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Genuinely believes that the u.s., israel tie is a very important one that the presidents reputation has been damaged by the approach. this is the easter recess. this is chance for him to go to the holly land and try to make it up. -- holy land and try to make this up. thats all there is to it. >> big news about the gsa official who threw that lavish vegas conference on your dime. is next. >> listen up, greta talk is your new podcast destination. subscribe on itunes, tune in or stitcher. plus gre...

By the las vegas sun in 2000 12. very critical of reid and actions reid took from the senate floor and called back other times he had done similar things. i think you will see more of those sorts of stories come out now because harry reid is not this powerful person that can twist as many arms as he used to be able to. interesting to see how his relationship with his party evolves. >> shame on everybody. shame on democrats that didnt speak up. shame on those in the media that didnt speak up. >> ...

The conference taking a bath, all that money apparently not getting him matching wine glasses. thats not all ♪ aint no place better than gsa. >> gsa employees releasing parody videos neeley. >> i got to give props to my man jeff neeley. >> one video mocking taxpayers. >> taxpayers do me a favor. if you gsa put your hands up in the air. >> while the video might outrage you, the gsa loved it they gave the employee an award at the conference. >> officially make you commissioner for a day. [ laugh...

Month this conference took place, by the way, the nations unemployment rate was, i believe, 9.5%, if this is what our federal government workers are doing with our tax money, when the rest of america is trying find a job, doesnt that say something? >> yeah, you know, you have two big outrages here, of course the outrage that they blew through almost a million dollars wasted on these trips, but the second outrage is what we have on the screen now, which is that some of employees actually were moc...

Some investigators wonder why it took two years for the people to be penalized for that. jenna: the people in the video, were they punished? do we know? >> reporter: i think -- i believe that the gentleman who you just saw rapping is now on administrative leave. his superiors were punished. jenna: obviously, its a situation where one of the questions that comes up is like what is the consequence for something like this, and we talked a little about congress, our congressional -- are congressiona...

Disrespect for our money, jon, that has so many americans outraged. jon: julie, if i have the chronology right here, martha johnson, who was the head of the gsa, fired her two top administrators and then resigned herself. now, you say that this kind of thing goes on under republican and democratic administrations, but why should the obama administration not be called to account for this outrage? >> well, they were called to task, as soon as they found out about it, they fired people. jon: they w...

Administration employees, the getaway for gsa employees, during the height of the recession when unemployment was at 10 percent, cost taxpayers $800,000. one clip that won top prize was the 28-year-old gsa employee, hank terlage, wrote, quote, hes living high on the hog and will never be under investigation by the agencys inspector general. the other shows david folo teasing him about a party in the hotel suite of gsa commissioner robert peck. well, peck was fired last monday. gsa administrator ...