>> michael: coming up tonight, confused republicans say if the irs had anything to do with benghazi, then by god they'll get to the bottom of it, even if they have to retap the phones of every reporter in washington. i'm michael michael shure you're in "the war room." the white house is now in a full defensive crouch battling scandals on all sides. there is the irs controversy the ongoing benghazi investigation and the department of justice tapping the associate press' phones. jay carney deserves a stiff

drink after a day like day. the department of justice reportedly tapped the phones of six reporters who contributed to a story about the planned terror plot. the problem was they published the article before the administration got to make a public announcement about the incident, and the white house had asked them to wait. the ap claims the administration said there was no national security risk in publishing it so they ran it. still john brennan now director of the c.i.a. called the ap report an unauthorized and dangerous disclosure of classified information. today jay carney denied that the president knew anything about the d.o.j. tapping the reporters reporters' phones before yesterday. >> the president is a strong

supporter of the first amendment and it's ability to conduct unfettered report reporting. he also of course recognizes the need for the justice department to investigate alleged criminal activity without undue influence. >> michael: can't help but wonder when you watch that what jay carney the reporter would have said to the jay carney the press secretary today. while that press conference was going on, so was another one with eric holder himself. he told reporters he had actually recused himself in other words, taken himself off the investigation because he is in frequent contact with the media. >> to avoid potential appearance of conflict, to make sure that the investigation was seen as independent i recused myself from this matter. >> michael: in fact, it is likely it was entirely legal. the u.s. law allows the

government to engage surveillance on the media or anyone else without meaningful judicial oversight. when you dial a phone number, you're volunteering this information to the phone company and which is free to the government. in this case holder said his department was concerned a serious crime might have been committed. >> this was a very serious--a very serious leak, and a very, very serious leak. i have been a prosecutor since 1976 and i have to say that this is among if not the most serious, the most serious leaks i've ever seen. it put the american people at risk. that is not hyperbole. this put the american people at risk trying to determine who is responsible for that i think requires very aggressive action. >> michael: still though holder is not getting a lot of cover

from congressional democrats. here is reid. >> i have trouble depending what the justice department did going after the ap. i really believe in the first amendment. i believe it's one of the great things we have as a country. i don't know who did it or why it was done but it's inexcusable, and there is no way to justify this. >> michael: that there is about steamed up as harry reid will publicly get. the republicans are also up in arms. not because they want to protect press freedoms but because they want to smell brood in the water. represent darrellissa said:of course what issa did not mention

back in 2007 he voted against the free throw of information act which would have forbidden subpoenaing phone records. i love that. they defeated it throw what else? a filibuster. and it doesn't end there. republicans are still up to the chin in benghazi scandal and dick cheney is jumping on board. he's accusing the president for lying about it to hide his own incompetence. this is the man who worked in perhaps the most incompetent white house there have ever. at least he doesn't let self awareness hold him back. >> i think it's one of the worst incidents i can recall in my career. if they told the truth about

ben, that it was a terrorist attack it would have destroyed the competence oh off this administration. >> michael: john bolton arrives another bush lackey, who pushed the wmd story. he's helping the national republican committee raise money off the benghazi attack. he wrote:the rnc is running an ad targeting hillary clinton the leading candidate for the white house.

>> about whether it knew about the benghazi attack. >> atwhat difference at this point does it make? >> the old hysterical attack. that will help republicans win over female voters. now the white house is firing back. jay carney reporting that they fabricated e-mails to make it look like they had change e-mails. the republicans then leaked those fake e-mails to the press. oh, a real scandal within a fake scandal. this won't create jobs, save the environment, but at least its entertaining. joining me now from washington, d.c. eleanor clift from the daily beast. welcome to "the war room." >> thank you. i really enjoy your set up. i'm sitting here chuckling. >> michael: we had a good time. hour producer was writing it all

day long. will the ap get more traction, is there more there, there as the president would say. >> the ap story hits home with reporters, and jay carney, of course is a former newsmagazine reporter. everybody is afraid of the chilling affect of having the government engage in this intrusive behavior. it seems to me withholder having stepped aside and they apparently fingered the deputy who gave this order and he'll be on the hot seat. i think holder is a short termer any way. i don't think he'll stay the full term. the president is a constitutional lawyer. he was getting questions about how does the constitutional lawyer feel about the sentencing

at the administration. one reporter asked why doesn't the president call up he can holder and ask him what is going on? well there is that wall between the fbi and the white house which we have thankfully result of the abuses of the knicksin' administration. if the president called up eric holder and asked what the hell was going on, the republicans may truly have an impeachable offense. watching all of these scandals erupt, and he's waiting for the i.g.'s report on the irs and he can't interfere in a criminal investigation, but benghazi is running his way and it's running out of steam and as the president puts it it's a media circus and republican witch-hunt. >> and it could have been

trumped up for politics. mitch mcconnell said, quote ask yourself how i would write about this if it were a republican administration. you were in that room today. take our viewers inside there a little bit. is there a little bit of unity among the press in that pressroom that doesn't exist there all the time when you're talking about a fox reporter, is every sort of one unit and pissed the way the ap thing has gone down? >> yes but everybody is operating on muscle memory. if they didn't live through watergate they read about it. they have all the phrases. carney was there the siege mentality in the west wing. you know, how does the president feel if this is his legacy? and carney is trying to separate out really three or four individual so-called scandals and educate the press core that i can't just wrap this all up in

one. the president is not all powerful. i don't know what he could do to go out and get in front of these scandals, and the press is very conscious of his own image being portrayed in the tank for obama. frankly i never felt that in the pressroom. this white house has pretty close contempt for the press corecorp and it's mutual. it's a very orchestrated relationship. >> michael: it seems that way and it puts carney in a strange situation because of his history. you know, ronald reagan fired the air traffic controllers not saying that i was in favor of that, but there was leadership. here is a problem and we'll get rid of the problem. could the president have come out and said, hey i'm going to the head of irs and telling eric holder, pack your bags. is there anything there?

>> it turns out there are only two political appointees with the irs. there is no director. there is only an acting director. i don't know what you gain by firing an acting director who only has been in place since late last year. you know, he can't really just fire people. >> michael: it might not really be in his best interest. >> right right. >> michael: go ahead. >> also,ed and with citizens united the agency was overwhelmed and they're all trying to get tracks breaks from the government. i'm amused that these conservative groups are confused that they have to wait in line to get their tax groups, and i think some progressive groups were targeted as well.

overwhelmingly the citizens united produced an onslot of social welfare groups applying for tax breaks, and they're on the conservative side. they went about it in a very stupid way but there will be push back, this is how the irs works. they use buzzwords they ferret out applications and send out lengthy questionnaires. >> michael: i'm about to talk about some of the things that have been obscured by all of these scandals which is immigration. it's a big part of president's--what he wanted out of his second term, and everything has happened since then. can he win on this by winning on immigration on the hill and make these things go away because they really don't touch him you know, the irs. >> i talked to mike mccurry

who was in the press when clinton was in the white house. there was a finance scandal but then you had leon panetta, newt gringrich as speaker negotiating a balanced budget deal. governing went on despite the onslaught of campaign finance stories, and everybody has forgotten about those stories now, it's all broken loose in campaign finance. what they remember is that clinton got things done in his second term before the lewinsky scandal. >> michael: that's exactly right. the president said he wants to get back to governing. that's what he'll probably do. eleanor clift. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> michael: turning now to the turn's agenda to the president's agenda. things are getting done in washington. here is a round up of news not getting covered during scandal

week. today the committee approved a massive farm bill. the republican led house proposed a farm bill but theirs would slash $23 billion from the food stamp program. that's shocking. of course it would. and on the immigration front the senate judiciary committee took a whack at the gang of eight's bill today. setting up an entry and exit system. senator from texas voiced his support for the measure and his reasoning was that the board should be more like, wait for it disney world. >> walt disney world in floor uses a bio metric to ensure that people don't commit ticket fraud. i would say if bio metric systems were that easy, affordable and good enough for the magic kingdom it ought to be

good enough for the united states of america. >> michael: crazy land. who said the border of mexico and the united states can't become the happiest day on earth. and finally to a story that we're going keep coming back to, the senseless senseless scourge in this country. today the new orleans police department identified a 1-year-old as the suspect in the mother's day shooting. sadly this is not an isolated incident. louisiana has the second highest number of gun deaths in the nation and also some of the weakest gun laws. no background checks for gun purchases, no license requirements for dealers. unfortunately, it doesn't get the attention that it deserves and so the death toll continue to rise while government continues to focus on made up

e-mails. karl rove, not to mention his billionaire buddies and plus who has got a cigarette? heavy is the head who wears the crown, especially when you're working with a bunch of court jesters, and it may take athletes wearing pink, men are becoming more aware we hope. it's "the war room" on a tuesday, and we'll be right back. out for us.

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organization tax exempt status. the report is expected to be officially released later this week. but conservatives are already chomping at the bit calling for heads to roll. jay carney was asked what the president plants to do. >> how could he possibly say what the consequence will be before we know what the facts are? shouldn't we let the facts be revealed by this independent inspector general report? >> michael: not an easy day to be him. yet u.s. attorney general eric holder trying to deflect attention from his own unfolding scandal is not waiting for the official release of the report. he has alreadied the fbi to launch an investigation into the irs. joining me is mother jones reporter andy col.

welcome in the war room. >> it's great to be here, thanks thanks. >> michael: yes. take a listen to the president yesterday. >> if in fact irs personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on, and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there is no place for it. >> michael: the president's comments have received a ton of criticism like this, quote rather than taking quicks firing those involved or opening an investigation with more teeth than the inspector general he's has left himself at the mercy of events and will be called to respond as details dribble out. is this a big misstep by the administration? should the president be doing more to get out in front of this issue? >> i think the president said he didn't learn about this really

in detail until last friday when congress learned about it, and and the rest of the public learned about it. the president has expressed outrage. he's taken aback that irs staffers, an agency that is supposed to be completely nonpartisan in no way favoring one side or another, has taken this course of action, and singled out conservative groups and tea partyers and the like. i'm not sure what more the president can do. his attorney general is starting a criminal investigation. you have a treasury inspector general that is doing an investigation on this, and this report has leaked out. every is saying that we're going to hold accountable those who have made mistakes. the president has stressed that himself. it's hard to see what more "d" the president calling for heads to roll could seem a little over the top. he has as much passion and anger

as you would expect him to. >> michael: this is a rogue irs in cincinnati. i'm not down playing what they did, but that's what it could come to, and the president's involvement is nil. the irs is an expert organization division received significantly more applications for tax exempt organizations last year going from 1741 in 2010 to nearly 3,000 applications in 2012. is the increasing number of applications a legitimate reason for why this happened? >> absolutely. this is a really important piece of context that is getting left out when you hear critics talk about this critics of this administration talk about this whole debacle.

2009, 2010, 2011, the number of applications the irs is receiving goes through the roof. you have organizations all over the country filing with the irs saying we want this special time of tax exempt status, and the irs is inundateed. it's a were duct of the rise of the tea party and a product of the citizens united decision that loosens how money flows through this system. >> michael: i don't think it's even in part. i think this is one of the masse results of what happened with citizens united. these groups would not be applying, and the irs would not be inundated if it were not for citizens united. >> to keep donors a secret, and tell us little about how they spend their money. this has become a we will of choice of groups who are trying to become involved in politics. the irs was trying to deal with

this influx of applications. theythey assigned a number of their staffers to deal with this. he where the train started coming off the rails they started looking for terms of tea party and that just smacks of bias or incompetence. experts all over say that's where they went wrong. but you have to understand the context of all these applications coming in, and the irs scrambling what to do with them. >> michael: do you think this is going to make them gun shy? do you think this will affect what they think are legitimate applications for these number of groups. >> without a doubt. i was talking to a former irs director, a guy who had been at the agency for 25 years. yes, the irs is going to be gun shy and the irs may take its foot off the pedal and look at

these non-profit groups who are abusing the tax law. they're going to get too involved in tax law than they should be. this scandal is really going to make them afraid of being aggressive, and it could put a damper on that kind of investigation that so many people say we need. >> michael: i want to point you to--i want you to watch something with me. a friend of the show, former naacp chairman said the scrutiny of the tea party was justified. i want to talk to you about what he said. >> i think it's entire legit to look at the tea party. look at the group of people who are admittedly racist, overtly political, who try the best they can to harm president obama in every way they can. >> michael: you know, if these are not social reform groups and they have a political agenda, what were you were just saying saying

about the gun shyness of the irs doesn't this hurt us as a country when these groups are not investigated in this way? >> it makes a mockery of the law. it allows groups to hide their donors and really hide in the shadows while trying to influence politics. i'm not going to paint every tea party group out there with the same brush and say that they're all trying to put a fast one by the irs but as this former irs director, who i talked to today. this is a guy for a decade ran the division that oversees these groups. he said people try to put a fast one over the irs every day. and it's the irs's job and people expect the irs to be tough, and scrutinize these groups. did the irs go over the line a little bit? this report suggests that, but the agency needs to be tough and anybody who knows anything about the law agrees with that.

>> michael: that's the big part that have. citizens united, these groups would not be going to the irs. that's andy kroll of mother jones. always smart thanks, andy. the president is looking more and more like luke skywalker and after the break donnie fowler playing the roll of obi won. i'm done with "star wars." we'll be right back.

>> michael: on the political front there is a feeding frenzy at the white house. the irs hubbub, ben and benghazi, and we'll see more. >> there is all this controversy and stories effecting the president and pursuing his agenda. >> the president is focused on what he believes the american people expects from him and from leaders in washington. you have seen that, and you will continue to see that in the days

and weeks and months ahead. >> you've got benghazi irs, doj, if you read some of the articles on this, it almost sounds like there is a siege going on. is there a siege mentality right now in the west wing? >> absolutely not. >> michael: chip reed has a great voice. it's been a bad week, folks and it's only two. politicos are saying this could be the derailment of the president's second term. how can the white house get back on track and preserve the message and push his agenda? there is only one person in america who can answer that question. joining us now is donnie fowler. it's been a bad week. i want to you take a look at some of the headlines that have shown up across the web today. president obama's disastrous political week. obama's new political reality bad news for dems in 2014, and is obama worse than nixon?

how significant will this week be for this white house? >> well, nixon's biographers are pretty happy too. >> michael: yes, the four of them are still around. >> we don't know how significant this week will be for a few months. some of these stories like the benghazi thing the republicans are crying wolf. they're there to requote the president. that's probably going to live long in the right wing talk radio circuit as they can keep it alive. the irs if it was a low-level person, then they're going to dismiss that person. other heads may roll, and that will pass, too. probably not a lot of leg to any of these stories. >> michael: do they touch the president. >> they distract the president. and they distract the president's staff. no matter what jay carney, the president's secretary tell you they're spending a lot of time

talking about these controversies, whether they have long legs or not they're spending time worrying about those, less time worrying on how to get votes for immigration and less time on making sure that obama-care gets implemented. >> michael: let's say your white house chief of staff donald fowler, and you are put in charge of turning this chip around, what do you do? >> you weather the storm. what we do know about this white house is they can take a lot of incoming fire, take a lot of bad weather and keep it moving. that was true in the campaigns of 2007 and 2008. if you are the chief of staff in this white house and you have got this president you weather the storm you plow threw through, and you know most of this will pass. this isn't the first time that president obama has been criticized. >> michael: it isn't, but this is a lot. if you think about it, since he won re-election a glorious night

for him there have been a lot of nights that have not been quite so glorious. >> the president is powerful but not omnipotent. the president has to be prepared for what he wants to accomplish and the unknowns and there is a lot of unknowns swirling around in the white house. >> michael: let's say you're advising the republican party. i personally don't believe they have the ball. >> they feel good about themselves right now. the republicans have two audiences to talk to. if they say one thing to their right wing base they often alienate the middle. take abortion gay rights, if you listen to rush limbaugh sean hannity, fox news they're talking to the base and they're having the best time of their life, at least the best time in the last few months.

they're criticizing the president, we knew that he was corrupt--but to most americans its partisan noise. it's negativity, it's not what they want. the more the republican party adopts the messaging of media and fox news, the worse they're going to be in broader american public. >> michael: that's such an interesting way to breaking it down. it seems exactly right. >> what they're mad about is the republicans want to have it both ways. they can't understand why the rest of the country does not think like their base think. >> michael: they want to have it both ways, and they need to have it both ways. they need to appeal--to win elections. the storm is weathered. we go back to real politics. let's go back to guns. kelly ayotte, the senator from new hampshire, she has taken a lot of heat in her home state about her vote on background checks. she voted against background

checks. and marco rubio and i remind you that ayotte is from new hampshire, live free or die. livewhy, donnie, i'm going to ask you this for a see shoesly as ask you. why would they go to run this ad. >> ayotte voted to fix background checks, fix the mental health screening and vote for reforces prosecuting guns. washington may not like it. >> this is the oldest play. the first three states to pick presidential nominees. you want to go and kiss the ring of every politician in the state. that's what marco rubio in florida is doing in the tiny state of new hampshire. >> michael: he's looking for a winter of 2015 endorsement.

>> he wants kelly ayott he'se's political staff to work for him. and he wants her support. >> michael: is this too early? >> no, my daughter who is two years old talked to me yesterday about running for new hampshire and asked if we could go. never too early. >> michael: i'm going to put an ad up supporting her. >> thank you. >> michael: donnie fowler, great as always. coming up, the deathment still apply unevenly and still ignored. and the march goes on in north carolina, and so do the handcuffs. [ singing ]

>> michael: more many governors few decisions are more god like than whether to spare human life. this kingly power has made for many nail biters and crime dramas over the years but now hollywood has one less state to draw from. martin o'malley signed lengths repealing the state's depth death penalty, and fulfilling a goal of his administration. >> we have a more responsibility to do more of the things that work to save lives and we also have a moral responsibility to stop doing the things that are wasteful and that are inexpensive and do not work and do not save lives. and that i would argue run contrary to the deeper principles that renight us unite us as americans and human beings. >> michael: the same justifications used last month where lawmakers gave final approval of a republican-led

proposal to reduce delays in executions. citing lengthy legal processes that come between conviction and execution. 24 wrongfully death row prisoners have been exonerated since the 1970s. the good news capital punishment is on the decline across america, even in texas by far the leader in the use of death penalty. we have the executive death penalty watch richard welcome to the war room. >> thank you very much. >> michael: executions are on the decline. why is this? >> i think the reason is innocence. dna testing, a new phenomena but mostly these people who have been freed and walk out in the arms of their lawyers or even

journalism students, these figures have been impressed on the jurors and the public so that they're less willing to impose death death sentences. courts know this. they're requiring better trials, better lawyers and the whole thing has slowed down in the face of skeptical in the cases. >> the death penalty is not part of the criminal justice system. i've talked to correctional officers, and they know there is a prison system and all the punishments involved. the death penalty is more part of the political system. it has sort of a symbolic value. it may help some people get elected or sound tough on crime but it's actually rarely used rarely imposed especially when it comes to executions. there

were 43 executions in the country last year. there were about 14,000 murders. there is no connection between the two but we pretend there is, and we pretend we need the death penalty to combat murder but it's not useed that way. >> michael: aside from the moral questions of execution let's talk about the high cost of capital punishment. does the recession have anything to do with the states moving away from this, and have prisoners been sequestered into not being executed. >> i think if the death penalty worked we would find a way of paying for it. but in the sense that it's not applied fairly in many cases. it's people who don't have resources perhaps minorities, people in a certain county get the death penalty go next door, you don't get it.

that sort of suspicion about the system, then coupled with the fact that it costs a lot to run it. a "n" a state like maryland they have not had an execution in six years. they had five people on death row after a period of almost 40 years having the death penalty. the whole thing was not making sense yet it was costing them millions of dollars. when you take a government program that is not working and then tell them how much it's costing taxpayers which is of paramount importance from 2007 on, you have six states from 2007 to today six states have abolished the death penalty. that was not happening ten years ago. >> michael: it certainly wasn't. timothy mcveigh richard was the last terrorism suspect. he many believe the dzhokhar tsarnaev of the boston marathon

bombing, could be next. could these be inclined the same way state cases are. >> it's not necessarily the severity of the crime that makes something federal versus state. you have to have some sort of national interest or perhaps interstate activities by the defendant, but certainly crimes, you know, stand out and even among those the federal government does not seek the death penalty very much. there are 3,100 people on death row, only about 60 are under the federal death sentence. we've had a thousand 300 had 1300 executions, only three of them have been under federal law. it's rarely used, and we have not had an execution for a long time in the federal system. it's a very selective process. and it does change from

administration to administration, of course. >> michael: of course, i would guess that it would. richard quickly before i let you go i want to look at these grabbics. since 1976, 256 executions have taken place when there was a black suspect and a white victim. and 18 have been carried out when the situation is reversed. >> the biggest problem with race is not what we thought that it might be the race of the defendant that may exist. but it's the race of the victim. if you kill someone who is less well-known or less important, so to speak if you kill a black person you're not likely to get the death penalty. of course, if you're a black

person who kills a white person, that is paramount. the reverse is rarely ever an execution to be carried out. >> michael: it's a disturbing thing to read and realize that it's part of real life. richard deiterish from the death penalty information center, enlightening stuff. now an occupy date on two civil rights events. in north carolina, this is sent in from the march on north carolina's general assembly. naacp president reverend barber, who we had on the show last week is 49 of those peaceful marchers were arrested by police. the scene was different in minneapolis. just minutes ago when signed in law, the bill legalizing same-sex marriage.

minnesota is the 12th state to allow same-sex marriage, and the first state in the midwest. as we try to appear hipper than we actually are lol, stick around. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv.

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>> michael: maybe it's been a rough week at the white house, but it haven't been a rough week for "the young turks" because they have mark thompson in charge.

mark what do you have planned for today. >> it has been fun and the white house meyered in more controversy but there was an approval of a deep oil rig to go into the gulf of mexico. yeah, that approval just came down in shell oil, they have it all under control don't you think? >> michael: nothing could go wrong. >> cenk: what possibly could happen? we'll talk about that, also the angelina jolie announcement. we have interesting perspective on that, and a former c.i.a. agent about the snafu in russia. i know time is short but we'll see you on "the young turks." >> michael: it's such a great show, everyone should be watching it. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> michael: now to what is making this war room actually laugh out loud house speaker john boehner is a thorn in our side so when nancy pelosi appears on msnbc last night and tossed this softball question we had to just smile.

>> is john boehner a weak speaker? >> well, i will say this, if he were a woman, they would call him the wakest speaker in history. >> why do you say that? >> because they don't get anything done. where are the results? where are the results? they have not been able to pass thing without us come together rescue. >> michael: well said. i wonder if pelosi and boehner still have a good relationship today. scottomg, a hand written response that guns fire chocolate. >> i really like your idea. if we had guns that fired chocolate, not only would our country be safer, it would be happier. i wonder if michael bloomberg is on board with this one. as for wtf we leave that with

brett erlich. calm down, everyone, it's just brett talking. >> it's day five of prince harry's visit to the united states or it should be called swoon fest 2013. america! keep it together! i know this guy is a prince, and he's hot man is he hot. and yes he's great with kids. soldiers paraolympickens random bury guys in the foreground, but come on we've already lost respect from different people across the world. let's not go ga-ga from some ginger kid. ladies in the front. ladies in the back. ladies creeping behind a pillar, do you think he doesn't see you? even jill biden is not immune. i guess i should expect varied reactions from the giggle to the

freak out. just don't make it so obvious. i can see you picturing your future with this man. even the air force mascot can't help but stare at him longingly. yes his smile is infectious, and so is his red hair, apparently. but we're the most powerful nation in the world! can we at least work on our poker face? i'm talking to you girl with the terrible poker face. i'm done talking now. so seriously give us a ring. >> michael: nice work, brett. thank you and thank you angelina jolie for using your celebrity status to keep advocating for women's health. chronicling her double mastectomy was profound. it stakes a hollywood sex symbol

to move the discussion forward. as jolie notes it has got to be a priority to ensure more women is access gene testing and life saving preventive treatment whatever their means and background whatever they live. right now on our website current.com /thewarroom you'll find resources in the bat against breast cancer. go check it out. thanks for joining us here. have a great night. "the young turks" are next. honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. dorothy lucy

♪ theme ♪ >> it's "the young turks." cenk is off. i'm mark thompson filling in. what a panel we have put together for a day that has brought more contraries and heat from the white house. dorothy lucey. >> did you say distinguished? ok. >> jayar jackson. never will you hear