Ted Cruz Demands Accountability for IRS Targeting

the lead attorney now in that investigation woman by the name a barber Bassermann that was the question

here as we watch Ted Cruz lesson did you know that the lawyer in charge of this investigation was a major Obama down well

first off I didn't characterization of this lawyer as the case I think is not correct generally with all respect you did

not answer the question I asked which is did you know that this lawyer was a major Obama donor no I know

I don't know anything about the political activities of any of the people who are involved in this investigation well Bassermann came under fire when it was thousand

dollars today during the two thousand eight two thousand twelve allow cycles and mostly was given to the president's team president Obama Stephen Hayes senior

writer weekly standard how are you Steve fox's controllable live in DC good morning to you you

not even interviewed yet and why would that be and what it Ted Cruz had to say about well I thought I thought that was one of the most interesting lines of questioning that senator crews used against

Attorney General holder I mean it is it has been nearly a year we were approaching the year anniversary of this and

it is the case that most of those targeted by the IRS haven't even been interviewed what kind of an investigation is taking place if the victims of the

know how do you best to get if you don't talk to the victims it's tough to do yeah it is in any look at me the victims have spoken to me they sort of Intel and their their

the at least the facts of what happened are given that the scrutiny that they receive but it would seem to me that investigators who

are actually serious if they are serious looking at what happened would want to be talking to the victim but now there are allegations that the administration by way the treasury partner partner is trying to do this yet again by another

route it's something called a C4 it's run through the treasury department and Mitch McConnell was out with Meghan last night and

McConnell with Meg Nixon tried to use they are asked to go after his enemies back during Watergate and

the commissioner of our us said no so we got a new commissioner over it where they are us I

think we want to see if he has the integrity to stand up to this White House like they are as commissioner did when Richard Nixon was trying to use the IRS to achieve a

that he can run this impartially I'm do you think you can do it fairly or they're still questions surrounding this well

I think you can do it fairly the question is whether he will do it fairly and we know that the administration has made quite a priority of redefining what is

understood in that in the context of five a one C. force as political activity what does what is political activity meat and in effect what the

administration wants to do is codify or further categorized the kinds of activities the

kind of scrutiny that the iris brought upon these conservative groups a year ago they want to make that part of the new rule so

non political activities that these tea party groups and others have but one McConnell said is that he wants to see a statesman in charge of the IRS and

I think I think that's right look at all all of this with it Mitch McConnell whether it's Ted Cruz whether it's from Lindsey Graham asking questions of Eric holder about

Benghazi there has been it seems to me over the past year a serious lack of accountability and that's just a word that we don't hear in the context of the