he s damaged goods. not sure why he would want to keep limping along. but if he refuses to if he needs to be fired. earlier this month president obama offered his complete support. that hasn t changed. does he still have confidence in this attorney general? absolutely he does, yes. jim acosta reporting. the question, can eric holder survive this? a lot of people believe the attorney general should have been fired a long time ago. so does jonathan turley, you heard him in that story and dare say, are you a liberal. well, you know, it s not the first time civil libertarians found strange bedfellows in cocoon to versies this is not the first such complaint against eric hold every, he has led a justice department that has rolled back on a number of civil liberties, but did cross the rubicon here. it s difficult to overstate how dangerous this type of investigation is to our system.
is. breaking developments tonight regarding the irs s enemy s list. we are learning the agency s targeting of conservative groups is much more widespread than the initial report suggested. were officials washington also involved? let not your heart be troubled. there he is attorney general eric hold has announced his justice department, they plan to investigate. how comforting. i have ordered an investigation to be gun. the fbi is coordinating with the justice department to see if any laws were broken in connection with those matters related to the irs. the least trustworthy person in washington d.c. is going to oversee this critical inquiry? this is the guy who has repeatedly failed you, the american people, with fast and furious, guantanamo bay, the 9/11 co-conspirator trials, remember the black opinion they are voter intimidation case and the list goes on. he has zero credibility so why should he be trusted with this investigation?
is. breaking developments tonight regarding the irs s enemy s list. we are learning the agency s targeting of conservative groups is much more widespread than the initial report suggested. were officials washington also involved? let not your heart be troubled. there he is attorney general eric hold has announced his justice department, they plan to investigate. how comforting. i have ordered an investigation to be gun. the fbi is coordinating with the justice department to see if any laws were broken in connection with those matters related to the irs. the least trustworthy person in washington d.c. is going to oversee this critical inquiry? this is the guy who has repeatedly failed you, the american people, with fast and furious, guantanamo bay, the 9/11 co-conspirator trials, remember the black opinion they are voter intimidation case and the list goes on. he has zero credibility so why should he be trusted with this investigation?
public that everything is being done to answer these questions and to give the public some of those answers that he can share. reporter: he s been meeting over the last several minutes, about an hour now, with bob mueller, as well as attorney general eric hold. later on he s meeting with antiterrorism people. last night president obama did not use the t word, didn t say terror or terrorism though the white house staff made crystal clear they believe it was an act of terror. sure, the white house staff did. i think there s a distinction here that i think the president was trying to get across, which is, when the word comes from his mouth some people might presume that the country was under a so-called terror attack. i don t think that was the message the president was trying to send. what the president was trying to do was be a little more circumspe circumspect.
thank you very much, victor. we appreciate you taking the time tonight. and now to a story we ve been outfront on, the mysterious hanging death of 31-year-old yelled shane todd. he is from montana. but he was found dead in his apartment in singapore. the fbi is now investigating the case. secretary of state john kerry and attorney general eric hold rer asking questions of the singapore government. singapore police say todd committed suicide. todd s parents say it was murder. now shane todd was found dead in his apartment in june just hours after his last day working for a prestigious government research firm. but did his work make him a target? reporter: shane todd, 31 years old, had a phd in electrical engineering and by all accounts a very bright future. he was working for the institute of micro electronics or ime, a prominent singapore research facility. his project involved creating faster, more powerful semiconductors. his parents say that in his last