force him to talk. there's a deliberate attempt. i think the irs -- the lois lerner e-mail is further indication of this to really hide from the american public the full scope of what is going on. i just want to mention, you all have a march for traditional marriage here in d.c. on thursday. it isn't the first year you've had it. do you expect folks from the other side will be there as well, and can you have a conversation in 2014 about being on two sides of a very testy issue? had. >> today is father's day, and one of the messages from the march for marriage is fathers as well as mothers are important to raising children. it's important society understands that basic proposition and does everything it can to support true marriage, traditional marriage. a man and a woman and any of the children that result from their union. that's what marriage is. we're going to continue to fight for it. >> keep us updated. >> your thoughts on what the u.s. should do about the crisis in iraq. you're burning up our twitter. it's back after this. c'mon, you want heartburn? when your favorite food start

why the agency claims the hard drives belonging to ex-official lois lerner and other staffers crashed before getting recycled and destroyed. john koskinen told them the agency is not at at all tifault >> this is a pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial. i don't believe you. this is incredible. >> i have a long career. that's the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. >> many republicans accuse the agency of obstruction committee chairman -- others say the irs as a whole is corrupt. >> this is a criminal enterprise. let's first of all just be honest about it. what makes this so very i think disheartening to the american people, the irs is the only federal agency that operates out of the bounds of the normal constitutional process. they can investigate you. they can charge you. they can punish you. all one-stop shopping. >> but a number of democratic lawmakers thought the treatment during the hearing was unfair. they say the investigation is a political witch hunt brought on by republicans. >> this he

-mails from lois lerner as well as six key irs employees. >> i've had irs employees who have e-mailed me this week who said all of their servers, it's not one little computer in washington, there are servers in three different places in the united states, the irs has a contract with a professional e-mail archiving company, i want to know why the fbi has not stepped forward to say what they have done to try to bring in their sophisticated capabilities. >> what's going to happen, tomorrow's hearing, will uncover, is the big question. and will it finally get to the bottom of those missing e-mails or should a special prosecutor be brought in to find them. we're going to discuss this a little later in the show, stick around for that report. >>> meanwhile, there are new developments on the crisis of our southern border. the u.s. government now preparing to fly hundreds of undocumented immigrants from texas to california, in hoping of easing the strain on overwhelmed immigration agents. do i understand, they're going to do some daily flights from texas to california, specifically to the san die

-mails including hearst. lois lerner at the center of the political targeting scandal of carpenter gro conservative groups. he denies there's any cover-up saying a computer crash caused the problem but turns out the hard drive that he says was destroy eed was standard procede but they were not buying his explanation. >> i don't believe you. >> i have a long career. that's the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. >> i don't believe you. >> that's fine. we can have a disagreement. i'm willing to stand on our record and remind it was not buried in 27 pages. most that have 27 pages is exhibits when asked about the custodians we advised you -- >> being forthcoming -- >> which we knew -- >> you know what, congress is investigating -- >> let him answer the question. >> i didn't ask him a question. >> wow. cover-up of illegal targeting or innocent computer mistake. tammy bruce. former adviser to hillary clinton for president. tammy, do you believe him? >> no, it concerns me that this man could have a long career and to one has confronted him about anything this. is part of the p

congressman will be joining us to weigh in. >>> and the irs says -- lois lern lerner's e-mails. how could this happen? we'll have a live report of the latest developments. >>> but first, we begin with the fox news weather alert. millions of americans from across the plains into the midwest bracing for severe weather tonight. a cold front colliding with warm, muggy air is expected to pound the region with large hail, high winds and isolated tornados. the storms could also lead to flash floods over the northeast, nebraska, northwest iowa and southeast south dakota along with southern minnesota. we're going to bring you the very latest forecast on the storms throughout this day. >>> and now, moving on to the crisis in iraq, sunni militants reportedly gaining more ground in the country's heartland. the lightning advance is just 60 miles from baghdad where another town has been seized. meanwhile, in the capital, young shiite men are lining up to stop the march towards background. connor powell is joining us with the latest on this fast breaking story. conor? >> the fear in baghdad is gro

, the irs says two years' rort of lois lerner's e-mails are destroyed and unrecoverable, e-mails possibly relating to the irs targeting scandal. but texas congressman gomert doesn't believe it. he says those e-mails are out there and he's offering $1 million from the irs' budget to anybody that can produce the e-mails. and he has a warning for anyone knowingly keeping those e-mails secret. >> if you help to hide evidence in what will ending up being a criminal case, guess what, you're part of the crime. so take your pick. a million bucks to come up with all the e-mails, or go to prison as part of the crime, your choice. >> congressman gohmert is offering $500,000 to anyone who can provide information on who may have destroyed the e-mails. meanwhile, the irs says it's working to try to comply with the house ways and means committee's request for more documents on the e-mails and computer crash which supposedly erased all those e-mails. there was a letter sent to the chairman of the committee saying, quote, we will get as much information to you next week. i had hoped to provide yo

the very latest on lois lerner's lost e-mails from d.c. hello, everybody. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. we begin with this fox news alert. iraq remains under siege as 300 u.s. military advisers make their way to that country. sunni militants continue to capture iraqi cities and are less than 50 miles from baghdad. a battle rages on with one of iraq's major oil refineries surrounded by militants and insurgents claiming they won't stop until the al maliki government gets out of the way. now we are seeing thousands of shia supporters parading through the streets of baghdad as a show of force. we have fox team coverage. john is standing by in our middle east bureau but let's begin with molly right here in d.c. >> uma, the white house says there is strong concern here and among our allies over the, quote, rapid progress that the sunni muslim militants have been able to make in taking over parts of iraq. president obama, as you said, has sent 300 military advisers, not combat troops but advisers, to help stem the insurgency, but so

would offer a million dollars to anyone who can recover the lost e-mails of lois lerner. this after irs commissioner john koskinen testified that he has seen no evidence that anyone committed a crime when his agency lost those e-mails. molly henneberg is live in washington with the very latest on all of this. hi, molly. >> reporter: hi, patti ann. louis gohmert says the missing e-mails are, quote, out there, that someone has them or has access to them. and maybe this reward money will encourage someone to come forward. where would the $1.5 million for anyone that can produce or 500,000 offering in the legislation for anyone who can say who damaged them or who deleted them, so where is that $1.5 million in reward money coming from? gohmert says the legislation he's proposing would take it out of the irs's budget. >> this doesn't increase the amount of spending for the government because it comes right out of the irs's own spending. look, despite all the poor woe is us stuff from the irs commissioner, they have the best of hardware. they've got the best of software. they can afford this.

. >>> new developments in the irs scandal. the agency saying it cannot find many of lois lerner's e-mails, apparently because her computer crashed back in 2011. the revelation sparking outrage among lawmakers. elizabeth prann is live in washington with the latest. hi, elizabeth. >> reporter: hi. you're right, congressional lawmakers say this latest news is unacceptable. chairman of the house oversight committee darrell issa is accusing the internal revenue service of, quote, playing games. but the irs says it has already and is in the process of producing more than 67,000 e-mails from the account of lois lerner who, as you know, headed the irs division that processed applications for tax exempt status. the agency says there are a number of untold e-mails sent and received by lerner, which may be lost due to a computer crash. in a letter to congress on friday, irs officials say some of lerner's e-mails between january of '09 and april of 2011 had been wiped out years ago writing in part, in the course of collecting and producing ms. lerner's e-mails, the irs determined her hard drive

-mails from lois lerner, whether it's e-mail that went between her and the federal elections commission, the white house or treasury. we're going to continue to pursue all those lines of inquiry. >> reporter: now the lawyer for some conservative groups suing the irs say officials have started coming forward to her to say it's crazy for the irs to claim they can't find lois lerner's messages, even if her hard drive was wiped. >> i've had irs employees who have e-mailed me this week who said all of their servers -- it's not one little computer in washington, that there are serve rs in the united states. the irs hays contract with a professional archiving company. >> lawmakers are brushing off any controversy basically saying, there's nothing to see here. >> there is no scandal here. they went after the left and the right, arguably. here what this is about is destruction, just like the whole benghazi thing. >> reporter: the white house said this week they don't think an independent prosecutor needs to investigate the irs targeting scandal saying the obama administration has alre

defending his client lois lerner on state of the union. this is just one of the controversies that president obama has dismissed as phony. >> investigators trying to track down e-mails to and from irs officials say they basically see these crashed hard drives as speed bumps. while it's not certain what may or may not have been typed out in terms of orders to targeted conservative groups, one thing is certain over the committee chairman darrell issa, lois lerner broke the law. >> she knew she had to preserve these e-mails and not have print to paper, which is a policy she had to know, is pretty hard to believe that there aren't paper copies. so do i believe that she printed to paper? yes. she's an attorney of long standing, and it's kind of hard to believe that you wouldn't cover with your own paper copies. >> but lois lerner's lawyer says the e-mails that can't be found now are from way before the alleged targeting, so it's their opinion that the messages are irrelevant. and the congressional complaints about missing files and broken laws amount to election politics, that's it. >>

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facing questions and why more than two years worth of e-mails from lois lerner disappeared. the e-mails just happen to be covering a critical period of the congressional investigation. they say a hard drive was destroyed and vanished. more from washington. >> reporter: rithe irs commissioner remained adamant as he told lawmakers the agency is not guilty. ex-official learnes's hard drive crashed before getting recycled and destroyed. backups e-mails were kept for six months. he pointed to a report about inspector general of the freshry department concluding while agency employees had acted improperly, there was no evidence of political motivation. >> i don't think that an apology is owed. there is not a single e-mail that has been lost since the start of the investigation. >> reporter: while agency says hard drives belonging to several other staffers also crashed, a number of republicans dismissed the explanation. >> they have no credibility eith either. what's frustrating is to have the commissioner of the irs say repeatedly no e-mails have been lost since an investigation started

realized it lost lois lerner's e-mails requested by congress and promised by commissioner john koskinen? do they really expect the american people to believe that after having withheld these e-mails for a year. they're just now realizing the most critical time period is missing, end quote. betsy joins me now, hi. >> hey, there. >> it is hard for some people to grasp that it's possible to lose e-mails in this day of high technology. >> absolutely. and on top of that, the federal records act is in place. specifically so that federal records like this won't disappear, for example, if a computer crashes. there's law already on the books making it so that this isn't supposed to happen. and sources that i spoke with earlier said it's possible someone in the irs violated this law by failing to back up lois lerner's e-mails. >> is that it? is that the end of the story? or is there another avenue to get access to lois lerner's e-mails, maybe the suggestion of retrieving some of the recipient's e-mails? >> that certainly seems like it's within the realm of possibility. and given the ener