Jason Chaffetz

It scares me to death that you think that. It just really does.

I do think he should be impeached. I do think he should get out of government.

Did they or did they not destroy the evidence? They did.

Potentially one of the things that I'm concerned about is the FBI never interviewed Mr. Koskinen.

I believe the Constitution is an inspired document and our Founders put this mechanism in place specifically on civil officers.

The Administration knows it can delay and we can't let them get away with it.

What Congress really wants is access to the documents and the witnesses, because that is the lifeblood of any investigation.

Did they provide false and misleading testimony to Congress? Yes and on more than one occasion.

The first question you have to ask is did they destroy documents that were under subpoena. I think the answer is clearly yes.

That's my understanding.

I think what we would find is that, in fact, we were lied to in Congress, we were misled in Congress, that there was gross negligence.

That is correct. In fact, they said, 'could select organizations for examinations in an unfair manner.'

I think that is part of it, yes. Yes, I do.

Isn't it a fact that the Senate Finance Committee, the Department of Justice, and the Treasury Inspector General all investigated this alleged IRS scandal that is the subject of this hearing today and each one of those entities found that…

It's hard to understand nor can I definitively identify the motive. But I also think there is an underlying belief in the executive branch that the legislative branch isn't going to stand up for itself.

I think that goes back to 2011, if I recall, Dave Camp and the Ways and Means Committee.

He has the duty and obligation, a legal obligation, under a subpoena to comply with that subpoena.

The remedy given to us in the Constitution is impeachment.

The IRS targeting scandal was un-American. The IRS is the most powerful and feared entity in the United States.

This is really a simple case, in my mind. When Congress asks you a question, you're expected to give a truthful answer.

Absolutely. I think that issue has been clearly documented.

Yeah, it does appear then that in the case of Lois Lerner that there was a concerted effort to target.

So until this body begins to incrementally assert itself with impeachment--acknowledge being the ultimate penalty.

The remedy is, I think, urgent.

Mr. Koskinen did not tell the truth to Congress.