james rosen, the guy we are talking about will join us live with more. . good morning to you and anna and brian and viewers. less than $4,000 a month, what obama is expected to pay for the bronze plan that he enrolled in over the weekend. vacationing in hawaii and senior administration officials say his enrollment in obamacare was symbolic because as commander in chief, the president receives health care through the defense department. mr. obama also enrolled by proxy through aides to register him for in person sign up in washington, rather than going through the obamacare website, healthcare.gov. the busiest day was monday. 1 million visits by late afternoon. 200,000 were said to have used a telephone call center option. in view of all of the schaal, officials made a last minute decision to extend the deadline for the uninsured to seek health insurance or pay a fine to today for those that want coverage to start on the 1st of january. the final deadline to sign up for coverage or pay the fine is march 31st. we have seen so many deadlines aren't quite fin

he feels badly about his actions and is extremely depressed. 234* washington, james rosen, fox news.> james, thank you. secretary of state john kerry shedding back to the middle east for another round of talks. but there is a new obstacle that could make that con conversation an uncomfortable one. still to come, weighing in on the brand-new nsa data mining rule. >>> welcome back, everybody. now for a look at the other headlines making news right now. a million americans will be cutoff from receiving jobless benefits. congress leaving without voting for an extension. president obama is said to be pushing for the benefits when congress returns. and we may never know why lanza went on that deadly rampage. his mother told a friend that adam had become increasingly despondent before the shooting spree. and video of a pair of hikers being plucked out of a canyon near pasadena, california. take a look. rescuers finding those two men hanging from a tree near a cliff. they were airlifted out of the area and amazingly will receive minor injuries. move over, new york. florida is about to surpas

we have james rosen on rising tensions with china over disputed territory. katherine on u.s. negotiations directly with middle east terror groups, but we begin with casey in dallas following the search for radioactive material that could be used to make a dirty bomb. hello, casey. >> reporter: bret, good evening to you. it is theft that has officials on high alert tonight after a truckloaded with radioactive material was stolen from a mexico gas station earlier this week. the vehicle had left a hospital in tijuana where it picked up a load of cobalt 60, which is used to treat cancer patients. but cobalt added to traditional explosives can make a so-called dirty bomb, causing widespread panic and radiation exposure. now, that medical cargo was being driven to a special nuclear storage facility more than 1700 miles away deep in mexico's interior is where it was stolen, in the small town near mexico city you see on the map. today the committee of nuclear safeguards released these photos. this one shows the white container housing the dangerous chemical. this shows the steel plac

james rosen has more. >> reporter: i can assure you the iranians are listening to this hearing today. >> and if they were, they heard america's top diplomat tell the house foreign affairs committee that imposing additional sanctions right now would cost them the support of russia and china and strengthen the hand of those in iran the most hostile to the west. >> people in intel community will sit and tell you, and i urge you to get briefed on it, who will tell you the whole school of thought in iran, the hardliners who welcome the idea that the united states might whack them, because they think they will be heroes in the street. >> both sides of the aisle shows misgivings about the deal in geneva last month. they cited the fact that six security council resolutions now on the books make it illegal for iran to continue making uranium. >> if it is enriched to 5%, you are still 70% there toward the way of making a bomb. they could at least stop enriching while we are negotiating with them and i don't think that is too much to ask. >> the u.s. allies will negotiate with iran consistent wi

eyspied on fox news james rosen.ow they are upset because the press corps doesn't have access to white house. >> rich can respond. >> not angry enough. the media is not angry enough. they haven'tpicked up on it. >> that is not true. not at all. that i false. we have seen msnbc and other netwo cover the faultiness in theffordable care act over and over and over. >> i wl tell you there are if you go to media research you find out what is covering obamacare is mostly fox. >> everyone knows that the president lies. the staff admits that. why isn't the right getting traction? they concede the premise we're our other's keeper. that's another thing we hear the folks on the right say. so what if the president lied? he i doinghat is right and moral. the govnment controlled healthre. until they have a alternative, we'rnot our brother's keeper. >> we'll leave it there. coming up, t patriarch of "duck dynasty" getting support from sponsors following the comments. network suspending him. will the free market decide who is right a

our own james rosen being called a co-conspirator of an indicted leak suspect. exposing rosen to possible prosecution for just doing his job as a reporter. david sanger, anybody who reads "the new york times" knows who he is, chief washington correspondent for the "times." he said this. he said this is the most controlled-freak administration i've ever covered. how about you? >> yeah, without a doubt. david sanger has been covering washington a lot longer than i have. it absolutely is -- i don't think it is an overstatement in any way. these folks in the white house right now, they see they can get away with it, and they don't really care. honestly, how many news segments do you see on other networks right now about this topic. whereas, you know, eight years ago, under the previous administration, my goodness, if president bush had tried to pull off some of this -- these stunts, that the current white house does routinely, they would get -- they would be strong up. and rightly so. in fact, got strung up on, i think, far lesser crimes against, you know, the openn

chief washington correspondent james rosen has this report. >>> at least 25 times in the last two yearsrdly urban thugs have snuck up on innocent victims, knocked them unconscious with a single blow. for the first time, the knockout game has seen a suspect charged by federal, not local authorities and for the first time under a hate time statute. the justice department said 27-year-old conrat barrett made several videos on his cell phone written he identified himself, used racial slurs and tried to victimize a black man in this fashion. doj further alleges on november 24, in the town of katy, barrett made the account of fracturing the jaw of the man in two places. >> maybe those from the reports of national hate crime is not there. but i do believe this would be an accident test case. >> reporter: suspected crimes of this nature will simply not be tolerated said a u.s. attorney in the southern district of texas thursday. adding that evidence of hate crimes will be vigorously prosecuted and investigated to all the law. in many of the cases, the perpetrators were black, the victims white

james rosen is live for us in d.c. on this. james?harris, let us be clear, only a sick or evil imagination could conceive of this kind of behavior as a game. it is now, however, indisputably a multistate phenomenon said to date back to 1992 but with at least 25 cases arising in the last two years and this, to our knowledge, being the first where hate crime charges have been filed. as you probably know, this so-called game involves a criminal sneaking up on an innocent and unsuspecting victim chosen at random or because they're otherwise vulnerable with the aim of delivering a single punch to the face that renders him or her unconscious. it is not part of the game, mind you, that the attacker should wait to face justice or someone his own size. in the case of konrad barrett of texas, the justice department alleges barrett himself made several videos on his cell phone wearing -- he identified himself, used a racial slur on african-americans and stated his intent to victimize a black man in order to receive national media attention. on n

and the department of justice was the department of injustice spying on fox news reporter james rosen can his parents and tapping in the private e-mails. we so badly botched situations in egypt and syrian and irab russian president putten had to rescue us. >> and our deal did nothing to make our enemies respect or like us. we spent trillions to eliminate poverty and we have more poor people than in history. we spent sex 77 growing on a website that didn't work. and a good one in the private sector less than 10 million. and affordable care out is anything but affordable. the he will have to put out the fire on his pabts for the outer lies and saying we can keep our health insurance and we'll save 2500. >> now democrats are wearing paper bags on their heads hoping to avoid being seen in public. 2014 could be a great year for the gochlt except for one thing. republicans have to figure out if they spend millions to attack other republicans that are virtually ident beingal in bleechlt their self destruction will allow the self destructing democrats to survive. 2014 ought not to be about re

and ears is targeting conservative groups james rosen finding himself in the center of the claims thattice department was tracking phone records of journalist and edward snowden revealed the nsa surveillance program. snshg the president spoke to americale that the united states is not monitoring the chancellor. >> and the president feeling the heat at home. and dmrichs and heats and millions of cancellations. >> i think we underestimated the complexities of building a website that needed to work the way it should. >> awith headlines like these. no doubt many heavy hitters are hard at work on one resolution to keep their name out of the scandalous nows. nbrit- brit has all of the party girls coming out to vegas. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. begin your legac

spurred by the theft and release of top-secret materials by former contractor edward snowden and james rosenighed in on the idea of him returning. >> i think he ought to be prosecuted for treason and if convicted by a jury, we should be hanged by the neck. lou: this includes the targeting of mohammed morsi and the targeting of hezbollah and hamas. and the nation of saudi arabia's leader says he would like to see diplomatic solutions to the civil war. saudi arabia has condemned the united states, which they say risk the security and stability of the middle east and the deputy consul general now faces felony charges of visa fraud and false statements concerning her nanny. she claimed she was strip searched and kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting a 250,000-dollar bail. she says that she is entitled to diplomatic immunity. in new delhi, the indian military has removed barriers around the united states embassy and authorities are demanding officials relinquish their identity cause and the leaders of india's two largest political parties, canceling scheduled meetings with a congression

we found out the department of justice was the department of injustice spying on james rosen and his parents and tapping the private e-mails of associate press reporters. we saw badly botched situations in egypt, syria and iran that russian president vladmir putin had to rescue us from a mideast meltdown. it does nothing to make our enemies respect us or even like us. we've spent trillions to eliminate poverty and we have more poor people than we've ever had in our history. we've spent $677 million and growing on a website that still doesn't work when a good one in the private sector would have cost about 10 million. the affordable care act turned out to be anything but affordable. the president will need the entire new york city fire department to put out the fire on his pants for his utter lies in saying we can keep our health insurance. we can keep our doctors and we'll save $2500 per family. a year ago being a democrat seemed like a good place to be. now democrats are wearing paper bags on their heads hoping to avoid being seen in public. 2014 could be a great year for the gop ex

jon: james rosen at the state department in washington. james, thank you.etary of state john kerry arguing the nuclear deal should be separated from efforts to bring home americans missing or knowingly being held in iran. robert levinson, a former fbi investigator, traveling in the country as a private businessman, missing nearly 2500 days at this point. iranian american, amir hekmadi held on espionage charses. he was arrested, former marine and translator was arrested while visiting his grandmother. said abedini a christian pastor serving an eight year prison sentence in connection with his religious believes. congressman chris smith questioning the secretary kerr about the pastor on thursday. >> my question first is that true, did we raise abedini's case directly with iranians in negotiations on the nuclear issue. >> the answer that is not true. i person raised issue with foreign minister sarif when i first met him the very first time and we have not linked it directly to the nuclear issue because we believe that prejudices them and it also prejudices the

. >> bob, the biggest scandal besides the irs was spying on our own james rosen and his parents, the.p. as well. i think that was a big deal. >> how about the nsa altogether. >> and if it was a republican establishment that did it they would be freaking out, going crazy. >> we need a good political scandal, something salacious in 2014. >> but when it is not good enough, like weiner and ford, there is always the celebrities. ♪ and the home of the brave [ music playing ] ♪ blurred lines >> you almost hit my wife. do you want to -- i asked you a question. get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> what a jerk. >> i think he has to hideout until like halfway through 2014. and beyonce, really good at lip syncing, i couldn't tell. >> but that was the whole point. she was lip syncing there. >> i'm doing that right now. >> who cares if she was lip syncing, everybody knows she can sing well. >> was that her voice singing? >> yes. >> it was? >> but playing miley cyrus, it was her song and she was moving her lips, and i'm for beyonce because she helped the nice little girl who had cancer. >> most of the

james rosen and carl cameron. so what's the business in d.c. over the deal? are people upset about this? >> it's amazing. it didn't get the attention a similar gesture ten years might have gotten. if you're active and outspoken, it hit like a thunderbolt. you quoted john mccain of arizona. when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a dictator like castro, it is a propaganda coup. a number of things were incorrect in what you -- in your talking points. for example, you said that the obama administration has not lessened sanctions against the castro regime but over the course of the first obama, there's relaxations in the policy of feeler gestures to see if the cubans would -- >> but that was about tourism mostly and other things. it wasn't economic. we still -- their products cannot be sold here and killing them. that's the main product. okay. whatever. >> depends on how you define a sanction, bill, but you also made the references to richard nixon opening china, ronald reagan pursuing gorbachev and also the iran nuclear deal and saying that i

and the department of justice is the department of injustice, spying on james rosen and his parents and tapk the private e-mails after associated press reporters. we so badly botched situations in egypt, syria and iran, that vladimir puttin had to rescue us from a mideast meltdown. and our naive deal with iran, it is alienated from our allies from israel to saudi arabia and did nothing to make our enemies respect us or even like us. we've spent trillions to eliminate poverty and we have more poor people than ever in it our history. we've spent $677 million in growing -- and growing on a website that doesn't work when a good one in the private spector would have cost less than $10 million. and the affordable care act is anythingba fordable. and the president is going to need the entire new york city fire department to put out the fire on his pants for his utter lying in saying we can keep our health care, we can keep our doctors and we'll save $2500 per family. [ applause ] >> a year ago, being a democrat seems like a pretty good place to be politically. now democrats are wearing paper b

james rosen reports on the international blow-back. >> reporter: israel's top officials vowed to investigatesecurity agency and its british counter part in 2009 targeted an e-mail account used by their then prime minister. >> in the close ties between israel and the united states, there are things that must not be done and are not acceptable to us. and merit said he did not use the e-mail account in question to transmit sensitive data. but now israel is involved in the volatile middle along with others that are professing outrage over the nsa overseas operations. president obama is using his hawaiian get away to draft reforms for nsa, based on recommendations from his own advisory panel. one of the recommendations is that he for bid the nsa for continuing to harvest telephone metadata, like numbers dialed and for the country and instead if it needs such information in the future to obtain warrants. in the past president obama has claimed the section 215 program has disrupted terrorist attacks. >> the president agrees with general alexander, the head of the nsa, who spoke yesterday on capitol

don't forget fox's james rosen. with the irs scandal. we learned the government was possibly using the irs to intimidate and supress opposition voices. then we haven't apprehended the benghazi operatives. >> you're with the with huffington post? >> not anymore. >> so was this a good year for obama? >> i think when you talk about the collapse, i don't see the administration collapse at all. i see a health care roll out with bumps but now it is working. >> working? >> sure. >> half the website isn't built. he has the lowest approval rating at the end of a fifth year than any president since nixon. help me out. george w. bush had a higher approval rating after year five than obama. >> couldn't get health care ben affleck. >> you believe that. >> yes. >> really? >> of course. >> go ahead and finish. >> hang on. >> the fact that you are still justifying the irs scandal targeting conservatives is appalling. i'm not surprised. the president did it, too. he came out when the irs scandal came out and said, i think this is outrageous. no way shoul

james rosen on another problem for the president that is not going away any time soon. >> reporter: two days after his own intelligence add advisory panel urged him to dial back the national security agency telephone records, the president made clear he will adopt and modify some of the panels' recommendations and reject others. >> wa they are clear -- what they are clear about is we need this intelligence. we can't unilaterally disarm. they are not snooping around. >> reporter: saying he will make a statement next month, mr. obama side stepped questions about the panel and about this week's ruling about a federal judge about the section 215 program which harvests metadata on virtually all domestic telephone calls. but the president did identify one change he might be inclined to change. >> it is possible, for example, some of the same information that the intelligence community feels is required to keep people safe can be obtained by having the private phone companies keep these records longer. >> reporter: veterans of the intelligence community praised the president for standing up fo

chief washington correspondent james rosen on the reaction or what some are calling the over reactionw delhi. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry called india's national security advisor to tamp down an allally. >> with a father --s with a father with daughters the same age, he is as well upset and in his conversation with the national security adviser he was disappointed and would not like to hurt our close and vital relationship with the ally. >> diplomatic security agents arrested her outside of her daughter's school, the charge lying on visa forms about payments to her housekeeper, also an indian national. placed in the custody of the marshall, she pled before a magistrate judge, pled not guilty and was released on 2 # $90,000 bail. she said she broke down many times as she was handcuffed and strips and swabbing while in lockup with drug addicts. the marshall service said it met standard procedure. india removed barriers in front of the u.s. embassy and missions. >> all agents employed about the counsel and the embassy members with their passport numbers and their bank stat

joining us from washington, james rosen and carl cameron. who is getting cut in the military by how much? >> military retirees and it's their benefits and cost of living adjustments and other things and it's $6 billion over the next ten years and a major fiasco that illustrates why last-minute deals crafted behind closed doors in congress are almost always filled with traps and big surprises. >> so when you say military retirees, does that include wounded warriors and people on disability or just regular folks who are getting a pension? >> all of the above. >> even if your arms and legs are blown off, you're going to get cut in one benefits you receive as well. lawmakers in both parties are very angry about this. >> we'll get to that in a minute. let's lay the baseline on what's going to happen. you say cost of living, which is built into inflation cost of living, right? is that where the cuts are? >> that's the vast majority of this. cost of living adjustment upward would be essentially brought downward and cost is $6 billion over ten years

tonight correspondent james rosen on iran's rapidly expanding nuclear efforts and who is responsible.reporter: when he announced the nuclear deal with iran last month, secretary of state john kerry sought to pre-empt criticism that the accord grants iran the right to enrich uranium by pointing to the staggering number of centrifuges the regime has installed and by implying this whole situation could have been avoided if only president bush had done the right thing a decade ago. >> in 2003, when the iranians made an offer for the former administration with respect to their nuclear program, there were 164 centrifuges. that offer was not taken. subsequently sanctions came in. and today there are 19,000 centrifuges and growing. >> reporter: demming exactly when iran crossed a particular technical threshold can be difficult. after all, the regime has hidden entire nuclear fa sill tis for years at a time. let's accept kerry's assertion that a decade ago iran possessed only 164 centrifuges. we know from u.n. inspections and other analyses by late 2007 iran had some 3,000 centrifuges. over th

tonight james rosen tellsthat i china appears to be challenging the u.s. >> from state run media imageschina's first lunar rover, an unmanned six wheeler snapping high resolution photos of the moon's surface. at the aerospace control center, the chinese president looked on, beaming as beijing voyed to -- vowed to land on the moon. the u.s. space program which was the first to reach the moon 40 years ago today languishes, with astronauts not able to make it to the moon without hitching a ride. >> let's think nationally. let's think about national pride and make sure we are not sending americans to space on another country's space ship. >> reporter: china is extending the earthly reach, especially in latin america where a chinese telecom billionaire has a pact with nicaragua to build a commercial waterway envisioned three times as long as the panama canal. u.s. officials dismiss suggestions that while china embarks on bold transcontinental ventures, american prestige and standing are suffering. >> we said as china grows, we will be a partner with them. we're working on a host of security

chief washington correspondent james rosen has details. >> the u.n.eapons inspectors who brave the dangerous of war time damascus to see the civil war, did conclude that it was used in five instances. inspectors never identify perpetrators but this did he state in five confirmed attacks in syria, the children and adults seen in the aftermath also included soldiers. >> as we see the soldiers, we interview them. but the evidence in this group of events is based on interviews and blood samples taken. >> reporter: at the state department, officials said they didn't have a break down of the victims and reaffirmed their view that syria's rebels lack the access to deploy gas. >> was it the regime attacking their own troops? >> i haven't seen that part of the report. i'm happy to look at it. but again our assessment of our intelligence community, everybody else who looked at this, is that the regime is responsible for this and indeed that is why we are moving forward to destroy their chemical weapons stockpile. >> reporter: senior officials of the russian fed

he deceived the american people over the eaves dropping on the associated press reporter and on james rosenno. there was no accountability. but i thought the second claim the president made was interesting. he's right. the big strides were made when you have big majorities. but there is one big difference. in the new dieal and the great society though fdr and lbj had great majorities they always took care to make sure the big socially revolutionary pieces of legislation had some support, in fact large support, from the opposition. social security did, medicare did, medicaid did, civil rights did. obama, in an act of what i would call constitutional indecency because it is legal to do it, but it isn't traditional in any way, he passed obama care without a single member supporting him in either house from the other side. against public opinion. after we had an off year election in massachusetts where the candidate for the republicans ran on a platform of opposing obama care. so they shoved it down the throat of the american people, through congress on a lenl sl legislative maneuver called rec

tonight chief washington correspondent james rosen looks at how the u.s.lings with iran have also been far from transparent. >> reporter: two years ago, we now know, then senator john kerry traveled to the middle east to help broker secret talks between u.s. and iranian officials. >> he went to amman in december of 2011. >> reporter: it was the associated press late last month that broke the secret talks with iran. this weekend politico followed up by reporting that then secretary of state clinton sent her top aide, jake sullivan, to owem oman shortly after kerry's visit. >> there have been reports that intermittently and outside of the formal p-5 plus one mechanisms, the obama administration or members of it have conducted direct, secret, bilateral talks with iran. is that true or false? >> with regard to the kind of thing that you're talking about on a government-to-government level, no. >> reporter: many believe newland, now assistant secretary, was not among those who knew about the back channels, but secretary clinton did. >> we have from the very beg

joining us now from washington ace correspondents carl cameron and james rosen. >> so, rosen, let's runthe first one is merrill newman 85 years old the north koreas have them, what did he do. >> korean war vet. been accused of war crimes, bill during his service in 1953. he has read some videotaped statement in which he apologized. not known whether that was coerced or not but it's believed that it was. >> of course. he was over in north north korea on a tour, right? >> that's right. they are accusing him of committing hostile acts by looking for spies and terrorists under the guise of being a tourist. >> he looks like james bond. all right, and the other guy is kenneth bae, 44-year-old american missionary and also being held in north korea. what did he do? >> right, he has been sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp earlier this year. he has been also convicted under the north korean system of justice such as it is for committing hostile acts to bring down its government unspecified. >> okay. in cuba, a man named allen groce, 64-year-old former sib contractor for the u.s.a. agency for i

and james rosen finding himself in claims that the justice department was tracking phone records andformation. >> the united states is not and will not monitor the chancellor's communication. >> and the president feeling the heat with the roll out of the health care law. his approval rating are hitting an all-time low. >> i think we underestimated the complexity of building a website. >> and a leave of absence did you to the misreport of the benghazi attack. >> no doubt many of the heavy hitters are hard at work on one resolution and that is to keep their news of scandals in 2014. >> some folks might try to build up a scandal >> i am looking for the comebacks. 2013 is almost in the books. but what will some of the big political stories of 2014 be? >> probably a scandal or two in there. and taking television to a whole new level, greg. wait until you hear how much this 110-inch screen goes for. >> that is not big enough. >> samsung is trying to prove that bigger is better with this u ultra high definition 110-inch television boasting four times the pixels of the head television trying

i'm glad you got james rosen. a very intelligent, insightful guy. >> i love james. >> i'm playing that back for him. you're in trouble. >> james and i go way back. more than many years than he'd like to reveal. they're asking me to go on with this tease. are the obama administration's regulations crushing the american dream? the number that prove it and the woman who says she can fix it. that's next. >> and a daring rescue caught on camera. a christmas miracle for a dog stranded on the ice. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the weather outside is frightful ♪ ♪ but the fire is so delightful ♪ [ male announcer ] nothing melts away the cold like a hot delicious bowl of chicken noodle soup from campbell's. ♪ let it snow, let it snow >>> nice to see you here at "fox & friends." i'm anna kooiman. quick headlines for you. a dramatic rescue caught on camera. fire fighters in indiana saving a dog who got stuck in an icy lake. >> there you go. >> perfect. >> there you go. >> the dog named bronx ran off from his owner during a walk. fire fighters wear

bill: thank you, james rosen in washington. >> reporter: you bet. bill: martha. days away from the deadline to sign up for obamacare and time for that january first, you thought christmas shopping was on the list. concerns people are really not enrolling. we'll talk about that. ♪ bill: and this here is rob ford, the toronto mayor, famous for putting his foot in his mouth, dancing a different tune and looking all so jolly at christmas. martha: everybody seems like they're having a great time. a little bob marley. christmas red tie. bill: he is cutting the red. martha: you go for it, rob ford. is that the lady he knocked over. bill: possible. martha: i think might be. ♪ >> new information on teens and drugs. more and more kids under 17 are smoking pot and we are hearing where they are getting it from. wait until you hear this. what did the study find, william? >> supply is up. prices are down. penalties are higher. kids smoke more pot than cigarettes and in states that sell medical marijuana 34% of teens are getting pot from those who buy it legally with a prescrip

in the case of fox news correspondent james rosen, the obama justice department tracked him down like a common criminal simply for doing his job. the department of justice tracked rosen's movements, got a search warrant to examine his private e-mails and even obtained his parents' phone records. this is a journalist. as a washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine noted -- quote -- "it is unprecedented for the government in an official court document to accuse a reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets." we also know that the obama justice department has conducted a disturbingly intrusive investigation into the phone records of journalists who work for the associated press. and as i said, displayed an unprecedented level of contempt and obstruction for the freedom of information act. washington lawyer catherine meyer has filed foia cases under six different administrations dating back into the late 1970's. foia is the shorthand for the freedom of information act, of course. last year she told "politico" that -- quote

james rosen as the latest in washington now. reporter: that's right, calling us deplorable. school on december 12 by agents of the state state department in the diplomatic security services. they were serving as the deputy consul in new york city and she said she broke down with the indignities with cavity searches where she says she observe common criminals and drug addicts. a q&a document has been released, entitled responses to these questions. the questions are also being asked by the enraged diplomatic core question. marshal services dodging that one. the arrest he was placed with other female defendants are rating chordates. so why was she placed with the general prisoner population? and the answer is she was placed in the available and appropriate cell after the risk or separation order and prisoners had generally pleased in these populations. in planting down, serving u.s. missions, including duty-free alcohol. in a fresh look to see whether any of them are employed. since the removal of the security and a state department official has asset that has impaired securit

>> we had somebody who went through that in our own employ, james rosen in the washington, d.c., bureaune in the state department. they came to him and then they started going into james' personal e-mails. >> his e-mail in staten island. >> that's a phony scandal. it's not real. >> absolutely ridiculous they would do that to james rosen. it's ridiculous they wouldn't hold that person accountable. >> it's absolutely ridiculous panetta would have a screen writer in a classified information. they're risking their lives and they let this guy in? >> and they leaked that information because it made everyone look good. "zero dark thirty" i thought was a good movie, important time in our history getting one of the greatest bad guys we've known in our history, someone who tried to attack our country and successfully did it, and we've been after him for so long. >> that is exactly the key point to me, which is this was totally political. the president can get up there and say, thanks to me, osama bin laden is dead. this was a campaign talking point. there was a reason for this. now they're punish

we have leaks, going after fox's james rosen, we have the ap scandal, we have a long track record ofous controlling their message and anyone that intrudes upon that, that draws their attention. >> controlling the mess annual is one thing. maybe controlling your image is another, john. what politician wouldn't want to control his image. >> this has been true throughout the modern presidency, certainly jfk and ronald reagan were masters at controlling their image and what they presented to the country and the world, but i think the point will makes is this is right and is this, hypocrisy is the unforgivable sin in politics. when this president campaigned on being the most transparent administration ever, and then fell short of that, for whatever reason, it draws people's eyire and frustration. talk about orwellian or stalin or soviet is stupid, a ridiculous comparison. the segment on north korea people photo shopped out who were executed. we're not heading down that slippery slope folks. >> thank god. >> the white house photographer used to release the photos to the newspapers which de

since the ap subverted their efforts and then we had the john rosen -- >> james. >> excuse me.s is one of the things where the press gets it right. we see time after time them mocking that pledge in the first term. the president received an award that he didn't get to the press. and newspapers saying that they are not going to publish those photographs. >> what about the images and memories that we have of photos that were captured not by the white house photographer. george bush learning about 9/11. reagan waving from a hospital bed after surgery. president ford waving from the steps off air force one. but this moment went down as oh, so it changes the course of history. now we are not going to get those images anymore that make a president look real? >> these photos tend to look presidents look real. in an age, look at instagram and facebook. the idea that the administration is limiting that is a tragedy for the american people. >> let's see if you both agree on this next topic okay? you have covered california the state exchange in california who is now using celebrities the