we've had three major scandals in the last 40 years, watergate, iran contra, and this one.he first two were investigated vigorously by the press and select committees of congress. that's not what happened with this one. >> greg, let's start with you, there's a committee action and all the things that are happening there, kind of like benghazi, everybody knows what's heap, it's just an inconvenient truth for them to actually come forward and let her testify. >> my favorite part of this whole thing was steny hoyer who called this hearing into the irs a witch-hunt. questioning an actual substantiated act of witch-hunting is called a witch-hunting, that logic, when a cop catches a mugger, that would be assault. it shows you ho how the rigged the game is. it's rigged, the media is your guy. it's the same team. you don't have to show up for practice. president obama is the eternal teacher's pet. it's the media that's giving him all the apples. >> let me ask you, legally, for lois learn, the attorney or even lois learner herself, she might not be exactly be worried about this, but

watergate, iran contra and this one. >> george will saying the irs targeting conservative groups on the par with watergate. we'll analyze that contention. >> i do you go up in a secular and. >> and look what happened to you. >> also tonight matt lauer and i discuss jesus in american public schools. don't miss this one. >> it's very difficult, bill, to separate the historical side of the story from a religious side of the story. >> did i it. >> caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. is attorney general eric holder playing the race card that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. this evening mr. holder testified in front of the house judiciary committee about the irs scandal and other controversies. as usual, the attorney general said little citing ongoing investigations for years have yielded no public results in fact, mr. holder was cited for contempt it of congress in 2012 for failing to hand over docum

and he did risk getting thrown off office with iran contra, which was a terrible scandal. if you want to catalog his sins, even just from the republican point of view, ronald reagan did raise the debt ceiling 18 times. he gave amnesty to millions of undocumented immigrants. he called for a world without nuclear weapons. he dramatically expanded the size of the federal government. in california, when he was governor there, he created the first emissions standards for cars. he expanded medicaid. he signed an abortion bill, an abortion -- not an anti-abortion bill, it was an abortion rights bill. he made california one of the first states in 1967 to legalize abortion. yes. that ronald reagan. but republicans just cannot see these parts of the reagan record. in the republican mind, you know, ronald reagan crossed the potomac and flew to the moon, personally killed hitler and bin laden. he invented lasers and talked rick perry into those new glasses that make him look so smart. he did it all. but ronald reagan did none of those things. and elected republicans have a problem, be

>> we have the sandinista, iran contra, the saudi family winked at 9/11.dent is cool so i am cool? if this was george debut bush people would be historic -- hysterical. lou: when he sold the department of interior or blm? >> i would not be surprised. [laughter] lou: how does this result? there is so desperately dependent upon government because people are denied the truth about their government held many people are insured under obamacare and then just to say we would not bother responding but in this instance with his neighbor's door family they are closing arms around him he is a love. >> i don't know if it will be this issue abutment there is federal overreach for those people better personally affected i will not give up my livelihood i will not budge. this could be it. >> if i had terminal cancer i would head down there and fight to the death. lou: freedom is just another word. >> exactly. lou: let's hope we can preserve freedom more than a last resort. now as they watch an estimated 200 enforcement officers around the ranch the word of this evening i

the last couple years were nothing like the first few mainly because of a iran-contra -- because of irantra. since today post your -- siincence you divulged your health and your age the medicare and medicaid would have existed even without the aca, even in the republican budget. you, thank god, you who got your hips replaced with medicare and medicaid would have had that with or without the aca. host: next caller, good morning. caller: i'm just amazed at the republicans. they are shooting themselves in the foot because they are so interested in a boat that is never going to go their way. hispanics are socialists -- in a vote that is not going to go their way. hispanics are socialists. the democrats are the party of divide and conquer. they always want to have special interest groups. they are certainly not the party of my father. i was a registered democrat until about four years ago in honor of my father. but i left the party many years ago. i saw where this was going. what i never here is who are the 90 million people who were eligible to vote in the last presidential election but who

we've had three, watergate, iran contra, and this one. that's not happening with this one. in each case, each of the three cases, the question has been how high does culpability surprise? specifically does it get to the ho white house? if the select committee on watergate had not the power to compel testimony and the energy and resources to investigate, they never would have gotten to a man named alexander butterfield, who was asked, is there a white house oval office taping system, oh, yes, there it is. richard nixon would have finished his second term. it matters that this scandal is not being comparably investigated. >> what do you make of moir's assertion this is nothing but a witch-hunt? >> it's faded into an issue that's gripped a somewhat larger public. i do think they can be held in contempt. the house certainly will vote for it but i don't think that matters that much. nothing is going to happen to her. she's not going to jail. whether they can actually compel her finally to talk. some of the argument is it is rather technical, whether she actually gave up her fift

. >> sorry, patty and iran-contra guys. after eight years in office, reagan's parting shot was to give this guy a hand. give this guy a pardon. around the time george steinbrenner was aaenging to buy the yankeess from cbs which owned the team in the '7s around the same time he was buying the yankees, george steinbrenner was making illegal campaign contributions to the presidential re will lex campaign of nixon. he got caught for it. >> george steinbrenner who was chairman of the american shipbuilding company and majority stockholder of the new york yankees was accused by the s.e.c. today of not reporting illegal campaign continue bugss. that brings to 11 the number of corporations formally accused of illegal political gifts in 1972. >> steinbrenner, the yankees owner was charged with 14 felony counts in connection with the part of the water gate scandal involving richard nixon's campaign fund raising. he was indicted on 14 counts 40 years ago this month. in april 1974. that story simmered all through the hot summer of 1974.

this has a whiff of iran-contra element.etter than anybody, back in the mid-1980's when the cia was and from supporting the contras in central america by congress, and passed the operations to the national security council so they could be conducted from there. and here we may have a situation where covert operations hasn't been passed to usaid were there isn't very much scrutiny. but it begs the question, if this is what usaid is doing in cuba, what has the cia been doing all this time there? there's a lot of programming and operations that we don't know about directed towards cuba that i think is very fundamental to be discussed and debated now, so we can change this archaic policy that patrick leahy referred to and get on with normalizing relations with cuba, which of course, is changing rapidly not from a communist society, but capitalist society. we can help with that, but we can't help with that by these silly, surreptitious and absolutely dangerous kind of covert operations. >> peter kornbluh, you met with alan gross

had lied to us to a corporate something the president had done that had something to do with the iran contraand we were urged. we just lost another election and send it -- as in bush has said his close advisor to be confirmed by the committee. we did everything we could in this energetic staffers to figure out how to nail him. as he sat there in the chair he could see his wife and three daughters behind him in tears as we took turns throwing mud at them. do i understand why i didn't? yes. to understand by the members of the democratic party did that? yes. we see the same thing happening with president obama's for nominees. we have seen that in the last few weeks. it's not something i was proud of. it's something i regretted and when you got that personal about the man or woman whose only crime was the willingness to serve united states government i felt lousy about it and we won a lot of those fights. guys for human rights who didn't believe in and blocked dies for arms control and didn't know much about it but let me tell you the flip side of that story quickly. we were about to block that

watergate, iran-contra, and irs. a couple of questions., where do you think this rises to that level, and why do you think the investigation has stalled? >> the investigation to take the last first has stalled because the justice department has already leaked its conclusion, which is that no one would be prosecuted. it rises to that level because the internal revenue service is the most intrucive and potentially the most punitive institution of the federal government and has been thoroughly politicized. let me give you five things we know that she's done right now. she said the delay in proving conservative groups was caused by a serious uptick. the inspector general of the irs says that's just not true. she said the tea party group was very dangerous. in texas and kentucky and probably elsewhere irs employees have violented the hatch act by using federal resources for campaigning and obviously for barack obama. >> can we just -- i want to point that out because the office of special council came out this week with a report, and they said

broadcast special report when you said there were three great scandals in washington: watergate, iran contra and i.r.s. why do you think this tries to that level? and why do you think the investigation is stalled? >> investigation has stalled because the justice department has leaked its conclusion which is that no one would be prosecuted. tries to that level because the internal revenue service is the most intrusive and potentially the most punitive institution of the federal government and has been politicized. five things we know she has done right now: she said the delay in approving conservative groups was caused by an uptick in politicians, the inspector general of the i.r.s. says that is not true. she said the tea party group was very dangerous. in texas and kentucky and elsewhere the i.r.s. violated the hatch act by using federal sources for campaigning for president obama. >> the office of special counsel sill came out with a report saying, although there are no vast cases, this was one case where if you called the help line this person with tell you, vote for obama and not for the

this have to do with iran-contra and whether vice president bush knew about it. we were irked.we just lost another election. president bush sent his close advisor to be confirmed by this committee. we did everything we could as energetic oh staffers to figure out how to nail him. and as he sat there in the chair, we could see his wife and his three daughters behind in with tears going down the eyes as we just took turns lining up and throwing mud balls at him. do i understand why i did it? yes. do i understood what a member of the democratic party did that? yes. we see the same thing happening today with president obama's nominees from the republicans. you're going to norway but you never been the and you don't know what continent it's on? we've seen that in the last few weeks. it's not something i was proud of. it's something i regretted and when you cut the personal about a man or woman whose only crime was their willingness to serve the united states government, i felt lousy about it. and we want a lot of those fights. a lot of guys are human rights who didn't believe in it.

watergate, iran contra and this one. >> george will saying the irs targeting conservative groups on theh watergate. we'll analyze that contention. >> i do you go up in a secular and. >> and look what happened to you. >> also tonight matt lauer and i discuss jesus in american public schools. don't miss this one. >> it's very difficult,

watergate, iran contra and this one. >> george will saying the irs targeting conservative groups on the with watergate. we'll analyze that contention. >> i do you go up in a secular and. >> and look what happened to you. >> also tonight matt lauer and i discuss jesus in american public schools. don't miss this one. >> it's very difficult,

it is ronald reagan on iran contra. to your point, on the sales numbers, we saw 4.1% growth for gm last march. those numbers just crossing at the top of the hour. questionable as to whether we will see sales growth like that next month given this bad press. we will talk about all of this and more and have more of this gm hearing after the break. we will be back with matt miller. later in the show, i will be joined by marsha blackburn, vice chairman house energy and commerce committee. you just heard her asking some of the questions and we will get her comments on the gm hearing. i will be right back. ♪ >> very barat is testifying before congress about why it took the company a decade to recall cars with faulty ignition switches. let's assume back to that hearing right now. >> our customers and safety are at the center of everything we do. you responded to a question from ms. blackburn and told us you are going to run gm differently than it has been run in the past. i have a copy of gm's march 18 rest release announcing

watergate, iran-contra and this one. the first two were investigated perhaps because they were under republican presidents vigorously by the press and also by select committees of congress. that's not happening with this one. in each case, each of the three cases, the question has been how high does culpability rise? specifically does it get to the white house? if the select committee on watergate had not had the power to compel testimony and the energy and resources to investigate, they never would have gotten to a man named alexander butterfield who, when asked, before he testified in a pre-testimony interview, is there a white house oval office taping system? oh, yes, there is, richard nixon would have finished a second term. it matters that the third major scandal of the last 40 years is simply not being comparably investigated. >> he also goes on to talk about how they're not investigating. plus the press, the mainstream media, just not interested. we talk about it on fox, you hear about it on talk radio, read it on

bush for the six indicted for iran contra. maybe even clinton they were petty crimes but they they didn't rise to the level of what our founding fathers meant to call high crimes and misdemeanors article two of the constitution has an impeachment calls on it i think the founders would be astounded utterly standard to a man elbridge gary alexander hamilton george washington. james madison you name one of the founders that we know may be a standard we had introduced some bastard out every generation and we've we've just not used that clause properly it certainly should have been used against george w. bush if there was anyone who should have been impeached successfully removed from office it was george w. bush so in that vein the nature of those crimes in my view and i think we need that six thousand plus page report from the senate select committee i think we need to panetta report we need these things out so we can look at them as americans with that in mind i think president obama made a grave mistake in not doing something a

. >> well, some of us have been around nearly as long as you and remember iran-contra and the difficulties when operations are run out of the white house and it raises grave concerns, again institutional concerns, as important as this incident is, even, even beyond. and particularly candid comments of some people who have served high in the administration i think raise that, which relates to the topics we're having here today. >> fair. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. just to clear up a couple things. mr. morell, your testimony about things were quiet for three hours is in direct conflict with things that we have heard from the grs folks that were there at the annex on the ground during that time period. when you with president bush in florida and you immediately came up with aat this was a usama bin laden, al qaeda, what, i mean, and i don't want you to, i'm not asking to you go back through your thought process but, what gave you the ability to know that? >> because i knew at the time that there were only two countries who were capable of doing something like what happened on 9/

. >> well, some of us have been around nearly as long as you and remember iran-contra and the difficulties of one operations are run out of the white house. it raises grave concerns, again institutional concerns as important as this incident is even beyond. particularly the candid comments of some people who have served in the administration i think race that which relates to the topics we are having here today. thank you. >> mr. westmoreland. >> thank you mr. chairman. to clear up a couple of things mr. morell your testimony about things were quiet for three hours is in direct conflict with things that we have heard from the grs folks that were there at the annex on the ground during that time period. when you were with president bush in florida and you immediately came up with a conclusion that this was osama bin laden and al qaeda. and i mean i'm not asking you to go back through your thought process but what gave you the ability to know that? >> because i knew at the time that there were only two countries who were capable of doing something like what happened on 9/11, iran and iraq an

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out of the way because we're going to see why is that really we're going to try to leave us with iran contra against reagan and which is exactly what they were successfully able to do with george bush in the first one yeah bush was so crippled he never got his wars never got his tax cuts he never got you never had his guts look at how long they'll go you never got a bank where they've already got his wars either right i don't want to be obama had obama got his tax increase you know i said no i just paid extra heed libya good good good good yeah ok i'll leave it doesn't go to war good because he asked for i don't recall our having a war movie oh you're really you know you're trying to get off. on syria i'm not sure that you could call it a war you know this or the vermont senate voted yes to twenty six to two to say that the citizens of the state should have the right to know where the genetically modified organisms in their food the house is probably going to pass this and peter shumlin is probably going to cite in the law. what's wrong with that. state's rights was that so absolutely nothin

in iran that would also help and lastly in the case of the congo is to support democracy in the congo and the people suffer tremendously paragraphs two big kids and they. the trust fund the contras supporting them they were you with thank you so much. really appreciate coming on. thank you have you coming up i'll tell you why the world bank's acting like nestle when it comes to water. is the media leave us so we leave the media. privacy bush the security for your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our team. conflicting narratives in competing interpretations this is at the heart of ukraine's info war while washington western media go to great lengths to demonize russia for everything happening in ukraine there's no denying the west is pulling the strings and kids don't want to take responsibility russia is playing. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because when full attention