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The internal revenue service as well as the chief counsel and said issue those exemptions by friday or we're taking legal action. >> megyn: that's the question about whether this was their mission, to deter you from pursuing your mission. do you think that was going on here? >> if i could add one critical point about my letter. keep in mind my mission statement is challenge the organization of the rising generation. we mentor high school and college students yet the irs asked us to identify those who we were teaching and to detail the information we were teaching them. a clear violation of my ...

Dick at a time by the facts. i frankly don't have knowledge of those facts. >> i think the real question, the underlying question the policy of the administration when it comes to the ability of the media to cover the news. i think the question for you is given the fact that this news organization was not given an opportunity to try to quash this in court as a precedent. it leaves us wondering whether the administration has decided policy wise that if they are going after it? >> i can talk about policy. that is not the policy of this administration. if you will remember, in 2009 when i was goi...

Comes to leaks of classified information, of our nation's secrets if you will, between those to protect that information because of the national security implications, on the one hand, and need to allow an unfettered press. this is important balance we have to find. how he views these issues can be seen in the actions and proposals he has made in the past. when it comes to this specific case, i can't get into the details of our view or his view of it. >> last question -- is all of this, all this swirl of controversy and stories affecting the president's ability to pursue an agenda? >> the pres...

Aserghdz in it. it contradicts some of the assertions ma was made by the letter obtained from the ap. i would refer you to that in response to that question. >> the ach story, there are times in administration that civil liberties have not lived up to the promises that you and others made beginning in 2008. looking broadly at this administration's civil liberties record, are you disappointed and why hasn't more been done? >> i'm proud of what we have done. the policies that we put in place with regard to let's say the war on terror, we decided that certain interrogation techniques were not goi...

It is before we make decisions how to proceed. >> any update -- i know that republican senator bob corker of tennessee says he has been waiting for an explanation on the cash payments from the c.i.a. and cash payments are continuing to karzai, claiming it in afghanistan. and the senator was hoping for an explanation from the president? >> i'm not aware of the president. i have to take the question. the specific story itself involved the c.i.a. and i have to refer you to them. >> jay, you have used this formulation about the president support for unfettered investigative reporting a number of t...