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Here, republicans. here are todays top lines. the week in review. >> my question isnt about whos going to resign. my question is whos going to jail. >> you got benghazi, you got the irs scandal. now we got this invasion into peoples privacy. >> yet another story that indicates the federal government is not telling the truth. >> presidents somewhat drunk on power. >> lying, then lying about lying, then hiding from the fact that theyre lying. >> one of the most egregious abuses of government power...

Fairly large company. after we got the injunction, surprise, surprise, a new notice of audit. again, they got audited. im hoping this is here coincidence but at this point i assume nothing is coincidental and the fact is, we are learning today of many organizations, conservative organizations not only that were either slowed up in the process of getting their exemption with you those that already had it were audited and extensively during the same period of time 2010, 2011, 2012, billy gram, fra...

Discussing the whiff of scandals swirling around the white house. as we look to the weekend, we posed a question to you on our facebook page. rate the president and his performance in the face of this weeks adversitadversity. a 1 being give this man a third term. a 10 being impeach him immediately. we must say we were overwhelmed with your feedback. almost 1,000 and counting. while were not surprised to find so many of you hold the president in high esteem, there was a wide variety of opinion. s...

Non-issue. and i think that the opposition has created a madness. >> and its not just the democrats who are complaining. republicans have to watch out. theyre going beyond the established fact. that was bill oreiley. charles talked about benghazi and said you have to stop comparing it to watergate and nixon. is there a danger to republicans in overreach here? >> ive cautioned my colleagues not to overreach. we dont want hyperbole. we want legitimate oversight, vigorous oversight. thats basically...

Essentially meaningless votes. and just to keep hammering at it because, you know, essentially this is the one big thing they think they have to catch obama and to convince the public that, you happen, that democrats should be voted out of office. >> this is according to the "new york times" the least productive house that weve seen assembled in a decade. mean wile, i want to talk to joanne about the article you have up about the miami herald talking about the irs probe should be wide ranging. b...

I just found out im going to be on shepard smiths show at 7:15. >> all right. we are going live to the white house. brebret baier and "special repo" are up next. >> good evening. im bret baier. were moments away from a statement from president obama. he will address the irs under bipartisan siege. also late this afternoon, a benghazi downtown dump within the last hour. if that wasnt enough, the attorney general spent much of the afternoon being grilled under oath over wiretaps. three scandals wi...

>> i didnt realize apologies were sufficient in irs-related issues. >> this elevates the story to almost watergate status. >> if, in fact, irs personnel were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then thats outrageous. >> if the president really is outraged by this, someone should lose their job. >> what we dont know is whether it jumped the fence from the irs to the white house. >> one of the most egregious abuses of government power that i can think of. >> there is no doubt that saddam ...

Perpetrators of the attack, bret. >> bret: james, quickly as our resident historian we do have cleaning up to do. >> earlier it was stated that president nixon was impeached due in part to the alleged abuses of the ifers under his administration. president nixon was never impeached. house judiciary owe proved three of five articles of impeachment but the president resigned before those could be taken up by the full house. one further note the so-called nixon enemys list. president nixon never or...

Joining from washington is senior investigative correspondent lisa myers is joining us now. great to have you back on the show. what you hearing there? >> well, people i talked to over the weekend in both parties were absolutely dumb founded that something like this could happen in the irs. do these people not remember the nixon administration? i mean, one of the abuses of power was his use of the irs against his political enemies. clearly what the irs has said so far doesnt add up and an offici...

Accusing them of obstructionism on the nomination of jena mccarthy. >> is this is wrong. you want to know why some of us are in favor of reforming the rules? because of abuses like this that we see the republicans deploying every day. >> barbara boxer says mccarthy has answered an unprecedented number of questions. more than 1,000 from republicans. but republicans boycotted yesterdays vote saying mccarthy had not given complete answers. earlier this week a vote on labor secretary nominee tom per...