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Spears today because they want to show that democrats dont want to be columned into this mess, that the irs has created. its a fascinating thing to see how this all plays out. >> it is. peter alexander back at the white house, is the white house counting on republicans overplaying their hand? >> the white house feels pretty confidently when these things becomes partisan as they have insisted this has been since the beginning thats when republicans look bad and they start to look good. theyre try...

Supporters gathered on capitol hill with people who claimed they were victimized by the irs. >> the power to tax is the power to destroy. >> republicans are now linking the irs scandal to implementation of obama care. they say the irs can not be trusted to administer the tax breaks and credits included the health care overhaul. the official in charge of tax-exempt organizations during the time the irs targeted conservatives now runs the irs office responsible for health care. john, diana. >> tha...

Weve got dan pfeiffer, senior adviser to the white house, dave camp, chairman of the ways and means will be taking on the irs issue today. >> thats great. >> thats a great show. >> donny says hes going to invite himself. vern buchanan, thank you. always great seeing you. >> i thought you would be in washington today. >> no. no. next week maybe. next week. ill see you next week. >> just a low-key day here. >> thank you. its going to be a big day. >> "gqs" annual comedy issue. >> yes. >> look, a g...

Show business, host of msnbcs "politics nation" and president of the nation action network reverend al sharpton. in nashville, tennessee, john meacham and a lot of big stories to cover this morning. weve got nbcs peter alexander, hes live at the white house. senior investigative correspondent lisa myers at our washington bureau and nbc congressional correspondent luke russert standing by on capitol hill. mika, a lot to talk to. we talk about a white house, though, fighting back. >> absolutely. p...

Commissioner of the irs, and leap into the oval office? it just doesnt make sense. everywhere theyre going, theyre trying to change things along the way. we can have different opinions. we cant have different facts. >> all right. donny? >> you know, i think -- im a little different place than most people here and we talked about this yesterday. i do think the overreach is going to happen and i also think the american people have a way of separating what ill call institutional incompetent bureauc...

Just because its so big. >> right. it becomes this government doesnt work and then how does that affect immigration reform? >> right. >> were putting a lot more effort into dhs, making it a bigger department, to try to have the ability to secure the border. you know, so this is -- this is why if youre the white house, youve got to be on top of this irs thing from here on out in this respect -- you cant have any more -- were all digging, right? media is digging, house republicans are digging, fra...

>> the irs thing is so basic, hold on -- >> its not the president. >> i understand. >> however, it is a government agency that used political filters to target groups. >> but who used them? >> i understand. >> but it resonates. >> you arent asking the same questions were asking. im not saying, reverend, im not saying donny, that barack obama is going to be run out of office. he may even leave office with a 60% approval rating. i dont know, chuck todd, but i know this, its going to be harder for ...

Hypothetically, say, joe, they made you treasury secretary. >> oh, good god. >> unlikely. >> frightening. >> theres a chance. >> okay. maybe. lets see. but just -- you go in to the job the first months like jack lew, whos -- who is somebody who served in the government at all kinds of levels, budget director, white house chief of staff for president obama, worked for tip oneill back in the 80s, knows government. you get that job and youre going to have all kinds of policy discussions with the pe...

You want to call them breaking, hes learning about them when he reads the morning newspapers. a lot of people just dont buy it. hes back on his heels still. theres obviously, matt, an irs hearing today. >> right. >> up on capitol hill. well see how that goes. and breaking news last night, that the person that was in charge of the tax exempt area in the irs, is now running obama care, so it looks like they may have actually fired the wrong person at the irs and the person responsible may have got...

Organizations at the time the tea party groups that were targeted -- >> got fired, right? >> no. >> suspended? >> is a little different than that. >> i bet they demoted him, put him in a position thats not going to be important. >> maybe put him in a holding room. no. >> really? >> you know what, where bloomberg would put the teachers, you know, that they dont want to fire. >> the rubber rooms. >> i bet they put this person, botched this up so terribly in like a rubber room, right? >> no. that p...