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The push, making college more affordable. the swing is the latest in a series of events mr. obamas doing on the road this summer to highlight how hes trying to help out the middle class. >> im laying out my ideas to give the middle class a better shot. >> the presidents health care law will also be in the spotlight this week as a leading conservative group holds a series of defund obama care town halls. former senator jim demint, head of the heritage foundation, will headline the town halls. sen...

So what do we know now that we didnt know last week? well, based on reporting from david corn of mother jones, we now know that there is a brand-new conservative group in washington called ground swell. it includes, among others, alan west, and ginny thomas, the wife of supreme court justice, clarence thomas. theyve been meeting privately since the beginning of the year with the goal of taking on not just president obama on the left, but also the republican partys establishment, figures like kar...

>> bill: back of the book segment tonight, conservative group called the media research center recently went undercover to ask some students at george mason university in virginia to sign a petition against fox news. the fictitious petition asked president obama to approve listening in on private conversations of all fox news employees and their families. absurd? of course. but here is what happened. >> just so we make sure that fox is telling the truth, not spinning their vicious lies, do you w...

Decade or so, so from military women they believe strongly of course they are already in combat. they want the reality to catch up with whats been going on in their lives. >> absolutely, theyre many of the same wounds and facing the same dangers out there. good to see this move happening even if it is a little slowly. barbara starr thanks so much. very busy news morning. lets get to michaela. >> good morning, kate and chris. making news a brand new cnn/orc poll shows a growing number of americ...

Embarrassing than that? >> when a congressman moves in on you, they own that court. he kept on pounding away at that question, who is leading the investigation -- and the f.b.i. director did not know. >> it makes i think they are not investigating. they wanted it to go away. >> who have you spoken to, i dont know. >> one conservative group has been contacted. >> we looked at that a couple weeks ago. these are serious crimes. there is a whole body of laws involving irs con conducting, that is who...

Evidence absolutely feels to me like -- it feels very party season directed and i think that is a big problem. >> sean: from the irs workers. >> two thirds for example of the groups that got approved for nonprofit status were conservatives. and the only ones that were actually blocked and had the nonprofit status taken away were the liberal groups. >> sean: that is irdevelop rant because they admit they targeted conservative group g. if they targeted liberal groups also i think it would be diffe...

Evidence absolutely feels to me like -- it feels very party season directed and i think that is a big problem. >> sean: from the irs workers. >> two thirds for example of the groups that got approved for nonprofit status were conservatives. and the only ones that were actually blocked and had the nonprofit status taken away were the liberal groups. >> sean: that is irdevelop rant because they admit they targeted conservative group g. if they targeted liberal groups also i think it would be diffe...

Looking for political activity. that part we get. >> right. martha: the problem is they only did it to one side. if all those soros groups and other groups were also undergoing the same kind of scrutiny, just how politically involved are you there would be no argument, right? >> sure. there are legitimate questions you could raise. i live in washington. trust me, there are a lot of nonprofit groups probably shouldnt have that designation. martha: yeah. >> for 27 months not a single conservative ...

Is a lot of businesses, businesses i work with like on the r and d credit, low-income people with the low-income credit, a lot of people interact with the i.r.s. they do important work, antiterrorism work. across the board they need to be working. my concern and sense is they are shutting down across the board. >> reporter: evidence of that dispute assurances from the obama administration that the targeting has stopped, the organizer of a tennessee conservative group says hes still being denied ...

May, height of tornadoes season and tornado alley. its where you see it red is today in that bulls eye. tomorrow it barely pulls off towards the east and getting into chicago. by the time we get to friday all the way up to detroit eastern oklahoma watching this threat. harris? >> harris: they have been through so much already this season. thank you. a prominent conservative group of lawyers is suing top irs and obama administration officials over the tax scandal. those attorneys claim they have ...