listen to my podcast 3:00 p.m. eastern time. thanks for watching us. i'm lara ingram. i'm in for bill o'reilly. please remember the spin is right here because we're always looking out four. welcome back to hannity tonight the congress voted to the comprehensive immigration bill. the final vote could come in the next week. this border surge amendment was added on friday to the already 1100 page bill and senator jeff sessions pointed out prior to tonight's vote no one has had time to read this thing. >> us senators haven't had a chance to read the bill to see how the merge language falls throughout the legislation. see what other changes may have been made over the weekend. i was here. we've been trying to get through this.

but it's not easy. i'm sure my colleagues haven't been able to do so. >> now that issue alone should make americans very cautious but let's take a deeper look why many people are upset about this bill. for starters one of the co-sponsors of the amendment bob corker admitted it does little to help interior security. he says i do wish this amendment had some other measures relative to interior security but i think the house can improve this. the conference can improve this. i hope we have the opportunity down the road to see that occur. if that's the case where the rush? let's get it right the first time in the senate. the president of border patrol agents responded with a statement, far from tough interior enforcement measures this bill now combined with the corker-hoeven into a single 1,200 page bill caters to special interest groups and in

doing doing so. in this immigration bill senator harry reid secured an extension of the $100 million in the travel promotion act which they are calling the casino kick back. so how does urging people visiting vegas have anything to do with immigration reform? that's not all. according to analysis for immigration studies because of this bill one in seven u.s. residents would be immigrants by 2020. that surpasses a record that was set, by the way, back in 1890. joining me now with reaction is texas senator ted cruz who voted against this amendment. welcome aboard. the first question i sadly have to ask, did you have time to read it before you even voted today? >> well i've read much of it. we've been going through it. it's not by accident that they dumped a 1,200 page bill on us friday afternoon before a

weekend, most of the senators were already on airplanes, had gone home by then and then we voted on it monday afternoon, literally as senators ran in from the airport. and the arguments, you know, it's much like obama care. we're being told we got pass it to figure out what's in it and frankly i don't think republicans should be going along with democrats in playing those games. >> read senator corker's statement. why not get it right the first time? >> what harry reid wants to do he wants to jam this through fast. we had a total of nine amendments prior to this one that was considered. in 2007 they had roughly 50 amendments. what harry reid understands is the american people don't understand this approach. you know, sean, we've seen this approach before in 1986, congress told the american people we're going to grant amnesty to some 3 million people here illegally and in exchange we'll secure the borders, we'll stop illegal immigration, we'll fix the problem. we all saw what happened. the amnesty happened and the

border security never did. this bill and the amendment that was voted on today follows the exact same pattern. it has immediate legalization, so the legalization will happen and the border security is sometime in the future and just like in 1986 it's designed never to come in to being. >> so the 2006 bill we got the, 1986 we got the amnesty but not the security. the fence was supposed to be built since 2006. let me read a section from this bill to show border security is not queen shurd. page 35 line 24 and it says nothing in the subsection shall require the secretary, meaning janet napolitano, to install fencing in a particular location in the southern border. if the secretary determines that the use or placement of those resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain effective control over

the southern border doesn't have to do it. so what's the point? there is no security, am i wrong? >> you're exactly right. this bill has roughly 1,000 waivers written into it, hands it all over to janet napolitano and says use your discretion to decide what to waive. it's designed to never to happen. there's a sharp contrast between this bill and the amendment i introduced that would have put really teeth into border security and would have secured the border first. this bill weakens and i'm talking about the amendment we voted on today, weakens current law regarding a border fence. it weakens current law regarding biometric security. what it says you got to show a photo i.d. sean, if anyone has ever known a teenager, it ain't hard to go a flea market and get a fake i.d. i suspect more than a few of us have some personal knowledge about how easy that is to do. current law requires biometric. this law takes that out.

it weakens border security. and the most critical piece is which comes first. secure the borders first or legalize first and this bill follows the mistake of '86. >> what was your reaction the cbo report where it says wages will go down and unemployment will go up? >> in fact it predicts illegal immigration will continue at massive levels. this bill is not designed to fix the problem. if this bill got passed into law i guarantee you another ten, 20 years we'll be back here except instead of 11 million people here illegally we'll have 20 million or 30 million and that's not a humane system. this system is broken. we need to fix it. that's what the american people want. secure the borders first and to improve legal immigration so we can welcome and celebrate legal immigrants. >> what did you make of all the additions here. we got the casino kick back for harry reid. barry sanders 1.5 billion for youth employment that also

includes transportation and daycare. did you see that provision? >> i did. this is just like obama care. they are trying to buy votes one at a time. let me tell you one of the most troubling aspects of this bill that a lot of people don't understand. the impact of this bill effectively creates de facto affirmative action for those who are here illegally because illegal immigrants when they get this rpi status are exempted from obama care. so if you're a small business owner it costs about $5,000 more when you take into account the tax treatment to hire a u.s. citizen or a legal immigrant than it does to hire someone who is here illegally. can you imagine a $5,000 penalty for hiring a u.s. citizen or a legal permanent resident. that makes no sense to put a massive preference for those here illegally over those who followed the law. i've got and amendment to fix that, to defund obama care until there are no more rpis waiting

in line and, of course, reid won't let that amendment come up for vote. >> i noticed "the washington post" attacked you on that very point. so who is right here? you or "the washington post"? i'm not trusting "the washington post." >> you know it's funny "the washington post" called their response a fact check but their number one argument is they said well obama care only applies to companies with over 50 employees, so it's a miniscule percentage of all the companies so it doesn't matter. i got to admit, that's pretty ridiculous if their argument is that obama care doesn't impact the economy. two-thirds of all people working are working for companies with more than 50 employees. i would be very curious if the columnist who wrote that who works for "the washington post" how he would feel if they decided to fire him and hire somebody here illegally because it's $5,000 more expensive to hire someone to write that column. >> maybe this is too simple for

washington. i've not gotten a good answer to the question does the united states of america have the right to sovereign borders? why do anyone be against doing that first? >> and, of course, we do. every other nation on earth does. the nation of mexico enforces its borders against people coming in there. every nation that's sovereign does that. let me tell you -- >> we don't. >> there's only one way to get this stopped. except us. notation on earth has been welcoming to immigrants. we're a nafgs immigrants. we got to be a nation of rule of law. the way we stop this, those is for the american people stand up. ted cruz.org we got a national petition over 100,000 people sign up in the past week. call your senators and that's how we can stop this from becoming law. >> do you predict it will still pass by the vote today? >> it will likely pass the senate but we can stop this in the house and we can prevent republicans jumping on board if

you call your senators this week. there are 20 republicans on the fence, sean who haven't decided how to vote. >> senator ted cruz, appreciate you being with us. as always, thank you. >> always a pleasure. >> coming up next much more on the ongoing immigration debate on capitol hill. ann coulter is here. she will weigh in topic next. you get to pick the video of the day. here's option one, one out of three turn out not to be a so fun day at the ballpark for this one family. watch this. >> this is foul. that little guy almost got whacked. it's monday.

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welcome back to hannity. earlier the senate voted to pass the border surge. as we explained earlier the language of the amendment was dumped on senate lawmakers on friday leaving them barely any time to analyze this. joining me now, she has no reaction to it what sombgs the always outspoken pro immigration ann coulter. i'm kidding. you said you became a single issue over this issue. why? >> it will change the america we live in. it will harm low wage workers the most. the people on the bottom rungs. the republicans are the only ones who ever cared about this. you hear liberals say

republicans don't care about black or poor people until i saw marco rubio's amnesty bill. it will change the country. in ways that are damaging. it will change the culture. and why do the democrats want it? they want it for one reason. because it will be 30 million new voters, 80% of whom as all polls show will vote for the democrats. they do not care about these people. they don't care about them as illegal, they don't care about them once they become citizens. they just want the votes. >> this bill will pass. it will pass in the senate. then it will go house to. the house i think rightly soly want as border security bill. >> right. we have to be very careful. it's so important, i'll say it again. right now people who don't want amnesty have to call the house and say they don't want any immigration bill until we have a republican senate. because if they pass a bill that's nothing but enforce and

verify, it will go into conference with the senate, voted on now it could well pass both the house and senate. we don't want to vote at all. by the way it won't be enforced by this administration anyway. we need a republican senate and this amendment today you were talking about with senator cruz, my friend mickey summarized it brilliantly by saying it's like someone, a woman saying to her husband, we have another e-mail from that nigerian prince and i know he's a con man but this time he's offering us $20 million. it's all a con, as you were saying. none of this will be enforced. it has never been enforced. there are waivers and outs and all come up with a plan and there must be some form of implementation. none of this will be enforced. it's legalization first.

>> there's fear if the house pass as security bill the senate and house bill goes to conference. out of conference comes a bill more closely aligned with the senate. >> oh, yes. >> speaker boehner would be over if he didn't enforce the haster rule. designee won't bring a bill to a vote unless a majority of republicans vote on. it >> they don't have to do it. >> it's like these endless repeals of obama care. god bless them but we get the point. you want to repeal obama care. nothing will happen. nothing will happen with a fence bill in the house. nothing will what happen a vote to enforce e-verify which is a one page simple bill if they were serious about enforcing the border. i don't trust pi think john boehner secretly wants amnesty and want as figure leaf to make it took like no we vote opened fence. a vote on the fence in the house

is a vote for amnesty. >> what do you think about the 15 senate republicans who voted for the bill? >> we were quickly getting their names. >> i have them. >> the ones -- i mean i will certainly contribute to anyone who primaries any of them. >> any of them? that means hatch just ran. in the case of, i guess -- >> if he runs again. they better hope they don't get in any scandals like having their sons set out vulger aggressive tweets. they better be purer than cesar's wife. that's jeff flake. he voted in favor of amnesty. >> there's a movement to recall mccain and flake going on in arizona. back to tissue, i could never get myself to be a single issue on anything. on any issue.

a lot of people are on pro life. this is really single issue for you? >> we lose everything with this. as i think we've discussed on this program. but i get confused. contrary to what these, you know, oh, so sensitive and multicultural pro-am nesty republicans think, hispanics are different from black voters. black voters are conservative culturally. they are against abortion and against gay marriage. they do believe in the family. hispanics, everyone thinks that, but they are a little bit more like the ted kennedy kind of catholic. in these pew polls, hispanics are the one group more than any other that opposes capitalism. they are heavily pro choice. contrary to the image. but the main point is and again the only reason the democrats want it is because every poll shows they vote about 80% for the democrats. >> let me ask you one last question. for national security reasons, i

want the border secure. >> yes. >> we're not going to get that to happen if the house doesn't act. >> and for, to avoid terrorist acts in america, we also have to do something about legal immigration. the tsarnaev brothers, the folks out in minnesota, the jersey city man who planned to blow up fort dix. something has gone awry when we refer to american citizen, anwar al aulaqi -- no wait a minute. when we say american citizen we have something different. it's legal and illegal immigration. if this goes through it's over because you have at least 11 illegal immigrants now, just assuming they are right, it could be 20 million. through our legal immigration system they are allowed to bring in brothers in law, cousins, third cousins and that will very quickly mushroom to 30, 40 million hispanic voters and democratic voters.

>> a lot of stuff in this bill as we pointed out in the last segment. ann coulter, good to see you. coming up next we'll examine why the international community is laughing at america and the obama administration's request to arrest edward snowden. is this a direct result of what four plus years of failed foreign policy? also tonight you get to select the video of the day. the winner will run in its entirety at the end of the show. take a sneak peek. this is option number two. i kind of like this one. >> and for our area -- so let's -- oh, my gosh. that was creepy. oh, chris you had to be right on my head. okay, i got to move. ellowing. crest whitestrips whiten as well as $500 professional treatments. guaranteed. crest 3d white whitestrips. and then another. and another. and if you do it. and your friends do it.

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♪ win! what's in your wallet? what we have today is chaos, de facto amnesty. >> we have to invite people to come out of the shadows. >> let's secure our borders, welcome our new neighbors and practice the value of freedom and family. >> we wish we didn't have this problem.

leaving it the way it is, it's amnesty. we have to solve this problem.

we will restore our moral standing in the world. >> one of the things that i intend to do as president is to

restore america's standing in the world. we are less respected now than we were eight years ago or even four years ago. >> for eight years we've seen our alliance weaken >> he promised to restore america's standing in the world but he's being embarrassed, laughed at and ignored. it's all thanks to the actions of a 30-year-old high school dropout turned nsa whistle blower. edward snowden remains on the run and according to the obama administration he's believed to be in russia. yesterday he abruptly fled hong kong on a jet bound for moscow, this after the u.s. failed to convince the chinese government to arrest and extradite snowden. instead they persuaded him to leave hong kong. after five years leading from behind, defeats shouldn't come as a surprise to the obama white house. lesley martial the author of "still the best hope why the

world needs america to triumph." >> good to see you. lesley, a lot of people trying to determine here s-he a traitor or is' hero? personally i'm glad that we know how much our government is spying on us. that question is irrelevant to me. how did a 29-year-old kid, who is work for defense contractors, without the highest security clearance, how did he have access to this. isn't this the real question here? >> well, first of all, i think we need to separate the truth from the fiction. remember some of the documentation he provided to journalists is questionable and that's why originally in washington american papers didn't want to run with it and i don't think as somebody who is a talk show host now but i did writing as a journalist i don't think the guardian did its due diligence when it comes to edward snowden.

i have friends who have high-security clearance who will remain nameless. one is a democrat, one is a republican. both have said to quote vice president joe biden this guy is full of malarky when pushing buttons or listen in at will with his security clearance. >> dennis, maybe that sounds like a distraction, they want to indict him. they know he has something here, don't you think? >> they do think he has there. i think lesley is on to something. we don't know what truth the guy is telling, what access. i don't believe he could have at will listened into my emails or conversations or read my emails. i think he's exaggerating his importance. other, we don't know what's on his hard drives. i do worry about the question that you just posed how he would have access. your original point is the key one and one that we need to look

at with intellectual honesty. we're not more respected now that this is our president, president obama. his belief is that if america is weaker, if it less imposes its will anywhere on earth then the world will love us. he doesn't mean respect, he means love. the liberal wants to be loved. he's the quintessential man of the left. he wants america to be loved. we right now don't have love and we don't have respect. in the past we had respect. now we have neither. >> isn't that -- doesn't that go the heart of it, though, lesley, that putin has no troubles just sticking america's -- you know sticking his finger in america's face. th don't have the respect for the president. they didn't even go to the interpol police agency to go through the proper procedures as the "wall street journal" pointed out today. isn't that a big problem? >> honestly, sean, i do believe it's a problem but i think it

would be -- if bush were president, anybody, democrat or republican, when you look at the ego of putin and when you look at how he views the united states of america, and how he views himself, this is a man who really gets off on and loves to be loved too, dennis, in the terms of power and politics. i don't think people get into politics to be loved. politics and love are oxymoronic words being put together. china, it's payback. it's payback for cyber hacking. i think quite frankly it was a middle finger to the united states and it wasn't the politics of barack obama. it was because they got caught. >> thought they hacked us, dennis. >> they did, in fact. like when the taliban say they kill these mountaineers now from ukraine, china and so on it's payback for us having a drone attack but we had a drone attack because of all the people they slaughtered. who did it first. of course they are the

aggressors. they are a totalarian state. when there's been a war it's between a nonfree country or a free country or two nonfree countries. why would we ever think the unfree china is the country that's in the right and free america is the country that's in the wrong? but, again, critical that those who say it would have happened under bush as well that may very well be true but at least under bush we were feared. >> that's a good point. >> that's the point i want to make. it doesn't matter who leads america. we need to do what is right for the world and what is right for america and a strong america is good for the world. post-america as just written up by a british member of parliament, you want to see post-world america look at syria. >> isn't the world better with the world fearing america as dennis says, lesley? >> well, first of all, dennis,

hang on because i don't think this is over. you have to remember hong kong has not strongly admitted they basically said he didn't have his passport going through custom, so we weren't helping. russia is like oh, not admitting fully he's here. they are trying to get information obviously from mr. snowden and i don't think we've seen the end of what will happen with a man who wants to steal the former spotlight of hugo chavez in a country called ecuador especially when you have a treaty up in july and he'll lose half of his money. >> congratulations. thank you. coming up next right here on hannity tonight -- >> i beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, i beg for your forgiveness. >> tv show paula deen is fired

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new developments regarding the paula deen controversy. the collective bargaining chef has been dropped from the food network after news broke last week she admitted to using racial slurs in the past. the admission was made during a deposition. the 66-year-old former food network star was asked about her racial attitudes after a former manager of one of her restaurants sued deen and her brother alleging she was sexually harassed and worked in

a hostile environment rife with racial slurs. according to the deposition she was asked if she ever used the n-word and she replied yes, of course and continued on to say it's bean very long time. deen issued this apology video late last week. take a look. >> i want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that i've done. i want to learn and grow from this. inappropriate, hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable. i've made plenty of mistakes along the way. but i beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, i beg for your forgiveness. please forgive me for the mistakes that i've made. >> so did the food network nake right decision? we want to hear from you. we have a poll up.

hannitylife.foxnews.com. welcome to you both. you're a minister. she's saying please accept my apology. should her apology should be accepted. >> i think it should be acspeptd she's been on the network for over a decade. she has a legions of fans. her personality was a pleasing and popular one. as a christian and as an american i would accept apology. apology goes with repentance, it's an act, something you do. >> latin for repentance is to change your heart. >> yes. >> do you think she was sincere. >> in one of the videos, she had several apologies. in one she appeared sincere. my bigger concern these allegations grew out of a lawsuit which alleged harassment in the workplace and now amplified by other workers

coming forward. she could have settled it out of court. >> this lawsuit needs to play out in court. here we have a celebrity chef who is more responsible for her actions than our chief law enforcement officer of the country eric hoerjiic holder. she apologized for it. the network overreact. she shot from the hip. >> the words were repungant. it's totally unacceptable. i have a tape of reverend al sharpton and i could play it but i'm not of him using the n-word talking about david dinkus. should the same standard apply to him. it's a long time ago. >> why was it not. exactly. there's a double standard. >> except he's moved on. >> there's a thing. there's a double standard. here we have the pitchforks and torches after this woman and we have al sharpton who says things on a daily basis on television

and not held accountable and he has his own television program. what's wrong with that picture? >> is there a double standard? >> that's a distraction. there is a debate to be -- that's not the subject. the subject is the n-word and its use and if we're going to be honest, there's a debate in the black community about the use of the word. some of it is intergenerational. some of it is lifestyle and cultural. i think it's wrong by anybody to use it. so, i could understand those who would say if it's wrong for -- it's wrong for paula deen then it's wrong and wrong for don imus. >> al sharpton has a business contract with msnbc. >> al sharpton hasn't apologized to anything, to race card politics. >> that's not the subject. >> no but you brought it up. >> i didn't bring up al sharpton, did you.

>> actually sean did. >> what i'm saying is when it comes to this discussion on this word, there's a cultural divide. and i believe that whether you consider it politically correct, the right thing is the word is wrong. >> there's a difference between words and actions. here we have robert bird. he was a klansman, a known racist and head of the senate majority leadership for the democrats. i mean, what's wrong with that picture as well? how is it he was able to stain office? -- >> because people looked he changed. what happened this is not a refer rer refr referendum. the issue is paula deen -- >> it's like you make an excuse for al, excuses for --

>> i'm not making any excuses. if msnbc wants to fire al sharpton tomorrow that's a business decision. >> what about bill clinton just a few years ago he said about former or about obama, a few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee. did you hear about that comment >> yes. >> i didn't see that as a racial comment. >> how is it not racist. >> saw this more as a why are guy -- >> totally inappropriate and racist comment. you have a double standard going. >> do i not have a double standard. i have an american standard and i believe that it's a business dispute. paula deen's relationship with the food network is a business relationship. >> let the market decide. >> the market did decide and that's why the food network decided to let her go. >> think they overreacted. >> thank you both. coming up next tonight right here on hannity -- >> knock, knock. who's there? george zimmerman.

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welcome back to hannity. bizarre day in a sanford, florida courtroom where opening arguments began in the second-degree murder trial of zim. the 29-year-old is on trial for shooting 17-year-old trayvon martin. if convicted he could face a

maximum sentence of life in prison. he sat stoical in court. there was a slew of profanity. the defense began its case with a knock, knock joke. let's take a look at today's highlights. >> good morning. [ bleep ] these [ bleep ] always get away. those were the words in that grown man's mouth as he followed in the dark a 17-year-old boy who he didn't know. and excuse my language but those were his words, not mine. george zimmerman did not shoot trayvon martin because he had to. he shot him for the worst of all reasons. because he wanted to. >> knock, knock. who's there. george zimmerman. george zimmerman who? all right good.

you're on the jury. nothing? that's funny. yeah. here with reaction to the strange opening arguments, mark. i was shocked by the knock knock joke. >> the knock knock joke should not have happened. if you have to apologize at the start. explain away if you don't like this, don't hold it against my client. just a no-no. shouldn't have happened. >> mark, your thoughts on opening arguments? >> well, when you look at the opening arguments for the prosecution, i think they are overreaching with the second degree murder, and even though they filed that, i think they are overreaching with intent. and as far as the defense, the knock knock joke, you don't even smile and joke with your call leagues at the prosecution table. are you completely professional

in that room, especially in the eyes of the jury. >> and the parents of trayvon martin are there. nothing funny about that, and he was almost insulting the jury by making that statement, didn't you think? >> i thought so too. you are still human, and sometimes a lighter moment happens spontaneously, even during these horrifically important and grave trials, but they are not thought out. that's not the type of bang the defense wants to go with. go with the charts, go with the graphs, why they think people will not prove their case, but that wasn't the moment for any lightness. >> the one thing the prosecution, mark, will have the hard time with, is the injuries george zimmerman had. broken nose, lacerations on the back of the head, are consistent with the story that he has told from day one. obviously, he was punched in the nose, and obviously his head was beaten on the concrete. >> well, sean, when you have seen a -- a few people in fights

and been in them yourself, you will realize that george zimmerman didn't have very many injuries. certainly he fell backward and hit his head on the concrete once. his head wasn't driven into the concrete repeatedly. not a broken nose, but a bloo bloodied nose and no lacerations on his face. the worst end of a fistfight, but his escalation of force to meet the fists of a young man, 158 pounds on top of him to shoot him, he eliminated all other escalations of force he could have used, whether it was a hard object anywhere, or even striking trayvon martin with the gun in the side of the head. >> i'm with mark on this. this case is going to be all about the details. and even if it turns out that george zimmerman was injured in the way he said, let's not forget, if the prosecution shows they've said mr. zimmerman

pursued trayvon martin after the dispatcher said not to, then he is provoking the attack. so the scared 17-year-old walking home, minding his own business. he's not there committing any crime. >> he's under the eaves. not on the street. but it's a rainy night. >> a guy following him. if this is the way the evidence bears out this guy is following him. we don't know what happens in these moments, and hopefully it becomes clear during the trial. and even if he causes the injuries. to have your head bashed in, more than likely you would look worse than george zimmerman did, however, the only way he can legally do those actions, he to believe he was about to die or be mortally wounded. >> he said from day one, you are going to die tonight and he was reaching for his gun. >> whether that happened or not, let's put all the pieces together. >> how about the standard of

proof. >> again, it's up to the prosecution, not the defense. the prosecution has to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. a high mountain to climb, and with good reason. george zimmerman facing up to the rest of his life in jail if he's convicted of murder. the jury has manslaughter, not that there was any intent. more in the heat of the moment. >> i agree with mark. i think they overcharged. i don't like the fact, mark, the scream analysis -- i guess we lost mark. i don't like that scream analysis wouldn't be allowed. i think it should be. >> i don't know. i'm all for science, i use it every day. but i believe these jurors. >> up next, your choice for video of the day will be revealed tonight on "hannity."

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"hannity." time to reveal what you have chosen as tonight's video of the day. the meteorologist melting down over the itsy-bitsy spider climbing up the waterspout. >> a gradual drying trend for them. significant rainfall on the way, and for our area, so let's -- oh, my gosh. that's creepy, oh, chris, he to be right on my head. okay. i have to move. oh! >> come on! >> i hate it. i can't stand it. >> you realize it's not there. >> kristy, it's not in the room. it's okay. >> oh, my gosh. okay. i'm so sorry. okay. i have to keep going. >> you okay? >> yes. you know what? it really creeps me out. >> the forecast is for arachnophobia giving out the weather. that is all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us.

let not your heart be troubled. greta standing by to go on the record. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. tonight, surprise, surprise. the irs just completed its own investigation of itself, and concludes that it didn't do anything wrong. really? and news tonight, the screening tactic despite the irs scandal was not limited to targeting conservatives and tea party groups. >> while fact gathering is still under way, we have not found intentional evidence of wrongdoing by anyone in the irs or involvement from anyone outside the irs. furthermore there, is no current evidence of the use of inappropriate screeners or other types of criteria in other irs operations beyond those discussed in the ig report focused on a particular