that were backed up from lois lerner's e-mail box. and he added you were still in the process of determining how many of these e-mails had already been produced to congress. is that correct? >> that's correct. i think i also said if any, if there were any of those that turn out to be new. we're still trying to determine that, yes, sir. >> so meanwhile, the headlines continue. they continue. one of them reads, and i quote, thousands of new e-mails found end of quote. then on june 16th about, a week ago, chief council sent a letter to this committee with yet another new number and she wrote this, i quote, "the recovered e- mails that appear to not have been previously provided to congress total approximately 6,400 but you didn't find 6,400 new e-mails. in your testimony today, you talk about 1,000. is that right? over 1,000 from the backup tapes. so we've gone from 80,000 to 1,000? is that right? >> that is accurate. so you talked about 23,000 still being out there. is that right? >> that's correct. >> how do we know that number is accu

even stated by lois lerner in a public forum. there's no accountability of individuals misleading congress and making untrue statement which is we have established here in hearings this week we are seeing a trend whereby government agencies do a magnificent job of safe guarding data and e-mail from the government but allow our enemies to breach them with skill. this is a double standard on the rights of american citizens. if they use the same untrue statements, on records provided to an irs audit, they would likely be brought up on charges. if an american citizen used this same standard. making untrue statements saying well, i -- i thought that was the case. but maybe it wasn't. but i don't have the records and i can't send them to you. there would be fines and prosecutions more than likely. we urge you to use a similar standard in holding the irs accountable for those that have lied to congress in your investigations to resolve and restore confidence that our government can act with integrity and act constitutionally on behalf o

lerner's e-mails. unfortunately, the inspector general's office has repeatedly overstated the number of, and i quote, new e-mails, end quote, they recovered from backup tapes and other sources. in february, the officials from the inspect general's office briefed our committee and others reporting that they had found 80,000, 80,000 e-mails from ms. lerner, a fact that was leaked to the prez with great fanfare. headlines, 80,000. then on february 26, the deputy inspector general for investigations testified before this committee that many of those e-mails were actually duplicates. so we went from 80,000 and he testified there was only 32,000, february. and last week on june 16th the inspector general's chief counsel sent a letter to this committee stating that the total number of new e-mail went down again, keend in mind from 32,000, this time explaining that only 6,400 e-mails, and i quote, appear to not have been produced to congress, end of quote. you guessed it. but today we've got from the 6,4000 on

we've confirmed that lois lerner lerner's e-mails are unrecoverable. we had another statement that would indicate that they have worked diligently to find these missing e-mails, but as you've indicated, you found them in six different sources, is that correct? >> that is correct, mr. meadows. >> so how could, if we have these statements how do you reconcile those statements with you going out and finding them? i mean how do you -- do you take someone who said there is absolutely no way that they exist, and then according to your testimony here today they didn't even look. so how could you say that that was anything other than willful? >> the issue that we have here is, as i shared earlier is a management failure. >> okay so -- and you did. and that is where i want to pick up. because if we have a management failure, one thing that hasn't been talked about yet is these back-up tapes are held in just a handful of locations, is that correct. >> yes, sir. >> so in a handful of locations a memo goes out, how in the world would those handful of locations not

lerner. your numbers started at 80,000 e-mails in february. then it dropped to 32,000 e-mails at the end of february. last week, it fell to 6,400. nine days later, now, it has sunk to about 1,000. your new number today is 98% lower than the first number you gave us. you know there's -- this is a room where we like to hear the truth. there was a great justice of the supreme court of the united states oliver wendell holmes, and he talked about the truth. he said, the truth is tough. it's not like a bubble that you can prick and it'll explode. it's more like a rugged football that you can kick around all day, and it doesn't lose its shape and doesn't lose its form and it stays the same. the truth doesn't change. when you're talking about a story that's true, mr. george, it's the same the first time you tell it the second time you tell it the third time you tell it and the fourth time you tell it. the truth doesn't go 80,000 and then 32,000 and then 6,400 and now 1,000. in fact in the last nine days, you dropped from 6,400 discovered e-mails to 1,

lois lerner, who saw those documents? who did you have to get clearance from before we get those documents? because we still don't have them all. >> the 6103 redactions, as i said in any testimony, were done by chief counsel, the office of chief counsel. we may have redacted some of those documents -- well you don't get the foia redactions. >> what signatures do you need to see on there before you send it back to us. >> i'm not certain because i'm not the one doing the sending. >> but you're the direct of this and you've heard of lois lerner i would hope by now. >> i know lois lerner. >> who do you have to check off with before we get the documents? >> again sir with all due respect that was not a process that i was personally involved in. >> you had to guess that e with would ask about lois lerner. >> which is why the commissioner thought that perhaps he might be the best to answer your questions. >> you're the director. it's your job and role and responsibility. >> no, sir. my job is the foia program. >> your title, cor

they issue a subpoena to the irs for lois lerner's emails.ng with that comes with preservation order. the irs is not allowed to destroy any evidence or emails. february 2014, the irs says it discovers this problem with lois lerner's hard drive. it crashed it's been destroyed. but then you think it would be time to take a look at the backups. but the news today is irs technicians destroyed 422 backup tapes that the inspector general said probably contained thousands of emails from lois lerner. you will hear a house committee a number of republicans saying how could this happen. bill: can you bring those back are they gone for good? >> we have heard so many times with so many technical scandals that stuff never ever goes away. so i don't think we can say for sure it's all gone. the irs said they had found a number of learner's emails. but backup tapes were a source of evidence. they were under subpoena in this case. >> the inspector general is going to say 5 or 6 places where potential emails could have been stored were never looked at. that go

after promising to provide congress all of lerner's e-mails, irs commissioner john costinen says his agency lost or destroyed two years of her electronic correspondence. he pledged his agency would attempt to recover those lost e-mails. however, the inspector general says the irs failed to search several sources for lerner e-mails, like backup tapes, hard drives and loneaner laptops that he says ultimately failed to disclose e-mails. >> the house ways and means committee and the oversight and government reform committee here that it quote confirmed the e-mails were unrecoverable end quote. given then that these tapes had been stopped, give than recoverable data still existed on the tapes was, that statement true. >> it would appear not to be true. >> the as for the investigation, congressman elijah cummings charges this inquiry has devolved into a republican-led political spectacle. >> this investigation has squandered tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in a failed scavenger hunt for any possible evidence to support republican accusations against lois lerner the irs and the white h

as was pointed out, this was one month after the irs realized they were missing e-mails from lois lerner months after this committee requested all documents and communications sent by received by or copied to lois lerner. >> you heard it. the backup tapes containing lois lerner's e-mail erased long after the investigations began looking into the agency targeting conservative groups. and well after the agency was told to preserve all evidence. john we could never get away with this. why should the irs snirs. >> you've got to be kidding me. this boggles the mind. i worked at a small investment bank on wall street. if something happened and they kwo to subpoena our e-mails and we say, sorry, the dog ate our home work, we go to jail we certainly get in trouble. why is the irs held at less of a standard than a small investment bank on wall street? the government themselves say sorry, the dog ate our homework and we've lost our e-mails? this blows my mind. we go to jail for something like this. people say it's just the irs, it's politics. a different standard and it's completely wrong. >> sasc

congress requested lerner's e-mails following allegations that the irs targeted tea party groups.ast june that an unknown number of e-mails had been lost when her computer crashed in 2011. >>> it's time for an "early start" on your money. >> good morning, i'm seeing some red arrows for european stocks. some green arrows for futures in the u.s. after a rough day yesterday. stocks tumbled after greece's debt talks ended without a deal on the table. the dow fell 178 points. the nasdaq also falling about 1%. listen to thrks the investigation into the takata airbag recall isn't going well. that's the stunning revelation from the company's own ceo. e he said it during a news conference during a conference call yesterday. he said investigators haven't figured out why the airbags are exploding and didn't know when the investigation will end. 1 in 7 cars have been recalled in the u.s. about that press krves the ceo hasn't made a public appearance since june of last year, but. he's going to hold the news conference today. we'll see if he inspires anymore confidence. >> has not been incredib

>> no. >> why because it's lois lerner? >> no because it's unprecedented -- >> what's unprecedented about that? >> i think that lois lerner was the tip of the iceberg. >> really? >> i think that request included far more than just one person. >> so do we. so what makes you think it's the tip of the iceberg? >> in terms of the way of the request was structured. >> what was so striking about it? it's pretty simple. in this electronic age we're asking for all of her e-mails in a certain frame. how hard is that? they should take about ten seconds, right? what's so hard about producing those documents? it's taken years. >> i cannot talk to the specific documents about lois lerner but what i can -- >> when the request came both in the letter and then in a subpoena, who does that go to? >> the commissioner. >> it doesn't go to you? >> no. not first. >> but when we send these documents over this doesn't land on your desk? >> it does not. >> does it land on any of your staff's desk? >> no. it landed on the desk of the commissioner a

investigating agency said it found more than 6,000 e-mails that had been missing from the files of lois lerner, the official at the center of allegations the irs illegally targeted tea party groups. well now the watchdog group says as many as 24,000 e-mails might be missing. joining me from los angeles, cnn senior political analyst ron bronstein. good to see you, ron. this is incredible right? i mean this is a story of a alleged computer crashes, backup tapes. where is it heading now, that we have a number like 24,000? >> 24,000 potential e-mails that the irs watchdog says had been erased. you can see why republicans on the committee investigating this are so frustrated. there's no question that the erasures according to the irs -- the person investigating this occurred after there was a

lois lerner, who saw those documents? who did you have to get clearance from before we get those documents? because we still don't have them all. >> the 6103 redactions, as i said in any testimony, were done by chief counsel, the office of chief counsel. we may have redacted some of those documents -- well you don't get the foia redactions. >> what signatures do you need to see on there before you send it back to us. >> i'm not certain because i'm not the one doing the sending. >> but you're the direct of this and you've heard of lois lerner i would hope by now. >> i know lois lerner. >> who do you have to check off with before we get the documents? >> again sir with all due respect that was not a process that i was personally involved in. >> yo had to guess that e with would ask about lois lerner. >> which is why the commissioner thought that perhaps he might be the best to answer your questions. >> you're the director. it's your job and role and responsibility. >> no, sir. my job is the foia program. >> your title, corr

renewed scrutiny the house oversight committee will hear testimony from officials investigating lois lerner and her e-mails, up to 24,000 of them missing because agency employees erased the backup tapes. congress requested her e-mails following allegations that the irs targeted tea party groups applying for nonprofit status. agency officials told lawmakers last june that an unknown number of e-mails were lost when lerner's computer crashed in 2011. >>> time fewnow for an rft. >> referee: of your money. >> at the moment european and asian stocks are lower. we did see stocks tumble after the greek debt talks ended abruptly with no agreement. the dow fell 178 points or 1%. nasdaq and the s&p 500 also fell almost 1%. and you know what, with greece it couldn't be higher those stakes as greece's deadline to reach a debt deal with international creditors that's next tuesday. if no deal is reached, it won't be able to pay back the international monetary fund the $1.8 billion that it owes. it would make a greek exit from the european union more likely. what will happen later today, the talks will co

. ♪ ♪ liz: on capitol hill a congressional hearing on lois lerner's e-mails. irs inspector general, russell george, saying there were 422 tapes with 24,000 lerner e-mails that were destroyed. so in case you just landed on planet earth, these e-mails were a central focus of lawmakers' probes into the alleged targeting of tea party groups by the irs when lois lerner was running it. the irs did not search for the e-mails in the most obvious of places and found the destruction was, quote, not done on purpose. but this is yet another lesson. you think you destroyed or deleted something, you didn't. >>> earlier today univision making a major announcement, saying it would, quote, not be airing the miss usa pageant on july 12th or working on any other projects tied to the donald trump organization. this on the heels of trump's controversial comments the day he announced his candidacy for president. and here is the comment. quote: when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best, they're sending people that have lots of problems. they are bringing drugs, th

. >> republican congressman darrell isis of her newly found e-mails from lois lerner.the irs is not tandem over because it's making sure none of the e-mails are duplicates. >> what does that mean? >> it means they are lying. here is the delay here. they make it a practice to send practice to send this endless duplicates. as a matter of fact, they always want to give us the maximum number of pages to brag about how much they've given us. train to ponder not a scam on which the agency relied special tax status to certain groups. the committee said to trail ashton carter and joint chiefs of staff chairman general martin dempsey late today on the u.s. strategy in the middle east. this comes after president obama's decision to send 450 additional troops to iraq to help train the country's security forces to fight basis. the president's action is not enough to solve the bigger problem. we will be watching for earnings from fedex and orville today. those are two big ones to watch. nicole: indeed. we are still watching names reporting. these two names are imported similar to i

arnie lerner. here we go. hi arnie.e earned his bachelor's degree from the university of kansas in design and has been a architect in the preservation and accessibility committees for the last 30 years and became a specialists with the california division of the state architect. in addition mr. lerner has served on the board of directors of the san frapt -- san francisco architects board and on the access appeals commission serving as the president for the next year. elizabeth rider. she is a constant advocate for the building code and its proper use. most especially to ensure that accessibility is followed through both on plan review and in the field. mrs. rider currently serves as examiner for commercial and residential projects and done numerous inspections of accessible features in commercial facilities and served as building official, plan examiner and building inspector in numerous jurisdictions and she is currently employed by csg consultants and serves as the building official for the city of pacifica. jeff jame

the irs destroyed tens of thousands of lerner e-mails as part of routine maintenance. there are 24000 e-mails still unrecovered and the morning hearing, they want to know why the irs was so negligent in its evidence of destruction. >> they destroyed evidence. that's what they did and that's why we continue to have this. we haven't even got into the content of the e-mails. we just want to get them and figure out what is going o. >> i am concerned why things were not looked into. that concerns me and i hope we will get answers to that. >> and the irs failed to search several sources like back up tapes and loaner lap tops and ultimately disclosed unreleased e-mails. democrats critized the targeting scandal and call it a waste of money and time to produce information. they are expected to release a full report on the findings next week. >> thank you, rich. >> and today's supreme court ruling on capitol hill. and we'll talk to bret baier about what he is seeing there. and the latest on the search for two escaped murderers. authorities accuse a second prison worker for helpi

i talked with owner mike lerner about that. >> you know he's here through'18.ou can't predict the future. when he says he likes it here, i think he's telling everybody what's from the heart. neither bryce nor i can predict what's going to happen. we'llen joy the ride at least while it's -- we'll enjoy the ride at least while it's here. >> reporter: i'm not going to bother predicting. we will find out four years from now. let the countdown begin. nats and rays here from nationals park. i also caught up with mo'ne davis in town, the little league world series hero, who said she can strike out bryce harper from 60 feet 6 inches. >> thanks much. i like how they are always skirting the issue of bryce harper, but they'll probably have to start saving a lot of money to keep him. >>> coming up we've got more from lerner on bryce harper's coming of age, when he said he knew this would be a great year. >>> new at 6:00 as we grapple trying to make sense of those shootings in south carolina, a retired fbi profiler sheds a little light on what that suspected gunman might ha

they find out more and more important people are involved and then they find out lois lerner lerner'swas dried. if you can believe this, it's astounding to believe it could have happened. it's a pattern and long-term pattern and somebody needs to be held into account. >> the inspector general said the irs never looked in five of six potential places where e-mails might have been stored including the server. this is their own watchdog who's saying basically've if you're not saying they willfully dried something, they didn't look where they potentially could have found what they were ordered to find. >> you know in the civilian world, this would lead to head rolling, fraud and impeding investigation charges. those are the kinds of things that are going to have to come down in this irs case if we're going to prevent this from happening in the future. right now nobody has been held accountable in any way of consequence. >> that's the question. do you think with all of the bluster and press releases and all of the frustrations by those investigating this expressing outrage, are we really g

they need substantive revelations and that is dependent on further investigation. >> and lois lernerthis whole investigation. do you think that they're going to cast a wire net? are we going see more people who might end up in trouble? >> yeah i think even democrats on the committee have expressed concern about the handling of the e-mails, the process questions here. and i do think that this kind of revelation is likely to lead to challenges and problems for some of the other employees who are still there. the fact that these were erased after the evidence request was in chbeven if you cannot prove that it was done simply is a management failure. i think that there's going to be pressure for changes. but again, whether that allows this to reach the critical mass that truly becomes an issue to affect public perception i think there's a long way to go on that. >> okay. ron bronstein, thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, family members of bobbi kristina brown have been in and out of a hospice facility where she is now getting care. we're going to tell you w

conclusion of their investigation into the disposition of the lowest lerner e-mails. from the irs we have heard that these tapes were destroyed recycled. we heard we had all the e-mails. we have heard everything other than my dog ate this. now that the inspector general has gone back in, they have found thousands of e-mails that were not previously given to congress even though they said they had given everything to congress. we are days away from the inspector general being prepared to testify, i hope before the oversight and government reform committee. this is the irs targeting people for conservative, political views. either side of the aisle, no matter your political disposition, you cannot have an irs that is politically targeting people. we will get to the bottom of it. matt: there are two different explanations. stephen: that it was bureaucratic bumbling and the existence of the tapes got lost and once i did not know the other was talking about. the other is that there was intent to hide them. you have a sense for which of those is likely to be? rep. chaffetz:

david: congressional testimony on lois lerner emails happening all day on the hill. inspector generous sell george that there were 422 tapes with lerner emails were destroyed. this is months after congress told the irs to keep emails no matter what. investigators pinning it all on two lower level irs workers. gerri willis is here. gerri, do we know anything about what was lost? >> david i have to tell you lost is the wrong word. this stuff was destroyed. as you said 422 tapes. that was 24,000 emails between lois lerner and golly her husband, individuals who were seeking tax-exempt status for their conservative organization. the inspector general was only able to recall a thousand of these emails. in the meantime the irs in trouble today too because they only looked at one possible source of these e-mails, not the six available. they looked at the hard drive but there was also blackberries, backup tapes, server drives, backups to the tape server driverses, loaner laptops that nobody even considered. i have to tell you, david, when you look at this, the double-standard

bottom line is we're supposed to believe that tens of thousands of lois lerner e-mails were lost andbackup tapes to those lost e-mails were destroyed. i mean, it just doesn't make sense. >> it would be an extraordinary coincidence. >> all right. jillian, thank you very much for dropping by. >>> russian president vladimir putin doesn't care his country is in a recession and is planning to spend more than 400 billion for the military of the next five years though it is worth noting that less than -- that's less than the pentagon spends in one year. >>> putin is also talking about both sides of his mouth tonight. on the one hand, saying russia needs to be able to handle enough threats near its border, but on the other hand he claims he prefers to handle problems diplomatically. all offing this comes as the head of nato blames russia for provoking the con flint inian -- conflict in ukraine warning heavy fighting could break out. nato says russia is building up its forces along the border as president putin supports the rebels. ash carter is in europe this week attending nato meetings and

they have found 6400 more lois lerner e-mails but now not handing them over. this is why. because the agency needs to make sure they are not duplicates. that's according to the daily caller which obtained a filing by the irs attorneys. the daily caller says this is something irs did when e-mails were recovered. the nfl finals are tonight. average ticket prices now topping $1,400. steending room only take tickets are going for 1,000 dollars. the blackhawks lead the lightening 3 games to 2 in the quest for the stanley cup. jurassic world bringing in half a million dollar-- half a billion dollars worldwide. that comes awfully close to world record holders "the avengers. >> to find the fox business network you can go to fox business dot tomorrow/channel finder. >>> 9-11 history up for sale to the highest bidder. the outrage that the tragedy is being exploited for profit. >> why security experts are worried about a whole new kind of voter fraud. [phone rings] [man] hello,totten designs. sales department? yes...i can put you right through. sales department-this is nate. human re

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now oddly enough, the night before that no hitter i sat down with nationals owner mark lerner and i was joking with him about allowing max to douse him in chocolate syrup. >> any time there's a win involved. >> reporter: they go out and win tonight after rain delay. >> if that's my contribution to winning, i'll do anything it takes. >> reporter: he did anything. scherzer went out there, gave him a big hug and got syrup all over him and the rest is history. seven strasburg back on the mound for the nats. they need this guy to get going, had a very rough 1st half, 6.55 e.r.a. he's 7-4 lifetime against the braves. nats and braves coming up here from nationals park, holden kushner for wusa9 sports. >> coming up at 6:00 we're going back out live to nats park for the latest on strasburg's return. >>> new at 6:00 did a maryland government official have a conflict of interest that co >>> the united states announced it is sending military arms to six european nations in response to russia's recent aggression in the region. >> the move will allow a quick are response to isis in the -- quicker res

they said they were going to produce lois lerner's emails. then they said, well, actually her emails, most of them are destroyed because, you see, they're held on these backup tapes and we recycle the backup tapes, we destroy the tapes so there's nothing we can do here, so we're just going to move along and we're not going to participate in any meaningful way with your investigation. most americans didn't accept that and it really wasn't worth the paper it was printed on in terms of an excuse. it was obviously much different than what the i.r.s. would impose on the taxpayer. but it was even more than that. it was more than just a weak excuse. it was false. once he said that the emails were destroyed, guess what? the inspector general for tax administration and the treasury department did basic due diligence and said i'm going to check to see whether or not weather he's telling the truth. and so what did the i.g. do? drove out to west virginia, where they have the warehouse with all the backup tapes, where what did they find? the lois lerner e

the agencies with holding 6000 new e-mails belonging to lois lerner.suits played out. the court is setting a deadline for the irs to turn them over. jerry they got them but not coughing them up? >> that's right, eric. it was not my dog ate the home work. the irs will not hand over the e-mails until it can make sure there are no repeats or copies. and judicial watch is seeking the e-mails. and the tax agencies mired in the scandal and to conserviceative groups. and congress is the irs said they were permanently lost. captain computer drive that contained them crashed. and the general for tax issues was able to retreat 6400 e-mails that was sent to the agency. and it is these e-mails that they check for duplicates. and they called the irs to address the status of the e-mails by john 12th. and checking for copies among the 6400 e-mails will delay the analysis past september. it was mired in candal. last week alone. irs announced plans for future cyber attacks after the thieves stole the personal into of taxpayers earlier this year. nmaybe eventually thank

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said that workers erase backup tapes with thousands of e-mails to and from former iris employee lois lerner. that was after the fbi discovered e-mails were missing. the iris says that was a mistake. republicans say that defies logic. maureen: a new push for d.c. statehood is underway. tom carper has introduced legislation to give ec residents full boarding representation in congress. the bill designates the areas around the white house, the capitol, supreme court, and the national mall as the seat of the federal government. the rest of the city would become the 51st state and called "new columbia." leon: green light for the purple line. governor larry hogan says he supports the line. the project has been a polarizing one. steven tschida is live with a response in the changes the governor made. ellis about it. -- tell us about it. reporter: this is where the proposed line would run. take out a lot of these trees you see behind me but that is not what is drawn the most controversy. it is the price tag. $2.5 billion. among the greatest comic governor larry hogan who said it was too expensive.

they were turned away by lois lerner. lois resigns. she's gone.mails which is what congress has asked for. then the treasury inspector general says, oh, we just found 64,000 of these. these are the e-mails and questions today, these are the e-mails that even a u.s. district court judge is saying, hey, you've got to fast track this. people need the see these. but it's not happening because why? because the irs is dragging its heels. it's lying. stuart: and they are saying, the irs is saying you can't see them all because they don't want to duplicate, but how do we know whether they're not filtering stuff that is incriminating to lois lerner? >> you have no idea. what they're really doing is trying to make sure they put this on delay, nothing ever happens. they're stonewalling they're telling us one thing they're doing another. this is one of the big scams, one of the big tragedyings of this administration, and people aren't paying attention to it right now. it's the information the public needs to have. stuart: do you think they can spin it out pas

they are looking into whether or not they are prosecutor lois lerner for going after tea party peoplethink it is time to get somebody independent in there and to look into this, democrats should want it, otherwise it willtai taint them anything into the next election. tom: destruction of evidence is serious, does anyone in washington -- do they care any more? do they want they are teflon proof? >> lear clearly no one has been held to account so far. i would recommend if g.o.p. is going to go after people, they do it in the next administration so we can avoided pardon issue. i think that barack obama would end up -- keep that in mind, a lot of people are thinking we'll be pardoned or you know -- this is where i think that timing of whatever it is that congress does and republicans do it important. >> you are missing the forest for the trees, the big issue is that irs does not work, it is disfunctional they did not look at 5 out of 6 potential places for the lost e-mails, they did not look at back up laptops. >> are a incompetent? i don't think so, i think this icorruption. >> i think t

we sat down with mark lerner to ask about his superstar. >> funny, i thought that was a major moment because he really carried the team in the playoffs. he just loves the big stage and i thought he cranked it up a notch there. he's going to continue to get better and better. we just got to watch the journey because it's going to be an amazing one. >>> the young pitching phenom mo'ne davis stopped at nats park today, toured the facilities with her team, met some of the players. we had to ask her does she think she could strike out bryce harper? >> i probably could. it depends where we pitch from, though. >> reporter: 60 feet 6 inches. >> maybe. depends how my pitches are working that day. >> got to love her and her confidence. nats welcome the pirates tomorrow for a three-game series. you can see harper and the gang all weekend long. coverage tomorrow begins at 7:00. i would love to see that. >> i would pay money to see that match-up. she'd either have bolstered confidence or -- >> no lose for her. >> that is true. >>> thunderstorms are waning now, could see more thunderstorms tomorro

for almost a year at our request investigating lois lerner's hard drive crash. last month the committee was given the last of the emails pulled from i.r.s. backup tapes. as i understand it the next and final step is for you to provide us a report on the investigation. now that afflet recovery work has been done, can we get a commitment from you today to submit a report on the hard drive crash by mid june? commissioner koskinen: i can commit, mr. chairman torques having it to you by the end -- mr. george: to you by the end of the month. i spoke to my chief investigator. as of now we conducted over 100, almost 150 interviews of people related to the lost emails. and as you can imagine with each interview that leads to more information that needs to be tracked down. given the nature of this matter, we need to be as sterile as possible. we are endeavoring to do just that. and i can't say there's still very important interviews to come. we'll do our level best to try to accommodate that request, sir, but i cannot assure you. you will have it before the end of the mon

nationals owner mark lerner, he got caught up in that sweet syrupy celebration. >> yeah.ve me a pretty good hug. i loved every minute of it. it's taken me a few days to get the chocolate out of my ear but no problem. >> measurer in and a host of who's who of washington sports were on the golf course this afternoon to honor johnny holliday, the voice of maryland terrapin football and basketball for 36 years. for 10 of them he's hosted the johnny holliday scholarship classic. sports celebrities like orioles hall of famer brook robinson supporting an area that's raised over $1 million for dmv area youth. mark turgeon made a pretty putt for birdie and there's our own kristen berset on land -- hand for the fun and fundraising event. >> it has been terrific. each year tops the previous year and this year has been without question the best one we've had as far as people like you coming out to play and matt thornton of the national and garry williams and all these people who have come to help these organizations raise money for the kids. >> johnny will call games for a 2015 terps

erased computer backup tapes and those tapes may have held as many as 24,000 e-mails to and from lois lerner. she's the central figure in congressional investigations over whether tea party groups were unfairly targeted. the employees did it by mistake and not as a cover-up. >>> the casket that washed away in suitland's cemetery will be reburied today. all the rain from saturday's storms buckled the retaining wall at cedar hill cemetery. that was supposed to be fixed tuesday. a spokesperson tells nbc4 only one plot was disturbed. >>> today you can learn more about how body cameras worn by police could impact you. candid camera, the presentation by the brennan center for justice takes place today. that happens between noon and 1:30 this afternoon at the family global academic center on "l" street. community policing and privacy are parting of the law. >>> hundreds of cameras in prince george's county are broken. according to our news partner, wtop, about 30% revealed that 30% are not working and some have hardware or software issues which include recording problems. others have play back erro

you wouldn't know things like, for example, about lois lerner's e-mails or obamacare, mocked the stupidityan people but what you would know is that marco rubio got four traffic tickets. this is the kind of news that president obama wants us to be focused. doesn't want us to be focused on lowis lerner and -- >> if you consider the president's comments an attack on fox news you got to get out more. my friends who read the new york times were offended by the comments as well. >> really? >> this president, of course they are regarded as criticism of the times as well. what is worth noting is the question about whether we read information to be informed or read news just to be reinforced. for example, with the new york times attacking hillary clinton on the e-mail and the foundation people at this network wanted to nominate the times for a pulitzer. when the wall street journal vindicated the foundation and hillary clinton and pointed out there was no favoritism i didn't hear a lot of people from the right bringing it up. >> vindicated. that's a stretch as her champion and a loyal one, but -- >

part of this special project team created just to deal with requests about the targeting and lois lerner. then you're saying you think it's unlikely they checked with the white house. which would be a direct contradiction to what they were told to do by the white house chief counsel? >> except the memo does specify documents with white house equities. i'm not sure that the documents we have -- >> you don't think the white house has an interest in knowing about information related to the internal revenue service? equities is an interest, right? they have an interest in that. all document requests that may involve. may involve white house interests. that's pretty broad. the next paragraph gives clarification to that. and says congressional committee requests which you said is the reason the special team was created. not to mention goa requests judicial response and foia requests. i would say if the chief counsel who is part of this special project team. which i think is something we're going to find out and the chairman will be pushing for that. he wouldn't be following the memo if he wasn