don't talk to the nrc. they won't help you. >> reporter: the nrc declined our interview requests. but inspectors traveled to hunter's point to investigate but responded they were unable to substantiate the claims. >> did they who do what they should have done? >> not thoroughly enough. >> i'm not sure i believe in them any more. >> reporter: shortly after reporting their complaints they logs their jobs. >> taxpayers are paying thousands of dollars. everybody paying for that cleanup and it is not being done correctly. >> tetra tech maintains that the clean up is being done correctly. four employees are suing tetra tech for discrimination. >>> if you have a tip for the investigative unit give us a call or sent us an e-mail. >>> when your out of town friends come to visit, almost board street might not be an option. neighbors have had enough with all the tourists. a decision will be made tomorrow night. if approved no cars will be allowed on lombard during peak weekend hours this summer. but you will still be able to walk down the crooked street. >> that's not the same thing. but let

>> in my opinion, not thoroughly enough. >> as an american i believed in the nrc, i'm not sure i believe in them any more. >> reporter: both bowers and andrews lost their jobs. >> taxpayers are paying thousands and thousands of dollars, everybody across the united states is paying for that clean up, and it's not being done correctly now. >> reporter: tetra tech denied our request for interview. meanwhile, bauers and andrews are suing tetra tech for retaliation. they say they were fired after raising their concerns. the company denies those allegations. vicky nguyen, nbc bay area news. >>> if you have a tip for vickie or anyone else, give us a call or send us an e-mail. >>> let's turn things over to jeff ranieri. he has our micro climate forecast. >> we are still tracking some of that shower activity and a few lightning strikes near lake tahoe. and we still could see just a little bit of this come our way tonight. it's only about a 30% chance but some of these rogue thunderstorms have made it very close to the bay area tonight. we'll continue to be tracking that. we do have windy conditio

>> in my opinion, not thoroughly enough. >> as an american, i believe in the nrc. so sure i believe in them anymore. >> shortly after reporting their concer concerns, they both lost their jobs. >> taxpayers are paying of dollars for that clean-up and it's not being done correctly now. >> reporter: the navy declined our interview requests but maintain the clean up is being done properly. bowers and two other former employees are suing for retaliation. the company has denied those al galgss. >> if you have a tip for our investigative unit, just give us a call at 888-996-tips. >> president obama made an unannounced visit to afghanistan. he secretly flew into the airfield today surprising thousands of u.s. troops stationed there. this is the fourth trip that comes at a pivotal moment. president obama hinted that some may wind up staying. >> with that bilateral security greemt, assuming it is signed, we can plan for a limited military presence in afghanistan beyond 2014. >> the president did not explain what he meant by limited. but he did meet with his top commanders t

. >> do you agree with congressman gowdy and speaker bain they're the nrc should not be asking for money on this issue? >> i think i haven't read the fundraising appeal, okay. what i'm suggesting to you is for me to go home to my consistents and say the only reason we're going to get any answers on benghazi is because we have a republican majority in the house. and if you think that is important on all of these issues, not just benghazi, irs, and others, then you need to help me grow and maintain a republican majority. >> last question. so i'll ask you the question that the nrcc asked. will you automatically add your name today to join us and become a benghazi watchdog? >> like i said, i'm already a benghazi watchdog. >> let me just say i actually do think, and i'll come back to this later that are there are some things that are clearly beyond the pale. and thing is a zone where we ought to be much more careful about how he raise the money. stay here. we want you at home to weigh in on today's fire-back question. the benghazi investigation a worthwhile use of taxpayer money? tweet yes or

>>> you can't guarantee the nrc is supporting chris mcdaniel if he is not a republican nominee? know what the facts are about this scandal in mississippi ist that was a republican from kansas and he is running the nrc. his job is to support financially and to help elect republicans in key senate races across the country. yesterday he is talking about a scenario i'm hearing democrats talk about which is mississippi, i know, deep red state. but if chris mcdaniel still somehow wins this primary and you got this nursing home scandal still hanging in the air and you got the other baggage you're talking about, benji, have the republicans now effectively made it next tod aiken or nominated that candidate in mississippi and do democrats travis childress, a conservative democrat he won an election in 2008 a special election do the democrats have a candidate who could potentially take advantage that have if the tea party still wins this primary on june 3rd? >> something would really have to change in major way. the skajed would probably have to blow out a lot further. travis childress has

this is obviously -- i just had senator jerry moran, head of the nrc, he hinted more stuff is going toome out this weekend. what do you know? >> well, i know that you were talking about the district attorney saying that they had cleared the mcdaniel campaign, and he's clarified those remarks to say nobody's cleared yet that the investigation is ongoing. we know they're still looking at a couple of other things but i think probably the biggest arrests have been made right now but i think there are probably a few other connections that they're looking at. >> is there anything -- is this campaign comely just become about this? are they even having a debate about size of government issues, the whole ideological debate that they were having before last weekend? >> mcdaniel for his part really has not changed course too much. they've continued with the same message. they've gotten a little quieter, as can you imagine. for cochran's part, he's not been in the state a good bit actively campaigning over the last week or so. but messaging that you see on tv has stayed the same. he has come up wi

. >> which is why she was seen by the nrc as a great candidate for oregon. >> and what makes her threateningts which is why this damaging stuff coming from democrats and the not her republican opponents. >> this one congressional race, people talk about the -- the tea party and a lot of times i think it's rhetorical nonsense. this is one place where it is not rhetorical nonsense. it is straight up. >> this is the actual distillation of the pundits. . you have the chamber of commerce that has spent a ton of money backing simpson and has placed his re-election as one of their top priorities for this mid-term election and then you you have smith, his opponent. club for growth came in, spent money on trying to get him elected. in recent weeks the polls they've shown haven't shown him getting close enough and have pulled back which we think that probably means simpson is going to pull off a victory here. interests it has been such a tight race. >> why do you think the chamber came in so big for simpson? he voted for the bailout if i'm not mistaken, one of the big articles of impeachment against h

it's a bit embarrassing for them to infuse an interview with the nrc for them i think that he was angry that they were not kept the press i don't think they're necessarily against an alliance between ge and austin was long. a certain conditions are met in terms of maintaining operations in france and promises of jobs and an iconic and crispy in the economy was a milestone that said it was announced this week economists first predicted that china would pass united states is the world's largest economy in two thousand twenty six denise in two thousand nineteen and now on the basis of new data ordered by the world bank. well surprise surprise the first time since eighteen seventy two come the end of the year the united states will not be nice to get rid of my knees that is the new engine way of calculating purchasing power parity how's that for economics for it for the first time this season sydney to the nest is no longer the world's largest economy is is the deal or not do i done due to the chinese people not reading them. and the festival this is a specific set of dates that package tha

at the nrc spring meeting on friday, another political event, senator rand paul previewed one way his party could use the benghazi attacks as political leverage in 2016. >> this is about judgment. and we're talking about should we -- should we as a country have a commander in chief who didn't provide adequate security in libya, didn't send reinforcements, and then gave us nothing but spin? my opinion is that hillary clinton has precluded herself from ever being considered for that position. >> republicans say they want this new benghazi investigation to "transcend politics." that's difficult when this investigation was created in the first place primarily as a political stunt. joining me now is richard clarke, former senior white house counterterrorism adviser who served under three presidents including george w. bush. he's also the author of a new book, "sting 69 drone," and msnbc executive editor richard wolffe. welcome to both of you. richard clarke, let me start with you. is there more that we can learn here, and is this committee as we understand it today the right venue for that

it is so similar within the nrc and the veterans. you see the lower administrative and management working hard. youexecutives to hide who they height to make sure they hide things. host: i think we got your point. guest: she's hitting the nail on the head. i'm going to hold every administration accountable. this isn't a blame game. that haveecutives flagrantly hidden records and mismanaged the system. even employees working their tails off should not be justifying what these executives have gotten away with. if you can't even take a bathroom break in your job, that tells me we are not running a system that is being streamlined and effective. notof those processors are giving accurate claims and we have over a quarter of a million veterans in the claims backlog and that takes over 1200 days to get address. we have a systemic problem within the veterans administration. it has only gotten worse when we open the doors for agent orange and ptsd. yes we have a lot of reasons this is all happening. thesegree when people say investigations s

it is so similar within the nrc and the veterans. you see the lower administrative and management working hard. youexecutives to hide who they height to make sure they hide things. host: i think we got your point. guest: she's hitting the nail on the head. i'm going to hold every administration accountable. this isn't a blame game. that haveecutives flagrantly hidden records and mismanaged the system. even employees working their tails off should not be justifying what these executives have gotten away with. if you can't even take a bathroom break in your job, that tells me we are not running a system that is being streamlined and effective. notof those processors are giving accurate claims and we have over a quarter of a million veterans in the claims backlog and that takes over 1200 days to get address. we have a systemic problem within the veterans administration. it has only gotten worse when we open the doors for agent orange and ptsd. yes we have a lot of reasons this is all happening. thesegree when people say investigations s

one will get away from gowdy and the select committee and, then, will you add your name, today, to join us and become a benghazi watchdog in this is a fundraiser frommed nrcongressman, isn't this exactly the problem and the danger and the risk? and the congressman mentioned you going on a political hunt rather than dealing with issues that people deal with in their daily lives like medicare and jobs? >> yes, which is exactly why i said i will never and have never sent out any literature to raise money in the grief and the tragedy of four dead mens and i so asked my colleagues to follow suit. arkansas did a magnificent job pointing out the hypocrisy of democrats suddenly concluding that certain things are above politics. they raise money on sandy hook, they raise money on katrina, they raise money on iraq and afghanistan. for me, then, i will not raise money on benghazi just like i never raise money using crime victims when i was a prosecutor and i have asked my colleagues to follow suit but it would be hellful if our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did not have selective amnesia for what is appropriate to raise money off of and what is not. >> w

clearing land is prohibitively expensive -- i have reached out to the county resource offices and the and rcs -- nrcsy few programs out there to assist small timers like me. one thing that is precluding people who want to farm is that the costs are prohibitive to rid like you were saying, a $2 million farm produces 30% of the sales. what is a little garlic me going to do? i cannot even begin to recoup my costs. do?uy like me going to i cannot even begin to recoup my costs. guest: that is a real issue. we hear this again and again. the biggest obstacles are access , thend, cost of land upfront financial cost. it is also an issue with families trying to pass on farms to children. with the cost of land and the cost of the operation these days , it becomes a very complicated transaction to try to manage that. land is expensive and farming is big business. that is one of the reasons why you see this trend. it is difficult to get into farming. and: the number of farms the specialization of farms, soybeans, wheat, corn, beef, cattle, dairy products. guest: when you look at agriculture, the numbers are down.