0 easton, senior editor for fortune magazine and a fox news contributor. sometimes these hearings can be dry but this was powerful testimony this morning from ordinary americans in some respect putting members of congress in their place. >> powerful, and jon, shocking. i mean some of what these witnesses brought forward is truly shocking. there is sort of -- through all of the testimony there is this thread of the i.r.s. demanding huge amounts of information, 90 pieces in the case of one tea party group, and then putting a short timeline on it. so almost like you would just give up, that it would block you from even starting your organization. then we have these other amazing stories, which democratic congressman levyn just referred to, for example which was a pro-life group being told they better not be picketing in front of planned parenthood. then we have another tea party organization, this one from the san fernando valley in california which was supposed to submit anything that says that their members might have violated ordinances while they were protesting, as if by the way they were occupy wall street or some one of these leftist groups that actually has violated some of these ordinances. some of this stuff is really, really deeply troubling, and i think the fact that it puts a face on these charges that people read about makes it really damaging for the i.r.s. and raises lots of questions about the i.r.s.'s behavior in targeting. the other thing that this drives home, the i.r.s. and these letters, the threat of being accused of perjury, which is a crime, hangs over these groups. so you really see in detail this agency using the threat of a prosecution, even, when they are looking an examining these documents that these groups are supposed to be submitting. jon: i thought becky garrettson put it particularly well in that phrase when she essentially said, look, you know, i am an ordinary, free american, your jobs exist to maintain my freedom here in the u.s. congress, and that has been abused essentially by this agency of government. it just takes you back to the founding fathers, and what this country and what this government was set up to do. >> keep in mind, again we go back to this ridiculous comment that it was bad customer service. jon: yeah. >> the i.r.s. is an organization, is a federal agency that can bring the power of the law down on you. you hear from the i.r.s., the words come in your mind, right, audit, fines, potential prosecution. i mean these are dangerous hammers that this agency has at its disposal, and i think that is what is really coming through in all of this testimony is both the seriousness of this -- what this agency has at its disposal, but also it's ability to keep you from organizing, just by demanding 90 pieces of information within a couple of months, or a couple of weeks. i mean, the short timeframes, these are -- a lot of these are small, mostly i think they are small organizations, they don't have the time or the resources to be providing all this information, and some of this information basically goes beyond the bound. i mean email communications, the names of young volunteers, even to say do some of your volunteers plan to run for office in the foreseeable future? imagine if you answer that wrong and then, you know, it's perjury in your case. i mean, these are no win situations for these organizations trying to deal with the i.r.s. jon: some unbelievable demands for information from this very powerful organization that -- well its people know how to line dance we do know that. thank you. we'll continue to keep an eye on the hearing as they go along. jenna: sometimes when the hearings happen the haw makers take time that they are supposed to use or can use to question the folks in front of them and died to give their own opinion or take that time to make their own statement. that is what we're seeing a little bit of in d.c. that's why we'll go away from it and come back to it when we see more engagement with the folks that are there to testify and share their experiences. we'll be back to d.c. when it reengages again. right now statements are being given. in the meantime new calls for the obama administration to expa tkaoeult the release of more documents retrieved in the raid that killed osama bin laden, just 17 documents out of thousands seized that night have been released. and now some lawmakers are suggesting that the obama administration cherry picked which documents would be released, and that a broader collection would show a far more organized picture of al-qaida than has been depicted by the obama administration. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this top story. >> thank you. the head of the house intelligence committee republican mike rogers is calling on the obama administration to declassify more documents recovered by navy seals in 2011 from osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. the congressman who is regularly briefed on intelligence and threats to u.s. national security says his committee will be reviewing more of the documents from the al-qaida leader's hideout this week adding the evidence suggests the obama administration has only released documents consistent with the view that al-qaida is in retreat, quote, i think we ought to give -- seriously give consideration to allowing more than the 17 documents that were selectively picked by the administration to be made public. i think that doesn't probably tell the whole story. after osama bin laden's death administration officials portrayed him as isolated, adrift, disconnected from the network and not in control. theee merge generals of al-qaida affiliates in yemen as well as north and east africa with were not by design but a reflection of al-qaida's deterioration. that seems to be in stark contrast with vee sent congressional testimony that the osama bin laden documents have generated hundreds of intelligence reports and beyond the initial review by the cia osama bin laden's writings are to this day being analyzed and shared within the american intelligence community. >> there were at least over 400 intelligence reports issued in the initial aftermath, immediately after the raid. i do -pbt know what thadon't know what that number is since then. >> one of the things i can assure everybody is that the secondary exploitation if you will, sort of the second-phase of what we're doing to take this exploited information, that is being shared around certainly in our military channels. >> reporter: a spokesperson nor the national security counsel says the documents are helping to refine the administration's understanding of al-qaida and the findings are factored into policy decisions of. the key take away is whether this week there will be a consistent push to release more of the documents after they've been reviewed by members of of the house. jenna: we'll wait and see, wait and see what happens next. catherine, thank you. jon: there is new tension right now between the u.s. and israel after the u.s. reportedly discloses information about what was supposed to be a top secret israeli military base. one israeli military official calling it an easy how to guide for our enemies. we'll talk with former israeli ambassador to the u.n. dan gillerman about this new report. new developments in the maxim model mutter trial, the verdict reaching the verdict in the dramatic case but the judge steps in and takes some unusual action. a live report coming up