numerous news reports, nobody knows anything. and yet when they have to actually present it, because now it s here, oh, they re choreographing, spinning, scheming how they re going do i. that causes the american people to say something s not right here. sean: chairman issa, did they lie when they said, we don t know anything in the white house, and now we know a lot of high ranking people did and they helped coordinate the talking points? exactly right. the president doesn t know, because apparently he has a pattern of not knowing, being told anything. people in the white house were briefed, even by the ig, and very, very clearly they were part of spinning this ahead of time. the ig, russell george, said the way it was done may be a violation of the law. sean: do you think they purposely lied? they purposely don t want to know things. we don t think they could be so dumb as to not know so much.
numerous news reports, nobody knows anything. and yet when they have to actually present it, because now it s here, oh, they re choreographing, spinning, scheming how they re going do i. that causes the american people to say something s not right here. sean: chairman issa, did they lie when they said, we don t know anything in the white house, and now we know a lot of high ranking people did and they helped coordinate the talking points? exactly right. the president doesn t know, because apparently he has a pattern of not knowing, being told anything. people in the white house were briefed, even by the ig, and very, very clearly they were part of spinning this ahead of time. the ig, russell george, said the way it was done may be a violation of the law. sean: do you think they purposely lied? they purposely don t want to know things. we don t think they could be so dumb as to not know so much.
question, the white house denied that they had any knowledge of this, that they found out about through news reports, that was their original story. by my account there are five variations. we know the president s attorney, the white house counsel, and the chief of staff in the white house to the president, both did know earlier than what we were told, and we discovered that the white house was involved in working with the treasury to leak this story before the ig report. right. sean: i want to get both of your reactions to that. congressman jordan, we ll start with you. exactly right, sean. they were so calculating, they orchestrated the rollout, how they were going to break this story to the american people, because they knew the ig s report was coming. people at the white house, at the irs, are choreographing how to do, this but yet a year ago, two years ago, when it was all going on, the 132 members of congress inquire about it, 118 visits to the white house,
question, the white house denied that they had any knowledge of this, that they found out about through news reports, that was their original story. by my account there are five variations. we know the president s attorney, the white house counsel, and the chief of staff in the white house to the president, both did know earlier than what we were told, and we discovered that the white house was involved in working with the treasury to leak this story before the ig report. right. sean: i want to get both of your reactions to that. congressman jordan, we ll start with you. exactly right, sean. they were so calculating, they orchestrated the rollout, how they were going to break this story to the american people, because they knew the ig s report was coming. people at the white house, at the irs, are choreographing how to do, this but yet a year ago, two years ago, when it was all going on, the 132 members of congress inquire about it, 118 visits to the white house,
he s too busy organizing. gene, you know he s too busy choreographing. thank you, gene robinson. when we return, let me finish with a need for republicans to choose sides. the wild bunch or the the posse. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] you can t let a cold keep you up tonight. vicks nyquil powerful nighttime 6-symptom cold & flu relief. in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it s hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can t get back to sleep. it s an effective sleep medicine you don t take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it