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Tie it in to the white house. not at this point. >> watch tomorrow -- well, what he has said to me today is make sure we watch tomorrows hearing because he is going to present the evidence to prove it. >> all right fop prove what. >> that they can get it right all the way up into the white house before it was all revealed. >> really. for months one of the most generally outraged members of congress and also the chair of the house oversight committee darrel issa insisted it was a politically mo...

Year-olds who think the way that the tea party not. 35 year-olds are ecumenical, inclusive people who are going to build a different kind of america than the republican party represents. so this is all fine and good for the republican base. it is exactly what their problem is and the smart people in the republican party understand that they cant have darrel issa and mitch mcconnell as their spokesmen if they want to succeed. >> i still think there needs to be an investigation of the irs. i dont ...

Progressive or a take partier, neither of which i am, i would feel better if we had an investigation. this is the arm of the government that takes our money -- all of it, pretty much lately. and theyre getting ready to have more power when the health care law kicks in. i think it is crazy to say darrel issa is an idiot, we dont care about this, theres no there there. lets prove theres no there there. how about that idea? >> we have the fast and furious, benghazi, this. he is a proven entity as f...

>> when issa was leaving the hearing yesterday he appeared to be looking for something. quite possibly the scandal itself. melissa, we pose the meta question. is there a there there -- here. and it seems to me that theres not a lot of there there. >> as you were speaking you said the fact that they were both tea party groups and progressive groups means that some of the presidents friends were targeted. i thought yeah, but those hoe progressive groups that could be out to get the president more ...

Essentially what the supreme court has muddied the waters on. >> they are taking deductions -- >> theyre certainly getting the secrecy. >> even the change in the rules where it says partially or exclusively. >> so what the irs is basically trying to do is stop abuses. and have you a clown running the investigation which doesnt help their credibility. >> theres another alternative here which is to say maybe no non-profits hud have the same sp free speech rights as corporations. not whether the ir...

>> look. to melissas earlier point, the balm here from the republicans is we need to stript irs of its funding, get rid of the script and people will just mail in their taxes and well yut source it to the u.s. postal service? >> we need to totally deregul e deregulate -- >> we need to make sure there is truth in lending. i love the republican position, let us declare as much as we want as long as we delayer wcla we are. >> what i have -- my take-away from the irs scandal, non-scandal, whatever y...

>> but as of today, no sparks, no roman candles, and very little sizzle. the problem with issas accusations -- and it is kind of a big problem -- is that recently reveal documents show the irs with a wasnt just targeting tea party groups, they were also targeting progressive groups. the revelation would seem to put to rest theories about a consheco conspiracy against the presidents enemies. though issas campaign lives on. yesterday he penned an op sed in "usa today" asserting the irs tea party t...

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