here's darrell issa from the congress. here it is. >> do the american people really think that we should have put $375 million in subsidies into ge buying these electric cars so that everyone could make a statement about the future with a really bad car. >> i mean, that is, to me, that's archaic thinking. your thoughts on what -- i mean, if we'd listened to darrell issa, we'd still be in cartwheels, the way he's talking. >> i mean, it's -- it's highly unfair. it's wrong, and my problem with it is, it is so patently untrue and so patently wrong that everybody can see through it. and that arms the conservatism cause, which other than the chevy volt, i deeply believe in. >> mr. lutz, great to have you with us tonight. good work. thank you so much. >>> the right-wing smear machine spent the last two presidential elections slamming democrats for being elitist. but now the republican nominee is the one with the fond memories of vacations in paris, france. what will the conservatives do? >>> coming up, after years of painting dem

like when darrell issa held an all-male panel on contraception and when msnbc and fox held all male panels to talk about it. >> how do you do a piece about women when there's only men talking about it? it's pathetic. get some women here. >> tad, i'm sorry we're going to talk... >> okay, okay. >> change was going to begin with me. so i assembled representatives from some of the leading women's groups-- the national organization for women, emily's list, eleanor's legacy, girls for gender equity and the league of women voters. how important is it that women are heard? tad, i'm going to start with you. (laughter) >> i think it's critically important. first of all, there are more women than men who vote in this country so they have a huge voice. >> if we hypothetically had a group of women in a room, what do you think they would be thinking right now. tadd? >> all you have to do is actually talk to them and listen. and listen. talk to them and listen and you'll hear what they think. >> listening is so key. (laughter) >> we're just pissed off. >> what was that? >> we're pissed off. >> pardon he?

congressman darrell issa said he is considering holding hearings about the accusations. >>> this warm and sunny weather is actually causing big problems in the state of maryland. the eastern shore except cecil county is in a drought. rain is inches behind for the year and soil moisture just 60% of normal and now farmers are putting off planting spring crops and instead are drilling for water. >> ones that are right on the borderline now may need another well to boost the volume out of the system. >> never been this dry this early. >> maryland's department of the environment is already encouraging residents on the eastern shore to conserve water. right now water conditions are close to normal in the rest of the state. >> top, any chance we'll get rain any time soon? >> good news, bad news, we have two cold fronts heading our way. the first will probably go through dry. we're pinning our hopes more over the weekend. let's talk about the drought, though of the we're looking at abnormally dry conditions for the immediate metro area which means our soil and vegetation are dry. that's why w

we just received a letter that darrell issa wrote to mark sullivan, the chief of the secret service. in this he's requested about ten points of information. outlining what happened that night, who did what and what mr. sullivan knows. one thing that's really important in here, point number eight, has the u.s. secret service been able to determine that all women involved in this incident were at least 18 years of age? obviously if they were not, that would make this illegal for any u.s. citizen to have participated in. do you have any sense of whether any of these women were under 18? >> i know they were looking into that. i believe by now they have determined that they were over 18. >> all right. so that obviously would make -- i guess in some case marginally better for some of these individuals. what do you think about director sullivan himself? many people have come to his defense and said he is an honorable man doing a great job running the secret service. others are saying if this kind of a thing can happen there, it must happen elsewhere and he needs to go as part of this. what

darrell issa of committee, has oversight over the secret service in that capacity, he's a republican from the long island area. he's been briefed all along by in a president and how these candidates stack up. with us, nbc's political director and white house correspondent chuck todd, "new york times" white house correspondent helene cooper, "washington post" columnist ej dionne and "new york times" columnist david brooks. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. new details in this morning in the prostitution scandal involving the secret service and the u.s. military. here's the very late ef. now 12 secret service agents and 11 members of the u.s. military have been implicated in this scandal. six agents have already been forced out of the secret service, including two supervisors. we're told investigators from the secret service and the pentagon have sought to interview some of colombian women involved. they've obtained security video from the hotel el caribe and the member you see there, mark sullivan briefed the president in the oval office on friday, jay ca

darrell issa of california and house homeland security committee chairman republican peter king of new york. then it's back to the campaign trail. has the president and governor romney tried to get into each other's hair. >> even if you like barack obama, we can't afford barack obama. it's time to get someone who will get this economy going and put the american people back to work. >> i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. michelle wasn't. but somebody gave us a chance. >> so just what kind of campaign are we in for? will either candidate figure out how to make washington work better at a time of so much pessimism and anxiety about the economy? senior campaign adviser to the president, david axelrod meets the press this morning. and finally, our political roundtable on what voters are telling us they are looking for in a president and how these candidates stack up. with us, nbc's political director and white house correspondent chuck todd, "new york times" white house correspondent helene cooper, "washington post" columnist ej dionne and "new york times" columnist david brooks.

does that imply to you as darrell issa said that in a situation like that, it suggests that this is maybe not routine but not unique. >> i spent a total of 34 years in the secret service. i did a lot of travel. there were occasions when after a particularly difficult trip agents and staff would get together, relax after the protectee had left the area. but this idea that wheels up and rings off is just not... it's not true. i mean it may be something someone can speculate about. but unless you've been there and been a part of this, it's hard to.... >> warner: and what about pf... what about before the president even arrived? >> that's even more uncommon quite frankly because they're focused on the mission. they're focused on the arrival of the president. they had very, very specific duties that they have to perform. and be engaged in. they know they've got to get up every morning and be ready to go to work and to take on this incredibly challenging mission. that's what is unique about this story. it doesn't happen. and if the congressman has information that would lead him to believe that

we'll get the latest on that from congress' top investigator, darrell issa, of the house oversight committee. reports overnight of multiple bombings in afghanistan. we'll ask john mccain, the ranking republican on the armed services committee, about that. and his trip to the syrian border. >> we think it's going to require military action on the ground. >> schieffer: for sure, we'll follow up on what he means by that. then we'll turn to the campaign, taxes, and the economy. we'll get treasury secretary's timothy geithner response from mitt romney's latest charge. >> did you know that all the jobs lost during the obama years, 92.3% of them are women. >> schieffer: we've got analysis on the so-called mommy wars from white house correspondent norah o'donnell and ruth marcus of the "washington post," and finally, perspective on the murder charges filed this week in the trayvon martin case. we'll hear from mark strassmann, the reporter who first brought the story to national attention, and we'll broaden the discussion with georgetown university professor michael eric dyson, author and "time" maga

here's darrell issa from the congress. here it is. >> do the american people really think that we should have put $375 million in subsidies into ge buying these electric cars so that everyone could make a statement about the future with a really bad car. >> i mean, that is, to me, that's archaic thinking. your thoughts on what -- i mean, if we'd listened to darrell issa, we'd still be in cartwheels, the way he's talking. >> i mean, it's -- it's highly unfair. it's wrong, and my problem with it is, it is so patently untrue and so patently wrong that everybody can see through it. and that arms the conservatism cause, which other than the chevy volt, i deeply believe in. >> mr. lutz, great to have you with us tonight. good work. thank you so much. >>> the right-wing smear machine spent the last two presidential elections slamming democrats for being elitist. but now the republican nominee is the one with the fond memories of vacations in paris, france. what will the conservatives do? ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] not everyth

republican respective darrell issa from southern california, ordered the state high-speed agency to preserve its documents and records of past communications. the committee says it will check for conflicts of interest involving rail officials and contractors. the current estimate for the 500-mile rail line is $68 billion. >>> if you smell gas or hear loud noises in east san show say tomorrow, it is just a test. pg&e will be venting gas from a 20-mile section. the work is scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. it is only expected to take a few hours to complete. but pg&e says rainy weather could delay the venting. >>> he called himself the painter of light. thomas kinkade died over the weekend. he died of natural causes. but friends said he had a drinking problem, frequenting local bars. >> i think he has a lot of personal problems. they just compounded. and he took to the bottle. and everything compounded that. alcohol always compounds your problems. and he was in a downward spiral. that's the impression i got. >> the coroner performed an autopsy today. the results won't be known for seve

we'll hear from congressman darrell issa and hit tv show "person of interest" stops by. that will do it for "cbs morning news" this monday. thanks for watching. this monday. thanks for watching. ,,,,,, >> it is hard to imagine what we're playing it minute by minute right now >> for sailors missing another one dead after a racing accident. out a

darrell issa omou mentioned and also representative peter king, chairman king of the homeland security committee which has oversight over the secret service. both of them have only said they're going to have staff look into this. they're going to do ground work investigation. neither one has promised hearings. i think we have to really see how serious is this? is this just in the immediate wake of the news, them saying yeah we're going to look into it or is there something deeper? i think that's unanswered at this point. i think they're going to try to get at how widespread is this and do we need more attention? >> warner: thank y both very much. laura meckler and ralph basham, thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> brown: finally tonight, the 2011 pulitzer prizes were announced this afternoon. among the winners in the arts: for music, kevin puts and his work "silent night, opera in two acts." for history: manning marable, for his book, "malcolm x: a life of reinvention." marable died in april of last year. and for biography: john lewis gaddis, for his book, "george f. kennan: an ameri

darrell issa that is spearheading the hearings wants him to testify but his attorney say he'll take the fifth. the entire culture of the gsa will come under scrutiny as well as the obama's administration appointment to the agency. >> you need to political appointees in order to go in and reflect the president but have to have the confidence. is that one of the questions, are you going to put people in that reflect what your stated goals in including not wasting the american's people money. >> they were embarrassed by number of videos flouted go spending habits. this wre part of a talent contest. the agency itself called over the top. the contracting for services at that event is now coming under questioning whether they followed federal law under competitive bidding. the first of the hearings begins tomorrow afternoon. >> heather: thanks. >> gregg: man behind a national controversy sits behind bars awaiting justice. prosecutors say george zimmerman committed second-degree murder when he shot 17-year-old trayvon martin but can they convince jurors that he is guilty? have you seen the aff

issa's five questions the same way. >> mr. chairman, on the advice of counsel i respectfully decline to answer based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> reporter: jeff neeley is on his leave from his job. he quickly left capitol hill after the hearing. the western regions conference included a clown, a mind reader and has received tremendous attention with much of it captured on camera. neeley's wife's photos reveal the lavishly good time they had in las vegas. a leading democrat called the situation in defensivible and intolerable and read an e-mail sent suggested he invited friends to join in on the taxpayer funded fun. >> we'll get you guys a room near us and we'll pick up the room tab, could be a blast. >> reporter: the woman who recently resigned as gsa administrator who is accused of sitting on inspector general's report on the conference for 11 months offered this explanation how this event grew out of control. >> the western regions conference and economical training event in the late 1990s had evolved

congressman darrell issa who chairs the committee who oversees the agency says it's possible that more than those 11 agents were involved. the internal affairs unit of the secret service is heading up this investigation. also overseas, north korea's new dictator laying out his vision for the country's future. a vision that makes military power the quote, first, second, and third priorities. at just 28 or 29 years old, we don't know quite how old he is, kim jong-un marked his sudden rise to leadership with a speech before a massive crowd in the capital yesterday. kim took control of the government after the death of his father late last year. his 20-minute speech made no mention of friday's failed rocket launch, which was an embarrassment to the country, cost the nation hundreds of millions of dollars. the young dictator made it clear the economy would take a back seat to the military, as it has for decades, saying sovereignty is more important than peace. >>> back here at home, former vice president dick cheney wasting no time getting back into the political mix, just three weeks after

local leader rejected a similar bill drafted pie republican congressman darrell issa last year because it restricted the city's ability to fund abortions. >>> maryland lawmakers may be returning to annapolis for two special legislative sessions. governor martin o'malley says he favors separate sessions, one devoted to passing a budget, and the other to address expanded gambling in the state. >> if we're able to resolve the budget in may and then come back, say, in early august to resolve the open questions on gaming, that would be enough time for it to be on a symbol on the in the fall -- on a ballot in the fall. >> lawmakers failed to reach agreement on the budget during the regular session. if no deal is reached by july 1, a so-called doomsday budget will take effect which will include more than a half billion dollars in cuts. >>> as we mentioned earlier, president obama has been promoting more affordable student loans. somehow, though, one of his speeches on education yesterday sounded just a little different. >> what we said is simple -- now is not the time to make school more expe

so you are seeing that starting today with darrell issa. but the person -- main person is supposed to be after his army said he will plead the fifth because there are potential pending criminal charges, i believe, so he cannot actually speak to congress. so you might have all these hearings but what you might see as a bunch of lawmakers basically expressing their indignation without actually getting more informations about what happened and how to change it. host: martha johnson, a former gsa administrator has also been invited to testify. >> guest: yes, and this is going into a romney's narrative. you have the secret service campbell and gs-8 and solyndra. you have the obama administration playing defense on a lot of these issues and it's attracting headlines, which it will for the next several weeks. it plays into romney's narrative that the government is not the answer if and it has obama on the defensive and certainly these hearings, and sold them in the house and senate, is an interesting thing jurisdictional. chairman michael of the t

committee chair darrell issa read complaints from traveler who is said they'd been mistreated by tsa officers. and congressman jerry connolly of virginia told the tsa officials, quote, we're not cattle. this hearing is about two hours. >>> the committee will come to order. the oversight committee exists to secure two fundamental principles, first, americans have a right to know that money washington takes from them is well spent. and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers, because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. we will work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. this is our mission statement. today we are calling the third hearing conducted by the oversight committee, today a joint hearing, where we plan to hold at least two additional tsa over

another chairperson in the house of representatives, darrell issa, he was also on meet the press and here's what he had to say to the security situation. >> the receipt point is, will we have confidence that it will never happen again, particularly foreign nationals having access to our men and women in the secret service. that's the important part that director is working on. yes, they were prostitutes, which is awful and salacious, but they were also foreign nationals. >> it's a concern that shared not only by these republican chairman, but here at the white house as well, alex. we should point out, you heard david axelrod say that the president has confidence in the director of the secret service, mark sullivan. so do darrell issa and peter king, two republicans who said they should not be fired, they have confidence in him. they like the way he's reacted in responding to these allegations from last weekend in colombia. >> mike viquiera at the white house, it looks like it's a little rainy and wet, that's a preview. thank you so much. here's a reminder, you can watch a reair of to

congressman darrell issa today on "face the nation". >> the question is the whole organization in need of some soul-searching, some changes or, before the president, the vice president, members of the cabinet are in danger. >> reporter: the secret service insists its procedures ensure that the president and his party were never in danger. ralph basham is a former director of the secret service. he says the decision to remove the agents quickly was the right one. >> they recognized that they could not have agents on the ground in the process of protecting the president of the united states and be distracted. >> but basham admits the indiscretion leave the organization in an uncomfortable position. >> look, secret service prides itself on not making the front page of the newspapers, not being the lead story on the nightly news. that's not what they are about. they are behind the scenes. they want to remain behind the scenes. and an accident like this is very disturbing and very embarrassing for them. >> well, secret service officials say that the investigation of the 11 is a top priority

>> when the department was created--darrell issa who is head of this committee, or the investigating committee was saying that he wasn't really questioning the leadership here, you haven't heard a lot of that initially as you did with the salahi thing. the difference between the salei hi thing is this. curiously there, there were some secret service errors and there were some white house errors who actually let people who were not supposed to be near the president -- >> not only did they get in -- >> they were not on the cleared list and yet they got access to the president and the vice president. the president wasn't even in town, but it's hugely embarrassing. >> let's talk about who these folks are, because this is not the president's detail. that's important let people know. >> those are in what's called the protective division, that's kind of the top of the elite. the people you see in the white shirts and dark trousers who protect the white house. and also some agents and i think perhaps the most troubling of all for the agency is there were some supervisors who apparently were

darrell issa from california chairs this hearing. elijah cummings, a democrat of maryland, is the number two on the committee. they've been working very closely on this. and speaking in almost one voice saying they don't want immune for jeff neely, the man who was first on the hot seat. and believing there is a lot more to uncover here. not just this one conference but they've already elicited testimony saying this has been going on for years. >> what's behind the bipartisan tone? it is so rare, especially when you have people trying to politicize everything. >> and always looking for a way to jockey for position. we see that so often. i think this is a case of the behavior that has been seen here on video tame and alleged in these reports, is so egregious. a misuse of taxpayer dollars. at a time when on the senate side, they're debating, trying to increase taxes or people at home are filing their taxes with the deadline tomorrow. the misuse of taxpayers' money is something both parties can get behind. while that seems pretty ordinar

>> i have spoken many time fs t darrell issa's people on that. there are no red flags that they are investigating the bush administration. i think it is going to be a big line of attack or at least questioning from the -- >> if you look at these videos, you look at the senior people here, like jeff foley, i mean it's hard to imagine that it's not going to get worse. if again, early last week, the gsa administrator was already fired. effectively she tendered her z resignation. unclear if the people who were asked to do the videos, the low land employees, but the people that were were in -- >>> the bloodshed in syria spills beyond it's borders. details of two deaths in neighboring countries also. >>> we get a rare inside look, our brian todd went there. impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.

megyn: darrell issa and senator chuck grassley are continuing to look into this. and the answers are in your book. katy, all the best to you. megyn: thank you so much. coming up it has happened again, just like the miracle on the hudson, birds striking a delta flight shortly after take off here in new york city. the terrifying moment caught on video, and now new details about the heroic crew. >> well, i feel very happy and very fortunate that they are all here right now, because it was really scary for a minute. megyn: a bird strike forcing the pie loft an l.a. bound delta tpwhraoeut to quickly tur flight to quickly turn around and make an imagine room in new york. an iphone user caught it outside of a window. it panicked the nearly 180 people on board. david lee miller is live with the latest. >> reporter: delta flight 1036 from jfk to l.a. lasted only 25 minute. they were white-nuclear eld for flyinknuckled minutes. they credit the crew for keeping everyone calm and landing that boeing 747. >> delta 1063 has had an engine flail you are on the right engine due to

to testify because he will plead the fifth but darrell issa says he should appear. >> we are looking at getting to the truth and how widespread this is. our questions will have to do, not just about this one even, but about the culture of the gsscpa how to change t. we believe that neely should be able to answer some of those questions and we are hoping he will. >> the agency was embarrassed by a number of videos, showing gsa employees flouting spending habits in a talent contest in a lavish training conference in a las vegas hotel for 300. an event that the agency itself admitted was over the top. expensive suites were used for parties, commemorative coins were handed out and velvet boxes. neely could face criminal charges because services were not competitively bid. the hearings begin tomorrow, before the congressman darrell issa's house oversight and government reform committee. the white house says the president was outraged when he heard of the abuse. the gsa says steps have been taken to prevent anything like this from happening again. >> shannon: now fallout from a secret serv