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IRS probe ignored most influential groups

There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.Full story

Congressman: IRS hearing 'showed what a giant overreach the matter is'

Amid rampant gun violence, Louisiana legislators aim to loosen gun laws

What the GOP obsession with Benghazi is really about

Don't Tax The Rich, Take Money From The Poor

  The program that funds school lunch assistance for the nation's poorest children is under attack by right wing conservatives. Ed talks to Joel Berg about the possible cuts and how his organization is struggling to protect kids.

Will current scandals affect the 2014 midterms?

  Agenda killer? MSNBC Host Karen Finney and Former Press Secretary under George W. Bush, Tony Fratto, discuss President Obama’s second term agenda.  Both Finney and Fratto predict the outcomes of the 2014 election season and how the current scandals could influence the results.  They both discuss the

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  Scandals or bureaucratic problems?

MSNBC political analyst Joan Walsh, Demos’ Bob Herbert, American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie, TheGrio’s Joy Reid, and Steve Kornacki discuss the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, past problems with government bureaucracy that weren’t labeled “scandals,” and whether Democratic presiden

  GOP obstructionism: lather, rinse, repeal

Fresh off the heels of his 37th vote to repeal Obamacare, Speaker Boehner says repealing Obamacare is his key focus moving forward, and that means more time wasted.

  GOP strategy continues to be attack, attack, attack

Republican strategist John Feehery and the Center for American Progress’ Neera Tanden talk about the right-wing’s cry to Republican leaders to focus on the scandals for as long as possible in order to derail the president’s momentum in his second term.

  House IRS hearing aims to ‘get the facts’

Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., shares her thoughts on the House hearing on the IRS scandal saying, “there’s a lot of contradictions.” Black also reaffirms that the IRS should be a “non-partisan organization.”

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