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Now what you see is the ultimate dysfunction in washington. if they can't get together on veterans issues, they can't get together in anything. there will be a pox on all their houses because they all knew and they're all responsible. and the oversight function was abdicated. they failed to execute their oversight function. >> jim vandehei, why do you have them holding back when the rest of washington is starting to call for shinseki's head? >> i think in pelosi's case, she's trying to defend the president. i think boehner and cantor want the focus to be on the president. they don't want him t...

Use particularly amongst the teens. and the money thing f a parent has something like this, does it reduce the cost of insurance for your teen driver which tends to be high, because they are new no the road? >> well, in some cases, it might, because there are some systems available through the insurance companies, but, you know, look at the various devices, or the various apps, we have not studied them to see if they have reduced crashes, but in looking at a at the ones on the market, we find that the ones that have a very strong oversight function, and that is the ones that can alert the pare...

>> you should not assume that that is not a big deal to me. i think that it was inappropriate and unjust. never think that was not a big deal to me. don't ever think that. >> well, i'm just looking for evidence. we can't get the information to get to the bottom of that, so i don't need lectures from you about contempt. >> and i don't need lectures from you either. >> difficult to deal with asking questions -- >> the congressman is angry. the attorney general is indignant. >> yeah. the two of them are obviously not very happy with each other. the reality is, he should have supplied the informat...

She is a government employee paid to do this job. she should be accountable for what happened there and answer the questions it seems like a no-brainer. for some reason this person is able to hide behind this claim that she has some fifth amendment protection that she waived. and i think shah she, you know, i would loo like to see the answers to the questions that they have for her. >> congress' ability to compel testimony is absolutely essential, not just with legislative functions but to equally important oversight function of the increasingly opaque and arrogant executive branch. and, there...

Obligation to speak up, i think as a public official, somebody entrusted and infused with the public trust, do you have an obligation to speak up to make the truth known. >> reporter: in may 2013 morel was asked to testify a second time before the house committee. sources say he then admitted changing the talking points but offered shifting explanations. among them, that exposing the failure of mrs. clinton's state department to act on repeated security warnings seemed unprofessional. two sources say morrell insisted the talking points were an afterthought at a september 15 meeting where the t...