Obama Aims to Take Control of Three Scandals

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President Barack Obama is facing a make-or-break week as he tries to seize control of three scandal story lines that could upend one of the top priorities of his second term: revising the nation’s immigration laws.

Obama won’t cooperate in a “partisan fishing expedition” over who knew what and when about revelations that the Internal Revenue Service was applying added scrutiny to Republican-leaning groups seeking tax-exempt status, Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the president, said yesterday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” program.