Steve Coll, Margaret Talbot, and Ryan Lizza on Obama’s scandal season.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 17 May 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Steve Coll, Margaret Talbot, and Ryan Lizza on Obama's scandal season.
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| 1:10.7 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors |
| 1:14.9 | about politics. It's Thursday, May 16th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of |
| 1:19.8 | The New Yorker. Its second term scandal season, congressional Republicans and the press |
| 1:26.1 | are wallowing in three of them at once. |
| 1:28.9 | We have the IRS allegedly targeting Tea Party groups, the Justice Department secret subpoena of phone records of AP reporters, and Benghazi again. |
| 1:39.1 | On Wednesday, President Obama dismissed the head of the IRS and said, |
| 1:43.1 | It's inexcusable, and Americans are |
| 1:44.9 | right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior |
| 1:50.9 | in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has |
| 1:57.7 | in all of our lives. Steve Kahl, Margaret Talbot, and Ryan Liz are here today to make some sense of the scandals |
| 2:03.3 | and how the Obama administration is responding. |
| 2:06.8 | So, Steve, I'm going to start with you. |
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