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Gary Pruitt, CEO and president of the Associated Press, told "Face the Nation" that Justice Department investigators have gone too far and President Obama should step in and control them. Gayle King reports.

Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer pushed back against Republicans' claims of a coverup in the IRS scandal. Charlie Rose reports.

President Obama gave the commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta.

CBS News political director John Dickerson discusses what to expect in this week's round of hearings concerning the IRS scandal and how the White House is responding to Republican critics.

Lois Lerner, the IRS official whose apology turned the scandal into top news, will testify as Congress continues its investigations

Raymond Maxwell, former deputy assistant secretary for the Maghreb region, has been venting in verse since being put on leave

During remarks at a Democratic fundraiser, President Obama avoiding mentioning recent controversies but criticized the "tendency in Washington to put politics ahead of policy, to put the next election ahead of the next generation," saying, "that mindset is what we need to change" if we hope to move America forward.

During speech at fundraiser, the president avoided mentioning recent controversies but knocked Washington's tendency "to put politics ahead of policy"

As Democrats try to put the controversy over Benghazi attack to rest, GOP continues roasting the administration over talking points, inadequate security, and more

As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for excuses."