whom when they get into trouble, it's not consensual sex. >> all right, mary. matt? >> here's a hit to new england's patriots coach bill belichick who dared weighed in to the great christian secular debate in this country in the face of great hatred, signed tim tebow, the christian quarterback, to a contract. the last time tim tebow had any serious playing time he led the broncos to the playoffs. he deserves a second chance in new england to show he is worthy allegations against a u.s. ambassador and charges of high-level efforts to cover up details. a new york paper reports the cbs news anchor scott pele had a meltdown over the state department scandal story. what caused that? the trial of george zimmerman gets going. jury selection begins and the media ramp up the issue of racism. sarah palin is back. returning to fox news. other media react as expected. and new jersey governor chris christie, a big hit on late

night, slow jamming the news. >> slow jamming the news. >> oh, yeah. >> which stories made our list? find out next on "news watch". >> on the package this week writer and fox news contributor judy miller, radio talk show host monica crawly, jim pinkerton, the american conservative magazine, merrill brown, director of montclair university school of communication and media and fox news contributor richard grenell. i'm jon scott. "fox news watch" is on right now. >> our security is jeopardized. there's no doubt in my mind that we will lose capabilities as a result of this and that not only the united states, but those allies that we have helped, will no longer be as safe as they were two weeks ago. >> these disclosures have caused significant harm to our nation and to our safety.

we're taking all necessary steps to hold the person responsible for these disclosures. >> the directors of the national security agency and the fbi commenting on this man, edward snowden, a 29-year-old american and former technical contractor who revealed himself as the leaker of the information about how our government collects phone and other data about us as part of what the government calls an effort to protect us. glen greenwald was the journalist who made headlines reporting the classified information provided by snowden. greenwald's involvement getting the attention of one key lawmaker. >> no right is absolute. and even the press has certain restrictions. i think it should be very targeted, selective and certainly a very rare exception. in this case when where you have someone that has disclosed secrets like this and threatens to release more, to me yes, there has to be legal action taken against him. this is a very unusual case with

life and death implications for americans. >> there are a lot of issues to deal with here.k grenell first,t do you think about congressman king's assertion this might be a case where you go after journalists in this case glenn greenwald, for the leak? >> you know, i don't think so. i think this is a very simple issue that people need to understand. reporters think government is too secretive. that's nothing new. i think it's a good thing in a democracy for reporters to push for more open government. but it's quite different for a government employee to release classified information. that's illegal. and i think that the government leaders have a responsibility to prosecute those leakers and they need to say, you cannot leak classified information that endangers people's lives. this clearly did that. but i would not go too fast at going after reporters because it's their job to push for more open government. >> jim, green wald denied he's

going to release any cia operative names or those kinds of things, but he did claim we're going to have a lot more significant revelations that have not yet been heard over the next several weeks and months. and that is part of what has the government upset here. >> right. i mean, this seems to be one of the biggest leaks exposures in u.s. history going on right now, and i think the media narrative on snowden has changed in the last -- only week two of this whole story from tortured whistleblower, daniel ellsberg, to spy like the rosenbergs going back a ways. we're only beginning to get our arms around this, but people are asking if he's a whistleblower, what's he doing in hong kong, which is part of china. you can't sit in chinese possession and not be talking to the chinese as well as "the guardian." >> judy, you went to jail to protect a source. is it a conundrum for

journalists here to report the leaks or report the leaker? >> well, i think you don't have an obligation to call the leaker the greatest american since george washington. this is a utilitarian relationship. however, and it's not surprising to me that glenn greenwald was busy defending the man who has made him a household name in america now. but i think we do, as kirsten powers wrote in "the daily beast" this week, have to separate out these two issues and that is what do we think about the leaker and what he did from what about these programs, are they legal? they appear to be. are they constitutional? that is what edward snowden is challenging, that they may be legal, they're not constitutional. >> kirsten powers who a frequent guest and panelist on this program wrote this, very thought provoking column in the daily beast wig, in part the

washington establishment wants to put snoweden in jail and throw away the key for telling the truth. we're told to blindly respect an institution that persecutes whistleblowers for leaks of overclassified administration while watching the obama administration leaking of secret government information to agran dize the president during his re-election campaign. tell us how we should have more respect for our institutions. merrill? >> you don't know snowden any bett better than i do or any of us do. i know his type. we know the computer activist in him. he may be a good guy. he may be a bad guy. what we're seeing here is the spinning of him in ways as kirsten alludes to that protect the interest of the washington media establishment. >> he took an oath to, you know, protect these secrets and then he decided to spill them. >> you hit on a very crucial distinctionion between a leaker and journalist to whom the leak is given. those who work in government or somebody like mr. snowden who is a contractor for the government,

subcontracted out, they take sworn oaths to uphold the nation's secrets so they are in clear violation of the law and should be prosecuted when they go ahead and leak. journalists take no such oath. now we count on them to use their discretion when they are given a leak. if it's of a huge magnitude that will endanger our national security, whether or not to publish it, how much to publish. i think the media loves stark contrasts and that's why they've put out this kind of ridiculous question, is he a hero or traitor. he's somewhere in between but they don't like the nuance. >> are we paying too much attention to the leaker and not to the issues that have come out? >> actually, i think we are paying attention to both. i mean you have all kinds of hearings being held on the hill. you've seen alexander. he's been forced to talk about his programs. we had fbi, outgoing director mueller, who's there. i think we're paying attention to both. i just think we, as jim said, we're beginning to wrap ourselves, our minds around the

consequences of the leak of this information. >> jim, you said the media narrative is changing. i wanted to read you quotes. jeffrey toobin from "the new yorker" a grand yose nars sist referring to snoweden who deserves to be in prison. lawrence owe dodge on msnbc, complained about snowden's naive and maturity level. politico's roger simon called him the slacker that came in from the cold and tom brokaw dismissed him as a high school dropout who is a military washout. >> the establishment including the mainstream media establishment, aren't always wrong. i mean, it's possible this guy did disclose most important national security assets we have in terms of surveillance around the world. i mean it's one thing to say you shouldn't spy on americans. that's a good argument. seems to have put the whole world on notice we're spying on them and given them detail as to sources and methods. >> next on "news watch" have the media hurt chances for a fair trial for george zimmerman?

>> i don't like that they've rushed to judgment the way they have. >> the media spotlight back on george zimmerman. coverage heats up as jury selection for his trial ramps up. but has the accused already been convicted in the press? answers next on "news watch." ...

they don't trust the media and i think rightfully so. they think that they've learned that the media is very good at putting their own spin on what they want the narrative to be. they say it makes it less confusing for the public, but i don't have an employer. i'm not employed by nbc, cbs, cnn or anybody else. i don't have editors or i don't have, you know, bosses and i just try to be as honest as i can. >> that's robert zimmerman on monday. his brother george is on trial accused of second-degree murder for fatally shooting trayvon martin last year in florida. zimmerman claims self-defense.

the trial getting major media attention and on thursday, the judge announced jurors will be sequestered to try to avoid all of that major media attention. is it too late, monica, for a fair trial? >> well what started out and should have been a local crime story ended up being a national media circus because of the dimension of race. you had a black man, trayvon martin, who was shot by a hispanic male, so the racial dimension added a national dimension to this story. and i think, because you've had so many members of congress and the media and celebrities weighing in on this, jon, branding mr. zimmerman guilty, not giving this -- not giving the facts a real chance to breathe and we haven't even gone to trial yet, i think he's already been tried in the press. we know that certain press outlets have gone to great lengths to try to put their own spin on the story, namely nbc, which was caught doctoring the audio of zimmerman's initial

call to the police to make him look like a racist, we have all of these things out there. that's why it's taken so long to impackage a jury to try to find people who haven't already decided thanks to the media. >> rick, if zimmerman were black, if this were black on black crime, would it have drawn this kind of media attention? >> no, it would have probably gone just in florida at the most. but let's remember, too, you know, monica is right, it was nbc, but also abc. abc's matt gutman was caught doctoring the surveillance video of george zimmerman coming into the police headquarters. so from the beginning, the television media has been outright terrible. they've decided to make this about race. they've picked a side. the print media on the other hand has done a very good job. and let's also remember that president obama interjected into this early on by saying, if he had a son, it would look like trayvon martin. >> so are both sides of the story being told?

are media being fair? >> as with all such things, everything catches up, the media has caught up, both sides of the story are now getting told. reverend sharpton is no longer on the steps of the courthouse in florida. so yes, the story has been told much more fully than it was at the time it took place. >> the early portrayal of trayvon martin was that he was a -- just a saintly young teenager out to buy candy. >> and then you see these pictures allegedly of the cell phone of him doing things that don't seem so saintly. we're only at the beginning of this story. you know, joe concha had a great take on how msnbc in particular plans on turning this into a soap oprah. phil griffin said we don't do breaking news around here so this what is they do instead is long form soap opera. they would love to see the trayvon martin case be another oj simpson. i don't think the facts of the case will sustain that. they're going to give it their best shot including al sharpton. >> we don't know the facts, we

really don't know what happened that night. >> that's truly the amazing aspect or one of the amazing aspects of this extraordinary story, is that despite all of the media attention basic facts in this case remain unclear and this case, if i understand lawyers and what i've been reading about it, it seems will hinge on intent, on whether or not it was self-defense or whether or not he, you know, there -- it was an actual murder. but i think the question being raised here is about media profiling. in other words, have we already so tarred this man? do we have impressions so fully formed that it's going to be hard even to pick a jury that doesn't know about it? >> it happens over and over again in these cases. the media run up to these cases, wonder if there's going to be a fair trial and good lawyers and a competent judge will assure there is one. i think that's what's going to happen here. >> we'll watch it and see if that happens. next on "news watch" so many scandals and for the media, so little time.

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misconduct by a u.s. ambassador around security official. details coming from a leaked memo obtained by cbs news. the state department inspector general's memo refers to the 2011 investigation into an ambassador who, quote, routinely different his security detail and suspects this was in order to solicit sexual favors from prostitutes. how much have you heard about this scandal? >> sex, drugs and hooker, another day at the office for the clintons. we haven't heard a lot about this scandal because there is a tsunami of other scandals one after the other. this essentially got buried this week, but this is incredibly important for a couple of reasons. if hillary clinton were preside oevg a corrupt state department, we ought to know. that number two, her chief of staff sheryl mills is long time clinton loyalist.

she led the impeachment fight to protect impeachment to protect bill clinton and she is right by hillary clinton's side and she is deeply involved in the benghazi cover-up. so if they were covering up the sex, drugs an hookers, perhaps they were covering up benghazi. how does far does it go? it may go as high as hillary clinton. i think we ought to know that. >> jon: you were a press spokesman, what would have been the reaction in the previous day? >> they would have been run out of town by now. the state department reporters are embarrassing themselves, from the beginning of this hillary clinton tenure they have not covered her accurately. monica is exactly right. not only sheryl mills has been involved in every one of the scandals but

tom neyes have been fixing the problem. what the state department reporters need to ask, had clinton instruct cheryl mills and tomorrow nies. either she doesn't know what is going on at the state department or she has chosen people to run the state department. >> jon: they are covering her new twitter account? >> right. that is the media agush about whether she is going to run for president or not. they care hundred times more about the scandal. >> my hope about hillary's record, what she has done in the state department. she gave a lot of good speeches. what her accomplishments were merit our attention especially in her presidential candidacy. >> come on, she flew a

million miles. >> that would be the data point. >> she raised a lot. >> you know what that means, what that means is precedent for future secretaries of state and avoid issues like iran and north korea. to be a feet warmer secretary of state is embarrassing. >> jon: next on news watch did the cbs anchor have a meltdown? how many simple ingredients

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note. >> he gave russia what they wanted, number one foreign policy objective and they got nothing in return. >> i get 60 seconds, this is 30. >> i started at yellow so i have more time to go. >> you know what governor, you stand corrected. you are right, please continue. [ laughter ] >> jon: not one of his finer moments. scott losing control in the republican debate back in 2011. this week according to the "new york post", he can lose his cool, as well. a breaking story about the state department but the news not held for reporting on his program, according to the posted paid six, cbs anchor was furious about the state department sex scandal, not on his cbs evening news but early monday. article claims the news

anchor and executive producer at the decision made higher up the chain. that story was not mentioned in the story that night. he called the page six reporter to express his objection to the account. he roared that allegation is false. how long have you been a journalist. you wouldn't last ten seconds at cbs news. this is not how are the do a job. you called my publicist. asked why it didn't make the newscast, pelley replied monday was a heavy news day but they did find report to prince harry's high flying antics on an apache helicopter. thanks to our panel, rick degree nel is battling none hodgkin's lymphoma. rick, we are with you, i

know you are feeling positive and our thoughts and prayers and our support aware you. i'm jon scott. >> appreciate it. >> jon: keep it right here on fox news ♪ ♪ >> gregg: hell oim oh i'm gregg jarrett. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> heather: i'm heather childers. attorney general eric holder agrees to answer eight questions in how they treated james rosen. >> gregg: and they are confirming that the c.i.a. will be delivering weapons to syrian rebels. >> heather: we have brand-new details into the deadly chemical explosions in louisiana this