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Narrative." immediately, this irs, you know, stories of irs agents carrying around ar-15s, knocking on small business people's door. again, from the most powerful republicans in the senate and the house of representatives, started making its way around. of course, threats now going up. it's a lie. it's another conspiracy theory. but this party, my god, it's -- and, by the way, i'm hearing it from -- i can't -- i wish i could -- >> no. >> well, i have used the word here before. i'm hearing it from idiots who i have known my entire life. going, "yeah, what about the irs coming to small business ...

From poll workers to capitol police officers to fbi agents, the modern day republican party has seemingly left no stone unturned in recent years when it comes to unleashing violent rhetoric against public servants. now, there's a new target of the party's attacks, irs employees. in recent weeks, a baseless conspiracy theory propagated by top gop leaders has spread to all levels of the republican party. it's a lie. responding to the new funding for the irs and the recently passed inflation reduction act, republicans have united around a lie that 87,000 armed irs agents will soon come breaking d...

Again, i just got to say this, ben, this doesn't happen just online, contained online with some crack pots. i've got mainstream americans, two in the same day, talking about civil war and revolution and overthrowing the u.s. government because irs agents are coming to their house with ar-15s. i mean, this is the stakes. this is -- by the way, nobody else is spreading this. the republican party is spreading this right now. they're putting, not only federal employees at risk, but you look at the pictures of oklahoma city and see who else died in that blast. that's what is at stake here. by the w...

You have kevin mccarthy talking about a, quote, army, an army of 87,000 irs agents going to get you. you have fox news personalities -- let me get this quote right -- fox news personalities saying, "the irs is coming, quote, to hunt down and kill middle-class taxpayers." let me say that again, i wonder -- by the way, well, i won't get into the lies that are said about me. >> yeah. >> i wonder and mika wonders why so many people we've known our entire life come up with these crazy conspiracy theories. all they have to do is read rupert murdoch's "wall street journal" or the "associated press" o...

In relatively professional settings, where this stuff was not allowed previously, it's taking over that part of the party. a large part of the gop right now is absolutely convinced that there is some sort of fascist takeover of the united states. they're getting convinced of this because, in a lot of ways, their basic ideas are losing. they're resorting to threats and intimidation. that is an enormous problem for them. by the way, when you talk about the gun part of this, the thing they always bring around, there are, like you said, parts of the irs that are supposed to be part of the job desc...