question, well, she wouldn t let it die. we ve got time for a couple question. when did you first learn the irs was conservative political groups? do you feel that the irs has betrayed the public s trust and what do you think the repercussions for these actions should be? on benghazi, do you think the white house misled the public about its role in shaping the talking points and do you stand by your administration s assertions that they were not purposely change? is it your interception to send the syrian opposition forces weapons? the long and wiping road that that question was. i just came one that. in the guest spot today, here come the sun. the president historian, alan lichtman to put this second term curse business to rest. republicans have tried to make any number of these perceived failures stick to the president personally. and to mixed results.
it doesn t work. as we know, one of the great cliches in washington is the cover-up is often worse than the scandal itself that s often what gets you, you know, caught in these things. and my advice which they never listen to, which i ve been giving for years we ll listen, alan. you ll listen. will obama listen to you? come as clean as you possibly. cover-ups don t work. so i know that you remember that if you played the white album backwards, it said paul is dead. if you play benghazi backwards, you later watergate. so republicans keep saying, this is like watergate. also like iran-contra time ten. does this at all, what we know of the irs and benghazi, does it remind at all of watergate? it is not even close to watergate. you know, some other rules here, never compare anything to the
believe that low level irs employees devised and carried out the policy all on their own. instead they say the government abused the irs authority to punish rivals. here s what happened according to an internal audit. starting in 2010 the irs levied invasive questioning on groups looking for tax-exempt status whose names hit in a search skewed with seventh key words like tea party, patriot and government debt. these groups were then told to reveal their donors, something strongly protected by the 501 c 4 status. the irs has apologized but said it was an effort to combat the explosion of requests after citizens united, not to single out conservative groups but ago to the scandal, the irs repeatedly lied about doing it when asked by congress. three time, according to the washington post. like i said, as of now, no direct tie to the white house. but with washington as polarized as it is, this is a story that isn t going to die with one presidential answer while he is standing
president bush himself offered reflections on his ten tenure as decider in chief. not always popular but whenwhen future generations come to this library they ll find out that we stayed true to our convictions. michael: even if those convictions were wildly wrong irresponsible, and maybe even criminal. president obama also spoke. he spoke about his help with a.i.d.s. in africa and where he did his best. there are moments you make mistakes. there are times where you wish you could turn back the clock. and what i know is true about president bush and i hope my successor will say about me is that we love this country and we do our best. michael: the president is now doing his best to comfort the country and keep it safe. even if the wake of a major workplace disaster and the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil since 9/11. the president went from dallas to west, texas, to comfort people there. and the bombers say they wanted to do more damage than they actually did by det
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