. >> chris: i'm chris wallace. today, the irs scandal. how far does it reach? >> it is inexcusable and americans are right to be angry about it and i'm angry about it. >> someone needs to be held responsible. someone needs to be in prison. someone needs to be prosecuted. >> this is not limited to the irs. this is a culture of intimidation. >> chris: the president promises to fix the problem as the white house goes into damage control and congressional investigations gear up. >> why did you mislead congress and the american people on this? >> mr. chairman, i did not mislead congress nor the american people. >> chris: we will talk with a member of the president's inner circle senior advisor dan pfeiffer and leading republican and member of the first committee to probe the irs scandal, congressman paul ryan. what does this crisis of confidence mean for the president's big government agenda? we he will ask our sunday panel about the storm clouds of distrust gathering over the white house. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: and hello again from fox news i

chris: who did? >> the president of the united states. >> that's precisely what the president finally did this week. he fired the acting chief of the i.r.s. i thought that was a moment in which he addressed his real problem, which is not a trust gap, it's a power gap. people see him as not able to run the government and manager -- manage it. when he fired that guy, he looked presidential. chris: let's talk about benghazi. did the white house play a role in downplaying the role of terrorism right before the election? >> i think the answer broadly is yes. i can remember as a reporter calling various agencies trying to get people to talk about the possibility that al qaeda was adopting new tactics, was trying to insert itself in fights in north africa as in benghazi and libya and kind of getting, oh, we're not sure about that. i think the answer is yes. they wanted this to go away. they were delighted when romney stepped his foot in the debate when he asked about the benghazi question. phew, we got past

dan, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, chris. >> chris: president obama was asked a broad question about the irs scandal this week and gave a narrow answer. let's take a look. >> can you assure the american people that nobody in the white house knew about the agency's actions before your counsel's office found out on april 22nd? >> i can assure you that i certainly did not know anything about the ig report before the ig report had been leaked to press. >> chris: so he only talked, the president, about the ig report. the question was broader about any agency irs activities. can you say that no one at the white house knew anything about the irs targeting conservatives before information about the ig report was given to the white house in april? >> yes. the first time, as we said, that anyone heard about this at the white house was when the counsel's office at the treasury department called the white house a few weeks ago to let us know there was an investigation coming to conclusion. we didn't know the details of it. we didn't see the report. we didn't know facts at that poi

i'm chris matthews. from "the washington post" bob woodward, gloria borger from cnn, elisabeth bumiller and michael duffy from "time." so much of our politics, our supreme court legal rulings, our foreign involvement today was shaped by the george w. bush presidency. the president talked about how he saw it and his library dedication. >> when future generations come to this library and study this administration, they're going to find out that we stayed true to our convictions. and that when our freedom came under attack, we made the tough decisions required to keep the american people safe. chris: today, a special extended look at the forces that propelled bush, personally and politically with four correspondents who covered bush. and even two of whom wrote books about him. and we're going to do this with a series of big themed questions today. first, bob and everyone, was george w. bush a better president than most thought he would be when he came in? after he had lost the popular vote to al gore and to

chris? >>chris: thank you, casey, from oklahoma. >> it has been a busy week here in washington with new developments and several scandals. the president announced a major shift in the war on terror. joining us to talk about all of it is the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, in springfield, illinois, and republican senator, lindsay graham, from columbia, south carolina. senators, a justice department targeting of the reporters and national security leaks, here is what attorney general holder told a congressional committee a few days ago. >> the focus should be on those people who prayer their oath and put the american people at risk not reporters who gather this information. that should not be the focus of the investigations. >>chris: it turns out that holder signed off on an affidavit for a search warrant in one lead case. here is what that affidavit said. "there is probable cause to believe the reporter," fox news james rosen "has commit add violation of the espionage act as a

that is a problem, chris. because we are now looking at whether or not anybody can put together a 501 c 4 after citizens united and be able under the agis of social welfare engage in blatant political activity. what happened with the irs is wrong and this needs to be condemned. we have to be careful about getting the free pass for all of the people in the 501 c 4 business of social welfare. >> chris: running out of time, brit. to make matters even more touchy for the obama white house the woman who used to be in charge of the tax exempt division sarah hall ingram now has a new job and republicans are jumping all over it. take a look. >> turns out that the irs official who oversaw the operation under scrutiny for targeting conservatives is now in charge of the irs obamacare office. you can't make this stuff up. >> brit work public doubt tion according to the polls growing about obamacare as it gets closer to implementation this isn't going to help. >> and think about what outgoing commissioner miller said on th

>> chris: i'm chris wallace. today, benghazi under the microscope. >> when you said what you said, did you know that this had gone through 12 versions? >> we not offer that information? >> the phrase is let's not put this out because we don't want to be criticize. >> this is an effort to accuse the administration of hiding something that we did not hide. >> chris: amid renewed charges of a coverup calls for a special inquiry. >> we should have a joint committee of the appropriate committees asking what really happened in benghazi? >> chris: we'll talk with two congressmen at the center of the storm. the chair of the house in tell intelligence committee meek rogers and top democrat on house armed services adam smith. and then political redemption in south carolina. >> some ke guy came up to me ad said you look a lot like laz lazareth. and our power player of the week. a story of making billions and giving much of it away. all right now on "fox news sunday." >> chris: hello again and happy mother's day from fox new

i'm chris matthews. th us today, howard fineman, gloria borger, hunt hunt and -- kasie hunt, david ignatius. they may have resonated out in the country this week, passive, leading from behind. the opponents have ramped it up to challenge the president's very integrity. here is the republican chairman of the house ways and means committee on friday charging a white house culture of cover-ups. >> it seems like the truth is hidden from the american people just long enough to make it through an election. the american people have a right to the truth, to a government that delivers the facts, good or bad, no matter what. president obama promised to be different and to deliver a better government, the most transparent in history. >> and democrat charlie rangel of new york defending the white house in watergate era language. >> how did this happen? who was responsible for it? how far does this cancer go? how quickly can we cut it out? chris: howard, that's john dean language, cancer on the presidency. strong wor

chris: kelly? that way. chris: what a perfectly careful comment. absolutely. chris: that's what i like. >> yeah, if her health is fine. chris: and your concern about her health? >> i don't know. period. through a tough i think she needed a lot of rest but if she's rested, she's running. and howard, you were here on this show, we're looking back and looking forward at the time, along with andrea mitchell was here. it was just before the iowa caucus, five years ago in 2008, ended up losing the iowa caucuses to barack most didn't expect but here's how we looked at it ahead of that time on our show weekend before the 2008 iowa caucasian. >> howard, you're fresh in from iowa, spent lots of time out there. which way's the trend going? >> i can show you the literature. this is hillary's final pitch in the mail and at the events. says "ready" because the polls show that's her main advantage. >> i think on the merits hillary clinton has run the most campaign.e unfortunately, she comes attached to her own portable think that in the end that's the biggest decision have t

>> i explained that once, chris. karl rove was making boasts and saying he was going to raise so much money, millions of dollars. i knew if they went in to investigate this group every other group would be put on notice. i said from the beginning, chris there is no basis for targeting within the irs. what we need to say is all groups need have the law applied to them equally. and in this situation karl rove was front and center and proud of it and that is why i mentioned his organization. >> chris: all right. let's talk about the president's big speech this week in which he said that we are entering a new you phase in the war on terror. take a look at the president's comments. >> beyond afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless global war on terror, but rather as a series of persistent targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten america. >> chris: senator durbin, the president said wars must end but the fact is the cold war lasted for 40 years. isn't there a dan

welcome back. >> thanks for having me, chris. good morning. >> chris: start with your dough acting commissioner miller. why do you think that he and other top officials did not tell cock when the tell congress when they learned about the political groups? just a bureaucracy protecting itself or something to do with right in the middle of a presidential campaign? >> i don't know the answer to that question and i will not speculate. we will investigate and find the answer to the question. chris, what we do now know is that for roughly two years, the irs was targeting americans based upon political beliefs. what we do now know is that the irs misled congress. understand the ways and means committee opened the investigation two years ago. asked repeatedly these questions to the irs. and they withheld the information from congress. so that is what we now know. so we are going to continue this investigation. get to the bottom of this. who knew. when did they know. why did they do this? how high up in government did it go? people have n

chris: would you? >> that was a funny line at the white house correspondents' dinner, but the point is he does need to engage these people and try to help boehner come up with a deal he can get through. chris: he used a phrase i thought was very intriguing. he wanted a "permission structure." he's going to try to find a scaffolding he can use to let people like boehner and mcconnell help him. >> he needs the fear factor. >> what's his hammer? >> well, take the gun issue. if he can go after people who voted against background checks and make them afraid that they're in trouble, and that's not happening with senator iota in new hampshire, it happened to max baucus, other republicans who voted against this who it seemed to be in a little bit of trouble in states where there is overwhelming support for background checks. if he can make them afraid, then he begins to change the calculus. >> and part of the communication problem this white house has always had, whether health care or gun control, and we have

. >> chris: good evening, i'm chris wallace in for bret baier. obama administration is in full damage control mode tonight over sudden exploding scrutiny how it explained the benghazi attack to the american people. the president's spokesman en during the day a grilling by reporters why the talking points were changed a dozens times. james rosen is here with today's developments. >> reporter: good evening. under a microscope as never before the obama administration heretofore secret deliberations how top officials should describe benz to the american people -- benghazi when a presidential election was looming on the horizon. >> at the white house reporters bomb board barded jay carney with questions about the inner agency process that scrubbed of multiple riwlgsz to al-qaeda, terrorism and islamic extremists. that called into question his insist tins that he had only one small change. >> and assigning responsibility and preliminary assessments suggested and it was concern about preserving the integrity. >> reporter: may 20 issue of cites an email

chris? >> chris: the 300 top fives move jeff gordon to within one of tying for third all h-time.ut matt kenseth at age 41 a rebirth are with joe gibbs racing. third victory of the year. more from darlington in a >> chris: podium finish here at darlington raceway. and matt kenseth who said he was looking forward to racing tonight putting the appeal behind him after three weeks of all of that. and with strength enough to lift the trophy. 27th career win for matt kenseth and checking the results here impressived pole yum finish with michael waltrip and chris meyers. how much did the kasey kahne move take out the at the end? >> michael: kasey kahne didn't like the way that kyle entered the corner felt like he blew him around. great recovery for kevin harvick. a wave around. lost a lap and got it back and finished top five. juan pablo. we saw the team emerging as a contender this year and continues that trend. >> chris: kurt busch the pole sitter. a pole sitter no success here 16 years running. tony stewart. casey kahne wound up 17th. >> darrell: a solid run by ricky stenhouse. recove

chris myers? >> chris: sorry about that. was talking to michael waltrip about the highlights we were choosing to go with. and we will start with the overhead camera and the fiber that snapped during the race. >> michael: gets into the right-front of kyle busch's car. jeff hammond showing us what the rope looked like. but look at the repairs the team made. went to work and got the car back in action. dale, jr. blows an engine and a big wreck. >> chris: a total of 65 laps. when kyle got out of the car he said there is nothing to fix and ricky stenhouse near danica patrick and the reigning champ without his crew chief who returns next week. going nearly 200 miles per hour. >> michael: certainly are. tony stewart was right in the middle of the crash in the bright orange car and skipped through the middle of them. great job by tony. >> chris: aric almirola caught up in that and krista voda is standing by with him. >> krista: taking another look at it on the monitor. real estate was tight out there. what happened? >> we were racin

"all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes, and thank you for joining us, and welcome back. all right. tonight, how john mccain spent his holiday weekend, not like mine, hint, his involves sneaking into a war zone and ratcheting up the syrian conflict. >>> plus, he's loud, he's rude, the mayor of a major metropolitan city and he's embroiled in the craziest political scam in north america. and the single most controversial piece of kitchenware in the entire world. but we begin tonight on the jersey shore where the american political equivalent of snooki and j. wow have reunited for one more stroll down the boardwalk. seven months after hurricane sandy, president obama returned to new jersey to survey the recovery efforts and announce to the world after millions of dollars spent on rebuilding, the shore was back open for business. he was joined, of course, by chris christie who led the president around and even won a teddy bear for him in the football tossing game at the arcade. it was all very sweet, very reminiscent of the iconic images from

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>> i'm 46. >> chris: what am i? >> a dinosaur. >> chris: he has causes now.started mike tyson who helps disadvantaged kids with food and shelter and support in school. he has joined the campaign to get a presidential pardon for jack johnson the first heavyweight black champion that was convicted of taking girlfriend across state lines. >> deserves a second chance. >> chris: a second chance or in tyson's case, a fourth or fifth chance. looking back he says the person he hurt worst was himself. >> there is no doubt about that. >> evander holyfield would say you hurt him, too. >> i'm sorry. >> chris: why did you do that, hurt? >> wild, crazy kid. i'm not doing it now. thing about my mortality, i think about it. i'm 46 and i have a two-year-old. i'm a former junkie. i had a bunch of fights. what the helm i thinking about? >> chris: by the way, after our discussion, tyson decided to pretend he was going to punch me out. it looks a lot scarier when he is up close. it's a unique experience, one that i won't forget. have a great week. we'll see you next fox news sund

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i'm chris matthews in washington. rescue efforts in the oklahoma city suburb of moore are still under way. more than 24 hours after a devastating tornado ripped through the region. here's what we know right now. at least 24 people were killed. that number includes at least nine children. seven of whom died at an elementary school stuck in the storm's path. nearly 240 others were injured. both those numbers could obviously go up in the coming days. throughout the community, homes were blown away. schools and hospitals were demolished. neighbors lie in ruin as you can see here. the weather today, with heavy rain and lightning, slowed the rescue effort, but more than 100 people have been pulled from the rubble just so far. meanwhile, the national weather service upgraded the storm to an ef-5, that's the strongest rating for a tornado. ef-5. the president declared a major disaster area in oklahoma today. he spoke from the white house earlier. >> the people of moore should know that their country will remain on the ground

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they immediately jump into action and swim toward chris. as the medics try and stabilize chris, his friends are panicked. they fear they may have just filmed their friend's death. >> call 911 right now! >> one of the first things that popped in my head was he could very easily be dead. he could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. it was causing intercranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent injury, he and his friends are scarred from the memory of that day. the lesson they will never forget. >> the fact we caught a near-death experience on camera really, really reminds chris and all of us all the time that it can happen like that. and you're gone. and you're never coming back. so that alters some of the choices we make in

right now, barack obama needs chris christie a lot more than chris christie needs barack obama. >> obama -- obama is going to new jersey. he loves to go to new jersey. try to get away from all these scandals inside the beltway in washington, d.c. but he can't. he can't. not even chris christie can help him. >> the only person talking about the so-called scandals is you, larry, and a few other people on the conservative side. >> liberals are opposing this too. come on, there isn't a liberal that's defending the irs. you know that. >> most americans have moved on, realize the president wasn't involved in any of these so-called controversies, there was no criminal wrongdoing. and in fact, the republicans are overreaching. darrylisa issuing subpoenas to hillary clinton and her staff. what's going on with president obama, president obama understands this is an opportunity to understand the importance of the role of government as he visited oklahoma and spoke to mary fallon. the republican argument against government is decimated when there is a crisis. some sort of controversy. so the best th

chris? >> alina, thank you so much. it's still ongoing. we know you'll be monitoring the situation for us, come back when we have new information about where they are with the search and rescue, and also we're going to keep telling everybody how you can help the victims of the texas storms. visit our impact your world page, cnn.com/impact. that's how you can figure out how to do what you want to help the families down there, the need will be very great. speaking of need in texas, remember west, texas? remember the proshl fire there at the fertilizer plant? it's not over yet. we're about to find out what might have caused that explosion. devastating the tiny town of west, texas. it's been almost a month since ammonium nitrate, the gas i was talking about stored at the plant, that's what blew up. volunteer firefighters that battled at the facility who are among those who were killed, 14 people lost their lives. part of the small town was literally wiped off the map. so powerful that it registe

chris was a wonderful ambassador. chris worked for me for two years. i admired his work.had absolutely the right concept. americans need to get out and talk to people and understand what things are happening in these countries overseas. >> i was a peace corps volunteer, and i think it's wonderful when these guys and women become diplomats because they don't hide in the compound and eat hamburgers and watch super bowls. they meet people. you know what i mean. he wasn't the striped pants guy. i've got david corn here. we were talking, mr. ambassador, here's some good questions. >> i have a question for you, mr. ambassador. you guys put out a very thorough report, unclassified version, but there also was a classified version of your report. we don't expect you to talk about it right here. but is there a way to fully understand what happened in benghazi and the security challenges there without really knowing what was going on and what you described as the annex. it seems like we're only getting a part of the story because a lot that was going on there was classified. >> yeah

let's be clear, chris.you're a progressive, we're not going to hold the white house forever, right? eventually there's going to be a republican president and we don't want politics to enter into the irs tax code regardless of what party you're in. i think -- >> i think especially for democrats who really, you know, if you're going to be the government party, the ones who really believe in the positive nature of federal government activity, you ought to be the governing party as well. you ought to be good at what you believe in. that's something i always go back to. the democrats have a much bigger stake in making government clean and effective and useful to people because they want it to be used. republicans don't mind disasters because they just tell people, hey, you're right, there are a bunch of clowns back there in washington, or worse than that. >> not to mention, this is -- you're going to see this -- you've already seen it enter into the health care debate. >> already. >> you're going to see this in

chris? >>chris: thank you, casey, from oklahoma. >> it has been a busy week here in washington with new developments and several

chris, karen, thank you.lose call for a few storm chasers in kansas when a tornado moved right over their specialized vehicle which is made to with stand storms. the wind speed hit about 150 miles per hour. look at these pictures and then the instruments got ripped off the outside of the vehicle. by the way, there's a threat of more severe weather throughout the day today and the rest of the week in that part of the country. fast moving wild fire forced more than 6,000 people out of their homes and camp sites near santa barbara california. this started yesterday afternoon and grew to nearly 1,000 acres in just a couple of hours. official sas strong winds are fuelling the flames. shocking story out of china where a newborn baby had to be cut out of a sewage pipe and a scene was caught on video. firefighters cut the piping out of the wall with the baby in it. took the entire thing to the hospital and then cut away the pipe piece by piece. the baby reportedly in stable condition. investigators are looking into r

i am chris cuomo here in new york. we're going to begin with a major development in the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in west, texas. authorities have handled the location as a crime scene from the beginning and now, new word, they are launching a criminal investigation into last month's blast. remember, 14 people lost their lives as flames ripped through the facility. nearly 200 others were hurt. the explosion was so powerful it devastated homes and businesses across the community. literally registered as an earthquake. we have alena live from atlanta. what do we know about this investigation at this point? >> chris, what we know is texas authorities say they are now conducting a criminal investigation into the blast. the explosion as you mentioned killed more than a dozen people. most of them were first responders who had rushed to the scene after receiving a report of a fire at the plant. investigators seem to have been focused on figuring out what sparked the fire that eventually led to the blast. earlier

so i expect more attacks sooner rather than later chris what do you think about that plan b. i mean i think that the purposes for israel's strike were the thought that one ten missiles i wouldn't read into it too much more than that after all israel has conducted strikes against syria even before this war started out their primary concern right now is hezbollah or hezbollah to get those kinds of missiles it would pose a significant threat to israel's air defense system and that's obviously not something that they can allow to happen ok jeffrey when it way in plan b. as pepe said. i think that iran is basically trying to to use the use syria's as a smokescreen and all the chaos there is a smokescreen to smuggle weapons that has well it's as simple as that so israel simply you know took those weapons out for a syria is concerned you know that's a big messy sandwich and everyone's going to have to take a bite it's not as simple as arming rebels we don't really know who we're arming it's a whole lot more fractious than we think we're not even sure that what's going to replace ass

you know what, chris? this, to me, it harkens me back almost and as you well know to the kitty geneveses case in the 1950s. a woman was being brutally murdered. allegations were people closed the windows, nobody paid attention. once again it looks like there were clues out there people could have seen, could have done something about. whether it's neighbors or law enforcement. how can you miss it for ten years, chris? ten minutes, ten days, ten years, i just can't buy it. >> let's talk good police work. let's talk positive police work. community relations. it looks like there were no community relations there. >> yeah. >> looks like the community and i'll be open minded about this, at no time have a good relationship with the police department. wasn't able to, wasn't willing to, wasn't inclined to share a lot of community information with the police department. the police department was not going around looking for it that much. it may have been what we call -- i always like to say it in a nice way, a toug

but chris silizza. right now as richard engel has reported, hezbollah has gone all in on the side of the assad regime. lebanon is now compromised. iraq is literally inflamed in violence in baghdad over the weekend. so how long can the president award, avoid what may be inevitable here? and what john mccain and others in his own party, in the democratic party are trying to press on the administration more urgently? >> well you know, andrea, i think what you're seeing in part . >> doesn't help that, at some point i don't know what it is, i defer to you and elizabeth who know this better than me. at some point there has to be a crisis point. a swing moment. a line that can't be crossed. you know, the longer you sort of keep moving the goal posts, the more you open yourself up to the criticisms of john mccain and others of why aren't actions being taken in the situation. and the situation continues to worsen. it's an unenviable position that the president finds himself in and it's why being the president of

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i'll tell you why, chris.because after the tea party became a big -- a big deal in the united states, there were hundreds if not thousands of tea party organizations. it was a decentralized movement. >> yeah. >> but if you put "party" in your name or something that sounds political, it's reasonable to expect that the irs will interpret it as a liberal organization. >> john, if you're right, the ig was wrong. that's not the ig's report. the ig's report was there's bias here. they targeted improperly the right wing groups. >> i'm not saying they were targeted properly. i don't like the way they handled this. it needs to be put in its context. quickly, chris, in 2010, crossroad gps, karl rove's organization, made a filing, an official filing to the irs where they said that their activities did -- quote, did not constitute prime -- their organization did not constitute primarily a political effort. that was materially false. they then spent $70 million trying to affect the outcome of the 2012 election. so when peo

then we elected chris christie. the tough decisions to get new jersey back on track, taxes cut, spending cut, government made smaller and smarter. a real property tax cap working with democrats and republicans believing that as long as you stick to your principles, compromise isn't a dirty word. the result, four balanced budgets in a row. no new taxes for anyone. the best job growth. 130,000 new private sector jobs. merit pay for teachers and the best funding ever. the most important thing he did has little to do with numbers, statistics or politics. he made us proud to say we are from new jersey. chris christie, the governor. >> senator buono, you were shaking your head. >> it appears he's suggesting new jerseyans are proud. i was born and raised in new jersey and have been proud for a long time. we are not proud of his record. 400,000 are out of work. property taxes haven't risen on millionaires, but they have risen 20%. he's living in an alternative universe. we are at the bottom of the barrel in economic growth