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Agreed. he took assertion that it is rooted in the obama administration in the warning we must seek truth not political gain. thats his quote. dana baschuck is live on capitol hill. this is one of those day, where committee hearings can be really boring or electric. i think this is the latter. give me the headlines from what you have been watching. >> i think the first question the people want to know, did we learn anything new about why this happened? the answers that the acting commissioner is...

A moment. and also in about 15 minutes time the speaker of the house, john boehner, is going to hold his weekly news conference and i think its safe to say there could be some fireworks. dana baschuck and jim acosta join me live now on capitol hill and our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin stand by in new york. first to you, the speaker of the house set to hold the news conference. i can only imagine that the damage control has just begun. that this is almost all out war. >> thats right. you k...

Leave, he is still the floor per congress when they do tear oversight into what exactly happened at the irs. >> stand by on that. still with the same topic. the irs in that scandal. jim acosta, congress woman michelle bachman for many people has been the face of the tea party. this morning, jim, he was out in full force with her concerns and her supporters. can you give me the feel essentially for what the case is and the take-away she made? >> reporter: thats right, actually. she is the chair o...

Holder is defending the departments seizing of the associate press telephone records. closely following all of the developments as they trickle out, dana baschuck is live on capitol hill for us and our joe johns in our washington studio. do you fa, i want to begin with you, if i can. just released that unbelievable scathing irs report is coming down hard on the irs for singling out conservative groups. so if you would for us give us the headlines and also what the reaction to those headlines has...

Good morning, thank you so much for being with me. im carol costello, reit now, we will go to capitol hill where any minute now john boehner will speak in front of the cameras at the house leadership conference. our chief correspondent dana baschuck joins me from washington. he will probably talk benghazi, the irs, spying on the a.p., perhaps a host of other things as well, dana. >> reporter: thats right. if you take a look at the big sign behind the podium "solutions for american jobs," i am to...

Targeting people because of their affiliation. that would be a real no-no. dana baschuck is on capitol hill. some say this is smithsonian. >> reporter: some republicans need to be careful, okay, because we dont yet know if president obama was at all involved or knowledgeable or anyone in the white house for that matter. so that would make it 96 on nixonian. fiction first and foremost the idea that irs agents were targeting specific groups. secondly, from thor techive of people here in congress, ...

The administration is doing. the irs is an independent body, but the president needs to explain how concerned he is or how they intend to respond once this i.t. report comes out, jake. >> i want to go to capitol hill to our capitol hill corner. dan na baschuck. dana. >> reporter: proof that it is a bipartisan outrage when it comes to the democratic senate finance committee, they have jurisdiction over the irs and treasury, in general, just released a statement saying he is going to wait for the ...

Whatever the words were. the problem for the irs here and, quite frankly the problem for the administration that the irs has no friends on either side of the aisle. who is going to stand up there and defend the irs? >> in fact, speaking of having friends, dana baschuck, chief correspondent on capitol hill. >> reporter: thats right, jake. >> not that you dont have friends, you are certainly somewhere, if the irs had a friend with 535 members of congress, hopefully, one of them would be standing u...

Correspondent dana baschuck is on capitol hill. gloria, one of the things thats interesting about the benghazi back and forth is specifically this back and forth this debate between the cia and the state department t. state department, their explanation for why that part of the talking points was edited out, saying that the cia had warned the state department about attacks in benghazi if 2012. >> right. >> they said they didnt want that end will is there they thought they were getting run over. ...