grassly wants an investigation whether the white house staffers were tied up. the in house counsel looked into it. but grassly said the outsider needs to look into it he sent 14 questions and asked for a response by past thursday night and senator grassly said he never got an answer from the white house. >> and iran and the u.s. nuclear agency are set to reseem talks about the country's controversial nuclear program. they are at odds over whether iran will be allowed to keep the plant. the jets had been placed in the base in the united arab imerants. and they also add those jets will be used for regional security. fus tus, alabama residents are marking one year since a string of tornados ripped through the states and killing 250 people and destroying much of the town. chief meteorologist rick is there with more as people reflect back from a year ago. >> hey, uma, yes, so many people and the largest tornado outbreak in history, and tuscaloosa taking the brunt. it is a year and look at the progress. impressive in some spots where there is construction going on an

stop future misconduct. >> he said that but senator grassly is not satisfied with the investigation going so far. >> he long called for an independent investigation on what happened in columbia and want to know if white house staffers are involved. the white house went ahead and had their own in house lawyer conduct an investigation and she found no wrong doing. grassly sent a letter with 14 questions about white house personnel that went to columbia and anded for answers on thursday night and he said he never heard back . >> molly, thank you very much. the air force now commenting on why the united states sent the most advanced fighter jets to a base in iran. the military deployed f-22 and officially going on the record on what prompted that move. the jets in the united arab emer eats. they were not used in iraq, afghanistan or lib yampt it has no -- lib yampt -- libya. and now a press officer saying that the aircraft will enhance regional partnership and demonstrate u.s. commitment to the region. and regional security and stability. >> also developing tonight. news that president

senator grassly said to go ahead and we will. secretary, you know senator kyle is from the state of arizona, i believe. i suspect you do. i want to welcome the secretary back to the judiciary committee. we're continuing our important oversight of the department of homeland security. she's testified here before and i think i speak for every member of the committee that she's also been responsive if we've called with questions and in between the testimony. this is our oversight of the department of home lapd security. the work that women and men of the agency do within the department every day to keep america safe. now much attention has been focused on this prior to president obama's attendance at the recent summit of the americas in colombia. i have spoken a number of times with secret service director sullivan about this. in fact, we met privately for about an hour yesterday. and probably been on the phone half a dozen or a dozen times. i've known the director from the time he was an agent. i knew him when president bush appoint

interesting spelling there by chuck grassly. he is a proon the twitter. even tweets from his tractor in iowa. david ak axlerod was not impressed. >> i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account sending out foolish tweets to embarrass you. >> he says the use of the word stupid was his own. he spoke about his tweeting style spelling errors and all. he told the legal times that his iphone is partly to blame. there are a couple of factors involved. a lot of it has to do with the automatic correcting done by my iphone. i love tweeting but i don't like to type so i probably type and hit and send it out just a little too quickly. >>> overseas some of the final preparations are underway in north korea, ahead of a planned rocket launch. the regime says it's for scientific research but with the country's history of nuclear activity, it's raising new tensions in the region. in a rare move. >> north korean officials, get this, allowed reporters to look at the test site. the launch will coincide with the 100th birthday of kim il sung. his grandson is in charge. south ko

grassly, the cap and trade would increase the cost of energy for those types of energies that are particularly carbon intensive. it doesn't increase the cost of energy -- it does increase the cost of nrmg and that's necessary if you're going to change ou people use energy. we have ewe mr. geithner, we have the energy secretary and the president all making comments that would lead the american people to believe that you're not supporting lower energy costs, but policies that would increase the cost of energy. >> i think the question you asked at the beginning, the policies the president is promoting are helping to facilitate a huge expansion in oil and gas across the united states. a significant reduction on our depends on foreign sources of oil. >> let's talk about that quickly. >> a big expansion to use other sources of energy in the time. >> let's talk about the change of oil production in dust. i don't want to talk about private lands or state lands, i want to talk about federal lands. it's fair to say that from 2010 to 2011 there's been 11% decrease in oil production on federal lands, is t

charms grassly sent a letter to the secret service director. he asked several questions, including whether the agency reserved or share roomed for white house staff members. 11 employees are accused of bringing prostitutes back to their hotel in columbia on april 11th. six of the agents have already resigned. >>> the man leading the investigation into the scandal will be on "meet the press." the homeland security committee chairman, peter king, along with darryl issa. >>> a prominent member of the nixon white house that became a key figure in the watergate scandal has died. colson spent seven months in prison for trying to discredit the man behind the pentagon papers. after his release he founded prison fellowship. colson spent the remaining years of his life helping ex-immates. he died yesterday after surgery trying to fix a blood caught. charles colson was 80 years old. >>> and a pastor fired from his family's historic church will begin services at a different location. the dispute stems over money in one of the largest churches in our area.

. >> by the way, senator chuck grassly took time out to say the columbia prostitutes may have been russian spies. >> did you hear what he was implying? i mentioned it on "the five." he was merely suggesting that we should have an all gay secret service. i have been talking about it for a longtime. >> it is a different kind of secret service that you have in mind. >> it is a fabulous secret service. they don't guard anything. >> they would have more flexibility to do that after the election. there was a wink. >> they would buy their time in brunch waiting. >> the secret part of that, they are your secrets, greg is what we are talking about here. i am done. >> are you really? >> yes. >> thought it would never end. >> it is good for all of us. it is good for america and america's bad boy, greg gutfeld. coming up a story so explosive if it was a box turtle you would say that is one explosive box turtle and you would crush it with your bear hands. first, we are not doing this story. we are doing two other stories. >> are they good stories? >> yes, they are good stories. stick around. >>> it let

. >> but grassly, the senator, also pushed -- he practically audits everybody up for office.k at chuck grassley who i junction mentioned wrote the secret service director mark sullivan asking if any white house personnel were possibly involved in this scandal. yesterday, jone lieberman was asked about it on "face the nation" let's watch. >> do you have any indication anybody from the white house wa involved? >> i don't, but if anyone at the white house asks for my council on this, i would say they ought to be launching their own internal review of all advanced teams and the rest, in cardajena making sh their not in trouble. he is fishing for trouble here. let's look at jay carney responding to those questions today during his briefing. >> the white house council's office conducted a review of the white house advanced team, and in concluding that review, they came to the conclusion there was no indication that any number of the white house advanced team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior. so, simply out of due diligence, over the last several days, that review was con

so this is all that senator grassly and the rest can do to attack our guy and not support their guy. have also a missouri republican, also said she has doubts about the president obama's birth certificate, we're going back to it, listen. >> i have a lot of doubts about that, but i don't know. i haven't seen it, i'm in the same place you are, you read this and that, but i don't understand why he didn't show that right away. if someone asked for my birth certificate, i could go get it, take it out, and show it. >> she since walked back those comments, but she said it and she walked it back after being challenged. i'm playing it to ask you, is this how they're going to try to run against this president? make him difference not like the rest of us americans? is that the kind of ugly strategy they're going to try to roll out in your opinion? >> i think you hear hints of this from different corners of the party, and rick santorum has a line in his speech that says obama is a likable guy, he just doesn't understand america. and we he says obama is a likable guy and you hear people boo. so t

that is chuck grassly from iowa. there's 21 prostitutes that we know of, you're suggesting they could be russian spies. >> that was misreported, i'm saying russia did that, it's something you have to be cautious about. in this case i wasn't tieing the russian statement to what happened in columbia, i'm using that as an example of how other countries may try to get secrets out of us. >> where it's the street service people that made big mistakes, many of them are not around any more, or white house staff involved, we don't know enough about that. does anybody know who these prostitutes are or were or was? >> i believe that they followed through, they had a hard time getting the cooperation of the columbian police, and i don't know to what extent, but they were going to have access to that. now that information that i just said is three or four days old, so i don't know how many of the prostitutes they actually questioned, but that was their intention to run them down and talk to as many as they could. there was a pers

. >> that was senator charles grassly of iowa on fox news. a leading conservative supporting the mandate at the time it was being drafted. however, keeping them honest, it's a mandate that president obama opposed when running for office. here is his drawing a contrast back in the 2008 debate with then presidential candidate hillary clinton, who unlike president obama, supported the mandate. >> clinton's plan and mine is the fact that she would force in some fashion, individuals to purchase health care. >> joining us now, republican strategist and former george w. bush secretary of state ari fleischer and democrat poster who currently works for president obama's re-election campaign. cornel, it seems as if, as far as the obama campaign is concerned, the republican primary is over. at least that's the impression you're giving. what do you think? >> well, i think pennsylvania will have a lot to say about that. it keeps going along. santorum wins a couple. romney wins a couple. but i think he's not at the magical number yet. however, i think for

peter king and senator grassly.e are some of the questions that they wanted answered as well. the white house saying that it has conducted its own investigation and there are no instances of misconduct and it clear that they didn't conduct that investigation because there are any known allegations but simply to make sure they are doing their own due diligence. >> and another significant part of this, this 12th individual, as i understand it from reports, was actually at the hotel where president obama would stay a week later after whatever these allegations are against this individual. >> reporter: that's right. the 12th person under investigation with the secret service we have learned was staying at the same hotel as president obama. so that has really raised the specter of concern here. that that person would be staying at the same hotel as president obama and then being engaged in some sort of misconduct. what's important to know about that instance, is that occurred about a week before the president arrived. ha

. >> chuck grassly, we'll follow that and tomorrow night continue this conversation in the days aheadhere's new trouble for the nfl franchise the new orleans saints. the fbi and louisiana state police want to know, get this, if the team's general manager rigged a superdome suite so he'd be able to eavesdrop on rival teams' coaches. ed lavandera is following all of this. ed, a saints spokesman said these allegations are 1,000% false but you have both a state and federal investigation, right? >> reporter: absolutely. in fact we've spoken with the state police in louisiana. they tell us they're joining an fbi investigation looking into these allegations. and all of this stems from an espn report suggesting according to their sources, which the network is not naming, that says that between the 2002 and 2004 seasons, the general manager of the new orleans saints, mickey loomis, was able to rig a hearing device in his suite overlooking the field where he was able to listen to the coaches of the opposing teams during the game. and now investigators at the state and federal level say that the