the push to impeach irs commissioner john koskinen, jason chase its filing a resolution to begin the ng koskinen of making false statements under oath, he explained the move to sean hannity last night. >> part of this concern is they have documents in their position that were under subpoena and destroyed them. if the irs as you for those documents and use that i had them but destroyed the what would that have been to you? sandra: investors focusing on earnings, futures show the markets right now somewhat positive with u.s. futures up, dow futures down up 4. apple among stocks to watch this morning, stocks edging higher on rising iphone sales but will the growth last and will the gains last, and the honeymoon is over for jack dorsey. twitter selling of earnings, what went wrong for the company and whether it can turn things around coming up. >> to the right, granderson back, escobar tags, here comes as the are, but wills win game one. sandra: marathon night for the royals and mets' ticket of the world series, the game lasting 14 innings and started on an unusual note. royals outfielder

give president obama credit in the faith that he has in john koskinen shall the oversight committee republicansrted calling for his removal, writing a letter to the white house in july of this year. and president obama said koskinen is not going anywhere unless -- he could have easily removed the commissioner and replaced him and done away with the controversy but he didn't so that speaks to the faith that the white house still has in commissioner koskinen despite the controversy. host: our last caller for this segment and for the show will be susan from culpepper, virginia on the democratic line. susan, go ahead. caller: i didn't think i was going to get on. okay. i just wanted to comment about those tea parties and the hysteria in which they grew up, the financial crisis. there is a ton of money being poured into these organizations that sort of came out of nowhere. and if you look at the finances of these things, they started paying these huge salaries. i know that jenny martin, head of one of them, makes about $450,000 a year. i mean, i think the i.r.s. is in its rights to say, you know, wh

impeachment at the irs commissioner john koskinen in hot water. actually, this time it's boiling. tonight the house oversight committee officially beginning the impeachment process. why in the irs targeting scandal. the committee saying commissioner koskinen has violated the public's trust. and right now florida congressman and member of the house oversight committee ron desan tis goes "on the record." good evening, congressman, and this is the resolution. this is the impeachment resolution. why? >> if the irs were investigating you, auditing you, let's say, and you destroyed documents. you refuse to turn over other documents that they ended up finding, would they ever let you go away with that as a taxpayer. >> of course not. >> because this has been going on for a long time. why is this taking so long? why now? >> i have been agitating to do this for a long time. they wanted to make sure that the case was built. we have given the irrelevancy all kinds of time to correct the record, to produce the documents, but when you have a situation where they are destroying 24,000 of lois l

and john koskinen now if the spotlight again.he irs commissioner facing impeachment proceedings, in the house of representatives. now this comes after this week, where the department of justice decided not to go after criminally, lois lerner, you remember all of the back-and-forth that the bureaucrat, and what she did or did not do. here's the statement by jason chaffetz, commissioner koskinen violated the public trust. he failed to comply with congressionally-ished subpoena. documents were destroyed on his watch. impeachment is the appropriate tool to restore confidence in the irs and protect the interests of congress. democrat elijah cummings says just as in the benghazi and planned parenthood investigation, it appears the facts don't matter to republicans. this ridiculous resolution will demonstrate nothing, but the republican obsession with diving into investigative rabbit holes that waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while having absolutely no positive impact on a single american. calling this resolution a zunt or a

in fact they were pedal to the metal asking john koskinen tough questions.e head of irs in fact saying hey, look, there was no targeting of these conservative groups. no targeting by in an objective review. now a lot of pushback against that. and republicans saying that what they really wanted was accountability. that is what they were really looking for. i want you to hear an exchange between senator pat roberts of kansas and koskinen on this issue of accountability. >> does anybody involved in this been fired, fined, reprimanded denied a bonus, slapped or wrist or even talked to in stern manner? you're saying everything is fine. it is not fine. >> it is not fine but it is not the problem of political targeting. it is a problem of in fact the recommendations you make or recommendations we're implementing we need to have better operation to insure it doesn't happen. >> all right. so you see the debate wages, continues despite the fact that lois lerner has said, yeah, we did target those groups. melissa? melissa: wow, gerri, thank you so much for the report.

now a year later john koskinen could be facing impeachment from leading that agency. bill: the administration's policy and strategy against isis comes under fire. >> it's not a new issue. >> it seems to me you should have a position on it. >> we do not have a concept of operations for a no-fly zone. >> after all these years we don't have a concept of operations. >> that wes are prepared to recommend. just wanted to touch base. we came to manage over $800 billion in assets, through face time when you really need it. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. .>>> >> this is incredible. >> i have a long career and that's the first time anybody has said they don't believe me. >> i'm willing to remind you it was not you are about grid 27 pages. most of that 27 pages is exhibits. >> being forthcoming is to say one know what, kings investigating. >> let him answer the question. >> i didn't ask him a question. >> yes, you did. bill: . that was over lois lerner's missing emails. the the koskinen says we have fullly cooperated with all the investigations. jay, welcome bac

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house oversight committee chairman congressman jason chaffetz charging the irs commissioner john koskinen violated the public trust and obstruct obstructed congressional investigations. we'll have a complete story later in the broadcast. >>> the pentagon is about to make major changes to strategy in the fight against islamic state. a fight that has for months now been at a stalemate as far as the united states is concerned. defense secretary ash carter says that's all changing, and outlined a new approach before the senate armed services committee today. his shift involves a greater service on raqaa and anbar province in western iraq. >> from the skies above we expect to intensify our air campaign to target isil with a heavier and higher rate of strikes. this will include strikes against isil high-value targets as intelligence improves. also oil enterprise which is a critical part of isil's infrastructure. lou: secretary carter also saying there will be more raids on the ground. an example would be the hostage rescue operation last week, delta force operators taking on that responsibility

today's witness is the honorable john koskinen. commissioner koskinen was confirmed to this position in december of 201. prior to his appointment to lead the irs he served for four years at freddie mac where he served for a period as the acting chief executive officer. before that time, commissioner koskinen held various high-profile positions in public service, including president of the u.s. soccer foundation, deputy mayor of the district of columbia, deputy director of management at the office of management and budget and president clinton's chair of the president's council on year 2,000 conversion. the commissioner spent more than two decades in the private sector including time as ceo and chairman of the paul mary company. commissioner koskinen has a law degree from yale university school of law and a bachelor's degrees from duke university. we want to thank you once again for being here today. you can proceed with your opening remarks. i ask you, if you can, to limit your opening statement to five minutes. >> right. chairman h

members of the committee introducing a resolution to begin proceedings to impeach irs commissioner john koskinen. we are going to bring you more shortly, that is just the headline. we wanted to let you know about. in the meantime, big earnings are out! the world's most valuable company apple posting results as did social media company twitter. welcome to "risk & reward," i'm deirdre bolton. ashley webster joining me from the floor of the new york stock exchange. ashley, apple pretty much a yawn of a quarter. twitter getting crushed in the post market? >> yeah, let's get on twitter in a minute. apple pretty good, let's be honest. quarterly profit up 31% thanks to iphone sales. the new iphone 6s and 6 s+ were available for only two business days this quarter. you didn't get a sense what they could do for sales. company said it sold just around 48 million iphones, a little shy of the estimates from analysts. but how important are iphones? let's put it this way, 63% of the revenue in the quarter was generated by iphones. a lot of questions were asked how is apple doing in china? how much of a dent w

impeachment at the irs commissioner john koskinen in hot water. actually, this time it's boiling.ight committee officially beginning the impeachment process. why in the irs targeting scandal. the committee saying commissioner koskinen has violated the public's trust. and right now florida congressman and member of the house oversight committee ron desan tis goes "on the record." good evening, congressman, and this is the resolution. this is the impeachment resolution. why? >> if the irs were investigating you, auditing you, let's say, and you destroyed documents. you refuse to turn over other documents that they ended up finding, would they ever let you go away with

deirdre: impeachment proceedings have begun against irs commissioner john koskinen.ouse gop members accuse him of misleading the public, destroying documents. fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano is with me now. judge, great to see you. >> thank you, deirdre. deirdre: we already know there is wrongdoing, lois lerner stepped down, she said she made a mistake more or less and stepped down. should the irs head step down or should impeachment proceedings start? >> i think there's a natural feeling on the part of republicans in the house that lois lerner got away with murder not literally but figuratively. the case for prosecuting her for abuse of power, for targeting people to exercise the powers of the government. deirdre: a hand slap. >> right, on the basis of political views is a strong one and the obama administration was reluctant to pursue it. because this happened under john koskinen's watch, nominated by the president, confirmed by the senate, impeachment is appropriate route. there are little legal guidelines, no judge involved. if the house

melissa: congress wants to impeach john koskinen. we'll speak a former irs official that the commissioner did nothing wrong. david: interesting. we're tracking a runaway military blimp over pennsylvania? have you heard about this? dragging a tether, taking out power lines as it goes. very interesting story. melissa: stocks soaring in last hour of trading. dow now up over 197 points right now as the closing bells sound on wall street. the crossing bell rings] -- [closing bell rings] david: only thing is down, although it was up earlier. all the stocks soaring in the last hour, melissa. melissa: that's right. this after diving in reaction to another fed meeting with no rate change. there was a hint that action may be coming in december. lori rothman standing by at new york stock exchange with today's biggest movers. lori? >> hey there, guys, melissa and david. fed gave as you date card for december and that lifted financials as top performing industry. banks make more money when interest rates are higher when it comes to lending of cou

yesterday the republican chairman said irs commissioner john koskinen violated the public trust and obstructed investigations. now, this comes after the justice department's decision to not charge any irs official after the two-year investigation. chaffetz believes the move will help restore public confidence in the irs. >>> so, high heels. they're not just for walking anymore. thousands gathered in the nation's capital last night to watch the annual high heel race. donning their best costumes participates raced down the street in their impressive footwear. since 1998 the city tradition takes place on the tuesday before halloween. some of them may not get out to trick-or-treating because their feet are hurting so bad. >> how hard is it to really run in high heels? i haven't done it in at least a couple weeks. >> i'm pretty skilled. so it's not too bad. now that i'm pregnant, very hard. i'm betty nguyen. this is "first look." >> low and slow. >> yes. don't forget to like us on facebook at facebook.com/firstlookmsnbc. >>> this morning, federal officials step in to investigate the officer's actio

and john koskinen is going to say they need more money for the irs. stuart: he'll get it. election of 2012 was interfered with by the irs. somebody used the machinery of government to go after the president's political opponents and gotten away with it, 100% liz: employees at irs say they're not going to use e-mails, instant messaging, it's easier to destroy. our government working for you. stuart: a total change of pace and a total change of subjects. the nfl, they're not going to be happy about the dallas cowboys' greg hardy. the nfl doesn't like that. but the team is not going to discipline hardy with the confrontation with one of the coaches. fox news contributor, tamara holder, wait a minute, you're a politician kind of person and now you're doing sports, what? >> this is a setup, i know. let me explain why i'm doing sports. i have a background in sports. when i started in tv, i was actually a sports journalist in college at university of arizona then i went to law school and ended up somehow defending the democratic party. stuart: that ruined you. you were ruined by

they are building a pretty damaging case against john koskinen. the oversight committee is a house committee, the committee this morning is a senate finance committee, in this hearing, john koskoskinen said there is no objective review that shope they were taking advantage of. liz: it was a very heated hearing on capitol hill. >> way back in 1876, only person who ra'ana ran -- an agency that congress tried to take down this path, they were unsuccessful. it is not happen that you see an agency chief impeached. z: the story. there is a lot history here predating king obama. we need to see how irs operates. could there be people using their power, to target groups they don't like politically. liz: you are right, jessica makes a good point. irs is often looked at as a machine. like a sewing machine, it is populated by people, who are human beings who make decisions, rightly or wrongly affect the american people, here is the situation right now. mr. koskinen was a former freddie mac executive, brought in as a reformer, unstead he helped administration

and john koskinen now if the spotlight again. the irs commissioner facing impeachment proceedings, in the house of representatives. now this comes after this week, where the department of justice decided not to go after criminally, lois lerner, you remember all of the back-and-forth that the bureaucrat, and what she did or did not do. here's the statement by jason chaffetz, commissioner koskinen violated the public trust. he failed to comply with congressionally-ished subpoena. documents were destroyed on his watch. impeachment is the appropriate tool to restore confidence in the irs and protect the interests of congress. democrat elijah cummings says just as in the benghazi and planned parenthood investigation, it appears the facts don't matter to republicans. this ridiculous resolution will demonstrate nothing, but the republican obsession with diving into investigative rabbit holes that waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars while having absolutely no positive impact on a single american. calling this resolution a zunt or

what they're going to do is debate a resolution whether or not they should impeach the irs chief, john koskinen? why? it's not a coincidence. on friday, it was announced by the department of justice will will be no criminal investigation. there will be no charges against lois lerner or anybody at the irs for targeting conservatives. >> pretty unbelievable. it's obvious, clear-cut case. >> we don't know the details because she that means she doesn't want to speak in order not to incriminate herself. then we went into tremendous efforts to find out what happened with the server that was smashed and destroyed. i thought we were en route to finding that out. later in the show, we'll have jason chaffetz joining us. >> he'll be with us. he's the chairman of the house oversight committee that started the articles of impeachment yesterday. they think he lied to the congress. >> its going to be a very good interview. >> that's right. congressman ron de'saan tis was talking about what their beef is with the commissioner. listen to this. >> do you see the investigation and literally nobody is going to be

no mind that john koskinen.romise guaranteed turned over all the pertinent emails then we learned that wasn't true. >> right. >> thousands had been destroyed and then the hard drive was destroyed. >> after allegedly after he testified they were destroyed. >> well, and while there was a congressional investigation going on when all of this should have been frozen. and he didn't tell the truth. and that's a problem. destroying evidence, obstructing justice. >> sounds like washington. >> sort of remove the fact. whether this was a -- you know open or shut case or not. here is a problem the republicans have going into this, another one of these things is the possibility that they will create another kabuki theater like we saw 11 hours of benghazi and end up blowing up in their face. i would caution republicans very carefully about going to the to pick another case like this which could be another kabuki theater. >> he has a good point. >> i will tell you this is the norm with this administration to obstruct justice.

melissa: congress wants to impeach john koskinen.e'll speak a former irs official that the commissioner did nothing wrong. david: interesting. we're tracking a runaway military blimp over pennsylvania? have you heard about this? dragging a tether, taking out power lines as it goes. very interesting story. melissa: stocks soaring in last hour of trading. dow now up over 197 points right now as the closing bells sound on wall street. the crossing bell rings] -- [closing bell rings] david: only thing is down, although it was up earlier. all the stocks soaring in the last hour, melissa. melissa: that's right. this after diving in reaction to another fed meeting with no rate change. there was a hint that action may be coming in december. lori rothman standing by at new york stock exchange with today's biggest movers. lori?

the finance committee is hearing from the director, john koskinen.g mckelway's following this story from our washington bureau. >> reporter: hi, jenna. today's hearing was timely coming as it did only a few days after the justice department announced it will not prosecute anybody at the irs forget targeting of conservative -- for the targeting of conservative groups. the committee came up with its own recommendations to overhaul the irs maze of bureaucracy that led to that gross mismanagement. it released those findings on august 5th and today questioned the commissioner on those implementations. one of the things chairman orrin hatch would like to see is a reining in of union activities at the irs. >> while i do not oppose collective bargaining in general, we know that two-thirds of irs workers are represented by a union organization that is very politically active. i don't think it's much of a stretch to argue that such a strong union presence could have contributed to a politicized environment at the irs. >> reporter: irs commissioner koskinen and

john koskinen is accused of destroying evidence along with making false statements under oath.sy at the tax agency when he was accused of unfairly targeting conservative groups. more on "special report" tonight at 6:00 eastern. >>> on this day in 1863 a farmer filed a patent for barbed wire. this gave farmers a cheep and easy way to keep livestock out west. it also was popular during world war i. the military lined the trenches with devil's rope to slow down enemy forces. today barbed wire surrounds prisons and military camps and construction sites after a farmer found a way to fence in the world 142 years ago today. >>> when news breaks out, we'll break in because breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. "your world with neil cavuto" starts now on america's choice for news information. >>> a very ugly hearing with the i.r.s. commissioner probably telegraphed what you just reported, shep. we are getting word that the man who overruns the house overnight government reform committee has issued a subpoena and introduced an impeachment process against the i.r.s. commis

today's witness is the honorable john koskinen the 48th commissioner of the internal revenue service. was confirmed to this position in december 2013. prior to his appointment to lead thee irs he served at freddie mc where he served as the acting chief executive officer. before that time the commissioner held various high-profile positions in public service including president of the u.s. soccer foundation, deputy mayor of the district of columbia, deputy director for management at the office of management and budget and president clinton's chair of the president's council on year 2000 conversion. the commissioner also spent more than two decades in the private sector including time as ceo and chairman of the palnieri company. he has a law degree from yale university school of law and a bachelor's degree from duke university so we welcome you back to the senate finance committee, commissioner. and we want to thank you once again for being here today. so, you can proceed with your opening remarks and i ask, if you can, to limit your opening statement to five minutes. >> chairman hatch,

lerner for allegedly targeting groups, jason chaffetz filed tonight calling for the impeachment of john koskinenjoining us tonight congressman jason chaffetz and congressman jim jord bean of ohio. how did lois lerner get off in the first place? don't we know she targeted these groups? isn't there evidence showing she started these groups? >> we had investigations by the inspector general that said there's indeed targeting. we know that for a fact. we have well documented that those documents in the possession of the irs were destroyed by irs. >> so we know they targeted the irs, they destroyed evidence and the just department says no go. is this a precursor of or a preview of coming attractions if the fbi were to find information about benghazi, about the clinton foundation or confidential top secret information on the deleted e-mails? does it mean it's politicized to that degree? >> sean, we have all kinds of confidence in the fbi. what we don't have confidence in is the justice department. jason's right. there's all kinds of e-mail evidence where she said the tea party is dangerous. where she

from congressional sources that congress will start the process of impeaching irs commissioner john koskinenat is supposed to happen soon. once again, there may be a process of impeachment that is going to start taking place to oust the irs current commissioner. we haven't even mentioned the fed and the frenzy. day one not so hysterical, the october fed meeting and the federal reserve chiefs decide whether to raise the fed funds futures mark. market thinks there is a measly 6% hike. our next guest says don't count out the next one yet. joining us is dan, what are you buying then, knowing we might not have an increase until possibly december or next year? >> we haven't changed our stance on positioning on the yield curve. we think you want to be further out on the yield curve. we think the only probability that remains for 2015 rate increase is in december. we're going to look through the notes that come out. the communication from the meeting today and tomorrow very carefully to get a hint of whether that 39% probability that the market's expecting for december, if that probability is too lo

♪ kennedy: john koss . koskinen will be singing that in the big house.ouse oversight government -- had this to say, violated public trust, and failed to complete with congress willie issued subpoena. documents were destroyed on his watch, and impeachment is tool to restore confidence in irs, and protect the interest of congress, our panel is back. bernie, i start with you. a quote from kraughthammer said, this is not going to end well, republicans in congress shown they have no ability conduct successful investigation of this administration, everything they touch has failed or backfired even benghazi. >> i say even though i used to mentor charles crowd hammer -- kraughthammer i disagree with him on this, he should be in a cell next to bernie madoff, the arrogance he displayed while testifying, flat out lying about e-mails, saying they did not have them, he destroyed like 24,000, his arrogance got him stuck in high craw. >> bernie madoff, the largest ponzi scheme in history of u.s. >> social security. >> he should be bernie madoff's girlfriend. kennedy: i

the government oversight reform committee issued a final motion to impeach the irs commissioner john koskinenin a tweet he said moments ago we filed papers to impeach irs commissioner koskinen, destruction of evidence, and false statements under oath among the charges. this happens after earlier this week the department of justice decided not to file charges against lois lerner. and the motion today comes after the commissioner's appearance before a committee. the senate finance committee heard from him earlier today and this hearing is about two hours. >> the committee will come to order and i want to welcome everyone to this morning's hearing. in may 2013, the treasury inspector general for tax administration revealed in the run-up to the 2012 and 2010 elections the irs targeted certain organizations with extra and undue scrutiny. needless to say, we take this matter very seriously. indeed at the time both republicans and democrats condemned the agency's actions. and as the senate committee with exclusive legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the irs, the finance committee launched a