do it? just do it because it gives you a little political cover? i actually am in favor of appointing an independent investigator. i think that s in keeping with barack obama s pledge for greater transparency. i think that we have to make sure that investigation though is independent. independent means independent and not some mad dog puppet of the republican congress all it can star the president. and because of that try to depoliticize and get to the answers. the american people have spoken very clearly investigation also believe that the white house has not been involved in this. if the white house has nothing to hide which i don t think they do. i think these were career bureaucrats trying to do their job and investigate it to get to the bottom of it so it doesn t happen again. megyn: that s the thing when we talk about tried to mention it a while ago stirewalt coming up. up to 159 visits. douglas shulman the irs
june of last year was informed of the ig s investigation. the white house counsel, the white house chief of staff all knew about it in march of this year. this poll shows what we have known all along which is that plausible didn t argument can t hold water for long when the connections with this matter go right back to the west wing. megyn: the other thing that these polls found that of all the scandals, scandal mania in a chris stirewalt called it is out there right now. which do you think is the most important and by far they said the irs. 44% belief the irs scandal is the most important. they put benghazi at number 2. 24% say that s the most important and 15% say the a.p. the doj spying on reporters is the most important scandal out there. most important in the nation. so the people care about this bernard. they are watching the irs scandal in particular. what can the president do short of appointing a special prosecutor which i note for the viewers some of our republican pundits
commissioner during the bulk of this nonsense from the irs visited the white house that leads us to say it wasn t a about the easter egg roll, doug. what else were you talking about. may have had nothing to do with the irs targeting scandal. the president s refusal to go with the special prosecutor route and instead say eric holder is going to look into. thisache holder s favorability and truth worthy has never been lower leads people to say what are you hiding? embroiled in own problems as well. also probably needs to appoint a special prosecutor what s happening at the doj as far as the rosen warrant. megyn: i have one investigating me and the irs. if took bernard s position i would say that s something i admire. left s have transparency and independent assessment of what really happened at the irs. they haven t up to this point. tried to relegate the fact as you point out, megyn, the irs commissioner and the irs still are in the executive branch. the commissioner went to the w
secretary of state john kerry evidence iranian fighters are on the ground in syria as well. senator john mccain just returned from unannounced trip to syria in recent days to meet with rebel forces and continues to press the administration to get involved and remove assad. the u.s. and russia are trying to arrange a peace conference in geneva but the opposition refuses to allow assad to attend a nonstarter for russia, megyn. megyn: jennifer, thank you. as the house judiciary committee looks into whether attorney general eric holder lied under oath about the targeting of journalists, he we will speak with senator ted cruz a member of the senate judiciary committee. we will ask him about the attorney general troubles, the irs commissioner scandal and the his own plans for the presidential 2016 presidential race. reports into the investigation of the triple murder that may have involved one of the boston bombing suspects as we get reports that a man, who was friends with tamerlan tsarna
i m not guilty. i don t have nothing to hide. prosecution star witnesses the federal yes or federal police who arrested maldonado. reports they finally showed up today. the question is will the judge still testimony, the judge is expected to rule by 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night. could rule earlier. right now the evidence is still open. if he rules that she goes to trial she could sit there for three or four more months. potential 10 years in prison. thanks. up next, the former head of the irs, as we learn more about the significant number of times he personally visited the white house. plus, ted cruz is here live.