type of access that catherine bigelow had. she had access to the individuals working with the global park group, a democrat leaning firm. she is political supporter of the president. she made a donation in the december of 2011, fec records show. this was all very politicized. and you know, one thing to say that you can t release information because it impacts national security. but you got to be consistent across the board on it and obviously it is obvious these decisions are political and they released national security-sensitive information if it is deemed to help the administration or frankly the obama campaign. jon: one of the things, one of the talking, one of i guess counter parts from the administration about this is that this planner is not actually a navy seal, it is a navy seal planner. is that a distinction? that is a distinction without a difference. seems to me the individuals directly involved in planning and commanding the raid, it was listed as a
secret service sex scandal. hi, i m jenna lee. welcome to a brand-new hour of happening now. jon: apologizing for the behavior of agents who hired prostitutes while on official business in columbia. bringing women back to their owe hells ahead of the president s visit. i just think that between the alcohol, and i don t know, the environment, these individuals did some really dumb things. and i just can t explain why they would have done what they would do but i will tell you that i do not believe they did it because they believed this type of behavior would be tolerated. we have a zero tolerance for this type of behavior. i cannot figure out why they did what they did. jon: well mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more about that controversy. what s been the tone of the
referred to the film-makers being given the white house talking points about the intelligence giving only 60 to 80% assurance the compound was bin laden s and what aides characterized as the president s gutsy call to go ahead ahead with the mission. king s and judicial watch s complaints are equally divided between the information and access provided to the film-makers and the white house cooperating with a movie seen as favorable to the president and is set for release in october, shortly before the election. jon? jon: wendell goler at the white house. thank you. for more on this controversy now we re joined by tom fiton the president of judicial watch, the organization that obtained these documents through the freedom of information acts. this what you were looking for, or as wendell suggested were you only filing the foia request for the photos? well the foia request for the photos is a separate piece of litigation. so we were fighting tooth and nail by that, being told by the adm
secret service director, as he speaks to the lawmakers? he looked pretty remorseful there. reporter: that s right, jon. director sullivan saying that the secret service has protected more than 37,000 trips around the world and they ve never had an incident like this one before. so trying to make the point that it is not systemic or the culture of the secret service. here is more from director sullivan, trying to reassure lawmakers. the overwhelming majority of the men and women who serve in this agency exemplify our five core values of justice, duty, courage, honesty and loyalty. reporter: and pretty quickly director sullivan apologized for this incident and tried to reassure lawmakers that the president s safety and security was never in jeopardy, jon. jon: what are the folks on the committee saying about it? reporter: it s a fascinating contrast, because there you have the secret service director saying, hey this looks like a one-time deal and trying to
first, that the federal budget will be balanced or that the federal government will go bankrupt and be unable to pay its debt. remarkably, or maybe not, it depends on how you look at it the majority of people say the federal government will go bankrupt and be unable to pay its debt. i want to combine that with another one of your polls though, scott. the president s tracking poll shows that he still has the majority approval when it comes to whether or not you totally approve or totally disapprove of the president. how do those two things seem into tere sect. obviously negative thoughts on the economy but the president still has an overall approval rating. the president s job approval right now is good as good as it s been in the past year, 51%. if he holds at that level he probably will be reelected. if it slips back into the mid 40 range he probably will lose. there is concern about the president s handling of the economy, but many people continue to support his policies in other a