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The law and you -- this sexual misconduct cannot be accepted. >> reporter: last week, leonhart was grilled by lawmakers who demanded to know why the agents were suspended not fired. >> can you revoke their security clearance? >> i cant revoke their security clearance. >> honestly? what power do you have? >> what i can do is build on and improve mechanisms. >> reporter: all this as the secret service has been reeling from a string of scandals, one of them dating back to 2012 when more than a doze...

Militaristic, that we should have shut down this mail carrier, if he was a black muslim, we maybe would have. >> but they shot that woman who drove her car who led police on a chase. so thats happened. so its very serious. what struck me about this how you saw officials joking about this guy and flying his copters onto the lawn. its not funny. its serious. the lack of -- i think thats where the complacency comes in when you see somebody like secretary johnson laughing about this in retrospect an...

Militaristic, that we should have shut down this mail carrier, if he was a black muslim, we maybe would have. >> but they shot that woman who drove her car who led police on a chase. so thats happened. so its very serious. what struck me about this how you saw officials joking about this guy and flying his copters onto the lawn. its not funny. its serious. the lack of -- i think thats where the complacency comes in when you see somebody like secretary johnson laughing about this in retrospect an...

It was a particularly creepy experience. >> we found a much quieter and calmer atmosphere when we shot on death row inside the river bend maximum security institution in tennessee. but correctional staff warned our producers appearances can be deceiving. >> as you see here, its real quiet. what that leads to is complacency. that is the worst enemy of a staff person working on death row. >> while most of the inmates here play by the rules, our crew is told there was one especially dangerous excep...

So they can break it or stab it, cut it, slash it. >> it reminded me of feeding, you know, vicious animals. it was a particularly creepy experience. >> we found a much quieter and calmer atmosphere when we shot on death row inside the river bend maximum security institution in tennessee. but correctional staff warned our producer, appearances can be deceiving. >> as you see here, its real quiet, but that leads to complacency. that is the worst enemy of a staff person working on death row. >> whi...

>> the thing is the torch is passed down to us. listening to president obama in selma a few weeks back it truly reminded me honestly the work is still yet to be done. theres a lot we have to do as leaders, empower our generation and our people to rise up in complacency and address these issues head on and educate them. >> all i can say is if you are our future leaders, we can take a breath. youre amazing all of you. thank you so much for this amazing discussion. up next jeb bush cranks up campai...

Who reaches out to the youngest generation and takes these important issues and engages our population. i think thats what were lacking in politics right now, someone willing to reach out to the future leaders, to students like us all across the country ready to face issues head on. >> the thing is the torch is passed down to us. listening to president obama in selma a few weeks back it truly reminded me honestly the work is still yet to be done. theres a lot we have to do as leaders and thats e...

Series of events, one by one all the things you just named, it makes you wonder number one, whether there is a cultural problem here and whether the agency has moved into a culture of complacency and how deep this problem goes. but again, weve got clearly a lot of work to do. i think this was a major wakeup call. the good thing, rachel, is that the homeland security inspector general is doing this investigation. thats a good thing. because theyll do a very thorough investigation. theyll do a dee...

In recounting the success of the montgomery bus boycott of 1956 the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. warned against complacency saying time itself can become the enemy of progress. he wrote human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle. the tireless exertions and passionate concerned of dedicated individuals. this is no time for apathy or complacency. this is a time for vigorous and positive action. and so...

Which leads us to ask just how might we repay that debt. first and foremost, we have to recognize that one days commemoration no matter how special is not enough. if selma taught us anything its that our work is never done. the american experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation. selma teaches us as well that action requires that we shed our cynicism. when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair. you know, just this week i wa...