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back to the syrian issue he said i have got to wait until congress tells me what i can do. g the same thing with congress. rather than leading setting back and saying let congress work it out instead of proposing a simple plan to treat children who come here from central america like we do immigrants from mexico and canada. >> betsy? >> the optics could not be worse. but at the same time you can't really blame him for wanting to take a vacation. the last couple months have been probably not the most pleasant of his presidency. you have the bowe bergdahl pr debacle. the drip drip drip drip of the agonizing v.a. scandal. all the al gonizing emails. on top of that the president's recent fundraising trip to colorado. democrats from that state gave him an enormous -- didn't want to be seen with him. >> picture of him shooting pool. you can't begrudge these trips but what they give us, they look like they are shooting pool, playing golf and doing others and we have these huge crises. >> i think actually the white house in a weird way is encouraged by those types of images. they li

and then suddenly four days later, you tell the finance committee, the congress, more importantly the american people, you know what, we lost lois lerner e-mails. we have lost a bunch from that time period. my theory is this. you guys weren't ever going to tell us until we caught you. we caught you because judicial watch did a request. they found out there was this collaboration going on between the justice department and the irs. we took that e-mail. we interviewed mr. pilger. he told us he met with lois lerner in 2010. we then subpoenaed justice. they complied and gave us the e-mail. we say, why didn't you give it to us? then you knew you were caught. you said -- he didn't tell us this but you knew. we didn't give it to you because we don't got it. now we have to tell the world, we lost them. what bert time to do it than friday june 13th, saying we are complying with some senate concern. send in ta letter, put it on page 7 of the third addendum and say, you know what, we may have a problem with lois lerner e-mails. that's what i think. i think all kinds of people logically going thr

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tell congress and the epa to stand up to big oil.the renewable fuel standard. >>> imagine your 3-year-old being kicked out of preschool. it happens a lot more often than you might think. especially to black children. it could be the start of a downward spiral that ruins their lives. cnn's sara sidner looks at the preschool to prison pipeline. >> cat in the hat. >> reporter: 4-year-old jj and 3-year-old brother noah is doing what children their age do. running and playing one minute, pushing the next. when they act up at home, they're disciplined. >> i think they're typical 3 and 4-year-olds. >> reporter: but at school? >> he has been suspended about five times. >> reporter: at three? >> at three. and i can't make this up. i wish i was. he hit one of the teachers on the arm and they sent him home. and they said that they considered that hitting to be a danger to the staff. >> reporter: the most recent report says 7500 children nationwide were suspended at least once from public preschool. yes, preschool. the alarming numbers reported

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the irs is using that special inspector general investigation as an experiencuse to not tell congressant to mess with the inspector general investigation. so, you know, now the other question is whether or not he shouldn't have the court appoint a forensic investigators. >> there are civil lawsuits that are going on -- moving forward separate from these probes you were talking about. and judges have asked the irs to explain the missing e-mails. judge reggie waltton in washington, does he have the capacity to appoint a forensic expert and do his own investigation of what happened? >> he absolutely does. in fact, that's the question that is facing him right now. last friday the irs filed a declaration with him giving him a bit of bland information about the history, supposedly, of twhapd to the tapes and the hard drive. he has to decide whether or not that answer is adequate and whether or not he wants to appoint a forensic investigators. let's hope he does. i think that's going to be one of the only ways we actually get some public information about what is happening at the irs. >> her

meanwhile, the irs is using that special inspector investigation as an excuse to not tell congress thingsying, we don't want to mess with the inspector general's investigation. so, you know, now the other question is whether or not you shouldn't have a court appoint a forensic investigator to look at this. >> let me ask you that. there are some civil lawsuits that are going -- moving forward separate interest these probes that you were talking about. and judges have asked the irs to explain the missing e-mails. is judge reggie walton, for example, in washington, does he have the capacity to appoint, say, a forensic expert who could go in and do his own does.tigation of what happened? in fact, that's the question that's facing him right now. last friday the irs filed a declaration with him giving him a bit of bland information about the history supposedly of what happened to the tapes and to the hard drive. >> right. >> he now has to decide whether or not that answer is adequate and whether or not he wants to appoint a forensic investigator. let's hope he does, paul, because i think that w

why you delayed telling congress. i think it is the case that the standard that would be applied to an official such as yourself is not simply what you actually knew but what you should have known. you can't bury her head in the sand and not know what people in your organization know. that is going to be a question. there were people at the leadership level early in february new but the problems are more substantial than what you indicated to us. why did you not know more? that goes into what this is being investigated by the justice bremen. i want to be lobbying charges. this is a transcript. the commissioner at the irs delayed telling congress is a matter that you're going to investigate. we are going to look into what the circumstances were around that. we are concerned about it. the doj seems concerned about it. that is important to know. you mentioned that you have seen the ways and means test release about their interviews with different irs technical witnesses about what happened to the hard drive. they told wa

now a lot has been gone on about when you knew, why you delayed telling congress. and i think it is the case that the standard that would be applied to an official such as yourself is not simply what you actually knew, but what you should have known. in other words, you want bury your head in the sand and not be apprised of what people in your organization know. and so i think that's going to be a question is clearly there were people at the senior leadership level in the irs early february, mid february, who knew that the problems were more substantial than what you indicated to us that you personally knew. so the question's going to be, you know, why did you not know more. and i think that goes into what i and some other folks have raised, and i know my friend mr. cartwright disputed the notion that this is being investigated by the justice department. and just so we're clear, because i don't want to be lobbying charges that aren't true. here's transcript from last week's hearing. chairman jordan, the fact that the commissioner, meaning you, at the internal reven

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he waits until june 13th to tell congress. there is no way a private citizen who is under investigation by the fbi who loses important details waits months to tell the fbi. >> what do you think is going on here? it appears on the outside there is a strategy of delay or distract. >> totally. >> and the story continues to change. what do you think is behind this? >> that has been the strategy from the get-go. slow walk everything, dragging their feet, give us documents on 4:00 on friday or right before a holiday. it has been their strategy throughout. the good news is even though i think the justice department is the investigation they need but they admitted they are going to investigate why they waited four months to tell us they lost lois lerner's e-mails. that is one positive step. and each time we interview somebody we learn something new. it would be nice if the irs would accommodate us and not make us have to subpoena folks. but we will keep digging, get to the truth, because this was the most fundamental violation you can

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this is her first interview since telling congress of the boko haram.error group kidnapped and holds hundreds of nigerian school girls. >> they shot my dad in his chest three times. >> folk co-haram is a dangerous, evil radical extremist islamic group, more than 200 girls and young women kidnapped by islamic extremists. last several years. >> shoot my brother that's when my dad died. i was in shock. >> and joining us debra peter and her lawyer immanuel oglebay. nice to see both of you. thank you both for joining us. debra, it's particular itly nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> you have moved to the united states last september, right? >> yeah. >> having had a horrendous experience. what happened to your family? >> on december 22nd, 2011, my dad was killed by boko haram the night before -- so, that night me and my brother, we were at home. and then we started hearing the gun shooting. so my brother called my dad and tell him not to come back home because my dad is at work. so he told my brother that he is going to come back home because he ha

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tell congress what happened to the emails, right, guilfoyle. >> this is great.hin one day, you have two different judges, one judge reggie walton, a bush appointee and you have u.s. district judge emit a clinton appointee telling the government you have got to turn this over. there is something nefarious going on. we want to know all the information you have about the emails. >> under oath. >> under oath. >> fill out an affidavit. >> unfortunately it took two different groups, true the vote, okay, to put this case forward. >> and judicial watch. >> in front of judge to compel action. >> the judicial groups sued the judges ruled. now somebody from the irs, i bet you it won't be with the commissioner. >> no. he will will designate some flunky to go up there to testify under oath. >> probably pick somebody who doesn't know anything. >> it's not really the point though, because what they have asked to remember so even some guy that doesn't know a whole lot. they have got to go to say these are all the ways we try to do it. everybody else out there knows that you can

that was arizona congressman raul moments ago speaking before a hearing on the border crisis, telling congress to stop blaming the unaccompanied kids for the nation's problems. it's a crisis that congress has fewer than three days to tackle before summer recess starts at the end of their workday on thursday. with house republican leadership presenting the details of their border bill to party colleagues earlier today, it falls well short of $3.7 billion the president initially asked for. speaker boehner telling reporters after that meeting that he expects a vote on the bill to come thursday, but that there is still more work to be done. >> i think there's sufficient support in the house to move this bill. we have more work to do, though. >> and he appears to have a lot of work with even some in his own party. here is iowa's steve king criticizing the republican bill just after that conference meeting today. >> there's nothing in here that cuts off the funding to enforcing daca. if we don't make that statement and the president opens up 5 million people to a similar policy, we have essentially

tell congress and the epa to stand up to big oil. don't gut the renewable fuel standard. >>> for weeks now the problem has been building, immigrants, hundreds every day streaming over the southern beaoarder, so women and children, hundreds a day swapping immigration authorities overwhelming boarder towns in texas and arizona and sparking protest in towns like marietta, california north of san gee yed diego with a federa facility for holding and processing. the hard-pressed mayor in a m t moment but first, fed up constituen constituents. >> reporter: chanting go back home a wall of protesters blocked the road into the marietta boarder patrol station. >> you are obstructing the road way. please move or you will be cited. >> reporter: as anger grew in the crowd, some not understanding these my grants were all from central america, tempers flaring, one protester spitting at an immigration right supporter. >> don't talk to me. >> reporter: the buses with many women and children turned around, 140 undocumented my gra migrants left for anot

tell congress and the epa to stand up to big oil. don't gut the renewable fuel standard. >>> welcome back to "the the lead." i'm jake tapper and time for the world lead. nuri al maliki says the top priority for his country is to fight isis or isil or getting them under control. that's the top priority, not forming a new government through political reconciliation between sunni, shiites and kurds. that doesn't quite seem to square with what the white house said a short while ago. >> if iraq intends to successfully fight the threat posed by isil it will require a united nation of iraq. a nation of iraq will only be united if there is a unified government that is representative of iraq's diverse population. >> we are also learning that those u.s. forces sent to gather intel and advise the iraqi military are starting to get some answers. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr, what are these advisers saying? >> it may not be a surprise that so far the advisers are pretty optimistic about the iraqi forces, but there are skeptics who onc

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this is a month ago in june telling congress "we confirm backup tapes from 2011 no longer existed because they've been recycled pursuant to the irs normal policy." today, they do exist. i don't know how they found them, he testified. karl. >> well, it's actually worse than that because he made that statement and then did not proactively come forward and say i found new information. in fact, what happened is last a week ways and means investigators interviewed the deputy council at the irs, thomas cain. and he said we think we now found them and we think they now exist, that information was released on monday. there's been no attempt by commissioner koskinen to come up to congress since his mistaken testimony and correct the record. >> uh-huh. >> it's even worse than you depict. >> so that speaks to the backup tapes of these alleged e-mails. then they ask them specifically about the hard drive, which the irs had earlier told congress that thing is destroyed. no data is recoverable. that's exactly what they told them. they said it in court and they actually said it in july. here's the decla

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and now, suddenly, a top irs official telling congress is he uncertain whether backup tapes of thosestill exist or not. darrell issa joins us, good evening, sir nchesz good evening, greta it does appear from the interview with cain that in fact they didn't destroy them all. they didn't overright them all or at least they are not sure. >> all right. well what do you know and why are you just learning this now? >> we are just learning it now because they didn't take our order to preserve documents, something that you as a lawyer would understand. if you are in a lawsuit, the first thick you do is you understand you can't destroy any documents even in the ordinary course. they obviously didn't gather the documents. they didn't take care and they are not sure if they have got tapes hanging around that contain these backups. as a matter of fact, their change, if you will in this transcribed interview, really tells us the -- they are not just sure what to tell us they have because they are not sure what they have yet. this is exactly why this investigation is taking so long, why the commis

knew there was issue with former irs official lois lerner's email in april but koskinen didn't tell congress and the public about it until mid-june. >> we like to know about the loss of emails. >> this is big deal he waited two months. >> depend what circumstances. >> the circumstances he knew in april. i asked him last week he knew in april. why didn't you tell us, he waited two months. >> i would like to know all the circumstances from him as to why there was two-month wait. >> i would have known right away as well. >> before i answer the question whether it's a big deal. >> reporter: let's look at house oversight committee hearing lawmakers are pressing the united states attorney general have a attorney general for d.c. take a contempt citation to a grand jury. there was criticism this is the 10th hearing on irs matter. >> the irs spent more than $11 million responding to congressional investigations. it is time to stop wasting me as a tax -- millions of taxpayer dollars and start focusing on reforms to help our government work more effectively and efficiently for the american people. >>

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a top white house official said the officials will tell congress without that money, they could run out of space to house those children very quickly. >> jim acosta, thank you so much. >>> and while politicians in washington are battling it out over solving this crisis at the border it's important not to lose focus over those who are caught in the stalemate. 50,000 children who have been picked up at the u.s./mexico border since last october. the majority of those kids escaping violence and poverty in central america, they come from guatema guatemala, honduras and el salvador and some families are trying to help including gabriela and lois who are trying to foster a child coming to the u.s. from central america. gabriela, you are now a citizen but you came to the u.s. illegally as a 3-year-old. what's it like seeing images of these young children without their parents at these border facili facilities? >> it's very heartbreaking because all these children want to do is better their lives. they try to cross the border and try to get an education and get a decent job, to send money back.

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