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
that decision. one final question. do you believe he lied before your committee or in any other official capacity, john koskinen? i don t i m not going to going that far. i would just simply say you know, he s making declarative statements without the information to back it up. for him to say people didn t break the law, he doesn t have the information. i wouldn t dare say that somebody didn t break the law when you re missing two years worth of e-mails. how can you make that statement? so for him to say to our committee that we were going to get all of the e-mails in question in may and he was notified in march that they were unrecoverable, i don t know what that is. maybe he was confused. but he told us one thing and he was briefed basically being told another several months before. so he was told in february and march the e-mails were unrecoverable. he told congress in may we were
of 2011 sent a letter to the irs asking them to investigate the targeting of these conservative groups and 10 days later by happen chance lois lerner s hard drive crashes and they discover all the emails are lost for two years and completely unrecoverable. then it happens during that same period of time, same two year window that six of the 80 people we are investigating, their hard drives too crashed. and just like lois lerners their hard drives too were unrecoverable. look, there is not a computer at fox news. there is not a computer on capitol hill where we work whose hard drive crashes whose all of their emails are completely unrecoverable and certainly statistically did not happen to six of the people in question all in a same period of time. all on separate computers. it s unbelievable. and we need to get to the bottom of it which is why the department of justice needs-to-a point a special
e-mails were unrecoverable and in may, he gave testimony to our committee that all of the e-mails would be disclosed with no limitations. and it wasn t till june that we found out that there were two years worth of e-mails missing. that is not being honest. that is not being forthright. that has nothing to do with the age of the computer system. second, i guess i would go back to my original point which is the death that this hard drive crashed during the two-year period in question ten days after the letter was sent is unbelievable. the fact that five others and six total of the eight employees under question had the same april malfunction during the same period of time all of which their e-mails are unrecoverable is again unbelievable. there are a ton of questions that have to be answered. you may be right. i pressed the commissioner yesterday on potentially the need for a special prosecutor outside independent counsel to investigate his only point was wait till the inspector gener
question, can all of the e-mails were destroyed and are unrecoverable. nobody believes that. and then when we asked who did you suspect destroyed if you re making that accusation that she broke the law and that she was involved in destroying e-mails, who was involved? what evidence is there a, she was involved, what evidence is there others may have conspired to be involved? i m not suggesting i know. what i am suggesting is it no american listening to your program today, wolf, knows people whose hard drives crash and their e-mails are unrecoverable and by the way, at the same time, six of the 80 people under investigation at the irs six of those same people s hard drives crashed during the same two-year period all of their e-mails are also unrecoverable. the probability statistically of that happening it s just unbelievable. so it s basically. that warrants, wolf, that warrants an investigation. right. it may come out that nobody did anything wrong. but for those who is