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>> no, ma'am. >> is it fake? is it fictional writing? >> no. >> did you work for the cia? >> we're not going to get into that. >> in these pages he said he spent his summer weekends in those woods learning how to handle plastic explosives, hand grenades and something even more chilling. so i'll do the talking part and you can answer what part of it you want. you write how you fired rifles, submachine guns, handled assault weapons, grenade launchers, c-4, learned unarmed combat techniques through this training group over weekends. is it true or is it false? >> we're not going to comment on that...

>> absolutely, for interesting reason, it's the 051-c-4 category, the social welfare group category, where most conservative organizations have swelled into in the past couple of years, and it's what democrats are most concerned about in terms of elections. so they're focusing all their efforts on that category, because they know it will do the most damage to president obama's political opponent. >> dan, what's the larger political context here for these new irs rules? you would think there would be some political cost here for the administration to do this, given the uproar in the spring and ...

That says, a, this is allowed, b, this isn't. what about that? >> one of the reasons that these rules are a bit ambiguous is because who is to say what is social welfare, paul? a lot of these tea party groups, for instance, were set up because they wanted to educate americans about the problems of big debt. okay. is that not social welfare? really, is it for the irs to claim that it's not? another aspect of of this is these rules were designed only to apply to groups acting as social welfare. if you're a 501 c-3 like this a charitable group or more importantly a 501-c-5 which is a union ur sti...

If you thought irs targeting was a thing of the past, think again. we learned this summer that the agency singled out tea party groups applying for tax exempt status for extra scrutiny. now it looks like they are at it again. attempting to further restrict the political speech of conservatives with new regulations. kim straussal has details. so, kim, you wrote in your column this week about these new irs regulations which they've issued which will focus on so-called 501-c-4 nonprofit groups, that are supposed to be allowed to participate in politics as long as it's not more than 50% of what th...

This guy -- and that's not just my opinion. that's the opinion of every governor and mayor that works with him, including republicans. nobody knows who this guy is. and if, in fact, we go in after sandy or after the tornados in oklahoma or missouri and we're helping a lot of people effectively and quickly and they're getting what they need, nobody hears about that. that's not something that's reported about. if on the other hand, you've got an office in cincinnati in the irs office that i think, forebureaucratic reasons, is trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret about whethe...