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Ought take a look. >> neil: providing the venue. >> he was basically suggesting that there could possibly be illegal acts on the tax side, and people saying they're forming this 501c4 but really were in politics and not for profit. he was making all of these suggestions. everything, and watch this. this is a way this thing plays out. when the heat really gets hot and they realize this is a more serious story -- because a lot of the mediab,qwzü"5jr]c okay, fine. they don't like the middle the tea party groups and patriot groups and rich conservatives. rich liberals are okay but not rich conse...

To life, and even those media groups critical of the tea party are saying, we might not always agree but at it like a public image comeback. >> it's a boon and a lot of it has to do with the fact the president did us a favor by attacking the ap a week before our story hit so they were more than primed to talk about it. but it's definitely brought us back to life and gotten more new people to start looking. if anything that unidentifies citizens it's seeing the irs emblem in their mail box and those who had to go through that understand this can be a little troubling. >> neil: what did you go t...

>> megyn: in the meantime, the president's 501c4 was approved in 30 days. how does that happen? they get expedited approval and the conservatives wait three years. >> and the president's brother, the president's half brother who we never heard of until we found out that he had been approved in less than 30 days by the irs, this was a systematic harassment of opponents of president obama, and he's the beneficiary. we need a special prosecutor. >> we'll see as we continue this saga of the women at the irs. leslie, chris, thank you. >> thanks. >> it's not as catchy as the young and the restless...

Party groups that are clearly political in nature and are not, quote-unquote, public service organizations deserve this special tax-exempt status from the u.s.? jon: alan, what about the president's half brother opened that 501c4 organization, the barack h. obama foundation. does that deserve tax-free status? >> i don't think any of them do. i'm not defending targeting conservative groups. i think it is appalling, but let's be fair and balanced and point out that a small percentage of those groups were tea party groups, some of them were liberal groups and many nonpartisan groups targeted as w...

Social welfare rather than in engaging in politics. >> a second scandal. hundreds of millions is used in c4s that is supposed to be used as nonprofit for political purposes. neven with the a grejous actions acknowledged by the irs, that is a problem with 501c4's engaged in politics. >> what planet do you have to be from to know that tea party is not used for promotion of the social welfare. that is low dobs. if any good come out of this irs targeting of the conservative groups, that it will be a greater crack down on those groups. >> it would be great to come out of this is a public spafrnging...