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Yesterday i directed secretary lew to follow up on the audit and find out who was responsible and to make sure that we understand all the facts. today secretary lew took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting commissioner of the irs. because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it's important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward. second, we're going to put in place new safeguards to make sure this kind of behavior cannot happen again. and i've directed secretary lew to ensure the irs begins implementing the ig's r...

He there with limited security? and then why didn't the u.s. military, special operations forces, do more once the attack started to try to save those americans? >> and those were the questions asked at the congressional hearing particularly by mr. hicks. >> one other point to make about this talking points that were released and the e-mails surrounding them is everybody is talking now about the deputies meeting, the meeting that took place at the white house the saturday morning after the attack but before susan rice went on the sunday shows the next morning. the deputies meeting. what i've b...

When congressman darrell issa of california pointed out that united states attorney for the district of columbia ronald machum one of the officials put in charge of investigating the leak to the associated press was the same administration appointee who refused to prosecute holder in court after congress held him in contempt less than a year ago. >> can he be considered to be independent when in fact when this congress held you in contempt he was the individual who refused on your orders to prosecute the case? >> i did not order him not to do anything with regard to, i won't characterize it, t...

These documents, victoria nuland who was the spokesman, spokeswoman for the state department, she was very concerned about the reputation understandably so of the state department. >> well, that's one of the issues gloria just touched on was the fact that there was a huge cia presence in benghazi. and when they evacuated 30 individuals out the morning after, more than 20 of them were from the cia and the state department thought that this, especially the cia annex, that it was unfair they were wearing a state department jacket. the official idea was this was a state department out post and now...

To release it i can release it because it's not classified. okay? and these are -- lots of these e-mails have to get declassified. and i think the white house is doing it now because they're in damage control mode obviously. and they believe that these e-mails make their case that what was going on was not political. it was just about being consistent and figuring out a way to be on the same page and figuring out a way to give people information that they thought to be the most accurate at that particular point in time. of course, the only thing that survived was something that was inaccurate....