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York city. i might have been one of the first people to bluntly point out that the obama administration is not transparent and covering up scandals and lying to the american people. and now with the white house caught in the middle of three separate scandals, benghazi, and irs targeting of conservative groups and the justice department illegal probe in the journal phone records, the rest of the media is starting to catch up including the pundits who praised the president. >> hes accountable for ...

Over there fighting. thats just one job i couldnt do. i mean, if they recruited me, of course, id go. but i dont want to be in the military. if i did, its one job i could do would be the guy that greets the president when he gets off the helicopter. thats it. i mean you get some tv time. mr. president, thats it it for me. im going to have some lunch. >> its funny to me that they have never caught you smoking but they somehow always catch you with your shirt off. i know youre into this transparen...

Why nonet just release them. >> i dont know. what about that kill story? >> theres never been a standard like this related to the twitter world or the blogosphere. hes had to deal with what no other president has had to deal with. i dont understand the transparency thing, hes been one of the most transparent president in history because of the media blogs. thats not true. >> and the other day he was complaining about the media and that was such a joke because he got such gracious treatment. >> b...

Why nonet just release them. >> i dont know. what about that kill story? >> theres never been a standard like this related to the twitter world or the blogosphere. hes had to deal with what no other president has had to deal with. i dont understand the transparency thing, hes been one of the most transparent president in history because of the media blogs. thats not true. >> and the other day he was complaining about the media and that was such a joke because he got such gracious treatment. >> b...

ripples of relief spread from europe across the world market. a deal has been reached to tackle the e.u. financial crisis. european leaders have agreed to expand the e.u. bailout fund while private sectors will take a 50% loss on greek bonds. the european agreement translated into a huge day for u.s. stocks. lets go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. the closing bell just rang. how did stocks finish? we dont know the final number, but we know its very positive. >> it is. t...

It does not matter. this makes it official, we no more than you, stop bothering us about the transparency thing. >> dagen. >> the promise of transparency was absolute fiction, call it a lie if you want. this closes the doors on an agency that repeatedly has fallen down on the job and we, the american taxpayer fund that puppy and it bares worth repeating of those 31 people who were busted, some making six figures, for looking at porn at work. one of them looking at porn at the sec, eight hours a ...

You a hard time? you have been here two terms already. as you said this transparency thing im sure a lot of people will appreciate -- >> you are not a novice at this. you know when you run during the midterm of a new administration it doesnt matter who it is, it is just a bad time to run. i did it in 94. i was a tough time this time it is more difficult. >> greta: why? >> you got a lot of noise. even in 2004 when i ran you didnt have blackberries. you didnt have youtube, facebook, e-mails, twitt...

>> greta: why are they giving you a hard time? you have been here two terms already. as you said this transparency thing im sure a lot of people will appreciate -- >> you are not a novice at this. you know when you run during the midterm of a new administration it doesnt matter who it is, it is just a bad time to run. i did it in 94. i was a tough time this time it is more difficult. >> greta: why? >> you got a lot of noise. even in 2004 when i ran you didnt have blackberries. you didnt have you...

Come from? >> the reality is we have to figure out how to reduce spending in the country and how to get the economy moving again to bring revenues in. >> the problem is weve got this debt that has gone up $2 trillion in the last year so the cupboard is bear. >> the reality is weve got an administration under bush and cheney that gave us -- >> hey. i think the statute of limitations is running low on that. >> started out as a transparency thing. think about the transparency problems in the admini...

Would have so many of these sorts of people that it represented the gitmo detainees or johnny walker lynn in position to decide what the detainee policy. dawn johnson will be office of legal policy at the department of justice. she doesnt believe in torture. she doesnt believe in counterterrorism. >> i think what well stick in the craw of most americans, republicans or democrats, is not that it goes on because they suspect, the republican-democrat administration this goes on. what is galling is ...