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Off-the-record basis. >> megyn: there is no question this is the charm offensive. >> yes. >> megyn: lets say eric holder comes back later today and says well do it on the record. i cant imagine going to meet with three organizations that have said yes, right? like politico, abc news and one other. is he going to go forward with just that meeting or will he be forced to say okay we will do something on the record and then does that change things? >> well, it changes things. if he does it on the r...

Going to the white house thatch is weird. >> megyn: people dont have to take your word for it or my word for it. forminger irs petitioner who preceded doug shulman emerson. he appeared before in 2012 to talk about how the irs might be enforcing new tax regulations we are going to face under obama care the new taxes we are going to pay. many of us under obama care? he was talking about the need for the irs to be and to appear independent of the white house. here is how he put it. great deal of in...

Now what they want to know of the secretary of state is what is the status of the state department employees who were faulted by that now infamous arb report that took a look at everybody except for hillary clinton and so on? who is to blame, what happened, why we didnt have the security we should have and so on. we did have four names of state department employees who had messed up, including the one who comes to mind charlene lamb kept saying the security was adequate on the ground even though...

Do it? just do it because it gives you a little political cover? >> i actually am in favor of appointing an independent investigator. i think thats in keeping with barack obamas pledge for greater transparency. i think that we have to make sure that investigation though is independent. independent means independent and not some mad dog puppet of the republican congress all it can star the president. >> and because of that try to depoliticize and get to the answers. the american people have spoke...

June of last year was informed of the igs investigation. the white house counsel, the white house chief of staff all knew about it in march of this year. this poll shows what we have known all along which is that plausible didnt argument cant hold water for long when the connections with this matter go right back to the west wing. >> megyn: the other thing that these polls found that of all the scandals, scandal mania in a chris stirewalt called it is out there right now. which do you think is t...

Commissioner during the bulk of this nonsense from the irs visited the white house that leads us to say it wasnt a about the easter egg roll, doug. what else were you talking about. may have had nothing to do with the irs targeting scandal. the presidents refusal to go with the special prosecutor route and instead say eric holder is going to look into. thisache holders favorability and truth worthy has never been lower leads people to say what are you hiding? >> embroiled in own problems as well...

Secretary of state john kerry evidence iranian fighters are on the ground in syria as well. senator john mccain just returned from unannounced trip to syria in recent days to meet with rebel forces and continues to press the administration to get involved and remove assad. the u.s. and russia are trying to arrange a peace conference in geneva but the opposition refuses to allow assad to attend a nonstarter for russia, megyn. >> megyn: jennifer, thank you. as the house judiciary committee looks i...

Im not guilty. i dont have nothing to hide. >> prosecution star witnesses the federal yes or federal police who arrested maldonado. reports they finally showed up today. the question is will the judge still testimony, the judge is expected to rule by 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night. could rule earlier. right now the evidence is still open. if he rules that she goes to trial she could sit there for three or four more months. >> potential 10 years in prison. thanks. up next, the former head of the irs, a...

>> megyn: turning to mark, fellow at the american enterprise institute and former speech writer for president george w. bush. so, mark, they want to find out whether the campaign was trying to negotiate, massage, this message on what happened in benghazi. right now it sounds like a hunch to me. doesnt sound like they have reason to believe the campaign operatives were coordinating with state. whats your thought? >> well, it is certainly more likely than finding a rat on mars. its a fishing exped...

Now today we see something very different. the president indeed taking a hit in his approval and his trustworthiness rating as americans want more answers. according to one poll from quinnipiac university, the vast majority of voters, 76% want a special prosecutor to be brought in to lead an independent investigation into the irs. this after that agency admitted that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. according to the pollster there is year whelming bipartisan support for that i...