yep. yes, there are. there are. and that s the old isolationist strain of the republican party that has been there for a couple of centuries, at least since prior to world war i. certainly strong prior to world war ii. and i understand being war weary, but i m not talking about boots on the ground, nor is anybody. but look, we found out in the 30s, in the 1930s, that if you let aggression go unchecked, sooner or later it comes to your backyard. i m not saying there s going to be world war iii. i m saying there s going to be further unrest, aggression and blows to america s national security if we continue to convey this image of weakness and withdrawal. senator john mccain. thank you, sir. thank you. all right, less than 48 hours, lawmakers will vote on holding lois lerner in contempt of congress. the man leading that charge, daryl issa, on why he did, after this. i have low testosterone. there, i said it.
acorn group, but at the end of the day, their scrutiny was not inappropriate nor time consuming. so the claim by which we go through more than 50 pages, the claim that progressives were targeted couldn t be further from the truth. it s just the opposite having gone through, we have discovered that it was only conservative groups that were unfairly treated. and they were unfairly treated in mass, in other words, every single one of them was unfairly treated. i know in the meantime, you re trying to get them to testify, but this the end, isn t the only way to grant some form of immunity, partial or complete. other than that, they aren t going to say a thing. apparently she s just fine talking to the department of justice to put her in jail for criminal action, but she s not willing to talk to our committee, which is the height of contempt that you pick and choose when you want to tell people answers to questions. i think most importantly, though, lois lerner is the hub of all the spo
review. on advice of my counsel i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and refuse to answer that question. do you believe there s not a smidgeon of corruption in the irs targeting of conservatives. on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. tony fox news contributor, bernard, former bill clinton pollster and democratic strategist. great to see you, gentlemen. good to be here. kind of like a broken record, tony, on the advice of my counsel i have decided blah, blah, blah. now what s going to happen? the house oversight committee are getting together today. they were put in this position by lois lerner herself when she testified she recorded in pleading the fifth. the committee took a vote and said she waived her right to plead the fifth. this hearing march 5th we showed video from was when she did give testimony. she backed out at the last minute. this is the only way by having
this contempt charge can congress compel her to give testimony in a criminal court in front of a grand jury and stop obstructing the investigation. bernard, what would be the problem with that? america would finally find out what lois lerner knew. this is kabuki theater at its worse. why? the investigation going on for over a year, not a shred of evidence conservative groups were more targeted. we have documents lets keep to the real story, bernard. we have documents from irs manager that elijah cummings talked to, you know what, i m a republican. i was in charge of putting a list together. i got no pressure from the white house i don t think anyone is going to take it seriously equal equal democratic groups targeted. lets move on from that. if she s done nothing wrong, why not testify? clearly on the advice of counsel doesn t want to incriminate herself. done nothing wrong? give her immunity, she would
the problems associated with the federal exchange you ve got a democrat congressman from the state of maryland saying you guys are such a mess, we should bag this and go to the federal exchange. i testified i.t. didn t work. i don t disagree we had a major i.t. problem. it was overcoming that problem that allowed us to hit our enrollment quote. he emphasized the positive they reach enrollment goal. two years and $200 million later maryland is scrapping its exchange and buying the technology connecticut used. gretchen. that s whey heard. mike emanuel, thanks so much. major developments in the irs targeting scandal now. house oversight committee announcing honest website moments ago it s going to consider a contempt of congress illusion sometime today against former agency director lois lerner. lerner twice and before congress and twice invoked her fifth amendment right not to answer questions about her involvement in the scandal. why did you order tea party cases to undergo a