rick folbaum thank you. jenna: right now the president is holding a white house summit meeting with the president of south korea, and they are talking about nuclear north korea, and the regime's growing threat to the region. in the men time north korea is threatening military retaliation over joint naval drills now underway between the u.s. and south korea. gordon chang is the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world. thighs nice to have you back on the program and talk a little bit about this issue. we have so much of our time and effort concentrated on the middle east these days or oub jus obvious reasons, syria, benghazi, libya, for example. how would you assess for our viewers the national security threat coming from north korea and from that region overall? >> north korea is of course a threat, but it's also bad because of china and north korea has a relationship with iran. north korea sells everything it makes, ballistic missiles, nuclear technology to the iranians. we are dealing with

jon: rick folbaum thank you. jenna: new information in the boston marathon bombing investigation.e are learning more about the three friends of the suspected terrorists dzhokhar tsarnaev who police say tried to destroy evidence to protect him. one of them is charged with lying to investigators, the other two pictured here with the younger brother, that is dzhokhar in times square are charged with conspiring to obstruct justice. scott webber served as a senior courage to former secretary of homeland security michael chertoff. pretty serious charges. what do you make of those? >> it's disturb eurpb disturbing in light of the press attention and photos released and these three students realize very quickly that their friend is one of the primary suspects. instead of reaching out to the authorities, what do they do, they reach out to their friend and then ultimately it appears that they help destroy evidence, or try to. jenna: the narrative that seems to have emerged may be in part from the defense lawyers for these young men is that these are just young guys panicking when they see a

rick folbaum live in the new york city newsroom with that. >> some good news. flip side could be more traffic on the streets but small price to pay when you consider the money you will save putting gas in your car. we're at at tile of the year when prices usually go up in time for the spring and summer driving season. not this year. aaa says prices are dropping and they should stay low. average price per gallon, nationwide, 3.55 but the forecast is for prices to dip below 3.40 a gallon by july. weaker demand and refinery production operating mostly problem-free. this april prices last month were the lowest since 2010. we know they have negative ripple high gas prices can have on so many things, jon. let's hope the lower prices can help our sputtering economy pick up speed even if it means more cars out on the road. back to you. >> cheaper prices. rick, thank you. jenna: there is new hering being held for an attack on benghazi that killed four americans. it will be held in washington see. in light of new information, whistle-blowers saying they have been blocked

i'm gregg jarrett in for rick folbaum. the new developments coming as we learn that an irs official in charge of the time responsible for the agency's implementation of the president's health care law. medical is live in washington with more. hi. molly. >> hi. republicans are raising questions about sarah hall ingram, who is now in charge of the irs's obamacare division. but she has been the head of the tax exempt office, while some of this targeting of conservative groups was going on. now that she'll lead the irs and monitoring everybody's health insurance and the new taxes and the new fines associated with obamacare, some on the gop are predicting more problems. >> she provided horrendous customer service under her watch and now she's going to do the same implementing obamacare. swell. this is the perfect example of why we need tax reform. >> democrats say ingram's successor didn't find out about the targeting until six months after ingram was reassigned to the obamacare division and say it's unfair to suggest she had a

i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville of the topping the news, benghazi fallout, the growing backlash against the obama administration. new e-mails reveal the initial talking points about the attack were purposely altered to remove any references to al-qaeda. >> rick: also today, president obama reportedly trying to sell thousands of graduates who are getting out of school on the benefits of his health care law. what does it say about the health of the president's signature legislation? >> arthel: also, astronauts at the international space station breathe ago sigh of relief after fix ago huge problem affecting the power system. we begin with new fallout from a bombshell admission by the internal revenue service. the tax agency apologizing for unfairly targeting conservative political groups for extra scrutiny during the 2012 election. here is the official who is in charge of the irs division that oversees tax exempt groups. >> we made some mistakes. some people didn't use good judgment. some of the applicant high school to wait longer than we would hope. so for that, we're a

i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville of the topping the news, benghazi fallout, the growingattack were purposely altered to remove any references to al-qaeda. >> rick: also today, president obama reportedly trying to sell thousands of graduates who are getting out of school on the benefits of his health care law. what does it say about the health of the president's signature legislation? >> arthel: also, astronauts at

rick folbaum is here. >> as the president said, the best and bravest of our country, ambassador christophersean smith, former navy s.e.a.l. glen doherty and tyrone woods, who were there to protect the consulate staff, christopher stevens arriving in libya to serve as ambassador in may of 2012. he had previously served in other roles in libya from 2007 to 2009. then again during the 2011 uprising that led to the qaddafi regime. ambassador stevens becoming the first ambassador killed in an overseas attack since the year 1979. sean smith, he was there working with a sore wrist information management officer and he joined the state department back 2002. he had a temporary assignment. tyrone woods serve for more than two decades as a navy s.e.a.l. he was in benghazi as a private security contractor. he died hours after the start of the initial attacks. the four men who served our country, who sacrificed, they are on our minds today on capitol hill. jon: one of the questions about the military response or lack thereof. could one have gotten to the bottom of that. we will hear about that today as

rick folbaum live in the newsroom art report --. >> reporter: we wouldn't want anyone to go a while withouttrial. the beautiful model was strangled to death in 2008. the accused killer is accused of being a female james bond. she was hired by one of redding's former boyfriends to kill her off. the suspect's name is kelly soo park who was originally ordered to stand trial in 2010. prosecutors say park's blood, fingerprints and dna were found at the murder scene including on the victim's neck and the victim was strangled. in pretile hearings they tried to get per mission to up little kate another -- implicate another suspect. one of her previous boyfriends. she ride tried to break into showbusiness. she landed few acting and modeling jobs including a spread in "maxim" magazine. opening statements begin today. jon, we'll keep you posted. jon: rick, thank you. we have former prosecutor and legal analyst lis wiehl and former criminal prosecutor and defense attorney, doug burns. this is interesting. her attorneys are trying to suggest to the judge, the court, the jury there is really this other g

jenna: we'll be back with more "happening now" >> reporter: rick folbaum a brand-new hour coming youruding a lot of no thank yous to an invitation for a sit town with the attorney general. news outlets say they are staying away pause of rules that the meeting be kept off the record. we'll explain. also the flowing number of groups now suing the i.r.s. saying that they were unfairly targeted because of their politics. the latest on what some are calling political profiling. remember the president's promise if you liked your doctor obama care would allow you to keep your doctor? new signs that that may not be the case. all of that and breaking news as it happens as the he second hour of "happening now" starts right now. phra jenna: brand-new fallout from the justice department's snooping scandal. hi, everybody, glad you are with us, after noon on a thursday. it's great to have you with us. jon: it is a very big thursday when it comes to the news, i'm jon scott. as attorney general eric holder waits the decision from the house judiciary committee in a purple reinvestigation, his efforts

rick folbaum in our new york newsroom. they are saying they got the right guy this time, right, rick? >> that's right, arthel. the first time someone was arrested for sending poison letters, an fbi agent said they didn't have any evidence linking him to the crime. this time it is different. james everett dutschke is accused making deadly substance ricin an inserting it in letters sent to the president and u.s. senator roger wicker and a local mississippi judge, said did i holland. in a court hearing hearing yesterday for dutschke an fbi agent testified a dust mask like a carpenter might use had his dna on it. they were watching dutschke when they saw him remove items from a martial arts studio he used to own. he watched him walk down the street and throw the items away in the trashcan. the dust mask was one of the those items there is proof that dutschke made three separate online purchases of castor beans. you can't make ricin without castor beans. you may remember elvis impersonator, paul kevin curtis was the first person