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Elect better people youll have better government. if its not limited, there are going to be abuses. >> if the environment is such that it encourages sort of like the indians to do stuff on their own without the chiefs, then maybe this could be a case of the chiefs or the white house having nothing to do with this. they might have fostered the atmosphere that allows these they say rogue agents to do what theyre doing. what do you think? >> lets find out. thats what the investigations are all abou...

Supervisors on how to process these applications. this is simply unacceptable. when the irs finally got to processing applications, employees with little or no oversight sent overly extensive requests for information to many of these groups which understandably angered them. new processes had been put in place to prevent these abuses in the future. but much more needs to be done. according to the ig audit, at least part of the reason -- the reason for the mismanagement is inadequate guidance on ...

Bottom of what happened here. >> you recently filed an amendment to the 2013 farm bill that would call for stiff punishment of irs agents who leak. >> right. >> what would that punishment involve? >> well, basically it will become a felony if theyre doing it deliberately like that. i think thats really problematic. think about it. youre turning over documents to a government agent i is. someone in that government agency is cooperate with the press in an effort to embarrass you. thats separate fr...

Campaign against big government in theory. president obama passed the agenda but didnt implement the agenda. we had to campaign against the rhetoric and empty promises. now, we are seeing big government in practice and the arrogance and croneyism in practice in the second term and that is uglier than big government in theory. this is what is disturbing. we had a challenge in campaign against empty rhetoric and now the country is seeing what this kind of big unlimited government does in practice ...

Obamas political foundation is starting to crack and those tremors are being felt by house democrats who have been fordsed to defend these abuses of power. you wonder if its firing up the republican base. >> the democrats certainly have cause for concern in that area. mid-term elections tend to skew more conservative, older and have demographics that favor republicans anyway. 2010 obviously was a huge year for republican gains in the house and senate and there was a -- a notion coming out of 201...

Campaign against big government in theory. president obama passed the agenda but didnt implement the agenda. we had to campaign against the rhetoric and empty promises. now, we are seeing big government in practice and the arrogance and croneyism in practice in the second term and that is uglier than big government in theory. this is what is disturbing. we had a challenge in campaign against empty rhetoric and now the country is seeing what this kind of big unlimited government does in practice ...

When susan rice was left drifts in the wind, several other ir respond members of congress, including this particular congressman, who ran for vice president, paul ryan, falsely suggested that the word "spontaneous" was made up by the white house, when we now know from the white house that they were written by the cia. but the white house should have put those talking points out six months ago, rather than waiting until just recently. >> you wrote in "the hill" last week, if the white house knew ...

I dont know. then, of course, with benghazi, you got the emails that were released by the white house and all the names or redacted. >> gregg: look, congressman was on the air short time ago and he said this is endemic and pervasive within the obama administration how it runs all agencies, epa of bureau of land management, you name it are abuses and stone wall because they think they are above the law. he said the president sets the tone for all of that. what do you think? >> certainly weve seen...

Extremely careful. you prepare you dont go off the cuff. he is a professional. he has been in the business. he is a very good politician. why didnt he give a broad answer. i didnt know anything. >> bill: here is the rub. if its shown that he did know about the irs abuses. he is not going to be able to hide behind that sound bite. is he through. if he did know, just lie if he wants to keep -- and if he didnt know, he can say look, i didnt know about any of it. >> look, his general counsel learned...

Extremely careful. you prepare your words you dont go off the cuff. he is a professional. he has been in the business. he is a very good politician. why didnt he give a broad answer. i didnt know anything. >> bill: here is the rub. if its shown that he did know about the irs abuses. he is not going to be able to hide behind that sound bite. is he through. if he did know, just lie if he wants to keep -- and if he didnt know, he can say look, i didnt know about any of it. >> look, his general coun...