>> but let me stop you for a second, when you talk about the nanny state -- >> david, let me finish. david, let me finish. the investigation has just begun so i'm not going to reach a conclusion about what we may find. but what we do know happened is they were targeting tea party groups. we know that. >> nbc's peter alexander is live for us at the white house with a decidedly less testy tone. thank you for joining us on this sunday. let's talk about the administration. how are they respond together accusations and how is the president trying to change the conversation? >> the white house, as you noted, the president is at the morehouse college, giving a commencement address there at the historically black college. as for these simultaneous scandals or convergence of controversies you've been talking about, the white house insists its primary goal now has been to try to take these things out of the political realm, out of the realm of partisan ship.