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I think when the story initially broke, the president went under cover and finally came out last friday trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing, forming a website, for instance, an outside group. and the problem fundamentally is he's failed to explain these programs which are lawful, which have saved lives, which have stopped terrorist plots. he has not adequately explained them or defended them. and now he's in a bit of a mess, and i'll it will you why. because on the heels of the irs scandal, where people don't trust this government, this administration with the...

It took an ig report for them to fess up to it. but interestingly enough a left wringing was given information by the irs. an outside group given information on conservative groups by the irs. an outside group that was sympathetic to what the administration wanted to do could get information on their ideological opponents out of this agency which is supposed to be completely nonpolitical. they've tried who similar stints at acc, at the acc at the fcc. if you disagree with the administration they need to shut you up. >> chief political correspondent byron york, good morning to you. >> good morn...

Response back. essentially, the argument is that the people donating money, they are going to -- they will have voluntary -- you will know who they are. they have to report and there will be a small army of -- small donors also contributing but, tamr tamron, a big contradiction is this is something president obama said he wanted to get rid of. you go back to president clinton, george w. bush, they gave access but president obama promised to be different and this is something that his campaign rhetoric doesn't match up with this particular outside group. >> all right. mark murray, thank you ver...

Business as usual. any outside group on any issue that sees there to be an opportunity to use that issue to get lever and for their own issue, and they don't like eric holder will. so this is business as usual. but the challenge for each of us in congress is to try to stay focused on what's really at stake. there's a very important congressional principle here of oversight. this is where my view is i wish mr. issa would have worked with committee democrats because we support an investigation and support congressional access to documents but we want a complete investigation and have it beyond t...

Language. >> this sounds like "lord of the lord" theme. concorde dance of the music with the tone that the producers are trying to get across is skillfully done. that is common, again, whether the ads are pro-administration or antiadministration. >> welcome to the radically altered landscape of political messaging in 2012 when slickly produced spots are less and less likely the handiwork of top tier candidates or the democrat a republican national committees. >> we look back to 2002 or 2000. candidates air half the ads. parties would be pairing 30 to 40% of the ad. groups would be airing 10 to...