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lo lo lerner under the bus or who? >> somebody much much higher than her. the reason is basic. tea party impacted the 2010 elections substantially. they were muzzled in a way that may have impacted electoral outcomes and legislative outcomes. the idea that they would sit back and say you can give us a bureaucrat from the irs and that's enough isn't credible. >> right well. >> and specifically because it's not just lois lerner e-mails but members of congress. >> exactly. >> carl levin. >> 12 different groups he was trying to target. >> and he is con conveniently retiring. it makes you wonder is this a voluntary or is he the scoring position rangers official la-- ? >> the reason they're not going to make her the scapegoat is she'll say i'm going to turn evidence because i won't go under the bus for this one. >> it's fair to say that this story is not over? that it's a lot more we need to discover about all of this? >> absolutely. that's why we need a special prosecutor. the real point here besides the the constant dishonesty that's come from the obama administration is what rich said. what they did here goes against the very essence and principles of the constitution. this is what dictatorships do in other countries. you need a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this because it's so severe, david. >> we're not going to stop looking for the bottom of this case. thank you, gang. filling the potholes with plants. that's what this indiana state man did when he got fed up with the potholes. now some here will show him and d.c. how to fill them all up without putting a hole in our pocket boo (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i kn what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now. 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>> we have water mane breaks here in washington all the time that hold up traffic and cause lots of lost work hours but we need transparency an competition. there's a lot that can be done to make sure these projects are done correctly the first time. >> rick is just one word. misallocation. so many times when these hundreds of billions of dollars are misallocatedit doesn't take hundreds of billions of dollars to philpofill potholes. >> i'm with this guy. we should get an accounting of where the money has gone but what i do worry about is we're going to points highliticize th argue about it that we're going into a third world infrastructure. go private or go public. i'll try it either way but let's not mess around with this too long. >> but the point is that the money is there. washington doesn't have a clue about how to fix potholes in indianapolis does it? >> no, and it was set up to maintain it and now give the money back to the states and the other thing to keep in mind is we don't have a problem with freight rail in this country. private sector does it very nicely. don't have a problem with packages with fed ex and ups. they do it nicely. when the private sector is involved the capital is there and maintained and innovation is brought in. do it with highways. >> these transportation bills are exhibit a with government waste and every politician padding his own constituent. >> i think the way to fix all the potholes is actually to shrink the scope of the bill. we don't need the transportation bill to monitor car imports from mexico, the internet, and also be a bank as well and then try to create green jobs. we need to fill the potholes and we can do that. there's more than enough money if we focus. >> as long as we have focus and accountability. just have accountability and there's much less accountability coming from washington than there is from these localities. >> i'm not sure that allstate transportation departments are totally free of corruption. >> no, but they're better than the feds and they're closer to the actual potholes. >> when i drive along state and federal roads and look overhead at the rusting i think wow when is that going to fall on my head. we should be spending more money on this stuff. >> rich, go ahead. >> well, look, everybody is right here. you know, the u.s. is rapidly falling behind in infrastructure. you see it when you go to asia and land at the airports and go on the higays and you come back here. something has to be done. but the government that was able to accomplish these great tasks is somehow incapable of doing it now. >> i cut you off. go on. >> i want to know what happened to the stimulus money. we had a trillion dollars supposed to go toward shovel ready jobs and solve our economic -- our jobless rate. so i'm just confused what happened to that money and now we're going to pour more money into this. >> that's a great question. i have, by the way, a pile in my office. i kept it ever since the stimulus came out about five years ago. it's not the whole thing but a big chunk of that stimulus bill was fixing potholes. >> it wasn't a trillion toward that. >> it was billions of dollars. >> a lot of it was tax breaks. where i lived in california we had a project going on in the city will that i could see every day was being paid for by that. what is is is important here is if we can sit here and argue about this until the cows come home. people have to get concerned and serious about our infrastructure. people are going to get hurt. we're going to fall behind. >> but you put the pressure on the localities, right, steve? >> you get accountability. people can see it there as you see in indiana state in. that illustration is the best thing going. >> last word. thanks everybody. everyone is a buzz about jay-z and beyonce's privacy be invaded but should it be over who is collecting massive data on our kids in school? that's on cashing in. but first, lawmakers flying in style on your dime. is it time to ground their first class flight plans and toss them back i [ female announcer ] who are we? we are thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nhts. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can s, "i did it!" ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to help start yours. turning dreamers into business owners. when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. 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