government is operating well and always on your side. that creates a problem, too. those are the two big takeaways. chris: an embarrassment of riches here for a sunday talk show. according to a new poll, 76% now think that a special terror prosecutor should be appointed to investigate whether the irs targeted conservative groups and the irs missed a deadline they had on friday to respond to a series of questionsfrom the senate finance committee. jennifer, this scandal clearly has legs. absolutely. the average american does not like the irs to begin with. and the notion that this should be used to attack political opponents and more than that to go and then audit donors just smacks of political bullying and corruption, everything that republicans said was coming with this administration. i do think that in the case of the irs there is an additional problem which is no one pretends to know anything about anything.
years. , this is not something that suddenly happened but is something that the republican party and national partiestal have to address which we did. we went around the country and talked to people and we have a serious project we are working on. we are not closed for repairs but open for repairs and that is the republican party that needs to grow that needs to win presidential elections and needs to be a year round permanent operation which is what we are building. chris: let me pick up on that. after the 2012 election you commissioned a study on prospects, what the study needs to do after the 2012 defeat. and on policy the so-called autopsy as some people call it said you have to do a better job of reaching out to hispanic voters, to women, to young voters, a variety of groups on a variety of issues. you just heard for instance the house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte saying he opposes
healthcare or get on the list forgetting a sub is sidis? i want to sub he is did is. chris: i want to go back to the bigger point that senator bayh made. his power is a declining asset and e bbs away every day. most of the summer is going to be spent on benghazi and the irs and the attorney general and the media. how hard is this going to make it for barack obama to push the rest of his agenda or his agenda this year, next year and to some degree is that what the republicans are up to here? let s keep him from doing anything and then by 2014 he really is a lame duck. i think it depends on how dedicated the press is to doing its job here. these are fundamental questions about our representative democracy, about the way the federal government works. there there is inherent fairness in the way prosecutions are handled and the way individual citizens as amy said are targeted by the
possible infringement of first amendment rights of reporters is a real issue? of course, it is an issue. the issue is how do you balance our legitimate national security needs with our first amend hement rights. you have to admit the whole thing reeks of hypocrisy. you had a lot of folks on fox going after the obama administration saying you are not gettin getting to the bottf the national security leaks and then the administration goes after the national security leaks and people say you can t do that. chris: that is not what people said. people said you can t talk about a reporter as a potential coconspirator. let me ask you a question as a lawyer. how many times has the justice department successfully prosecuted or even tried to prosecute a reporter under the 1917 espionage act? i don t think they have. so whose hypocrisy are we talking about there? and they weren t planning to
and certainly nixon couldn t have made it because he had ideas and we might have made it but i doubt it. i mean chris: too moderate. too willing to compromise? i just considered myself a republican. on this of this hyphenated stuff. chris: what he is saying is that the republican party basically has moved out of the mainstream? you know what, look, he is a hero in this country and we all love bob dole but the reality is if you look at the last two nominees, mitt romney and john mccain i think that is a pretty good counter position to what senator dole had to say. i think we have the tale of two parties here. number one, we have got a party that in the off year wins about everything imaginable. governors across the country. state legislatures. on the issues, we win races. we win races. then you have a presidential election. if we are being honest about it we haven t decenter icively won a presidential race in 24