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Adam Carolla hosts what might be the most popular podcast on the planet. We checked in with him today on the program about life, his business, and why Jimmy Kimmel hated the producers on "The Man Show"...

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68 years ago, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, ending the war. But what would history be like if that hadn't happened? We talked with Bruce Klingner from the Heritage Foundation about that today...

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Funding for your band, movie project, board game, or book publishing...all can happen through crowdfunding sites like kickstarter. But could a site like that help fields like cancer research? We talked with Paul Howard from the Manhattan Institute, who thinks this could lead to huge positives....

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The new jobs report came out today, and it's pretty much business as usual in the Obama Administration. The economy continues to limp along at about 1%, and that's not a good thing. We talked with former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin who has some great insight into what's really going on...

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The President keeps putting out the line that we're focused on these "phony" scandals. You know, the phony scandals like Benghazi, the IRS targeting, the NSA...those are the types of phony scandals that the President is hoping we all just conveniently forget... My good friend Seton Motley joined me on the program tonight to talk about the collection of data that's happening before our eyes...

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I've been reporting on the Benghazi story since the tragic murders occurred 10 months ago. While the majority of the mainstream media has stopped talking about this story, or has dismissed it as another "phony" scandal, we have continued to keep it at front of our minds. Tonight, a bomshell story came out, courtesy of my friend Jake Tapper from CNN: CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya. Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret. CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out. Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings. The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress. It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career. In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well." Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation." "Agency employees typically are polygraphed every three to four years. Never more than that," said former CIA operative and CNN analyst Robert Baer. In other words, the rate of the kind of polygraphs alleged by sources is rare. "If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it's called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they're looking for something, or they're on a fishing expedition. But it's absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly," said Baer. The lack of information and pressure to silence CIA operatives is disturbing to U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, whose district includes CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. "I think it is a form of a cover-up, and I think it's an attempt to push it under the rug, and I think the American people are feeling the same way," said the Republican. "We should have the people who were on the scene come in, testify under oath, do it publicly, and lay it out. And there really isn't any national security issue involved with regards to that," he said. If this story proves to be true, this could bring down the Obama Presidency. I had a lot to say about this story tonight...