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Outrageous spending at the general services administration, or gsa. the executive believed at the center of the more than $820,000 las vegas conference in october of 2010 replied to chairman darrell issa five questions the same way. >> mr. chairman, on the advice of counsel, i decline to answer based on my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> jeff neely is on leave from his job in charge of gsa. issa asked if he stayed for the remainder of the hearing, he quickly left capitol hill. the w...

Today on capitol hill at the first of four hearings on the spending scandal. investigators say gsa also sent its interns to a ritzy resort in palm springs. and let officials spent a week in hawaii for an event that lasted but one hour. remember, this agency is supposed to save taxpayer dollars. but some workers made music videos bragging about their spending sprees. ♪ i traveled the world ♪ who london and peru ♪ getting that voucher approved for me too ♪ aint no place better than gsa. >>...

And theres something about the endurance of that, something about the defiance. >> thats an intriguing point, because what youre suggesting is that at least through the alteration of your own perception, your own relationship with these experiences, in one version youve lost everything, in another version, same facts, same exact fact, nothing has changed, you feel a continuity. >> yeah. we live one life, and the things we gather are experience, the human experience, is something far more than th...

The fact that i realized finally the power of memory and language to survive me. >> who were the people that live in this book for you that mean the most? >> well, the two people i wish could read it most, my mother and my father, who are the two people who cant. its not a biography in that way. it doesnt paint a portrait of my family, its not a war memoir in that way in that it focuses entirely on the war, but both those things are what composed this book. its really a message and im just the m...

So she has gone into his state of mind about he was thinking there. she said that during the recorded call, zimmerman made reference to people he felt had committed and gotten away with break-ins. she determined, the prosecutor determined that one of the things he said on that 911 audio tape after saying these people -- you know the word i cannot say on tv, they get a way with this stuff and then he said, these fing punks, the prosecutor seemed to have determined that its the word punks as oppos...

Criminal. so she has gone into his state of mind about he was thinking there. she said that during the recorded call, zimmerman made reference to people he felt had committed and gotten away with break-ins. she determined, the prosecutor determined that one of the things he said on that 911 audio tape after saying these people -- you know the word i cannot say on tv, they get a way with this stuff and then he said, these fing punks, the prosecutor seemed to have determined that its the word punk...

worked a day in her life. shes never dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing. >> has rosen gone too far? well ask her live. extreme flooding. cars buried by water. texas getting hammered by hail the size of golf balls. were tracking where the storm is heading next. were we taken for a ride? the department of justice throwing the ebook at apple accusing the computer giant of pumping up price these charge us for ebooks. the gove...

damage control after this one and republicans are in full investigation mode. >> wildfires raging from maine to miami. flames threatening homes. thick smoke stopping traffic after one of the warmest and driest marches -- march ever. >> you dont just come to miami and say the things this guy said. ozzie guillen, manager of the marlin, boy, is he getting off on the wrong foot with the fans. he said something about fidel castro that not too many people like. george zimmerman speaks. wel...

all five victims were black. the two suspects are white. officials are not calling this a hate crime but jake england, the suspect on the left, he made a remark on his facebook page the day before the shootings that could indicate a motive here, "today is two years that my dad has been gone, shot by a, blank and blank. its hard not to go off between that and sharon, ive gone in the red, rip dad and sharon, i love and miss you. i think about both of you every second of the day. sharon w...

Soon as that changes. >> and the fifth one is personality. now, you also do this interesting analogy in the book where you dissect peoples personalities by winnie the pooh and use the characters. you have winnie the pooh which is the laid back person. tigger is, what, optimistic? >> the bouncy trouncy, fun, fun, fun, extroverts who suck all the air out of a room when they walk in. >> eyore is the pessimist. rabbit is the goal oriented one. you came up watching winnie the pooh with the kids. in y...