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Hotel. >> one thing the pentagon review may be looking into, right, the pentagon says they'll have a broad review of how their crew members spend their money when they get these per diems and have overnight stays. they did have contracts for this airport in scotland that does so many of these flights and i suspect there's more. we'll learn about this story. particularly on the use of the per diems and what was allowed, and crucially going forward what will be allowed and what properties they're allowed to actually spend at. craig? >> thank you. jennifer, hans, kimberly, thanks to all of you. w...

Nbc news, the house is attempting to get to the bottom of this the defense department is stonewalling the probe. for the latest, let's go to hans nichols live at the white house with the latest. >> a military plane stopped to refuel in scotland as you've been reporting. a lot of questions about checks and balances. something you know well. what happens? >> there are two questions going on here. why is the pentagon not cooperating with the congressional probe. they're not getting the cooperation they would expect from the pentagon, and then perhaps the largest story here is what happened. there...

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2011, kingston has taken official trips to four continents. the trips entitle him to a generous per diem allowance. sometimes hundreds of dollars a day. the total in per diems in the past three years on all this trips, more than $24,000. free lunches, perhaps not. but, again, paid for by the american taxpayer. >> i've always worked 6 60 or 7 hour workweek. >> a hardworking guy. all right. when we come back, we'll look at the all-time biggest scandals and ask, how does chris christie's bridge-gate stack up in the tournament of corruption? straight ahead. [ male announcer ] if you suffer from ...

>> exactly. i have the letter here. nancy pelosi had a meeting two weeks ago with her leadership and the chairman, we're going to do this. this comes after several pretty bad stories out there about some pretty intense excess on these trips. i want to put the ball in robert's court because you were a staffer. you were on -- the whole concept, one of the big things the per diems that they get, government money for these trips, they're putting them in -- extra money in their pocket, members of congress, or spending it on trinkets and souvenirs. you saw that happen, right? >> yeah, there's no que...