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First-ever offensive combat troop brigade. they're heading to the congo as the region faces the deadliest fighting it's seen in some time, and it's certainly seen a lot of fighting over the years. now the united nations is expanding its role. you might recognize the peace force with the blue hats, boosting it with another force, a force of soldiers that have an official mandate to act as combatants. your tax dollars fund a huge portion of the u.n. in fact, we account for nearly a quarter of the u.n.'s $5.5 billion yearly budget. so what precedent does this set as to how our money's being used?...

>> reporter: hi, everybody, rick folbaum in the "happening now" control room, and brand new stories coming your way including new testimony up on the hill shedding some light on what went down at the irs when political groups applied for tax-exempt status. were conservative groups unfairly targeted? we are live on the hill. also, reaction to president obama's comments within the last hour on his signature health care law, karl rove and senator john barrasso join us. and the continuing saga of san diego's mayor with charges of sexual harassment. the mayor is under fire. he's in hiding. we'l...

Jenna: new next hour, shocking claims of sexual harrassment putting pressure on the mayor of san diego to step down. how he is now responding. plus the yemen-based branch al qaeda announcing their number two man was dead. how he was killed. how this fits into a broader conversation about gitmo and surveillance and everything else. is the accused killer of women and children getting rock star treatment? the fallout after "rolling stone" magazine put boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev on its cover. we'll take a closer look at that choice and everything else involved. >> well they can r...

Implementation is because it's going so badly and they don't want democrats to get hurt at the ballot box. >> yeah. that's right. i talked to a couple of republicans months ago and they privately predicted that there would be some type of delay until after the elections and, you know, if that proved to be accurate, because they don't want obama care to hurt the economy and to hurt jobs and that was the threat that businesses came to the white house and said, listen. we're going to have to make our full time employees part time. it's going to be a problem and that obviously could be a fiasco in...

Others. we'll continue to watch the story out of yemen and al qaeda. k.t., thank you as always. jon: k.t. just mentioned the dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother and there's new fallout after rolling stone magazine gives the surviving suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, the rock star treatment. rick has that. >> usually you have to have a new album or a new movie coming out in order to get yourself on the cover of rolling stone. apparently the magazine's editorial policies have changed. the selection of the august cover boy, dzhokhar tsarnaev, has generated thousands of negative comments on the facebook ...