. >> reporter: secret service director mike sullivan told lawmakers the misconduct of agents in the columbian prostitution scandal did not endanger president obama. sullivan is on the hot seat following revelations that secret service agents hired prostitutes in colombia prior to president obama's april visit. the director believes the misconduct was an isolated incident. he says similar allegations in el salvador were investigated and found to be unsubstantiated. but lawmakers doubt columbia was a one-time occurrence. >> this misconduct was almost certainly not an isolated incident. >> reporter: the secret service investigation cleared three acts of the most serious allegations. the agency is moving to revoke security clearance for one employee and eight others were fired or forced to resign. four of those agents are now trying to get their jobs back according to "the washington post." the men say they are being made scapegoats for behavior that was tolerated in the past. >> the notion that this type of behavior is condoned or authorized is just absurd. >> reporter: prostitution is legal in

my name is mike sullivan, and i am here with my son, joseph, and one of his best friends. i am here in my role as a soccer dead. it is my first time i have been to speak in front of either commission. this is important to our family. joe and rocky have been playing on these fields for about five years. they have played on grass and turf fields. the kids love them, because that are great to play on. the family's love them because that are available. we are a traveling team. in the last year, we have not been able to play on rec and park fields. we play in brisbane, because there was no feel for us. you cannot make everybody happy. we know that. as you weigh what to do, with passionate people on both sides, i urge you to think about the families. somebody earlier tonight said it is not going to push people out of san francisco if you do not do that. but people say it is not the schools, the crime, or the housing. this is an opportunity to tip the scales in favor of family is staying in san francisco. we are huge environmentalists in our family, big supporters of the natural

secret service director mike sullivan is expected to appear before congress tomorrow. >>> gary giordano has been charged with indecent exposure. he's the gaithersburg man linked to the unsolved disappearance of robin gardener. she vanished when the two vacationed in aruba. he was arrested in annapolis on a totally different matter. a parking garage manager called a report in of possible sexual activity in a vehicle. police arrested or rather police allegedly found gary giordano and a woman naked in the back of his suv. >>> he destroyed evidence and lied to federal investigators. now a former campaign agent, d.c. mayor vince gray, is facing at least a year in prison. thomas gore admitted in court that he illegally diverted gray campaign funds to minor candidate brown. the plan was to have brown stay in the race as long as possible and launch political attacks on incumbent mayor fenty during the 2010 campaign. >>> a judge has found richard kim guilty of selling alcohol to a minor. now, kim owns the town square market on mcarthur boulevard and northwest. 9 news now has been investigating t

the administration and particularly the secret service were hoping that when director mike sullivan testified today, that would put the whole scandal to rest but some of the agents involved aren't ready to end it. they think they have been railroaded. four secret service employees apl accused of having sex with prostitutes in cartagena, colombia, are fighting their dismissals s saying they were me scapegoats for behavior that has happened many times in the past. last month former secret service director brian stafford told cbs news the cartagena incident painted a much different picture. >> i never heard there were agent and prostitute mentioned in the same sentence until this saga unfolded. >> reporter: in april secretary of homeland security janet napolitano said the conduct was not acceptable. >> not everyone else was doing it and this behavior is not part of the secret service way of doing business. >> reporter: the four agents who either resigned or were fired are now trying to get their jobs back. some of them are arguing that they did not pay for sex. others that they did not know the

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mike emanuel is with us. what do we expect to hear. >> reporter: we expect mark sullivan to say that this one incident in columbiareflect the ethical standards of the nearly 7,000 secret service employees. you can expect him to say that at no time was president obama's security at risk and also expepbgt etd to say, quote, the security plan was extremely thorough and comprehensive and no aspect of the security plan was compromised, due to the miss conduct. so sullivan will try to contain this scandal. i should note "the washington post" is reporting this morning that four of the employees who are being dismissed for the scandal are planning to foy to fight their dismissal. so the story may have legs for a time longer. bill: they are concerned this was not a one time event, are they not? >> reporter: that's right. we expect senator joe lieberman who is going to chair this meeting later this hour if there were warning signs from previous overseas trips with the secret service leading up to this trip. we know the top republican, susan collins does not believe it was an isolated incident. she is expected to say the nu

great respect for mark sullivan the secret service director but perhaps because she a good guy was not exposed to the seedy behavior of those beneath him. >>shepard: maybe, thank you, mike, and now the man who broke the story for the "washington post", a journallallist who wrote the book "behind the scenes with the agents." ron, great to see you. it would be disingenuous for anyone to pretend this was not then to have happened before. >>guest: well, that is a good assumption but it is not true. mark sol ran is correct when he says this is, an aberration with the behavior. on the other hand, the secret services overall is a disaster waiting to happen because it does cut corners and the management culture is lax and allows, for example, people to get in events without proper screening and they do not do polygraphing as came out in the hearing which confirmed a story which i did, and, this culture does, i think, lead to agents saying, well, we can do whatever we want but in terms of this kind of misbehavior and misconduct, this, really, is an aberration. of course there have been minor problems over the years and there are in any organization, but the focus, rather than be

director mark sullivan on capitol hill came under heavy rear to rickal fire for the colombian prostitution scandal. first time he talked about it publicly and most certainly will not be the last. mike emanuel has the story. >> i am deeply disappointed and i apologize for the misconduct of the employees and distraction it caused. >> that apology and assurance that president obama were never in danger were part of the first public comment by the director of the secret service and part of the cartagena prostitution scandal last month. mark sullivan blamed alcohol and environment and the embarrassing incident and said it's not part of a systemic problem. >> over the last six years we have done 37,000 trips around the world. and we have had no situation like this one before. again, i'm confident this is not a cultural issue. >> the top republican on the committee says she believed the scandal reveals the culture that tolerated bad behavior; particularly, when travelling. >> the numbers involved as well as the participation of two senior supervisors lead me to believe that this was not a one-time event. >> committee chairman joseph lieberman revealed there were 64 incidents of sexual mis