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Management culture in the secret service which condones corner cutting. >> reporter: the incident adds to a long list of embarrassments in the last few years. last month a man was take noon custody after jumping over a white house fence while the first family was inside celebrating thanksgiving. also in november, a secret service officer assigned to the white house was arrested after he was caught in a sting, allegedly sending naked picture of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl...

With secret service culture, a culture that you characterize as one of coverup and corner cutting. explain what you mean there. >> as one example, when gun shots were fired at the white house in 2011 a uniformed officer reported that and her supervisor said its just a construction site noise and she said later she didnt press the point because she was afraid of being criticized. in other words, the person who is reporting threats and problems fears she cant say anything. there is this culture th...

Factors that go into this. >> is there an issue in terms of pilot training the difference in standards and the way they manage a cockpit and pilots work together in asia with these kinds of airlines versus southwest or any of the large american carriers. airasia workers are sophisticated and realize any cut in training any corner-cutting is expensive. we have seen no indications of other low-cost carriers to have any major problems with pilot training being corner-cut or maintenance being reduce...

Service director. she essentially was a clone of mark sullivan, the previous director, who presided over these scandals over the solahi intrusion and the cartagena scandal. she has done nothing whatsoever to change this culture on the management level of corner cutting. many things she did was issued a memo reminding agents they should maintain a professional appearance. well, it reminds me of jay edgar hoover who insisted on everyone looking wonderful. but at the same time presided over a range...

Libor scandal and near our "times" piece in the paper today looking to build a criminal case around it. paragreem looks like a mini madoff situation in which a guy stole $100 million of his clients money and what the culture or finance is and whether or not its systematically driven towards corner cutting. stephen, something you want to say. >> well, sprouppose its true at finance. thats something that is true in american life. seems endemic to the kind of things that we do and the kind of pract...

apparently there is a person in custody in relation to this case, someone who has apparently made it clear that he or she has a connection to this case. as you mentioned, man, this is an old case. 33 years old, etan patz went missing in a lower manhattan neighborhood, never to be seen. no one could crack this case. several weeks ago, the investigation reopened into a carpenter, a carpenter who had a carpentry shop just down the street from where etan patzs family lived. they, in fact, ...

decent timing and kimmel pretty good as well. s john fugelsang with us, political comedian, with the professional opinion and will cain, columnist of theblaze.com. >> good morning. >> our starting point this morning, pretty shocking and daring escape that could have an impact on the u.s. relationship with china, a blind chinese discy dent evaded layers of guards after 18 months under house arrest, he made his trek 370 miles north to beijing. secretary secretary tim gigter in are expect...

Their rooms and fell asleep. thats all well and good. but what if one of those prostitutes had stolen an agents identification, his passport, or even his badge? doug mckelway is live for us in washington with the latest. doug? >> secretary napolitano said provided protection 900 foreign trips and 13,000 domestic trips, through none of that was there any suggestion that this kind of behavior would happen. we spoke today with ron kessler who is the author of in the presidents secret service, which...

Quite a story of secret service management. >>shepard: we will expect a great deal of testimony from the secret service agents themselves. >>guest: one of the removed agent whose was a supervisor said he wants to testify. that means to me he will blow the whistle on all the corner cutting, and laxness that led to the intrusion at the state dinner by the salahis, the party crashers, and it goes on all the time but it is very secret, very covered up, and it really jeopardizes the president accordi...

We all go to parties. thats not the problem. the problem is going to prostitutes. i dont see there is some grand conspiracy. they are just idiots. the bigger problem is this corner cutting and dishonesty. for example when members of congress go to visit the secret service training center in laurel maryland they are given these spontaneous exercise -- supposedly spon tan yours exercises where there is great heroism and they get the bad guys. well, actually this is all rehearsed before hand secret...