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Government house reform and government oversight committee about the irs abuses and what and who could be prosecuted next. shocking new study that links pain killers to the risk of heart attacks? what should we do if we wanted to pop a pill and doctors will be in on precautions. >> jamie: former south africa president, nelson mandela is balloting serious lung infection and much more news coming your way when we come back. we love to eat.

Political persuasion we need a special prosecutor today. >> greta: if it comes back the president had no knowledge and totally confined within the irs is he still have responsibility of being the head of the country? >> absolutely. he set the tone for it going back to 2010 when he pointed out these organizations sometimes by name, hinting they are controlled by foreign entities. then you had eight to ten senators demanding investigation and threatening the irs if they didnt investigate, you dont...

To create some sort of backlash? >> i do, particularly because theyre coming into context of genuine abuses of government power especially by the irs. i think the big thing to remember is national security is different from internal management of the government. were dealing with foreign terrorist threats here and secondly, apparently this program really does require court orders to target particular individuals or groups and you cant just migrate through the whole database and data mine and say...

An interview with the source of the leaked documents in the nsa program was posted by "the guardian." edward snowden describes his decision to release information from an undisclosed location in hong kong. >> when you are in positions of privileged access like a systems administrator for these sort of intelligence communities agencies, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale than the average employee. because of that, you see things that may be disturbing but over the course...

To go to verizon and at&t and everyone else each time they get a phone number, but theyre not allowed to get into that data until they have a particular warrant signed off on by a judge with cause to suspect a foreigner on terrorism and that is totally different from the irs abuses which i think is serious and its for conservatives or republicans to make that distinction. >> mara, the president said he welcomes a public debate over these. the fact is this only came out because of these completel...

Because they dont want to have to go to verizon and at&t and everyone else each time they get a phone number, but theyre not allowed to get into that data until they have a particular warrant signed off on by a judge with cause to suspect a foreigner on terrorism and that is totally different from the irs abuses which i think is serious and its for conservatives or republicans to make that distinction. >> mara, the president said he welcomes a public debate over these. the fact is this only came...

Operatives and others in places like afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, and so forth. bringing the debate back home, aga again, were talking about american citizens. i do agree strongly with michelle on at least one point. we need to protect peoples rights from abusive government. i dont think the abuses have happened yet, but i think they could. the safeguards are not yet clear enough. the rules are not yet clear enough. thats where the obama administration has to direct. >> thank you both very much....

Call, when they make the call, how long the call is, is an effective tool. the reason why we cant evaluate that is because of the code of silence. the secrecy that surrounds the actions of the nsa, the secret -- secrecy with which the foreign intelligence surveillance court operates. and thats why it is for to have this debate because we dont know. we have to go on faith. we have to say, we trust what our public officials are saying. that these intrusions have in fact, have yielded been pits. i ...

I think we need to do that to stop terrorism. but we need strong safeguards so there cant be future abuses of power by government that decides to look at people and use potentially embarrassing information in ways that it never should have been able to do. >> michelle, you can understand the conversation we have tonight. god forbid there were an attack, had we analyze d it properly, could have prevented. thats what were all seeking to stop, no? >> well, theres no evidence that these sorts of col...

Lois lerner was the head of the tax exempt division and now on paid administrative leave from the irs after a refusing to resign. some house republicans say this scandal is not going away. >> getting to the bottom of these things, these agencies dont police themselves on their own. even if we become aware of abuses within them. without congressional action to find out what happened and to hold people accountable, many people will go without consequences. we will make certain there are consequenc...