MSNBC host Chris Matthews criticized President Obama's handling of the recent scandal involving the IRS targeting conservative groups.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think it's both. I think the government looks bullying and overreaching, and the President looks like he doesn't have control of the steering wheel. When he has to tell us, as Jon Stewart, he's brilliant, has shown us this week, every time the President learns about something, it's by picking up the newspaper. And the President ought to know what's going on in the government if he's going to run it. That's, he doesn't have to know what's going on in an FBI investigation of AP, but he ought to know how his attorney general has just recused himself in a case involving the Associated Press. Same with regard to the IRS. He ought to know there was an IRS investigation a while back and there was an IG report. And by the way, I think he should have got it first. I don't know why everyone else got it before he got it. By the way, that was leaked so well, the IG. report, very little came out the night it came out. We knew it all, how come he didn't know it?