lerner might say? absolutely. absolutely. she essentially disclosed this at an aba meeting. and the question is, why didn t we hear more of this earlier? we need to get to the bottom of it, and we re going to do that. as i said, the president said, the original singling out was outrageous. and now we need to find out exactly what happened after that. there were different formulas used by irs. and then eventually we get the facts. they should have come forth much earlier. and we re going to ask mr. miller about that on friday. as you said, there had been this bipartisan effort to seek answers on this. but certainly the criticism has been loud on both sides. take a listen to mitch mcconnell in just the last hour. what we don t know at this point is whether it jumped the fence from the irs to the white house. but we do know this.
media long ago ceased doing their job, they re not holding obama accountable, they re on board. they are part of the agenda advancement team. greta: so why is the the president singling out and blaming fox for a lack of bipartisanship in washington. the political correspondent byron york joins us, why is it? is fox guilty or just doesn t like what fox does or how fox challenges his policy? i think this shows that the president thinks he s in for a big fight. if you go back and see when he has brought up fox and when the white house has brought up fox, you ll see when they re in big fights. october. 20 2009 big fight for obamacare, and anita dunn starts talking about fox as a wing of the republican party, blaming opposition to obamacare on fox. singling out fox. summer of 2011, big fight over the debt ceiling at the time. jay carney, white house press secretary accuses ed henry our
not curious, they are not holding obama accountable. they are on board. they are part of the agenda advancement team. why is the president singling out and blaming fox for a lack of bipartisanship in washington? chief political respondent byron york joins us. is fox guilty? or he doesn t like how fox challenges his policies? i think the president thinks he s in for a big fight. if you go back and see when he has brought up fox and when the white house has brought up fox, it s when they are in big fights. october 200 19, big fight over obamacare. annetta dunn starts talking about fox as the wing of the republican party, blaming opposition to obamacare on fox, singling out fox. summer of 2011, big fight over the debt ceiling at the time. jay carney, white house press secretary accuses ed henry, our white house correspondent of spouting republican talking
clinton is just wrapping up a meeting with the japanese foreign minister at the department of state. a joint statement is expected to follow shortly. earlier president obama called south korea s president to re-affirm his commitment to korea s security and stability. when it comes to the payroll tax cut, it s one step forward and two steps back in congress. the house is expected to reject the senate s two-month extension of the payroll tax cut. house speaker john boehner says the house will be pushing a one-year extension. the idea the tax policy can be done two months at a time is a kind of activity that we see here in washington that really put our economy off its tracks. payroll tax cut along with emergency men fits will expire if congress does not act. the supreme court will set aside three days next spring to hear oral arguments on the federal health care law. proceedings will start march 26th with jurisdictional argument. on march 27th they ll discuss the indivi
comments, they want results. wouldn t it be more productive to work with the republicans on a plan that you know could pass congress as opposed to going around the country and talking about your bill and singling out, calling the republicans by name? first of all, sbewith respeco the state of the economy, there is no doubt growth has slowed. people were much more optimistic at the beginning of the year. but the combination of a japanese tsunami and the arab spring which drove up gas prices and most prominently europe, i think it has gotten businesses and consumers very nervous. we did not help here in washington with the debt ceiling debacle that took place. a bit of game playing completely unnecessary. completely unprecedented in terms of how we dealt with our responsibilities here in washington. you combine all of that ask there s no doubt the economy is weaker now than it was in the beginning of the year.