the hard drive fits with inside. i'm not aware whether hard drives have computers, have identifiers. >> and we get the serial number and all the other employees whose hard drives, you know seven loss of? >> if they have serial numbers you are welcome to them. >> all right because i want to hard drive and what hard drive every computer that crashed during that timeframe. so what i've learned in the last week i think calls into question every document in response the irs has given. for that matter has failed to give due this committee. the only way i see any hope of restoring confidence is established a special prosecutor with the authorities, powers and resources needed to uncover the truth. for the sake of the agency to restore the trust of the american people will you support the appointment of a special prosecutor? >> there are six investigations going on -- >> yes or no? >> the ideas already investigating -- >> can you give a definitive answer, yes or no, do you support the appointment of a special prosecutor? >>

the hard drive a finance of the ig. i'm confused. >> two hard drives. the hard drive that was recycled and destroyed was the har hard e the crash and 2011. a new hard drive was provided to ms. lerner and she used that from then on and that hard drive -- >> the crashed hard drive is going? >> it was going three years ago. the replacement hard drive was preserved and is in the hands of the inspector general. >> so we still do have a crashed hard drive that is not recoverable, that is missing that information and will never get it because it's somewhere, on? >> three years ago. >> is it not to there are also a requirement by law that you keep paper records as well if computers do go down? do not have paper records that are required speak as we are required by law to keep paper records of official records, and as a definition of the federal records act whether official records offer agency transactions. and then the employee is to point them out, create a copy of it and preserve it. >> okay. so i find it all to be very curious that in all of these questions

hard drives crash? you learned about this months ago, you just told us, and we had to ask you on monday. this is being misleading again. this is a pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior, that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial. i do not believe you. this is incredible. >> i have a long career. this is the first time anybody has said you do not believe me. >> i do not believe you. >> we have a disagreement. our record was not buried in 27 pages. most of the 27 pages is exhibits. when asked about the custodians, we told you what we knew, which we knew for one day. >> congress is investigating -- >> will you let him answer the question? >> i did not ask him a question. if yes, you did. >> i control the time. i realize disrupting a hearing sort of -- >>, on. -- come on. >> i am not yielding time. i control the time. regular order. >> if we are investigating criminal wrongdoing, targeting people based on political beliefs, and the e-mails in question are lost a cousin of a h

the hard drive fits with inside. i'm not aware whether hard drives have computers, have identifiers. >> and we get the serial number and all the other employees whose hard drives, you know seven loss of? >> if they have serial numbers you are welcome to them. >> all right because i want to hard drive and what hard drive every computer that crashed during that timeframe. so what i've learned in the last week i think calls into question every document in response the irs has given. for that matter has failed to give due this committee. the only way i see any hope of restoring confidence is established a special prosecutor with the authorities, powers and resources needed to uncover the truth. for the sake of the agency to restore the trust of the american people will you support the appointment of a special prosecutor? >> there are six investigations going on -- >> yes or no? >> the ideas already investigating -- >> can you give a definitive answer, yes or no, do you support the appointment of a special prosecutor? >>

within ten days lois lerner's hard drive crashed. we know her hard drive crashed because we know this for sure because it was a ticket filed with the i.t. department. is that correct? for a repair? >> that's correct. >> could you provide us with all of the tickets filed in the month of june, 2011, at the irs for failed hard drives? >> yes. >> thank you very much. i yield back. >> would the gentleman yield? >> yes. >> i thank the gentleman. we are nearing the end but there will be -- i'll need a few more minutes to so i want to be brief but i want to be thorough. miss lerner you didn't know, you say you never met her. my understanding from the reports the hard drive that failed was on her laptop. is that correct? >> i'm not familiar. i know nicole flax's travel computer is where the hard drive failed north her office computer. i'm assuming in light of where the archives went it was her office computer where the hard drive failed. >> i want to understand from to a procedural standpoint, employees of the irs download e-mails which may i

these are difficult, hard choices. we make hard choices. hard choices, hard choices. [laughter] >> jon: all i can say is it's a good thing she didn't name her book "ultimate [bleeped] storm." [laughter and applause] i'm sorry. you know, you know, chris committee yawn, this is how we found flowers an ultimate [bleeped] storm. so fox and cnn both had exclusive interviews with hillary clinton to be same night, yet just an hour apart from each other. i wonder how the interviews went. >> christiane amanpour did an excellent job moderating the town hall meeting. >> bret baier asked her a lot of the questions that members of congress should have asked her. a fantastic interview. >> a very successful, very interesting. >> christiane amanpour is one of the best. >> bret baier did really good job. >> fascinating hour-long town hall meeting. >> great to watch. >> great job. >> outstanding job. >> jon: you know, both interviews really were the ultimate [bleeped]. back to you. cnn wasn't satisfied with their exclusive hillary clinton town hall. they held an exclusive after town ha

the hard drive spindle going wrong. crashes where you would have to rebuild the hard drive. in those cases can you recover the data and get all of the information out of it. if you are intentionally able to erase it you would not be able to recover the data. >> obviously can i take a hammer to my hard drive and crash it is there any other way for me to deliberately crash my hard drive. >> if you take a hammer to the hard drive you can actually rebuilt that hard drive and probably fix it again, depending on how bad you smash it when the actual hard drive smashes, recovering the data is actually really easy. this is why it is so alarming right now with the lois lerner emails and the six other individuals. if you have a hard drive crash to send it to a repair shop to recoup the hardware failures that happen on the hard drive itself would be relatively easy to do. otherwise if you had software that destroyed the evidence or destroyed everything on the hard drive you would have something that would erase sector bisek tore of the hard drive itself it would make it uncoferl at that

was that hard drive replaced? >> yes. >> are you in possession of that hard drive? >> the inspector general has it. >> could we look at the hard drive to see if she was in the habit of deleting e-mails? >> you are welcome to ask the inspector general for it. >> wouldn't be possible because you are collecting e-mails from her associate so you know which e-mail she achieved. dues did occur to you to look on her e-mail to see if she purposefully deleted in a? >> we have a look at that but as i say we have produced all of the e-mails e-mails and what was possible to take a look at that. >> next question. he said there's a three to 5% chance of a hard drive will fail and you testified that last week. >> i advise it's an industry-standard? >> that's about a one in 30 chance if it were 3% but let's see chairman camp sent a letter to the irs demanding the irs explained allegations of targeting tea party groups and her hard drive failed within 10 days. do a little math here the probability of that failing in 10 days instead of the year is one in 1000. >> that's not the way p

's pick of the ethereal numbers you are welcome to them. >> i want that hard drive and i want a hard drive of every computer that crashed in a timeframe. what i've learned in the last week i think calls into question every document response the irs has given or for that matter failed to get into committee. and the only way that i can see establishing a special prosecutor with the authorities into the powers and the resources needed to uncover the truth. so for the sake of the agency and to restore the trust to the american people what you support the appointment? >> there are six investigations going on -- >> yes or no. can you give a definitive answer to the committee, yes or no do you support the appointment of a special prosecutor? >> i do -- >> [inaudible] >> i'm not controlling the time. i'm asking a question that could have a simple yes or no answer. >> [inaudible] >> i think -- i think the appointment of a special prosecutor after the ig investigation into this matter ongoing would be a monumental waste of taxpayer funds. >> is that a yes or no? mr. levin is recognized. you ha

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time,s been drafted every which we found a little hard to take. as if she was an ambitious enough, or didn't want to do it on her own. her view is that she has been willed, i think this book be used by her people to convince her and others that there is a big cry for her to run. host: some excerpts from her new book already coming out in various news stories, from cbs news last week from simon & schuster who are publishing her book. what is interested you the most? guest: difficult to she will have his dissing herself from president obama on things that have been unpopular. what ends up happening is a little bit of a model, which is why you have that title, hard choices. she is trying to explain how you could be on one side of an issue, and it might be right, or look right, and be on the other right at one look moment. these are complex choices. just ae was in denver, week ago, she said that people in government shouldn't be judged on these hard choices that they are making. i thought that was fascinating. i don't think that claim goes over well w

hard choice? grandmother or the possibility of being the first he female president of the united states of america. >> you know, there have been -- >> hard choice. >> there have been a lot of grandfathers who have done it. >> precisely. maybe it's not a hard choice. >> it's a personal hard choice. >> all right. on that note -- >> oh thank you. >> thank you all very much. >> so i do want to thank secretary clinton for sharing her time and her thoughts with us. you can read more about her experiences as we've been talking, her book "hard choices." thank you to our audience and to our viewers here and around the world for joining us and for everyone at cnn. good night. [ applause ] >> nice round of applause for hillary clinton and christiane amanpour. hi, i'm wolf blitzer. you've been watching town hall. hillary clinton's "hard choices." we welcome you to this special edition of "the situation room." you have just seen and heard hillary clinton talk for about an hour, about benghazi, syria, immigrati

choices. >> hard choices. >> we make hard choices. >> hard choice. >> it is hard choice. >> hard choice. >> has the concentration to be able to make those hard choices. >> she is working for simon and schuster right there. as you can see, christiane amanpour mentioned the book as many times as hillary did. >>> next, a giraffe at the white house. a life-size robotic on the white house lawn. the president declared today a national day of making and met with inventors making advance s in science and to create jobs. a 13-year-old boy made a braille printer. and a team who made a teddy bear to help diabetic children monitor glucose and insulin. what will they come up with next? >>> up next, the hawks want obama to do something in iraq. but can't decide whether to work with iran or not. you're watching "hardball", the place for politics. dsl myth #1. it can help your business save money. false. the truth is when you compare our fastest internet to the fastest dsl from the phone company, comcast business gives you more for your money. why pay more for less? call today for a low price on speeds

so if the hard drive mysteriously crashed, there still should be hard copies of the emails. they are not. >> larry, your thoughts about what the president is saying and were you ever -- i mean, did you feel scared or intimidated by the irs? was it -- how did you feel when the irs was going after your tea party? >> well, hi, greta. you and i have done a session on the phony scandals before. and i encourage people to look that one up. we have new information since then. first of all, this is not a phony scandal. in the first place the president immediately came out last spring and said it was inappropriate conduct. he wanted a full investigation. they wanted corrective action. also, why did he fire acting commissioner miller if this was just some sort of trumped up scandal. also,. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say. >> i was going to go to becky. becky, what's it like to have the irs come breathing down your back? >> it's not good. i will tell you that. >> in terms of, what? i mean, how is it a problem for you? >> i think the intimidation factor is really a problem. when you h

harding was a toughy and hard on ms. coolidge. ms. coolidge was younger and every color looked good on her and ms. harding had one color that looked good on her. ms. harding was grand. but there is no evidence of dislike between coolidge and harding. harding did something -- he invited the vice president into the cabinet meetings and coolidge was grateful. it is purgtory being vice president sometimes. senator lodge was from his own state came coolidge a hard time. he was sad when harding died in the summer of 1923. >> host: before we go to calls, very quickly, where did calvin coolidge become president and how long had it been since he had seen warren harding? >> guest: it was months. and he hope viewers will come to plymouth march where he was sworn in. he was a notary, justice of the peace, some of our loyalist members at the coolidge foundation are notaries. one of our board member is long-time head of the national notaries. that is something like that that is very american. they said how do you know you have that authority? and h

>> it's hard to know what he can do, and it's also hard to know what he is doing because the 300 or soitary advisers are only a military consequence if they're going to do more than advise. that if, if they're on the ground in order to pick targets and do air control for attacks from the air that only the united states can do. the problem is, the president has said they will take no military action that helps one sect or another. since iraq is one sect or another, it's hard to see how you can do that. with regard to maliki, it's clear the president would like to have regime change, to change the government of iraq, both its stur and current composition. problem is, maliki is supported by the security services, such as they are. and he's supported by iran. so it's very hard to see how he gets rid of him. finally, we seem to be somehow pleased or ought to be pleased that the army is back. >> he's an even more radical shiite cleric, more than maliki. >> correct. and he was a huge problem for the pacification of iraq. now it seems in some sense we need him to come back into the fray. >> oh

hard choice? >> it is a hard choice. >> the ultimate hard choice.y of being the first he female president of the united states of america. a hard choice. >> there have been a lot of grandfathers who have done it. >> precisely. maybe it's not a hard choice. >> it's a personal hard choice. >> all right. on that note -- >> oh thank you. >> thank you all very much. >> thank you all very much. [ applause ] >> so i do want to thank secretary clinton for sharing her time and her thoughts with us. you can read more about her experiences as we've been talking, her book "hard choices." thank you also to our audience and to our viewers here and around the world for joining us, and for everyone at cnn. good night. [ applause ] >> nice round of applause for hillary clinton and christiane amanpour. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. i'm here at the newseum in washington. you've been watching cnn's town hall, hillary clinton's hard choices. once again, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world to this special situation room. you heard her talk

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they can't find hard drive. jay carney and the reporters about lois lerner had no e-mails to the irs? we now know the communication regarding this whole issue with the irs was not be going lois lerner to the white house. it was lois lerner to the chief of the staff of the irs, dozens of visits to the white house at the time this was going on. >> all right. now, if someone were to take this to the department of justice, jay, they have a conflict of interest, don't they? the woman who was investigating for a minute and a half who gave, like, what is it, 10% of her salary to the president, she has a conflict of interest. >> we have said from the outset that the fbi, independent investigating this is ridiculously. in fact, judge, we sent a letter -- you'll appreciate this as a prosecutor and as a judge -- we sent a letter to the fbi this week saying our clients are no longer going to voluntarily cooperate with this supposed, as you said, minute and a half investigation that the irs is engaged in. that cooperation st

i'm asking hard questions for someone who has to make hard choices.at the message is. number two, i think this was a really, really big gaffe with the money talk. and then the next day as joe points out, sounding as if she just lost iowa. go around the table. do you first of all believe she's running for president and what is your reaction to this latest so far? i'll start with you. >> i think she's probably running for president. i don't think it's a -- >> so let's call it a given. for me. >> for purposes of this conversation, i think she hasn't given the hillary clinton message for president yet because she doesn't want to confirm that she's running for president yet. she doesn't want to be in that position for two full years. >> i don't think you can have it both ways. >> well, i think she's going to try to keep from making that final step and laying out a k g campaign manifesto which makes it obvious. she doesn't want to start it. >> i think the campaign has effectively started. what is interesting about it, though, we live in this tumultuous peri

what we have is what we worked hard and got, and a lot of hard working talent gave each other and we are proud to serve in this commission, and i wish that people would stop treating us as if we are some type of a, you know, disconnected body, we are very much a part of these communities. >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners anything further for the captain? any questions or concerns. >> just a great job. >> i did have a couple of questions, >> i will let you get your questions. >> and p okay. >> my mom watches regularly, she will appreciate the shout out, she is proud of raising they are daughters on her own, and she said that they did all of the work, captain congratulations on a presentation and what i wanted to say in response to some feedback that we got on davis and correcting the record, i lived in the district between 2003, and 2007 and so those were violent years and it was a scary time and a place and the partnership between the community and the leaders who worked with the youth development and giving the kids jobs and backpacks and opportuni

harding and woodrow wilson. it was a difficult thing to be president and he didn't want there to be saying no anymore. he vetoed 50 times while he was president. he is a low character because of that i don't think so. but like washington he thought you should go back. he writes about this quite eloquently in his autobiography. he says you better change presidents from time to time, i'm paraphrasing, but something to the effect everyone panders to presidents and they become vain. one of the things i want to say about president bush 43 is that he understands that and works very hard to make whatever he does now his library and so on dot about him, but about his service. it's awfully hard to leave the presidency when you're at the center of the world and become no one, but you have to do it for the republic. he absolutely explicitly made this point. and i want to add was his party grateful that he was so noble and so on and so forth? not at all. they wanted to kill him because he would have won. so he was all alone

. >> we are publishing "hard choices" on june 10. it is her fourth book with us and i was the editor of the books was involved from the very beginning of its acquisition, working very closely with all the people at the company. >> as the editor, is there a lot of back and forth between you and the author of? >> every case is different. in this case i've tried to give just as much attention to secretary clinton's book as i have to all the other authors we publish. i should mention in the same breath we are also publishing james webb, who was a terrific united states senator and whose book is out right now. so i don't want to favor one author over another. >> when we acquired the book, he asked if there were any think that we could do for the e-books pacifica and we brainstorm some ideas and talked about when the right time to act on those ideas might be but we been thinking about also as a general product from the very beginning. >> my roll is with national media and partnership with mutations team who works with hillary. >> with an e

it is hard to love the irs, but it should not be hard to trust the irs. the american people deserve this agency which was previously believed to be non-partisan, they need to be able to trust that it will once again become non-partisan, non-political. your agency has a set of rules for taxpayers and apparently another set for themselves. the american people understand that if they cannot prove that they did the right thing in their tax return five, six, and seven years ago it will be disallowed the land they will pay taxes and penalty. welcome in fact of you maintain only six months of records and that apparently count on people good and bad to maintain documents they think are important beyond that and do so without safeguards to protect the iraqi people from the laws of those documents. commissioner, tonight you will say that you have produced dozens of documents. it will be an impressive number. quite frankly, that production is pushing a button and printing documents out and that having people scratch out almost everything of value, in many cases. it

it's titled "hard choices." hard choices and what questions to go with you first. to talk about the reaction you have from sarah palin. she read your book. he posted on twitter. in your book, you stated that the obama administration at the time, asked you to be critical of her when she was selected as the vp nominee and you refused to do it, and so the former governor, she tweeted this, she said "look who fired the first shot in the real war on women. hint, it wasn't the gop, see this excerpt from hillary's book." >> that's not exactly what i said. what i said was in -- beginning the process of working with then senator obama after i ended my campaign, we had, as i describe in the book, an awkward but necessary meeting to clear the air on a couple of issues, and one of them was the sexism that, unfortunately, was present in that '08 campaign. >> were you asked to be critical of her? >> yes. >> at that point. >> that very first day, the obama campaign said, well, we want you to go out and criticize her. i said, for what? for being a woman? no. let's wait until we fi

choice and a very hard choice. it is a very hard choice but i think all of us have some hard choices about what kind of citizens we are going to be, what we are going to ask of our leaders but also we are going to ask of ourselves and what has always made as strong as americans goes back to that incredibly astute observation by de tocqueville when he came to walk around and understand what this country is about and understand with his countries about any look at how we organized herself and how we were democracy and the institutions we were building. he said he came down to the habits of our hearts. i think we have got to ask ourselves what it means today to be an american in the 21st century and what we expect from each other, what we expect from our government and what we expect from our businesses are academic institutions. because i'm more optimistic and confident about what our potential is but i know we have some hard choices to make to try to realize that so thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. i'm so

we worked hard. for everything we got in our lives. and we have continued to work hard. and we have been blessed in the last 14 years. but i want to use the talents and resources that i have to make sure other people get the same chances. so, for me, it's just a reality what we faced when he got out of the white house, meant we had to keep working really hard. we always have. we're grateful that we can do that. i worry a lot about people that i know personally that don't have the same opportunities. >> can you understand the reaction when you say struggling? >> yes, i can. but everything in life has to be put into context and as i recall, we were something like $12 million in debt. you know, that was something that we really had to work hard. i was in the senate, couldn't do anything to help us meet those obligations. and i'm very grateful that my husband who's always been a hard worker since he was born, poor, and given opportunities with a good education and strong values to work hard and take responsibility, he did that. so, you know, we understand what that struggle

join us at the top of the hour. >>> make the hard choices. >> a hard choice. >> hard choices. >> hardhoices. >> former secretary of state and maybe presidential candidate hillary clinton responding to questions about benghazi and iraq. i know it's the title of her new book, but doesn't the leader of any organization, let alone someone who probably wants to lead the free world, need better answers than the one she was giving. >> absolutely, sweet lady but not fit to lead. why she can't answer the basic question, why was chris stevens there in the first place? no answer. why was our flag the last one flying? why did we not have security at those places? why were the assets not deployed? and why was susan rice sent out at the last minute with a knowing lie to propagate this lie on the american people? outrageous. >> looking for answers but she didn't write about those in her book. jess, you say hillary clinton should be our next president. >> absolutely. i am the only one, i'm sure, on the panel who believes this. we can debate it and argue it. she's more than qualified. she has the lead

>> we pushed very hard. but as i say in my book, i believe that harry truman was right, the buck stops with the president and the president had very legitimate concerns. and you know, robert ford as i mentioned earlier, was an exemplary ambassador. he did just an extraordinary job till we had to pull him out because of the danger. and i think in some of his interviews even with you, he said the state department was pushing it. >> the state department correct but he said nobody else was listening, the white house wasn't listening. >> well, we did, as i said, create a proposal that both the cia and the department of defense supported. but i want to haston -- >> would you do it in the future? >> of course i would always speak out. >> no, no, no, go back an again and arm and rain? >> well, i said we should have done it you know, two plus years ago, but i want to be very clear. these are difficult hard choices. if it was so self-evident that everybody should have done this, we wouldn't be sitting here talking abo

it is a very hard thing to do.ve what i do because it has given me a lot of exposure to great people and influence. and when things are bad, my sense of obligations take over. >> and when there is a crisis, that is when the adrenaline gets going and deep down inside, you just want to go in there. >> well today, nobody has a better job than me. thank you both very much, lloyd blankfein and mike bloomberg. i'm stephanie ruhle. you are watching bloomberg television. ♪ >> from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm mark crumpton. this is bottom line. the intersection of business and e

that is hard. that's a very hard thing. i don't know why it books and literature have become unimportant to a lot of newspapers and magazines but that seems to have happened and it's not the ideal situation. i think it's a little bit of a problem. >> i think there are two major companies that are putting it back on the news though. [laughter] >> well with ap mitch? >> we donate to go there right now. that's for a different panel. see let me tell you though there'll be a lot more companies involved. that's the real danger there. it's not going to be one company. >> anybody else? yes, over here. >> i'm with the northern california booksellers and we are unique with grants. mr. patterson was kind enough to plug that and i wanted to report it since it was something a little different. we have got a think the largest amount from the grants. california bookstore and some of you may have heard about it taking idea that the record store people had started and ended up on may 3 have been 93 bookstores involved. 93 bookstores and 93