>> another heated day on the capitol hill over the irs targeting of political groups. >> jennifer o'connor worked as counsel to the irs and supervised data collection during the investigation. >> yes or no, you're a hostile witness. >> yes, you are a term i should have used is noncooperative witness rather than hostile. >> i do not understand how chairman issa was able to rush to issue this subpoena. your connection to this topic is at best a stretch. >> we're not really getting to the bottom of anything. >> it's a continuation of the same char raid. >> what we've seen is a witch hunt emerge. >> i.t. background guy, i've never seen a disk drive that has zero left on it. >> who throws awap a computer anymore. >> a run on a amazon cloud. >> sometimes my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are reaching for the most grandiose

conspiracy theory. >> lost time and lost money, yes, america it is another day in the hearing room with congressman daryl issa and his hunt for a white whale at the irs. in today's episode of this long-running multimillion dollar serial drama, he directed the an tag nix towards jennifer o'connor. the outrage, a loss of e-mails sustained during the crash of a hard drive belonging to issa enemy number one, lois lerner, o'connor worked as counsel to the irs for six months and supervised much of the collection of documents in response to congressional investigations. after issuing a subpoena for o'connor to appear, issa released his pent up hostilities basically immediately. >> they hired you as soon as we said we want a bunch of documents, correct? >> mr. warfel, the acting

commissioner. >> yes or no, you're a hostile witness. were you hired? >> i'm not at all a hostile witness. >> yes, you are. >> one of those people seems hostile and it is not jennifer o'connor. this a wonder actually because the irs is the agency that says it has spent 120,000 hours and $10 million to find and turn over 1.3 million pages of documents in response to congressional probes. that includes 67,000 e-mails to and from lois lerner, for daryl issa, the 67,000 e-mails are sheer mockery. >> what do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many? one thing daryl issa does not like to hear is there may be any other congressional big dogs fighting for what little meat is

left on irs bones. as such he saw fit to close the hearing by taking the irs to school dropping i.t. knowledge about his own systems backup. >> the tools exist at my former company, which is not a large company, it's a few00 million dollars and exist to search the entire record of years worth of millions of e-mails because in fact the federal rules of discovery do not toll rate you saying here's paper, sort through it. or our dog ate it or we destroy everything by simply not backing it up after six months. >> only daryl issa can take a congressional hearing over a crashed computer and spin it into a humble brag conspiracy theory featuring his own ego. bryan boyler and ezra, that was our own system malfunction we were treated to -- >> i'm sure congressional

hearings will be intense. >> i'm waiting for daryl issa to subpoena my hard drive of the republicans are calling this on the level, suggesting this may be conspiracy on the level of the watergate tapes and this is some sort of partisan, stone walling, nobody has yet tackled the theory that it might just be government bureaucracy and underfunded department and agents who don't really know how to interpret the law or perhaps a law regarding 501 c4s that is too broad. >> i think we need to separate two things out here. i really think this has become a fascinatingly confused and partisan -- confused for a reason debate. there's a question on the e-mails and her e-mails did disappear in ways that i think should upset people. it looks like at the very least incompetence, there could be malfeasan malfeasance, the e-mail her computer crashed a couple weeks after ten days after congressman

dave camp wanted the irs to begin looking into questions whether or not it was plitizing a tea party application. there are reasons for people who think there's a conspiracy theory to be upset. i think the broader question, which we shouldn't get lose sight of, there really has been a really full investigation into whether there was a broader conspiracy. what we were looking for was to see whether or not there had been efforts coming down from somewhere higher that led to a broad and/or targeted look at tea party groups in in order to plit size the election and that is pretty conclusively proven to be no -- >> then what is there for people who are concerned about a conspiracy to get upset over? i think it's upsetting that the irs does not have any any way sort of systems that are in the 21st century. it's unfortunate that the sort of decembsignations seem to be incredibly troubled process.

but you think there's a reason for people to get upset. i wonder what you think that might be given your second point? >> the people concerned about conspiracy are upset because this leaves a blank spot unfinished for them. the second point is exactly what you're saying here, there isn't a broader reason to get upset and that is the connection getting missed here. there is an emotional desire to still see something come out of this. a lot of people feel angry about what they feel the irs did, even though no real evidence has come out there was a conspiracy they are worried about. so now that emotion is i think being channelled into this question of lois lerner's e-mail, whatever they say about lois lerner now gone from the irs, they don't prove something larger and there's not webbing between here and there. we have this question coming down to something not actually the question of the conspiracy but people who want to be upset very badly to be upset and go after the irs and obama

administration in some vague way. >> in so far as it has been a season of maligning the government, whether it is the aca or epa regulations or whether it is the handling of benghazi, this goes into the kitty, this kind of mountain of stuff that conservatives like to point at when they talk about government overreach. i wonder if you think it has a measurable effect on the progressive agenda for the rest of the country. in so far as how the rest of the country is embracing it or not? >> i think like right now we're experiencing this moment, right, wherefore a week at a time or two weeks at a time, whatever issue has -- there's been a new revelation about, becomes sort of a scandal due jour and end up spend ag lot of time and effort on it. you get the impression if the e-mails were to turn up, republicans wouldn't say great, thanks for the e-mails. they would say this is a distraction from whatever scandal they claim to be interested in.

on the other side of the aisle, desperately want the country to see this is happening without dealing with substantive issues like immigration reform or increasing the minimum wage and i think that's a track we're on from here until at least the election, probably until we have awe unified government again at some point in the future. the parties don't see eye to eye, these are what the two parties can do and majority people can point out they are obstructing progress in other issues. >> ezra, there were two things to come from this, i would like to see move over to cloud computing, perhaps and maybe someone have a sub tan tif conversation about campaign finance reform. i will quote daryl issa. we asked for lois lerner because she became a person of interest for being at the center for the

unfair treatment and this is the important part, and the deliberate effort to overturn citizens united using the power of the irs. which is not -- not something i think we talked about before. irs overturning citizens united. >> this is such a huge point you're making here. it is what comes to the core of it. congress does have an important oversight function and daryl issa is in some way or another trying to fill that out though he often does so in a way that seems unusually partisan and also has another function. it is meant to solve the underlying problems the country faces, daryl issa and others very upset when you saw a massive failure around the healthcare.gov operation very early into october and november and december. very upset over how the unclear process led to tea party groups taking a long time to get their tax status ratified. these are problems they could solve. they could very aggressively

modernize the i.t. infrastructure of the federal government and really should. they could really clarify what it is that gets you 501 c 4 status and haven't done either. that goes to the real point. they want the conspiracy, they want the attacks but don't actually want to solve the problems. >> they would like to have a very fancy graphics package and preferably twitter feeds and hash tags to go along with the conspiracy. brian, this is as to ezra's point, it's about motivating the base, rights? >> john boehner says they not fully cooperated, but haven't done a damned thing to get to the truth of what happened. that could go to anything whether ben gazdy or climate change. she refuses to tell us the truth and we lose two years worth of e-mails. i grew up in a bar, this doesn't pass the straight face test. i will say, conversely, republicans efforts around this don't pass the straight face

test for me. i don't have much of a straight face. do you think lois lerner's e-mails get conservatives to the voting booth in november? >> the whole atmosphere they've created around the obama administration, it's not just irs, bowe bergdahl and obamacare and overreach with epa regulars and stuff like that. that kind of just -- ginning up of the idea this is an out of control president who is no moral bearings could help. i don't know if this hearing or that hearing really does much, but the thing that daryl issa said at the end of that last clip you played sort of goes to ezra's point. he was making a point about the irs' i.t. failures, if you parlay that into something substantive, than the issue goes away. nobody in the house republican conference is going to do that. gives the lie to the idea that

this is about anything other than ginning them up if they can do that. >> between the glitches and the i.t. fails, it's clear the u.s. government needs better computers. i will leave this there. thank you guys. >> thank you. >> after the break, terrorists launch another round of violence as secretary of state john kerry scrambles to manage a new iraq. the latest on the new reality in the middle east coming up next.

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in anbar province for the second day with bombs killing at least 50. the dramatic shift in power prompted the kurdish regional president to declare today we are facing a new reality and a new iraq. those comments came as he met with secretary of state john kerry who is in the region for high level crisis talks. kurdish leaders suggested they may break away from iraq and form their own independent state. kerry is calling on them to stand with baghdad. >> a united iraq is a stronger iraq and our policy is to respect the territorial integrity of iraq as a whole. the president understands that, particularly right now. >> while the united states urges diplomacy, the bloody conflict is exacting a terrible price. according to a u.n. report released today, more than 1,000 people have been killed in iraq in 17 days this month. most of them civilians.

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months before aulaqi was killed, the justice department argues this does not apply to the department of defense and essentially killing enemies who pose a threat is part of the department's job. something known as the public authority justification. that is the same argument that for example, allows police officers or fire trucks to lawfully break the speedlimit if they are responding to a threat. the memo also argues that the law forbidding the killing of americans overseas does not apply to the cia either. so if it's not illegal, then what makes it legal? that would be the authorization for the use of military force. this law enacted in 2001 granted the president broad military powers to pursue terrorists both at home and abroad. and it is a law that has been relied upon in some of the darkest hours of u.s. history. the kidnapping and detention and torture of hundreds of people after 9/11, the opening of

gitmo, the eavesdropping on americans without a warrant. and the use of targeted drone strikes and now according to the justice department, this law is providing the legal basis for the administration's extra judicial killing of an war al alawky. the 11 pages of the memo that were redacted were precisely the ones that provided evidence of this continued and imminent threat and detailed exactly why aulaqi could not be captured. joining me now is national security correspondent with "the new york times." mark, thanks for joining me. your paper, the editorial board calls this memo a slap dash of legal furies, do you think

that's an accurate description? >> i'm not allowed to speak for the editorial board. >> in your expert analysis? >> there's plenty controversy about the legal reasoning behind the memo, and you laid it out quite well, what exactly they relied on to justify targeting aulaqi. it is amazing that we are -- so many years after 9/11 keep going back to this aumf, which was passed just a week after 9/11 in the days after this attack. it was this very sort of curt resolution, very short. it has been used so broadly. and so expansively to justify overseas operations that it's really extraordinary that this is -- this is the -- this is the justification although not at all surprising. >> let me ask you about the redakss, the house progressive caucus released their response

to the memo and redakss. you'll see the statement which is heavily redacted, given the breadth of the reda krctions an the argument as to why he couldn't be captured, can we asession the legal justification for this given how much we don't know still? >> you're right. when you boil it down, not all that much was learned yesterday from the memo. we had broadly known what the arguments were from aulaqi, the government's arguments, we had not seen the intelligence that backed up the assessments that he had become a operational leader and posed an imminent threat to the united states. these are crucial factors that are still a secret and still redacted and goes to the issue

of transparency that president obama talked about a year ago at the national defense university when he talked about bringing more trans parency to this process. but we're here more than a year later. and most people agree that is still lacking. >> what do you think about the parts of the memo that collapse the differences between the dod who's job includes the killing of enemy combatants and cia who's job thus far has not included that specifically? >> yeah, i mean, and so much of the cia analysis and memo is redacted so we don't know what they are say ig. we know they are blurring these authorities in many ways. what dod does and cia does as written about a lot. have pretty much merged over the last 13 years. what the cia once was prohibited from doing, it now does expansively and what dod was prohibited from doing, it does expansively.

it is interchangeable, not just legal theory here. if you look at what's going on in yemen today, there are cia drone strikes and dod drone strikes and it is very hard as an outsider to figure out what the difference and obviously when one is conducted, no one publicly says who carried them out. >> mark, it is great to talk to you. thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. >> just ahead, what does it mean to be an american? damian explains his journey through the back bone of the united states in part two of the new series, the invisible us. that's coming up next.

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shelter housing children who have crossed the u.s. border alone. johnson said the government is adding more than 100 customs agents to the south texas border to help deal with the ongoing humanitarian crisis. for many migrants south texas is the launching pad for next journey. migrating through america. over the last month, "new york times" mexico correspondent damian cave traveled the spine of the country, interstate 35 which stretches from south texas up to minnesota. i-35 is a route well traveled by immigrants and he set out to answer the fundamental questions, what demines citizenship. and to what degree is our identity evolving? in laredo texas, he spoke with martinez, the safety director for one of the first bus lines serving immigrants along i-35. the corridor itself tells the story of immigration in america

and martinez is a shepherd of sorts providing an indispensable service for families reconnecting throughout the country. joining any now is damian cave. thank you so much for joining me, almost 40-day journey through the middle of the united states. >> that's right, 39 days. >> i'm sure it's a formidable

amount of storytelling and material that you have on the "times" site, to talk as broadly or specifically as you can about this question, you quote jime z jimenez, immigration makes strangers out of someone. it's that they make the land where they arrive stranger too. i loved that quote, it talks about the real back and forth between each community. what did you see in terms of the way in which this 21st century wave of migrants is imprinting itself upon the american landscape. >> there are a lot of different ways. i think immigrants and nonimmigrants mix and mingle in their communities in a lot of different ways. one of the small things you'll see that i saw in iowa, little league participation went down but soccer participation skyrocketed. this is the same high school that had a marching band but also had a mariachi marching

band and dela cruz who sang the national anthem and accused of being un-american. when i met him he was wearing university of texas football t-shirt and speaks perfect english and doesn't speak much spanish. there's different ways it's mixing and mingling and people's perceptions need to be kind of clarified and understand that this is happening, the blending is already here. >> you're a long horn and wearing the mariachi outfit. >> there's no conflict to that. that's how it is. >> you spoke to deported immigrants who leave the united states, kicked out of the united states but still maintain cultural practices that they learned in the united states. tell us more about that, which i feel is an underdiscussed aspect? i spent a lot of time in both sides of the border. i meet many who spent most of their life in the united states and they see themselves as american, they work and pay taxes. whether the deported or not, their identity and sense of

being and where the place they want to live is america. lots of people said it's my home is the comment they all said. >> that sort of leads to another point that really came through in your reporting, which is, there are parts of this country where they enacted really severe, some would say draconian punitive measures targeting folks in the country without papers and the resolve to stay here is powerful. i saw this myself. that these folks have put up with a lot to stay here. and they are determined to make a life here. their children sometimes are american. they are not going back to their home countries if you can call them that. >> this is i think what's happening in the middle of the country. one of the things that was egs specially striking, we hit a different phase with immigration, they are no longer newcomers the majority of immigrants living in places like iowa or kansas have been there for ten years. they have children born in the united states. what you have for this established community is this

realization and heard this over and over again. they are not going anywhere. they've got to get along and that's what's starting to happen. >> and i wonder when you talk to the those families that are mixed status, to what degree it is an issue that they discuss with their children. i found very different approaches in the folks i spoke with. >> i've seen different approaches as well. this family i met in tulsa where the parents were both undocumented, and two of the children were citizens and two were not. they talked about this and there was a struggle where for example, one of the children who was a citizen was trying to prepare her paperwork in case they came because she didn't realize there was a difference between her and her brother and her sister. in these mixed families, there's a lot of navigating going on. for these children there's need to be mr. this is one of the things i noticed because there's a belief that maybe if i'm perfect the united states will accept me and my parents won't get deported. that's another thing i saw over and over again. i don't think people realize, the effect on the children.

>> we were talking before the segment began and one of the things that i noticed in terms of when the questions of identity are least frougt it seems to be when it wasn't about work or government policy but in drive-in movie theaters and sports games and entertainment and culture and culture around military bases which is linked to the government but not specifically touching on issues of identity and citizenship. that's where the lines were blurred. that's where it felt like okay, we are one country. >> i think so. one of the things we found ourselves doing on weekends was going to public parks and you would see one family hitting a pinata and on the basketball court see a whole bunch of hispanic kids playing basketball. the birthday cake said happy birthday in english and song was in spanish. there's a process of mixing and mingling that happens and even sometimes the mexican parents i would say to them, does that

look different to you. they would say, no, this is a perfectly mexican birthday. to the children listening to john legend on their iphone, it's not. so sometimes the people who are involved in this don't even notice that this process of reverse osmosis is someone said it to me at some point is happening. >> that's so interesting. one last question, in terms of how we frame the discussion in immigration, i think lately in the political sphere it's framed as an economic -- not argument but debate about economics. and one of the things you talk about is -- specifically in texas, on the third day of this, we talk about how lyndon johnson, the architect of the greatest civil rights legislation, when he taught down there and introduced voting rights act to congress on march 15th of 1965, he specifically cited children of texas. tell us more about that. >> it's become an oil boom town

it was as poor as can be and mexican migrant town. it's still struggling to some degree but it's a town that has a strong sense of identity. and the economics are changing and part of what i think is happening with the economic things, immigration is the form of global economics that people see in their community. if there's anxieties about your place in the world and what corporations are doing, they point to immigration. it isn't just about economics. i think lbj was pretty clear about that. he really felt you have a huge disenfranchised population that needed to be brought in through economics but also through politics. it's taking a very long time. >> it is one of the best pieces of reporting i have read in a very long time and really specifically on this issue of immigration, it is everybody should go log onto the new york times immediately and todd's photos that he went on the trip with you, did an incredible story of bringing that to advise you'll life. thank you so much for your time. >> what is it about the chris

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in case you needed anymore evidence of the radicalization of the american right and its effect on american democracy, look no further than mississippi. today voters in the hospitality state are heading to the polls to elect the next republican candidate for the u.s. senate, which is to say the man likely to be the state's next u.s. senator because after all, this is mississippi. earlier this month, six-term incumbent senator thad cochran lost by half a percentage point to chris mcdaniel facing the runoff today. already really pretty bizarre race has gotten twisted. as has now been well documented back in may four mcdaniel supporters were arrested for breaking into the nursing home and take photos of his wife. it looks a lot like child play.

after cotea party groups backin mcdaniel decided to launch a voter integrity project to quote, observe whether the law is being followed in today's election. voter integrity project otherwise known as group of poll watchers. the law that mcdaniel so fervently supports, only voters who have intention of voting republican in the general election and haven't voted in the democratic primary, can cast ballots in the republican primary. intention is almost impossible to prove and so mississippi's law is therefore basisallyis impossible to enforce. carry a lot of historical weight, 50 years ago almost to the day, civil rights organizations launched the freedom summer, an effort aimed at registering black voters. a year before that june 12th, 1963, world war ii veteran, met

ger evers was murdered by a white supremacist. in a state with perhaps the most complex and uglyist history of racism in the union, one that has become a symbol of all that is wrong and backwards with the united states, african-americans still have to worry when they show up to vote on tuesday. joining me now is washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn and "washington post" columnist jonathan capehart. we talk about republican efforts to open the tent to bring minorities in and then inevitab inevitably, they walk themselves not five years back or ten years back but five or six decades back. >> right, 50 years back. it's unbelievable and unconscionable that an organization run by ken cuccinelli would send poll watchers to a state that has the

history that you outline in the intro and i wrote about yesterday. there's nothing subtle about this. there's nothing about voter integrity that's involved here. it's about keeping black voters from potentially voting for senator cochran who as the new york times reported last week is looking to black voters to cross over to help save him from mcdaniel and the tea party menace has been unleashed on the republican party. >> what's amazing, david, the desperation is so tangible. instead of dealing with trying to win over a broader section of the ee lector rat, we're going to take punitive measures to make sure presumably black people don't get to vote in a primary they shouldn't be voting in. >> two points here, while it's true most black voters in mississippi are democratic, they have an interest in deciding that thad cochran will be a better senator for them than chris mcdaniel. thad cochran has done well in

terms of damage done after the hurricanes and so on. while he may not be their first choice, he's a better choice. they want to participate this way, there's nothing wrong with that. second point is, which seems really odd to me or odd is probably not the right word, maybe tragic, that 50 years after everything you just discussed, that mississippi might be electing a senator, a senator who this past summer has mother jones reported attended a convention run by the sons of confederate veterans. a group that believes that -- they really believe this, this the wrong side won during the civil war. this guy who goes and talks to those folks is now poised to be if thad cochran's ploy doesn't work out, the next senator from the state of mississippi. >> chris mcdaniel said to the "new york times," ladies and gentlemen, the next time ted

cruz stands on that floor, the next time mike lee stands on that floor, the next time rand palm stands on that floor to fight for you, a son of mississippi will stand next to them. we now see this sort of all-star lineup of the senate conservatives. cruz, lee, paul and maybe mcdaniel. this is a depressing state of affairs for people who once thought of the u.s. senate as a place where things got done. >> right, a sad state of affairs for the republican party, for the senate and ultimately for the country. ted cruz is the guy who convinced people in the senate and house that they could repeal the affordable care act and convince them to shut down the government. mike lee was one of the people who was seen at that rally during the budget shutdown with the veterans -- the concerned veterans who swarmed washington and protested. well, i have a picture on my piece up this afternoon of sarah

palin, senator lee and larry clayman, all together at that really. larry is the guy who said in his speech that the president should quote, put down the koran and get up off his knees and come out with his hands up from the white house. these are the kinds of people who chris mcdaniel says he wants to be in league with. the senate should be concerned the republican party should be concerned and the country should be concerned. >> the other part of this, david, the actual policy that mcdaniel may pursue, he's called that's cochran the king of pork. mississippi, 45% of the state's revenue comes from the federal government. it is once again this mental break voters seem to have between the reality of governance and the people that are elected to washington to represent them. >> i know he says he'll stand with ted cruz, i think he'll stand to ted cruz's right, to the right of the people you just named. this guy owns a radio show and

blasts the homosexual agenda. he actually said that the problem in hollywood is there's not enough muslim victims in hollywood films. so he's a yahoo and doesn't want to do anything to help victims of the state. he will make ted cruz look reasonable. >> that is something that i think a lot of us did not think possible. chris mcdaniel could make ted cruz seem like a moderate. >> right, but ted cruz -- senator cruz has shown himself to be a rather competitive and rather savvy fellow. don't be surprised if mcdaniel gets elected that cruz will make sure that he is to the right of anyone else who tries to best him. >> chris mcdaniel may outcruz and we'll leave that logic to the republican party. thank you for your time. >> surely.

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