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Appropriate for the irs to send such a misleading response back to this committee? >> id have to look at the whole response and, you know, if it came from ms. lerner, its very unlikely that, you know, i knew about it or reviewed it. >> well, i would say that were all outraged, but its not too early to start talking about what we can do to fix it. >> thats, essentially, the baseline starting point on this one, were all outraged. the question is not only about what can be done to fix it, but wheth...

Very different circumstances. today on the eve of what is expected to be a major policy address by the president on those issues, the obama administration released this letter. the attorney general writing this letter, owning up for the first time to american citizens being among those who u.s. counterterrorism efforts have killed abroad. whyd they do that today? how important is it, whats going to happen in this speech tomorrow? joining us now to help us understand some of this stuff, what to l...

Remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the american people and to the world. >> same man, same ideas, very different times. very different circumstances. today on the eve of what is expected to be a major policy address by the president on those issues, the obama administration released this letter. the attorney general writing this letter, owning up for the first time to american citizens being among those who u.s. c...

Years of war, disabilities that are complicated to diagnose, lots of types of claims from older veterans that have not been accepted before, too much of the recordkeeping being done on paper, theres lots of reasons. one of the big reasons is the fact your records when youre active duty in the defense department are kept under a totally different, incompatible system from your records when you are in the v.a., once youre a veteran and when you are out. today, that particular problem changed, mayb...

Next thing you know, theyll have a standing army and bombs to take out whole cities and stuff. republicans in the house and senate followed up the ammo thing with an actual bill, an actual piece of legislation thats supposed to prevent the government from buying too many bullets. yes, this is the same federal government that already stock piles abrams tanks and armed drones and giant inter continental missiles that carry weapons, all that, yes, but excess bullets that republicans decide is the w...

Like i said, a few feet away from me, they are continuing to investigate this apartment where this happened. >> i know that in these cases sometimes looking into the motive feels beside the point, especially when the suspects are dead, but, obviously, one of the big questions about this murder is whether it was a crime as we usually understand it, or whether there might have been any sort of political or extremist motivation for those murders. do we have any further clarity about whether any sor...

Investigate this apartment where this happened. >> i know that in these cases sometimes looking into the motive feels beside the point, especially when the suspects are dead, but, obviously, one of the big questions about this murder in waltham is whether it was a crime or as we usually understand it, or whether there might have been some any sort of political or extremist motivation for those murders? do we have any further clarity about whether any sort of motive was going to be part of that c...

>> well, i would say, i would say rachel, its that we are united for once the democrats and the republicans in the outrage and we are united in the incompetence. they had people who were appointed by republicans and by democrats that participate d in this really misjudgment, incompetence, screwup, whatever you want to call it, so what we did learn is that the irs had their own investigation that they did not inform the white house or congress about. we learned that there was no outside influence...

On paper, theres lots of reasons. one of the big reasons is the fact your records when youre active duty in the defense department are kept under a totally different, incompatible system from your records when you are in the v.a., once youre a veteran and when you are out. today, that particular problem changed, maybe. today the defense secretary chuck hagel announced that the pentagon is going to get a whole new huge system for its computerized medical records. that is in part because of the ho...

Been accepted before, but now they will be accepted. too much recordkeeping being done on paper -- theres lots of reasons. one of the big reasons is the fact your records when youre active duty in the defense department are kept under a totally different, incompatible system from your records when you are in the v.a., once youre a veteran and when you are out. today, that particular problem changed, maybe. today the defense secretary chuck hagel announced that the pentagon is going to get a whol...