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Example of the obama administration's poor management skills. jay carney at the white house fired back, said it is preposterous to politicize the secret service. where does the blame fall? >> well, again, you heard i think it was senator collins say that supervisors were involved here. something is breaking down. you know, last week, we were focused on gsa, and we know the white house knew of that scandal almost a year ago, had a briefing at one of their councils, we got the time, dates, people involved, and let it ride. if, again, this prostitute didn't come for payment at the embassy, probab...

Weeks about this gsa investigation. not so much that the president is -- is president for it, and you saw a lot of push back on the sunday shows for that, but something charles krauthammer said on my panel, george will echoed this weekend is that concern about big government and the ability to police, or have a leash on all of this. doesn't bode well for this government as it stand now. jon: symptomatic of problems, if you're finding problems at an agency like the secret service, which as you say is supposed to be the best of the best, it makes you wonder what else is going on in other lesser-...

Experience is they're quite professional, i always felt this way but this is really disturbing and we have to get to the bottom of it. jon: meantime, defense secretary leon panetta getting ready for his own trip to colombia this week, his visit planned months ago, now almost certainly will be overshadowed by this scandal. joinings, republican john mica of florida. who is responsible for getting to the bottom of what happened here? >> well, i serve on the government reform and oversight committee, and they have very broad just distinction -- jurisdiction. i'm probably the most senior member rig...

Gsa contractors. >> i think this is the tip of the iceberg, jon, i really do. when you shine a light on something it often leads you to something else. and i think that these committees are now engaged up on capitol hill to continue looking. i think this is just so brazen it has really struck a chord with people around the country, and that picture of the supervisor sitting in the tub is now infamous. but it will probably raise the curtain on a number of different organizations inside government that have a lot of waste. jon: and when, you know, the government creates some of these agencies, a...

This is a very difficult problem they're trying to solve. they're trying to develop a vehicle that can travel at immense speeds through the upper atmosphere with high forces and very high heat, and to be able to control that vehicle so that it can hit an intended target thousands of miles away. the purpose -- >> jon: we're looking at the launch of the missile that then releases this thing, and it basically glides back to earth with a rocket assist at, what, one # thousand miles an hour? >> yes. that's right. the rocket gives it the initial boost, and then it comes back down and glides through ...