that's right. >> what do you think about what senator grassley is saying? i know he said he was making a rhetorical point but it seems to be more than that. p prostitutes has been used throughout human history as spies and agents. it could have been the case in cartegena or not, but that's not the point. if this is more common in the agency it could be happening and it could be threatening the president. >> absolutely. >> is that too paranoid? >> no, no. it's a worthwhile point. look, and they get trained. erin, the thing about this that's so astounding, the agents are trained in counterintelligence, to look for people who are trying to approach them for that reason. so they know better than this. they know better than to put themselves in a vulnerable position like that which is what makes it so astounding. look, you have a large number of agents for a short period of time on the ground caught up in this. it's a natural question, is it a cultural problem? first, we have to understand this incident and then you need to take it further and say is it a broade

gop senator chuck grassley isn't. >> i'm not going to be satisfied until we get some independent look at this. >> reporter: grassley, the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, says he wants an outside probe. the homeland security department's inspector general should investigate there was there any misconduct in colombia by any white house staff. his reason? >> so that there's no political implications with it and the reason for all of this is this is a serious matter. this isn't just a case of prostitution being used some place. this is a case of national security and the protection of the president of the united states. >> with all due respect, he knows that's not going to happen. >> reporter: the judiciary committee's democratic chairman says he sees no evidence of white house wrongdoing and dismissed grassley's call for an independent investigation of the white house advance team in colombia. >> with all of the press that's down there, with all of the conference, the white house has been involved this thing would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country b

but grassley says an outsider needs to do the investigating. he sent a letter with 14 questions and asked for a white house response by this past thursday night. he said he never got an answer. >> jamie: i want to welcome you back of maternity leave. >>> thank you julie. good to be back on your show. >> julie: being a mom is great. thanks so much. >> eric: and tense standoff in washington state has come to an end and they have found a body inside the heavily fortified bunker they had surrounded. it does pear to be peter keller. they have been looking for him since last sunday, that is when they found the bodies of his wife and daughter in their home. he is accused of shooting them before setting the us on on fire. casey stegall has bizarre story. >> reporter: police say they knew somebody was down inside the bunker because they could smell smoke coming from a wood burning stove and they could see lights being turned on and off. they never had confirmation the suspect. yesterday, s.w.a.t. teams dropping tear gases canisters down into one of the

listen to senator charles grassley ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. this morning. >> we asked secretary napolitano before us on wednesday. she said that they have gone back 2 1/2 years. and nothing has happened. well, we had the reports come out and we need an independent investigation. >>reporter: and now the colombian ambassador is demanding a further apology from the u.s. government for the behavior in cartagena telling the colombian newspaper and i quote, "a more clear expression of remorse is required to protect the reputation of cartagena." but a senior administration officials says there are no plans for an apology and earlier colombian officials were concerned the accomplishments of the summit were overshadowed. >>shepard: from very good sources we are getting to completely different reports. some of our good sources say this happens all the time. men will be men. and others say, no, the secret service is squeaky clean and these are outliars. >>reporter: i spoke to a security consultant who hired employees and says is an understanding among th

thank you in the senator grassley. this is an a first-time senator feinstein and i seem to have been thinking about exactly the same thing. then they quickly touch on this three things that were concerned to man student visas. it's not just a matter of sham schools, but also the failure of advice to follow up of students who have overstayed visas and the very poor record of schools providing information to i.c.e. second on the add workers, the rags could be reformed. it's not just a matter of our failure to pass legislation here. h. 2a were reformed at the end of the bush administration and they were more workable i am told. i was then changed with the obama administration. if we could work more towards the kind of breaks that existed towards the end of the bush administration that might be at least a hope for some. on the visa overstates and the exit system that's going to ask about that. your budget actually was denied $30 million by the appropriation committee because of his frustration with the lack of a plan. we n

grassley is the top republican on the senate sew judiciary committee. it was only weeks ago he was preaching the virtues of restrants from the senate floor. >> those who can't get their policies enacts oumpb turn to the cords. i flatly reject that notion. the constitution vest legislative power in the congress not the courts. judges are simply not policy makers. >> grassley might wand to hold off on the name calling. maybe she should stick to wardrobe advice about this tweet about mitt romney. everybody asking how romney relates to average person. me thinks no problem, but if so, i have answer. just leave starch out of shirt. must be farm talk from iowa or maybe he should stick to promoting his interviews with greta van sunshine. maybe the senator had a couple of cool ones and playing with twitter. i think somebody should pull the plug on grandpa's twitter. don't you think? that would be the smart thing to do. >>> darrell issa is trying to dupe american workers with pictures of roosevelt and bobby kennedy. the president of the communication workers of a

senator charles grassley says that that's not enough. he wants to know more. doug mckelway is live in washington with more on this doug, what precisely does grassley want to know? >> reporter: immediately after yesterday's white house press briefing grassley compose adler to the white house counsel which he poised 14 questions among them. how many hours were spent on weekend review? were civilian employees of white house communications agency also examined? how many white house advance staff had overnight guests? how many other white house staff had overnight guests? grassley apparently unsatisfied wit white house weekend review exonerated all white house staff at least described by what house press secretary jay carney. here is what carney had to say. >> that review was conducted and it produced no indication of any misconduct. >> reporter: just within the hour, senator grassley was asked if he knew who from the white house was on the trip? >> i don't have that information yet and that's what needs to be made public. and we need to know whether or not there's

>> juan: more exciting than grassley. it'd rather listen to him than grassley. >> kimberly: what do you make of this? like being at a bruce springstein concert. >> dana: he denies that. >> greg: everybody falls asleep. it's three hours long and get to a ballad and everyone is like this. nobody admits it. >> kimberly: that was rivetting. did you have a final comment? >> juan: they're blaming the agent in charge for latin america, a black woman who says she was too harsh. she had her issues? i'm thinking -- >> kimberly: stressed them out and they need to relax her? >> juan: i trust in the secret service leadership. they won't fall for this foolishness. >> eric: she is the one who really brought it up. >> juan: isn't that her job? >> eric: she should be commended. >> kimberly: there is more to the story. we'll cover it on the program. it's one of bob's favorite stories. anyway. so coming up, can florida senator marco rubio save the republican party from latino revolt at the ballot box in november? juan williams sat down with

charles grassley raised a new spector of national security when he told a radio interviewer "who knows who might be using prostitutes" the russians are famous for that to get information out of us. grassley says he fears this is the tip of the iceberg and wants an outside investigator. >>> a man who was once in john edwa edward's inner circle, a trusted top aide during the '08 presidential campaign is now the star witness against him in his federal trial. andrew young spent a second day on the witness stand for the prosecution, told a story of elaborate deception involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, nbc's lisa myers is with us from the court house in greensboro, north carolina. good evening. >> good evening, brian. this was the government's day through their star witness. prosecutors detailed edwards' affair, the hunt for money to keep his mistress dwi et and claimed the former presidential candidate was deeply involved every step of the way. andrew young, edwards' once loyal aide arrived ready to tell the jury that while john edwards was on the road campaigning for president, t

and in that letter, grassley asked, quote, who would be reviewing these hotel records to insure that sensitive information was not compromised by overnight guests? the white house has said multiple times this week that so far none of its team on the ground has been caught up in this scandal. >> arthel: all right. here is the question: how much does president obama know about the investigation? >> for the first time since the scandal broke, secret service director mark sullivan briefed president obama in person. at the white house, it was in the oval office late yesterday. so president obama knows a lot more now than he did before. so far six secret service agents have been oused or resigned, including two supervisors. five more on administrative leave. on the military side, the pentagon says at least 11 military members were involved as well. six from the army, two marine, two from the navy, and one from the air force. >> arthel: molly henneberg live in washington. thanks for that update. for the latest on the scandal, tune in to fox news sunday, tomorrow, senator joe lieberman, chai

here is chuck grassley. >> senator, nice to see you. you've written a letter to the white house asking for an investigation. what investigation is that? >> it's the same natural extension, logical extension of what we're worried about with the secret service. secret service is investigating the use of prostitutes by their own a little down in colombia. okay, so you probably know that the secret service works very closely with people from defense department that are assigned to the white house and work with communication people at the white house and advance people at the white house. we need to know for sure that what went on within the secret service, 11-13 people, was any of that going on at the white house. that is the purpose of the letter. >> greta: i assume you would agree nobody has greater interest in making sure that the white house is not involved than the white house itself. the president essentially is the greatest goal of the secret service is to protect the president? >> of course, that is what this is all about. to make s

iowa senator, chuck grassley the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. he fired off this letter to the white house counsel after the press briefing which the white house said it conducted an internal review over the weekend and found no evidence any white house staff were involved. jay carney reported that the white house communications agency which has been linked to the scandal is not part of the white house. >> as you know, waca, as we know it here is staffed entirely by military personnel, not by white house staff and it is a defense logistics agency. >> reporter: grassley's letter poses 14 simple questions to the white house. among them, how many hours were spent on the weekend review? were civilian employees of the whca also examined? how many white house advance staff had overnight guests? how many other white house staff had overnight guests? asked today by fox news's martha maccallum whether he knew white house staffers may have been involved, grassley said this. >> i don't have have that information yet and that's what needs to be made public a

the hutchinson-grassley substitute protects due process rights that the majority bill threatance. and i'll give you an instance. the majority bill said that college campuses must provide for -- quote -- "prompt and equitable investigation and resolution" -- end of quote of charges of violence or stalking. this would -- this would have codified a proposed rule of the department of education that would have required imposition of a civil standard or preponderance of the evidence for what is essentially a criminal charge, one that if proved, rightly should have -- rightly should harm reputation. but if established on a barely more probable than not standard reputations can be ruined unfairly and very quickly. the substitute eliminates this provision. now the majority has changed their own bill's language. i thank them for that. i take that as an implicit recognition of the injustice of the original language. the substitute also eliminates a provision that allowed the victim who could not prove such a charge to appeal if she lost, creating double jeopardy. the majority bill also would

. >> host: secondly, are you willing to share that with senator grassley? any reason to why the fcc hasn't provided the documents? >> guest: we're in discussion with them, and i don't think that's going to be a problem. i think they will cooperate. they have no reason not to because i chair the subcommittee of jurisdiction, and we can invite them up under various ways, and we can ask for documents under various ways including a subpoena which we have no need to do, i think. we'll get the documents, we'll do through our processes what we need to do to evaluate the documents, and we propose to show them to senator grassley. >> host: should we expect a hearing on this in the next couple months? >> guest: actually, what you're going to see, we are going to do a series of hearings in the coming year, and one of them will be on receiver standards which was triggered, in my mind, because of what i witnessed through the lightsquared issue. when the fcc put this license forward and somebody bought it and they proposed to operate in their band at their power level an

charles grassley raised a new spector of national security when he told a radio interviewer back home in iowa, "who knows who might be using prostitutes, the russians are famous for that, to get information out of us." grassley says he fears this is the tip of the iceberg and wants an outside investigator. >>> a man who was once in john edward's inner circle, a trusted top aide during the '08 presidential campaign is now the star witness against him in his federal trial. today that aide, andrew young spent a second day on the witness stand for the prosecution. told a story of elaborate deception involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. nbc's lisa myers is with us from the courthouse in greensboro, north carolina. lisa, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this was the government's day through their star witness. prosecutors detailed edwards' affair, the hunt for money to keep his mistress quiet and claimed the former presidential candidate was deeply involved every step of the way. andrew young, edwards' once loyal aide arrived ready to tell the jury that while john edwa

iowa senator, chuck grassley the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. he fired off this letter to the white house counsel after the press briefing which the white house said it conducted an internal review over the weekend and found no evidence any white house staff were involved. jay carney reported that the white house communications agency which has been linked to the scandal is not part of the white house. >> as you know, waca, as we know it here is staffed entirely by military personnel, not by white house staff and it is a defense logistics agency. >> reporter: grassley's letter poses 14 simple questions to the white house. among them, how many hours were spent on the weekend review? were civilian employees of the whca also examined? how many white house advance staff had overnight guests? how many other white house staff had overnight guests? asked today by fox news's martha maccallum whether he knew white house staffers may have been involved, grassley said >> i don't have have that information yet and that's what needs to be made public and we

but grassley says that's not good enough. that an outsider needs to come in and do the investigating. >> all right. molly henneberg, what's going on with the secret service, thank you for at that report. patti ann. >> a fox news alert. police in washington state setting off an explosive breech where they believe keller would hold up. and that's when they found the body of his wife and 19-year-old daughter in their home, and they were shot to death before the home was set on fire. casey stegall is in los angeles for the latest, hi. >> brand new information courtesy of the king count sheriff's office up in washington state and that device was intended to blow the roof off the bunker where they believe the suspect is hiding out. the explosion happened, but the spokesperson telling us that only half of the roof was compromised and hoping it would do the job they would hoping and not yet located the suspect. and a suspect that they characterized as extremely dangerous and they say that he's armed with all types of weapons, includi

. >> specifically senator grassley wants to find out if anyone from the communication agency had any overnight guests that their hotel room or shared rooms at the hotel or other hotels in colombia. grassley wants to know, who would be reviewing these hotel records to ensure that sensitive information was not compromised by overnight guests. white house has said a couple times this week so far none of the people on the ground has been caught up in this scandal. >> i have no reason to believe. i do not know, otherwise, that this did not anything involve the agents and military personnel. we are in regular conversation with senator members of the white house staff and conversation with secret service getting briefed on the progress of their investigation. >> reporter: for the first time since the scandal broke, secret service director mark sullivan briefed president obama in person in the oval office late yesterday. so far six secret service agents have been ousted or resigned including two supervisors. five more agents are on administrative leave and one has been cleared of serious mis

that was senator grassley calling the president stupid. how about illinois congressman joe walsh calling on the president to distance himself from the muslim brotherhood. subtle as ever from mr. walsh. and not to be outdone, one congresswoman is even bringing bertha back. saying, i have doubts that it is really his birth certificate. and i think a lot of americans do. but they claim it is so we are just going to go with that. disrespect as discourse? welcome to the gop 2012. joining us now from washington is msnbc political analyst professor michael eric dyson. professor, if rick santorum complains about being subjected to mitt romney's attack ads, which he has kindly suspended while mr. santorum's child is in the hospital, how ugly is this likely to get when romney has karl rove's american cross roads super pac behind him and he starts really going for the president? >> i think there is about to be a kind of verbal assault upon president obama the likes of which we didn't see the last time around. the intensity of which shall be quite fer

but grassley says that's not good enough. that an outsider needs to come in and do the investigating. >> all right. molly henneberg, what's going on with the secret service, thank you for at that report. patti ann. >> a fox news alert. polstate setting off an explosive breech where they believe keller would hold up. and that's when they found the body of his wife and 19-year-old daughter in their home, and they were shot to death before the home was set on fire. casey stegall is in los angeles for the latest, hi. >> brand new information courtesy of the king count sheriff's office up in washington state and that device was intended to blow the roof off the bunker where they believe the suspect is hiding out. the explosion happened, but the spokesperson telling us that only half of the roof was compromised and hoping it would do the job they would hoping and not yet located the suspect. and a suspect that they characterized as extremely dangerous and they say that he's armed with all types of weapons, including potentially bod

that was senator grassley calling the president stupid. how about illinois congressman joe walsh calling on the president to distance himself from the muslim brotherhood. subtle as ever from mr. walsh. and not to be outdone, one congresswoman is even bringing bertha back. saying, i have doubts that it is really his birth certificate. and i think a lot of americans do. but they claim it is so we are just going to with that. disrespect as discourse? welcome to the gop 2012. joining us now from washington is msnbc political analyst professor michael eric dyson. professor, if rick santorum complains about being subjected to mitt romney's attack ads, which he has kindly suspended while mr. santorum's child is in the hospital, how ugly is this likely to get when romney has karl rove's american cross roads super pac behind him and he starts really going for the president? >> i think there is about to be a kind of verbal assault upon president obama the likes of which we didn't see the last time around. the intensity of which shall be quite feroci

if the white house asked me how to respond to senator grassley's inquiry or request, i would say it is a reasonable question. and that the white house ought to be conducting its own internal investigation of white house personnel who were there just to make sure that none of them were involved in this kind of jen appropriate behavior. i understand a white house advance person is not -- doesn't have quite the same range of responsibility that a secret service agent does. on the other hand, the white house advance person knows exactly where the president is going to be at any time. if anybody thinking the worst wanted to attack the president of the united states one of the ways they might find out the path that he would follow is by compromising a white house advance personnel. that is an important question and the white house ought to be taking grassley's inquirery not defensively but making sure that they answer the question. >> chris: there has been one report, one report that cocaine was found in the room of one of the secret service agents. do you know whether that is true or not? >

to bring senator grassley-- >> neenor, neenor. and you have to look at what the president said about the obamacare, it's a question that's out there. did the president not understand the power of the supreme court? no chance the president didn't know about marbury versus madison 1803. no way he doesn't understand the power of the supreme court. so then what, why did he say that? because he believes that that law shouldn't be challenged. >> clayton: was there a leak? some sort of leak? did he get wind out of what is going to come out of the supreme court. we're not going to know, but they've voted. we know, no, there's not likely a leak, but the idea that they're trying to be preemptive and get out in front of it without some positive message about health care, the idea perhaps running against the supreme court in the fall? couldn't necessarily be a win-win for the president. >> dave: the american people, are they going to go for that. >> alisyn: and some court watchers, says as a constitutional law professor he should have been pr

among those folks are senator chuck grassley. chuck grassley and i have both taken the same oath to the constitution. he has done it over and over again. he is my senior senator. he is a pretty noble bad. he gets out there on twitter on a regular basis. you want to know what he is doing, he gets on his tour count and picks up some pop cans along the road to clean up the litter. i will also when he does not agree with the president. for example, the president's analysis of whether the supreme court has anything to say about the constitution itself. i do not know how you put that when you think of a president who is critical of the supreme court trying to maneuver it differ decision out of the supreme court. when you want to disagree with the president in reference, the ex-constitutional and he's also the number one lead on whistleblowers here in america. he's entrusted whistleblower legislation and when i look at what has been saved the taxpayer, it's at least $28 billion back into the treasury because of the whistleblower legisla

i mean come on, senator grassley. now, what i want to know is does this unbridled name-calling have anything to do with the fact that barack obama just happens to be our first african-american president? you bet it does! that's my parting shot for today, folks. the president of the national education association in studio with us tomorrow. have a good one. see you back here tomorrow.

albeit little and you see this argument come back over the weekend and chuck grassley, chuck has been around for a while. he's not some crazy newly elected person. he's been around for a while. >> it was at one point the lynch pin to the affordable care act. we thought he was going to bring folks together and weeks or months after that was the one saying don't pull the plug on grandma. the affordable care act has death panels. >> he's been out there against violence against women reauthorization saying we're trying to sneak native americans and undocumented immigrants through the backdoor when democrats are trying to make sure the policy evolves at the same rate as the american population so something is eating chuck grassley. >> he's 78 years old. having said that, two things, one, this was a very stupid thing that he did. there's no question about it. but also number two, when you talk about bipartisanship in washington, d.c., you can take a look at someone like grassley to luke's point who's been around the block more than once, former chairman of the senate finance committee, know

grassley wants an outsider to do the investigating and says the white house did not respond to a letter he sent asking for more information about white house staffers on the trip. rick? >> rick: molly henneberg. thank you. >> arthel: it has been nearly a year since president obama gave the order that took out international terrorist osama bin laden. the decision widely seen as a pinnacle of the president's foreign policy and the subject of a new ad attacking mitt romney. one that is drawing some substantial criticism. peter doocy has more from washington. >> a year ago this week, president obama gave the go ahead for the raid that took out osama bin laden. but his campaign is suggesting that if a president romney had been given the same intel, he wouldn't have gone for the kill. they're making that point in a new ad with former president bill clinton. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> after asking which path mitt romney would have taken, the ad highlights a 2007 reuters headline that says mitt romney criticize

heads up, senator grassley. i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account and is sending out foolish tweets. just to embarrass you. >>> when it comes to picking a running mate herman cain has advice for mitt romney me told "the washington post" he should pick someone to energize the gop ticket. what about cain? he said it's too premature to see if that makes sense. >>> netflix has political action committee, flikspac can contribute up to $5,000 for federal candidates. netflix spent $20,000 on lobbying in 2009. >>> check out these artist renderings of what a new national mall could look like. look at these beautiful -- finals of a design competition to improve america's front yard. new water bodies included in these pictures. non-profit is trying to raise $350 million to restore the mall the planning calls for it to be done by 2016. >>> check out more about the future of the national mall. there's a lynx on our facebook page at facebook/jansingco. all right, let's decide what to do about medicare and social security

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. >>> senator chuck grassley may have some explaining to do today. the iowa republican sent out a tweet about president obama's comment that the supreme court shouldn't overturn his health care law. check this out. constituents asked why i'm not outraged at the attack on supreme court i said espn. because american people are pot stupid as this x prof of con law. president obama is a former professor of law and they fired back, i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account and is sending out tweets just to embarrass you. grassley actually did have his twitter account hacked in january by the group anonymous. we reached out to grassley's office for a reaction but we haven't heard anything back. >>> cnn's state of the union is coming up at the top of the hour and candy crowley is standing by with a preview for us. let's talk jobs. >> yes, let's talk jobs. >> what do you make of the spin of the gop candidates on this one? >> it was -- even the white house could not put a great spin on he's jobs numbers other than to say we did create more jobs. which is bet

is first as the agency turned over documents to you and are you willing to share that with senator grassley and as to why it hasn't provided the documents >> we are in discussions with them about the scope and the tax of documents and we don't think that is going to be a problem and will cooperate to have no reason not to with the jurisdiction again light them under various ways and ask for documents under various ways including is subpoena which we have no need to do what i think we will get the documents and to our process what we need to do to evaluate the documents and propose to share them with senator grassley who would think the united states senator should be able to get documents to three's committee. >> should we expect a hearing on this in the next couple of months? >> actually, what you are going to see, we are going to do a series of hearings in the coming years and one of them will be on the receiver standards which was triggered in my mind because of what i witnessed three the lightsquared issue where the fcc put this license forward and somebody bought it and they propose to

that is all well and good with iowa republican senator grassley, the ranking republican on the senate judiciary committee that over sees the secret service, but he says the new rules don't negate what happened in colombia and says, "it remains necessary to hold the agency and the agents accountable follow a complete and independent investigation." part of that independent investigation includes looking into whether white house staffers were involved. grassley says an outsider needs to dot investigating and sent a letter with 14 questions about white house staff on the trip to the white house and asked for a response by this past thursday night. he says he never got an answer. in washingtoto molly henneberg, fox news. >>> president obama joked about that secret service scandal tonight at the white house correspondent's dinner. along with another controversy. >> look at this party, we have got men in tuxes, women in gowns, fine wine, first-class entertainment, i was just relieved to learn this wasn't a gsa conference. the dinner was hosted by late- night comedienne jimmy kimmel an featu

i saw my colleague, senator grassley, ask the secret service or the inspector general of the department of homeland security, to begin do investigate whether any white house personnel including the advance teams that go ahead of the president when he makes a trip either at home or abroad, if the white house asked me how to respond to senator grassley's inquiry or request, i would say it is a reasonable question. and that the white house ought to be conducting its own internal investigation of white house personnel who were in cartagena just to make sure that known was involved in this kind of inappropriate behave. i understand a white house advance person does not have the same range of responsibility that a secret service agent does but on the other hand the white house advance person knows exactly where the president is going to be at any time. if anyone thinking the worst, wanted to attack the president of the united states, one of the ways they could find out the path he would follow in cartagena is by compromising white house advance personnel. so that is an important question and