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self-aware layer we constantly have and for lack of a better word have fun. ♪ all the pretty girls on a saturday night ♪ >> fun. thank you, guys. if you want to see my interview, go to my blog and send me a tweet @brookbcnn. government workers spent your money. they even made videos about spending your money. the deputy commissioner of the gsa is not going to talk. here he is, taking the fit in a dramatic exchange just in the past hour on capitol hill. >> i decline to answer based on my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> did you attend the conference in las vegas? >> i respectdly decline to answer based upon my fifth constitutional fridge. >> mr. neely, did you approve the funding for the 2010 western regional conference? >> mr. chairman, on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully decline to answer based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> just a few more. mr. neely, what was the original budget for that conference? >> mr. chairman, on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully decline to answer based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> mr. neely, are you currently employed as an employee? >> mr. chairman, on advice of my counsel, i respectfully decline to answer based upon my constitutional fifth amendment privilege. >> are you prepared to answer any questions here today about your participation in the 2010 western regional conference. >> mr. chairman, i respectfully decline to answer any questions here based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> you can see how that is going. we'll have much more. the pentagon is saying more members of the military than initially reported may have played a part from alleged misconduct in colombia. so total here, may have been 21. it all allegedly happened before the president arrived in colombia and happened at a hotel he was not using. so you're talking 11 secret service agents and officers under investigation. they were sent home early. then these new details now, five members of the u.s. military who may have been involved, barbara starr reporting could be from the army and as many as five more members in addition to that. we're talking possibly 21 facing questions. and yesterday, the president did respond to the scandal. >> if the press reports are confirmed then of course i'll be angry. my attitude with respect to the secret service personnel is no different than those sitting here. we're representing the people of united states. >> i want to bring in a member of the external advisory board and former homeland adviser to george w. bush. first, prostitutes. i know this is something folks in the intelligence world are made aware of and told to avoid. what do you know about that? >> it's not just prostitutes. alcohol. whenever you're traveling, especially in a security or intelligence job, you're briefed and remined to be very aware of your surroundings. you possess sensitive information that could put the president or protectees in jeopardy. the notion that this may have been according to various reports a lot of alcohol involved, prostitutes, all of which are classic tools that are used by foreign intelligence services to collect information, this goes against over grain of their training against discipline, against the culture of the secret service. >> you mentioned the word culture. we're hearing questions about this culture from congressman darrel issa who heads the goth reform committee. is this an isolated incident, has it happened before? take a listen. >> to assume 11 people did something on a one-time basis is a little bit questionable. if one person has a personal failure, that's one thing. but for 11 people to violate the basic security premise tells us there's a problem larger. it would be regrettable if they close ranks rather than make changes. >> do you think this is a regular thing or did it happen once? >> i travel around with secret service agents and i was the protectee. i had never experienced or seen anything in the sort. bad judgment or inappropriate behavior, none of that. and so i question -- this seems aberrant against anything i ever witnessed myself. but whenever the secret service finds that there's been some sort of breach or failure, they do a very comprehensive lessons learned and they incorporate those lessons into future training. so this is a very long and storied organization that has sort of trained its agents to do a very professional job. and i think you can't assume that a single incident is indicative of a larger problem. i think we have to learn what the facts are. >> being the protectee, the general public thinks of members of the secret service as this elite, protective, sort of the palace guard. but i also know they're in these high stress environments. i mean, how would you characterize members of the secret service just from your perspective. >> once a year, the president would invite the ats and their families and children to the white house. it's a very tight organization. that's why i say to you, brooke, it seems against everything i ever witnessed on my own. to what the ethos of the organization is, very proud, very disciplined. i think this is an unfortunate aberration from their normal behavior. >> if, in fact, the allegation are true and we heard the president say i would absolutely be angry. >> despite his confession, he is claiming self-defense after killing 77 people with guns and bombs. plus, a 19-year-old accused of targeting black people in this rampage that terrorized oklahoma. breaking today, we we have a letter his mother wrote with big revelations about his family's past. ♪ ♪ wow... ♪ [ female announcer ] sometimes, all you need is the smooth, creamy taste of werther's original caramel to remind you that you're someone very special. ♪ werther's original caramels. guys. come here, come here. 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an expletive was thrown in for effect. another may appear as a hologram on sunday. petty and the heart breakers are getting ready to go on tour. wednesday, there is a $7500 reward for tom petty's stolen guitar tars. anders breivik killed 69 people, a lot of kids at a youth camp. another eight people were killed in a bomb blost in oslo ahead of time. he raised a clinched fist and said he did not recognize the authority of the court. sunny hostin is on the case. exforgets have given opinions about his sanity. why, though, is that so important to establish with regards to these proceedings. he's claiming he killed these people in self-defense because it was in his war against multicultu multiculturism. he's saying that's not true and he's claiming self-defense and they intend to prove it in court. he does not want to be found insane. he wants to sort of go with this self-defense justification. it's a very odd position, i think, that this case finds itself in because again, now you have a court finding him sane, finding him able to stand trial, yet what we're seeing in court as you just showed is very much in line with someone who may be suffering from mental disorder. >> he got on that island and told kids to come to him instead he was slaughtering these people. saved norway from being taken over by multicultural forces. how can self-defense apply here period. >> i don't think it applies. it doesn't appear to apply when you think about the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. i really wonder what's going to happen in a case like this. i almost feel like this is a case of first impression. it's something you don't really see. someone who refuses to acknowledge any sort of mental d d disorder yet is claiming self-defense based on his beliefs. >> what do they hope to gain from all those life details. >> i think they certainly hope to gain, brooke, a conviction in this case. they do not believe he was insane at the time of his actions. they tend to show this was a very deliberate massacre. and remember, 77 young people died. the prosecution is going forward with their case and they wanted someone who acted deliberately. a story out of oklahoma, the judge entered not guilty pleas for two men accused of a shooting spree in oklahoma. one of the suspect's mother has now written a letter to her son's attorney revealing very personal details asking them to help her son. what do you know about these details? can this attorney use this in court? >> it's really remarkable. it really shows a mother's love. she asked an attorney to help her child. she has taken on the case. she says he's not hateful. and obviously he also has african-american relatives. that they have african-american grandchildren. and that she is desperate really to save her son in any way possible. she's asking for this attorney to fight for his life. she's really interestingly enough indicating she has a severe drug problem and that she hasn't been as present in this defendant's life as she wanted to be. so it's a candid depiction of a mother's love for her son. >> sun ny hostin, thank you ver much. >> another chief operating officer of one of the largest social media sites in the world says she leaves work every night at 5:00. also live pictures here, this house hearing well under way. the general services administration, the gsa under fire for lavish spending at a las vegas conference two years ago. this house hearing is -- house committee is holding this hearing right now. we go there live coming up next. all right, let's decide what to do about medicare and social security... security. that's what matters to me... me? 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[ male announcer ] aarp is bringing the conversation on medicare and social security out from behind closed doors in washington. because you've earned a say. >> of. >> the cash value of a stay at home mom and the first space shuttle that shut down last year goes to its final home. we play "reporter roulette." first the topics moms. we all heard how mother hood is the hardest job in the world. now a website calculated what a stay at home mom should be paid for all the work she does. alison kosik with details. do tell. how much is she worth? >> you can't put a price tag on it. it's cliche, but it's true. i'm a mom myself. you can't put a price tag on it. but salary.com tried to do that. they surveyed 800 moms, how m y many -- how much time they spent on all the different hats they wear, they would get $113,000. why not? they're cooks, they clean, they're chauffeurs and psychologists. if they work outside the home, it goes to $67,000. but you know what, it's priceless. >> i was about to hear my mom say she's a teacher. i could hear her saying brooke, my too many with you is priceless. there's a cnn.com article that talks about the facebook coo, she leaves work every day at 5:00. she didn't want to admit that at first. >> it's hard. you're talking about cheryl sandberg. there's a stigma for women from kids to go home early from work. she proudly came out loost week saying i walk out of the office at 5:30 to have kinner with my kids. and she implied she would send e-mails to colleagues late at night and early in the morning to prove she's still working hard. not clear if she's still doing that, but one thing is clear, she's more confident about this. she's not concerned how others perceive her as she makes this public. but twitter certainly going crazy on this. some people saying good for her. in europe it's normal. another one saying this is a tall order for working women who are battling the corporate culture. is she making others feel like failures if they don't do that? or is she a role model for speaking out. >> that's fascinating. thank you. and space shuttle discovery going on what nasa calls the world's greatest piggy back ride. you're about to see. the shuttle on top of this 747. it's stunning. >> this is the exkwla mags point. it will depart from the kennedy space center. now today out at the shuttle landing strip, the runway there, the astronaut crew that flew the last shuttle discovery mission back last february out there talked to the media. they talked about what a remarkable flying machine it was. but also how it was timed to me on. >> my take is that it was built by people who were 19 feet tall for people who were also 19 feet tall. we had bigger budgets and a bigger tolerance for failure and loss of life back in the '60s and early '70s than we have in this particular generation. the shuttle was built for that generation of warriors. i think the risks are higher than most people are willing to accept in 2012. and it leaves hering it's going to fly down the beach, then back around, over the kennedy space center visitor complex. then up the east coast, flying at about 15,000 feet all the way. you may get a look at it if you look outside and it's close enough to the coast. then it's going to fly over several landmarks as it makes its way into dulles air fort in washington. touchdown, probably around 10:30 tomorrow morning. >> i cannot wait to see those pictures. we were talking about what a spectacle that will be. that's your "reporter roulette" on this monday. bullying can happen at any age. surely you've worked somewhere in your own career that you would consider perhaps toxic. now there's this film, this document tarl edary addressing many americans feel. >> when you're facing them every day and going there not wanting to be there but knowing you need the money and you need it for survival and you try and maintain and they keep heaping one more thing on you and one more thing on you, you know, somewhere it overrides the brain and that switch does go. >> we're going to talk about work place bullying with the man behind the movie. from front to back... and back to front. ♪ giving you exceptional control from left to right... and right to left. ♪ the cadillac cts. ♪ we don't just make luxury cars. we make cadillacs. tle emotional here? aren't you getting a little industrial? okay, there's enough energy right here in america. yeah, over 100 years worth. okay, so you mean you just ignore the environment. actually, it's cleaner. and, it provides jobs. and it helps our economy. okay, i'm listening. 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