led investigations into the benghazi attack, the irs targeting the fast and furious gun sting. in 2010, issa called president obama one of the most corrupt presidents of modern times and then later amended it saying he leads the most corrupt government in history. which i think is interesting when you see issa shaking trump s hand in may saying he s, quote, very pleased that the president assigned legal protections that issa had co-sponsored. that s the same thing that he tried to approve and issa cruised to victory in the past election but this year in a tight race against doug appleby. at a fund-raiser last night,
bret. mike emanuel live on the hill. mike, thank you. a series of policy disasters for the administration and the subsequent explanations all point to a president who many now see as less than fully engaged. tonight, white house correspondent wendell golar goes down the list. reporter: from the irs s targeting of conservative groups. i first learned about it from the same news reports that i think most people learned about this. reporter: the justice department subpoenas of news organizations. he found out about the news reports yesterday on the road. reporter: to the attack on the consulate in benghazi. nobody understood exactly what was taking place during the course of those first few days. reporter: the president s most common defense seems to be i didn t know. add the fast and furious gun sting and the culpable deniability is expanded to attorney general holder. he s indicated he s not aware of what was happening in fast and furious. certainly i was not. repo
independent investigations. sure, when stuff is hitting the fan, at that point, he should know before he reads it in the paper. yes. there is no doubt about that and especially on the heferlt care web site. this is his signature achievement. we don t want him to be like jimmy carter doing the schedule for the white house tennis court. he doesn t have to be a micromanager. i think it s important that he is on top of the problem. a week ago yesterday in the rose garden the president said nobody is madder than me. so mad was he his grammar failed him. he had said quite the same thing about the irs scandal. and he seems to think that his job as chief executive is not to be executive but to be angry at his own administration when it doesn t perform well. fast and furious, the irs, benghazi, nsa, investigation of our mr. rosen. there is just a list of things that surprise him. it s not surprise though because he is not a policy guy there is a very revealing moment in the press recent
until this week that the detail was confirmed. the allegations cam from a friend this is first on cnn from our justice reporter evan perez, sources close to the attorney general, holder says he plans to stay in office well into next year, this after four years of very tense run-ins with clashes with some of the president s top advisers, led some to believe he was on his way out. the first ever sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt. over the fast and furious gun sting. coming up in the next half hour, our dr. sanjay gupta hard-hitting interview with secretary kathleen sebelius. be shall you are to tweet us from wes for him, be sure to use the #sitroom. the royal baby makes a rare public appearance. jeanne moos is next. sfx: oil gushing out of pipe.
task force operation involving atf, dea and customs enforcement or ice. a full time ice agent knew all about the operation from intel and surveillance to tracking guns. and according to this ig report, he knew that fast and furious violated policy and he reported that. but his supervisors, including the agent in charge, quote: never read his reports. and never told washington. one agent wrote that he, quote: was especially concerned about the investigation because it had allowed 41 high caliber weapons to be transported to his area of responsibility and smuggled other the border. he said that volume of weapons being investigated was scary and only worsened over time. the report sights multiple incidents where ice and border patrol agents stopped cars smuggling weapons. but they were told by the atf to back off. the report concludes that neither john morton, head of ice or homeland security secretary janet napolitano