no one can forget bill clinton s rally to get president obama elected president. remember this? but did it involve a secret deal to put hillary clinton on deck? the details straight ahead out of a new book. fox & friends begibb begins rt now. good morning, everybody. thanks so much for joining us bright and early. great to have tucker carlson back with us. why, thank you, ali. had a birthday. my daughter turned 14. happy birthday. i stayed home for that. you can t miss a 14-year-old girl s birthday party. you hear about it years later in therapy. if she wants you there, you can t miss it. i didn t have interest in my parents being present for that one. she faked it, anyway. the deadly tornado that struck near oklahoma city now claiming the lives of nine people. one victim, a 4-year-old boy, was swept away by flood waters as his family took shelter in a drainage ditch. a total of 5 tornadoes touched down including a powerful ef-3. mike tobin joins us live in un
he signed off on the search warrant. are you not involved after signing off on the search warrant? i would refer you to the justice department. holder lied to a judge. he had no intention of treating rosen as a criminal. he said that to get the subpoena because that was the test he had to pass in order to get the sub yo subpoena. as attorney general you are the chief law enforcement officer of the country but a cabinet official and on the president s team and have an obligation to report the president s priorities. geraldo: history has not been kind to political attorney generals often casting them in the role of scandal scapegoat. gonzalez took the flap in the firing of several federal prosecutors. nixon era a.g. richard resigned after playing a minor role in waregate by ski starred former attorney general john mitchell who ultimately went to jail for conspiracy, obstruction and perjury. on may 16 the president was asked whether he has confidence in the attorney
to other conservative organizations and not just tea party groups to be in this dragnet of irs special review. she basically is responsible for doing that. and in march of 2013, doug shulman and the head of the irs assured the american people in congress this was not happening, correct? yes, in fact he did that a year ago in response to questions that s right, march 2012. that s correct. 2012. that s right. i want to ask you both the same question that is puzzling to me. shulman met shulman went to the white house 157 times. his answer was well i was there for an easter egg hunt. nobody as i checked the records records the to be cabinet memberss were not there 157 times. there was sure an awful lot of conversation well, number one it is
0 there is absolutely no targeting. they added the name tea party and patriot to the list of cases that should be centralized in this group. i first learned about it in the news reports most people learned about this. i think it was on friday. i have reviewed the treasury department watchdog s report and the misconduct that it covered is inexcusable. i m sorry, sir, i cannot answer. i don t know the details. i frankly was unaware. i don t know the precise date. i don t remember. it is not my area. i don t know. i personally don t remember. i will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committee s meeting. we had to wait proat interpretly until appropriately until the report was publicized or published for the president to be able to review it and respond as he did quickly. someone would talk about the council s office? kathy rumler was identified on april 24th. who else besides who else was told about this? other members o
whole concept of a couple of employees going rogue in the cincinnati office just isn t accurate. when they re talking about targeting tea party groups. now i ran this by somebody at the irs. this is information i was told. their response is that they did cast a wide net but it s just a precautionary measure to make sure they didn t miss anything to try to answer congres s questions about who was involved and why this happened. as you know there are a lot of reports that the former irs commissioner doug shulman who was a bush administration appointee but held on during the clinton the obama administration visited the white house during the obama administration 157 times. that s a lot of visits to the white house. what was going on? well, let me just give a reality check here. that is that it appears that it wasn t 157 times. that doug shulman the former irs commissioner went to the white house. that is a number of times apparently that he was cleared in by the secret service. yo