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Attacks in benghazi and the talking points or revelations about conduct at the irs, attempts to turn this into a scandal have failed. >> reporter: at least one survivor of benghazi has aired his story to congress, fox news has learned. a cia operator on the ground that night met privately with staff members of the house intelligence committee in december and again with lawmakers themselves in may, and we understand, chris, that transcripts were prepared. >> more on all of this with the panel, james, thank you. the lawyer for nsa leaker edward snowden says his client is in a safe place in rus...

Comparison, but it still got pretty heated. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel shows us what happened. >> i think they're important facts to get out. >> yes, they're important facts to get out and you're obstructing them. >> reporter: confrontation on capitol hill as darrell issa blasted acting irs commissioner daniel werfel over his response to congress. >> you delivered less than 1%, excuse me, for standing, i kind of have to get over your stack. you delivered less than 1% of the documents to the ways and means committee. you're not delivering to -- >> i disagree with that conclu...

>> reporter: he issued subpoenas to jack lew to compel the irs to turn over all communications from key irs figures from january 2009 until now. all communications between the irs and the white house from february, 2010 until now. republican congressman jim jordan went after werfel for the e-mails of the irs official now on paid administrative leave who refused to testify before lawmakers after declaring her innocence. >> every single e-mail of lois lerner's we asked for, you said -- >> i know we provided hundreds of her e-mails. again, this is a process. >> no, no, no, no. it is pretty simple...

1%, excuse me for standing because i kind have have to get over your stack. you've delivered less than 1% of the documents to the ways and means committee. >> i disfree with that conclusion. >> i issued subpoenas to treasury secretary jack lew to compel the irs to turn over all communications from key irs figures from january 2009 to now and communications from the irs to the white house from february 2010 until now. after the fireworks, werfel defended his team. >> the notion we're impeding or instructing is completely false. in fact, the opposite is true. we are involved in a thorough compre...