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Out. you know, whos the leadership and where does that go. martha: yeah. its very telling, bret, that it may have started out as an intelligence product, but it ended up being an intelligence product that even petraeus, the head of the cia, said he didnt want to use because it was so toothless by the time it got to those sunday programs. so theres a lot here, bret. we know youll be covering it extensively tonight. thank you so much. good to talk to you this morning. all right, so be sure to tune...

Intimidation that he blames on the president. >> so whether its the associated press, whether its witnesses at the state department. or whether its using the irs to go after groups that dont agree with the obama agenda, this administration has created a culture of intimidation through the campaign and through the white house throughout the federal government. >> joining me is richard former assistant to from the clinton and tony, assistant to jack kemp. let me start with you richard as democrat,...

We spoke to former commissioner mark emerson about that. >> the point here is its totally appropriate for chairman baucus to raise that issue, but anything that the service would do in terms of looking at c4s should have been evenhanded, and it wasnt. thats the shame here. >> reporter: but even as far back as 1993 when the landmark legal foundation sued the irs, it found that audit requests from members of congress shall be shredded -- had been shredded by the irs. the irs said it couldnt find k...

Talking points, but this is a serious scandal and theyre going to have to address it honestly and openly. >> heres newt gingrich. i do this objectively. i watch him to give me a sense of how much fire power an issue has because he is brilliant at exploiting, i use that neutrally, taking an issue and showing its full political and ideological dimension. doing this morning what i thought he could do well and he did it. >> the parallel between benghazi and the irs story is amazing. lying, lying abo...

>> we now know any reference to terror, al qaeda, were removed from those talking points and it was done at a deputys meeting just before susan rice went on television. >> would you call this a coverup? >> i call it a coverup. i would call it a coverup in the extent it was willful removal of information which was obvious. >> well, thats john mccain. now its time for the strategists to get into this. joining many he is republican strategist john brabender and willy brown. john, the benghazi issue...

Selected. >> its interesting on who made that call. its a small point but i learned in political debate you find the other sides weakness a question theyre not willing to come straight with. its like in boxing, you keep going to that bad eye, the one thats closing. we got this many on benghazi because for some reason they cant give it to us straight for some reason. >> the white house got itself in this mess on the talking points because they left the impression with reporters that they only mad...

Went. >> yeah. >> issue, i predict, is going to be whether the white house had any hand in keeping this silent in 2011 when it became known to the leadership of the irs. >> president obama spoke for the first time, as i said, today, an this story. most important, perhaps, is when he said he first learned of it. this is he, personally speaking. not his white house staff. hard statement by the president today which made me very happy. here he is. >> i first learned about it from the same news repo...

The speaker of the house says hes committed to it. hes going to ride it as long as he can. what can the president do to protect himself in 2014 when republicans are going to use the issue to fight for control of congress? what can secretary clinton do with it if she runs for president? the president can hit it off to the side. the secretary is not so lucky. benghazi happened on her watch. assuming she did the right thing, she can grab ahold of the matter and stand out there before the american p...

People. the question about whether or not there was sufficient amount of security, whether or not reasonable resources were there, they dont go to the competence of individuals seeking public office in 2014 and it will not even be a spectrum on the whole horizon by 2016. >> i agree with the mayor on 14. im not sure about 16. it depends on how your generation generates this issue. >> because its hillary clinton, if she wasnt involved, it would be off the table. >> hillary has a pretty clean image...

It clear the president is going to be asked about benghazi today. i was speaking to other reporters. they say thats the one they want to hear the way they view that issue. >> id like to put the people in different rooms, put them under oath and get the transcript. well be right back. were waiting for the president and prime minister cameron to join us for a news conference. we expect it will be all about the irs and the benghazi questions that still linger. right. but the most important feature ...