Is a five day difference. This is amazing coincidence to me. I think it is more than a coincidence. I want to put up on a screen a directive sent out by the chief Technology Officer of the irs. If we could get that on the screen. And this is the directive that went out to managers, is that correct, telling them not to reace the erase the data. Correct. This went out on may 22nd, 2013. When were the taped erased at the irs. On or about march 4th, 2014. So about eight months later. And is this if we look at the highlighted part on here it said do not destroy, wipe, reuse any of the existing backup tapes for email or archiving or other information for irs personal computers. Did that go to managers that were at the facility where the tapes were erased . It did. And there was a lot of discussion that we captured in our investigation by capturing the managers emails over what mullholland meant by this directive. So what did they say they thought it meant when you talked to them . They belie
Quote newsmakers, senator Chuck Grassley from iowa, member of the budget, finance committee and Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you for being with me. Thank you for inviting me. Joining us with questioning is the chief washington correspondent for the examiner. We are about one month away from the selfimposed deadline for congress to come forth with the budget plan spending bill. What will it look like and will you reach the deadline . I dont believe it will be very easy for us to make an agreement between the republicans and the democrats because the democrats want to increase taxes, they want to forgo sequestration. If there is going to be an agreement, it seems to me it has to be a willingness of republicans to give something up on sequestration but only that would happen if there is a long Term Solution that we can arrive that between Social Security and medicare and including tax reform. Can that happen . I am very pessimistic it can happen but i know that
If there is going to be an agreement, it seems to me it has to be a willingness of republicans to give something up on sequestration but only that would happen if there is a long Term Solution that we can arrive that between Social Security and medicare and including tax reform. Can that happen . I am very pessimistic it can happen but i know that republicans are going to try to work in that direction and i know that congressman ryan is working very closely with patty murray of the Senate Budget committee to try to get in that direction. It is a tough row to hoe. If thats the case, then what . Then you have sequestration which is the law of the land and republicans are generally satisfied with sequestration. Since it is the law of the land, it seems to me like it is as simple as passing a claimcr c. R. Through the house and find out the democrats will shut down government or not and is the president willing to sign it or does he want to shut down government and it seems a lesson was le
This project was undertaken with walt stone and with meredith who will present it. Meredith has been involved since she was a sophomore at william and mary. She graduated in may. She is with the education Advisory Board after a stint as an intern where she was the resident expert on the tea party for the pew center for people in the press. Meredith is going to take this and go with it and make it sound far more intelligent than i could. Thanks. To give you an idea of what is coming, we will look at divisions within the local party and then we will compare rank andfile republicans to Tea Party Activists using that Freedom Works sample. Once again looking at issues and political style. Finally, we look at the response of the tea party to the 2012 elections, including perceptions of why romney lost, change over time and willingness to time and willingness to compromise, and evaluation of the Republican Party and its leaders. We begin by examining the actual conflict between Tea Party Repu
Plus, the future of the Republican Party is a hot topic as both sides start plotting the 2016 campaign. Our political roundtable features two former capitol hill insiders, Newt Gingrich and lawrence odonnell. Plus, three journalists on the story. The looming fiscal cliff 22 days away. Is it stalemate or compromise . Well go inside the negotiations with two top leaders in just a moment, but i want to start with the ongoing crisis in syria where the Assad Government is engaged in a brutal cracktown on its own people. And this week something significant happened. The president signalled a big potential shift in u. S. Involvement there. Heres what he said. I want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command, the world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable. Nbc chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is in syri