mr. schieffer who describes himself as a conservative republican. the efforts to tie this to the white house have been fallacious and i would like to read a communication from the deputy inspector general for investigations dated friday, may 3, 2013, gentlemen as a result of the meeting a couple of weeks ago, we have agreed to pull e-mails from the identified staff members of the organization to find out, number one, if an e-mail existed directed the staff to target a teen party and other political organizations and if there was a conspiracy or effort to hide the e-mails about the alleged directive. the list of employees and questions. in the keyword search terms and time frame for the e-mails we pulled the available irs e-mails which resulted in 5500 responsive e-mails. he continues the review of the e-mails determined that there was a lot of discussion between the employees and how to treat the key party -- tea party and other organizations. there was a lookout specifically naming these groups. by the way, it turned out that groups decided that sh

. >> schieffer: all right. mr. king, we want to thank you very much for joining us this morning. thanks so much. >> bob, thank you. >> schieffer: and joining us now the number two democrat in the senate richard durbin, he's in springfield, illinois this morning and new hampshire republican kelly ayot she is in nashua this morning. can go to pick up on what peter king was saying. do you think that in somehow, some way that the president's state of the union speech backfired as he suggested, in other words, when the president said, we want -- if the republicans want to help, okay, but if they don't, we're just going to go it alone. do you think that has caused republicans to step back and say, okay, if he wants to go it alone, let him go. >> well, bob, today the excuse is state of the union address when it comes to their opposition to the president, any excuse will do. look at the immigration issue, the president stepped back said i'm not going to involve myself or chide or push house republicans i want them to come to the agreement to support the bipartisan senate immigration refor

mr. boehner and other republicans even to enact the sort of reasonable compromise that all of us took for granted in years past. >> schiefferyou know, governor, you have those on the left who would take the party as far as that way as some of the tea party folks want to take the republican party on the right. when the president comes out and says he's not going to touch entitlement reform that's like waving a red flag in front of a bull to the republicans. have we given up on trying to get anything done, compromising on anything? >> no, i think there are good things that we can still do. recently they were able to enact at least a budget deal for the next year. they were able to pass a farm bill. but the fact of the matter is that president obama has reduced average annual spending increases to smallest levels since 2008 eisenhower. the problem is not that somehow seniors are getting too many -- by this ideological commitment to greater tax cuts for the very of americans that's hurt can our country, our ability to make progress. it's hurting middle class wages. that's why so many democratic governors are pushing for increas