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left this evening. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues, greta is next to go on the record. as always, thanks for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. tonight the worst might not be over. right now, violent weather warnings stretching from the midwest all the way to the northeast and we have now received confirmation that the tornado that wiped out an oklahoma city suburb was a rare ef-5 twister. the monster twister mowed down moore, oklahoma, killing at least 24 people, including nine children. many buried in the rubble of their flattened school. >> that's a big, big tornado. >> oh, my god! >> in an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed. >> we were pulling walls off of
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people. there were people crawling out from anywhere and everywhere. >> dozens of people lost their lives. >> the debris was so wide, it was 2 miles wide, 20 miles long. >> many more were injured. and among the victims were young children. >> honestly, i was like i'm not going to see tomorrow. i was just like, i don't want to die today, but you know, there's nothing else to do. >> absolutely terrible. this tornado is massive. >> heads up. heads up, man. >> oh, my goodness. >> go that way. >> you guys need to get underground now. >> everything is just gone. like these are my friends' houses. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> i could hear it coming from a distance. they say it sounds like a freight train. >> in the midst of tragedy and loss of life, we've also seen the resilience and the courage and the strength of our people and we will get through this. we will overcome. we will rebuild.
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we will regain our strength. >> hours of absolutely sheer panic. parents rushing from one shelter to another frantically trying to find their children. the moore community center is one of the places where tornado victims will find missing relatives. fox crescent is there live with the latest. >> we talked about the grade school. is there any hope or are we beyond that? >> greta, actually, there's better news in that there are revised numbers released from officials. last night at this time we were talking about the possibility that there were 24 children, inside of that school that there were yet to be recovered. officials revised that number saying there is a total of 24 people who died in that tornado, 9 of them children and the belief is that it was 7 inside that school. the number did change, as expected. however, it was adjusted down as opposed to what officials were saying last night where they
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told us to be prepared to have it adjusted up. all dealing with the chaos of a disaster. what happens when someone stays sat at one of the shellers. they have to register here and create a mark in the data system. so people can try to find their loved ones. there are six such shelters at the red cross set up throughout the oklahoma city area. the university of oklahoma has announced that it has opened up their dorms because they're on summer break for anyone to make use of those. here's a problem, though. a lot of oklahomans who i have been talking to say it's a point of pride for them. they stay with friends and family. but because we've had so much trouble with the land lines here, with the cell phones here, with e-mails and texting, it's made it more difficult for people, even if they are with friends and family to get in touch with those looking for them. what some people have done,
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they've traveled from out of state to find people they can't reach. it's one of the challenges and the chaos that the people at the red cross are trying to settle a bit. we do know there are problems that have settled with regard to the security within that disaster zone area. the national guard, as well as other law enforcement members have been trying to keep people back as determined as people are to get back into that area because they want to simply curious, others want to see what they have lost. however, it's too dangerous and really rescuers need to continue to do their jobs. 98% is how sure the fire department's chief says he is that they have gotten everybody out and they have found all of the dead. he said what they've done is gone through three times all of the areas where they believe that there could be survivors or that there could be the dead. he said as soon as they've gone through each area three times, they will feel pretty sure that they have completed their search. so that's where things stand right now, greta. before i let you go, i will tell you one other thing. it rained pretty hard today.
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we had a drastic storm come through this area. it added to the problem. the traffic is so thick, they're continuing to clean up the area. it makes it more of a mess. >> a lease i can't, thank you. rescue workers coming from all over, racing to find survivors and victims in the rubble of the neighborhoods that were literally plowed down by this tornado. oklahoma governor mary fallon toured the devastation. she joins us. good evening, governor. i can't imagine so many people in oklahoma don't have a place to sleep except the shelters. do you have any sense of how many. >> we do have a sense of how many are in the shelters and we're fortunate that we have 131 people in the shelters. as you just heard from your reporter there, that a lot of the people have gone to stay with friends and relatives. so people in oklahoma have been very generous to take care of their relatives and certainly take care of their friends. >> governor, one of the things we've seen with the tragedies,
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there's an incredible outpouring of help from everybody, the federal government, organizations, everything in the first few days. this is a huge catastrophe. you'll need help for quite a long time. what are you going to do to keep the momentum going? >> we are going to need help for a long time. basically, what we're planning on doing is keeping people informed about what we need. there are a lot of people that have called to offer help. heard all kinds of stories of people that just immediately came throughout the community walking to come up would the schools, the houses, the businesses to see if they could help people that might have been hurt in the tornado itself. and we certainly have had a lot of first responders who have come, not only from the various cities in the state and other states. i was at the plaza tower school earlier today and had a gentleman with a rescue dog from joplin. he had used his dog in the joplin tornado and oklahoma had
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sent people to joplin to help them when they had their disaster. here he was coming back to oklahoma to help us. we have had people come and certainly i've had so many people from governors that have called me, i've kind of lost track. well over 30 governors have called me to offer assistance. the president has called several times. several of the cabinet secretaries have offered their assistance. they realize this is a major disaster. and it is going to take a while to recover from this. we have a lot of work ahead of us. >> governor, you know, you look at the pictures on the television, you think this is absolutely horrible. you hear about the tornado and it's absolutely horrible. and then if you're one of these people who sees it, you saw it today. tell me what you saw. it's so much worse in person. >> it is worse in person. i was down there until very late last night. of course, the tornado struck after 3:00. i got down there about, i think
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it was around 7:00 by the time i got everything organized in the city and the emergency command center. down there on the site. then of course it became dark and i was in the dark because there is no electricity down there. certainly there wasn't any water down there. there was a ton of debris and traffic as you mentioned is quite a problem. cell service and phone lines were jammed up. phone service was just out in many of the areas. communication was hard to get information. today i had the opportunity to go back and to fly with the national guard and other emergency personnel including the director, administrator of fema himself. which we appreciate him coming personally. it was a sight to be seen to travel along the 17 miles of the path of the tornado and to see where it started and where it ended to fly over the schools, the neighborhoods and talking about blocks of houses that are gone. we're talking about miles, mile
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or two miles of houses that are gone. it's remarkable that we've had so few deaths. any death is one too many. at this point in time, we know of 24. that's really quite remarkable. >> especially when we thought it was 51 last night. that in a strange way is good news. governor, thank you. and good luck. i know you have your work cut out for you. thank you, governor. >> thank you. we appreciate you. seven children killed when the tornado landed a direct hit on plaza towers elementary school. tonight a scene of utter devastation where that school once stood. griff jenkins is live in moore, oklahoma. >> greta, i started today in dallas. i had to drive in and it was there at the airport in dallas that i met school superintendent jana barisi. we drove in together and had our cameras rolling when she saw for the first time the damage done at tower plaza, one much her man
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i schools. >> kids were in here getting close to being out for the day. the storm just really mushroomed. they only had 16 minutes of warning. as you can see from this area, it's a residential area, or it was at least. parents that could get here to pick up their kids did so. but the others -- you can't tell you about it's an older building. so they tried their best. they put the kids in their assigned spots. you can see the force and the fury of this storm is so very, very -- >> look at metal is wrapped around the poles. you can't tell that it used to be a school. it is like pretzels. it's the things of life that are
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almost macabre now the way that they're so twisted. it is beyond belief, sad. >> this has been dr. barisi's home for more than 40 years. as you can see from that tape, it's overwhelming. the doctor talked a lot with me in the three-hour ride from dallas about the heroes here, the teachers, the local people that live here. we'll try and find more of them for you tomorrow, greta? >> griff, thank you. tonight, while terrifying tornadoes are still threatening the midsection of the nation. who is under threat. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox extreme weather center tracking the storms. janice, what's the latest tonight. >> we're still watching the potential for strong to severe weather in parts of the south and the gulf coast. tornado watches and severe thunderstorm watches are being whittled away as this front moves through, which is good news. but we're still sort of in that
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line of fire across portions of texas, louisiana and arkansas, up towards memphis and nashville. no tornado warnings just yet. but we have severe thunderstorm warnings. with that we could see wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour, heavy rain and the hail. the very large hail. moving into the carolinas, parts of georgia in towards charleston, west virginia. thunderstorms there. and the northeast, we saw earlier tornado warnings in upstate new york. a lot of areas getting severe weather this evening. we'll continue to track it. across the area that you see shaded in yellow, that's where we have our slight risk of severe weather through the evening hours. you can see the lines kind of scraping through. with that, we think damaging winds certainly will be an issue. even up towards upstate new york and parts of new england we're going to look for the threat of severe storms. just keep that in mind and keep your noaa weather radios on and keep alert to the weather bulletins. looking at the satellite forecast for you as we move
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further out in time. east texas watching you. louisiana up towards the mississippi river and the tennessee river valley, greta, the good news is it's going to be your garden variety thunderstorms as we get into wednesday and clearing pattern as we move into moore, oklahoma, which is certainly great news. it will be cool tonight, temperatures will warm up. a slight chance of storms later this week. but nothing severe on the horizon. although, greta, make mention that may is typically the busiest month for tornadoes. so they're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination across tornado alley. >> janice, the one that hit moore, oklahoma, was on the ground for a very long time. two technical questions. what keeps a tornado down so long, number one? and number two, what makes it begin to slow down and vanish? >> those are very good questions. and one that still scientists are not really sure of. there's a couple of things that
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a tornado of this magnitude needs. it needs the moisture feed, it needs that warm air from the gulf of mexico, so that unstable air mass and it also needs the vortex in the upper level of the atmosphere to keep the storms rotating. because it scraped the ground for 40 minutes, which is a very long time in tornado standards to see a storm of this mag nunie on the ground. it needs that dynamic and it was a textbook atmosphere if you will, when you look at all the ingredients being put together. the atmosphere was ripe. sometimes we call it like a pressure cooker. you know, you've got a pot on the stove and it bubbles up, you've got the cap on your pot and when you release the cap, you know, the steam comes out and that's kind of what happened in the atmosphere. the cap kind of popped off and the energy just went through the roof. so when we look at the dynamics of the atmosphere, they were
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ripe. something that we really haven't seen all season. and that's why we saw these violent thunderstorms. now, the dissipation of the storms, we'll look at the potential of the moisture feed as well as if thevorticity is in place. everything that we look at in terms of where and when we'll see the damaging potentially dangerous storms, it was all -- the ingredients were all together. but in terms of what made this last and what made it dissipate is still, as far as meteorologists go, still a bit of a mystery. one that we will continue to observe and learn from. >> janice, thank you as always. >> okay, greta. now to the frantic and meticulous search for survivors. there have to be more survivors, right? >> rescue crews going through an elementary school brick by brick and many buildings two and three times making sure they find anyone who is still trapped.
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captain derek stuart of the oklahoma city fire department joins us. good evening, sir. am i right that you still might find survivors? it's still not too late? >> caller: good evening. yes, we're going to continue searching throughout the evening. not going to give up on anyone. going to continue searching until we get all through the debris. and get everything removed so we can get a good look at all the structures. >> you started yesterday on this, after the tornado hit. what was your -- tell me how you did this. >> caller: the local responders got there first and then we actually responded with oklahoma task force one which is our state asset. we responded on scene and assisted with oklahoma city fire, moore, all the other agencies that were providing mutual aid. we wound up going down range into the debris field, going house by house. going through all the rubble. just searching every structure one by one.
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>> and when i've been to most of the hurricanes and stuff, they make a notation on the house to indicate it's been searched. did you mark the different buildings? >> caller: yes, ma'am. we made search markings. marking time of entry, exit. marking all hazards. putting our identification marks if we had victims and moving, like i said, from one structure to the next. >> captain stewart, thank you, sir. thank you to all the people you're working with. please let them know we're all grateful for their hard work. >> caller: thank you. a top irs official is about to plead the fifth amendment. that's right. lois learner refusing to tell congress what we learned. darrell issa is here to talk about that. lawmakers did hear from the former commissioner who ran the irs when it targeted conservative groups. but is congress happy with the former commissioner's answers?
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what do you think about this? top irs official is pleading the fifth. lois lerner, the head of the exempt organization's division will not answer questions on the irs scandal tomorrow. darrell isiah is here to talk about that. the man who ran the irs agency. grilling former commissioner douglas shulman. the american people deserve to know the truth about what went on here. they deserve to know why the truth was kept from them for so long. >> how did this happen? >> mr. chairman, i can't say. i can't say that i know that answer. >> you're the commissioner. >> i'm six months out -- >> you got some sense of the outfit. you were the commissioner for six years. >> i don't think i can answer that question. >> i'm disappointed. you've had time to think about this. you certainly have more thought than that. >> what i knew was there was a list. i did know that tea party was on
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it. i didn't know what else was on the list. i had a partial set of facts. and i knew that the inspector general was going to be looking into it. i knew that it was being stopped. >> these hearings are not a sideshow designed to distract from the president's agenda. i hope that the president and his administration are not attempting to distract us from getting to the bottom of this. >> i was dismayed and i was saddened to read the inspector general's conclusions that action had been taken creating the appearance that the service was not acting as it should have. >> how could an agency with the power that the internal revenue service has engage in this kind of conduct and it not be politically motivated? >> i certainly am not personally responsible for creating a list
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that had inappropriate criteria on it. >> finance committee member senator johnny isaac son joins us. >> greta, good to be with you. >> mr. shulman, the former commissioner of the irs, when did he say he learned about the targeting first? >> he said he first learned about it recently when he read the ig's report. >> he knew nothing beforehand? >> that's what he said. i don't know was the operative language. every question that was answered was said i don't know. >> at some point, we just played the package, he knew there was a list with tea party on it. was that before a few weeks ago? >> he a referred to it as if it was. ms. lern was over -- recognized the problem in cincinnati. she may or may not have told them. that's what we got to find out. >> did you think today that mr. shulman was candid, complete or did you think he misled the senate today? >> i'm not an attorney but i've been in enough depositions to
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watch somebody coached by an attorney. i think he was advised by an attorney not to make any statements and he didn't. >> did you learn anything new today? >> only that there still is a culture in the irs on this issue of mystery, of not disclosing everything that went on. there has to be a who and a when and a what. we've got to find out those answers. it just didn't happen in cincinnati with a handful of operatives. >> so what's your next step? it seems to me that a good step would be to zero in on what's going on in cincinnati since that's at least one of -- sort of where it started. >> ms. lerner tomorrow is going to take the fifth amendment tomorrow. she's not going to say anything that could incriminate her. we need to focus the investigation on cincinnati and go from the ground up. senator back us has done a good job and senator hatchet. we must get to the bottom of it. it's shaking the confidence of the american people in the internal revenue service, which is the wrong thing to have happen. >> a lot of senators said to him, you just sat on that guilty knowledge.
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that's a lie by omission. apparently he thought that he was well aware of it long before a few weeks ago. >> i think he was right. >> do you think the white house had any information on this before mid-april? >> i don't know. but i trusted mr. pfeiffer on the tv shows on sunday morning that he was incensed. he thought we ought to get to the bottom of it. the white house needs to let us get to the bottom of it. this is important for our country and the american people. quite frankly, important for the white house. >> it's odd what mr. pfeiffer said. what he said is that he didn't have much information yet you had jay carney saying on monday that as of the middle of april, the white house counsel and senior advisers and today jay carney saying that there's a meeting among some people, the irs and the treasury how to explain it to the american people. dan pfeiffer may not have known much on sunday, but there's more information to be known. >> it's quite obvious when they
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planted a question at a press conference, they were struggling with how the american people would learn about a very bad situation in the irs. >> what do you think about planting that question? >> as miller today apologized for it, admitted it was wrong, it was the wrong thing to do, if they found out they had been accused of wrongdoing by the inspector general in an audit, they ought to come forward and disclose it to the american people. not play games by planting a question at a press conference. >> i thought that was suspicious. anyway. >> nor nice to see you. >> greta, great to be with you. the irs we spoke about is at smack at the center of the scandal plans to plead the fifth. what will lois lerner's silence mean. committee chair darrell isiah is here with more. >> breaking news about how far the justice department is going to see journalists phone records, including records from fox news right here at our washington, d.c. bureau. the latest coming up. let's see what you got. rv -- covered.
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tomorrow mum's the word. she's taking the fifth. irs top official lois lerner is not going to say boo when she appears before the meeting. she is taking the fifth. what does the chairman of that panel think about that oversight committee chair darrell issa joins us. >> nice to see you. >> thanks for covering this. obviously american people want answers. >> you won't get them tomorrow because we understand she will be taking the fifth amendment when she appears before your committee. >> she's an important witness. we still hold out hope that she will change her mind. often, as you know, people don't always listen to their attorneys and in this case, she's critical to the conduit between commissioners and other individuals and the actual places where so much was known. >> you know, i actually, if i were her lawyer, i'd advise her to take the fifth too. there is the justice department opened a criminal investigation and she does -- i mean, there is a risk she says something
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tomorrow. >> we could say there's a risk for everybody. the american people had confidence in the irs. the irs had a responsibility. the two commissioners, i guess they're both immediate past commissioners somewhat now have said they didn't know it. >> who -- from what i understand in summer of 2011, she was aware of it. and she was the head person in this division. and it was still going on in january of 2012. why wouldn't anybody stop this? >> well, that's probably the best question for the american people. like so many things that are wrongdoing, it can be a local event in the wrongdoing, overzealous irs individuals, people who start down a path of one, then ten, then 100 of these, if you will, tea party groups. but at some point people saw it, they became aware of it and it continued. i think one of the important things is it didn't just continue 2011. it continued 2012, it continued
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through the election. it continues today. as far as we can tell, there are organizations that have been out there for three years and have neither been accepted nor rejected simply tortured in a way in which they can't even appeal a rejection because they haven't had one. >> why did this happen? >> that's a great question that i'm not sure we're going to get any time soon. what we know is that in the i.g. report and in my conversation with the i.g., they don't have internal controls that would prevent this from happening in the future. >> it wasn't just one person. that's the thing. it's not just one person being a jerk to one taxpayer. i mean, this was a targeted list. a group of people. and it almost seems like, you know, at best this was the culture. that it was okay to go after these people for whatever reason, didn't like their ideas or whatever. it's just there's something, it's more than just one person. >> greta, we've become a polarized country. it is certainly possible that people at the irs viewed that
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they were doing something goodbye going after people who filled out forms saying that they believed in smaller government, in constitutional fundamentals. but, of course, if they did that, it's not only wrong but it's dangerous. the irs has to be one of those organizations that's constantly second-guessing its own decisions, not just the decisions of taxpayers. >> they certainly didn't did that here. >> no, they didn't. congressman, thank you. i guess there will be a short hearing tomorrow? >> no, we'll go the full length. we'll be perhaps one witness shy. but we have plenty of questions, we did a full deposition today under oath. we got a lot of information. the information today will lead to questions tomorrow. >> good. we'll be watching. thank you, sir. >> thank you. now to breaking news in the justice department. phone records scandal. it's our favorite here at fox news. we know the doj's secret seizure of fox news phone records goes way beyond one reporter's information. correspondent shannon breem is here with the latest. now we pass notes by the way.
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we don't call each other. shannon, what is going on? >> it's interesting. we may have to turn to smoke signals at some point. new information is coming out about this case involving james rosen. because the legal filing made by the u.s. attorney's office what we found they weren't going after records for him personally. it appears because we have the area code and the exchanges, they match several important fox offices and different outlets. our lines that feed into our work space at the pentagon, the state department, the white house and also several reporters and producers' cell phones as well. >> this is so appalling to me. are there any other news organizations other than the ap p. and their problem on another issue, any other news organizations targeted in this investigation? >> not so far. this focused on james rosen and spread out to a broad audience at fox. it's interesting to see how other media are reacting.
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they're taking heat from others who realize it could be them. >> if you go through the affidavit, he's so outrageous, the fbi actually accuses james rosen of being a co-conspirator on very serious crimes in the affidavit. i've never seen that. i've never known -- haven't seen anything like that in any of the affidavits ever that i've looked at. >> it's something that a lot of journalists have discussed in the history of the relationship that the government has. there's been a tacit understanding that they may go after the leaker or the government source but never the journalist. for here to have a suggestion that james rosen allegedly engaged in criminal activity by talking with a source, that seems to be new to some people. >> they're focusing on the journalism aspect. i'm a lawyer, you're a lawyer. i'm appalled that a judge didn't see what was going on. the point of having a judge review a search warrant and sign off or not, is so it can be the independent person's, not a team trying to get somebody. >> you also know there's a lot of weight when an fbi agent
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signs an affidavit, puts his name to the allegations, that carries a lot of weight with any judge. >> i think it's worth noting. i blogged back in november of this year of -- of last year that i thought that the obama administration is trying to punish fox news because we were so aggressive of benghazi, trying to get the facts, which incidentally, there's a lot more we're learning. but the state department held a meeting and didn't include fox news. then the cia held a meeting with all the media, didn't include fox news. there's been a little pattern of excluding fox news because we've been very aggressive on these stories. >> we've reached out to the justice department and white house on the newest revelations on the monitoring of the phone lines. we have not heard back from the justice department, but jay carney told our ed henry, that he can't quote on an ongoing investigation. >> we'll use the sticky pads at fox news for the next couple of weeks. anyway, thank you, shannon. >> any time. coming up, how far did the
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the founder of a group said the irs actions should send chills up your spine. kevin says the irs singled out his group for scrutiny asking outrageous questions. he says he's not taking that from the irs, but he's thinking about taking them to court. kevin joins us. nice to see you, sir? >> thank you for having, me, greta. what is your group? >> lynch pins of liberty. it's a development enterprise. it's to challenge the -- we
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mentor high school and college students and conservative political philosophy. >> tell me, you applied for a tax exempt status. and you didn't like some of the questions you were asked? >> yes. we applied for tax exempt status in january of 2011. the first substantive response came in may of 2011. and although that letter was not as invasive and vague than the later letter, i knew something was amiss. i gave the answers i could. they gave me about two weeks to reply. couldn't get ahold of an irs agent. then it was about six months of constantly trying to reach the agent on the telephone until december of 2011 when i finally reached an agent, first thing she told me was my file had been moved to another desk. someone else was handling my file. and then i asked this question of that agent. i said, why in the world is my application taking so long? and he said these words. he said we've been waiting on guidance from our superiors as to your organization and other similar organizations. it was pretty clear that wasn't
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coming from down the hall. he didn't say where, but it wasn't from cincinnati. >> what were the questions asked that made you suspicious? >> well, i mean, there was a ton. i got a 31-point letter and each question had sububtegories. if i do focus on three. what the political affiliation of the people who mentored me. i didn't know the answer to that question in full. i couldn't -- it would tack a long time for me to complete an application. the next question they asked me was, what are my views on every issue. every issue. i don't know how to answer that question without perjuring myself. the most disturbing question i got, asked me to identify those i was teaching and to provide details of what i was teaching them. >> all right. i imagine, do you have any phone conversation with them and say the questions were out of line or was this all done in writing? >> well, i only had one phone
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conversation. i had repeated attempts to reach an agent, voice mail, voice mail, please call me. only that one conversation with the agent in cincinnati who told me it was his superiors who directed him to do this. >> are you going to sue and what's your cause of action? >> yes. we're represented by the aclj and many other organizations and we expect to file a complaint this week. i've not read the complaint because they're still making adjustments to it. we're seeking a declaratory action. i want to get my status. 28 months and counting it's been. the rest of that with will come out and jay is better able to speak to that issue. >> this is really outrageous, isn't in? not just your group. night after night, people want their tax exempt status to do their groups and the irs has stood in the way. >> yeah. i don't know why. we've seen it in the news. barack obama's half brother, he got status in a month. i believe it went retroactive. here i am 28 months and counting
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and i still don't have it. >> i don't know anything about that. i've got e-mails from viewers. i keep meaning to check on that one. i can't corroborate or deny. anyway, kevin, thank you. good luck. >> thank you, greta. appreciate it. straight ahead, jodi arias' last stand. the convicted killer making a final plea to the jury to decide if she lives or dies. you will see arias in action next. flyi is old hat for business travelers.
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>> greta: just trying to save her own neck, jodi arias speak together jury, the jury will now decide life or death for her for the murder of her ex-boyfriend. here is some of what she was
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saying as she was making a plea for mercy with photographs and props. >> until weeks ago i had been part of these girls lives some day. i'm not going to have children of my own. i'm not going to become a mother because of my ob own terrible choices. it's never been my intention to throw mud on travis's name. when i took the stand i was obligated to answer the questions truthfully. if you'll remember many times i was put to defense. i loved travis and i looked up to him. at one point he was the world to me this, is the worst mistake of my life. the worst thing i've ever done. it's the worst thing i could have ever seen myself doing. i couldn't have seen myself doing it. before that day i won't want to harm a spider. i gathered them up and put them outside. to this day i can hardly
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believe i was capable of such violence but i know that i was. and for that i'm golg to be sorry for the rest of my life. i made many public statements i would prefer the death penalty to life in prison. each time i said that, i meant it, i lacked perspective. until recently coy not have image yained -- imagined stand brg you all and asking you to give me life. so-to-me, life in prison was the most unapeep peeling outcome i could think of. i thought i'd rather die. i didn't know if i got life there are many things i can do to affect positive change. and contribute in meaningful ways. a few months before trial and jury selection my hair was past my waist. ski donated it to locks of love the nonprofit creating wigs for cancer patients who have lost their hair that. was my third donation since being arrested. if i'm allowed to live in
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prison i will continue to donate to that organization for the rest of my life. boy like to start a book club or reading group something that brings people nogt a positive way to share and recommend other good books and stimulate discussions of a higher nature. >> will the jury have mercy is in the jurors have gone home without reaching a decision and will continue to deliberate tomg. coming up, more trouble for justin beiber. what happened now? who has advice for the young super star? find out next. ♪
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