darrell issa wants you to think the website is all about freedom. really it's all about issa's desire to eliminate the voice of working men and women in the workplace and from the political ar arena. joining me tonight is the president of the communication workers of america. i'm sure you're aware of this. your thoughts. this is tactic we've never seen before. they're going right to the worker to let them tell their story about how poor life is in the union family. >> they're not going to the workers i see and hear from every day. workers that are fed up with the policies of this congress. workers that are fed up with the destruction of bargaining rights in the public and private sectors across this country. also, as you pointed out he takes franklin roosevelt, the first president that said what i would do is join the union. he takes bobby kennedy who supported the movement in 1968 and even abraham lincoln who talked about the rights of workers to organize and form unions. why should the facts matter? i think this is the beginning of the 99% spring

darrell issa wants you to think the website is all about freedom. really it's all about issa's desire to eliminate the voice of working men and women in the workplace and from the political aren arena. joining me tonight is the president of the communication workers of america. i'm sure you're aware of this. your thoughts. this is tactic we've never seen before. they're going right to the worker to let them tell their story about how poor life is in the union family. >> they're not going to the workers i see and hear from every day. workers that are fed up with the policies of this congress. workers that are fed up with the destruction of bargaining rights in the public and private sectors across this country. also, as you pointed out he takes franklin roosevelt, the first president that said what i would do is join the union. he takes bobby kennedy who supported the movement in 1968 and even abraham lincoln who talked about the rights of workers to organize and form unions. why should the facts matter? i think this is the beginning of the 99% sprin

my special guest tonight oversight chairman congressman darrell issa. he's trying to get to the bottom of it all. we begin this overening with the breaking news. the vote in the buffett tax is under way and cnbc's eamon javers joins us. good evening, what can you tell us? >> good evening, larry. some strange circumstances on capitol hill this evening. they opened this vote. most of the senators voted and finished voting as much as a half an hour ago, but they've held the vote open. we are told they are waiting for as many as six senators who have still not voted yet. nonetheless, we are expecting here that those six senators will not be enough to make up the margin of difference here and that the buffett rule will go down to defeat this cloture motion, procedural motion will not pass according to our analysis as of where we stand right now. but it's not over until it's over. and, larry, republicans up on capitol hill today really blasted the buffett rule. they very much agree with you, larry. take a listen to senator mitch mcconnell earlier today. >> th

darrell issa wants you to think the website is all about freedom. really it's all about issa's desire to eliminate the voice of working men and women in the workplace and from the political arena. joining me tonight is larry cohen, president of the communication workers of america. larry, i'm sure you're aware of this. your thoughts. this is tactic we've never seen before. they're going right to the workers trying to let them tell their story about how poor life is in the union family. >> first of all, they're not going to the workers i see and hear from every day. workers that are fed up with the policies of this congress. workers that are fed up with the destruction of bargaining rights in the public and private sectors across this country. also, as you pointed out he takes franklin roosevelt, the first president who said if i was a worker, what i would do is join a union. he takes bobby kennedy who was assassinated, supporting the progress i movement of 1968 and even abraham lincoln is there who is ironically a republican, who specifically talked

republican congressman darrell issa even held a hearing about the safety of the chevy volt. but democratic congressman elijah cummings, he called it for what it was. >> this hearing is not about safety. this hearing -- >> you don't think so? >> this hearing is about an attack. >> joining me now, bob shrum, democratic strategist and professor at new york university. you know, the republicans, bob, have been so far off the mark on this, and they're actually rooting against economic success in an industry. professor, there has to be a lecture there somewhere. >> well, look, there's a reality. and the reality is, you're right. they want the economy to go down. they want jobs to be destroyed. look, mitt romney took the position that we should let general motors go bankrupt. if that had happened, there'd be no volt, no jobs, no gm, because there was no financing available without a government bailout. that, by the way, is why mitt romney has no chance of carrying michigan in november. you're also right that this issue is a symbol of something bigger. these folks hate the governmen

the sponsor of the bill is darrell issa. he spoke on the house floor. >> the american people have a right to know that taxpayer dollars are well spent. we have a responsibility to stay up with the times as government has grown, waste, fraud and abuse and mismanagement has increased. today, however, the technology is before us if we simply embrace it to do a far better job of accounting for every dollar spent on behalf of the american people. that's not just the american dollars that are spent by the federal government, but dollars passed on to private-sector, to the states, to public entities and nonprofits. today as those trillions of dollars are put out we find that we don't know where they are spent. at best we know the first place they went to. under the recovery act often called the stimulus, we can all disagree or agree on how the money was spent. but unlike previous appropriations, under that act we found a way to do a better job of tracing the dollars. tracing the dollars through recipient reporting. a system that al

it's being drown up by congressman darrell issa. they had meetings in the top speaker's office and they were given the green light to move towards contempt of congress for eric holder. we are getting differing information from congressman darrell issa's office. congressman darrell issa is here. but this all relates to the "operation fast & furious." gop lawmakers have been claiming for months that attorney general holder has not quooptd their investigation and refused to give them the document to which they say they are entitled. welcome, everybody, i'm megyn kelly. these reports are that it is a 48-page citation. it's in the works. it details the doj's alleged refusal to work with congress. it allowed guns to be shipped over to mexico, trafficked into mexico in homes of tracking the weapons to drug cartel leaders. instead hundreds of guns vanished, scores more turned up at crime scenes and two have been links to the murder of two border agents including brian terry. congressman issa will be with us in a moment and we'll ask him abo

as dana noted, the chairman today is darrell issa of california. he's with us live. let's dig a little deeper. you asked the question of the gsa chief of staff. now he's trying to clarify his answer saying he mentioned this is passing in the white house 11 months ago. the white house told dana in her reporting, oh, we just learned about this last month. smoke or fire? >> you know, it's a little of both. the real outrage should be that the white house would say they took quick action when, clearly, these political appointees knew about it a long time ago. if it turns out that people more central to the white house, additionally, knew, that's troubling. but let's understand the most important thing that you saw on a bipartisan basis today is a recognition that there is huge amounts of waste and excess that is built up within the federal system that needs to be rung out. until we ring that out, we cannot come back with larger and larger budgets asking the american people and for that matter the creditors of our debt to pony up more money. very clearly, this is just the

the another one concerned is darrell issa, chairman. house oversight and government reform committee and said serious questions are raised by this incident. let's listen? >> we heard about these wheel-up parties when the president leaves. this was a pre-wheel-down. the question is, is the whole organization in need of some soul-searching some changes or in fact, before the president, the vice president and members of the cab net are in danger? >> reporter: issa says he thinks as many as 20 agents might be involved not the 11 previously mentioned. gregg: steve centanni at the white house thank you very much. martha: that is a big story. congressman darrell issa also says he is believes this is likely not the first. he says basically where there is smoke there's fire. we'll see when it comes to that about this scandal. he says he will be looking into it. congressman issa will join us live in a couple minutes on that. also the main focus for him today are the hearings, the gsa hearings, which his oversight committee will be asking a lot of

darrell issa already at 50. john, is he out of control? >> when he says things that are ridiculous on their face, like the most corrupt administration in history, yes. that is a sign of not someone in control. not a serious person. but you know, what waxman comments indicate, this is a bipartisan problem. grandstanding when a president of the opposite party and it diminishing the entire process. >> thanks to all three. appreciate it. happy friday. >>> i have a study from hempstead university which shows us that cats and dogs are beginning to watch television. now, if these scientists are right, we should start programming right now. or in 20 years they could become steady viewers. >> hmm. that was a clip from the 1988 movie "scrooged." even though the idea of cats and dogs watching tv was a joke, turns out it's real. dog tv is on demand channel designed to keep your little dog relaxed and entertained while you're at work. $4.99 a month and apparently doing pretty well. this is what you get to watch. tailored for dogs. you know, the sounds,

meanwhile, republican congressman darrell issa, who leads the the powerful house oversite and reform committee says he fears this is the not the first time something like this has happened and that more agents could be involved. he told face the nation, lawmakers will be looking over the shoulder of the secret service investigation. >> we've got to ask where are the systems in place to prevent this in the future and the reason the investigation will not be about the 11 or 20 or more involved. it will be how did this happen and how often has this happened before. >> and the obama administration saying the president was never in any danger. our wendell goler is travelling with the president and joining us now from colombia, wendell? >> harris, the incident appears not to have overshadowed the summit. no indication that the leaders talked about it, but dominated u.s. news coverage and head apologized for the distraction and president obama made clear his personal disappointment. >> we're here on behalf of our people and that means that we conduct ourselves with the utmost dignity and pr

darrell issa already at 50. john, is he out of control? >> when he says things that are ridiculous on their face, like the most corrupt administration in history, yes. that is a sign of not someone in control. not a serious person. but you know, what waxman comments indicate, this is a bipartisan problem. grandstanding when a president of the opposite party and it diminishing the entire process. >> thanks to all three. appreciate it. happy friday. >>> i have a stud fri hempstead university which shows us that cats and dogs are beginning to watch television. now, if these scientists are right, we should start programming right now. or in 20 years they could become steady viewers. >> hmm. that was a clip from the 1988 movie "xroog "xrooged." cats and dogs watching tv was a joke, turns out it's real. on demand channel designed to keep your little dog relaxed and entertained while you're at work. $4.99 a month and apparently doing pretty well. this is what you get to watch. tailored for dogs. you know, the sounds, colors and the angles they li

issa says prostitutes open the question of blackmail. >> the question is is the whole organization in need of some soul searching, some changes before the president, the vice president, members of the cabinet are in danger? >> reporter: there was some positive news here. officials announced the u.s. and colombia worked out their final differences over the new free trade agreement earlier than expected. it will go into effect a month from now and that the summit itself could be held here was a testament to security improvements in the country once in the clutches of drug lords. >>> the conventions are still a few months away, but mitt romney and president obama already seem to be duking it out like it's the general election. the latest fox news poll shows a statistical dead wheat. while the two men roll -- dead heat while the two men roll out their game plan on jobs and taxes. >> reporter: the romney team hammered home the number they want you to know this morning, 92.3, the percentage of women they say account for all job losses since president obama took office. >> more women lost jo

republicans like darrell issa now saying they want to get to the bottom as to whether or not this was an isolated incident, but also try and figure out whether secret service agents have now been compromised to the point that on future trips they may be blackmailed. take a listen. >> i'm not concerned about this president in colombia. that's behind us. i'm concerned about future presidents, cabinet officers, other protected individuals five, ten years from now. it's a question of whether or not the secret service has a plan to make sure they don't have anyone who's compromised working for them in the future. >> reporter: the second major embarrassment just a couple of years for the secret service director because of the fact you'll remember in 2009 you had the salahis, the reality show stars who were able to crash a state dinner here at the white house for the indian prime minister. that is why ronald connectionler, the author of a book on the secret service who broke this story late on friday is now saying the secret service director should step down. megyn: ed, i thought the salahis

committee chair darrell issa asked to meet with the committee chair and his counsel in private. more on that. the white house pushing back in the so-called mommy wars. signaling perhaps a shift in tactics. it started a week ago with hillary rosen's comments that ann romney never worked a day in her life, she is a stay-at-home mom. general petraeus has only been there 9 times, she has been there over 30 times. she finally apologize. the administration, however, was forced to come out and condemn the remarks. not necessarily the case for comedian bill maher. he just happens to be the number one contributor to the super pac supporting the president's reelection effort. remember the thing run by bill burton? he's out there raising money for the president. bill maher is the number one donor. here is what bill maher said friday on his hbo show that got the attention of one former member of the obama administration. >> what she meant to say, i think, is ann romney has never gotten her [bleep] out of the house to work. no one is denying being a mother is a tough job. i remember i was a

we're hearing questions about this culture from congressman darrel issa who heads the goth reform committee. is this an isolated incident, has it happened before? take a listen. >> to assume 11 people did something on a one-time basis is a little bit questionable. if one person has a personal failure, that's one thing. but for 11 people to violate the basic security premise tells us there's a problem larger. it would be regrettable if they close ranks rather than make changes. >> do you think this is a regular thing or did it happen once? >> i travel around with secret service agents and i was the protectee. i had never experienced or seen anything in the sort. bad judgment or inappropriate behavior, none of that. and so i question -- this seems aberrant against anything i ever witnessed myself. but whenever the secret service finds that there's been some sort of breach or failure, they do a very comprehensive lessons learned and they incorporate those lessons into future training. so this is a very long and storied organization that has sort of trained its agents to do a very professional

darrell issa chairman of the reform committee says he is not amused. doug mckelway with the news. a lot of, i don't know, anger, grandstanding or something. i don't know why anybody would be happy about this. >> a lot of anger up on the hill and anger within the team. gsa, spokesman saying this video scoop which darrell issa publicly released yesterday is quoting now, another example of the complete lack of judgment. our agency, continues to be appalled by this indefensive i believe behavior. we're taking every step possible to make sure that nothing like this happens again. some question why the statement is so late in coming. the investigation of this las vegas junket begin a year ago. it happened two years ago. two congressional investigations are now scheduled. some congressional critics are skeptical gsa has gotten the message. >> i'm not convinced they have change their ways. this started in 2010. they have two years to clean this up. they knew this happened. they knew that these people could have been fired two years ago yet they have let it go on. >> reporter: the head of

but congressman darrell issa says he should appear. neely said having him a-- appear on capitol hill serves no legitimate purpose. the agency was embarrassed by these videos, a number of them, showing gsa employees, flouting the agency's spending habits in a talent contest in the lavish training conference in a lavish hotel for 300 people, which the agency itself admitted was over the top. commemorative coins were given in velvet boxes and the contracting for services also coming under questioning. needless to say, criminal charges because the services were not competitively bid t. adds up to a lot of taxpayer money going down the drain. the hearings begin tomorrow morning, before congress -- tomorrow afternoon, before congressman darrell issa's house oversight and government reform committee. tuesday, another households hearings and two senate panels take their turn on wednesday? >> jamie: it will be a busy week in washington. great preview. a preview to this, you have a couple more dice pay your taxes, what if you owe and you don't h

gray has the support of delegate norton and darrell issa all have said they envision adding an additional story on to projects and there's this. considering taller buildings in areas away from downtown. >> the advent of terrorism and you just never know with tall buildings and know what happened with 9/11 i don't think people here want to worry antithat situation. >> what sets this city apart, its historical buildings, monument, and european feel seem to be why people who live here want it to stay the same. >> keep it as it is. >> one of the things that makes d.c. special is the relatively low height of the buildings. >> in fact it was tough to find people who are in favor of changing d.c. sky lines. when we did their decision was based on economics. >> >> they're smaller and they don't have enough capacity to accommodate more people. >> you get more business. >> and it probably will take more than just three people backing this new idea. a congress that's on the same page and maybe even a presidential signature. >> still to come it's a popular social networking website but could it put y

. >> and darrell issa hinted there may be more agents involved and that this might not be the first time this has happened. let me play that. >> is there a reason that the investigation will not be about the 11 to 20 or more involved, it will be about how did this happen and how often has this happened before. things like this don't happen once if they didn't happen before. >> how is this investigation by congress going to go? >> issa already has quite a lot on his hands. he has aer thatting today on the gsa scandal involving the partying going on out in las vegas. so he'll be the full-time party investigation chairman here. i think the talk immediately jumps to will this this jep arrestedize the president's security. i suspect where this is going more is in terms of the embarrassment. the president said when representing the united states oversea, you should act according to a certain decor rul. of course does that imply they shouldn't act thoo way tat way home? so a lot of it will be the embarrassment this has caused in terms of perception rather than actual security. >> i think it was

republican chair of the house oversight committee darrell issa says one goal of the hearing is to, quote, make sure this doesn't happen again. >>> the death toll from this weekend's massive tornadoes is rising. at least six people have died. all of the known fatalities right now in woodward, oklahoma. the woodward storm was just part of a massive system that spun off dozens of tornadoes across ten states in the midwest and plains. the national weather service received more than 130 reports of tornadoes. >>> a major insurgent attack on kabul and three other areas in eastern afghanistan is over. but gunfire and rpg explosions rocked the capital until early this morning. afghan officials say a total of 35 insurgents were killed in the 18-hour battle. four civilians, eight members of the afghan security forces also dead. the taliban claimed responsibility. afghan president hamid karzai condemns the attacks and blames an intelligence failure on afghan and nato forces. >>> norway mass murder suspect admits to the killings but claimsms it was self-defense. anders behring breivik is accused of k

here is darrell issa from the congress. here it is. >> do the american people really think we should have put $375 million in ge buying the electric cars so everyone could make a statement about the future with really bad car. >> that's archaic thinking. your thoughts. if we listened to darrell issa we could still be in cart wheels the way he's talking. >> it's highly unfair. it's wrong. my problem with it is it's so untrue and wrong that everybody can see through it. that harms the conservative cause, which other than the chevy volt i deeply believe in. >> good work. thank you so much. >>> the right wing smear machine spent the last two presidential elections slamming democrats for being elitists, but now the republican nominee is the one with the fonds memories of vacations this paris, france. what will the conservatives do? >>> coming up, after years of pantsing democrats as elitists, republicans are throwing their support behind mitt romney. his latest out of touch moment is coming up next. >>> if you think mitt is out

. >> d darrel issa is capitalizing on it. i want to say one thing about ththe secret svice thing. that's not get carried away. whatever to enter the was of planting -- whatever danger the was of planting the bomb, there was a simar dger from room service. prostitution is illegal in colombia. i am not h happy this happen -- prostitution is legal in colombia. i amot happy this happen, but let's out pretend there is a huge national security danger. >> my sources tell me there was a language problem negotiating a group rate. [laughter] >>>> you are bad. >> there is a questionbout whether our culture, which is crude and getting cruder, could extend it to institutions like the secret service. you wonder if we are getting cruder. >>on't you think it happened 50 years ago? >> i do, i hesite to say that but you wonder. >> everybody has a video and a camera, so y see it much more. >> we do have some video of the space shuttle d discovery. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation every solution comes together for

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

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?

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 the 21 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,

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