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>> he's creative in terms of how he puts together his pension. senator john cornyn of texas apparently been collecting three pensions. >> not one, not two. >> but three. >> on top of his salary according to the national journal, the number two ranking senate republican collected $65,000 in pension benefits in addition to his $174,000 senate salary in 2012. according to a national journal amended financial disclosures revealed the pensions date back to when he served in the texas judicial system and when he was the state's attorney general. >> so nothing illegal about that, right? >> in texas w...

>> internet giants facebook and microsoft now say they received thousands of requests from u.s. government agencies to turn over user data in the last six months of 2012. according to facebook's general counsel, the social network giant received in that time up to 10,000 requests to disclose information on everything from missing children investigations to fugitive tracking and terrorist threats. microsoft said it received between 6,000 and 7,000 warrants and subpoenas impacting around 32,000 accounts. both facebook and microsoft say they are now pushing the government to try to let them revea...

It sounds like really overwhelmed civil servants, highlights, in 2010 according to npr, this applications for 501(c)4 tax status came into the office, that number nearly doubles by 2012. according to the irs inspector general's report one person was given the task of sifting through the applications deemed politically sensitive. it sounds like a mess. >> sure, and it shows why tra e transparency is jgenerally a god thing for the executive branch. as soon as they exposed the emails around benghazi, they said oh, never mind then, it's a bunch of people squabbling over talking points. everybody w...

Four americans in the attack on benghazi on september 11th, 2012. according to fox news, this cover-up is literally the biggest scandal since watergate. >> watergate, nixon lied, but nobody died. and benghazi, four dead, white house went to bed. >> will it become like the watergate thing, a huge story. >> it's the same thing that happened with watergate. >> i still believe that if this is just about a little old video, then watergate was just about a little old flashlight and some duck tape and a bungled burglary of the democratic headquarters. >> by the way, in that case, nobody died in water...

The pounding was going to be sequestration. what was the big penalty? it's not so big after all. take the chart please, show you what it is. spending is still going to increase. here is spending. the green area is spending. it continues to increase. the actual sequestration is a fine little skinny little red line that goes up along and guess what? it has almost zero impact on spending. spending is going to increase in 2012. according to the budget, $2 $2.54 trillion in '13. $3.7 trillion. it goes up. it will be $4.4 trillion in outlays. sequestration will not turn spending in the other directi...