possible, but if he still is at the top of the justice department, i don t think you re going to get the resolution that the american people wants on any of these issues. greta: speaking of the irs investigation, steve forbes said there should be a special prosecutor appointed by the attorney general. would you have a problem with him if there s a special prosecutor, would the attorney general be the one to select the special prosecutor to investigate the irs targeting? i would. ideally we should have a special prosecutor. the problem is if the attorney general appoints someone running interference on an investigation, that could make it more difficult for congress to exercise its oversight function. i think we need to continue what we re doing on oversight. we re actually getting a lot of information. there s more coming out about links to washington, d.c. with this whole thing. i wouldn t want somebody who wasn t really on the up and up investigating and then have witnesses say,
you, in this inspector general report here, we see in addition to the items given here, in the swag bag as we call it, various promotional items, totaling $27 thundershower provided. we ve seen the footnote, purchased by the human capital office for approximately $737, given to attendees at the information corridor as well as during a conference workshop that consisted of various items including keychains, plastic coins, miniature stuffed animals and plastic squirting fish. this fish is not from the conference. it s very similar to the ones given out. we assume it s roughly 3,000, the number of attendees. i ask you, sir, what in the world does an irs employee need a plastic squirting fish? i don t know. maybe this represents the fishy things going on at the irs. this is outrageous. i mean it shows obviously these people were attending a party. they used taxpayer dollars to throw it. greta: the irs scandal is not just about the $4 million party, but started with the disturbing
leaks, exactly. the way this is being received right now, the president has managed to unite the far right and far left. liberals and libertarians suddenly agree. the issue will be the middle. i don t know where it is yet. you hear members of congress, and seems to be general support along the people who are most briefed on this issue, on the intelligence committee, but people now know something about the federal government, and the details of which were not known before. we had no idea this was going on with regard to the phone companies. we had no idea this was going on with regard to electronic communication. this will take time to digest. the president welcomes the debate. he ll get it, because there will be members of congress, the public responding to it, and it will take time to play out. greta: oversight hasn t been particularly good. look at the irs. how much confidence duty american people have? oh, good, congress with oversight, when they ve done a lousy job on
republicans have to be very careful about in the house. the country is supportive of a country that gets the facts. it is not supportive of a congress which goes on a partisan witch-hunt. the calmer and more fact-oriented the republicans can be in developing these investigations the broader support they ll get in the country. i think almost everybody in the country believes the irs did something profoundly wrong. even most democrats believe they did s-mething profoundly wrong. almost every american is troubled by the scale of the gathering-up of information we re learning about from the national security agency. i think there s a potential availability of a very broad bipartisan effort to get to the truth. the people have to believe that s sincerely what you re trying to do. greta: straight ahead, from targeting conservatives to wasting your money on ridiculous videos, and still no one at the irs has been fired. we ll talk about that next. also new information, the nsa
the way this is being received right now, the president has managed to unite the far right and far left. liberals and libertarians suddenly agree. the issue will be the middle. i don t know where it is yet. you hear members of congress, and seems to be general support along the people who are most briefed on this issue, on the intelligence committee, but people now know something about the federal government, and the details of which were not known before. we had no idea this was going on with regard to the phone companies. we had no idea this was going on with regard to electronic communication. this will take time to digest. the president welcomes the debate. he ll get it, because there will be members of congress, the public responding to it, and it will take time to play out. greta: oversight hasn t been particularly good. look at the irs. how much confidence duty american people have? oh, good, congress with oversight, when they ve done a lousy job on members of congress wer