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Should he stay or should he go. you have a legal background as well. do you believe the american public is at risk with this man, eric holder, the top legal officer in your country? >> i cant say its at risk. i really do believe the attorney generals credibility is at risk. i think the public is skeptical of the way hes run his shop. the statement he made and his actions are not reconcilable, so i think that would be a good place to start, come back to the congress, attorney general holder, expl...

As late as last week the administration is still trying to say there are a few rogue agents in cincinnati, when in fact the craigs is they were directly being ordered from washington. jon: karl rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, also a fox news contributor. and he joins us now. you have suggested that essentially the tone was set in washington for this i.r.s. scandal. darrell issa seems to go a little farther than you do. what do you think abou...

Look, we know that its just not rogue agents in cincinnati. weve known for a couple of weeks that some of these groups were contacted by i.r.s. agents in laguna niguel, california and another california office, baltimore, maryland and washington d.c. one of these letters is signed by lois lerner herself. the idea that this was a few rogue people at the bottom of the food chain in cincinnati has been, you know, disproved for weeks now, and its amazing that the white house continues to say this. d...

Its already charred 46 square miles of land and destroying several homes. live with the latest on where its heading now. also, rangers in yosemite are searching for a teenager they believe was swept over a 600-foot waterfall. the latest on that. and fighting hacking with hacking. were going to take you through a computer training session where teens are learning how to protect valuable data. jon: well, lots of finger pointing in the growing irs profiling scandal as investigators try to determine...

Deciding are you overly political, or do you really count as a social welfare organization? if you are a democrat surrounded by a bunch of democrats, no matter how well intentioned you are, youre going to be more skeptical of a tea party group. are these guys really pursuing social welfare? its going to not occur to you that, well, yes, they are trying to pursue social welfare. so my problem is these people are in charge of policing political speech when they are democrats surrounded by democrat...

Explanation as to why you think that happens. >> well, yes. so some of the other irs workers who e-mailed me said of course were going to support democrats. democrats support civil servants. democrats support public employee unions. and another one said why would i support the party of grover norquist who wants to shrink the government down to the size where it could drown in a bathtub? these are government employees who belong to a union. they are naturally going to be aligned with democrats, a...

Expensive conferences, likes to have those free baseball tickets and presidential suites and doesnt necessarily want to see smaller government and accountability? >> reporter: i dont know if its too much of a stretch or not. well get the full ig report on the spending of the i.r.s. tomorrow and that will list everything. what weve learned already is pretty damaging. as you remember about the gsa scandal, when you had that guy in the tub with the sangria, the image does a lot, and these videos on...

Its a bit of dash ash lets not say a sideshow but a different element to the big question, and that is how far does the -- does the chain go as far as who directed these i.r.s. agents to target those tea party and conservative groups. i mean, that is the big thing that the house oversight and government reform committee will be looking at. but this financial element, i mean $50 million on 220 conferences, you have i.r.s. agents, directors staying in presidential suites for $3,500 a night, and th...

If it can happen to republicans when democrats are in power then it can happen to democrats when republicans are in power. if we get to that point then we are no longer the united states of america he we are a third world country run by generals in mirrored sunglasses. jon: a little bit later in the hour well be talking with a columnist from the washington times who did an investigation of political combinations. tim carney. >> rivets i can work. unbelievably good work. jon: found in the 2012 el...

We are live on capitol hill. lawmakers are about to hear from the new acting i.r.s. commissioner amid questions about big spending by the tax agency, including $50 million it shelled out for employee conferences. some of that money going for videos like this one featuring i.r.s. workers line dancing. and then there is this one, a parity of the star trek tv show. the videos paid for by your tax dollars and recorded at i.r.s. offices, all this on the heels of the political profiling scandal where ...