the expected star witness, the justice department barbara bosserman, a political donor in charge of the investigation, did not appear. deputy james cole sent this letter citing long-standing policy is to decline to provide congress with non-public information about a criminal investigation. cole wrote, quote, it also is founded upon our commitment to avoiding any perception that our law enforcement efforts are subject to undue influence from elected officials. jordan openly questioned bosserman's credibility. >> a lady with a financial stake in a specific outcome is heading the investigation. a lady who has invested in the president's success is heading the investigation and the president could potentially be a target of that investigation, and we're supposed to believe that this investigation is credible. >> reporter: a democrat defended her. >> it is the policy of congress that employees should be encouraged to exercise fully, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal and to the extent not expressly prohibited by law their right to participate. >> reporter: there was also attenti

they are hoping to hear from barbara bosserman who is a obama political donor. she gave $750 to the obama campaign. now she is leading the investigation into the irs targeting conservative groups. the house committee sent a letter to the montana asking if the president is being briefed on the situation. >> you have barbara bosserman who is a maxed out contributor to the president's campaign and she gets picked to head up the investigation. i believe the president can be confident because he knows his person is running the show. they are hoping the justice department will send somebody else to speak about what's going on at the justice department. if not they will hear from tea party groups of who say they were hearing thed by the irs. martha: the irs's new commissioner apologizing to conservatives for the targeting scandal when he spoke to fox news. here is what he said. >> if the selection criteria were inappropriate and people were delayed in their ability to get a response because of their organize's name, that's intolerable. we are not going to do that. to t

at the same time david, it is unclear and some would say she's not going to in fact whether barbara bossermanstigator for the department of justice will be allowed to testify. if you want to re-establish trust allow her to testifyine though she is controversial for donating $6,000. >> one, she knows better. she is a lawyer, understands the rules as a lawyer and prosecutor. she should be recusing herself. she shouldn't wait on eric holder or anyone else. she should recuse herself for having donated $6,000 for obama's campaign. that is appearance of the conflict of interest should negate her in her own mind and she should do that for the good of the investigation. that's the first thing that has to happen. >> i will throw another name out to you. lois lerner what about her? >> lois lerner came and testified and tried to use the fifth amendment and she tried to claim she had a fifth amendment right of self incrimination and then ended up giving some testimony and that is called into question. they are worried about what can she say versus what she can't say. in the 1990s when i served as chief i

. >> barbara bosserman contributed more than 6,000 to president obama's campaign.ropriate? >> listen, darril issa contributed how much to the republican campaigns and he is heading up a investigation. you have the deputy inspector general saying he saw no corruption. you may say that is obama's treasury department and of course it is. i challenge guy or mitchell to point to the specific corruption. because you want to believe it doesn't make it so. there is no evidence. >> how is it possible that the doj and fbi is ending the investigation without interviewing a single individual of the 41 target itteted groups represented by jay sekelow. how can you end without talking to the alleged victims? >> i have no clue. you have to ask them. it doesn't sound thorough to me. in response to jowly. i am not saying there is proven crim activity, but there is new regulations that the the irs rolled them out governing 501 c4 and restrictive. it restricts the ability to engage in political speech. >> good. >> the white house said it was done to clarify confusing rules that existe

bosserman, barbara k. bosserman who was invited but didn't come today. it is high lie irregular. it's really unprecedented to haul an investigator in before a congressional complete in the middle of an investigation for the very same reasons i just discussed because it can be prejudice an investigation because it can really foul it up. and theaters why we don't do that. but some of you, one or more of you have said that ms. bosserman was leading the investigation. and i wonder, is any of it you privy to who's leading the investigation? because attorney general holder testified i believe it was in the ways and means committee -- no, i believe in the senate, he testified that ms. bosserman is not, in fact, leading that investigation. so if one or more of you is privy to information that she is, in fact, the lead on this investigation, now is the time to share your information with us. >> let me do that to clarify this for you, congressman. our office and i believe we're the only ones so far had a conversation with the department of justice, the highest ranking official on that call

bosserman, barbara k. bosserman who was invited but didn't come today. it is high lie irregular. it's really unprecedented to haul an investigator in before a congressional complete in the middle of an investigation for the very same reasons i just discussed because it can be prejudice an investigation because it can really foul it up. and theaters why we don't do that. but some of you, one or more of you have said that ms. bosserman was leading the investigation. and i wonder, is any of it you privy to who's leading the investigation? because attorney general holder testified i believe it was in the ways and means committee -- no, i believe in the senate, he testified that ms. bosserman is not, in fact, leading that investigation. so if one or more of you is privy to information that she is, in fact, the lead on this investigation, now is the time to share your information with us. >> let me do that to clarify this for you, congressman. our office and i believe we're the only ones so far had a conversation with the department of justice, the highest ranking official on that call

the second point i wanted to make is there have been referencess to barbara bosserman who did not come today. is highly irregular, really unprecedented to hall and investigator in before a congressional committee in the middle of an investigation for the same reasons i just discussed because it can prejudice an investigation, it can really foul it up. that is why i don't do that. one or more of you have said she was leading the investigation, and i wonder, are any of you privy to who is leading the investigation? attorney general eric holder testified, i believe it was in the ways and means committee, i believe in the senate, testified that miss by sermon is not in fact leading that investigation. if one or more of view is privy to information that she is the lead on this investigation, not now is the time to share your information with us. >> let me clarify this for you. our office, we are the only ones so far, had a conversation with the department of justice, the highest-ranking official on that call was miss bosserman. we are not disparaging her credentials at all. it raised issues