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The weather segment, what sam said, its a cat. its a cat. >> yes. >> which -- >> wasnt a dog. >> good. >> i talk. >> we told you we werent going to let him talk. >> moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd, ahead of todays hearings on the irs, michael hainey, with the new issue of "gq". >> i bet another picture of kate upton in there. >> up next, many say, the former congressman, anthony weiners wife would be his best weapon in a possible run for mayor of new york city, could something she did w...

Completely -- >> it has legs. >> benghazi is lit gaited over and over. thats a polarized -- if you wear a red shirt or blue shirt, your mind is not going to get changed. >> yeah. >> the irs is different. >> the irs is. >> but -- >> can i disagree? >> this affects -- >> can i really quickly, we need to get to sam stein, hes been here six 6:00 a.m., his mother hasnt heard him say a complete sentence. sam, we got him out of prep school to come here today and hes wearing his best tie. really quickly...

Were not sure what you call them, but what do you make of whats happened over the past week and a half? >> starting with the irs, whats the impact? >> okay. well its a big mess, obviously. i know there have been these comparison to watergate. i would say not yet, joe. youve made the point which i think is absolutely correct that youve got to investigate all of these things. the congress, the obama administration itself, needs to dig in to find out exactly what happened. what -- if you -- i mean ...

Will get the former irs head mr. miller before them to answer questions as well as the inspector general mr. george who wrote this report that was so damming to the irs. the question you bring up is, how far is the gop going to push it. the cliche thing in d.c. to say look they have to keep it serious, cant make this into a witch hunt because they lose the political high ground. the best committee to have out of the gate in order to have these types of questions, joe, is the house ways and means...

Republicans want to prove to you that governments in the way, incompetent and too big. thats sort of the basic -- the basic premise of both parties right now and the irs scandal goes at the -- hits the democrat s at the heart -- hurts them at the heart of what theyre arguing about government. lets just -- i mean one thing here, you know, there is still a larger part of government that works very well, whether its the military, whether its any part of this. i mean, this is sometimes we all go ove...

Complete confidence in eric holder, dismissing calls for his resignation. and the president addressed fallout from if targeting of conservative groups. a second irs official is stepping down. he follows the agencys acting commissioner who announced his resignation earlier this week. a white house budget official will take over at the irs. the irs staffer in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time the tea party group was targeted is now part of the irs office that handles health care...

He could use more than an umbrella. >> my concern is making sure there is a problem in the government that we fix it. >> reporter: the problem? too many problems. most immediate. the irs targeting of conservative groups. in the years before the election more liberal groups were being approved while conservative groups like patriot, constitution and tea party were stymied. in 2011, not a single tea party group was approved. >> i am angry about it. >> reporter: plenty for the president to be angry...

There was an interagency process that was being hon choed at the white house representing the intelligence community, state, the national security council, all contributing to these talking points and as we know from the newer e-mails david petraeus was questioning what the utility of the talking points were in the end if you were going to have all these points taken out. theres interagency fighting going on between the state department and the cia, and so there were clearly edits made. i think ...

What doesnt make me suspicious by weary and peggy noonan points this out very well, everybody is saying eric holder is saying -- i didnt know this was going on. i didnt know this was going on. i recuse myself. i didnt know. were hearing from the white house. i didnt know. the irs told us last week, we didnt know. it ended up not being true. the top people at the irs did know. i cant believe that eric holder didnt know. i cant believe that the president didnt know, that all of these things were g...

Whats in this thing. >> let me clear it up. its the law. upheld by the supreme court. lets start there. it is the law and appears it will remain there. one of the things that i wanted to say in what you opened with, joe, i think the republicans have already gone too far. >> think theyve already overreached? >> im going to tell you why. theyre changing the premise to try to change the conclusion. they started these scandals by saying, the white house orchestrated benghazi. >> right. >> now we see...