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Public, either from ambassador rice, or to others, that it turned out not to be accurate. and so the white house is going to have to kind of walk us through that. >> yeah, you mentioned the 12 iterations of the talking points and ultimately we all saw susan rice making her rounds on sunday morning in her talking points based upon that 12 iteration as you mentioned that that was scrubbed. as we, again, wait for -- here he is. jay carney, stepping up to the podium. lets take it live. >> good frida...

Today. we are expecting jay carney, the white house spokesperson, to field new questions about this benghazi investigation. but add another headache into the mix here, because the irs apparently targeted the tea party. erin mcpike joins me now from washington. and, erin, the irs and the tea party, what do you know? >> well, brooke, the irs admitted today that it did make mistakes when handling applications from the slew of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. and so immediately republi...

Well wait for the questions to be thrown at jay corn carney a how he responds to questions of benghazi and the irs and the tea party. erin mcpike, keep us posted. thank you so much. and another breaking story this hour. busy news day on this friday. major development in that devastating fire and explosion at that fertilizer plant in the town of west, texas. cnn has now learned that texas rangers have opened a criminal investigation into this blast. it is not quite known what prompted the move....

What they said about the vote three months ago. they werent calling it a mistake then. we have sound from jay carney about this issue of the debt ceiling moving forward. >> we do not need to play chicken with our economy by linking the raising of the debt ceiling to anything. we should do that right away. >> reporter: now, andrea, here is what was missing throughout the entire briefing, i walked out, a bunch of us questioned him on this, there was no specific veto threat. jay carney said the whi...

Yesterday on "meet the press." but it is unclear how much detail is it going to be. is it go to be a philosophical speech about outlining his principles, which is sort of a little bit of the history of the president when it comes to these big issue speeches, or will it have some detail in it? i think thats still -- thats still an unknown. >> and, on the debt ceiling, youre the guru for the nbc news "wall street journal" poll. we know the incredible numbers, 62% opposing. >> reporter: after the e...

Plouffe, and that has to do with the fact that it is going to touch on medicare and medicaid. it is going to touch on some tax increases for those that make over $250,000 a year. and it may touch on also social security and well see by how much today in the briefing, andrea, jay did say the debt commission which reported out to the president, sits on the whitehouse.gov website, but never officially endorsed by the president, will certainly help lay the ground work for this conversation, but ther...

Constant reminder that japan is far from being out of this crisis. back to you. >> it is certainly calling into question the judgment of the japanese officials initially because the u.s. officials were warning people in 20 miles and the japanese were claiming that the 12 mile zone was adequate. a lot of fear continues for good reason there. >> right. >> thanks so much, charles hadlock in tokyo. president obama lays out his strategy wednesday to tackle the record $14.3 trillion federal deficit....

People on welfare, more people needing medicaid, and as she points out in the 80s with the huge epidemic of aids. >> this is exactly the kind of solution, though that was put in place under president clinton and a republican congress in the 90s for the welfare program. block granting it to the states provides the states much greater flexibility, they can increase the kind of coverage they want should they so desire. it gives them the flexibility to be able to put a program in place that allows f...