i think it is, it is really a tragedy, that the department of justice is letting the irs officials and lerner get away with perhaps the greatest abuse of the irs certainly in our lifetime. i've got a piece coming up on foxnews.com dealing with this, later this afternoon. but, patti ann, this is ongoing problem does not get better with time. the old adage, bad news doesn't get better with time. what is happening doj is trying to run out of the clock. patti ann: the investigation supposedly continues. we'll have to see what happens. jay, thank you for joining us. bill: we'll see whether or not there is state action on this too. >>> the deadliest form of skin cancer melanoma, one hospital now saying today it might be on the brink of a cure. dr. marc siegel will separate fact from fiction he said on that today. >> pizza shop owners getting death threats for speaking their minds about the indiana religious freedom law but did a tv crew twist their comments. we'll talk about that coming up. >> i do not think it is targeting gays, personally. i don't think it is discrimination. it is supposed

the justice department says it will not charge former irs official with criminal contempt.e refused to testify over accusations that the irs targeted conservative groups. remember this? >>ly not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committee's meeting. i will not answer any questions or testified today. i decline to answer that question for the reasons i have already given. >> well, could lewinski by a host on the view? that's the rumor. they're reporting barbara walters is the one pushing for it. michelle balkman's facebook post has people outrage. he wrote this the iran deal barack obama is for the 300 souls for the united states which andre use lubitz was for the flight. an entire nation driving into the rocks. the shocked survivors will ask why did he do it? >> and the so-called king of fashion project runway tim dun weighed in on lawmaker's fashion sense. he says male politicians that need suits that fit them better citing chris christie in particular. >> christy looks as though he could potentially go into walmart and start shoplifting and

protections that are supposed to protect taxpayers that get twisted and distorted and protect the irs officials who have abused this information. so there is any number of these things that have moved forward and they came out of the ways and means committee on a bipartisan basis which is a pretty interesting thing. so, on a bipartisan basis now, folks are saying this is too much irs you have too much power and the american people are going to push back against. >> you as a former prosecutor, i want to know about prosecutor r. prosecuting the people and firing employees that have abused american taxpayers. how about that? >> right. it's unbelievable. congressman from ohio has introduced legislation that we hope to pass tomorrow that says it is a firing offense for people to target based on political beliefs. and you would think that this would be intuitive. you would think that this is already the state of the law so it's not and congressman has advanced this legislation and i'm confident it's going to move out of the house of representatives, all seven of these bills in all likelihood and end

the ex irs official did nothing wrong when she pleaded the 5th. republicans now blasting that decision saying the white house is covering up the scandal. the white house refusing to criticize harry reid for a blatant lie. reid claimed a capitol investor told him mitt romney had not paid his taxes for nearly a decade. even though it was totally wrong he reed says he has he no regreets and the white house is not apologizing. >> senator reed is going to think for himself. >> but it is the president's choice and spokesman's choice to call out actions that are unbecoming unbecoming. are you going to take that opportunity now? >> not for something that is 3 years old. >> reed never provided any evidence or source for the claims. >> are you sick of being spied on by your wireless provider? there's good news for verizon customers you have the option to be less monitored. >> what's verizon's latest move? >> if you want to opt out of the cookie tracking you can log on to verizon and follow the instructions to opt out of rma relevant mobile advertising. that

she was the irs official. doesn't drop all of the investigations, but it does drop the criminal charges. remember she took the 50s. house held her in contempt, referred the charges to the u.s. attorney. and he sent an extensive letter to the speaker of the house and said i'm not sending it to the grand jury. so the decision not to go after her for contempt charges on the same day essentially we hear of the aboutenendez charges the appears appearance isn't good. >> so even if it doesn't have anything to do with politics, the timing is suspect? >> because it's been going on for the past couple of years -- >> why now. we all kind of knew this was coming. and i don't detect that much outrage in the media over this. everybody's reported the details of the luxury vacations and five star hotel. got about $700,000 stored his re-election campaign from in guy sal monday melgen. is there a feeling in the press that politics as usual, they all trade favors and why -- >> you and i live here in washington and have covered c

. >>> the former irs official who refused to testify before congress will not be prosecuted.lois lerner, remember that name? she was at the center of a controversy over how the agency treated conservative political groups. lawmakers in the house voted to hold her in contempt when she wouldn't testify. she has since retired from the irs. >>> police in tennessee released dash cam video of one officer's attempt to stop a wrong-way driver. we see him driving down the interstate with headlights approaching as the wrong-way car gets closer. the cop then puts his cruiser, bam, right in the way, forcing a head-on collision. the officer and the 59-year-old woman behind the wheel both sustained minor injuries. charges are pending. >>> investigators in texas say two smash and grab robberies might be linked. the latest happened here on monday night in sugarland when two men faces covered by masks robbed a store. they smashed a glass case and ran off with an undisclosed amount of jewelry. it was a similar robbery last month in houston. they are keeping an eye out for these guys. this is s

and watch what the irs diverted the taxpayer system away to worker bonuses including texts to irs officialsent on their own taxes and union activity and implementation of obamacare. charles: and now they're being tasked with this greater role within obamacare. they're going to go out and make a lot of determinations and essentially we're making one of the largest police forces out there. de facto police forces. what are we going to do? when they keep getting the budgets and reward themselves for mediocrity and failure it's crazy. >> listen, 15% of the taxpayer system budget, watch this. a full 24 million. 15% of that budget went to full-time union activities. government worker union activities and you know, the irs can say the budget is cut overall it has been cut overall. congress did not cut the budget, the irs on its own cut that budget, and as we pointed out bonuses, 16 million in bonuses for irs as well. charles: may have to change the voice mail. we can't take your call counting bonus checks or getting union members. >>> the justice department wants to extradite sarao because of the f

irs for hoping -- helping to organize this. i am probably an outlier on this panel. it might organization deals with tax policy and not administration. the division of labor in the u.s. government, elected officialsn the white house and the treasury and congress make the tax laws. the irs administers the tax laws. it's very important for us to remember that distinction. also understand the vision is not as clean as we would like to think it is. tax administrators operating with scarce resources inevitably influenced policy outcomes by their choice. and how to audit particular issues. the outcomes of policies do depend on what the irs does. and from the other side, the policies that the president and congress enact are not going to work unless the irs can effectively enforce them. there is much more of a link between the two then we commonly think. i will comment on three areas. a little bit on irs resources. i will be a bit repetitive on what the commissioner said and what rosemary said. a few comments, slightly repetitive, on changes on irs workload that has accompanied the non-growth in resources. it is coming from demographic changes that changes the economy. none of us knew very much about. t

. >> this is like the irs deal only local officials instead of feds. >>s it ate irs.t the irs came with battering rams. if the irs intruded into the bedrooms of sleeping children. this is an intrusion that didn't just violate their rights, it had lasting negative consequences. i know in the initial invest investigation investigation, we won't get into too many details. phase one they did prosecute a couple people for minor campaign violations and entered into phase two. and had there been any prosecutions? >> not in that phase two. phase one began with an actual criminal complaint then it was expanded 18 separate times until at the end of it they were investigating literally constitutionally protected issue advocacy and they were using the facts that people had spoken freely supporting conservative cause as sufficient evidence to get subpoenas in the search warrants. >> what was the judge that signed off on these subpoenas? >> the judge was barbara kluka. she signed on subpoenas and one afternoon of work. it was not true judicial oversight. the result is catastrophic

>>reporter: they are pretending to be government officials working for the irs a federal agency thatakes most americans apprehensive. >> i was the perfect victim. >>reporter: he was scared when a caller accusing him of tax fraud demanded immediate payment for back taxes and threatened jail time. the north carolina pastor paid the scammers $16,000. >> my only reward is for being public with my shame is to communicate to as many people as possible. >>reporter: lawmakers say the scam plays on fears and want the department of justice to do more to shut it down. no one from the department testified at wednesday's hearing. >> his refusal to testify before this committee is completely unacceptable. >>reporter: officials say the irs never makes these types of calls and the best way to avoid getting scammed is to hang up the phone. craig boswell. cbs news, capitol hill. >>> all right. so it has been kind of rainy today but cherry blossoms are looking good out. there not really affecting them. >> they don't all fall off at once. it is worth seeing if you haven't had a chance to see. fair april

. >> they are pretending to be government officials working for the irs, a federal agency that franklyes most americans apprehensive. >> i was the the perfect victim. >> reporter: he says that he was scared when a caller accusing him of tax fraud demanded immediate payment for backed taxes and threatened jail time. the north carolina pastor paid the scammer $16,000. >> my only reward for being public with my shame is to communicate to as many people as possible. >> reporter: lawmakers say the scam plays on fears and they want the department of justice to do more to shut it down. no one from the department testified at wednesday's hearing. >> it is refusal to testify before this committee is completely unacceptable. >> reporter: officials say that the irs never makes these types of calls and best way to avoid getting scammed toys hang up the phone. craig boswell for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> a government audit finds bad policies on unreasonable work load and poor leadership for blame for miss management at philadelphia veterans affairs department. the report obtained by the associate

. >> they are pretending to be government officials working for the irs, a federal agency, that franklyes most americans apprehnsive. >> indeed it does. but let's be real. the irs doesn't make those kinds of calls, so the best way to avoid getting scammed, if you hear something like that, hang up the phone. >>> always watching, always tracking, wusa 9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> all right, the three degree guarantee. you're going to make it i think. >> i think we're going to make it i think. we went 69. we give the official high at 11:00, i think we're on schedule. let's go to the graphics. we have to be within 3 degree. that's our 3 degree guarantee. we forecast at 69 and i think we're going to be okay today. maybe starting a new winning streak as it were. i wish the nats could start a winning streak. a live look outside at our michael & son live weather cam. the tidal basin is not as vibrant as it was, but still worth checking out the blooms. right now it's still 65. relative humidity only 32%. so a lot of clouds, yes, but a very, very dry air mass. really a pretty

for bidding the irs employees from using personal e-mail accounts to conduct official business. and improving access for groups that feel they have been wronged by the irs. we are also going to act to provide more tax relief for american families. this is in addition to legislation we have already passed to provide permanent tax relief to small businesses, move that would help create 200,000 jobs. fixing our tax code and reforming the irs -- this is all part of republicans focus on making government address your priorities and work with the people who selected to serve. i thank you for listening. announcer: the president of the american medical association talks about the so-called dock fix expected on the senate for next week, that would change the way medicare pays doctors. he also talked about the affordable care act. newsmakers is on sunday at 10:00 a.m.. announcer: c-span is created by americans cable companies. in pots you as a public service. -- is brought to you as a public service. announcer: we want to introduce you to karl nebbia. what was your role over there and what

that is the message today from the irs as tax season comes to a close. officials there put together their annual dirty dozen list of the worst scams taking advantage of taxpayers today. and they say an old-fashioned scheme is back in a big way. phone scams. which crooks pretend to be irs agents to bully people into giving up personal information or even hard-earned cash. >> we're seeing this in every part of the country. it is an amazing phenomenon. we have thousands and thousands of complaints about it. it is an aggressive scam and continues to grow. >> and also in the top three, a cyber crime tech called phishing. phony emails demanding pernal information. and a big generating revenue is identity threats, where criminals file boke us tax returns and pockets the refunds the irs sends along. how can you protect yourself? the irs said to watch out for phones and e-mails coming out of the blue. >> the best advice is if you get a call out of the blue from the irs threatening you, the best advice is to hang out. >> and there are a number of scams, including fake chari

the irs never makes these types of phone calls. they say officials say the best way to avoid getting scammed is to simi hang up the phone. >>> a warning to pet owners tonight bout canine new that's killed six dogs and sicken at least a thousand more in the midwest. vets are cautioning pet owners to keep their dogs from going nose to nose with other pets to stop it from spreading further. the h3n2 strain is believed to have come from asia. there is no spic vaccine for it but some vets think it's effects must be lessened by the regular seasonal flu vaccine. >> our dog population here what we call naive. they've never seen anything like this before. so their immune system some primed and ready to fight it. we were finding that the numbers of dogs was far more than we normally see in the seventy three rest the disease was much worse. >> right now there are cases in illinois wisconsin indiana and georgia. the first signs are a persist 10 cough and lethargy. new research suggests snoring isn't just annoying, it could actually affect your memory and thinkin

in the state of indiana, every republican running for president stood up for that official discrimination. it took the ire of the entire country to get that law fixed or to get that law changed. republicans are playing a dangerous game here. they're trying to appeal to a primary electorate, but the middle of this country and vast many more than that i believe, are not where the republicans are on this issue. >> all right. brad, is there political capital here for hillary clinton? >> well look i think there's more danger for republicans. i wouldn't be one to suggest that we should actually play this as a wedge issue. it's really a question of doing the right thing. >> but is it a wedge issue if this is where the american people are? i mean if you've got the -- i mean she's taken a very populist tone on a number of different issues early here in her campaign. your thoughts is this really what hillary clinton believes or has she just evolved politically on this? >> well there was an interview some time ago, a very good interview where terri gross tried to almost force hillary clinton to say that she only cha

officials and delinquent property taxes. the headaches of pete's past just keep coming. >> the irs also came knocking. >> yeah.hey showed up and said, well, we're here to do an audit. apparently somebody called and said that even being a non-profit we weren't doing anything with our non-profit. that we also had zero animals here. >> reporter: lori assumes the call came from an adversary of pete's to cause trouble for the sanctuary but the irs finds no misuse of funds. since then, lori has made it her mission to do all the repairs needed at octagon, including to the relationships pete damaged. >> i really strive to show that we are trying to do the best we can and get out of that shadow. >> reporter: she also has to keep the wolfes from octagon's doorstep and her own. the animals need 700 pounds of food every day and operating costs average $7,000 a month. and it's all on lori's shoulders to bring in donations and grants as well as entrance fees from 30,000 annual visitors. none of the 40 sanctuary workers take a salary, including lori who lives in a small trailer right on the property. >> do you ever have a da

officials. have you ever discussed irs business on a private e-mail accounts or used a private e-mail server to store e-mails that stored government records. did you use anything to make sure the people weren't using private e-mail for public discussion? commissioner koskinen: the long-standing irs policy is employees are not to do business on their private e-mail system. we monitor our systems regularly for security purposes, and i discovered early, very early in my career when i was preparing testimony and i wanted to work at home, i sent the testimony home to my home computers like -- so i could print it out and edit it within a couple of days, , i had a visitor from i.t. security noting that i had been sending a couple e-mails to my home computer. they assumed, correctly, i was trying to edit my testimony. they therefore gave me a computer and a printer for home from the irs so that i would have my account available to me at home, because in fact, our strong policy is you can't do personal business on your personal e-mail account. back to the first part of the question, other than sending a

officials say he failed to defend more than $1 million in income to the irs. wen worked for the archdiocese of san jose for more than 20 years. >>> san jose airport increasing security after five breaches in the past year. the airport is installing a higher fence around its perimeter. the new fence is 10 feet tall with a foot of barbed wire along the top. the first phase of work is focused on the southwest corner of the airport. >> we recognize this area has a lot more at dimity due to the soccer stadium, due to the shopping center nearby and we need to start somewhere and we decided this is an area where we want to focus our attention first. >> at least for now the airport is playing for the fence but airport officials planned as the federal government to pitch in $9 million toward the cost of higher fence is as well as new high-tech security devices. >>> the time is 4:09. the san francisco supervisor wants to take guns away from armed security officers who are guarding union workers while collecting money from their machines and buses. chronicle reporting th

one that sticks out to me is just legislation to prohibit irs employees from using personal e-mail accounts could conduct official business harkens back to what we saw a few years ago with the scandal that the irs was using special discretion for those conserve tv groups applying for tax exempt status. that might have traction in the republican-controlled senate. have a debate about. but certainly nothing from the point of passing without democrat votes and i don't see democrats willing to get onboard. >> host: on the issue of personal e-mail accounts, the issue of hillary clinton's server came up. certainly as congress is going into recess. what is the status of the benghazi committee and their request for hillary clinton to be interviewed by the committee. >> guest: they consider do it be dogged. i think we'll have to wait to see what trey gowdy is saying here moving forward, but i think one of the things to remember is that they have to be very careful they're walking a very fine line here between investigating benghazi, which what's they're set up and their jurisdiction is to do and then wading into president

ire is not known yet. we're going to take a short one-minute break. stay with dw >> welcome back. officials in bahrain have arrested a prominence human rights activist. he's accused of using twitter to defame state institutions. sarah: this video posted online is said to show him being detained. he said he would continue his fight for human rights in the gulf kingdom. he is a prominent shiite activist and his family says he had accused sunni muslim authorities of torturing prisoners. he only got out of jail last year after a conviction for organizing illegal protests. bahrain's close ally, saudi arabia, is warning the interfering in the kingdom's crackdown. >> that's on the saudi blogger and activist was put behind bars and sentenced to 1000 lashes for insulting islam. the conviction has sparked outrage across the west. >> he has paid a high price for expressing his opinion. he has already suffered if the of the 1000 lashes he has been sentenced to. his blog calling for a secular labial -- secular, liberal saudi arabia is no longer online, but the texts have been published in book one. amne

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officials today say that will have to change. >> thank you. >>> up next the irs commissioner on the hot seat again on capitol hill. and lawmakers did not pull their punches. here is our fox affiliate around the country in raleigh north carolina an escaped prisoner turned himself in 40 years later. he turned himself in because he was unable to get adequate medical treatment without identification. >> colorado springs with a man so frustrated with his computer he shot it. eight times. in an alley. police cited him for discharging a weapon within city limits. he accepted the charge with good humor saying he didn't know it was illegal. this is a live look at the streets of baumt, wbff is covering demonstrators on the streets protesting the death of freddie gray. gray's death as we told you from a spinal injury while in police custody. it under investigation. >>> that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report" we'll be right back. man: you run a business. could be any kind of business. and every day you've got important decisions to make, like hiring. where are you gonna

host: the washington times reports that the former official at the irs, lois lerner, not going to berosecuted for her role in the irs scandal. that was in the "washington times." also in the "washington times" this morning issue over the president's health care law by john boehner. the justice department was pushing to have the suit talk out. -- tossed out. that is in the "washington times." we will hear from greg in palm beach, florida, who is supporting the boycott of businesses by the state of indiana over the restoration freedom religion act. caller: is there a separation of government and religion in the united a seattle host: -- in the united states? host: you asked that why? caller: because of "one nation under god." if it is indivisible, between the nation and god, how can it have a separation? host: and how do you think this relates to the boycotts currently going on? caller: it relate to the boycotts because this nation is indivisible from god. and the right you are certain that these homosexuals have is not an inalienable right, which is the only right guaranteed by the co

guest: one of them that six out to me is legislation to prohibit irs employees from using personal e-mail accounts to conduct official business. this harkens back to the scandal a couple of years ago for special application to certain groups that wanted special status. it is certainly not something that will pass without any democrat votes, and i don't see democrats willing to get on board with something like that. host: on the issue of personal e-mail accounts. the issue of hillary clinton's e-mail server came up. as congress is going intoo recess, what is the status of the benghazi committee andy status of their request to interview hillary clinton? guest: i think we will have to see what trey gowdy is saying moving forward. something to remember is they have to be very careful. they are walking a fine line here between investigating benghazi which is what their jurisdiction to do and waiting into presidential politics. i think trey gowdy is very careful to make sure republicans aren't seen on capitol hill as using this as a political statement ahead of the 2016 presidential election. host: you can see more of laur

officials today say that will have to change. >> thank you. >>> up next the irs commissioner on the hoteat again on capitol hill. and lawmakers did not pull their punches. here is our fox affiliate around the country in raleigh north carolina an escaped prisoner turned himself in 40 years later. he turned himself in because he was unable to get adequate medical treatment without identification. >> colorado springs with a man so frustrated with his computer he shot it. eight times. in an alley. police cited him for discharging a weapon within city limits. he accepted the charge with good humor saying he didn't know it was illegal. this is a live look at the streets of baumt, wbff is covering demonstrators on the streets protesting the death of freddie gray. gray's death as we told you from a spinal injury while in police custody. it under investigation. >>> that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report" we'll be right back. >>> the ongoing battle between the irs and congress continued today. the head of the tax collectors was back on capitol hill. he brought with hi

officials says he failed to declare more than a million dollars of income to the irs. he worked for the archdiocese of san jose for more than 20 years. >>> and as we've been reporting, doctors medical center now permanently shut down. that happened just moments ago. the hospital has a long history of financial problems. ktvu fox 2 reporter alex savidge is out there this morning and, boy, we can tell the mood is quite somber. >> reporter: yeah, really sad day for employees, especially here at doctors medical center in san pablo. let me step out of the way and show you the scene. you can see a number of employees. they are gathering on the lawn out in front of the hospital as the place officially closes this morning. people are exchanging hugs. shedding tears here. a sad day as this hospital closes down after a long fight to try to stay open. no more patients will be coming here in san pablo from this point forward. this is the only public hospital that serves about 250,000 people living in this part of west contra costa county. it serves mostly low-income patients and f

it is officially the deadline for filing your returns. if you've waited until the last minute the irsommends you file online. although it will accept forms in the mail that are post marked today. now if you do file online and you make less than $60,000 a year you can file free of charge on the irs website. you can also use the irs to go app to go. the app will check your refund status. >>> heads up, parents. there is a baby food tomorrow tell you about. beech nut is recalling certain jars of baby food after hearing from a consumer who found a piece of glass inside a jar. the recall affects jars of stage two sweet potato food. it was sold locally. see if your food was affected we posted the product labels on our website. nbcwashington.com. >>> for the first time ever people are spending more money eating out than they are at grocery stores. that's according to a new report from the commerce department. they stay millennials are the ones spearheading this trend. and as they surpass babyboomers as the largest living generation restaurants are working harder and harder to attract those yo

irs $308,000 for failing to pay income taxes. his defense attorney said his client is in the middle of an addiction of gambling. >>> a noose was found hang outside the school in durham at duke. university officials rallied together with hundreds of students to condemn acts of racism. >> >>> duke's campus has been rocked by several racist incidents croogd a report of hateful speech directed at a student. 4:54. the man accused of sucker punching a septa rider is expected to surrender today. >>> an suv comes speeding toward a school bus packed with kids. the whole thing is caught on camera. that's next. # >> happening today stockton university students casino residents plan to rally for a campus in ac. stockton bought the old casino site. protesters say the decision stands in the way of educational and employment students in atlantic city. >>> we're getting a look at frightening moments in oklahoma when an suv slammed held on into a school bus that was packed with students. the camera on the bus captured the entire thing. you can see the suv cross into the bus' lane. the bus driver stopped but can't go anywhere as two vehicles collide. 37 students were on board luckily nobody was seriously hurt. th

ir. >> this year the sensors that guard d.o.d.'s networks discovered an russians had hacked the network. >> pentagon officials quickly identified theity breach. the unclassified network only in a way he says they kicked the hackers off the network in a way that quote minimized their chances of returning. the feds already admitted hackers gained access to unclassified networks at the white house and state department. one pentagon official tells fox news this was an attack in a separate hack. the pentagon for the first time has publicly announced plans to use cyberwarfare as an option against america's enemies. according to this announces strategy the defense department should be able to use cyberoperations for military related critical infrastructure and weapons capabilities, and then there's russia's defense ministry which claims u.s. troops are inside the war zone in eastern ukraine. a pentagon spokesman flatly denied it, saying a few hundred u.s. troops are training ukrainian forces in the western part of the country near poll land which we knew. he says russia's claim they're in the east is a ridiculous quest to shift the focus

officials. have you ever discussed irs business on a private e-mail fá'lí1&#/=ñoláçu account or used a frieft e-mailis issue came up, how did you address this at the irs? did you, you know, do anything to make sure that people weren't using private e-mail for public discussion? >> the long-standing irs policy is employees are not to do business on their private e-mail systems. we monitor our systems regularly for security purposes, and i discovered early, very early in my career when i was preparing testimony and i wanted to work at home, i sent the testimony home to my home commuters so i could print its out and edit it. within a couple of days i had a visitor from i.t. security noting that i had been sending a couple e-mailsd t;0lvpw3 my home computer. nay assumed, correctly, that i was actually trying to edit my testimony and they thereforeÑiw3r-ti gave me a computer and printer for home from the irs so that i would have my account available to me at home, because, in fact our strong policyzvño)9ú do personal business on your personal e-mail account. back to the first part of the question, i have

officials have been sparring over the details. i wrong supreme leader system window to wrap up the deal is not an unchangeable matter. -- ir supremeeantime, the obama administration will try to sell a skeptical congress about the merits of the deal. yesterday john kerry argued the administration should be able to negotiate a final deal before congress weighs in. >> i think we have earned the right sense -- through what we've achieved in and around agreement and what we've laid out in the parameter that has been set forth. we earned the right to complete this without interference and certainly without partisan. mark: secretary kerry and other mentors will break -- cap members will break the house today. four weeks before the election. ed miliband says if he is elected the government will run a budget surplus by the year 2020. miliband's manifesto pledges key labor pledges such as reversing the tax cuts and the top tax rate and borrowing energy companies -- barring energy companies from raising prices until 2017. labor in crime minister david cameron's conservatives are net connect in the race. a spacex rocket will make a resupply m

irs for hoping -- helping to organize this. i am probably an outlier on this panel. it might organization deals with tax policy and not administration. the division of labor in the u.s. government, elected officials in the white house and the treasury and congress make the tax laws. the irs administers the tax laws. it's very important for us to remember that distinction. also understand the vision is not as clean as we would like to think it is. tax administrators operating with scarce resources inevitably influenced policy outcomes by their choice. and how to audit particular issues. the outcomes of policies do depend on what the irs does. and from the other side, the policies that the president and congress enact are not going to work unless the irs can effectively enforce them. there is much more of a link between the two then we commonly think. i will comment on three areas. a little bit on irs resources. i will be a bit repetitive on what the commissioner said and what rosemary said. a few comments, slightly repetitive, on changes on irs workload that has accompanied the non-growth in resources. it is coming from demographic changes that changes the economy. none of us knew very much about.

officially launches april 24th. >>> you only have two more days to file your tax returns but this year even the irs says it's behindncy says it's slightly behind processing returns. leaders had warned there could be problems this year with customer service after congress cut its funding. they have been asking taxpayers to file electronically and use the web for help. visitors to the irs.gov o web site are up 12 percent this time from last year. >> a new coffee shop celebrated its grand opening today in university city but this one is brewing more than just a cup of joe. the action cam was there as saxby's coffee at drexel university opened its doors at 34th and lancaster. the shop is 100 percent student run as part of drexel's close school of entrepreneurship. the students work in the coop for six months and they get college credit at the end. drexel says this is the first cafe like this anywhere in the country. >>> delaware's leaders rolled out a new program to help train people to join the workforce. jack markell and congressional delegation were in wilmington to detail the program they're calling wonder. it will

government the elected officials, the white house, treasury and congress make the tax law, the irs administers the tax laws. it's, of course, very important for us to remember that distinction, but we also should understand the vision is not as clean as we like to think it is. tax administrators operating with scarce resources inevitably influence policy outcomes by their choice on how much to spend on enforcement, how much to spend on service who to audit and how intensively to audit particular issues on tax returns. so the outcomes of policies do depend on what the irs does. and, of course, from the other side the policies that the president and congress enact are not going to work unless the irs can effectively enforce them. so there is much more of a link between the two than we commonly think. i'm going to comment on three areas, a little bit on trends in irs resources, and i'll be a little bit repetitive of what the commissioner said and what rosemary said. a few comments, again slightly repetitive on changes in irs workload that have happened that have accompanied the nongrowth in resou

irs on average 278 days to resolve tax fraud accounts. with more on this, american for tax reform, grover norquist. there you see it, my friend. this guy is a tax officialhe collects taxes for a living. he tracks fraud, and he gets ripped off. how can this be possible? >> well, in 20% of cases, it takes longer than a year. so there's a very serious problem. the irs is not doing its job here. and one of the problems that we've had to pass a law this week -- there's a law passed in the househouse of representatives to ban hillary clinton from working at the irs and doing what she did at the state department. you can no longer, when this bill passes completely through use your private gmail accounts. and irs agents have been putting your data and mine on their accounts. now when hillary was letting other people read our state secrets on her email account, but our personal data, this will be a crime. gerri: i have to tell you, this is astonishing to me. what you're describing is that irs agents, when they leave the agency, they still have access to all of the computer information. there's that, and then there are the hackers. the people who get in the middl

guest: one of them that six out to me is legislation to prohibit irs employees from using personal e-mail accounts to conduct officialusiness. this harkens back to the scandal a couple of years ago for special application to certain groups that wanted special status. it is certainly not something that will pass without any democrat votes, and i don't see democrats willing to get on board with something like that. host: on the issue of personal e-mail accounts. the issue of hillary clinton's e-mail server came up. as congress is going intoo recess, what is the status of the benghazi committee andy status of their request to interview hillary clinton? guest: i think we will have to see what trey gowdy is saying moving forward. something to remember is they have to be very careful. they are walking a fine line here between investigating benghazi which is what their jurisdiction to do and waiting into presidential politics. i think trey gowdy is very careful to make sure republicans aren't seen on capitol hill as using this as a political statement ahead of the 2016 presidential election. host: you can see more of lauren

restrained irs that can not target, can not harass american citizens for their political or religious beliefs. [cheers and applause] david: senator rand paul, making run for presidency officialesterday but in doing so he left out one very important part of his speech and i will read that for you now. quote, i see a simplified flat tax that unburdens our citizens. joining me now with maybe this was taken out, steve moore, heritage foundation chief economist. what is going on, steve? i mean, why did he take that out? >> you know, i think it is because he didn't want, i think he wants to have another big event sometime in the next few weeks to unveil the tax plan. i can tell you i've been kind of working informnally with this senator for the last year or so. how do you tax reform. he does want to do flat tax, no question about it. one of the things he told me from the beginning, i want it to be flat tax but i want it to be a big tax cut. i want to be sure i'm offering middle class people the biggest tax cut of anyone in the field. david: it is interesting, he was clearly reading from the prompter in his announcement yesterday. it was clearly taken out of the stretch speech. it