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>> chris: jeff, do you think, i find a astonishing myself to say this is all about the video. do you think they really believe that or see that as an easy out and as i suggested to mike rogers now they dont have to answer questions about policy because it has nothing to do about policy? >> im not sure if they believe it or not but they are doubling down on it. it looks like they believe it, be even privately even in conversations i have had over the weekend with senior administration officials a...

Well await the results of the investigation, and the president has been very clear well work with the libyan authorities to bring those responsible to justice. >> was there a failure here that this administration is responsible for, whether its an intelligence failure, a failure to see this coming, or a failure adequately protect u.s. embassies and installations from a spontaneous reaction like this? >> david, i dont think so. first of all, we had no actionable intelligence to suggest that any a...

System? what is the government doing and why do we know about this double agent, brian? why does the world know about this double agent? why do we not know whether there are other bombs? what happened? did someone in our government leak this? >> what happened is as you know, the a.p. had this story last week and the c.i.a. said please hold on to and they did. monday, we believe they stopped holding on to it. the question is this double agent said theres more than one. hes in our custody right no...

William la jeunesse live in l.a. on this. what gives, william, good morning. >> reporter: this is a major break down on two fronts. one you have a travel scam where ice wasnt even requiring a seat when employees filed expenses, secondly an intelligence failure where the highest ranking officials with top security clearances are going to the middle east unauthorized with secret bank accounts and the administration doesnt even know it. immigration and customs enforcement, or ice, is americas secon...

Scent of gary powers and the soviet union, and why is the obama administration downplaying this? there is gary power, huge back in the 1960s. >> thank goodness we have drone technology that doesnt endanger our pilots or the propaganda the iranians have would be greater but a curiosity of the obama administration, is the president almost single-handedly is responsible for killing usama bin laden, but, he seems to have been away when the drone went down. i dont understand that disconnect, myself. ...

Parliament in kabul. afghan president, hamid karzai said it represents an intelligence failure for both the afghan government and in his words, quote, especially nato. dozens of gunmen managed to enter secure areas around the capital without being picked up by spy agencies or spotted by local security forces. it could demonstrate a more disciplined militant fighting force, particularly among the haqqani network. just this morning in some news coming across the wires, australia announcing its p...

All right. 28 past the hour. thank you. all right. time to take a look -- >> by the way, we are talking about madmen. well talk about it after the papers. >> military officials were surprised by the scale of the attacks in afghanistan on sunday. afghan president karzai says it represents an intelligence failure for the afghan government, especially nato. this morning, australia announced they plan to start withdrawaling troops from the war zone a year earlier than plans. the tuscaloosa news wo...

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they spent $800,000 of your money on skits, clowns, mock award ceremonies. this hour we will hear their answers about the spending scandal. we begin hearings on the actions of the general services administration employees. the agency supposed to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. instead, they threw this lavish conference in vegas at taxpayer expense. tornadoes ripped through the midwest. six people in one hard-hit oklahoma community died. ten states in the midwest and plai...

years ago. ♪ tell you about global project management ♪ >> the scandal is now in the cross hairs of a congressal hearing today. video spoofs even bragged about the lavish spending and poked fun at president obama. the scandal already has claimed gsa administrator martha johnson who stepped down two weeks ago. republican chair of the house oversight committee darrell issa says one goal of the hearing is to, quote, make sure this doesnt happen again. the death toll from this weeken...