The question-and-answer session will be Obama’s first since the revelation on Friday that the Internal Revenue Service investigated the tax-exempt status of groups with conservative leanings and terms like “tea party” in their names.
On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that "if there was inappropriate conduct here, that [Obama] would want it thoroughly investigated and we would not tolerate that.”
But Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that the IRS’s action needs to be “personally condemned” by the president, who must “make crystal clear that this is totally unacceptable.”
Collins also called into question the IRS’s early claim that the improper behavior was the work of low-level employees.
"I just don't buy that this was a couple of rogue IRS employees," she said, underlining that "groups with 'progressive' in their names were not targeted similarly."
Obama could also face questions
on his administration’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack
in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi that claimed the lives of four
Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. He and Cameron could also
face questions about the bloody civil war in Syria. LINK
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