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A sideshow, hes never said its troubling. >> i know you got your points down. i want to ask you one last time, in all fairness, congressman. do you know if the president had anything to do with susan rices performance on "meet the press" that sunday? anything? do you know anything you can tell me about that? >> he -- he appointed her and he certainly has done nothing since to correct the fiction and to say theres a problem in my administration that someone would go on national tv and tell a fict...

Is the issue of how the talking points were changed a political sideshow? u.s. congressman michael turner is on the oversight and government reform committee which held last weeks hears on benghazi. congressman, thanks for coming on. what is your view of this whole thing? >> thank you, chris. >> do you think the president has been dishonest? hes saying basically his integrity has been challenged. lets go to the issue of the talking points. do you think he was involved in cleaning them up, changi...

>> did the irs in 2004 say were going after them -- >> yep, the letter that was sent to the -- >> it was just as wrong then. >> julian bonds statements about george w. bush in his opposition to the war, that was in the irs letter that went to the naacp. >> okay. thank you, joy. i think everybody understands what you said. jenny, as well. people at home are going to make a judgment about this. two wrongs dont make a wrong. thank you very much, jenny beth. joy, as always. i agree with you, mostly....

Talking points, frankly throughout this process has been a sideshow. the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. suddenly three days ago, this gets spun up as if theres something new to the story. theres no there-there. and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations. weve had folks who have challenged hillary clintons integrity, susan rices integrity, mike mullen and tom pickerings integrity. its a give...

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Doe apartment and the white house. that it was outlined in a series of e-mails. heres what the president had to say about it all today. >> the whole issue of this, of talking points, frankly throughout this process has been a sideshow. the e-mails that you allude to were provided by us to congressional committees. suddenly three days ago, this gets spun up as if theres something new to the story. theres no there-there. and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do...

Im chris matthews in washington. two big stories tonight. the irs and benghazi. the president called one outrageous, the other a sideshow. lets start with the outrageous. taxes, if youre honest and pay them, the best feeling you get after april 15th is, well, thats over with. you try to believe the system is basically fair, that those progressive rates really mean something, that those irs people who go over your returns really are looking to keep people honest and theyre fair about it. how else...

Absolutely. there is no question that this administration has told a fiction to this nation. >> now its the administration. >> while the president says its a sideshow, hes never said its troubling. >> i know you got your points down. i want to ask you one last time, in all fairness, congressman. do you know if the president had anything to do with susan rices performance on "meet the press" that sunday? anything? do you know anything you can tell me about that? >> he -- he appointed her and he c...

Appears to be firing randomly. police think multiple gunmen worked together. but this is not new to new orleans or to many of our other communities. at a martin luther king parade, five teens were left with bullet wounds and right before mardi gras celebration, chaos erupted or bourbon street. four people shot. we must do something about gun violence. we cannot just get used to hearing the next story. it is bad to hear horrific news. its worse when we get used to it. thanks for watching. im al s...