we will be joined by a panel of seasoned journalists, washington reporters who will join to us weigh in on the doj s now failed effort at damage control. i mean you have got the vast majority, 80% so far who have weighed in and said we are not coming. you have had a couple who said we will. what does this mean now? what now is standing between the attorney general and the healing because he has got he tried to reach out in a way that would have kept everybody in the dark and the news organizations said we have had enough of that so, no. and you have got congress he lied to them under oath and whether he committed perjury. you have got growing pressure from the left even. some on the left for him to step down never mind what s happening on the right. so what the damage control so far it s not going so well. so we will talk about that with our panel at 2:30 and see where we go from here. also in washington, we are seeing new scrutiny for the former irs chief and the significant numbe
appointees but the agency itself is not supposed to be political. visited the white house far more than we knew when he testified before congress. at least 159 times. from january of 2009 when president obama first took office until november 2012 when mr. shulman s term ended. that is an average of one visit every nine days. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. i can t think of a person i visit every nine days. honestly, your immediate family, your colleagues that you work with in your office, and then the number of i mean, it s almost once a week that he was going over to the white house. and he would have us believe that it was routine that he wanted to roll another easter egg. that s what he told us when he testified before congress, chris. even now the former evidence the irs has weighed in saying i think i went once and that s because it s important to maintain your independence
oathing about journalists. we will speak with one of the leading administration critics in the senate who has taken his own fair share of criticism in these past days and weeks ted cruz many people feel he is the future of the republican party today joins me live weighing in on attorney general eric holder s troubles, the irs scandal, and what the future he says might hold for him. and, up next, the trouble in case of the 911 call that went unanswered and the fallout and wait until you hear now about a lawsuit. i don t have anybody to send out there. okay. you know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? when it came to ur plants, we were so confused.
politicization in fact that affected the irs somehow the state department is immune from it i think it s perfectly fair question to submit this foir request. megyn: somebody who used to work in government at the white house under president bush, how unusual would that be to have the campaign operatives directly emailing state saying make sure this doesn t come back on us or whatever it is they are fishing for. they are not that dumb, are they? no. very unlikely that this is going to uncover anything. and the reason is probably if there is coordination with the obama campaign it would have been through the white house. it would be highly unusual for someone at the state department to be in direct contact and circumventing the white house obama campaign. it is not out of the realm of possibility. they would be stupid doing it using their official email accounts. megyn: which they know is subject to disclosure. i want to ask you something else because now these house republicans are
seen things but i just think when you bring a service in closer to the white house and to other agencying agencies you run the risk of eroding that independence. megyn: shulman went 159 times and that guy we just saw went once? once. and by comparison i believe that the director of the fbi, robert mueller went maybe five times over that same period. a scant number of visits for a guy who is running the most important federal law enforcement agency. so, there is something going on here with mr. shulman. now, he could be the white house could be totally fessing up and so could have shulman in his testimony to say all we ever talked about was easter eggs and the president s healthcare law and insurance mandates. that s all we ever did. nobody ever said hey, how is it going with targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny from the irs? maybe nobody ever said anything untoward.