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Is actually actively trying to destroy all of its own capabilities to store data. we saw the irs cancel during the conservative targeting its contract with its e-mail or diving company. we saw the irs refuse to look at the six months of backed up e-mails that were on a disc from lois lerner after her computer crashed as the irs commissioner said. nobody at the irs looked at those discs, so we now have three examples of the irs actively either destroying evidence or willfully trying to retire or sweep under the rug storage, data storage devices. >> unbelievable story, patrick, thank you tonight...

Jackie is this essentially the end of all legislating during president obama's term as president? is that what this essentially means? >> well, i think we've been in this absolute lull for pretty much most of president obama's second term so far. once it became clear last year that on the bipartisan passage of an immigration bill by the senate that the house, it's now been a year, has not taken it up. the newtown massacres at the opening of president obama's second term. and the gun safety legislation ended up going nowhere. died in the senate. those were the two big initiatives. and there's j...

>> let's talk about another legal issue, and that is the one of congressional notification. when the president signed the defense authorization act last year, it contained a provision that the administration must notify congress not later than 30 days before the transfer or release of a prisoner from guantanamo. question, did the president break the law, or was that requirement an unconstitutional infringement on his executive powers? >> yes to both. he broke the law, but i believe that the law itself is unconstitutional. article two makes him the commander in chief of the armed forces. this m...

View and should view desertion. >> let's talk about another legal issue, and that is the one of congressional notification. when the president signed the defense authorization act last year, it contained a provision that the administration must notify congress not later than 30 days before the transfer or release of a prisoner from guantanamo. question, did the president break the law, or was that requirement an unconstitutional infringement on his executive powers? >> yes to both. he broke the law, but i believe that the law itself is unconstitutional. article two makes him the commander in c...

Legal issue and that is the one of congressional notification. when the president signed the defense authorization act last year, it contained a provision that the administration must notify congress not later than 30 days before the transfer or release of a prisoner in guantanamo. question, did the president break the law or was that requirement an unconstitutional infringement on his executive powers? >> well, yes to both. he broke the law, but i believe that the law itself is unconstitutional. article ii make him the commander in chief of the armed forces. this man -- these people were in t...