one of our producers says the irs chief rushed into a waiting car. in fact our team had to sprint to catch up with him. mike, who is in good shape, is on capitol hill weapon heard from the watchdog who committed the irs report. what did he say? the inspector general was not a headline grabber. he had a very mellow personality but his purpose was to lay out the report that he issued on the activities of the irs and here us how he laid it out. the irs used inappropriate criteria to target for review tea party and other organizations based on their name and policy positions. this practice started in 2010 and continued to evolve until june of 2011. that kind of answer led lawmakers to wonder why it took two years for them to be told about this kind of activity, targeting groups at the irs, greg. greg: and it s pretty clear,
zz h zoraida sambolin has the day off. that is awesome. it s caught on camera. i m ashleigh banfield. it s nice to have you with us every morning. it s 5:00 a.m. on the east coast. let s get started with this. go vote for someone else. how about that for a campaign pitch. fighting words for mitt romney after a pretty rough reception at the naacp convention. it was a tough sell to begin with though anyway. governor romney s really trying to convince african-americans that they d be better served with him in the white house than with president obama. president obama has about 95ish percent support among african-americans. he misstepped when he referred to the president s health carrey forms as obama care. i m going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program i can find, that includes obama care, and i m going to work to reform and save yeah, those are the sound of boos. you might say ouch or maybe not. romney is getting beat up by naacp. listen to the president o
schools. headline grabber for aspiring young politicians trying to make a name for themselves. it is easy to do but take you back to the late 1990s. i grew up on the border. there was a flood of immigration coming through. and so arizonans they got tired of it. so it s easy to latch on to these cultural issues but it was very, very tangible in the state. they ultimately stepped it up but it was a real issue. but still a serious problem with the border and arizona always gets blamed. what is happening now the caveat as the 170, they create a lot of momentum in the news when a rancher was shot. i have a friend who lives on a cattle ranch in tucson. i struggle with i want everything in arizona. the mexican heritage coming over is very important but so is cattle ranching. if you want to see what the cultural divide you re talking about in america, arizona is the place to go. this is something whenever i interview people from arizona in the course of reporting they will make this po
you. i joke. this is the opposite of a pick-me-up, and it is a story that speaks more to our personal nature than our economic state. another storied college sports program is facing its own growing scandal today. syracuse university has fired assistant basketball coach bernie fine amid allegations of sex abuse from at least three accusers so far. there are calls for the head coach to step down. and in the latest twist, this will be a headline grabber, a newly released recording of a decade-old phone conversation said to be between fine s own wife and one of the alleged victims appears to show she was aware or at least suspected what her husband was doing. take a listen to this tape. i know everything that went on. you know, i know everything that went on with him. bernie has issues. maybe that he s not aware of, but he has issues. and you trusted somebody you shouldn t have trusted. yeah. bernie is also in denial. i think that he did the things
newsroom. what s going on? good morning to you. jenna: hi there bill, the jobs report a big headline grabber, i know you ve been talking a lot about it. are we facing another recession. you re going to hear from one of the top economic advisers on happening now . we want to hear from you, go to foxnews.com/happening now, click on america s asking and weigh in on jobs and everything else. we have new polling on the president, karl rove is going to join us on that. and a disease you haven t likely heard of and affects more women than you think, why it matters and what it is, next on happening now . bill: that s interesting. big show. thank you jenna, see you soon. sounds good. bill: the latest threat in mexico s deadly drug war, why teachers say they re afraid and won t show up for school.