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More now on the irs targeting of conservative groups. remember the head of the house panel investigating the scandal saying, he may soon call the top agency official yet again back to testify. lois lerner yesterday read an opening statement, telling lawmakers she didnt do anything wrong and then invoked the fifth amendment and refused to answer any questiones. some g.o.p. lawmakers say in doing so she waived her right against incriminating herself. she runs ther is division on tax exempt organiz...

Reports of even more. >> yeah. the entire area, shepard, some reports its hard to keep track of them. its hard to get verification of it this is east webster high school, what was east webster high school. the auditorium completely collapsed. the basketball court, go anywhere you look in the school and everything completely destroyed. go back towards the fieldhouse, destroyed. the visitors bleachers pummeled in across that fieldhouse. this happened 2:30 in the morning, shepard, its a few times w...

So this is the type of thing that hits small businesses, that will hit families of two or three kids with a salary of only $250,000. that is an all of lot to use mortgage interest deduction on. these are considered nonstarters and yet the president is put them at the starting line. >>shepard: rough road ahead, carl. and now to egypt, a lot to do. protests are continuing there and egypts ambassador to the united states says hosni mubarak could be in bad health. mubarak booted from office by a pop...

Things we want to do with the tax system and revenue system we have now. basically, even with obama freezing optional spending, entitlement spending -- >> thats his longer term plan. but does he address the short-term issue? >> he didnt address the politics of it. its inevitable if we want to have anything remotely like a balanced budget, a budget going forward or a debt where were not paying a huge amount of taxes just to service the debt we have to raise taxes. >> politically, right. i dont th...