>> all right. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and all of you for watching and be sure to follow us on twitter. hope to see you right here next week. i'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. >> the president displayed his hands-off attitude regarding edward snowden, a man wanted for espionage charged with stealing u.s. secrets. the story getting major media attention but is it enough? >> why shouldn't, mr. greenwald, be charged with a crime? >> media shots take shots at greenwald. is he a pair target for the press? or is there an agenda at work? monumental decision by the supreme court. >> big maas from the highest court. media reacts to key decisions on voting rights and then gay

marriage. celebrity chef paula deen fights accusations bflg a arrest. are the media behind the smear? >> knock, knock. who is there? >> the george zimmerman murder trail gets off to a questionable start. then more inning. media go wall to wall with the coverage. but is all the attention adding to a racial divide? a tip on how to protect yourself from government spying. on the pane i will this week writer and fox news contributor judy miller. june pinker ton, contributing editor and ellen ratner, top radio news service bureau chief. and richard green i will. i'm john scott. "fox news watch" is on right now.

to the extent you have aided and abetted snowden, even in the current movement, why shouldn't you be charged with a crime? >> i think it is extraordinary anybody that calls themselves a journalist that would publicly -- about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felony. the assumption in your question is completely without evidence and the idea that i aided and abetted him in any way. scandal that arose in washington before our story began was the fact the obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism by going through the e-mails and phone records of ap reporters, accusing a fox news journalist, the theory you embraced, co-conspirator with felonies, working with sources. >> nbc's david gregory seems not quite ready for glen greenwald's answer about his reporting on nsa's spying. greenwald didn't stop there. he tweeted this. who needs the government to tray to criminalize journalism when you have david gregory to do it?

frank rich came to greenwald's defense with this. is david gregory a journalist? name one piece of news he has broken, one beat he covered with distinction and any memorable interviews he has conducted. his charge is preposterous. greenwald was doing the job of a journalist and the fact he is an activist journalist is irrelevant to that journalistic function. when you think about greenwald's line of questioning or gregory's line of questioning greenwald wasn't out of line. >> i think that the question had a -- when did you stop beating your wife tone to it. whatever you think of greenwald ideologically, that's -- definitely merits now a place in the talking heads hall of fame greatest smackdown of a questioner since joe louis knocked out max snelling in the '30s. >> lots of nodding heads on the panel, i might add. >> yes. >> nodding because -- this is what the -- it is all about.

that's the effort by some people who want to go after leakers to criminalize them and criminalize us for helping them. by formulating the question, the way he did, he played right into the hands of the government. glen greenwald is an advocacy journalist and does not mean he is not a journalist. you can do more than say -- the gray house is on the street. and be a journalist. >> if i'm a producer and executive producer, are ina network. i want glen greenwald exclusively. i'm cnn, fox, sign this guy now. he has three things that every producer and every anchor like you do. candid, all right. conversationalist. confrontational. so for him to land a -- punch like david gregory and frank rich, you know, laying that right glove later in the week. bad week for the host of "meet the press." >> you can add quick. he is quick, too. >> he didn't stop will. he was interviewed by "the washington post" and went after a cnbc reporter saying he called

the beltway establishment media click. and he did not stop. gift that keeps give. >> greenwald has been accused of carrying water for president obama. there was a big piece in the daily news that looked into his, you know, history and his financial affairs. tax problems, that kind of thing. why has he become the story here? >> well, i think it is true. he is a big apologist for obama. you know, i can comfortably and i think a lot of people can comfortably defend what greenwald is doing which is acting like a real journalist and -- bifurcating him from snowden who clearly committed a crime. and so i wouldn't want to go after greenwald. i want to go after snowden. you know, exactly what glen said to david gregory really applies to jake tapper and all of these other media types. and it is an entrenched system in washington where you have to ask permission to do things. what they were saying is how

dare you leak to an unapproved journalist because we are approved. >> yeah. my producer points out -- i meant to say gregory has been accused of carrying watt foreobama administration. >> all thing has done is change the subject. we are not talking about the leaks. implications of the leaks. >> greenwald also tweeted this. has david gregory ever publicly wondered if powerful d.c. officials should be prosecuted for things like illegal spying and lying to congress? it is a valid >> it is worth noting, again, that -- how the conversations carrying on for a week now on twitter. this is now the -- the -- battlefield and -- greenwald not only clocked gregory on the show but continuing to win in the twitterosphere. >> we now know edward snowden took the job with booze hamilton specifically so that he could collect data is going to release. he said as much. does that change this story at all? >> no, i don't think it does. i think that -- you know, we also see -- just a continuing in

the media fight, aaron ross sorkin, i would like to have greenwald write this. i-found that interesting because -- a, you know, he is thinking -- you are an assassin or somebody that takes yourself too seriously. to say greenwald somehow -- i don't know, drove snowden to the airport so he could catch a flight to hong kong or fly the next plane to havana, the bottom line is had a sorkin should be looking at his own newspaper which leaked information about iranian spy program. >> speaking of airplane flights, media jump order that flight to havana from moscow and -- snowden was supposed to be and he wasn't there. >> he wasn't on and were tweeting. abc producer tweeting. you wonder -- day of -- budgets for media, dwindling, how much did that cost us for a no show? >> one point, at least -- my point. if we may think better of greenwald as a talking head, however, snowden's image as a

spy, as somebody that clearly has been event leapt feelings towards the united states continues to grow. >> the president is saying, oh, this guy is not worth scrambling just yet. >> this is change in strategy because obama figured out that all of the attention on edward snowden international man of mystery was back pyring and it wasn't achieving what he wanted. he has to salvage american relation was russia and china. >> all right. next, mixed media reaction to the supreme court ruling. >> big news coverage of big decisions from the biggest court. the ruling covering voting rights and gay marriage. two key topics for the liberal press. how does the media react to the supreme decision? that's next. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush?

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a stake rue the heart of the civil rights law ever enacted. >> the supreme court essentially knocked down one of the pillars of the civil rights movement. >> supreme court has ruled in a 5-4 decision cannot be enforced until congress redraws. >> samplings of coverage of the supreme court decision on the voting rights act press panning that ruling. then on wednesday, the high court ruled again key parts of the defensive marriage act or doma. deciding not to rule on the california prop 8 case. gay marriage advocates and the media rallied around those decisions. >> if you haven't fwoen gay bar you have to go to one. >> that's don lemon taking a live camera inside of a gay bar in new york saying it was a first for him.

and for us as well. what a contrast coverage. it seemed like the media, especially on voting rights thing, didn't -- well, didn't mention the most of the voting rights act left intact. >> yeah. mine, we have msnbc who gave us that great legal mind al sharpton immediately on the voting rights act. mine, it was just a really -- besides sounding ridiculous, it makes the left wing media and msnbc look like this is a part russian hack-up. very few reporters were telling us that this was a 1965 act and that -- times have changed. it was very little analysis of why we would need a 1965 fix-it law today in 2013. that completes -- commentary was completely lost and al sharpton and others that blacks could no longer vote now that the supreme court ruled this way. really riddick us problem with the press is they didn't explain what the law was about and what the section was about.

terry moran said the complete law had been inval indicated or whatever he said. it -- wasn't -- did not explain it to the average earn and even "the washington post" said that only 13% of americans were following any of this debate. >> the liberal media were using terms like gutted and assault and referring to the -- that law. >> yeah. i got back from the jersey shore yesterday. they got killed by hurricane sandy. most of the homes were gutted because of water damage. 95% of it is gone. in this case, the law was not gutted. all right. five of the six states original states to whom this law applied, the race among blacks is higher than whites. the law has done its job. demographics have changed. you have melissa harris perry saying my citizenship over now. parents, if you want to teach your kids what hyperbole means, use that example. >> to msnb, mention cnn.

the media rae search center counted up the guests on cnn and talking about the case and voting rights decision was -- 4-1 in favor -- against the decision and on the -- the doma decision, 3-1. in other words, the -- bias here is -- pretty thick. and not only intuitive but also -- you can document it with the pacts and figures. >> few has a new study out that shows that from a 5-1 ratio, stories were positive in terms of favoring gay marriage as opposed to opposing. oka if you look at public polling, cnmding a poll. 53% of the country favors gay marriage. not 5-1. if you look at the coverage compared to the polls and public sentiment big difference. >> you said that you think the coverage was appropriate. >> i thought the coverage very appropriate on gay marriage because america shifting the younger generation if you look at it by age, the very difference -- exactly. >> young people overwhelmingly

perhaps 5-1 favor in gay marriage. i think that if you consider this seekual rights issue -- sexual rights issue -- >> then you are assuming only young people are watching tv. >> so. we are just saying that -- doing a -- general poll or general poll skew it is fact that the country shifts. >> it is. it will be 60% in a couple of years. i support it myself. i'm saying it is not 5-1 as you saw in the poll. >> i don't think that should be the mesh zblur 3-1 as you saw on some of the other networks. >> have the media already decided paula deen's fate? >> i is what i is. >> celebrity chef paula deen fighting charges of racism tied to comments from her past. is the backlash warranted? or have the media blown this out of proportion. find out next. ♪

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>> if there is anyone out there that has never said something that they wish to take back, if you are out there pick up that stone and throw it so hard in my head it kills me. >> jon: celebrity chef paula deen trying to convince her fans she is not a racist. that accusation stems from her admitting using the "n" word 30 years ago but despite the passage of time, reaction to her admission has taken a huge toll. is the outrage and lost of her show warranted. anthony cook a black journalist asks, if the word is offensive and harmful why are not we

harmed when african-american rappers and comedians use it. i begin to see the hypocrisy to see white people to standard i was not up holding myself. that is the same reason paula deen used it because it was culturally accepted at the time among the family and colleagues. so what do you think about that. >> i say bravo to anthony. that was very well written. i'm going to degree and it doesn't happen very often like with bill maher. bottom line, it's very easy to put somebody on with somebody else and hey, let's water board this person and th the other person says they should be forgiven. >> jon: is there a double standard? >> the media does have a double standard when it comes to homophobia and racism. they are unpardonable

mistakes. we all make mistakes. the public is much better at judging someone's heart and knowing if they are truly sorry. the media is never good at it because they just wanted to see things black and white. they want to make sure that you are either a race it or not a racist. >> jon: public is buying her books like crazy. >> it's funny that joe mentions bill maher because a black lady pointed out if maher was held to the same standards he would have been off the air a long time ago including al sharpton. >> jon: the trial of george sometimer man. media there in full force giving wall to wall coverage giving it to star witness. >> it was racial but it was because trayvon martin bus race in there. you don't that is racial

comment? >> no. >> you don't think that creepy [ bleep ] is a racial comment? >> no. >> jon: 19-year-old rachel jon jeantel cross-examined by west. he is trying to poke holes in her testimony and trying to convince the jury that martin made the deadly encountered a racial issue. the two days of her testimony received all kinds of coverage. >> yes, and the media were clearly hostile the first day and forgiving after she had been coached to say things like sir on the second day. i have been struck by to the extent of the media coverage bifurcated. you have coverage aimed at lawyers and looking at strategy and what the end game is and how to get there. then ordinary coverage for people like me who want to

know what this young woman was going through and why was she interviewed for the first time in the presence of trayvon martin's mother. >> jon: and media seemed to be making excuses for her lapses on the stand? >> she is under a lot of pressure. we can understand that that to a certain extent. bottom case this case already, when you see members of the media trying to bend over backwards that cracker is seen offensive or not. by the time this is done and it seems cheap this will set back racial issues in the country. >> it depends upon what coverage. your organization media did a good job of explaining everything that went on from people who were the parents that were allowed to attend the trial versus not verse sequestration.

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>>. >> jon: media coverage. spying scandal has been sidetracked smasmt the leaker, snowden is getting more concerns. in new positive poll, 46% of americans they believe nsa surveillance is more likely to hurt law abiding

americans by improperly using private information. 44% say it's more likely to help catch terrorists. for those who think the government effort is misguided. trevor moore have this suggestion. >> only way to fight back against our country's data mining is to make it irrelevant. that is were we're launching everyone talk like a terrorist all the time. if we all openly discuss terrorist plots, then eavesdropping becomes pointless. >> hi, mom, i at school. >> blow up the brooklyn bridge. >> jon: with that. we're going wrap up news watch. thanks to judy miller, jim pinkerton, joe, i will en

ratnor, and rick grenell. keep it right here on fox news channel. >> gregg: fox news alert on an explosive situation in egypt, state department is warning americans to stay away if they can following the death of an american college student, 21-year-old was killed while reportedly taking photographs of street battles. this on the massive set of protests that are planned knew for tomorrow. we're going to have a lot more on the chaos in egypt, but later in the newscast. >> heather: to another fox news alert. new details on a big vote on capitol hill involving a key figure at the center of the irs