. >> joining me now byron york, chief correspondent for washington examiner and fox news contributor.i. >> start here. do you think miss rice will testify. if she does, do you think she'll provide info for the committee ultimately trying to find answers? >> she can find a few answers about one particular topic, famous talking points the administration deployed after the attack. she's in the white house, president's national security adviser. at the time she was in the state department. i don't see how she can avoid testifying before this committee. i'm not sure what claim the white house could make to withhold her testimony. i suspect she'll ultimately answer questions on this. >> lets talk about mrs. clinton's book, benghazi chapter, hard choices. mrs. clinton said she never saw a request for additional security from ambassador chris stevens, one of the four americans killed that night in the attack in benghazi. is it possible the secretary of state didn't receive all the line by line items? >> well, that's something the committee really, really wants to know. first of all, you have

about it with chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner," fox news contributor byron york and bloomberg chief new york city chief, jonathan allen. jonathan, to you first. we went from the president saying he was outraged when he first heard of irs targettings of conservative groups to him telling bill o'reilly there was not a smidgen of corruption at irs. the public does not seem to agree. >> i don't think there is any evidence so far of wrongdoing with these missing documents but what you can tell from the "fox news poll" that just came out what you would intuit. that the american public is having a hard time swallowing the idea that irs just lost all these documents. i don't think will change. this is huge political perception problem, not just for the irs but for the obama administration as mr. mccarthy suggest ad few minutes ago, as far as a political issue goes. the democrats are not going to want to defend the irs, if it becomes about that fight, basically the democrats defending irs against republicans i can tell you who is on safe political ground. jon: those fox n

bill: byron york from washington. thank you. martha: we are waiting for what could be some major supreme court ruling that could come out starting today. there is a live look at the high court. one of those ruling we could get is the hobby lobby case which challenges the obamacare conception mandate that requires employers to provide free conception as part of a health policy. among those would be trucks that could trigger abortion. another case is whether the police are able to search your cell phone without a warrant to do that, and whether those who stay at home to care for disabled relatives or friend could be forced into a union. three very big decisions. >> another funnel cloud forming over this town where a massive twister touched down. it's a major american city. martha: some tough new poll numbers on how much the president is handling foreign policy. is the united states losing standing as the world's top power. senator marco rubio joins us on that. >> a convicted murderer is on the loose after he escapes from prison. >

stoddard and washington examiner chief political correspondent byron york. byron, first to you.hat about it? this isn't close. contributing a lot of money, all this money to the democrats except maybe one-to-one independent. >> we should say though the senate knew this when they confirmed him. actually wasn't a big vote it was 56, 39 he was confirmed in december. the senate knew about it i asked people on the senate finance committee which, by the way, includes chuck grassley which voted to send him on. they say they don't view political contributions as a huge problem unless there is some bigger evidence that the candidate will be really, really partisan. so, in this case bigger problem not who he gave money to in the past but this reay arrogant attitude that he showed in his appearances before the house in which he basically felt that he should decide what the house should know. that drove the members of the committee nuts. >> a.b., 118 contributions democrats. $86,200. 118 politicians. 116 democrats. i think these people are always chosen among their own. it's not surprising

stoddard and political correspondent byron york. rick, first?terview between herself and president obama which i think are just beginning to emerge after a week of selling the book on bowe bergdahl on syria, on iran, on iraq, on the irs scandal. you saw the slightest little nudges in a different direction. a suggestion that hillary clinton is going to be quite independent of president obama when it comes to it. i think she still falls back on this about hard choices to avoid choosing when actually very hard but i think there were critical moments there that you saw some substantive differences emerging between herself and the president. >> i thought that was really interesting. obviously the attention right now is on iraq. and in the last few days she has really tried it avoid being co-commander and chief. tonight she made news by really pressing hard about how prime minister norry al maliki has to go. he can't be prime minister of that country anymore. he is too influenced by the iranians, that we shouldn't have formal negotiations or discussio

josh letterman the hill alexanderafterafter infantry and byron york. >> i think you can tell the irse officials on the hill don't believe what the irs. reach down into the it department of the irs. not enough to hear just what the commissioner says. they have chairman camp and issa have requested to know who was doing the technically who was doing the stuff, who was searching for it, what they did, what they found, what they didn't find, so there is going to be an investigation of the investigation. >> all right. well, it's a little bit suspicious if the chairman or if the commissioner two years to recover these emails and this thing had crashed and supposedly in the summer of 2011. so i mean, he knew enough to say it would take two years. you think he would know enough to know it had crashed. >> exactly. that's one of sort of the outstanding questions we knew about who what went and why they weren't forthcoming with what they didn't know. clearly he was aware that this was a problem and didn't come to the committee with it and so i think that's a question that we'll want to find out

bill: byron york, good morning to you. the question was about the two signature achievements iraq and afghanistan. how do they answer that? >> the jay carney statement show the white house is stuck in 2008. you have to look at the campaign in which president obama became president. his whole point on that part of the world is the united states took its eye off the ball by invading iraq and should have concentrated on afghanistan and pakistan and if elected president he would get us out of iraq and concentrate on afghanistan and pakistan. what you saw yesterday with the president expressing frustration with sending u.s. troops to play whack-a-mo. bill: chris wallace made the point they were caught flat footed with little or no preparation for something like this. but you make the point that al qaeda morphs. they are like cockroaches and go where vat accumulation is. the administration did not have a plan to deal with that he involving scenario. >> that's right. al qaeda is like an opportunist infection. it doesn't have to s

bill: byron york leading our coverage. good to have you back with us today. martha: sergeant bergdahl's hometown canceled their welcome home bowe ceremony. more years, haley, idaho was the center for getting one of their own back home. the city received a flood of letters demanding they do the right thing and cancel it. what a turnaround this has been in haley idaho. the city said the organizers expect a significant number in attendance for people in support or protest against it. in the interest of public safety we are going to cancel it. haley is a town of 8,000 and does not have the support an event of this size could become. according to senator behind say graham the very premise of the deal makes no sense. >> i'm more disturbed than i was before about the logic. there is a theory if we we lease these five taliban it would enhance the chance of peace in afghanistan. by releasing these prisoners, that somehow it would empower that part of the taliban that want to reconcile. i find that concept disturbing. martha: peter doocy is live in washington. >> repor

martha: joining me now is byron york. moments away from john koskinen's testimony. no doubt he will be grilled on how the agent $i could have kept their mouths quiet for so long. >> reporter: republicans don't believe a word the irs is saying these days. koskinen about face this incredible scepticism about what's going on. orrin hatch, the nor senator, ss he met with the irs commissioner monday who told him about the lois lerner problems but didn't tell him anything about the other six irs officials whose emails are missing. it's dribs and drabs of disclosure americans are furious about. martha: where does this go from here? >> we just couldn't know but we know lois lerner pleaded the fifth and these emails are from 2010 and 2011 which are the critical name this targeting scandal. this is something the republicans couldn't close their investigation without knowing this stuff. martha: the president said he wanted to get to the bottom of it. we heard from hillary clinton, she said she doesn't think it's a phoney scandal. there has to be a meeting of desiring to get to

so yesterday, byron york published in the washington examiner the findings of jessica vaughn, director of the policy studies at the center for immigration studies which show that the united states deported a total of 802 minors to guatemala, honduras and el salvador in 2011, 677 in 2012 and down to 496 last year. weighted against the tens of thousands pouring in, it's clear that once again the reality on the ground, not merely rumor, talk or policy, the reality of lax enforcement has influenced decisionmaking in central america. it just has. it's obvious to me. i was a federal prosecutor for many years. you have to send a message, and if the message is heard that if you violate a certain law, discipline will occur. the number of people who violate the law drop. if you never enforce speeding tickets, people will speed. if you enforce them systematically, people will slow down. york quotes ex-i.c.e. official gary meade -- quote -- "if you're getting $90,000 a year or $50,000 a year -- 90,000 a year or 50,000 a year or 25,000 a year and you only eliminate 1,200, you are not eliminating th

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