my name is jonathan karl. p.s., my lower body is mostly racoon. ( applause ) now, i am aware that some questions have arisen. is that email real? yes. did i write it myself? perhaps. did i personally sign up for the email address "hot karl 4 you at g-mail dot-com? yes. but it had nothing to do with this story. the point is, i quoted that email verbatim. and if need be, i will get confirmation. let me just make a little call here. it's confirmed. are you sure? yes. confirmed. [ cheers and applause ] so benghazi, done. what's next? let's head back over to the mazda scandal booth. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the mazda scandal booth. mazda, it's what's for dinner. all right. all right. jimmy, let's swirl up some journalism. [ cheers and applause ] irs. [ cheers and applause ] the internal revenue service, which reminds me, if anyone asks, that booth is my home office. also my son. folks, the i.r.s. has recently admitted singling out applications for tax-exempt status from groups with words like tea party, p

>> first of all, i think karl rove lost his mind.e saw a little bit of him losing his mind election night when he wanted to call for a recount in ohio. and for him to put in an ad to attack a potential candidate who may never run three years from now, karl, get a life. take up tennis or do something. that's number one. number two, hillary clinton's stint at secretary of state is like a pitcher who had 20 wins and two losses during her stint as secretary of state. you know, if this is a blot on our record, her record was almost perfect in the eyes of the american people. and this won't have any long lasting effect. i guarantee you a few years from now if hill had hill is a candidate, less than 5% of the american people will remember this. look, this is all about spin. it's not about cover-up. it's about spin. if there was a cover-up, let me repeat, the president of the united states, whose administration is supposedly orchestrating this cover-up, wouldn't have admitted that it was a terrorist attack. wouldn't have used those words. >>

now, jennifer may not like that karl rove and the -- >> i don't want to talk about karl rove, i wantabout the media. let me ask you -- >> they're not doing their job, david. because their job does entail giving treatment to americans. >> your guys are debating the irs and politics of it. my question for you now, david shuster. the trifecta of scandals. ap, benghazi talking points and irs. kicking into high gear, is everything for the next six months going to be media coverage and perhaps overcoverage of the obama administration on these questions? >> the way these scand ldz tend to work, if there is an ongoing criminal investigation, it goes to the fbi. the fbi tends to operate in secret or a special counsel and the best you can get is who is going to a grand jury. i think this disappears into 30 days. >> you have hearings by congress on a number of these topics. one of the things that broke these open were congressional hearings and that is not going to be disswayed by any irs investigation -- >> i'm giving jennifer the last word. i'm giving jennifer the last word. david. >> those o

as we promised we turned back to karl frisch.l you know, interesting this increasingly public support for reform, how will this impact--listen, we've seen it on background checks with guns, we've seen it how they approach the budget. they don't seem to listen to the public. how is this going to inform how the house will act here? >> probably not very much. in 1994 republicans made rush limbaugh an honorary member of congress, he seems to be pulling strings there. i am asked often why immigration reform might fail. we have not been as honest with the american people as we should be why the immigration reform might fail. we need to be honest with the american people, and it's because republicans are bigots. okay? that's why immigration reform would fail. that's why it wouldn't pass in the house. that's why republicans refuse to include lgbt couples in this legislation to begin with because they're a little more bigoted against lgbt people than people of color. >> michael: those are strong and i dare say accurate words. let's talk a

who can forget karl rove's complete befuddlement on election night itself?his taking more than $300 million from simple minded donors and spending it on the hopelessly mediocre mitt romney. just before election one news agency put it like this. the real loser on election day appears to be karl rove who now has to explain to his shadowy billionaire donors how he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on mitt romney's behalf and came up a cropper. now, thanks to the behavior of staffers in the international revenue service, mr. rove can look forward to many years of unimpeded political attacks. dressed up as his attempt to improve the social welfare of this great nation. here are a few examples from last year. >> obama says spend more and promises jobs. obama donors and insiders line up for handouts. maybe we won't be crushed when our economy snaps. but someone will. it's time to take away president obama's blank check. >> barack obama. dishonest on taxes because he's failed on jobs. >> you see, now that the irs has been found to have breached its commitment to

karl rove is still with us. karl, your thoughts about these numbers?ery curious and very suspicious. curious because that's an odd nues >> that's an odd number of times. i was in the white house nearly 7 years. mark iberson, once he went to the irs, i never saw him again. he's on record saying he came to the white house one time as irs commissioner. so the idea that the irs commissioner is coming to the white house every 9 days ought to raise warning flags right off the bat. this is an independent agency that needs to have distance from the white house. it shouldn't be part of the white house. it should be distant from the white house. we know what's happened when the white house has gotten to close to the irs and vice versa. we should be very dubious about this because of the way that mr. shulman handled it. when he was asked in front of congress, at that time they knew about 118 appearances at the white house. he responded -- they said what are you doing here? he said, it was an easter egg roll. that's not a very good way to explain why you were ther

karl rove is still with us. karl, your thoughts about these numbers?y curious and very suspicious. curious because that's an odd number of times. i was in the white house for nearly seven years. mark erey etson, he went to the j8-[ irs commissioner. it ought to raise warning flags off the bat. this is an independent agency that should have distance from the white house. it should be distant from the white house. we know what's happened before when the white house has gotten too close to the irs, and the irs has gotten too close to the white#fpn:u". house.ç when mr. shulman was asked in front of congress, at the time they knew about 118 appearances at the white house he respond e was there forç an easter egg roll. that's not a very good way to explain why you were there every nine days during your tenure as irs commissioner for nearly fouç years. i'm dubious about this. this is a question we need to have a lot of answers to. the answers are going to be difficult, because the point at which the white house is going to assert executive privilege and say

jonathan karl should say, i'm sorry. i was wrong, and the republicans are wrong and they ought to get off this story. the media won't do that because jonathan karl and others want to keep fanning the frames of benghazi. shame on him. >> heard around the country and seen on current tv this is the bill press this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic oce

s jonathan karl seemingly invented the notion that rhodes one of the concerns of the state department specifically addressed so who gave a.b.c. bad information who else republicans jon karl based his report on notes taken by a likely republican source during benghazi related senate and house briefings held earlier this year. congressional source who was at these briefings told talking points memo this friday the house republican report on benghazi is so distorted its coverage of the talking points changes i see no reason to believe it wouldn't be the same thing in regard to the bed of rhodes e-mail now the source added that some of them republicans and their staffers could have taken votes but to me this looks more intentional the g.o.p. doesn't care about the truth or the facts it cares about smearing the president obstructing the legislative process you want to scandal there's your real scandal which republican edited those white house e-mails which republican handed off these false e-mails to a.b.c. news which republicans then promoted those lies to try to hurt the president and hi

i'm karl malone, i approve this message. >> jimmy: he approves his own message.l anthony malone. but he's right, though. it's not an epidemic. it really isn't. and jason caollins sat down wit bill from espn. i have no doubt he will be honored to have supplied us with our unintentional joke of the day. >> were you sitting there thinking, i hope somebody else comes out and i'll be right behind them. >> jimmy: all right, we're going to take a break. we're going to have a very special birthday celebration for you. hereafter" on showtime, gabourey sidibe is here. and then, this is their latest album called "mirage rock." band of horses from the sony stage. don't scratch it kid. [ crunch ] ♪ get low now! ♪ whoo-hoo-hoo! [ siren chirps ] [ crunch ] ♪ put your back in it [ wolf howls ] whoo! ♪ [ tires screech ] [ crunch ] ♪ aaaaah! ♪ [ tires screech ] ♪ to get everything she wants. the best deals are at jcpenney, in-store and online. get 25% off women's apparel and dresses, including her favorite brands like liz claiborne and worthington. plus, st. john's bay is back...

here he is. ♪ karl ♪ >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com. ♪ so inciting to me, frisch ♪ >> good morning, that michele bachmann, i -- i heard as soon as they posted that youtube video of her saying she is not running again, that marcus bachmann happened to be at a truck stop after of the interstate in minnesota, and dropped right to his knees. >> stephanie: yes. >> and -- and began to pray. >> stephanie: exactly. as we all know it's the minneapolis airport that makes you gay. [ laughter ] >> what do you think of that? >> stephanie: right. >> karl frisch you tweeted michele bachmann is going to spend more time with her family marcus better pray the gay away harder. >> like we said yesterday he has to hide his porn now. >> everything, and the dog outfits, everything the corn dog collection. all kinds of stuff. this is great news for anybody who cares about congress. i fear that the one thing that is being left out here, that while michele bachmann is going away, she is leaving plenty of crazy people in congress to do her bidding. >> stephanie: yeah, someone made that point,

and karl rove is skirting the law. i even say he's cheating if he wants a tax -- i don't want karl rove to get a tax-exempt status. but you can't defend the i.r.s. when they go on their crusade to crack down on political organizations that are not really what they pretend to be. you can't defend the fact they only looked after conservative or republican or right wing organizations and not democratic. that turns the i.r.s. into a political machine. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> announcer: chatting with you live at current.com/billpress this is the "bill press show

in other words the way they've decided to implement the law say that they must be primarily and so karl rove has interpreted that specifically for his g.p.s. organization say fifty one percent. and it's like who came up with this i think we need to go back to the founding principles which is like enforce the law the way congress wrote it but i'm not going to find karl rove into a terrible job with this last election ok you know with all that money it didn't do anything but we do voting age tacoma park maryland a small city outside of washington d.c. as voted to lower the voting age to sixteen and the council ordered that the motive behind this was to to get more people involved in government the democratic. process this is the first time in i think the history of the united states although i don't know maybe early on there wasn't a voting age all of that but people just assumed adulthood but maybe by sixteen you were adults i don't know but any oh right now you get a driver's license of fifteen in some states most states though universally at sixteen if somebody can drive you know six t

karl has mentioned a good point about the people searching for utility. and i think you have addressed it and i was just one of the things that eventually we're going to find a cure for this is helping people find utility for their lives. i'll suggest he a way that all this can come together. all the frustration about what is it we want to do and all the unhappiness about a bright of visions of washington, d.c. and all the displeasure about gridlock in congress, i.c.e. agents to you it might be sold about a generation from now as people who have been over, paid the price, comeback, can't find that world changing job they want and suddenly discover rising to leadership position in our own communities and states and nations may be just what the doctor ordered. so i'm very hopeful about the future that out of this darkness that people bring home there may be a great life for the nation in our future. >> thank you, colonel. this is excellent. thank you. that's a great line. because no one comes back the same. not one person i've ever known has come back the s

what say you, karl rove? >> well, that is sort of inexplicable because this is the sixth such ad crossroads put out in order to drive the public discussion about this. as you saw, it is very factual, straightforward. takes the footage of greg hicks's testimony, contrasts it what hillary clinton said after he briefed her. the object here is to draw public attention to it and continue the public dialogue about this. this is the sixth such ad crossroads has put out. sort of like a visual news release to sort of tie things together. you know, look, i understand that a criticism of the obama administration is going to immediately have democrats saying you're politicizing, it is all politics. i'm surprised bill kristol whose magazine has been critical. obama administration would join in the chorus. that chorus consists of jay carney and people in democrat leadership and it is a little bit inexplicable. i just say this. this was appropriate. we need to help the american people grasp this. it is, if you will, a visua

karl rove joins us. welcome, karl. >> good to see you, greta. >> greta: a lot of people are unhappy the university of massachusetts at dartmouth is not releasing information, documents about grades, who got public money for education, citing privacy. >> yeah. at the same time mass bay community college and bunker hill community college released the same kind of information, believing it was entirely within their prerogative to do so. so we have of university of dartmouth, university of massachusetts at dartmouth, protecting, quote, the privacy of the suspects, and two other colleges saying, no, the law doesn't require us to do this. i think the two community colleges are doing the appropriate thing here. the university of massachusetts at dartmouth looks like it's covering up. the information is going to come out. let it out. >> greta: you know, it's fees, i have a very unpopular opinion, but i agree with the university not to disclose it. the law says not to. i think they're guilty. i believe they're gu

karl rove joins us. good evening, karl. >> hey, greta, how are you? >> greta: very well. news tonight, the acting commissioner has resigned. one of my colleagues at fox news, bret baier, has sent an email and says that the acting commissioner was set to resign the position of acting commissioner as of early june, and he leaves the irs a couple of months later regardless of the current controversy. he got that from an official close to the acting commissioner. >> right. >> greta: of course he only came into the job in november. is he a sacrificial lamb or what? >> actually greta, in the federal law, you can only be an acting director so long. so he was coming to the end of the term that he could be the acting director. they either needed to make him the actual director or replace him with somebody else. in june, he was out one way or another. i thought it was interesting today, he said, issued a statement, said he looked forward to an orderly transition. the president didn't tell him to pack up your desk and get the heck out by the close of business. apparently he'll remai

filed its application. >> bill: like karl rove. >> bill: right.es this -- you filed a lawsuit against the i.r.s. so now the burden you believe lies on the i.r.s. >> well, the i.r.s. filed a motion to dismiss our lawsuit and in fact, tomorrow, we're filing a response to that. and their argument is we don't have standing to bring the suit. that we can't argue about this. we can't tell the i.r.s. hey you need to fix this. this is why there is room for congress to do something. congress can insist that this regulation be changed. congress can get rid of this. congress can insist that 501(c)(4) organizations no longer be involved in political activity and say hey, move it over to a 527 if that's what you want to do. >> bill: last night the president steps into the east room and he said they've accepted the resignation of acting commissioner steven miller. and they put new safeguards in place. does that fix the problem? >> it doesn't remotely begin to fix the problem. you've still got the primary purpose language in the regulation. you still have no def

i'm going to -- john karl is a fellow. he does some decent stuff. i think when you're doing these stories and you know, you have the source that says i have these e-mails and you have the summary, sometimes you miss the mark. i have whipped pretty big on stuff of this. as a fellow working journalist, i'll give him a pass. i think benghazi is a foreign policy deb be acle that we're accustomed to. the republicans focuses on the talking points -- if there is a scandal here, it is there wasn't enough security and then you have a secret operation that they were running. the talking points was typical. >> john: if there was a prison in the basement of the building, we'll never know about it and we won't be hearing the g.o.p. talk about the safeguards there because they're the ones who cut the funding anyway. let me bring it back to a.p. why do you guys think the d.o.j. already taking so much heat all the time would investigate the a.p. in a broad over-the-top manner? >> i think they're extremely arrogant. i think they have nothing but contempt for the pri

you so much karl for joining us here on r.g.p. talk about exists there so turkey blames the syria for the bombing is there any reason in your opinion damascus would want to work a straight such an attack. well it is the unity there might be but i think what's important now is not to rush into a few stations very quickly and especially without having to prove particularly that we're coming into you know the agreement on the international conference to find a solution for syria so i think that requires much more responsibility and commitment from all sides to hold back from escalating the situation they bear any any anybody could have done and there are several kind of government organizations that could have carried out this explosion but one should say don't you can't and you discovered the perpetrators got such an explosion within less than one day just on twenty four hours so i think really it's a bit irresponsible of turkey to rush into those accusations well what's interesting about this place is that it's a town the town that

karl you really shouldn't complain about the apparently political choices of the i.r.s. and don't whine about how that was years ago and we all need to get over it if you don't want to discuss your hypocrisy now and simply point the american people to any letter any speech any video any evidence whatsoever of your contemporaneous acceptance of fault for any of the above but until you do don't expect us to take you or fire so-called news seriously in any way and that's the way it is that i wednesday may fifteenth two thousand and thirteen and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag you're it. giving peace a chance this may or may not be the case when it comes to the fate of syria russian peace plan to end a civil war is being reconsider are the u.s. and its gulf allies serious or is this a ploy to merely intensify the conflict. the worst you are going to face. white house today in a radio guy and pull up a zero minutes from a click off of a white watch quote we're about to do good you've never seen anything like this on khaled. download the off

. >> our jonathan karl tonight on whether their answers add up. >>> record jackpot. the biggest powerball of all time. tonight, the mad dash. and have we found the luckiest store in the country, where big winners are born? >>> to catch a thief. a big jewelry heist in the most glamorous place on earth tonight. is there a master thief prowling the red carpet? >>> and, our "person of the week." >> and action! >> the new king of hollywood's biggest stories, from "star trek" to "star wars." and the tiny thing he bought as a child he says is the secret to his success. >>> good evening. tonight, finally, the irs tries to explain itself. and it comes after a week of scandal and mounting questions about fairness and singling out conservatives. so, what is their answer to the american public? and what about the blast of outrage they had to face today? abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tells us. >> reporter: congress had some choice words for the irs. >> this is more than just mismanagement. >> we are all outraged. >> this is very chilling for the american peo

there is no campaign going on. >> bill: joining us from austin, texas to reply is karl rove. and you say. >> a. agree with bill it is not a campaign. first of all let me say i have great respect for bill kristol and work at the "weekly standard." i have a lot of friends who write for the standard. it does great work. in fact, stephan hayes has done great journalism on this particular issue. this is our sixth video from crossroads which, incidentally, bill, i don't run. i'm a supporter of it. i helped organize it, but i'm not officer of it. this video was the sixth individual joe we have run on the issue of benghazi in an attempt to make it clear what the links are. we had very compelling testimony from greg hicks and this video as you saw you in a very sober low key fashion puts that testimony in context with hillary clinton's comments made a couple of days later that this was all a video at 2:00 a.m. of the morning of september 11th. the morning of september 12th, hicks briefs hillary clinton and tells her it's an act of terrorism and two days later she is saying it's a vide

let's bring in abc news correspondent jonathan karl who is investigating the story.irst of all, about jay carney today, i'm going to play a clip in a minute about your q and a with him. was his demeanor any different than it has been on a regular basis? >> you know, not really, bill. he is he a happy warrior. is he a loyalist. he defends the president in all this administration's policies consistently every day. and he was under fire today. these are the toughest questions i have seen him face maybe ever as white house press secretary. but generally he seemed to be playing the role of, you know, obama's defender. >> bill: okay. when i was watching the press conference he seemed to ramble and bloviate using up as much time as possible in answers that weren't getting us anywhere. i'm not saying that as a criticism. that's a strategy. ifings wondering whether you noticed that or not. >> there were long answers and i got into a little bit of a back and forth with him i was trying to interrupt so i could get some questions in. >> bill: let's show the viewers that roll the

and karl rove who starts this with cross roads gps has apparently defined primarily 49.9%. and i would ask is there any adult in america who has had a romantic relationship who thinks 49.9% of the time is exclusive. >> this is a sexy segment. >> yeah, that's what i'm trying. trying hard there, toure. if you go to the page for cross roads you won't find social welfare or sink, or any of those terms. what you'll find is a lengthy attack on president obama. i'm glad people want to challenge president obama. but it's not with the tax here. the real scandal here is that these organizations should not be allowed with a tax exemption to engage in this behavior. and the problem faced by the irs workers is, the irs in real terms has been trumped 17% in the last ten years and its work burden has gone like this. guess what, people are trying to find out ways to get around this. you don't have to ask the irs for permission to be a 501 c-4, you can self-declare. some of the groups that did, we now know from their documentation basically put a target on themselves, we'd like approval to

we will check in with karl rove.fox news has obtained tonight what the whistleblowers will be saying during tomorrow's explosive benghazi hearings. when we come back, the father of tyrone woods. remember he was a brave hero and one of the brave americans sadly killed in the benghazi terrorist attack. ice father joins us in studio. also tonight we are getting incredible feedback on the video of the day options. take a look at your third option tonight. you choose the video of the day. former u.s. marine standing up and confronting senator joe mansion. >> right now you are spending money at an alarming pace. if somebody doesn't do something to stop it, we will sink. sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. a great cup of coffee should be easy as one, two... well, just one. new single serve cafe collections from maxwell house now available for use in the keurig k-cup brewer. always good to the last drop. w

i will start at karl. you had one passage that reminded him what colonel coffin was talking about, the female influence on the soldiers and this is from an ancient irish folklore 18. speenine this is the story of coupland. the mythic hero in the irish odyssey of virus mythology and dangerous. she is coming back from battle. the king and queen, the center of the irish culture is standing on the ramparts and ac coupling coming. it's like he's got wild swans the carriage pities gadgeteer before him. he's just boiling and steaming and they are terrified. they are terrified and the king doesn't know what to do. he slammed shut the doors to the gates in the right to chariot around showing us left-hand essay and he wipes himself with so it's a great insult. he says i can take you with my left hand. they are terrified inside. they don't know what to do. the queen steps out through the doors and she bears her breasts and says you must deal with the sedan comes right back down to ground. but that's about is the femi

we will check in with karl rove.lso fox news has obtained tonight what the whistleblowers will be saying during tomorrow's explosive benghazi hearings. when we come back, the father of tyrone woods. remember he was a brave hero and one of the brave americans sadly killed in the benghazi terrorist attack. ice father joins us in studio. also tonight we are getting incredible feedback on the video of the day options. take a look at your third option tonight. you choose the video of the day. former u.s. marine standing up and confronting senator joe mansion. >> right now you are spending money at an alarming pace. if somebody doesn't do something para mis blancos solo uso el detergente tide vivid y el boost. traducele. she only uses tide vivid detergent plus boost for her whites. y me de los blancos viendose como nuevos, lavado tras lavado. that part's true. ese es mi tide, cual es el tuyo? that part's true. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its k

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in the meantime right out of the box here we go -- ♪ karl ♪ >> stephanie: karl frisch bullfightstrategies.com> stephanie: good morning, karl frisch. >> good morning, stephanie. >> stephanie: well that was very dour. >> well, i -- the last week has been like hearing your diction classes out in the public -- [ laughter ] [ mumbling ] >> or are you still tired from the white house correspondence dinner? >> oh, are my puppies pooped. >> stephanie: how was the nerd prom? >> it was good. i missed sarah palin. >> she called you an ass clown. >> yeah she had that this quote that said we we are working our asses off. and i remember thinking the joblessness and economy were much worse in 2011 than they are in 2013, so she the ass clowneyest. >> stephanie: as were todd and bristol. >> bristol was there just after she had her face surgery. nobody recognized her. >> stephanie: wow. i hadn't heard that, you catty little thing you. karl you tweeted about justice scalia, and fox news sitting in a tree and there he was. >> he was sitting with bill o'reilly -- it was a date made in heaven. the waiters that att

please welcome karl marlantes. [applause] last but not least, at the far end of the panel is colonel jon coffin from the national guard. he is retired. his army career consisted of him serving as its signal platoon leader in moving across south vietnam from 1960 through 1970. he joined the vermont national guard in 1973. during his career in the guard he served in a wide range of positions to the honor of commanding vermont singularly elite three of the 170 seconds and the tree battalion in early 1990. based on his longtime service, he is a staff psychologist for fire service and police officers. you have the name of the organization in burlington? >> the howard center in burlington. colonel jon coffin was debriefed returning soldiers at the platoon unit as well as breathed -- brief the soldiers were getting ready to go to iraq and afghanistan. in addition to the better part of the last two years, he was constantly deployed to one of 12 locations around the country, providing 106 debriefings to the soldiers during

if you want to have a discussion about -- >> this morning karl -- >> as harry reid said, what has karl to improve the social welfare -- >> well, this morning on fox news sunday, karl rove connected it to the naacp about how they have used it for years as a political organization. i mean, they're running for cover anywhere they possibly can to put this on the president's desk that he knew everything and that he -- >> oh, he dictated it! >> he was using it to make sure he would get re-elected. >> there's a better thing that came out this weekend. they seem so uncertain that they can tie it to the president, that they've decided they don't have to. and peggy noonan said it today. she called it a dog whizstle. because the president campaigned against the tea party and against citizens united, that was as good as telling people in the irs that they should go after his enemiey becauses. because of course everybody knows. >> he hypnotizes people into voting for him. >> everybody who gets audited feels like they're being targeted. we're all human. that's our first basic reaction. why me? why m

so now abc reports on it and expands on it in john karl's defense he did a good job. so now it's news. people are getting a little nervous. you add to that the whistleblower testimony this week on capitol hill. those three state department employees taking an oath to tell the truth on what happened during that night of terror on september 11th that left four americans dead. and now they are coming under attack. gregory hicks, one of the main wednesdays may already be paying the price. he says he was reassigned after he questioned what susan rice told america on the sunday talk shows to a low level desk job. he did not believe what she told us and now we know he had cause for his concerns and now he has been demoted. our own james rosen presented the state department or pressed, i should say, the state department ahead of mr. hicks' testimony, listen to this exchange from monday. >> are greg hicks and mark thompson credible people? are they not long-standing career state department employees? are they credible? >> again, i'm not going to assess one individual or anothe