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had concerns, and it said i spoke to the director earlier about the state department s deep concerns about mentioning the warnings that the cia had made about libya before and the other work done on this. you will still want to reemphasize that in your note to the director of central intelligence. thanks. so there were a lot of things that they couldn t explain to us that contradicted their story. everyone hold on for a moment. we are just learning that the president will be making a statement to the american people on the irrelevans scandal unfol capitol hill right at the top of the hour. 6:00 p.m. eastern. we ll of course have live coverage here in the situation room. the president speaking on the irs scandal from the white house in about 35 minutes or so from now. we ll have live coverage when the president makes his statement on the irs. that s a whole separate scandal. we ll get into that in a moment. let me bring up dana bash up on capitol hill. dana, we re watching all of
but in the past it s also been other groups. african-american groups, civil rights groups, a number of others. i think what we have to do is fix the irs once and for all. i look forward to the president getting ahead of part of this story. but let s remember, the actions the irs, in this case, conspicuously benefited the president. because in the inspector general s report, among other things, they concluded this, all of these officials stated that the criteria were not influenced by any individual or organization outside the irs. do you buy that? well, i certainly think it s possible that the irs, individuals, for political reasons, made decisions to distort the process. but i also know that a huge number of members of congress on both the house and senate side, including the finance committee chairman, wrote letters saying, investigate the tea party. so you kind of have the worst of both worlds. you have members of congress
who said to his deputy, gregg, we re under attack. greg hicks who testified he knew this was a terrorist attack from the get-go, certainly the president of libya said so on national television. at the same time, susan rice was delivering false information. when you look at this train, you still have to ask the question, how did they go from the correct information to the incorrect information, and isn t 100 pages or more a pushback on the cia effectively telling the cia, you ve got to change your story? one final question, congressman, before i let you go. the exchange you had with eric holder today, the attorney general of the united states, on a totally unrelated matter, the secretary the labor secretary nominee. it was an angry exchange. and he was furious at you. i want to play the exchange for our viewers, because i want you to respond to what he accused you of. it was pretty biting. mr. cummings, my ranking
you, ted rolands on the scene. she was convicted of first-degree murder, an hour the jury said she s eligible for the death penalty in the third and final phase. ted saying it could last for about a week. they ll determine whether or not she gets the death penalty, or whether she gets life in prison. we ll have much more on this story coming up throughout the night here on cnn. but once again, the big story here in washington, indeed, in the nation, the president of the united states speaking out momentarily on the irs investigation into why the irs targeted certain conservative groups for special treatment when they applied for tax-exempt status, treatment they did not apply to liberal groups or other political organizations. it s causing a huge uproar here in washington. jake tapper is watching what s going on, gloria borger, joe johns. if the associated press scandal is not really going to generate a lot of commotion as you suggest earlier, or the benghazi