gretchen: it is 6:31, almost 6:32 on the east coast. another huge story today. that has to do with i.r.s. and the looking into conservative groups trying to get 501-c-4 status. these inquiries came out of the cincinnati, midwest office of the i.r.s. but could it have been those underlings been the ones who directed the i.r.s. now it turns out it maybe washington or probably are most likely washington connections to this. what should be the end result? should the person in charge of the i.r.s. now step down from position? it is now occurring to many people he s known since 2012 this was going on. brian: it s almost a joke. he said a long time ago cincinnati was in control of looking into the tax-exempt organizations. they did it. we ll get to the bottom of
but on the other hand, it s also a serious national security leak investigation that was prompted by outcries from congress to begin with. the fact of the matter is here, that there will be a tremendous price to be paid and is being paid by the justice department and the administration for taking this step. what we don t know yet really, and aren t in a position to make a final judgment about, is whether it s justified or not. steve: that s a good point. remember, the leaker would be the bad actor, the person who leaks the stuff. that s the person they should go after. but instead what they re doing is they re going after the reporters and the editors. brian: they re trying to find out maybe who the leaker is by going after the editor. steve: no. they re end running it. the big question is brian: the bottom line is they re doing this without their permission. the secretary of state is not in charge of benghazi. the president is not in charge of anything. is everybody running
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0 his passport was just missing a page. god forbid they hadn t checked this out and this was a dry run. we d be questioning the u.s. government the way they acted. gretchen: the suspect says the pressure cooker was for his nephew and this whole thing is a misunderstanding. the defendant says his lawyers botched his 2008 case. the former nfl great ballooned to 275 pounds behind bars. he was convicted in 2008 and being behind bars taking a toll. here he is on the far left yesterday compared to the middle picture. that is in 2008 when he was convicted on the far right in 1995, the day he was acquitted of his ex-wife s murder. you ve got to add age to that. steve: let s talk about what happened yesterday midday. the president of the united states had a joint press conference with david cameron, the british prime minister. julie pace of the associated press, as is tradition, got to ask the one american question, but she worked in three questions really about the i.r.s. she asked camer
0 going to say. and what you had happen was a request from dutch ruppersberger, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee for talking points from the intelligence community when public officials could use to talk about it publicly. the cia produced the talking points. they were i would say fairly aggressive in their assessments that al qaeda was involved in the attack or al qaeda-linked affiliates. they said, we know al qaeda participated in this attack. that was later scrubbed once it went to political officials at the state department and the white house. bill: so we are going to learn a lot more about this on wednesday when the hearings get underway. but for time being, what would be the motivation to change those talking points in the first place? well, i mean, you know, there are a number of different possibilities. certainly we have to be cognizant of the fact that this all happened six weeks out from a presidential election. there is suggestions from it says, lo