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People over that phony scandal. >> again, the -- who did the killings over there, were now talking about al qaeda, which has got 22 embassies closed and the great superpower looks like its 450iding in its buildings, al qaeda which was supposed to be on the run, is now forcing us into these buildings. al qaeda is the one that did -- al qaeda affiliates are the ones that murdered that ambassador. again, hes demeaning. >> thats -- >> hes trivializing what is vitally important. >> why is he doing th...

People over that phony scandal. >> again, the -- who did the killings over there, were now talking about al qaeda, which has got 22 embassies closed and the great superpower looks like its 450iding in its buildings, al qaeda which was supposed to be on the run, is now forcing us into these buildings. al qaeda is the one that did -- al qaeda affiliates are the ones that murdered that ambassador. again, hes demeaning. >> thats -- >> hes trivializing what is vitally important. >> why is he doing th...

Initial policy the president gave was insincere. it just says something about the system, the process, that he wont let it play out, he wont acknowledge it. its all about deflection, but i think this is the wrong path hes gone down. he really should have a more honest discussion about this. >> ben stein? >> it keeps reminding me of ron ziegler calling watergate a third rate burglary. obviously theres something there, systematic errors going on. he can keep calling it phony. the news can cover up...

Its black pages. >> how do you get to the truth when this is the kind of information were getting from the irs. after the president said he wanted to get to the bottom of this, this is important. we have this, we have the fbi director who couldnt tell us who is heading the investigation. how many agents assigned to the investigation. have they talked to victims groups. on and on it goes. frankly, i always point out, remember how is started. a planted question when lois lerner was giving a speech...

>> how do you get to the truth when this is the kind of information were getting from the irs. after the president said he wanted to get to the bottom of this, this is important. we have this, we have the fbi director who couldnt tell us who is heading the investigation. how many agents assigned to the investigation. have they talked to victims groups. on and on it goes. frankly, i always point out, remember how is started. a planted question when lois lerner was giving a speech blaming two rogu...

Learner, its an appropriate action to target the conservative groups and now we know its larger, religious groups are in the mix as well. >> if you use her words, you may want to add i will take the fifth. and the presidents word, the president now says its phony although its real to you and martha and other people. you know, if you want to use everybodys words, i do not have an abiding conviction that people are taking this particularly seriously when they are calling it phony. >> i agree. >> w...

Learner, its an appropriate action to target the conservative groups and now we know its larger, religious groups are in the mix as well. >> if you use her words, you may want to add i will take the fifth. and the presidents word, the president now says its phony although its real to you and martha and other people. you know, if you want to use everybodys words, i do not have an abiding conviction that people are taking this particularly seriously when they are calling it phony. >> i agree. >> w...

>> peter: whats your reaction to that? >> well, i am just stunned. im stunned for three reasons. first of all, that the irs scandal ever happened. that the american public could be targeted for their political beliefs, and then secondly, i am stunned that the president is totally stoneballing this investigation. he admitted the targeting happened. he admitted it was horrible abuse, but now government officials are taking the fifth and hes calling it phony. and thirdly, i want to know where john ...

A degree. >> ben, those were words that both the president said on the campaign trail and we also heard michael flynn say just that as well in an interview. let me broaden the conversation and not just focus on flynn right now because, ben, when you look at the president and how he has handled some of the allegations and just this investigation into the russian meddling in the election, do you feel he is taking this investigation seriously enough? he calls it phony. hes called it a scam. does so...

Ask for it. >> clayton, you and i yesterday talked about you get into a room and write a speech. well try to change the narrative of whats going on, lets talk about the economy and somebody said lets use the term phony scandal. i bet they wish they never wrote those two words down. because anymore somebody died involving these scandals you cant call it phony. think of seal team 6 too. >> yeah, this is something they obviously vetted. they thought the mainstream media may pick up on it and we hea...