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Administration's handling of the benghazi attack says it was also a target of the irs. kristen whiten is with secure america and former senior advisor of the bush state department and author of a book, smart policy. high, christian, how are you. let's get to it. when did you realize that your organization was being singled out? when did you start to connect the dots and give us specifics of some of the information that the irs was trying to collect on the organization? >> the first indication when secure america applied for nonprofit status, amount of time it took. two years out from that appl...

>> and in a state where i can have an ounce of weed in your car, a drink at 19 is not affecting anybody? >> i think it's a smart policy. the federal government holds hostage our highway funds so we can't have the responsible law that we used to have back in college where you could drink a watered kind of beer. >> shep: 3.2 beer. >> they took that away from us but hopefully we can pass this bill and bring a little bit of training back to the parenting situation here in colorado. >> shep: state senator, good luck. the feds say an alarming number of women and underage girls are binge drinking and...

Push in. i have no doubt about that. in fact it's smart politics, it's smart policy. i think you've seen republicans and democrats coming to terms with that, this is something that's going to get done. my guess is it's probably going to get done in the first year of the new presidency. joe after immigration reform, most folks suspect that immigration reform is going to get done in some way, shape or, form or fashion. after that, joe, what's, what do you think is going to be the focus of this president? >> i think this president has a numb of challenges. i think his biggest challenge of course ...

>> and when we got the extra semi and we've got surprises coming down, our economy has stayed in particularly, the super economy stayed afloat. one thing we have to do is keep upping the supply. demand is falling down because we're having smaller cars and semi is the key thing and anybody 0 doesn't recognize it, for the first time in the united states we have more oil in the world than less, as long as we have nor oil than supply it will stay down. >> jonas, what do you say to people, gosh, we don't need to drill for more supply and playing devil's advocate because the market circumstances is ...

Attack the jihadists in pakistan. >> bill: almost the same thing in iraq. we're going to keep a presence in iraq to keep an eye on iran. >> policy. >> bill: it's a smart policy. the problem is the country is bankrupt. we can't do these operations the way we have been doing them. because general petraeus. >> that's why. >> bill: general petraeus is not going to take over the cia thing. i think that singles a shift by the way of how we do business. >> i think it does. nobody is arguing for sustaining this level. the surge level in afghanistan. in the way that nobody advocated, you know, a decade...