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Congressional staffs. what do you think about that politically, joe? >> well, i mean, the optics aren't good but that is not kind of what happened here. what happened was, they, they basically said that the government is an employer. that the employees, could have their employer pay into the program just like every company that has over 50 employees does. and so it is basically, they are being treated the same as anybody else who works for a large company. it is just the way they did it and the delay to put it, you know, to get, to make sure that it was clear within the regulations was confusi...

Joe also faces separate charges of falsely obtaining a driver's license. he faces deportation as he's an italian citizen. not looking go ahead for these two. both remain free on $500,000 bonds each and under travel restrictions to only new york and new jersey. if convicted they could both face dozens of years in prison. i've heard numbers upwards of 50 if they got the book slammed at them. still no word from bravo who pays their real lives. jenna: thank you. jon: sleep aids, millions of americans use them to try to get a better night's rest but now the feds are taking a new look at how they im...

Jon: chief political correspondent for "the washington post," thanks. >> thank you. jenna: unfortunately we probably have all come to expect some sort of fee, extra fee when we fly. everything from checked bags to carry-ones and cancellation fees. but now we're learning that we could start to expect the same kind of treatment when we check into a hotel? how could that be? elizabeth mcdonald joins us live. what have hotels cooked up now? >> looks like hotels are taking a cue from the airline industry and cooking up a whole new barrage of surprising fees that customers may have never seen before...

Go and lie. now if she lies, then they have the perjury charge. she has no choice. she will testify as the government wants her or she will pay consequences. it's that simple. jon: so does she get blanket protection? >> absolutely not. todd, i would have to respectfully disagree. this is a state court prosecution. the only immunity she has been grnted is for state court proceedings. as we all know, the federal government is a different sovereign. she could be charged with a federal crime but more importantly, the real issue here is this is not a situation where she's incurring favor with the p...

Her mouth shut. jon: she's already facing some tax penalties for non payment of taxes but what interest would the federal government have in going after this woman? >> let's look at it this way. what interest does the state court have in prosecuting a john on a misdemeanor? anything is possible. the federal government can get her, charge her with wire fraud if possible. that's a nice catch all they could charge her with which is a possibility. but realistically here, this is a waste of taxpayer money. what we have here is an overzealous prosecutor who is looking to make a splash in the paper a...