from wall street so many new people to write it people like bill daley well he had a stint there jack lew they were brought in to smooth over relations with wall street and the business community you imagine if the same thing happened after the occupy movement began what if the president really felt that he needed to smooth over his relationship with average americans with the ninety nine percent and what if you were to bring in a real advisor with real fundamental systemic change in mind and the truth is we don't and we won't see that happening there are some initiatives that can be blamed on inaction in congress jobs programs making the tax system more fair but even the hardest hit homeowners can't get help to years after a program was designed specifically to direct money their way because the treasury just doesn't really acted on it well hope seems ours and say it all the time on the show and i will say it again we cannot undervalue the media's role in this entire discussion the media has the ability to guide the discussion we see this all the time when scandals emerge the media jumps

administration says, that they're on top of the gsa investigation as well with white house chief of staff jack lewaying on tuesday that the president called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable given their actions were irresponsible and entirely inconsistent with the expectations that he had set as president. the gsa administrator, martha johnson, resigned over this but before she did she fired that commissioner, bob peck, martha. martha: when do we expect we'll hear more details on all of this from the gsa? >> reporter: there's going to be a hearing on the hill on april 19th. we'll hear from some of these folks. ahead of that hearing we've been digging around and we learned more about that public building services commissioner bob peck's tenure at gsa. might not be directly related but when he took over in 2009, the commissioner's budget was $3.25 million. a year later, it was more than double that, $6.94 million. last year, it was up to $9.16 million. and commissioner peck during that las vegas trip, held a $2,000 party in his suite but again he has been fired. so the party's o

jack lew says the president is on top of this and -p he called for all responsible to be held fully accountable given that the actions were irresponsible and entirely inconsistent with the expectations that he has set as president. across the aisle the republican chairman of the house transportation committee, congressman john micah says we've been trying to get the administrative costs from the agency and now we see why they have been stonewalling. the congressman also ripped on that $3,200 mind reader hired by the gsa at one of their parties. he says he wonders if the mind reader told gsa officials that blowing 800 grand on a vegas conference would get them fired. we've just learned that there will be hearings on capitol hill regarding this waste on april 19th, that is two weeks from today. jon: we could do a lot of good with $800,000 that won't go to a convention. jenna: did you know the going rate of a mind reader was several thousand dollars? jon: i'm not a mind reader i didn't know. jenna: rick perry is going to hold a news conference discussing his tour of his state. as many as a dozen t

the president's chief of staff jack lew said in a statement, president obama was outraged by the excessivending questionable dealings with contractors and disregard for taxpayer dollars. the agency put out a statement. the gsa concurs with the ig's recommendations and is appalled with the findings and is taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen again. darrell issa also put out a statement. he said the president chided private enterprise for wasting money. this is hypocritical this government conference was held and wasted so much taxpayer dollars during a time of economic hardship. the president, according to the white house heard about this early last month just before his trip to south korea. back to you, jon. jon: more than 100 grand spent on the planning trips. i love that. >> reporter: several planning trips, right. jon: like to see those expense reports. steve centanni, thank you. >> reporter: take care. jenna: a run to the brosry store take as terrifying turn. a plane right into the building. we'll give you the latest next. all right, let's decide what to do about medicare and soc

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