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Fellow citizens. >> reporter: here in nashville, the president's promoting a program that aims to align student education more closely with the jobs employers need to fill now, and tomorrow he'll ask some of the nation's biggest employers not to put people who have been out of work for six months or more at the back of the hiring line. it won't have the force of law, but aides say the commitment will help. bret? >> the president is speaking right over wendall's shoulder traveling with the president. thanks, wendall. the commerce department says the economy grew at a rate of 3.2% in the fourt...

Negotiate contracts and as wrong as what i think the president is doing, it is lawful. the congress gave, not him, that gave george bush that authority and now he's using it. >> last word, charles? >> the judge is right. you can have executive orders that implement already existing laws. what obama has done in the dream act, which is exactly what you've talked about. >> right. >> where essentially he passed a law by executive order that the congress had rejected, wouldn't pass, that is unbelievably unconstitutional. it's as if a republican ran and said i don't like the capital gains tax, congr...

Chief washington correspondent james rosen explains. >> reporter: no federal agency arouses as much fear and loathing in american taxpayers as the internal revenue service, but the latest annual report by nina olson, the national taxpayer advocate, depicts an irs struggling to get by, hobbled by the forced budget cuts known as sequestration. the agency couldn't answer 20 million of the roughly 100 million calls it received last year and extended its waiting times on hold to 18 minutes. even then, irs service reps will only answer basic questions, referring even marginally more complex ink rive...

Investigations. we want to make sure that what we do is comprehensive and that at the end of the day we get it right. >> reporter: in calling for the appointment of a special prultor to investigate the tea party cases, senator cruz cited such appointments under presidents nixon and clinton, but attorney general holder says he has faith, bret, in the career doj attorneys who had handling the matter. >> all right, james, thank you. what do you think of the troubles behind the irs, let me know at facebook.com or on twitter @bret baier and use the #specialreport. up next some trouble news about ...

Ours and then is unable to answer any questions beyond basic ones from baffled citizens who are doing their best to comply. the combination of more work and less funding, she says, predictably has impaired the irs' ability both to meet taxpayer needs and to improve tax complaints. >> and it's going to get worse as they have responsibility been forcing obamacare. they say they need additional employees for it. well there, isn't any federal agency that doesn't always start with that proposition we need more money. >> reporter: meantime, the department of justice investigation into allegations th...