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 problem and the republ

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we'll have 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 ins

lois lerner must be the best criminal mastermind ever. could it may be just be that the computer crashed? >> no. >> rodell,s let me ask you something, you being an astute politicians and very savvy, if you lost your e-mails and you went to the irs, before the irs, knowing they're investigating you, said, i lost all my e-mails and the hard drives for the last seven years, how would you anticipate them treating you? >> this is what i would say. back in 2006 when the same thing happened with republicans when 5 million e-mails went missing during the u.s. attorney general -- i'm sorry, the u.s. attorney scandal and white house, we can't find the e-mails, democrats fumed and at the end of the day there was absolutely no proof that the republicans did anything wrong. >> distraction, distraction. >> if republicans and congress right now will find proof something was done wrong, then they should bring it up. but for right now, this is a lot of conjecture and a lot of political theater. >> he asked what you would say, rodell. this is deflection an

. >>> 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 growinging as the city

. >>> could the missing lois lerner lost e-mails turn up by the end of next week? that's what the irs chief is telling the house ways and means committee he hopes happens. maybe just in time as one congressman proposes offering a $1 million reward for the e-mails' return. a live report on that coming up. >>> and news this week that the world's biggest economy, ours, is shrinking as the gdp takes a big dive. we'll have how the economy can make a comeback. >>> obamacare is not the answer. tax increases are not the answer. >> i'm uma pemmaraju, america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. >>> we have breaking news to begin this hour. benghazi suspect ahmed abu khattala now in the u.s. ahead of his controversial civilian trial. u.s. special forces capturing him in libya two weeks ago. until now he's been aboard a navy ship being questioned by authorities. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is following the story from the u.s. district courthouse here in d.c. jennifer, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, uma, as you men

that's after over two years of e-mails from former top official lois lerner goes missing. now lawmakers turning up the heat. >> monday our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we learned six other hard drives of the people we are investigating were involved. you didn't tell us that. >> we told you on monday. >> on monday. >> what did you do -- >> because we asked you! >> what did you do with that information? >> you told us on monday because we asked you whether any other hard drives crashed. this sun believable. >> joining us now, john mccormack, senior writer for "the weekly standard." that got hot. john, let me start by asking you -- we -- your analysis of the commissioner's investigation of the events as a whole. >> it just seem to defy belief that he would lose that many e-mails from that many people at the center of an investigation. it raises a lot of red flags. he appeared smug and defiant. optics look bad. he said he offer nod apologies because they 00 lost any e-mails since the investigation began. critical e-mail years talkin

>> and what's real to the american people, 12% believe lois lerner, fox news poll 12%, believe lois lerner accidentally lost the e-mails. 76%, they don't believe her and they want this investigation to go on. >> and the investigation will. reality on that front will step in when they find illegal activity to charge her on or give her immunity so we find out what's going on. >> three out of four americans want this investigation to go on. >> let me ask you about this, because we have a couple members of congress, including louie goldman, the secretary out of texas, and the other one is eluding me. the two of them have started this piece of legislation. they want to put a bounty so if you work for the irs and you can find them, you get a million dollars. there are some people, because that bill also includes something that would cut all irs pay by 20% until the e-mails show up. is that the type of thing you're saying the gop is politicizing, and some will say that's cheesy and they're doing it for points? >> i think it's cheesy and it's a travesty in this country. we pay the irs, we pay thos

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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 energy with which chairman issa and the committee have investigated this, it's safe to assume they'll go down every avenue possible to find these e-mails. but the fact that the irs has been so uncooperative has probably not helped their case very much. >> so then you have commissioner koskinen, will he come under fire for perhaps not being able to deliver the request that congress made? >> commissioner koskinen certainly has a credibility problem. he's not making any friends on the oversight and government reform committee. he's not making friends with any of the congressional committees investigating this. and i think it's very likely he'll be criticized much more in the future over the fact that these really important documents just vanished into thin air. >> you've got viewers watching this, people saying, wait a minute, the irs can't find information? they certainly ca

. >> i do think there is an opportunity to piece together the missing e-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 ir

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 starts a fight, fight back fast, with tums. heartburn rel

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