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Offices in downtown washington, d.c. downtown d.c. is a long way from madison, wisconsin. 850 miles with a shortcut through akron. but this is an annual junket for republicans. they all fly out, and d.c. lobbyists and others with money turn up and pay $5,000 a person, and that boosts these wisconsin republicans prospects back at home. and there, bill kramer is accused of sexually harassing two women, both verbally and physically. its alleged that he hugged and touched a staffers breasts.

Right now. ♪ >> eric: welcome, everybody. the i.r.s. hits keep coming. now we find out that the agency is dropping $4 million of your tax dollars on the conference at a swanky hotel in 2010. junket with the "star trek" skit and infa mouse line dancing. it all went down the same time that i.r.s. began targeting conservative groups. get this. they were learning how to be open and transparent with taxpayers. >> eric, i mean they are going after the tea party groups that want to cut down on govern...

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And everything. this isnt a conference. to learn something or study something, do it at home. or on skype or we get folding chairs and a gymnasium. >> greta, you are exactly right. my training when i was at the u.s. attorneys office as i would walk in the office next door to me and ask what i should do and it was free and we didnt have to travel. and there were no party favors. this conference you didnt even get credit for attending it in anaheim. there was no sign in or no record of whether or ...

>> junket to the holy land congressman on a junket over there and they go down and taking a look at the sea of galilee and this guy, congressman yoder, decides hes going to take off all of his clothes, all of his clothes, he put the junk in junket. so what we did, this trip to switch and we said hey, lets put together a segment about politicians who have misbehaved in the past. >> congressman kevin yoder, congressman anthony weiner, congressman lee, congressman eric massa. >> theyre saying i gro...

>> bill: in the impact segment, as you may know, fannie mae and freddie mac, owe we the people, us, $141 billion. as we reported, top executives and those concerns are set to receive $100 million in compensation in a two-year period ending december 31 this year. thats not all. about 100 fannie and fred employees traveled to chicago, a little junket. here to tell us about that, fox business anchor, stuart varney. look, am i overstating this? i mean, 100 employees go from dc to chicago. >> hyatt r...

Sense, osama bin laden is made in the u.s.a. >> laura: does that sound like moderation to you? oh, and by the way, the projects founders wont swear off money from saudi arabia or iran and they wont call hamas a terrorist organization. yet, "time" magazine and house speaker nancy pelosi choose to malign the motivations of anyone who raises these legitimate questions. imam rauf is currently in bahrain. he is sent by the obama administration to build faith bridges. he needs to end the junket and an...

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