congressman randy forbes of virginia and andrea are among our guests here tonight. a different tone set by the new irs commissioner as he faced tough questions from the house ways and means committee, he told lawmakers he will cooperate with the six separate investigations into the irs targeting of conservative groups. but he also said he is eager to move forward. >> it doesn't serve my ability to manage the agency to go back in time and try to look at any particular activity. >> also expressed concern about the amount of time and manpower being spent on those investigations. calling it, quote, a major drain on irs resources. but he went on to defend his recent decision to reinstate those irs bonuses more than $60 million worth. >> i think it's important to see this in the perspective in terms of the performance awards. only go to probably somewhere between 50 and 65% of the employees and they allow us to settle litigation. >> referring to a lawsuit by the national treasury employees union. what we've witnessed is head of the internal revenue service telling one of

randy forbes of virginia. we want to bring up our twitter question.medal count in sochi. did the country when the olympics overall? tuna said bloomberg surveillance. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. up 28.ures are the 10 year yield is 2.74%. spring weekend in new york city. it was glorious. scarlet fu and adam johnson are with us. the glorious betty liu is with us. >> it is 25 days to spring. the polar vortex is back this week. just without was safe to be outside. >> i know. i was wearing a t-shirt and shorts this weekend. -- did anybody have a myspace account? the cofounder of myspace is joining me. he has moved onto other things outside of myspace after it died on the vine when it was bought by news corp.. your governor david paterson up tooin us. is teamed create a new company called the jobs channel network. to gete as social media people jobs in the united states. >> it is time now for our morning at numbers. futures are up five. a downgrade from apple. this is not a standard brokerage. the share prices down a quarter of one percent. >> that is about

joining us randy forbe. >> the president has warned the russias, secretary kerry has warned the russians. as well as ukrainians. you don't think much will come of those wning >> lou, i don't think that you see the russians shaking in their boots. after all the russian told the president to take our missile defense systems out of europe, and preside said yes, sir, and took them out, put them on the back of our navy, and gave the navy no additional asset to do that. now he is cutting asset that navy has, i don't think that the president right now has t credibily necessary to back up many of his statements. lou: and do you have a view as to what likely putin will do in ukraine? >> lou, one thing that we're always afraid of, when you see the vacuums then you kno president putin may try t to -- exhibit some of his muse, a react on world react, not u.s. reacted we're hoping he ll be deliberate and not do, that let the ukrainian people work this ou forever themselves, no matter how difficult tt work out might be. lou: i was to turn to the iue of defense spending, andudget cuts, that are being i

don't do than coming up, amy and chris wallace, congressman randy forbes also live. >> great lineup.ten rid of that. that's an old photo. >> you're going to be checking my pulse. >> who cares about you? >> i don't want a headset. >>> coming up, funding for entitlements has never been higher. we are gutting the military. we will talk about the cuts to the military. >>> and now another state is going to pot? is it yours? that coming up. >> but first, the trivia question of the day, born on this day in 1981, he got his break as a teenager when he sang with celine dion as a grammy awards rehearsal. who is it? ♪ honestly? i wanted a smartphone that shoots great video. so i got the new nokia lumia icon. it's got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twenty-megapixel sensor. it's got the brightest display, so i can see what i'm shooting -- even outdoors, and 4 mics that capture incredible sound. plus, it has apps like vine -- and free cloud storage. my new lumia icon is so great, even our wipeouts look amazing. ♪ honestly, i want to see you be brave ♪ ♪ [ alarm sound for malfunctioning print