Posted on May 15, 2013

Axelrod: Government "So Vast," Obama Can't Know About Wrongdoing

SCARBOROUGH: He's saying to those at the University of Chicago's school of politics, to students, to others, when they're talking about looking at the IRS scandal and what an administration should or should not do.



AXELROD: Look, it's an interesting case study because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy -- you know we have a large government -- took it upon themselves to shorthand these applications for tax-exempt status in a way that was, as i said, idiotic, and also dangerous because of the political implications. One prima facie bit of evidence that nobody political was involved in this, is that if anybody political was involved they would say: are you nuts?



Part of being president is there's so much underneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast.