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Travel records show. allegedly, a lot of those were for business but how many extra days were added on? add to that his wife is accused of impersonating a federal employee so she could join him at private sector conferences. >> martha johnson at least to her credit resigned right away. she was the chief earlier this month and did not take the fifth. but it looks like this guy took the fifth over and over again. hes got to be embarrassed and humiliated. lets listen. >> in one e-mail, mr. neely in...

Democrat or republican, whether its 2008 or 2012 it is wrong to have such abuses and there should be investigations into every federal agency under every presidents watch to make sure this doesnt occur. megyn: is it going to work, lars? weve heard a lot of folks, including the white house point to what happened under the bush administration. we have yet to see the numbers proved out on that. we dont know, the numbers jumped considerably in spending in the gsa under president bush. we dont know i...

It undoubtedly happen in bush years and other years, its intrinsic. however, obama and the democrats are the party of government. believe to expand it, have expanded it and want it to continue to expand. the republicans are the party of smaller government. as a result, when government does crazy things that are offensive to the people who support it, it will hurt the party of government. it will hurt obama. >> bret: mara, you have a democratic congressman elijah cummings reading an e-mail from t...

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...

We will pick up the room tab, could be a blast, it is not your money. its the taxpayers money." >>stuart: so, is this any time to be hiking taxes? and my guest is no fan of the buffe tt rule, not a time to raise taxes especially when we are spending tax money like this? >>guest: no, it is not at all. and, in fact, this is, really, just a subterfuge to try and raise capital gains taxes. there was a great article in the "wall street journal", when capital gains rates go up, revenue goes down. they...

11 secret service personnel and 10 department of defense personnel. government officials familiar with the case also tell me tonight, all 11 secret service personnel had their security clearances revoked effective today. effective today they can get those back if they are cleared. all 11 have been interviewed at least once by agency investigators. im told those under investigation for among other things bringing prostitutes back to a hotel secured for members of the american delegation...

head matchup with mibarack obam. kim jong-uns first speech in public. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." it can be a politicians worst enemy as politicians from ronald reagan to barack obama have learned the hard way. now a would be president is having his own open mike moment, mitt romney speaking candidly at a public fund-raiser about eliminating tax deductions and other loopholes. jim, tell our viewers whats going on. >> this is sort of an open mike moment, even thoug...

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...