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Public, either from ambassador rice, or to others, that it turned out not to be accurate. and so the white house is going to have to kind of walk us through that. >> yeah, you mentioned the 12 iterations of the talking points and ultimately we all saw susan rice making her rounds on sunday morning in her talking points based upon that 12 iteration as you mentioned that that was scrubbed. as we, again, wait for -- here he is. jay carney, stepping up to the podium. let's take it live. >> good friday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for being here. i appreciate your patience. before i t...

Today. we are expecting jay carney, the white house spokesperson, to field new questions about this benghazi investigation. but add another headache into the mix here, because the irs apparently targeted the tea party. erin mcpike joins me now from washington. and, erin, the irs and the tea party, what do you know? >> well, brooke, the irs admitted today that it did make mistakes when handling applications from the slew of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. and so immediately republicans on capitol hill today began calling for an investigation. the problem was that over the last fe...

We'll wait for the questions to be thrown at jay corn carney a how he responds to questions of benghazi and the irs and the tea party. erin mcpike, keep us posted. thank you so much. and another breaking story this hour. busy news day on this friday. major development in that devastating fire and explosion at that fertilizer plant in the town of west, texas. cnn has now learned that texas rangers have opened a criminal investigation into this blast. it is not quite known what prompted the move. but in another -- but so far on a related development, a first responder on that very explosion wa...

What they said about the vote three months ago. they weren't calling it a mistake then. we have sound from jay carney about this issue of the debt ceiling moving forward. >> we do not need to play chicken with our economy by linking the raising of the debt ceiling to anything. we should do that right away. >> reporter: now, andrea, here is what was missing throughout the entire briefing, i walked out, a bunch of us questioned him on this, there was no specific veto threat. jay carney said the white house wants a clean bill on this idea of raising the debt ceiling. we heard house republican lea...

Yesterday on "meet the press." but it is unclear how much detail is it going to be. is it go to be a philosophical speech about outlining his principles, which is sort of a little bit of the history of the president when it comes to these big issue speeches, or will it have some detail in it? i think that's still -- that's still an unknown. >> and, on the debt ceiling, you're the guru for the nbc news "wall street journal" poll. we know the incredible numbers, 62% opposing. >> reporter: after the explanation. >> right, after the explanation. not a very good explanation, i guess. but, you know,...