day two of hearings on capitol hill. congress barbecuing the gsa officials for the agency flagrant abuse of taxpayer money. after the gsa spent $1 million of your money on clowns, mind readers and luxurious vacations. several lawmakers now threatening to put an end to the waste and to the entire agency. >> if we continue to see this spending, we'll continue to see you are not giving us the information to show us how expenditures are happening, i am prepared to systemically pull apart gsa. to the point where we will make a question to the american public and whether gsa is needed at all. >> when they knew this was being done on, you know, -- we can pick out sushi or whatever makes highlight. $44 for breakfast, i'm a big man and i can't spend $44 for

breakfast. somebody had to say that. are you kidding me? then the american public believes every single employee and agency is corrupt and not doing what they're supposed to. >> i see why mr. neely is not with us today and the only pictures i can get of him are him in the hot tub suite. >> a news release. big government doesn't work. it doesn't work. what do we do instead of the gsa? there is a lot of abuse in the gsa. a lot of abuse of other government agencies throughout the government. eight the money spent in las vegas by gsa should be a farewell party. thank you. >> congressman john mica, chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee joins us. good evening. >> good to be with you. >> greta: thought of systemically pulling apart of gsa we'd all like to get rid

of gsa but that is impractical since someone has to run the physical structure of the government. >> this running all of our property that people own. how many people listening would turn over their property for the management by the federal government? i don't think many. what mr. denham and i discussed is maybe taking apart gsa. they are on billions of asset and losing money and billions every year with the vacant public buildings. some of them not far from where we are sitting tonight. >> greta: how did a clown, mind readers and ipods and bathtub, nude pictures. why did it take that for all of a sud on the realize there is billions of dollars -- >> sometimes that is what gets the media and the public's

attention. >> greta: we're not -- we don't have the oversight. you do. >> i held a hearing in a vacant building that was vacant for 15 years. mr. denham and i held a hearing in vacant building. vacant under gsa for five years. >> but what happened? you held a hearing but what happened? did anything happen? or just hold a hearing? >> we have also introduced legislation, because gsa doesn't make a decision. they stay on the assets that are valuable. they won't sell them or lease them or trade them. they won't make them have a return rather than loss to the taxpayers. so what we did is we introduced the brack type of legislation. someone to make a decision. >> greta: which means that -- >> that sitting over in the senate. we passed it in the house. we held hearings and we asked for accounting of the money.

they stone walled us. month after month. this has gone on, i've been chairman for a year. and what a quarter. almost every month but the first month, we held a first hearing in february. over a year ago. they stonewalled us. now we see why they didn't want to give us details. because details are, the devil is in the details. now we're seeing details of that. that is just their administrative expenditures. >> senator mccaskill is coming up and she will tell you the same thing. she sent series of letters for a year or so or two years. >> we've been stonewalled. the house and senate. >> do you think the white house -- i know that the white house heard about this last may. but do you in any way sort of, assign blame to the white house on this? >> well, they were very quiet. i think this, there was an attempt to brush this under the carpet so to speak.

>> greta: in what way? >> they were infortunatelyed again, the -- informed again, the communication from the gsa counsel to the white house. as you said last may. here it is, not quite a year later, and just comes out about a week ago. they newell about this. they were also told again to stop the nonsense and stop waste. possible criminal activity. nobody did anything. they wouldn't tell us. >> greta: i suppose the white house would say an inspector general was doing investigation at the time. so perhaps didn't want to make referral at the time. >> he started the investigation, alerted them in november. after the convention. he had six months to investigate. he came up and they had the evidence. they presented it to the white house. there has been silence out of the white house until this was all disclosed.

>> why did the inspector general, does he not have the authority to refer it to the justice department? >> there are referrals now. >> greta: now? but i'm saying -- >> exactly. >> greta: it took some explosive scandal. >> i'm telling you, i think everything was done to keep this quiet, hush-hush. god bless brita who worked for the committee. she went back the second time and blew the whistle on them. only because one employee who did the right thing and pursued this with the inspector general did it ever come out. >> i don't understand, though, why even some of the people who went to the conference didn't think something was awry. they can always send note to the media. the media would be glad to seize on this. >> seemed like it was standard operating procedure. today we talked about a 17-day trip to japan to atlanta, to napolitannapa valley. a ground tour. >> greta: do you think someone didn't like him in the company or the government who would have at least outed him.

>> and they were told back in may to tell him and them to stop wasteful spending. nothing was done. they went right ahead and did it. the white house knew what was going on. they were never stopped. he didn't have the decency to show up and take the fifth today. >> greta: he didn't have the decency to show up. if i was his lawyer i'd tell him not to show up. he is in deep trouble. >> but subpoenaed or ask for his suspension, yet he is still on the taxpayers' dole. >> greta: why is that? i mean, that, he doesn't have to be on the taxpayers dole. >> he should have been taken off the taxpayer dole. he should have been taken off the taxpayer dole when the inspector general notified both gsa administrator and the white house. >> greta: can you influence that now?

we are paying him for today and tomorrow. >> i have been chairman of civil service for four years and it's just about impossible to fire federal employee. there are so many appeals and so many levels. >> greta: maybe another thing to work on while you're trying to figure out what to do. >> too many people protecting people who don't do their jobs. >> greta: congressman, thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. >> greta: good luck, sir. and another lady at the hearing. gsa workers getting paid extra money, bonuses to find ways to waste your money. member of congress pummeling the former top officials for giving employee bonuses. >> did you give bonuss? >> we did give, we did give bonuses to the senior executives, yes. >> did you give a bonus to mr. neely? >> we did give a bonus to mr. neely. >> why? >> the recommendation from the performance board was to give him a three. i asked her if they discussed in the review the i.g. report

and where it was. she said there was no mention of it in the meeting. i can't remember the exact words. but said they did not consider that in their deliberations of recommending a three. they said with respect the leasing portfolio, strongest across the country. that fit with a recommendation of four. >> greta: senator claire mccaskill began investing the gsa in 2010 and wants to know which other gsa officials also received bonuses and how much. senator claire mccaskill joins us. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> greta: you have been trying to get information out of this gsa for quite some time. i have november 2010 letter. at least one. why are you getting this information? what is taking so long? >> i am busy all the time

working with inspectors general across government to find contracting abuses and waste. in that work, we realize a contract that i was aware of in kansas city that appeared wasteful on its face so i began investigating it as part of the committee work and found that in fact it was a ridiculous contract. >> greta: $1.3 billion public relations and advertising contracts the one you were concerned about in this letter. >> i began to realize they weren't giving inspector general respect. that's the problem. i want to push back on what congressman mica said about the inspector general. people need to realize the inspector generals are independent. they work as an independent auditor in the agency. this inspector general did good work here, good independent work. >> greta: it takes a long

time. if you make, if you come forward and you become public and have the media put heat or congress put heat it can move faster to eliminate some of it. you have to bring finding and get response before making it final. final. >> greta: i call up neely and say you have a clown in las vegas. >> i'm not here to defend activities, i'm here to say tin speckor general behaved under the government auditing standards, took too long but should not have gone public until the audit was completed. >> that is another thing to make us angry. is there some way to speed up and empower inspector general to move faster? they're the police officer. >> sometimes they drag feet on the response and you make a decision. do i pop the audit without the response from the auditee,

knowing maybe there is a response i need to have or allow them to drag the process? this is a time where there was a number of audit going on. i think that the auditee in this case, gsa was not excited about this becoming public. i think they worked to delay the process. the good news is that the auditor came out with a strong report to help us make the changes in contracting. that is the good news. >> greta: i guess that is good news. i'm so appalled at the length of time it takes while other bad decisions are made. let me, you sent a letter on. this i understand you have given until april 27 to report back to you who got bonuses and how much, right? >> correct. >> i give them till this afternoon at 5:00. >> sometimes you do that, you don't get an answer. >> greta: nothing you can do, no muscle? nothing you can do? >> the bright light of shame and embarrassment you would think is big for the agency right now, and i believe, frankly i had a back and forth with martha johnson before this broke about las vegas

problem. about whether or not she should have allowed a person to testify in front of my committee for bonus. >> do they ignore your request? i mean do you have no sort of recourse if you say i need that in 24 hours and they don't do it? >> there really isn't any resource short of beginning a process of trying to pull the funding. what you do is do your best. we have been aggressive on the sub committee on contracting. one thing that is frustrating today, today when the circus literally with the clowns down in the house, we're holding a hearing on contracting abuses in the defense department that reach $60 billion. >> we focus on this one. we hear all the problems and we don't have enough money. price of cutting the firefighters and police officers and raise taxes or not.

billion in contract fraud. extraordinary. >> it is extraordinary. we hallowed out the acquisition force. we didn't give enough support to the government auditors. we paid a price for it. now we're reversing that by working very hard and getting contract procedures in place. that will provide much more strict guidance to the defense department, state department, aid and homeland security. >> greta: can we get any money back, those that defraud us? >> we tried. tried to claw back but they let the contractors write the contracts. >> who is they? >> defense department. >> greta: who in the world would write something like that? what kind of person writes a contract where someone defrauds you, that is tough. >> some of this isn't out and out fraud. you understand the difference between fraud, waste and abuse. some of this is like giving them a cost plus contract to go monogram hand towels to drive up how much we paid them. >> who in the world would write a contract like that? >> the government didn't write it. the contractor did. >> why would you let the fox guard the chicken coop?

why is that allowed? >> contingency contracting, what happened in iraq and afghanistan on contracting is shameful. if you look at the profiteering that is going on. now we try to get the defense department and state department to get the act together. >> greta: write a law and let personal injury lawyers get a percentage of going after any money and personal injuries will go out and recover some of the money. >> not a bad idea. >> greta: get it for you really fast. thank you. good luck. >> thank you very much. >> greta: straight ahead, could it really happen that the senate finally doing its job? senate hasn't passed a budget in three years. tomorrow they will finally talk about a budget plan. but wait, don't get too excited. there is a catch. brit hume is here. that is next. plus, new information and it is rather sorted about the secret service prostitution scandal. what really happened that night in columbia, when agents should have been preparing to protect the president. new developments are coming up. plus taliban commander armed with his own wanted poster tries to cash in on his own arrest. you have to see this one to believe it.

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reid insists he has no intention of bringing the budget to the floor. today, ken conrad saying a vote on the budget will probably not happen until after the election. is this all a waste of time? brit hume joins us. is this a waste of time? exercise in futility? >> yes, in a word it is. it's not the worst thing that happened. they will bring the simpson-bowles committee recommendation to the committee. but the budget committee is not going to act on them. so it's, it doesn't mean much. certainly not a substitute for what the law requires, out theed now for the third year to bring detailed budget to the senate floor and try to pass a budget. for the coming year. >> if this is a an act of futility, instead of time doing that, they could look for the waste and the fraud and some of the agencies.

that could be an idea. tomorrow's exercise is just as absurd. >> what is shocking, chairman of the budget committee, conrad, this is his swan song. his last year. he is retiring. he has been a budget hawk through the years. he would like to do something about the budget and have a legacy and said i was trying to do something about it before the debt crisis and he has been resisted bis his leader. he was going to look like a markup, do a line-by-line budget. try to report it out of the committee. met going to bring it to the floor. >> greta: if the words were serious, i'd be laughing right now. for a senator's legacy for budget that will never come to floor because its party is blocking it.

>> this isn't a budget anyway. this is a set of spending recommendations -- >> spending recommendations. it's like, spending all this time doing this. i'd rather go to vegas and get in the bathtub with neely. >> if you think about it, one can sense political logic in what senator reed is trying to do. the public in 2010 establied it was upset spending and deficit. to pass a budget you have to cast vote to represent level of spending and taxation and all of that. that is what you do when you enact a budget. democratic senators up for re-election. only ten republicans. and those, everything that is in that budget, if a budget were passed by the senate, would be something that the candidate on the other side if it were unpopular.

that is why reid doesn't want to bring it to the floor. because it's a chase of doing something or cashing in on controversial vote. >> greta: so while he is doing a calculus for the political logic he is abandoning any effort to show the leadership and correct a real problem in the nation with how well we do the budget? i know the senator says the budget act, last summer. we're being sacrificed so that they can do the calculus to get re-elected for something that is not going to happen. >> the argument they are making is we pass spending limits and tax increases. last year that bind us. so there is no need for a budget. now, look, my view of that is the law requires a budget. and those spending limits are not, you know, there are specificity in them but there is not a budget. my sense about this is that the public doesn't follow this thing. the public doesn't know what

the budget act is by and large. it doesn't know what the senate is supposed to agree annually on a budget. blueprint for engaging in the rest of the fiscal year. this will be with impunity and less punishing than voting on all the, all the controversial measures. >> greta: when you talk about the legacy, though, senator kent conrad legacy, wouldn't you think he'd rather have a legacy he was persuasive and got a product and really accomplished something for the american people on a budget rather than playing the politicalalculus and did punching with his leadership? >> he can't single-handedly bring it to the floor. >> greta: he could reyes hell. he could stand up and complain never on the senate floor and shame enough of the other senators so that we did move forward. >> he was here sitting where you are a couple of weeks ago when i was anchoring fox news sunday when chris wallace was away. it pressed him on that. he made the argument, you know, we do have that budget

control act. binds us. it was the functional equivalent of a budget. >> greta: that is the party line. political party line. not getting the job done. >> look, i don't disagree with you, greta. i can understand why you might think he would want to do that. on the other hand, asking him to buck his leadership, if he doesn't believe that it will work, and actually get a budget passed through the senate or brought to the senate floor is a bit of exercise in futility. >> greta: if i circle around and say he worries about the legacy. i'd rather have the legacy be buck last part of the term as senator, to do the right thing and raise hell. nobody liked me at the end. at least i had the decency to do the right thing. i'm taking the last word on that. [ laughter ] thank you. >> you bet. >> greta: coming up, the president race is tightening up. governor mitt romney and president obama are neck in neck in the latest polls but a group of voters governor romney needs to win over. the tea party. can he do it? congresswoman christine noms

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there is another way to control oil and gas costs and joins us. good evening. >> hi, greta. great to see you again. >> nice to see you. besides the obvious, supply and demand, are there other issues right now that are causing gas prices to soar like middle east problems or even the oil speculation market? tell me why you think gas prices are high. >> well, i think for sure that the fears in the geopolitical arena about the middle east have been pushing the prices up. you saw this when the arab spring broke out, the prices went way up. an so, political uncertainty i think is a big component. ient to know the answer -- i don't know the answer to how important speculators are. as most economists we have a hard time to lock around and figure it out. we're not oil traders. it seemed to me when i saw what the president announcing it was largely given the cstc, regulators, call for them to have additional authorities

and technology to police that. i don't know the answer to how important that is. >> the reason i asked you that, i'm trying to figure out what the best solution. i'm trying to identify what is the spike. obviously, if it's geopolitical issue, hardest to control. if it's energy market it makes it easier. so i guess then i turn to your op-ed where in your top-ed piece in the "wall street journal" recently you said at least correct me if i'm wrong you thought we should tap strategic petroleum reserve instead as a mechanism to lower prices. >> well, i did write, but not as a mechanism to lower prices but because i think that if you measure the strategic petroleum reserve as a strategic, for strategic value it would suggest we put too much in there. that the amount of oil we want to keep in the strategic petroleum reserve ought to be tied to how much imports we get.

we always had 75 days worth of non-north american imports in there. we have now had domestic production go way up. our imports are way down. out doesn't make sense. it name the rule after my mom, linda rule. set number of days we keep in there to be a constant. >> greta: people should google and get the story and learn more about the linda rule. origin is quite interesting. i'll save it for people who want to google it. if we tap the strategic, if we do that route, then we can have more oil in the domestic market. for period of time. not the end all. we have a problem with

geopolitical. that is a serious impact on the price, right? >> yeah, i think that's true. strategic petroleum reserve is not intended to be a permanent solution. i think that geopolitical stuff, you got to, that those sort itself out or we have to sort that out. we saw it through the arab spring that some of those fears go up. but then it's the worst doesn't happen, they come back down. then if you are looking at the speculators, as i say, i don't know. you have to have the people more expert on the oil trading markets to look at that, to figure out how much of that is driving prices to the extent it is driving prices. i would only add that if you outline a policy to release strategic petroleum reserve in a moderate amount over a set period of time, that would really wipe -- if you thought there were speculate torse that would wipe them out and convince them to get out of the bids of speculating the price is going to go up.

the government would be releasing the oil reserve. so, if you -- >> greta: i don't get that you are so -- i don't get that you are sold on the president's idea to do that then. you are not sold on what the president is doing to attempt to lower prices. >> well, i wouldn't go that far. i think that what the president outlined today from what i saw, giving the regulators the authority to investigate this. that right now, they are under threat of having the enforcement budget radically cut in the budget process. they don't have the technology to monitor these things in real time. and people aren't keeping the data that will allow us to be able to figure out if there is one party or investment house doing something. i think we ought to have the

authority and the ability to monitor that. the only thing i don't know is how important that is. you have to get people closer involved to answer that. >> greta: if the president's idea is correct one. i take it that it's a long-term one. it's not going to, given the ctst enforcement won't bring prices down in the near futur future. a fair statement? >> that is an interesting -- you raise an interesting point. it depends a lot on the psychology of the spectate lo lors. -- speculators. if you were a speculator and you're trying to corner the market or drive things in a certain way, if you knew the police were about to show up you get out of there when the alarm goes off. it could effect things in the short-term if the guys are major playing a major role in it. as i say, if you outline a

policy not just dumping it all out in the short run as fast as you can, but policy of getting it to where it should be, that would drive the guys out. >> greta: thank you. hope you come back. thank you, sir. >> you bet. great to see you again. >> greta: straight ahead we have seen it all in washington, but today spectacle that stopped everyone in its tracks. speaker gingrich camp jumped on the bandwagon. what happened? stay tuned. follow the wings. i'm freaking out man. why? i thought jill was your soul mate. no, no it's her dad.

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>> greta: you have seen the top stories but here is the best of the rest. ready for this one? taliban commander goes stupid and in the process stuns police in afghanistan. he marched up to a check point holding a wanted poster with his own face on it. then he demanded the reward money for his own arrest. the surprised police arrested him right on the spot. but they called for american backup to make sure they had the right man. then police asked the taliban commander if he was really the suspect on the poster he said yes, that is me. can i get my reward now? of course, he did not get the $100 reward. amazing scene over the nation's capital today. space shuttle discovery making the final flight on the back of a jet. retired shuttle was on the way to the smithsonian institution where it will be on display. first, it flew over the capital, the white house and the washington monument.

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