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Right. yesterday the obama administration released 100 pages of e-mails describing the interagency debate over how to describe last years september 11 attack. the e-mails show that cia deputy director mike morell was the individual who requested references to al qaeda and other extremist groups be removed from the official talking points, not white house officials as some republicans have suggested. so that is more information shedding light on the benghazi situation and what was going on inside...

Question is, years from now, what will it all be looked back as? i will say the implications i see land squarely on the irs story. and i still dont see the right person being fired here. i see someone symbolically being fired. >> right. >> which is great. the president getting out in front of this and taking the person at the top who bears the ultimate responsibility where the buck stops with the irs has got to go. i understand. where are the other people? where are the people who are involved? ...

Ball game but then they react and claim this was always the way we were going to handle this all along. but i think that they, you know, the president at least had a list of issues that he was going to do with the irs. how to tackle this. i think hes got to stay on it. >> can i say -- >> here is the issue. >> yeah. >> if this becomes a bigger problem then hes going to have a harder time getting health care implemented, a harder time getting immigration reform. it gets at root of the rest of his ...

The president and the white house yet. so if you are sitting at home and watching this, all unfold, and people are saying, well this is worse than watergate, hes corrupt. there becomes a disconnect. thats what privately republicans are cautioning their members. back off. put a sock in it. calm down. lets do the hearings and see where it leads and see who knew what was happening at the irs, see what was happening at justice and not get ahead of the story. there is always a temptation to get ahead...

Albeit through an aggressive interpretation. its a policy dispute. it is not a scandal. the president had nothing to do with that. so i tend to think that the more people kind of digest this information, break it down, particularly now with benghazi, i think the e-mails are furthering the case that there is just not that much there, i think this is going to dissipate. i think the irs thing is going to hang around for a while. there are going to be hearings. more heads could roll. you know, at th...

Elections. >> well, mika, i agree with you. and even though the administration might want to cite civil service rules as it relates to some of those people, i mean, last night they fired the one guy they could fire, steve miller, who is a political appointee, so they could just summarily fire him. >> right. >> there are rules down there in the thick of the bureaucracy but if i were the president i would try to ignore them and move quickly, very quickly to that source. to answer your earlier ques...

>> nice mower. >> good job. >> one thing ill say about the irs, donnie, i think youre wrong about the impact. 2014 if you think republicans arent going to use this as confirmation that big government is out to get you, youre wrong. >> let me push back. i do think theyll use it. i think it is going to back fire. in reality its a couple rogue guys. this is not the president. it doesnt go up to the president. he is going to throw anybody overboard -- >> you heard the crazy stuff these people say ab...

Operating for several months, perhaps a couple years, with no net in terms of support up on the hill for him. is there a sense in the white house, off of what jay carney was asked, is there a siege mentality within the white house? do they feel particularly threatened by the development of all three things right now? >> i think underline that point that youre making that just yesterday only a couple within 100 hours of all the scandals sort of happening at once you saw the headlines saying d.c.,...

The irs scandal spreads. acting commissioner steven miller had been aware of the agencys effort to put greater scrutiny on conservative groups as early as 2012. miller told staffers in internal memo that hell be departing in early june when his acting assignment ends. but in a news conference last night president obama announced millers resignation and described his own outrage over the whole issue. >> the misconduct that it uncovered is inskewable. its inexcusable and americans are right to be ...

Resentment of government. theyre taking up the guns. its the evil irs. its the revenuers and all that stuff. you hand that to mitch mcconnell, its an extra 50,000 votes in rural kentucky. it just is. >> so the president, what can the president do, joe, right now, to meet this concern? i think its a big one. i think this has got some legs. what does he do about the fact hes got, perhaps, bureaucrats, perhaps somebody at the high level of bureaucracy of the irs knew about this two years ago and ha...