in the normal course of news gathering are saying that they are reluctant to talk to us. they fear they will be monitored by the government. we are already seeing it. it is not hypothetical. a.p. reporters hel a story about a thwarted terror bombing for five days at the request of the white house. he says the secret subpoena included 20 phone lines, used by at least 100 journalists. it s a tough week for the administration. which scandal do you think will be the toughest for the white house to manage? benghazi, the irs targeting conservative groups or the department of justice/associate press phone records. tweet us with your answers. we will read some later. president obama addressing graduates ofmore house college in atlanta. the alumni are the late dr. martin luther king jr. this is the first time that a sitting
they don t have the treasury secretary out and they are trying to downplay this to say well, it wasn t that bad and in fact it is really the supreme court s fault and the president didn t know anything about it and it is just over here and we will take care of it because they as pfeiffer points out the ramifications are huge and huge not just for the president s agenda but for the application of the first term agenda which is to say his healthcare law. shannon: and there has been a lot of discussion about the fact that at one point the person who was heading up the tax exempt organization issue sarah hall ingram is now heading up the enforcement arm of the irs when it comes to the affordability care act which really is the enforcement is the way that the act lives. it is the center of his law because it is there the mechanism, the irs is the mechanism by which people will be compelled, forced to purchase health insurance and that is kind of the deal. that is the whole point of this
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trust. shannon: the obama administration doing damage control on three months. the white house insists the president did not know the irs was targeting conservatives during the presidential election. but, the way the president is handling the issue along with revealations regarding the doj secret sweep of associated press reporters phone lines and the benghazi investigation have some wondering how much impact this could have on the president s second term agenda. i m shan. we begin with digital politics editor chris stirewald. good to see you today. you are in your scandal black. i m feeling it. shannon: i am. somebody we are are seeing a lot of today, dan pfeifer. making the round on the sunday shows. what does that say about how the white house is treeing to respond to the events of this week? they are trying to keep it as away from the president out here. we are interested in it and care about it but not raising the red alert. not doing the full monte and
tax return from the internal system official use only. we immediately called for an investigation. they first investigated us to see if anybody on our side had obtained a copy of the irs version and leaked it and then the investigation quit. and we filed a series now of freedom of information act requests trying to get to the bottom of who committed this crime. it is a felony up to five years in prison for somebody in the irs to have done this. shannon: and you have filed a number of questions and freedom of information act requests trying to find out who was the person now having determined it did come internally from the irs. what has been the latest response in your push to see who did chit thi commit this c? the latest response is down right orwellian. we received a response that said any investigation for violation of the irs rules is itself protected taxpayer return information that they cannot disclose to us the