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Here's a real head scratcher. did a teenager fly from san jose, california, all the way to hawaii in the wheel well of a jumbo jet? it's a claim of a 16-year-old runaway. how did he get past security and survive the flight across the pacific ocean? dan simon is digging into the story for us and joins us from san jose. this is really quite a mystery, dan. >> reporter: well, it is remarkable, michaela, on a couple of levels. first the security issue, how could the boy hop a fence at the airport and make the way to the tarmac and get on the major airliner? there's the survivability issue. joining...

Play out. last year lois lerner who headed that division within the irs that improperly targeted tea party groups she gave a lengthy defense of what she did and then pleaded the 5th. there were people who say you can't do that you can't offer defense and then not take any questions about fear of incriminating herself. she p can't take the 5th. there have been questions whether her attorney would try to secure some sort of immunity deal in exchange for testimony. >> that is a possibility as well. one way we may see this play out is learner could ask for another week to give her attorneys time t...

>> back to joy. so i guess it comes down to what do they really mean? and i think it comes down to topic selection. and one thing i have always learned, it took me years to discover, if you want to win an argument or control it, pick the topic. you say budgets, republicans tend to win. you say taxes, they tend to win. you talk about health care, democrats usually win the argument or education, they tend to win the argument. why would they take sex and libido, why would they do this? you got to ask why would they keep selecting birth control, rape, these topic selections. it's not the miswordin...

>> mcdonald's hired an outside company to write to its employees. >> it's not the first time this internal website came under fire. it's one stunning problem after another. this website had a financial planning guide allotting only $20 for health insurance and no money for food kind of making the company seem out of touch with its employees especially with mcdonald's advice on how to get out of holiday debt. get a second job. cherry on top. one installment in this website put out an etiquette guide to employees on what to tip pool boys and masseuse or an au pair. these are people on minimum wa...

There i don't think we can discount the fact that the federal government was going 36 days to not opt in. whether or not that was a failure to not foresee the resistance at the state level is one thing. this job ended up being the wrok thing. as far as the president, it sounds like he was blooef briefed but nobody told him what was going on, which is a major failure at the staff level. >> this is something i was pounding on them. were there a bunch of people at hhs that just yessed this? yes, we will get this website running, that sort of mindset that nobody wanted to admit they couldn't get r...