During a press conference alongside visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama vowed Monday to hold IRS officials accountable for reportedly singling out conservative-leaning political groups and slammed those actions as “outrageous.”
“If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that’s outrageous and there’s no place for it,” he said. “I will not tolerate it and we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this.”
Questions and GOP conspiracy theories over the deadly attack in Libya last September continues to bog down his administration. “There’s no there there,” Obama said. “The fact that this keeps on getting churned up, frankly, has a whole lot to do with political motivations.”
Here’s a look at some of the stories on our radar:
- The White House’s terrible, horrible Friday spills over
- IRS gives Republicans issue to seize upon
- Time’s Joe Klein op-ed on the ‘IRS mess’
- With a Benghazi video, Karl Rove kicks off 2016 with Hillary Clinton hit
- Robert Gates calls Benghazi critics ‘cartoonish‘
- Leave Hillary alone! Bill Kristol says Republicans should stop running ‘ridiculous’ ads on Benghazi
- Minnesota Senate set for a noon debate on same sex marriage
- Minnesota gay marriage deal has roots in gun debate
- Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
- Mother’s Day parade shooting in New Orleans injures at least 19
- Monday last day for morning-after pill appeal
- Gomez internal poll shows him trailing Markey by 3 points in Mass. special election
- Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade provided ‘target‘ for abortion-rights opponents
- Dems urge SEC to ban mandatory arbitration clauses
Sarah Muller