and author of the book plane bigger than you are a life of organizing and dan bongino republican candidate for the u.s. senate in the great state of maryland the commonwealth was no no it's a state it will take it as a state it's our state yeah it's actually the state i mix them up i'm sorry ok let's start out here. with mitt romney i want to start with health care mitt romney's wife ann has a history of breast cancer and has multiple sclerosis she would be uninsurable right now in the united states if she was not a quarter billionaire how what what plan do the republicans have for people like ann romney who are not worth a quarter of a billion dollars. well look i'm glad that m.s. is the subject of conversation because there's there's an interesting look if you look at the u.k. if you look at scotland which has a government run health care program the government there said that this new groundbreaking drug to help people with multiple sclerosis would not be approved because the government made a decision that it wasn't cost effective so we could have a health care system like obamacare we

and author of the book plane bigger than you are a life in organizing and dan bongino republican candidate for the u.s. senate from the great state of maryland let's continue the biggest golf tour of the year the masters started this week and the talk isn't so much about tiger woods it's about whether or not women should be allowed to be members of the augusta national golf club they're not they can't they can't show up in fact for the last eighty years one of the traditions with the masters is that the c.e.o. of the biggest companies in america i.b.m. has been one of them for thirty forty fifty years is always invited to sit in a place of prominence the c.e.o. of i.b.m. right now is a woman and the masters have not yet released whether or not they're going to invite her it pretty bizarre both the president and mitt romney say women should be allowed to join a private club but he goes that if i was in charge i would say absolutely so you want the government to force this quiet the problem is that we have something called free association and it's a right protected under the first amendment

dan bongino will challenge ben cardin for his senate seat. adam has an interview. >> reporter: dan bongino is selling himself as a dc outsider with charisma. he admits it'll be tough running as a republican. who is dan bongino? >> dan bongino is a former secret service agent. >> reporter: political newcomer dan bongino helped protect our last three presidents. now he's the republican nominee for senate. >>> when you saw those results what was your reaction be. >> i can't describe it. it was a humbling experience. >> reporter: bongino is personable, says he'll fight for the working class. >> i grew up very poor. it's not fun. i've been through some scraps in my life. i'll tell you i think we have the gray matter and we have the physicality to get through a tough race. >> reporter: sitting senate ben cardin expects a lively campaign. >> i don't know a lot. i know he had has embraced the republican economic plan. >> reporter: the two disagree on taxing the wealthy, obama care and energy policy. bongino also has some skeptics. >> high ranking republican in maryland told me the problem with your campaign is that you have no political experience whatsoever. >> what is going up the ranks or so-

dan bongino is a republican running for senate in maryland, he says his brother is not accused of anything. >> i have personal relationships with some of the, one of them is a family member assisting in the investigation. >> the agents are on paid leave but they have all been stripped of their top security clearance. back to you. >> thank you very much. the president has given his director a vote of confidence. >>> hearings continue today on capitol hill into allegations of weighsful spending by the general services administration, the man at the center is geoffrey neely, who hosted a conference in vegas that cost more than $800,000. knewly released e-mails show he did plan lavish parties and even invited friends to stay at the hotel with him, all at taxpayer expense. >> the purpose of this committee is to talk about the systemic problem, how deep it goes, the corruption, the fraud, the waste -- >> -- investigating allegations of bribery and kick backs and has already recommended criminal prosecutions. >>> the student accused of threatening to kill students at the university of maryland co

. >> reporter: dan bongino is a former secret service agent, running as a republican for senate. wjz has learned, his brother, who is also an agent, was in columbia, when as many as 20 women, possibly prostitutes, were invited to their hotel for sex. 11 secret service members, including two supervisors and members of an elite counter- assault team are under investigation. >> reporter: bongino says his brother is not under investigation for any allegations of prostitution. >> i have a personal relationship with some of them. one of them happens to be a family member who is assisting in the investigation. so, adam, this is a very -- this is not indicative of the behavior i saw when i was in the secret service at all. >> reporter: bongino will not elaborate on his brother's role in the investigation. according to the pentagon, at least 10 members from every branch of the military may also be involved. the misconduct took place in cartagena, before president obama arrived for the summit over the weekend. bong i i -- bongino predicts fallout. >> i think the changes will be pretty grap

perspective on this tonight from dan bongino, a former agent with the presidential protection division of the secret service, who these days, by the way, is a republicanandidate for u.s. senate from maryland. hear now, his view of the scandal in his own words. >> the secret service is not just a job, it's a calling. and it was devastating to me, along with the fraternity of secret service brothers out there, this was hard to take. i was 12 years in the secret service, five years in the presidential protection identification. two years with president obama, three years with president bush. i was an instructor in our academy. i've seen the totality of the secret service, this is a national embarrassment. he's our president, he's overseas. he's not a democrat president, he's our president, and this was an embarrassment. i know everyone in the case. i'm not apologizing for anyone's behavior, and they aren't either. but lives are changed permanently, the ones i've talked to. their families are beaten up by this. the service, always adamant accent the point constantly, the consequences for your behavior. everywhere from the firing range, advanced work, that

senate candidate, republican senate candidate, excuse me, dan bongino. he told nbc news last night and i'm quoting. i know everyone in the case and i'm not apologizing for anyone's behavior. the ones i talk to their families are just beaten up by this he said. then he later admitted that his brother joe was on the team that quote, made bad decisions but he was not implicated in the prostitution. gregg? gregg: doug mckelway live at white house. thanks very much. martha: those are a few of the stories we're getting started with this morning in "america's newsroom." this one, folks, harry reid has a message for the republican who dared look into the gsa spending scandal. he told florida republican congressman, that he quote, needs to get a life. we'll get his response. you see him shaking his head. gregg: i think he has a response for that. meantime, misterry solved in tiny town waiting to find out who the megamillionaire is among them. we're waiting for it live. martha: this horrific, tragic, tragic story out of texas this morning. the mother of a newborn