Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and President Barack Obama went back and forth for a tense 15 minutes Sunday afternoon, in a pre-Super Bowl interview that focused on the IRS, the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, and the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
O'Reilly opened the interview by saying he wanted to get some things "on the record."
He asked Obama, point blank, why he did not fire Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius after the flummoxed rollout of his signature health-care law. He avoided a direct answer, but Obama said that people were being "held accountable."
O'Reilly also asked Obama if he was told in the initial aftermath of the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that it had been a "terrorist attack."
"When someone is attacking our compound that’s an act of terror," Obama said, adding that he had used that phrase in a Rose Garden statement the day after the attack.
After some intense questioning about last year's revelation that the IRS targeted certain groups, including conservative groups, for extra scrutiny, Obama took a jab at Fox News.
""These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," he said.
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