head back upstairs to darrell waltrip. >> darrell: see if we can talk to the second place runner here kevin harvick. kevin harvick. d.w. got a copy there, my friend? >> [radio]: , sir. >> darrell: getting a little crazy out there, buddy. what are you seeing? >> [radio]: really not seeing much. everything happening behind us. a little tough to pass so got to get aggressive on the restarts to make the ground up if you sneed to make two or three spots up that is when you need to do it otherwise you only get one or two. definitely going to get aggressive on the restarts and that is what is happening. >> darrell: made adjustments and worked up there in second spot right now. can you pull it off? >> [radio]: i don't know. a good solid night so far and just need to see what the car is like when we actually get going. haven't really gone more than a lap here up in clean air. that will be the telltale sign as to where we stand in clean air. >> darrell: finish it off and thanks for talking to us. >> [radio]: thank you. >> chris: check in on jeff gordon. jeff hammond is standing by. >> jeff: jef

>> darrell: had to let him go. had to let him go. >> mike: and kenseth is the new leader. >> darrell: cannot get him back. cannot get him back. >> larry: tried the crossover move down the backstretch. >> mike: now, see who gets the jump off four and that has been kyle's achilles heel these last ten laps. >> darrell: kenseth is long gone, boys. see ya! don't want to be ya! >> mike: denny hamlin 2.2 back of the duo. jeff gordon three seconds back and jimmie johnson four back. >> larry: and remember, matt kenseth is run aring the race without his crew chief jason radcliff at the racetrack. a one race suspension after the penalties in kansas. wally brown on the pit box making the calls for matt kenseth. >> mike: because of a light weight connecting rod nascar took away the value of the kansas win toward making the chase or toward bonus points. and all that was returned by the appeals board when that appeal was heard this week. so kenseth effectively in the course of this week went from one victory that counted toward t

because darrell issa says he doesn't want to make it a show. really? they've already had nine hearings. the right wing wants this story to stay around as long as possible, to tarnish hillary clinton as a national candidate. no doubt about it. bob shrum, here's a clip of darrell issa. why don't you respond to it. here it is. >> what did secretary of state hillary clinton fail to disclose or fail to do that makes her a target for you? >> hillary clinton is not a target, president obama is not a target. >> isn't this an effort to take downhillry in 2016, bob? they're political opportunists. >> sure, this is all about fear of the hillary candidacy in 2016 and resentment that president obama won in 2012. the republicans have been down this road before. it's sort of out of their playbook. they tried this during the campaign. mitt romney tried the benghazi attack in the second department and got smashed for it. if you think back 20 years, there was a concocted non-scandal called white water that was supposed to bring hillary clinton down. it certainly did not

republican congressman darrell issa. we're coming right back. >> impact segment get to charles krauthammer joins from us washington. so i didn't make any mistakes in the talking points, charles, did i leave anything out? that's important. >> no, i thought it was definitely an a plus. brilliant presentation and the intone nation was excellent. [ laughter ] i think what's going on here is you have got a president who came to washington saying he was going to change washington. change the essence of politics itself and now he is reduced to trying to explain why his whole bureaucracy is out of control. now, his best answer, it makes him look ridiculous but it's the best he can do, the most protective is to take the position on just a bystander. i didn't know what was happening with the irs. the attorney general said i don't even i don't know how the a.p. story came about. i recused myself glow even know when i recused myself. get on benghazi you get secretary of state hillary clinton at the time saying i never saw the memo,

darrell issa has become the inspector clouseau. he went after the attorney general on solyndra, fast and furious. those ended up being nothing. issa was embarrassed on that. i think to james's point, the three so-called scandals here, bengha benghazi, that involves how talking points are constructed. the a.p. story where the department of justice followed the letter of the law on one of the most serious crimes against this country. and the irs issue where we're learning that it wasn't just now, according to recent reporting, it was not just conservative groups subjected to heightened scrutiny, some liberal groups might have been subjected as well. while that may be inappropriate, there's no evidence that went outside of the irs. look, i've worked in both these judiciary committees and the oversight committees through a number of different scandals. i can tell you these are not the facts or the cloth from which scandals are made. these are issues that will probably stick around for another couple weeks because the press is looking f

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. >> lerner stood firm, but not better chairman darrell issa attempted to coax her to change her mindou be willing to answer questions specifically related to the earlier statement made under oath before this committee? >> i decline to answer that question for the reasons i have already given. >> lerner then left the room. her departure was followed by remarks from congressman issa, who announced that learna was, earth to trey gowdy, within her constitutional rights. perhaps wary of being seen as attempting to score points for political gain, issa sounded a for bipar sanship. >> i would ask all of us to avoid talking about who is liked by president bush, who is liked by president obama, who is liked by republicans or democrats. let's all be be republicrats and demicans? >> or -- >> darrell issa i thought was incredibly shrewd in choosing to be above the partisan fighting on this one, even though up until this point, it's as if perhaps darrell issa has had a somewhat partisan agenda in pursuing all of this. >> it's not just shrewd but important. the mess that happened there, and to be

this is congressman darrell issa, who is grilling holder about some decisions that the department of justice made in that whistle-blower saga. take a listen. >> when i look at the request and try to be as responsive as we can. i'm sure there must have been a good reason why only the to and from parts were -- >> yes, you didn't want us to see the details. mr. attorney general -- >> no, no -- that's what you typically do -- >> knowing the to and from -- >> i'm not going to stop talking now. >> mr. chairman, would you

is laughable tell you the truth ok darrell laughable treaty go ahead well this is this is

>> darrell issa specifically said it isn't the end of the line.inished the hearing he held a short press conference outside. and he said this hearing is over but this investigation is just beginning. i took that to mean they're going to be doing other things. >> what's the end of the line with this? when do they get what they're looking for? what is their goal here? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. if you talk to republicans, the end of the line is when they finally get the answers that they're seeking and finally figure out who did what wrong and who's responsible for what happened. and if you talk to democrats the end of the line is when they have managed to damage hillary's 2016 campaign. which is a cynical way of looking at it but i did -- i do think that's at least part of what's going on. >> bill: well, i tweeted out yesterday from the white house listening to reporters questioning jay carney about this that it was pretty clear to me that the entire purpose -- from the comments of republicans, ahead of the hearing, mike huckabee, lind

darrell issa joins us live coming up.d balanced also from the seam committee danny davis will be here as well. some republicans see a coverup and some democrats say this is part political play and part witch hunt. i'm shannon bream. hour number two of america's news headquarters live from the nation's capital starts right now. >>> lawmaker from both parties wasted no time tangling over different versions of the benghazi attack. steve centanni is following it right now. hi, steve. >> reporter: accusations flying. republicans claiming there was a coverup and democrats say it is an effort to discredit hillary clinton. e-mails show an effort by the administration to edit the controversial tacking points about what -- talking points about what led to benghazi. the central issue is sue you san rice's claim on five talk shows that a video created the conflict when in fact it was a terrorist attack. >> i would call it a coverup. i would call it a coverup in the extent there was willful removal of information which was obvious. it

chairman darrell issa says that -- 11 hearings on benghazi is not enough. we need more hearings on benghazi and we're going to go after president obama because he refuses to call it a terrorist attack. here is issa's little wordplay. >> so i think when you look at official correspondence from the president through the acting ambassador, to the president of libya which came out in our hearing and was testified to under oath, the words that are being used carefully like you just said, act of terror and act of terror is different than a terrorist attack. the truth is this was a terrorist attack. this had al-qaeda added. >> very delicate distinction. belle you guys reported on this yesterday. so what is -- the question i would like to have asked darrell issa, what is the difference between a terrorist attack and an act of terror. >> might want to ask george w. bush who on september 13, two days after the september 11th attacks, called it an act of terror as well. so there may have been a cover-up with bush that issa has to investigate. but look, it is getting r

is laughable tell you the truth ok darrell laughable treaty go ahead well this is this is an effective strong first step toward some common sense in the international arms trade which currently doesn't have any standards governments are not required to report on their arms transfers they are not required even to have national regulations on weapons exports imports or ammunition why is that does not take a sterile ok why is that the case why is that the case yeah well first of all to today there are no standards ok russia can sell weapons to the assad regime in syria even though it's quite obvious that the assad regime is targeting civilians it's a lie to their game and russian words to sell that would still be legal under international law. which it's not it today is legal today it is illegal ok if you have this treaty will put in there. would this treaty would end like arms sales to break and you know it's makes it clear it makes it clear that such protests such transfers would be prohibited if they if the state has knowledge that it could violate human rights lead to war crimes or be

congressman darrell issa weighs in on that just ahead.l: also an absolute tragedy at this wedding party. a limousine catching fire, claiming the life of a new bride and so many of her close friends .. bill: clicks on this a moment. the senate voting a bill to end tax-free on-line shopping. the proposal would allow states to collect sales tax for anything bought over the internet. under current law state sales tax can only be applied if the story has a physical presence in that state. the bill is expected to pass in the senate but some serious opposition in the house. martha: terrible story this morning as investigators near san francisco search for clues after this horrific limousine fire that happened over the weaken and claimed the lives of a new bride and four of her friends. look at that scene. four other women and the driver managed to escape. claudia cowan is live on this story in san francisco with the latest this morning. any further word, claudia, on what started this fire? >> reporter: not yet, martha. investigators will hold a

as soon as the president's done, we'll get reaction from congressman darrell issa.ent. >> good afternoon, everybody. i just finished speaking with secretary lew and senior officials at the treasury department to discuss the investigation into irs personnel who improperly screened conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. i look forward to taking some questions at tomorrow's press conference, but today i wanted to make sure to get out to all of you some information about what we're doing about this, and where we go from here. i've reviewed the treasury department watchdog's report, and the misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. it's inexcusable, and americans have a right to be angry about it, and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs. given the power that it has, and the reach that it has in all of our lives. and as i said earlier, it should not matter what political stripe you're from, the fact of the matter is that the irs has to operate with absolute integrity. the government genera

the republicans like darrell issa who is heading up this committee voted to cut that funding.aybe because of political reasons in an election year to make the president look weak. thus sacrificing americans for political gain. did that happen? >> if that's the case, john, that's outrageous. ( cheers and applause ). hey, welcome back. i'm going to tell you something. very big news out of phoenix arizona, jody arias has been found guilty of the boyfriend killing thing. for their seemingly nonstop coverage of the trial, cnn was found guilty of news slaughter. look it up. it's a thing. in the culmination of a long-running saga that involves almost every cnn correspondent as well as a homemade crime scene and gruesome re-enactment and the murdering of an innocent carpet, that stain is never coming out. here's the problem. because cnn put all their news eggs in the arias basket they were forced to cover other stories including another good crime drama from their current location. ashley banfield from a parking lot in phoenix reporting via satellite with nancy grace who seemed to be

honda and commissioner darrell [speaker not understood]. to my left is city attorney robert brian he will provide the board with any legal advice tonight. at the controls is our a sis at that point victor pacheco. i'm cynthia goldstein, the department's director. scott sanchez is here, the zoning administrator, he is also representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph did you e duffy is here representing the department of building inspection. john [speaker not understood], manager at the department of public works bureau of street use and mapping is here as well as jasper cain, executive director of the san francisco entertainment commission. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could please go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> professor: the board requests that you turnoff all cell phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceeding. please carry on conversations in the hallway. and the board rules of presentation are as follows. appellants, public holders and department re

bob, going back to you, on this issue of benghazi, why have speaker boehner or mitch mcconnell or darrell issa, chairman issa, why have none of them ever mentioned the amount of money that was slashed from security for foreign embassies and consulates which might ultimately have protected those in that consulate in benghazi? why do they never, ever mention that? >> well, because as it's been said, that's an inconvenient truth, and truth is not the object here. boehner, mcconnell, the republican leadership has been having a lot of trouble with their own members. with these tea party fanatics and people on the far right in the republican caucus. benghazi, the irs, raw meat to these folks. they're going to keep doing it. they're going to keep going after it. consistency here is of no matter at all to these folks. you may recall, for example, boehner right after the election said, we're not going to go back and revisit obama care, that issue is settled by the election. just a couple days august he said, they're going to hold another vote. it's at the core of his being to repeal obama care. th

darrell issa is here to talk about that. and lawmakers did hear from the former commissioner who ran the irs which it targeted conservative groups. but is congress happy with the former commissioner's answers. see for yourself, next. and jodi arias, begs for her life. she talks directly to the jury. we have it on tape. you will see it right here, coming up: [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but that's okay -- you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car and we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. learn about it at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay alive... but feel alive. the c-class is no exception. it's a mercedes-benz, through and through. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for excep

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darrell issa being the total freakin' jerk that he is, right?michael: yeah. >> they see these are nothing but partisan hacks. >> and yeah it's almost like they fumble it each time they get it. this could have played very well into their hands. i think the most difficult situation of course is what happened with the associated press, and is the just disdepartment -- their involvement there. but the republicans did have a chance to make some hey out of this especially the irs, which clearly seemed to target what they were doing. so they blew it again. >> right. and here again we're already seeing -- like franklin graham came out today claiming he was the victim of political persecution because he was audited. the truth is there are a lot of phonies out there who have applied for tax-exempt status and a lot of them have it. start with the church of scientology, you know? and we could go down the list. the irs -- we want them to do their job. where they went wrong was targeting these little tea party groups, none of which lost their tax-exempt statu

let's listen to darrell issa. >> we want to make certain that our government learns the proper lessons from this tragedy so it never happened again and so that the right people are held accountable. the administration, however, has not been cooperative and unfortunately our minority has mostly sat silent as we've made these requests. i still hold out hope that one day you will stand with me as this administration doesn't cooperate. when they ignore our inquiries and when that day comes together, we will be far more effective. >> well, the attacks in administration have been all over the board. the president failed to save some of the victims and then mislead the public about the very nature of the attack in benghazi. that doesn't stop the right wing from making more of them. here was mike huckabee with a startling prediction. >> "i believe that before it's all over this president will not fill out his full term. i know that puts me on a limb. but this is not minor." >> well, there's plenty more of where that came from, from lindsey graham of south carolina. he posted on his facebook pa

. >> can it work -- >> darrell issa will do what darrell issa does. but you have marco rubio saying we demand an investigation. we demand an investigation. this is after eric holder had already announced a criminal investigation. that's going on. the fbi is being called in. the senate and the house do not investigate in order to put anyone in jail. that's the fbi's job to do. whatever happen on the hill. >> as a matter of fact you bring up a very good point. if you really want to put people in jail. if that's what boehner's real objective is, don't hold hearings. you put those people up testifying on capitol hill. that stuff cannot be used in a criminal trial. so you can turn boehner's argument around the world on the issas of the world. >> what do you think they want? an investigation or a conviction? >> they want headlines. they want to make it look like the white house is stalling. look at this. if they investigate at the end of the day they decide, there is no criminal violation here. the people are fired or they're discipline or sent to siberia,

and people will suggest look at darrell issa here he is again with another axe to grind. you know that is what is going to -- >> he is not the one behaving in a partisan way. republicans are perfectly happy to attack a republican president. sometimes unjustifiably i would add. it was republicans in the base who got george bush to withdrawal harriet meyers and got them to withdraw the amnesty plans. we will attack when our side is doing something wrong. the democrats will not. oh, they will not. nor will the media. >> geraldo: okay. we will have ann a chance to give final thoughts on this and i will give you my he takeaway on the significance of the upcoming hearings on benghazi gate including the two whistle blowers, after this. ♪ it was the best day whoo! yes! ♪ it was the best day ♪ ♪ it was the best day yeah! ♪ it was the best day ♪ecause of yo [sigh] [echoing] we make a great pair. huh? progressive and the great outdoors -- we make a great pair. right, totally, uh... that's what i was thinking. covering the things that make the outdoors great. now, that's progressive.

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dave kamw and darrell issa. they've written letters, written letters, had hearings about this.ey could never, never pierce the veil. there's a lot of testimony over the last two years. a lot of mail we've gotten back from the irs, where they basically have stonewalled this. i'm not sure that we would have known had it not been for this audit that the inspector general at the irs performed. we have to remember, it was just an audit. that means a sampling of information. i'm glad that the inspector general at the irs has opened up his own investigation, which is a much more thorough look at the data than just what the audit was originally. >> greta: the president said he never heard about the irs investigation until about a week ago when it was in the press, and white house press secretary jay carney has said that the white house senior aides never told the president. do you believe that? >> it's pretty inconceivable to me that the president wouldn't know. i'm just putting myself in his shoes. i deal with my senior staff every day. and if the white house had known about, this whi

congressman darrell isa calling it a good first step. but with a full schedule of hearings looming, other republicans framed the scandal and stark criminal terms if the wrongdoing extended beyond the halls of the irs. >> these are the tactics of the third world. these are the tactics of places that don't have the freedoms and the independents that we have here in this country. and it is shocking to americans that this would come to light in the way that it has. >> but there was an effort to bring the power of the federal government to bear on those the administration disagreed with. in the middle of a heated national election. it actually could be -- could be criminal. >> my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is who's going to jail over this scandal? >> at a house judiciary hearing, attorney general eric holder says the justice department would look into whether any false statements made by irs officials broke the law and also whether the civil rights of conservative groups had been violated. let's bring in the execu

. >> at the end of the hearing, chairman darrell issa said his community isn't through with lerner. >> although i excused ms. lerner subject to a recall, i'm looking into the possibility of recalling her and insisting she answer questions in light of a waiver. >> as congress continues investigating, the american center for law and justice, which represents 27 tea party groups, is preparing to file suit on behalf of many of them. 10 of their organizations have their nonprofit status still pending while two withdrew due to extra scrutiny. bret? >> bret: let's take a closer look at the woman of the hour, lois lerner. here's some ground indicating this is not the first time lerner has been suspected of playing fast and loose with the rules. >> now under the protection of her lawyers and the fifth amendment, lois lerner is facing a maelstrom that began earlier this month at an american bar conference, when they apologized for the irs's targeting of certain groups. >> ms. lerner -- >> they used names like tea party or patriots, and they selected cases simply because the application had thos

the bombshell development comes to us courtesy of chairman darrell issa who argues she waived her fifthmendment rights by delivering this opening statement. let's take a look. >> i have not done anything wrong. i have not broken any laws. i have not violated any irs rules or regulations. i have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee. and while i would very much like to answer the committee's questions today, i've been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing. >> sean: so is this a major legal misstep on the part of lois lerner and her attorneys? a number of council member, through south carolina's trey gowdy, they actually believe it was. >> she just testified. she just waived her fifth amendment right to privilege. you don't get to tell your side of the story and not be subjected to cross-examination. that's not the way it works. she waived her right to the fifth amendment privilege by issuing an opening statement. she ought to stand here and answer our q

the reason we're talking about this now is because republicans and darrell issa had been beating the drum on this relentlessly since it happened. there's a question as to why the white house wasn't more ahead of this eight months ago. >> the only reason we know this happened is because darrell issa was beating the drum. otherwise, we wouldn't know. >> there's a weird kind of thing that happens with the question of transparency with the obama administration. and i suppose what i would say is on the one hand, i think it's not a straightforward as it appears to be in the sense that i do think that they have been not particularly good communicators, they haven't done a very good job on everything from branding the affordable care act on forward, right? but there's also this way in which under constant attack, they then begin to behave like people who are under siege and they make bad choices because they seem to be behaving like people who are under siege. but they are after all under siege in the sort of partisan space where within three weeks of the president's initial inauguration, pe