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Complete confidence in eric holder, dismissing calls for his resignation. and the president addressed fallout from if targeting of conservative groups. a second irs official is stepping down. he follows the agency's acting commissioner who announced his resignation earlier this week. a white house budget official will take over at the irs. the irs staffer in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time the tea party group was targeted is now part of the irs office that handles health care legislation. speaking of that, obama care was under fire again yesterday. the 38th time a vote w...

He could use more than an umbrella. >> my concern is making sure there is a problem in the government that we fix it. >> reporter: the problem? too many problems. most immediate. the irs targeting of conservative groups. in the years before the election more liberal groups were being approved while conservative groups like patriot, constitution and tea party were stymied. in 2011, not a single tea party group was approved. >> i am angry about it. >> reporter: plenty for the president to be angry about. an uncooperative his own justice department seizing phone records of journalists. the tea pa...

There was an interagency process that was being hon choed at the white house representing the intelligence community, state, the national security council, all contributing to these talking points and as we know from the newer e-mails david petraeus was questioning what the utility of the talking points were in the end if you were going to have all these points taken out. there's interagency fighting going on between the state department and the cia, and so there were clearly edits made. i think the argument that the white house is making is, what does it actually amount to, which may be a sep...

What doesn't make me suspicious by weary and peggy noonan points this out very well, everybody is saying eric holder is saying -- i didn't know this was going on. i didn't know this was going on. i recuse myself. i didn't know. we're hearing from the white house. i didn't know. the irs told us last week, we didn't know. it ended up not being true. the top people at the irs did know. i can't believe that eric holder didn't know. i can't believe that the president didn't know, that all of these things were going on. if i'm president of the united states and there's a leak out there, i'm going to...

What's in this thing. >> let me clear it up. it's the law. upheld by the supreme court. let's start there. it is the law and appears it will remain there. one of the things that i wanted to say in what you opened with, joe, i think the republicans have already gone too far. >> think they've already overreached? >> i'm going to tell you why. they're changing the premise to try to change the conclusion. they started these scandals by saying, the white house orchestrated benghazi. >> right. >> now we see where susan rice totally has not been seemed to be involved in spinning this for any politica...