irs. >> nobody knows the irs better than she. she also uncovered this video or brought it to our attention the video of the irs people starring in "star trek" uniforms, i mean we don't want to spend our tax money for more of this junk, do we? >> no. but i think that's really getting off the point. we need to be more fair and balanced here. yes part of this money they are asking for will go the job congress gave them which is enforcing the health care law, but that's not the sole reason. congress has been cutting the irs budget for years. we all know this. it's a terrific way for the republican controlled house to make it harder for them to elect -- >> not cutting the budget for the irs for years. >> really? >> your facts are wrong. go ahead. >> i disagree. they have, in fact, been cutting the budget. >> no, they haven't. >> we know request. that's number one. you have to have money to collect money. we asked them to go out there and do that job. they didn't decide to go out there and enforce health care. that's the role congress

is the irs the right place to go? >> no.hink sadly your best solution is to pay someone else to do your tax returns or use professional software. they've probably got it right, and you're less likely to get an audit when you do that rather than doing it on your own. gerri: okay. scott, thank you for that. i appreciate your time. >> you bet, gerri. >>> we want to know what you think. are the problems at the irs the fault of cut back or incompetence. log on to gerriwillis.com. vote on the right-handdside of the screen. i'll share the result at the end of the show. >>> customer service, which we were just talking about with the irs, it's not the only part of the irs not passing muster. take a look at what happens to your tax return once you file it. makes a big difference if you file by mail. hard paper; right? or if you file electronically. if you file by mail, paper, once the irs gets it, it goes in to what the agency calls the pipeline. it has to be routed to the right department, that can take a day, after that the returns

up to this white house like the irs commissioner did when richard nixon was trying to use the irs to achieve a political objective. well, this new fresh, irs commissioner coming in to clean up this troubled agency, be used by this administration to silence the critics? will he throw the irs right in the middle of this big political debate? i want to see a statesman over there at the irs. he got recently confirmed by the senate. we're counting on him not to be used by this white house to carry out their political agenda of quieting their critics. >> senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, great to see you. >>> thank you. >>> and as the senator just mentioned it has been eight months since the doj launched an investigation into the targeting of irs groups, and just a couple of weeks since the fbi said well, don't expect criminal charges, there wouldn't be any. this morning, some republican senators challenged the attorney general, that is who the fbi reports to, eric holder, about what is really going on. >> 280 days have passed, no one has been indictment ed. >> i don't know if you h

the irs violating the constitutional rights of americans, irs employees taking the fifth, nothing. and don't tell me that a traffic j jam, as annoying as it might be, comes anywhere near the massacre in benghazi or the irs scandal. mr. president, you're kidding, right? there's a saying that justice is blind, but it must be swift and certain. you, who promised to give us the most transparent administration in history, and level the playing field, and yet your appointee investigates a traffic jam as a federal criminal probe in less than 24 hours? but it gets worse, folks. pohl fishman, the united states attorney in new jersey, trumpets his investigation. now, folks, i was the chief law enforcement officer in my county for years, and i worked with the feds, shared resources with the feds, and have even been investigated by the feds. i know their m.o. they do not confirm nor deny investigations. their mantra is that they are so objective and so nonpartisan that they would never implicate someone before an indictment. i guess the rules are different, though, in the obama administration.

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no law enforcement agency asking for criminal charges against the irs. the irs is incompetent and not criminal. what does the tea party have to say from that a? the tea party patriot member joins us. what do you think about the information that apparently there is and our own reporting found it as well that there is -- the fbi has not found any information that will lead to filing criminal charges. >> greta, thanks for having me tonight. it is absolutely outrageous. we know for certain that you the irs released donor information of at least one group. we know that the irs lied before congress under oath that they would not lie. they lied before congress which is a felony saying there was no targeting when 100% of tea party groups were targeted. and to find out that they are not going to press any charges and they are saying nothing is wrong is outrageous. to top that off, the fbi has not once contacted tea party patriots. they have not contacted our attorneys. tea party patriots and i are in touch with hundreds of groups around the country every single d

there's a new irs commissioner moving in.ne who hasn't had much time on the job, but this investigation really has very little to do at this point with danny werfel or the irs or the current commissioner. this has to do with the department of justice. eric older kept saying investigations take time. that's true, criminal investigations take time but if you haven't even sat down to talk to the people who were wronged and it's not the lead attorney, again, he's parsing words, barbara bosserman, which we know, she's involved and is overseeing the investigation. she may not be the lead day-to-day attorney, how he parsed words. not the person picking up the phone, and that's probably right, but she is the person overseeing it, and she is a top obama donor. as we said it's intimidation. if you're one of the small tea party organizers like our clients, are we don't have a client that is a group larger than about 80 grand a year, these are small groups, and you know this person is going to investigate you, how do you feel when that's

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we're turning to the irs.u what nobody else will about the new agency and role it will play in the coming year. joining us photographer norquist -- grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. great to have you here. we'll talk irs in a second. i want to get you comment from speaker of the house john boehner who was pretty criticals of your organization and some others. here is what heti had to say say recently. >> they pushed us into this fight to defund obamacare and to shutown the government. most of you know my members know, that wasn't exactly the strategy i had in mind but if you will recall the day he have about the government reopened one of the people, at one of these groups stood up and said v well we never really throughout it would work. are you kidding me? gerri: what do you say to that? >> well, look, we're moving forward on protecting the sequester and just for the record, he wasn't criticizing my group. we didn't endorse the defund only strategy. but, what boehner's put together and

i want to talk about the irs. i want to know the role of the irs. it's very interesting. we haven't focused on this as much as we probably should. the irs, are they going to be a bully now? they have limited powers, let me get this straight. there's no criminal -- you don't pay a fine, if you don't go and buy health insurance, you're going to be fined. and the fine grows the first year, second year, third year. now, it's voluntary. the irs has no power for criminal charges, and no power to seize houses, property or liens. now, they can call you up and they can write letters and maybe they can visit you, too. will the irs use those tools to scare people and force people into buying a health care plan they may not want? >> here's another question. does the administration want that narrative. you're absolutely right, the irs has very limited powers, very modest penalty, $95, 1% of income this year. with all the bad press about the irs, targeting conservative groups, i can't imagine that they want to make that an issue heading into midterm elections. so if you structure your

the irs!or dare asking the american people for a bigger budget after a litany of abuses last year, including targeting conservativing groups or pretty much anything with the term tea or tea party in its name. accepting the award for the agency that went way beyond even it's legal limits, it's new commissioner. we're having a little bit of fun here. but that kind of drop jaw reaction was pretty much what republicans were giving the new irs chief when he was making his money pitch today. mol molly? >> the chutzpah award, cracks me up. >> amazing. >> and kos -- who might be sympathetic, including the top house democrat on the ways and means committee sandy levin. john koskin got sworn in on monday who said the agency's budget is the most contractible problem he faces as he takes over. and suggests that congress needs to allocate more money. in part to help implement the massive obama care law. this is the aim irs, albeit not led by him at the time in 2010, that used of $60,000 in taxpayer money t

and also we are suing the irs.o the information that will come up in the course of investigation by someone who has a political motivation or even an agenda. this is not simply a question of tax deductibility. this is an acknowledged targeting scheme that the president himself said was outrageous and that eric holder says maybe criminal and the end result is after waiting nine months, they've finally appointed a team to have this up and there is a political situation. neil: any appointee of the president by and large will have political loyalties to that president. but my issue is this whole scandal was driven by a political agenda in the first place. so a justice department spokeswoman issuing this statement to us. it prohibited personnel practice under federal law consider the political affiliation of factors in making personal decisions, removing a career or case due to political it affiliation and they could also violate the law. what strikes me there is what we are dealing with here. that is what we are trying

new outrage in the irs scandal. the justice department chooses a obama supporter to lead the investigation in the targeting of 500 conservative groups. welcome to hq, i am alisyn camerota. >> and i am greg in for bill hemmer. eight months ago president obama promised to hold those responsible accountable for their actions remember that? >> i sure do. california republican darril issa has been leading the charge for answers. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, alisyn and thanks for having me on, on this important issue. >> what was your reaction. barbara k. boostermap was going to be leading the irs probe. >> it how we found out that is interesting. we asked the administration who was leading the investigation and getting to the truth and they refused to answer, as we interviewed the irs officials, we asked you who is working with you. her name kept coming up. we discovered she was a consistent donor to obama's re- elect and democratic national committee and a obvious conflict of special. >> so you got

. >> so far there is no evident to support criminal charges in the irs targeting of cops congroups.expert said the only solution of the problem at the irs is through an election. >>> i am gretchen carlsson. coming up. big hearing on nsa rules reform happening in our hour. did all of the spying on americans stop terrorist attacks? . the findings might surprise you. and outrage. the fbi said no criminal charges in the targeting of criminal groups by theires. a pastor told parishoners to help themselves to commune. right or wrong. we'll have that on the top of the hour. you just mentioned the targeting of conservative groups. >> top irs officials say there is no evidence to warrant criminal charges. joining us is judge napolitano, fox senior judicial analyst. what the fbi said, they have not found evidence of enemy hunting with the irs giving extra scutunny to tea party groups. but they have big bureaucracy and inepiitude. >> and the way the law is written, the irs has given so much lee way, you almost, almost have to find bribery on the part of the irs agent to look the other way or l

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irs.d of operation and what it possibly has to do with a very clear, serious scandal in jersey, which is on the record now. >> and i actually watched that last night and was thinking exactly what you're thinking. it sort of shows you the extent to which the right wing media has body snatched the political class on the right, where these myths that live in minds and night terrors of conservatives in the base have now infected their ability to do politics. listen, this could be equivalent if you had the white house deputy chief of staff, you know, e-mailing the former campaign manager jim massino or david axelrod you just had on the show, and e-mailing those guys in cincinnati and saying hey, time to mess with the tea party that is not what happened. what you had here was really frivolous, petty, ugly political retribution that was done without regard to the affect it would have on people that are actually consistent s constituents of the they're boss. >> the editorial team had this sugar pl

nixon tried to use the irs to go after his enemies during watergate and the commissioner of the irsd no. we have a new commissioner over at the irs. we want to see if he has the integrity to stand up to this white house like they did when richard knicks on was trying to use the irs to achieve a political objective. bill: do you have any doubts that he can run this impartially? do you think he can do it fairly? or are there question surrounding this? >> i think he can do it fairly. the question is whether he will do it fairly. we know the administration made a priority of reef defining what is unin the context of 501c-1 as political activity. what they want to do is categorize the kind of activities and scrutiny the irs brought upon these conservative groups a year ago. they want to make that part of the rule. so that what was done in the past wouldn't be the exemption, it would be the rule. it would rule out non-political activities for these tea party groups. bill: mcconnell says he wants to see a statesman in charge of the irs. the credibility of the agency is now on the line. >>

i'm not exonerating the governor are bashing the irs. saying that fair is fair. >> first of all it is outrageous that things happen in new jersey that disrupt common people's lives the way dead. so i'm not the least bit happy about the way it happened and i hope the governor is as outraged as the people in fort lee. and i also don't think that the federal government is being consistent with a catastrophe of governing and let the irs scandal go by. i just find it outrageous that the irs may be getting dissed by the justice department and i hope that they really looked at it. and instead they have an honest prosecutor who is paying attention. neil: i understand it and i wonder about the irs thing. we are to know that the woman who was put in charge was a big obama contributor. and they were clearly targeting conservative groups and tea party groups that were going on and that is more than just disrupting traffic by disrupting a lot of people's lives and staring them in the process. but leaving that aside, how can anyone say that none of th

first, the tea party and now the irs accused of trying to smoke out conservatives from hollywood. if you aren't a typical hollywood liberal then you better watch out. >> absolutely we were targeted and it feels kind of creepy to be on somebody's enemy list especially when it's the government. >> they have a rogue agency that they knew nothing about that has 100,000 employees. >> i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs. >> my question is, who is going to jail over this scandal? >> and to find out that they are not going to press any charges and they are saying nothing is wrong is outragus

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. >> >>> did the irs just get caught again targeting conservatives? first, the tea party and now the irs accused of trying to smoke out conservatives from hollywood. that's right, if you aren't a typical hollywood liberal then you better watch out. >> absolutely we were targeted and it feels kind of creepy to be on somebody's enemy list especially when it's the government. >> they have a rogue agency that they knew nothing about that has 100,000 employees. >> i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs. >> my question is, who is going to jail over this scandal? >> and to find out that they are not going to press any charges and they are saying nothing is wrong is outrageous. >> and, in just minutes, a high profile hollywood insider who says the irs has targeted him is here to go "on the record." first, our political panel, "the weekly standard" steve hayes the political reports amy water and the hill's a.b. stoddard. steve, first of all, what is going on with this? >> it certainly sounds like theist is targeting

with the irs scandal. we learned the government was possibly using the irs to intimidate and supress opposition voices. then we haven't apprehended the benghazi operatives. >> you're with the with huffington post? >> not anymore. >> so was this a good year for obama? >> i think when you talk about the collapse, i don't see the administration collapse at all. i see a health care roll out with bumps but now it is working. >> working? >> sure. >> half the website isn't built. he has the lowest approval rating at the end of a fifth year than any president since nixon. help me out. george w. bush had a higher approval rating after year five than obama. >> couldn't get health care ben affleck. >> you believe that. >> yes. >> really? >> of course. >> go ahead and finish. >> hang on. >> the fact that you are still justifying the irs scandal targeting conservatives is appalling. i'm not surprised. the president did it, too. he came out when the irs scandal came out and said, i think this is outrageous. no way shoul

they care. >> the irs admitted to targeting conservatives. >> if, in fact, irs personnel were intentionally targeting conservative groups then that's outrageous. >> who gave the orders? where did this come from? >> can you hear us now? >> i certainly didn't know anything about the i.g. report. >> my question isn't who will resign. my question is who is going to jail over this scandal? >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. in you like your health care plan, you will be with able to keep your health care plan. what we said was you could keep it. if it hasn't changed since the law has passed. >> the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to people and let them keep what they've got. >> i am sorry that they are finding themselves this is this situation based on assurances they got from me. >> sound off on facebook and twitter throughout the hour. we bring back our studio audience. here you have the irs scandal, nsa, benghazi. >> the nsa was key. that was a moment when barack obama lost people on the left who care about civil liberti

we're not looking for a fight with the irs.e want to know what our status is so we can, like any business, make plans and do our budgeting and figure out how we're going to continue to operate. >> and it is definitely, larry, a nonprofit organization. >> right. >> it is no threat to anybody more than a ladies' group would be or a pta group or a men's poker group. we're people who meet to have fellowship and fun together. that's who we are. >> pat, look, i worked for reagan years ago. i was deputy budget director. loved the man. he had a huge influence on my life. i wa reagan had a lot of friends in hollywood and i presume they were conservative. reagan ran the screen actor's guild for five terms and he was a conservative, at least as far as anti-communism was concerned. reagan carried california twice for governor and twice for president. and as i say, he had a lot of supporters. now, my question is, what has changed in the last 25 years or so? why has hollywood gone on such a liberal left extreme? >> first of all, hollywood pe

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the acting irs commissioner forced to resign.nment exempt commissioner was forced to retire early. ms. lerner was forced to retire early. and then we have holly who was in charge of all of the agreements with the irs. she was also placed on indefinite leave. >> indefinite leave is not fired. >> this happened in a cincinnati office. was he supposed to go down to cincinnati? >> the obamacare website? >> i was talking about the irs. >> that was one scandal. >> some of these are tragedies. >> obamacare is a tragedy, i agree. >> when you have millions of americans without health care -- >> that is not funny. >> people declare bankruptcy so they can stay healthy, that is a tragedy. giving people access to health care -- >> those off of insurance because of obamacare. >> because the insurance company says we can't sell you this crappy policy anymore and therefore you have to buy a new policy. >> i love that. ia just heard it, folks. crappy policy. we know best. washington knows best. >> this is actually part of the reform -- >> it is on

irs is not my favorite topic because i was doing taxes all morning. will say the penalty is designed to be run by the irs but ultimately what it's doing is feeding into this greater kitty addressing health care affordable care act. there's insurance policies such as for insurance companies there will be a federal subsidy for the next three years to make sure they can stay in balance and stay alive in case there isn't the number of registries right away. i kind of see this penalty, we're talking $95 or $46 per child. >> a percentage of your income, margerie. >> 2% the second year, 2.5 the third year, whichever is the greatest amount. >> you're not answering how aggressive is the irs? let me get you in on that. >> can file criminals charges and can't seizure house. if you're entitled to a refund they can take that away from you and charge you the additional. >> this is going to be the bully mechanism to enforce obama care. what we're going to see is obama care will fall into a spiral of desperation, young and healthy aren't signing up. people signing up

the irs might answer your question.if it's a tough question they may tell you that you haare on your own. that's a report sent to congress from a tax payer advocacy group called the national tax payer advocates. even getting a hold of the irs is getting more and more difficult. 20 million calls to the agency we last year. the average on hold time has shot up to 18 minutes in 2004. it was just about 2 and a half minutes. agents will pick and choose what they will decide to answer. here is one line from the report. it is a sad state of affairs when the government writes tax laws and complexes ours and is unable to answer any questions beyond basic ones from baffled citizens who are doing their best to comply. you can always try writing a letter to the irs half of those went unanswered according to this report. they are about to ramp up operations to become the chief enforcement arm for obamacare. >> doug luzader live for us this morning. thank you, doug. convicted felons are handling a wish list for identity thieves signi

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they intimidated the irs.now whatever the merits of their case, those were the facts that surrounded their getting a tax exemption. it was -- you know, i just said they owed a billion dollars. the irs prime and $12 million did they forget the billion dollars. they gave them the authority to decide on their own which parts of the church are actually tax exempt. they even made our ron hubbard's novels scriptures those are also tax the m. it was such a thoroughgoing that very. it's hard to even imagine. bear in mind, the irs is not the best equipped agency. but they are the only agency that has that authority. once the irs made that finding, the vast protections of the first amendment guarantees a religion that surrounded the church of scientology p. and protects the for many of the legal recourse is that they would ordinarily turn to you. >> one more question and then we will see what questions you all have. i'm going to ask a question that's on the minds of some people here. this book is not a flattering portra

>> i think the irs targeting anybody is a travesty. that's not what we have the irs for.s so that we pay our taxes in order to subsidize the world we are living in. the fact that they are remotely -- even the implication that it is a politically motivated targeting is abhorrent. it should be the to anyone no matter what political group you belong to. >> doesn't it piss you off? >> utterly, absolutely. it does except i don't want the irs angry at me. that's how it startsment you want to complain until then the irs says, well, what's his story? i promise you this. if you don't like that republican group and you want to bask in their problems, i promise you some day the irs will come for you. >> i can't wait. they have already knocked on my door a couple of times for different reasons. john popper, first of all, thank you for coming on. you're great. >> not at all. keep up the fight. >> let's hear this harmonica. give us some more. you're the best. ♪ >> that will be eight cents. >> great stuff. that's it for tonight's show. thanks for watching. i'm larry kudlow. tomorrow mor

that is because unlike other government agencies the irs has suffered budget cuts. the agency could not answer 20 million of the 108 million calls they received. even irs audits are down to less than 1% of individual filers which has resulted in a loss of revenue. >> the government has saved at least $1 billion and lost $8 billion in compliant revenues. >> irs service representatives will now only answer basic tax questions on the phone. referring people to the irs website, published manuals, outside firms, and software. my wife is a cpa. she says the same thing. >> there is really good tax software. >>> 4:48 is the time. sal, i don't want to talk about taxes. >> sorry, i didn't mean to bring that up. my bad. [ laughter ] >> happy friday to you both. we are doing well as it comes to the morning commute. i will show you some of these live pictures. we are off to a good start. it is a pretty good drive time. if you are on the road early, that is what you expect. you also don't expect any big delays because of road work and right now there are none. there is a look at

and right now, they're posing as irs agents.ys in every case the scammer gives urgent reasons why you need to send the money immediately. usually by prepaid debit card or wire transfer. >> they're trying to get the money transferred from the victim to them without leaving traces. >> reporter: some are adding an air of to the crime. they say many calls take place on weekend when would-be victims have a harder time verifying who is actually calling. >> they will set it up so businesses are closed or unreachable. >> reporter: cheryl didn't fall for it. first she called the irs to verify that the agency wasn't after her then she called consumer watch. >> i didn't want anybody else to go through this. >> it's not just money that scammers are after. there is a warning about tax related id theft. that's when they use stolen personal information to file tax returns and then get your refund themselves. there's particular concern in the wake of the whole target security breach. >> you think about doing your taxes, your social security num

what does it say about the amplified role the irs will have with obama care? >> that's the real danger, if the irs can't handle the help line, how is it going to administer the obama care law? >> don't forget, they are supposed to make sure people who sign up for the subsidies are actually eligible for them based on their incomes. and so i have a role doubts whether the irs will be competent to safe guard the system and make sure there is not widespread fraud. and 18 minute wait on hold. the airlines are doing better than that by a long shot and in a internet world that tests your patience. stephen moore, thank you. >> they call that service. >> or something like that. thank you, steve. >>> millions of folks in atlanta hoping for a thaw from the friendlyingid temperatures. thousands of cars have been stranded two days after a rare snow storm that appeared to catch the state and city leaders off guard. they are live from i- 75 just north of downtown atlanta. what is the latest at this hour? >> hi, alisyn. look at the exit ramp. it was covered in ice when we arr

even irs audits, believe it or not, are suffering. down to less than 1% of individual filers, the lowest level since 2005. >> the government has saved $1 billion in cuts to the irs budget on an annual basis and lost $8 billion in compliance revenues. >> reporter: it's a sat state of affairs when the government writes tax laws as complex as ours and then is unable to answer any questions beyond basic ones from baffled citizens who are doing their best to comply. the combination of more work and less funding, she says, predictably has impaired the irs' ability both to meet taxpayer needs and to improve tax complaints. >> and it's going to get worse as they have responsibility been forcing obamacare. they say they need additional employees for it. well there, isn't any federal agency that doesn't always start with that proposition we need more money. >> reporter: meantime, the department of justice investigation into allegations that tea party groups received inappropriate scrutiny in their applications for tax-exempt status triggered a

you see the republicans say benghazi, benghazi, irs, irs, whatever, fast and furious. they say obama. never mind that none of these wrote responses that make any sense. the republican fog machine keeps fogging up the screen. >>> anyway, also, the best political movie of the year just won three golden globes last night. i stayed up for them. and the man behind them, the director, david o. russell joins us, all about abscam in south jersey and philly where i came up. >>> this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> when it rains, it pours. the office of the inspector general at the u.s. department of housing and urban development, hud, has opened an audit into how the state of new jersey spent relief funds after hurricane sandy. at issue, a series of commercials aimed to jump-start tourism on the jersey shore, which prominently featured guess who? governor christie during an election year. the ad makers charged the state about $2 million more than the next lowest bidder whose ad campaign wouldn't have featured the governor. a christie spokesman told reporters today th

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>> bueno, mira, vamos a ir a los que ayunamos. >> mhum. >> vamos a ir a casa distrito, vamos a reunirnosel senado, pero la logramos pasar en la cÁmara de representantes, en otras palabras, me dijeron, nosotros ganamos, ustedes perdieron y ahora se las paso a ustedes, ¿estamos perdiendo esto? >> no, mira yo pienso que >> o es que no tenemos nada todavÍa. >> no, no, es que eso no se puede ver asÍ. >> mhum. >> no tenemos nada todavÍa a nivel federal, aunque inclusive ahÍ si hemos ganado por ejemplo con el programa para los soÑadores, que ahora tienen permiso por dos aÑos que con derecho a renovarlos. se estÁ pidiendo al presidente barak obama, y esto no depende de los republicanos que haga un tipo de programa similar si los republicanos adoptan una lÍnea dura como la de estos derechista y que este programa se extienda para parar las deportaciones, como hemos expresado. >> las deportaciones siguen. >> no, sÍ, por eso, entonces el presidente barak obama no puede ir a sudÁfrica como ya dijimos y proclamar su admiraciÓn por nelson mandela, pero aquÍ los inmigrantes indocumentados estarlos este

have been, what is the irs doing anyway, involved in running health care?ve been in the first place. but the republicans refuse to make that an issue, and it is all, so big brother and big government, there you are. >> all right, pat, let's talk a little if we can, and i say this to you because you have done some homework on this today. the benghazi report from the senate intelligence committee blaming the state department. you saw something today that you say is a trend among democrats and it's troubling. what is it in. >> a trend among the media, particularly. look, that was a committee run by democrats that was highly critical of the state department and raised serious questions, although they chose not to mention hillary clinton by name. but i watched the shows this morning, and i watched mainstream political reporters, the washington post, and meet the press, saying, oh, the american people don't care about it, only some republicans. then on howard kurtz on this network, and cnn, one of the great benghazi deniers, they were saying nobody cares about it

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