0 it's getting wide discretion. it was on cbs last night. let's get the facts. what do we know starting from the beginning. ann? >> there was a memo written last year recounting by the department of office of investigation at the state department recounting eight instances in which some fairly certificates wrongdoing was alleged to have taken place by state department contractors, employees and in one case an ambassador. there are twofold allegations here. one is that this miss you conduct occurred and were under investigation and two those investigations were not allowed to run their course. that earring the undue influence from above that was alleged that you referred to occurred or that the investigations were watered down. and several investigators rode wrote up these eight instances and passed it on in a draft report which was never made public but which has now been comb over what ann was just talking about and looking at these different allegations, the main issue is potentially what was covered up. what was changed. and especially as they looked to try and tie this to secretary of state hillary clinton. they're looking carefully at suggestions that top floor management at the state department knew about some of what was going on and actually played a role in watering it down. and the first reaction here on capitol hill was to say look, the state department hasn't had an official inspector general in years for all of hillary clinton's tenure and they suggest that these state department investigators who prepared this report were intimidated by political appointees. >> and that's -- so in other words, people have told nbc or have told anybody in the news business that they were intimidated from telling the full story here about these abuses in the department? >> i talked to staffers on capitol hill who are familiar with the investigation who say political people who are out there publicly essentially saying that you know, secretary of state, form are secretary of state hillary clinton won't come out and publicly discuss this. you're already seeing some republican operatives people who used to work for romney's presidential campaign coming out and suggesting they are tied together. >> let's go back to ann guerin on this case. regarding the former secretary of state who's generally been seen as clean as a whistle in every regard in public life. her own security card, the charge the security gathered hiring prostitutes and also over in russia. what's that? how sound is that that charge right now? >> well, the allegation in the original report is that it was more than one agent and that it happened in at least those two places. the action in columbia would have predated the secret service scandal with agents hiring prostitutes there last year. but it sounds like a very similar allegation that agents who were traveling for work either before the secretary got there or while she was visiting were hiring prostitutes in their hotel. the original allegation on that is like the others basically an outline of a charge. there's very little that can be independently verified in among those allegations. >> kasie what, do we have in your end, the security detail covering the former secretary of state traveling through cart hane na and traveling to russia on different trips? this has a certain parallelism to the charges involving. the question is what role does the secretary or the president play in watching the day to day or night to night activities of their own security details? it would seem to me something that wouldn't come up in. regular conversation. my thoughts -- you're laughing. it's not something they would be telling her about or reporting to her about only in a general sense would she be responsible for it. >> right. well, i covered mitt rom if i's campaign right after that secret service scandal. the changes that were made immediately in the wake of that were very obvious. there were many, many new rules about socializing that the secret service detail that was attached to mitt romney was beak forced to follow after that scandal broke. so no. it's not something necessarily that the principals are aware of. they know somebody is standing outside of their door most of the day. but beyond that, there's no real reason why they should know. as far as what nbc news knows, we've seen the draft report that ann mentioned earlier and we're sort of very carefully trying to ferret out who it is that's talking. >> are we going to read in the paper tomorrow about anyone else in hillary's world, her counsel or anyone else over there at state department being involved in any interference here in these investigations? >> probably not. the main development from the senior state department today was an on the record denial from patrick kennedy both hillary clinton's undersecretary for management, the guy who basically runs the floor and now john kerry's undersecretary for management that there was any interference, any improper diversion of these cases basically anything at all. and that is also what the state department spokeswoman jen ken saki maintained from the podium today. >> this is going to be a big story in the papers tomorrow. thank you so much for coming on. ann guerin of the washington post, kasie hunt. coming up, the senate vote to begin debate for cloture to kill the stalling tactics on immigration reform. a bipartisan gang of eight bill coming lieu here. that was the hard part coming up. what are the chances of a law that addresses board security and what to do with the millions of undocument the workers already here in tim pawlenty will tell us what it looks like from his perspective. also, one of the journalists who broke the story about the classified nsa program says there's nor significant revelations coming down the road. how did a somewhat low level contractor in the nsa stationed in hawaii get access to so much information about our agents around the world and did he act alone in the case? >> 50 years ago, the president of the united states john kennedy gave a great civil rights speech that will go down this history as one of the most consequential speeches given about civil rights. and we'll get an update from richard engel in istanbul about the dramatic clashes. amazing scenes in the streets over there and about the rioting going on and police and anti-government protesters going at each other. here's some news. bill daley announced today he's run agexploratory committee to run for governor in illinois. on a video on his website, the former white house chief of staff used a common saying about the obama administration, we can't wait. daley would be running against pat quinn in the democratic primary. back in november, a ppp poll showed quinn with an approval rating of just 25%, the least popular governor in the country. the same poll showed a match between daley and quinn would put daley on top by three points. not much of a jump but good enough for him to get in the race. daley is a great guy. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] for dad's first job as dad. nissan tests hundreds of child seats to give you a better fit and a safer trip. snug kids, only from nissan. ♪ i did? 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