>> and you also seem to be concerned and others that he worked as -- for senator max baucus, who's aerate democrat in the senate. and even though he started according to some of your sources in his political life as a flaming liberal, max baucus is not that. and people worry that jim messina thinks too much like max baucus. >> when messina worked pour balk escould say he was just doing his job but -- >> i would say oh, he's doing his job. >> absolutely. but then he went and worked for rahm in the white house. there's a reason why he worked for rahm, why rahm wanted him to work for him. and you see when he was deputized as a liaison to the progressive groups, for example, which was a major part of his portfolio, he had a lot of clashes with them on health care, on gay rights, and that's all we can do, is look at what has he done and in his time at the white house, in his time working for baucus he's clashed with democratic activists, with grassrts organizers over and ov and over again and that's a patterto his career i fund in this arcl odot a,on ll ha cplabt w long it took and -- but

we got this from senator max baucus -- "this is certainly an issue senator baucus will look at closely we also went to the irs, and they gave us a statement, saying -- "we are referred this case to our independent inspector general, and that if an irs employee took any inappropriate actions and if those actions caused harm to this taxpayer in any way, we sincerely apologize." heather doesn't want an apology, she wants her $5,500 back. and she isn't alone in this. 300,000 people had cases with that tax advocate just last year. now, critics say the problem is the irs takes action against you first and asks questions later. well, now, george, we are asking the questions and we're staying on the irs to help heather get her money back. >> she doesn't know when it's going to happen? >> reporter: nope. >> all right, chris, thank you. and tomorrow, we're going to bring you another investigation. brian ross took a look at companies which help taxpayers take on the irs. they're getting rich, but are their clients getting help? are the promises too good to be true? >>> and coming up, the nails th

we got this from senator max baucus, "this is certainly an issue senator baucus will look at closely.ent to the irs, and they gave us a statement saying, we have referred this case to our independent inspector general and that if an irs employee took any inappropriate actions and if those actions caused harm to this taxpayer in any way, we sincerely apologize." heather doesn't want an apology. she wants her $5,500 back and she's not alone in complaining about the irs. 300,000 people went and complained to that tax advocate just last year. now, critics say the problem is the irs has the ability to take your money first and ask questions second. well, now we're asking the questions and we're staying on the irs to help heather get her money back. chris cuomo, abc news, new york. >> it's good to know and a great story, too. >>> well, when we return, sugar ray loses his fight to compete on "dancing with the stars." >> and the singer who's putting some extra skin into "the skinny" this morning, we can "barely" wait. stay with us. >> oh, boy, that's a bad. >> that was bad. ab @p@p ♪ skinny ♪

piggyback on that, a number that i know i cited in the past panels is at least a couple of years ago max baucus of montana who had the leading role in the health care negotiations received 13% of his funds for election campaign finance from the state of montana and the other 87% from people that have interest in the committee and the previous one was also correct and it seems like we actually have a fair amount of agreement here, but i think the largest problem facing this country right now is that at almost every level of government except for a brave and courageous individuals, corporations are now in charge. [applause] >> if i could add one thing. i don't say this to be facetious, justice scalia never covered a session of the texas legislature. i'm not sure that i want them with the balance of power, but i don't know that the state legislators are the places that should be choosing the centers today. >> i'm so sorry that we are out of time. >> i'm trying to pull the threads of the panel together to see if i can find some common ground, and believe me, this is very challenging, but i think i

piggyback on that, a number that i know i cited in the past panels is at least a couple of years ago max baucus of montana who had the leading role in the health care negotiations received 13% of his funds for election campaign finance from the state of montana and the other 87% from people that have interest in the committee and the previous one was also correct and it seems like we actually have a fair amount of agreement here, but i think the largest problem facing this country right now is that at almost every level of government except for a brave and courageous individuals, corporations are now in charge. [applause] >> if i could add one thing. i don't say this to be facetious, justice scalia never covered a session of the texas legislature. i'm not sure that i want them with the balance of power, but i don't know that the state legislators are the places that should be choosing the centers today. >> i'm so sorry that we are out of time. >> i'm trying to pull the threads of the panel together to see if i can find some common ground, and believe me, this is very challenging, but i think i

piggyback on that, a number that i know i cited in the past panels is at least a couple of years ago max baucus of montana who had the leading role in the health care negotiations received 13% of his funds for election campaign finance from the state of montana and the other 87% from people that have interest in the committee and the previous one was also correct and it seems like we actually have a fair amount of agreement here, but i think the largest problem facing this country right now is that at almost every level of government except for a brave and couragus individuals, corporations are now in charge. [applause] >> if i could add one thing. i don't say this to be faceous, justice scalia never covered a session of the texas legislature. i'm not sure that i want them with the balance of power, but i don't know that the state legislators are the places that should be choosing the centers today. >> i'm so sorry that we are out of time. >> i'm trying to pull the threads of the panel together to see if i can find some cmmon ground, and believe me, this is very challenging, but i think i might

number one, i was watching a program chaired by max baucus about a week ago. he was talking with david cohen , who would takes toward levy's place in the department treasury which is now running intelligence and anti-terrorism campaigns. our department of treasury cannot get our books balanced but they are running around trying to bankrupt iran, and that is the purpose -- to bankrupt iran for the sake of israel. this is the important thing he said. he said we have 19 offices under cohen'sevy's or david shop working of financial intelligence and anti-terrorism. i think that is outrageous. point number two -- looking at a letter being circulated by rabbis in the united states. support for and loved of israel is the center of our rabbinate -- we need money from the congress. make sure the congress keeps israel on its foreign aid dole. host: we are focusing on taxes this morning. caller: no. 3 -- host: is it related to taxes? caller: what kind of question you're asking questions of you are conditioning us. we are not children, liddy -- that is not the question. it

senator mark pryor, senator john boozman, senator michael bennet, senator max baucus, senator johnny isakson, senator mark kirk, and senator tim johnson. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hutchison: that brings the total to 58. senator casey has been a wonderful supporter in this. he is the lead cosponsor. 58 united states senators have stepped up to the plate and sa said, this is not an option for us to equivocate for one minute. so, mr. president, i'm waiting to get two more cosponsors which will show that we have 60 and that we want to act as a united states senate, and i am hoping that senator casey and i could get the ability to bring our bill up and pass it. very simple, very clear. military pay and those who are serving our military in civilian capacities will not be delayed because they're going to report to work and they need to have the peace of mind to know that the mortgages that they have, maybe our direct lines to the mortgage companies, are going to be covered. that is the very least that we could do as we are arguing about whose fault it is going to be if

piggyback on that, a number that i know i cited in the past panels is at least a couple of years ago max baucus of montana who had the leading role in the health care negotiations received 13% of his funds for election campaign finance from the state of montana and the other 87% from people that have interest in the committee and the previous one was also correct and it seems like we actually have a fair amount of agreement here, but i think the largest problem facing this country right now is that at almost every level of government except for a brave and courageous individuals, corporations are now in charge. [applause] >> if i could add one thing. i don't say this to be facetious, justice scalia never covered a session of the texas legislature. i'm not sure that i want them with the balance of power, but i don't know that the state legislators are the places that should be choosing the centers today. >> i'm so sorry that we are out of time. >> i'm trying to pull the threads of the panel together to see if i can find some common ground, and believe me, this is very challenging, but i think i