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night we'll see you back here tomorrow nht. lou: good evening thank you for being with a number of development in two of obama scandals at this hour, house judiciaryommity is determines whether attorney general eric holder purged himself in front of congress, and irs targets scandal has moved to the nation's capital. we know that internal revenue serviceas identified workers in their cinciati office who may have information related to the scandal, some of those 88 pele have already talked with congressional investigators. and ty are pointing tohe irs headquarters in washington. cincinnati, irs. yes telling house oversight
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commit investigators that washington d.c. are not oy looking for specific numrs of cases but requestingy name, applications of specific conservative groups. this after the ousted headf irs steven miller, two weeks ago, blamed tgets of conservative and tea party groups applying for tax exempt status on quote two rogue employee who went off the reservation, en end quote. today new commissioner, testifying before house aprov appropriation committee, he claims that actions are underway to creation the irs abuse of power. >> i am confident we can address the problems that exist and move forwardith a better and more effective irs. with that in mind, in my fires few days i inaread a
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comprehensive review of the agent, and taken immediate action tbegin to address significant and alarming problems identified in the report. lou: an outrageous abuse of ending also uncovered at internal revenue service. an inspector general's report reveals agency spend u to $50 million between 2010 and 2012 on lavish cferences and ridiculous veos like this one on the screen, unfortunately for him, we're lechining -- rr learning more about doug schulman who reportedly visited white house 1% times between -- 1157 times. the group on its web site reveals that it received mh of its funding from liberal groups
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such as ford fndation, streisand foundation, a coalition of labor unions, including afl, and cio, there circumstance peers t have been no problem with their tax exempt problem at this time. irs scandal. one of several engulfing obama administration, "nework times" reports that whispers around the oval office indicate that attorney general holder may have out lived his political usefness to president obama as justice department claims that their boss did not lie to congress on may 15, shannon breen with our report. >> reporter: eric holder's -estimony before congress w accurate and consisten accordin to a lette from principle general. this is response to an inquiriy
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from house judiciary committee leadersho believe this is a i did cress pansy between holder's may 15 testimony, and what ty later learned about his involvement in decision to own take a search wnt into fox news chief corspondent james rosen. >> the statement he made and his actions are not reconcilable, it would be a good place to start, come back to the congres attoey general holder, explain to us your actions versus when you said regarding fox news investigation. >> reporter: in the rponse kazzic acknowledges that attorney general did approve the application but importt to note difference between investigion, and a prosecution. itit continues quote,t no tile time -- against the reporter, but letter itself may spark
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additional questions, cad swing adadmits.quote -- the justice department's means althouuh attorney general approved of a sworn affidavit claims that rosen was engaged in criminal activity presented to federal judge for ppose of getng access there was never any considering of pursuing charges against rosen. >> they are consisten and often the practice in cases where you have investigations, that you target on somebody for purpose of gathers information, with never having any intention of prosecuting them. >> they say that doj lette is from a person they term a low level staffer. they still expect to get a
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response from attorney general himself by that wednesday deadline. and said that committee may bpoena holder if he does not meets that deadline. lou: thank you. shanannon ben. >> my first gu said that attorney general is responsible for the dangerous incursions in to first amendme. threaten our freed am o expression, joining me now. floyd abrams with a new book coming out tomorw friend of the court on front lines with first amendment. it will be released tomorrow, it is great to see you. >> good to see you >> that quite a spectacular seriesf statements from attorney general was on the and justice department. principle department s deputy. this is what attorney general
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said. how could it not be contravention of truth. >> the way i view it, he may be telling the truth but ty never manad prosecute -- images prosecuting, the problem they told a judge in a signed affidavit by fbi submitted by department of justs they the journalist, was that i probable caus toelieve that journalist was violating the espionage act, and at the ver leastn aider or abetter of someone doing it. @%ey were trying to persuade a jue to give them a search warrant, and whether or not that believed they were going after the journalist, to me is not the realoint, the real point is that there was no bases forever saying to the judge, thathe
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the journalist was an aider or abetter. lou: the big deal for me is attoey general, an fbi agent and a judge signed off on what every one of these people suld have known. >> i agreeith that i'llive theudge a pass because he had ththe -- fore him a signed affidavit. saying that th the journalist wa flight risk tt was -- whether or not it was credibl when it was said, it cannot have been believed. by people inhe deputy of justice. >> it amazes me, 3 instuons, u.s. justice deparent, our courts our federal courts and the fbi, put their honor to the side. >> they diddit in the name of the united states this document was filed in court under
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stationery of the united states of america. in the nam of the united states and what it said was that the juniorallist was -- journalist was violating the espionage law, of itot true, it was not true when theyaid it whether or not my guess is correct, that that was their wayf gettng a search warrant. it still unacceptable. >> a where do w go from here? the ideahat this couldhere -- there would be a discussion out this, president would n immediately dismiss this attorney general, that immediately there is not a call for a full investigation. the fbi who signed the papers sasetting fourth probable cause. the judge, i will follow your council and give him a pass,ut i do so, i am telling you i am
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repulled. >> this is an unacceptable situation. behavior, and the questions, where to go fromere. i think that fewer had a good effect. i believe at the least, they will refrain fro this type of excess, and this type of abuse, in the future. rememb we are talking about a leaknvestigation. leak invesgations have their role, but they were never supposed to be in the ctral focus. something that trumps everything else, and it is only f you belie that it is so important that we got to get the guy that done it, etetera. that we're ready to say thisr that or that that youou could understand it, except asou
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know, total indeference f first amendment, and indifference to just being up front. with the court that you are appearing bore. >> and the peoe you serve. >> and the people of the country,eah. >> floyd abrams, great toave you here. hopeful to the point of aion. thank you very much. congratulation on your new book, out tomorrow, "friend of the court." it goesn sale tomorrow on-line. and in bookstores across -- go to loudobbs.cowe have links as well. privileged to to see, and enthusiastically, recommend the book to you. floyd thank you.
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>> thank you. lou: army private first class bradle mny, on tri today after 3 years, for, agent led- allegedly leaks to wikileaks. prosecutor argue he was driven by a desire for nery, the 25-year-old formerntelligence analyst faces life in prison if convicted. >> meanwhile. can representative himself in his upcoming murder trial. lou: last recession called a man-cession, because it hit men in the workforce hard, feminists and libya media celebrate a few
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500, heinz set to become a private company this week. >> in economic news, auto sales juing% lt month. with a strong demandor pickup trucks and suvs. >> manufacturing activity unphoenixly contracting last month for firss time since last nooember. gold up 19-dollars today, finishing under $1412 an ounce, crude oil up a dollar 50. 93.5 a barrel, and bond market, yield fell to 2.13% onhe 10 year. hopes on a deficit deal and debteal fading. joining us now to tk about what this means for economy growth, markets and country, former cbo director, doug holt
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seek an. and rob cab caplan, let me start with markets rob, get your -- if you will divine what is going on here. easy money for the near-term? >> yeah. think that mke still reacting to decen not great earnings, decent not very strong gmp growth, and low rates, and i think this market. is relatively fully valued ge straight uphis year. so, it would not surprise plea to see it take a breather but with r this low it could go for a while. lou: doug. the "wall street journal" reports that hop for a deficit al, shrinking near-rm deficits all that, suddenly there is a prospect there will be no grand bargain, no great fiscal policy temate for years
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ahead? yes. rst let deal with the substance, i think you know any of budget news you heard that says we're out of the wood is wrog, we saw some one time improvement for 2013. and usuly reverses itself. weent through this in 90s it is premature to declare victory, the economy issoverstated. we saw today's ism, we've seen confiden and housing prices go up but we have not seen housing starts and enough income to sustain the consumers, on this, i don see whyveryone is celebrating. >> do you concur, rob? >>yeah. i thi that the market implace itly believes that at some point in the future it hopes there
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will be entitlement reform it sees same thing doug referred to, if you go beyond2015, to 2023 it market gets worst. >> we were watching the yields unce around in the bond market. and watches for mostf theay when looked like another sell-off. investors right now have to be scratching their heads t say what is going on. we hear goo nees on budget deficit short-term, 640 billion nearly a trillion was expected. it is hard to divine a clear path. >> it is. i think what you are seeing circstance thearket looking at a lot of short run indicators, how quickly the
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fedexist -- fedex its. nothing good is going on there ha been no progress on fundamental spending, the market knows that but the question is how much do you make in now while the money is cheap there is a little bit of sho-term earnings in absence of a long run growth mandate out of washington. >> r, your outlook, youould divine what is going to tough short-term pnses and long-term outlook? >> sluggish. against dect, not great earnings growth, sluggish gpm growth, would say stepping back from this. this i is a golden opportunity. to take what is a behind period and work with republicans. to do more deficit reduction, i think one comment i would make,
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country with debt i gop as it creates a will hav vler therabiy with higher interest rates in future, and wit aging population and demographic this is a window of opportunity to get something done. i hope in washington they will. >> a right. >> i want to also add. president needs us for his agenda, what he wants to get done so ts is inis interest. we're yea from the recovery. >> doug thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. lou: now with weekend box office universal's "fasd furious" 6t hanging on to the top spot, bringing in 34.5 million.
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bank heist thriller, now you see me. coming up tomorrow, how judiciary committee congressman bob goodlot will join us. talking about whether or not the attorney general pged himself before --urgerred himself before congress. up next, pew pole on women bread winners, giving feminists and liberal media something to chief about, too bad they didn't read the report or perhaps understand it, we'll lay it out in the chalk talk. yohurt my feelings, todd. i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded exriences really mattered... you suggested luxury car service instd of "strength training with patrick willis." come on todd! flap them chicken wings.
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our own tent saying new er research study on bread winner mo it troubles me about this country and what is happening to our society. of you of my detractors decided it was a hallmark of sisterhood with their progress to gender equality because moms are the sole or primary breadwinners i 40 percent of homes. here is what they are focusingn and there is a lot to celebrate. it is in some smaller percentage than they ggest among the folks with whom i have had a word or two, there is some good and submerge matial people did not look at. we are now looking at 5. 1 million married mothers who have a higher income than their husbands. that is great. who were they? ask ourselves what is mean 49% have a least a college
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degree. 65 percent are white. 67% between the ages of 30 and 50. more richer, and median family income is nearly $80,000 and that is pretty much wh mst people expected. but all thatis not what impressed me or concerno me. believe and not the there are folks who thought i should not be concerned or troubled i do not know why they felt that way. frankly i don't care because it is more ideological war reflexive with something to do in some abstract way, i think with gender politics but here is what my detractors refused to a knowledge and in some cases didn't want to talk about it the single moms.
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eight point* 6 million of them. versus the 5.1 million. and the single mothers who are working, 49 percent have aigh school degree and working because they have to. thisnot about progress it is about the consequence of choices we are making as a society and it is not working ouu great f these folks and to deny that i contender one negative consider that to be a courageous. 40 pernt are black nearly one quarter are hispanic nearly one-third are white. almost hal 46 percent 30 years or younger. if they have never been married, divorced or separated or widowed ce on average they mak $29,000 per year. if they have never been married o average $17,400
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perear poverty line by the way with one adult and one child is just over $15,000 so this tells you where these womenandheir children live in our economy. the children live in poverty an the moms are theole prider by default not because of gender equality or progress or here us roar. many children of this single moms are at rest. so they perpetuate a cycle of delinquentehavior so all of us men and womenave got to break the cycle of passivity and iiffence and good guide to eak the cycle of irresponsible political correctness that dilute some to believe the pain of society and the consequences of
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poor pubc poli decisions we have to dress and f this for thesepeople say. we will take all of that up with our fox news security analyst that she has had a career with educion, a distinguished post come home and family and also to suggest traditional home and family is not for her. to prospective sam brig women here next. >> the obama irs scandal widening. new reports of wteful spending on top of everything else. congressman brady is here with us tonight. it is a disgrace. our vetens forcedo it months or years for their benefits. congressman miller jos us tonight with hi vo: traveling you definitely end up meeti a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different.
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lou: as i just mentioned t study of the red with their momsas creat a debate to the national media. my next guest has two different ouooks with the rise of women and confronting them and joining me now with thr perspective is fox news contributor and national security analyst, k.t. mcfarland >> and grandmotr of five. >> im also a grandparent of five. let's get to as you de with more traditiinal personalities as we brag about their grandchildren. >> i have a dog. [laughter] how can weally to you saw what i said more than eight
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point* 5 million women faced with an income between $17,400 per year upsurge 29,000 lacking education the children will go into the same cycle and we e perpetuating such a waste in our society. >> unfortunately ere are very few peopleho were willing to talk about this. have to talk about single mothers and the problem is they cannot financially provide for then you talk about not being able to give them educational opportunities and to ultimately leads to the entitlement society where these peopleecome dependent on government programs and systems because they don't have the two-parent household where they have two figures to contribute to their emotional, phycal, financi al well-being. is this conversation nee to hpen i am all for strong and empowere women in the works fate long dash work for siam for the female
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breadwinner's settlement t equate them to the animal kingdom but i support that wholeheartedly but, i also support and you are a single woman and want to have a child and you can handle that with a supportive family and your financial able to take that on, i also timy hat to you but you needdto be sureyou can financially provide for that child you aisservice not only to your child but to society. lou: i was thinkg if there is a lotore at work than many. >> yes. with the "chalk talk" you really painted to societies there is one that we talk about a book called comg apartand he studies wide american famies over a0 year ppriod and says we have deal lak tribe that is well educated and conservative. lou: and he kept his entire
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book and analysis and conclusions to only white americans so there was no racial issues he found there better educated, mary, have folled divorce rate and only 4 percent have children out of wedlock and single-parent families and they are very intact and doing we. but theater group that you talk about single parent families of the women are breadwinners out of nessity the children are far more likely to use drugs and me poorly educated and not a high-school diplomas that is the problem because it the middle-class values. >> do want to get married married, have children, what are your aspirions? >> i personally dot want to have children whether or not i get married i don't know of we have a husband
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that has no problem with me being of breadwinner i plan on having a prosperous career. [laughter] but it doesn't really matter pants that needs to be decide on an individual basis per couple and family. lou: i have heard more guys say i wish my wife. but i ought to be honest i think women are overestimating the mail concerned about how much somebody is making. i can tell you how many have said i wish my wife did. >> if you educate children and say women have equal opportunity. i grew up wn women did not. did not have equal access to education or jobs a certainly not protection under the oba and now i say weave come along way.
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i want you to of this in educatio and professional opportunities but also want you to have a family. lou: there lies the issue. it see to me we are a accommode choices and should not be either a neandertha or something simple to say. it is your life, it is america. you lived . why isn't that the case? there is a feminist attitude about it that i don't know another way say it but there is still a vested judge -- of us did of the male neanderthal. [laughter] don't know what the devil is going on. >> you c also talk about the importance of family and to peop who love and
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support a child withou being outdated by saying i want women to be empowered and men to be empored. lou: want children to be empowered. at 8.6 million are at risk not empowered for the that is the issue. >> they will never catch up to the elite group growing up going to college and graduate school. lou: it challenges a lot of the assumptnsmade across society by the traditional and different views. >> talk out the cultural components how people feel about men and women with gender stereotyping andhat that task to do with ithat also puts an interesting mix there's a lot of research on college campuses how men feel they a not welcome and there is lot of them in his activism on campus.
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man up? [laughter] lou: get out and go to work. that is why w we have50% in percent of college graduates are women that insurers their future for the next couple of dedes as breadwinners. thank you. up next even the left-wing "new york times" seems to have turned onhe attorney general and kevin brady on whether he lied tocongress. we went out and asked peopl a simp question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show . we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much ishe official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years.
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testifying in the middle of a 30 day comprehensive review for you kidding me? how can he say he could do the review of the irs in 30 days? >> the new acting commissioner, his jobs to put out the fire, not to shed light on the scdal which is what he ought to be doing helping us to get to the truce with the targeting of conservative donors and organizations as well as the leaking of that private taxpayernformation to the media and liberal groups and the campaign a well. pcs his job differently as we do. lou: the ways and means commtee the national party, fernand joe cowley patriots founder and president lynchpins of
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berty, what do youxpect to hear from these victims of what has been and the eggious, gregious use of power by the irs? >> this investigation will be very thorough and complete and to do that you have to hear from the victims of both from the abuses they suffered and they may shelight on how is started so we can continue the investigation. look at the six witnesses covering a rangefrom local organizations that questions were so intrusive that they simply gave up. others were asked everything from what is the content and details of yr ayer meetings to orgazations whose donor list was leaked organizations. you t into the leaking phases of the abuse of the
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ira's. you have a broad range of victims. lo important to hear from them also some of the agents are starting to talk in relearning what has been said to investigators the house oversight committee in particular. do you think we will have a good sense to how far this scandal which seems to broaden every day how far up it goes? >> it will take time to do a just the initial investigation both republican and democra clearly those have said we have directions from up above we will follow the trail deliberate who initiated the targeting and how broad and wideis this and they share personal
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information with other federal agencies to come down on the group's. we're justoming down but unless the commissioner helps us to shed light to it will take time to get there. lou: we wish you luck tomorrow. up next embarrassing and scandalous backlog of the veterans affairs department and jeff miller is one trying toesolvehe issue. b-s issues. next.
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lou: nt test referred to the backg at the virginia as aational crisis it has own to affect 600,000 veterans in increase of 2,000 percent just over the past four years and one of the peoe trying to fix it is chairman of the veterans affairs committee on intelligence. good to have you with us. but start with the numbers i cannot believe 270 days fore any event -- benefits it is appalling. >> that the average. some individuals are waiting 500 days or more and there ar claims that are years old and we have to figure out what the problem is and i want to help not from the
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adversarial position but t numbers keep ringnd veterans keep waiting and they keep dying before they get benefits. lou: it is outrageous and thank you. i know chriollins of new yorka general actions secchi they want him fired. >> k is anonorable gentleman i don't want to go that far yet but the ice is getting very thin. i have already called for the undersecretary o benefits to resign. they said they would not make that happen so we have to try to work within the construct tat we have to make sure every dollar or person and technology available. it is not a matter to get what they ask for because th have gotten everything they askor we have a management problem and a
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systematic issue. lou:or the boxes of the files. >> every regional office you will see stacks and stacks of the paper files very little is gitized and when you separate from the department of defense they give you a par filed bayou need truly electronic health record that follows you until you become a veteran. >> i have been told the former secretary of the virginia has suggest, i have not talked to him about this coming has an idea ve them the advance and figure it out later. >> that is a great idea i have great respect for secretary nicholas in but
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the virginia is terrible about going back to clawback insurance payments that are made no with they have billions of dollars still outstanding i'd like to see a partial payment for the advance that may be one of the only way is to get over the hill but the focus with the disability backlog and the overtime, if they don't fix the system, it doesn't matter how many people they put in to hp the backlog go down. lou: the man rponsible the president of the united states, president obama that you try to manage around who has not takenhe lead. we appreciated it congressman miller good luck. that is it tonight house
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neil: it' june, ready to swo? forget today, are bad days coming soon? i am neil cavuto, june creates most headaches this month we're just starting the month we storally s the mos selling, this particular jun so happens to be whe allf the scandals are approaching scalding. i am talking about news for more than a couple of rogue ageies, cracking down on conservatives, try 88, they were not just sere -- zeroing in
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