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Just because it's so big. >> right. it becomes this government doesn't work and then how does that affect immigration reform? >> right. >> we're putting a lot more effort into dhs, making it a bigger department, to try to have the ability to secure the border. you know, so this is -- this is why if you're the white house, you've got to be on top of this irs thing from here on out in this respect -- you can't have any more -- we're all digging, right? media is digging, house republicans are digging, frankly senate democrats are going to be digging, everybody is going to be picking at the irs an...

>> the irs thing is so basic, hold on -- >> it's not the president. >> i understand. >> however, it is a government agency that used political filters to target groups. >> but who used them? >> i understand. >> but it resonates. >> you aren't asking the same questions we're asking. i'm not saying, reverend, i'm not saying donny, that barack obama is going to be run out of office. he may even leave office with a 60% approval rating. i don't know, chuck todd, but i know this, it's going to be harder for the president of the united states to talk about a strong progressive government getting thin...

Hypothetically, say, joe, they made you treasury secretary. >> oh, good god. >> unlikely. >> frightening. >> there's a chance. >> okay. maybe. let's see. but just -- you go in to the job the first months like jack lew, who's -- who is somebody who served in the government at all kinds of levels, budget director, white house chief of staff for president obama, worked for tip o'neill back in the '80s, knows government. you get that job and you're going to have all kinds of policy discussions with the people in the treasury department, the irs which reports to the treasury secretary, and you're a...

You want to call them breaking, he's learning about them when he reads the morning newspapers. a lot of people just don't buy it. he's back on his heels still. there's obviously, matt, an irs hearing today. >> right. >> up on capitol hill. we'll see how that goes. and breaking news last night, that the person that was in charge of the tax exempt area in the irs, is now running obama care, so it looks like they may have actually fired the wrong person at the irs and the person responsible may have got an promotion. >> let me ask you this, steven miller, ousted head of the irs, will testify on c...

Organizations at the time the tea party groups that were targeted -- >> got fired, right? >> no. >> suspended? >> is a little different than that. >> i bet they demoted him, put him in a position that's not going to be important. >> maybe put him in a holding room. no. >> really? >> you know what, where bloomberg would put the teachers, you know, that they don't want to fire. >> the rubber rooms. >> i bet they put this person, botched this up so terribly in like a rubber room, right? >> no. that person is now responsible for the irs office that handles health care legislation. >> i'm sorry. le...