Treasury Secretary Jack Lew discusses the IRS scandal and the economy in his first network television interview that will be broadcast tonight, July 24 on the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH Scott Pelley (6:30-7:00 PM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Get a sneak peek below!
Lew sat down with Pelley today at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. Clickhere to watch an excerpt of the interview on CBSNews.com.
A transcript of the excerpt is below.
PELLEY: Are you satisfied today that politics is wrung out of the IRS and does not influence the decisions that are made there?
LEW: With all of the investigation that's gone on, there has been no evidence of any political decision-making in the IRS. There was clearly bad judgment. The President said that. I said that. We put in place a new acting commissioner who has done what he was asked to do to get to the bottom of it and to go forward building a strong IRS that the public can be confident in.
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