pen straf leave after reportedly refusing to resign is now the third irs official to be pushed out. it follows senators john mccain and carl levin who said she lost the trust of the public. they are particularly aware of when she became aware of the information and whether or not she kept it from congress. lerner was alerted to the