good morning, cleta mitchell.m a lowly clerk at the irs, looking at your application for tax-free status. i go to your webpage to see the goals of your group, and one of the goals of your group is to abolish the irs. you can bet every dollar you have got i'm going to go after you and target you and try it and end your group. that's just the way it is. guest: it shouldn't be that way. i don't know anybody who said they want to get out of the irs, but if they did, that's the right. that's their first amendment right to do that. employee is not supposed to superimpose his beliefs or his judgment or his concern about his job over those of a citizen who has a first amendment right to express that opinion, to abolish the irs or to change the tax code. many of these groups did say they wanted lower taxes. they wanted to repeal the 16th amendment, perhaps that establishes the income tax. but that's our constitutional right of citizens. in a government employee works for us. it's not the government employees right or oblig

. >> first guest, cleta mitchell.morning. >> good morning. >> could you give viewers a sense of story viewer not following along? give a scope of what's going on as far as this issue is concerned. >> well, the targeting scandal began in, i think, 2010, maybe even as early as 2009, where groups applying for tax exempt status with irs, if they had certain names, words in their names, tea party, patriots, if they had certain purposes, that he had included as the purpose for their applying for exempt status, those applications were quarantined for several years and subjected to unnecessary delays and burdensome questioning, et cetera, all of that has been established by investigations and starting with the report of the treasury inspector general for tax administration, issued in may of 2013. and since that time, we've had litigation against the irs, congressional investigations ensued immediately after the report in 2013. it is those congressional investigations and what happened in the aftermath of that that has led to