calling the irs actions intolerable and inexcusable, president obama has ordered treasury secretary jack lui to hold those responsible accountable. republicans and democrats are demanding answers. >> we can't count on the administration to be forthcoming about the details of this scandal because so far, they've been anything but. >> laws were probably broken. this is one of the most alarming things that i have ever seen and i'm very concerned about it and we've got to get to the bottom of it. >> attorney general eric holder under increasing fire and set to face questioning by the house judiciary committee today announced a criminal investigation into irs misconduct. >> those were as everyone can agree, if not criminal, they were certainly outrageous and unacceptable, but we are examining the facts to see if there are criminal violations. >> and we're expecting to hear more from john boehner and republican leadership. they're meeting behind closed doors at a party conference. i want to bring in matt welch and dana milbank. let's start with the irs, the inspector general's report blamed ineffe

calling the irs actions intolerable and inexcusable, president obama has ordered treasury secretary jack luiible accountable. republicans and democrats are demanding answers. >> we can't count on the administration to be forthcoming about the details of this scandal because so far, they've been anything but.

i have nothing against jack lui, the treasury secretary, who oversees the irs, but he is an obama guytely independent to oversee, to oversee the entire restructuring and changing and firing to get rid of the corruption. >> applies conspiracy, certainly, there was a great deal of incompetence. do we know which it was more of? >> you know, reading the inspector general's report and reading reports about the report, gee, whiz, i don't think this was about incompetency. i think this was politically directed by a growing number of people that we are learning about. some are even pressured by senators who don't like the campaign finance laws. i think you've got the map, there have to be massive firing. >> although they went after the smallest guys, not the guys who necessarily had a lot of money. where as the big money -- >> some of these tea party groups, we had bill henesee on, some of these groups pretty darn influential. is that a secret that's a conservative group? i would think not. you've got to play by the rules. they were making threats to these people. >> "the washington post" sai

even you too big to fail thank you for this jack lew gets the honor of being our first revolving door profile after serving in the clinton administration lui landed at new york university for a five year tenure he was gifted a one point three million dollar mortgage for a slinky brooklyn pad the mortgage was forgiven and interest reimbursed nice deal jack but his next assignment at citi it would trump that after presiding over the bank's giant this giant descended into insolvency from two thousand and six i think thousand and eight he received a bonus of a nine hundred and forty thousand dollars the very next year this was after city had already received billions in taxpayer and fed life support but that bonus was contended upon in finding another job a full time high profile position with the united states government or a regulatory body seems he was destined for the revolving door trip because that's where he swung at through soon after serving as obama's budget director and chief of staff before becoming our current treasury secretary and at least he knows how to use turbo tax. next up they called her bloody mary that was the name given