we can hear what they say and see what they did and have those things be the same. we re going to continue to look for real information. senator whitehouse, you just said a moment ago you look forward for these confirmation hearings because that s going to be an opportunity for you to talk about the good news of obama care, but i want to take a look at the latest public opinion polls. according to the latest real clear politics average of recent polls, 39.8% now favor obama care while 52.3% oppose the law. doesn t this confirmation hearing mean the democrats are going to be stuck defending what is still a relatively unpopular law and not doing what the president seemed to be doing and democrats in the senate seem to be doing recently, which is trying to change the subject to income ion quality. as i said, bare in mind that this law has been immensely helpful to real people, real
officials see this as smart politics, effective politics, a way to mobilize part of their base? they do. it s part of a broader effort. it s not just trying to mobilize african-americans, but if you look at the past two weeks and what the president has been doing, there s been targeted outreach to african-americans, targeted outreach to women talking about equal pay issues because when they look at the november elections, they see an electorate that doesn t look like it does when president barack obama is on the ballot, and if some of these democrats were in tough races are going to win, they need to have the electorate look more like it did in 2012 or 2008. you re going to see this not just over the course of the next couple of weeks. do you dpet the sense that a lot of the top officials there feel that he is treated differently because of race? do you think the administration is? i think they tread very carefully on this issue. i think to brit s point, i mean, certainly when yo
really begin and end with a midlevel bureaucrat who we never heard of a year ago named lois lerner? there s obviously something here, and the question is does this committee know how to investigate? they re worried about this one person who has invoked her fifth anltdment rights not to abc questions, and you have congressmen on the committee going on and saying we have evidence she s involved in criminal activity. i don t think you should cross that line. the second thing is there s always one person who is not going to talk, and when you conduct an investigation like this, i have not gone into the details, you need to find people who will talk, and there are always people who will do this. you know, we should dig into it. there should be answers. it s quite correct. for the president to take that position is very, very unusual
when the irs scandal broke last may, gentlemen, president obama condemned what the agency officials had reportedly done as outrageous, but now he says that they have been clear. take a look at his change of heart on this. if, in fact, irs personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that s outrageous, and there s no place for it. no mass corruption? not even mass corruption. not even a smidgeon of corruption. given the fact that the justice department investigation is still ongoing, how do you explain that change of heart from the president? well, it s hard to believe because based on all the documents we ve reviewed, over half a million documents dozens of interviews, we found
is entering a new phase. we ve invited discussed what happens now. tim scott and from rhode island democrat sheldon whitehouse. senator scott, after the disastrous roll-out of obama care did kathleen sebelius have to go, and how do you explain the timing of her resignation? well, it s no doubt that she had to go. when you think of health care.gov being synonymous with failure, there has to be changes. the real question we should be asking ourselves is as we look at the upcoming confirmation hearing, will the next secretary have america first americans first or will they have the administration s policies and trying to carry the water for the president as their primary responsibility? well, i think it s fair to say that all of the glitches with the website followed