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Thank you so much. >> "marie claire" needs to feature you next. >> you broke the mold. >> you are hilarious. thank you. darrel issa apologized to elijah cummings for cutting off his mic on the irs scandal. to refresh your memory, this is the blow up that happened wednesday after issa called lois learner before the reform committee and she availed herself of her fifth amendment rights. issa refused to allow cummings to make even an opening statement. >> i am a member of the congress of the unit...

Entered the race. another 41% said they would consider her as a candidate. while there is no clear republican front-runner, 12% say they would definitely back mitt romney. another 33% say they would consider him if he ran again. fireworks at a house hearing on capitol hill. a former irs official accused of targeting conservative groups is called in for questioning a second time. lois learner again pleading the fifth. darrell issa quickly moving to close the hearing. but when cummings tried to ...

Screening and they claim it was politically motivated. joe johns is here and you and i have covered it and its not every day you see a chairman or a ranking member arguing like this. >> it isnt and it got ugly. the battle over certain groups like tea partiers are an open wound between republicans and democrats. the top two members of the house committee on oversight and reform reopened the divide in public for all to see in the raw exchange that almost never happens in front of a camera. it was ...

Ask your doctor about non-insulin victoza. its covered by most health plans. all right. political worlds colliding minutes ago minutes ago. this is about whether the irs targeted conservative groups seeking tax ex emstatus. republicans claim it was politically motivated. tea party and other conservative words, they were targeted. lois learner refused to testify today, invoking her fifth amendment rights, as she did last year during the hearings. listen to this. >> my counsel has advised me tha...

Contracting to buy homes flattened and that could have nothing to do with the weather because sales rose in the northeast where it was frigid and fell in the northwest where it was warm. falling incomes and rising home prices maybe the bigger issue. and consumer confidence rose this month. so mixed data over all and the question is to blame the weather or not blame the weather. nice gains today. >> it is easy to blame the weather. >> reporter: very easy. the irs under the microscope on the hil...

Here, bill, is that a lot of the action really took place outside the hearing room. the attorney for lois lerner, who is the director of the very unit at the center of the irs scandal and who previously pleaded the fifth, her lawyer wrote to the chairman of this committee today and said, in essence, she is receiving death threats. you shouldnt call her back for more testimony next week when you know she is only going to plead the fifth again. it only increase the death threats but every indicati...

Respect to those killed in the violent protests that spread to keefe in the past week or so -- key every. at the same time, late last night secretary kerry saying that the u.s. does not want a replay of the u.s. versus russia or u.s. versus soviet union cold war era, again calling for that sovereign ukraine. ukraine which actually is in bad economic straits and we are here in just a couple hours, a transitional government will be announced. the full lineup very important to raise money from the ...

They expect to get 3 more million in one month? wow. this is going to be a disaster. >> lets see how close they get to a goal theyre now claiming they didnt have. heather, now my goal is to toss to you. >> i think theyre doing common core math down in washington. doesnt all add up. just throw some numbers together. >> as long as were on the same page. >> all right. good morning. other news to bring you now. speaking of washington, the presidents executive action is taking center stage on capitol...

Targets he is representing, have gone questioned yet. >> and we learned through mike emanual that lois learner, one of the key investigators, she took the fifth and said she couldnt tell house investigators what was going on. she was part of crafting new rules in secret that would make this targeting perhaps allowable. >> why would learner need to take the fifth if there was no corruption? thank you, chris. we will keep an eye on this testimony and let you know what is coming out of it. there is...

Conservative groups that claim they experienced delays and it is was targeted. here is what jay said about revelations regarding an e-mail. >> this was targeted discrimination and i would like to address your view is that came from the highest ranks of the internal service. an e-mail was sent by lois learner who pled the fifth amendment. based on the evidence coming out if i were her lawyer i would tell her to do that. an e-mail was sent from lois, to the department of treasury to