commissioner john koskinen i. donald trump is saying that he by then audited, sevier rs. i know you cannot talk about some of its personal taxes, but would somebody be audited every year. he says it is going back every year of the obama administration. we cannot talk about individual cases, but it would be rare for anyone to be audited every year. usually, when there is an audit and it is cleared up, it is a number of years before you hear from us again. unless something in your next return pops up. but as a matter of formal auditing, it would be rare. donald trump also says he is not going to release his tax returns while he is being audited. is there something from the irs that prevents him from releasing his tax returns. john: the taxpayer controls his returns. there is nothing that would keep youth -- you from sharing that information. >> what you make of his claims that he needs the audit to be cleared up? john: we stress that we are in tax and ministration so we have no stake in any of the primaries or comments being made by candidates. from our standpoint, if you a

greta: irs commissioner john koskinen, thank you for feeling our questions. appreciate it commissioner koskinen:. we aresioner koskinen: back with our reporters. richard, let me begin with you. when he had to say about donald trump's claims that he has been audited year after year. the commissioner says it is rare for that happen. this is an example of the two sides of the coin for the irs. the taxpayers and prominent people who can go out there and make all kinds of claims about what they are doing, and the commissioner by law cannot respond. if he had told us that trump is being audited or is not, or why, that could be a felony. he is really limited in what he can do. that creates this position that he taught about a little bit, that they are trying to get across, that you are only audited because of things in .our tax return they cannot actually show you the proof on that. it creates -- it has proven difficult for the greta: bernie, donald trump feeding into that disdain people have for the irs and tax collection. mr. becker: as i said, it will not be the

the most visible one that needs to happen right away is impeachment of john koskinen.t i'm saying. lou: appreciate it, congressman. >> thank you. lou: you, too. congressman jim jordan. washington state courthouse reviewing security procedures tonight. gerald hyde convicted of drug charges escorted out of the courtroom by armed guards. yeah. minutes later managed to escape the guards' watchful eyes or not so watchful, using the shirt off his back to cover handcuffs, he was able to walk out front door. prison break, however, i guess it's a courtroom break, really, did not last long, he was recaptured less than two hours later and is now looking for a prison break. >>> some of the best skiers and snowboarders turned america's oldest baseball stadium into a winter arena. fenway park. fenway park? you got to be kidding. take a look at that 140 foot ski jump built are in week's big air competition in boston in fenway park. the slope soars higher than the stadium's highest seats, drops at 38 degrees, where the skiers are launched 52 feet into the air. pretty good for a baseba

sharyl: and the number one spot with the title of 2015 porker of the year is irs commissioner john koskinen -- with an overwhelming 43% of the vote total. shatz says koskinen stood out for his "hostility to taxpayers" and a "long litany of incompetence and obstruction," as the irs faced the political targeting scscandal. commissioner koskinen: we take the requirement of irs employees to be tax compliant very seriously. we hold people accountable even if their mistakes are inadvertent. sharyl: koskinen also allegedly stonewalled congressional investigations into the mysterious destruction of tens of thousands of subpoenaed emails. tom: he was such an obstruionist that eventually the chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee, jason chaffetz of utah, introduced articles of impeachment against commissioner koskinen. he's taken every step to be respond to congress and hold irs employees accountable. shatz says it's up to congress to prevent taxpayer abuse, by pressing for more oversight and transparency. tom: these are not political issues. these are genuine abuses of the t

deirdre: irs commissioner john koskinen, said audit's trumps scenario is rare, that individuals are not audited year to year, three-year cycle, five-year cycle. what do you make of that? >> first of all does anybody trust anything the irs says these day, deirdre? seriously. we had major scandal two or three years ago with the irs. we know the irs did target conservatives. we know they targeted conservative organizations. i know businessmen and women are successful after they donated money to republican candidates or to conservative causes all of sudden they got flag for an awed you did. i don't think donald trump is being paranoid here. i think there is real reason to think this administration has politicized by irs. people have right to be suspicious when you are flagged for audit. was this random or because of my political activities. deirdre: hard not to be paranoid. >> yeah. i don't think he is being paranoid. look, if you, this is why i'm such a huge champion as you know, deirdre, for flat tax. something would really reduces role of irs in having to audit all of your financial tran

commissioner john koskinen talks about i.r.s. operations and its budget request for 2017. he discusses efforts by those on the campaign trail to revise testimony. sis watch the interview sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> how can we best get people to pay attention to wasteful spending so we can define things that are interesting, a little different, easy to understand. the government is so large. an organization has to cut through a lot of noise and other things going on, you know, members of congress talking about all the wonderful things they're doing and try to get people to be more involved and make it a little more personal so that they on them d the impact and their families and children and gran children. >> sunday night the president of citizens against government waste talks about his organization's efforts to bring attention to wasteful federal spending. citizens against government waste also publishes the p.i.g. book which compiles the list of unauthorized government programs. >> we worked with a bipartisan coalition of members of congress

some of the republican members of those committees are asking to impeach john koskinen over the law was was in charge of the tax-exempt organization, the agency that was delaying the number of tea party groups and conservative groups to get tax-exempt status but there's also the protection of taxpayer identification, hundreds of thousands of taxpayer information stolen and the ira's just announced 100,000 taxpayer ids create in numbers, that could lead to using and to steal money from the irs under assumed names of republicans are saying they can't do the job they have done, protect taxpayer id but you have the irs saying the reason is we don't have enough funding and need more money and expect to go round and round. bill: another candidate dropping out of the race. could another drop in? michael bloomberg, does he have a shot? black in new and the targets -- who is behind it and will it make any difference in south carolina? plus this. >> we go back -- hold on a minute. can somebody help me? bill: and major-general hitting the floor. how he is doing today. now i use this. the nicoderm

commissioner john koskinen.sponded to donald trump's assertion that he's being audited almost every year. let's take a look. >> donald trurp is saying he has been audited almost every year by the i.r.s. i know you can't talk about somebody's personal taxes but somebody be audited every year? he says it's going back, almost every year of the obama administration. >> we can't talk about individual cases but it would be rare for anyone to be audited every year. usually, when there's an audit and it's cleared up, if there are no other issues, it's a number of years, two or three, at least, before you hear from us again, unless something in your next return pops up. but as a matter of just formal auditing, it would be rare. >> he also said he's not going to release his tax returns while he's being audited. is there something from the i.r.s. that forebids him from releasing his tax returns? >> again with my caveat that i can't talk about individual cases, the taxpayer controls his returns. there's nothing in i.r. -- -

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commissioner john koskinen i. donald trump is saying that he by then audited, sevier rs.you cannot talk about some of its personal taxes, but would somebody be audited every year. he says it is going