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Planned parenthood, wilderness society, defenders of wilderness, on and on, they never criticized them. and in;ñññr fact, one thieves gs $1 of -- one of these groups was formed by an aid to durbin. i never heard him complain about that. >> greta: thank you, karl. we got to go. tonight's hot button issue, was senator dick durbin doing his job when he wb american crossroads@6 or tryingo silence them and karl rove? go toç gretawire.com and vote n our poll. and lawmakers telling attorney general eric holder it's time to go. one of them is here next. that means your smartphone, her blackberry,...

In fact, the thing that is also worth reviewing here is there are serious issues behind each of these questions. it's just not what anybody's talking about. there's no doubt that benghazi was a great tragedy and a tragic series of missteps and errors that led up to it in terms of the safety of those people. nobody ever you dismissed that. in fact, the state department, the review board issued a scathing report on this. and so the question is what can we do? are we going to devote more resources to protecting the embassies on the irs. are we going to examine not just what happened and why, but ...

They don't think there's any link between this young man and terrorism, but the investigation goes on. bill: irs taking heat from both sides of the aisle after admitting to targeting conservative groups. meanwhile, this scandal touching off concerns over what this means for implementing obamacare. the irs has a major hand in this. doug mckelway's live in washington. some senate democrats seemed to change their tune quickly after this story broke last week, doug. >> reporter: that's right, bill. you know, the chairman of the senate finance committee, max baucus, was one of the first be members ...

We had somebody on yesterday told me they were -- it was somebody on the right yesterday was here. and she was pointing out that they were held to a standard. they could not get involved in elections. they couldn't put the name of candidates on their ballot, on materials they send out. there is some disciplining going on among these groups. you and i know it's a vague difference between saying you're a policy organization and you hate obama care, but they were told they couldn't say the word "obama care" as they get closer to the election. so somebody's at least policing this correctly. if you...

Of political advertising in a campaign season. corporations aren't just exxon mobil and so, there are a bunch of people that incorporate as 501 c4s, social welfare organizations, but are going to be getting a lot of adds in and don't have to disclose their donors. the question is, well, these things that say they're 501c4s, the irs has to stay what is the standard, what do you learn about what the irs is supposed to do when faced with this genuinely difficult question. these people say they're going to be a social welfare organization. which side of the line do they fall on? >> here's the main...