a.p. and fox news scandals the new yorker magazine has launched a platform for whistleblowers to secretly leak information the program is called strong box and it's an open source dropbox that allows anyone to send leaked documents or messages without their identities ever being known so this way if the justice department asks anyone from the new yorker magazine where did you get this information who was your source the new yorker says well we don't know don't you find it interesting that the new yorker is now using the first amendment practices of julian a songe to protect the bradley manning's of the world right and it doesn't surprise me at all because that's what the new yorker should be doing in the digital age that's what publishers do and by the way after the bradley man who the julius story broke the new york times said we're going to set one up and i think the wall street journal set one up to now songes saying i mean obama is saying i want to go to sun but isn't this just like the new yorker the wall street journal the new york times you might as well go and get the new york time

a.p. and fox news is james rosen but i wasn't part of the a.p. and i didn't particularly like fox news so i didn't speak up. so in speaking up no freedom of the press needed to be protected in seventeen eighty seven and it needs to be protected today. and that's the way it is tonight tuesday may twenty first two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active take your that city. some of these traditional chili lines they've been bred and developed and passed on from generation. to the told destruction of the culture of mexico by telling them i mean this this is not going to impact asylum in mexico whatever happens here is that the whole world now we're eating at about six in the in the open a in all boarding of slower fare. the engineer cops why do you think this country is full of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. let me let me i want to know what all let me ask you a question. here i misspelled words is what we're having the debate we have our knives out. to to give the scientists

a.p. and fox news is james rosen but i wasn't part of the a.p. and i didn't particularly like fox news so i didn't speak up. so i'm speaking up now. freedom of the press needed to be protected in seventeen eighty seven and it needs to be protected today. and that's the way it is tonight tuesday may twenty first two thousand and thirteen don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active take your seats. and the mission free cretaceous three times for charges free arrangements three. three stooges free. download free books clothing videos for your media projects a free media dog to our teeth dog tom. and download the official publication to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't do so now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time. and you were. good afternoon to welcome the prime enjoy as time perry and boring reporting and washington d.c. and here's the stories that i've been looking at today. jamie is safe america's mayor had a leader of j.p.

a.p. and fox news. all of them, i think, come down to a culture at the white house. can he really, the president, stand by and jay carney and these guys and say none of these are scandals, nothing to do with us, our fingerprints aren't on this? >> oh, i was waiting -- >> didn't take long. didn't take long. >> every time people mention nixon -- >> even nixon didn't do what holder's done. even nixon didn't seek to go after a journalist like rosen at fox news and try and get all these background details, his e-mail, his family's e-mails. >> holder is not a sitting president, okay? again -- >> he works for the administration. >> not exactly. the state department doesn't exactly work -- the department of justice doesn't exactly work that way. ostensibly operates independently of the president and of course we know there's connections there. but let's not overstate those connections. >> but if you say of course we know there are connections and everyone does know there are connections, how far can you stretch the line of credibility? let me ask you this, margaret. where lit

a.p. and fox news scandals the new yorker magazine has launched a platform for whistleblowers to secretly leak information the program is called strong box and it's an open source dropbox that allows anyone to send leaked documents or messages without their identities ever being known so this way if the justice department asks anyone from the new yorker magazine where did you get this information who was your source the new yorker says well we don't know don't you find it interesting that the new yorker is now using the first amendment practices of julian a songe to protect the bradley manning's of the world right and it doesn't surprise me at all because that's what the new yorker should be doing in the digital age that's what publishers do and by the way after the bradley men who were the julius story broke the new york times said we're going to set one up and i think the wall street journal set one up to now songes saying i mean obama saying i want to get a son but isn't this just like the new yorker the wall street journal the new york times you might as well go and get the new york ti

a.p. and recused himself with the fox news matter and james rosen? >> that is why i think the whole administration argument that they have prosecuted twice as many leak investigations, national security leak investigations as all prior administrations put together really deserves scrutiny here. it needs to be somebody who is reporting to the president, not an independent counsel, that is an institution that brings more problems than it solves but somebody in the justice department, with the authority from the president to look what is happening. ultimately it is the president who is responsible. constitution says the executive power shall be vested in the president of the united states. you want to sit behind the big desk, you want the glory, take the responsibility, mr. president. >> eric: thank you so much for your legal insight this morning. >> thank you. >> jamie: let's talk about some breaking developments on another scandal for the white house. new calls from powerful republican this morning for the administration to appoint a special counsel t

attending you got the "washington post", "wall street journal" and chicago tribune, bloomberg is going. u.s.a. today not attending fox news, a.pd cnn and huffington post, reuters and the reasons are interesting. "washington post" editor is represent interests and raise concerns. is that enough reasons. >> andrea: no, i think the fact of talking about this is very weird. it's not a meeting between, say, the department of justice and the department of the treasury. they are not equal branches. this isn't a regular thing that should happen, but i do think eric holder considers the media to be a tool of the government. it's a little disorienting because holder says i want to talk about guidelines. they don't give a damn aboutguidelines, why would you say i am going to put in place guidelines that i never followed. i put guidelines in place before. what is the point of the meeting? i think it's a nice, we want do this right. >> greg: bob, doesn't it reminds you of many times. >> bob: that was harsh on your part. what did you ask me? >> greg: i don't remember. do you think the meeting was a smart idea on holder's part. >> bob: no, b

do and why i tried to do it and to have the news organizations that were targeted because the first two news organizations that announced they weren't going, a.p. and then foxbe able to report that because they have agreed to ground rules that would prevent them from doing that? that's just unacceptable. at this point, eric holder has to speak the truth to the american people and first and foremost to the news media. >> megyn: jen, i know you say in your column today that they are trying to lure us the media into a spin session here i think so. the stated purpose of this meeting was to discuss ground rules. if he wants to discuss new ground rules or old ground rules he violated. he can call up the security council for the lawyers. they can hash this out. this is nothing but appear attempt to number one keep his job as you have note the number are calling for his heads. to put a thumb on the kind of coverage he is getting. what if he says something very news worthy. what if he confesses that he says something in the affidavit for james rosen that wasn't true? what if he says well, yeah, i shouldn't is said that to business manage it. giving the a.p. and the

a.p. case and the fox news case, and given their pitiful responses since then, there's no reason to thinke media shield law is going to be anything other than a figure leaf. they have no credibility on this issue. >> so what, katrina, what does the president need to do, honestly? he has appointed eric holder to sort of have a roundtable with members of the media and report back to him in the middle of next month. i'm not sure that eric holder is necessarily the right person for that job. but in your mind, to reestablish ties or a better relationship with the press, to really prove that he does support the first amendment -- >> this is part of a pattern in my view, it's also a pattern in terms of the record on civil liberties of this administration, it is conflated with this ongoing quote war on terror which the president last week in the classic, disconnect perhaps between rhetoric and performance, said he wanted to start rolling back. he spoke eloquently of the value of a free press and the danger of a chill. i think the president would need to do more than just hold a rondetable. i thin

the discussions immediately, preferably by twitter, and b, ask the following question -- why was "the new york times" not targeted as fox and the a.ped details about obama, all of which made him look good, the killing of obl example. were their reporters' emails read? >> bret: chris hayes on msnbc talked about that, the fact we don't know the answer to the "new york times" question as of yet. >> a triumphant thing the administration did, this incredible virus that took out the nuclear program. it's an incredible story, right? it is very clear that information was classified, and it is very, very clear from the article that it was leaked by senior administration officials. there's just no way it wasn't, right? the question is, okay, fair is fair. if you're going to go afterç low-low guy in the state department for leaking something, go after senior officials. there's no way, in my humble opinion, "the new york times" was not subject to the same kind of warrants. >> bret: so what do you think of that, kiersten? >> well, i mean, not to be too cynical, but i think the story that painted obama in a positive light probably were sanction

will review internal guidelines covering the news media, after prosecutors secretly seized the phone records of a.p. reporters and the private e-mails of a foxnalists. but new questions of the role of the man ahead of that review attorney general eric holder. >> you cannot investigate yourself and i think it's a total conflict of interest. >> on friday, the justice department confirmed an nbc news report that holder had personally approved a 2010 sealed search warrant for fox news reporter james rosen's e-mails. in court papers, an fbi agent says rosen asked, solicited and encouraged a source to give him sensitive information about north korea and he was a possibly co-conspirator for violations of the espionage act. >> what the public must never condone is shut down reporters from asking the questions they need to ask. >> this is a campaign against journalism in my mind. >> reporter: he says the e-mails had extensive investigation and the federal judge made a decision. they back fired with the watergate in the 70s. bob woodwards meeting in a parking garage made for cinematic drama. today, technology changed the game. >> it's easier toing tha

and if you thought the a.p. d.o.j. scandal was the only case of the government going after journalists think again fox news now says it's white house correspondent is now facing potential criminal charges for his story a look at the chilling of the fourth estate later in the show. it's monday may twentieth five pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching our t.v. well we begin this hour with yet another look at the close sometimes conflicting times between the government and private interests over the weekend the l.a. times printed an investigative piece that talked about numerous government

a.p. and the fox news reporting. his cumulative build of scandals that are questioning the president's legacy. and it's -- you know, this is -- bill i just have to say we're almost out of time here. except when you look at them. >> right. >> bill: when you look at benghazi terrorist attack. too bad it happened. more security at embassies now so it can't happen again hopefully. the i.r.s., i think the more you look at it, the more you realize, there's not a lot there. the real scandal is the department of justice and it is the one people are paying the least attention to. so i encourage now this news to join me in paying more attention to what the department of justice is doing, to us in the media. >> right. we are reporters. >> bill: your phones could be tapped. >> i know. it resonates with the media community for sure. >> bill: absolutely. hey, ashley, nice to have you in here. thanks for the work you're doing. congratulations on now this news. >> thank you. >> bill: we'll see you again. >> yes. thank you so much. >>

fox news, what happened to a.p. is almost historically unprecedented and unconscionable. it's without limits, without any sense of legal responsibility of invading someone's private e-mail and it's partly -- we have this technology where it's easier to trace people because it's all done on e-mail now and you can look at it the two ways. there's going to be greater temptation for us to pry into every media reporter's e-mail so we've got to police ourselves. we've got to the -- it's just hog wild and i think scandal is vastly over the line. i don't say that as a reporter. i'm not a particularly open government kind of guy. but i think it's truly offensive. >> woodruff: does the finger point at the attorney general? at eric holder? >> he's recused from one of these, the a.p. one, not from the other. it's a classic exampl, right? there are justice department guidelines that if they were followed carefully should have stopped this. the richest part of the president's speech was when he said we need to make sure that we protect reporters and the press from government overreach.

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a.p. and now targeted go a number of journalists and producers right here at the fox news channel.obtained court documents. when we return, ever so lively ann coulter. then later tonight. >> i never lost consciousness. they didn't answer. so he is in there somewhere. >> sean: i am picking the video of the day. making that comment the tornado survivor was reunited with her beloved dog and most heartwarming of the video today. we will play tonight on hannity. you hurt my feelings, todd. i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded experiences really mattered... you suggested luxury car service instd of "strength training with patrick willis." come on todd! flap them chicken wings. [ grunts ] well, i travel a lot and umm... [ male announcer ] at visa signature, every upgradedxperience comes from listening to our cardholders. visa signature. your idea of what a card should be. vo: ta friend under water is end usomething completely different. i met a turtle friend today so, you don't get that very often. it seemed like it was more than happy to have us in his home. so beauti

and keep her safe for us right now. >>. >> megyn: fox news alert. first it was the a.p.'s phone records including cellphone records of certain reporters and then was james rosen's emails. now, newly uncovered department of records shows the department of justice seized several fox news lines and phone lines of mr. rosen's parents. it's part of a leak investigation. shannon bream is live in washington with the latest. >> reporter: we knew the government had gotten access to personal accounts and tracked his movement at the state department via his building pass. now, they cast a much wider net. in a court filing dated october 13, 2011, they detail numerous pieces of evidence it had collected including scores of phone records that have area codes and exchanges that match up to many fox news hard lines and cellphones. in redacted version we can't see the final four numbers but they do match up to phone lines that wind up to our work spaces, pentagon and state department. it shows the justice department gathered phone numbers to fox news management but it's impossible without

and it's unclear who will attend. the a.p. and new york times say they will only attend if the meeting is on the record. the huffington post agrees. foxare considering whether we'll attend or not. politico and the washington post will attend. reporters routinely use material they can't tribute to a specific person or a specific agency within the administration. but in this case when the issue is the use of classified information it makes sense that everybody should know precisely what the rules are. that's part of the reason some news organizations are insisting the meeting be on the record. another part, of course, is that the justice department's decision to subpoena the phone records of fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen is still being actively reported on by virtually every national news agency. aside from the rules on future reporting, we are still trying to figure out what attorney general holder knew about the rosen case. white house press secretary jay carney argued with ed henry that rosen wasn't singled out for prosecution. >> i would point you to published reports and the extremely large distinction between

a.p. scandal the rosen story at fox news and the a.p.formation. >> michele. >> stephanie: you know, there is a piece in the "daily beast" about eric holder's regrets and repairs and yada yada. but this is something i keep talking about, hal. justice officials say the department's leadership came under withering pressure to investigate leaks from the intelligence committee and congress. it is the same republicans that were screaming at on multiple occasions, he fielded calls from c.i.a. directors demanding leak investigations. meanwhile, congress was on holder's case to staunch the leaks in national security cases. they hauled him in front of the senate intelligence committee to explain why they weren't punishing more leakers. it is like they have a lot of room. >> hal: right. you know, like i said, i think this is a very important distinction between whistle-blower protection and just factually leaking stuff you know is classified. in rosen's case, he met with five state department officials. the guy who actually leaked the stuff to him

and if you thought the a.p. d.o.j. scandal was the only case of the government going after journalists think again fox news now says it's white house correspondent is now facing potential criminal charges for his story a look at the chilling of the fourth estate later in the show. it's monday may twentieth five pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching our t.v. well we begin this hour with yet another look at the close sometimes conflicting times between the government and private interests over the weekend the l.a. times printed an investigative piece that talked about numerous government purchases of a drug known as. this drug is an antidote to an antibiotic resistant anthrax drug in the wake of nine eleven the government dedicated huge sums of money to creating and stockpiling biodefense drugs but here's where the conflict of interest comes in the presidential adviser who played a key role in pushing the government toward this decision also was profiting off of these drugs he was the director of the human genome sciences incorporate. ition and that company actually earned three hundred thirty four million doll

regulation and suppression when it comes to the press that question is especially relevant today in the wake of the a.p. phone records scandal and new revelations that the justice department investigated fox so-called news reporter. james rosen for his coverage of north korea. acted in the interest of national security but the question remains is our government slowly chipping away at one of our most important freedoms for more on this i'm joined by david schuster executive editor of take action news dot com and host of take action news with david schuster david welcome to the program tom it is always a pleasure to be with you thanks for having me face it's great having you here let's talk about these two stories first of all did the a.p. story on the cia operation in yemen actually threaten national security and do you think that the rows in north korea story did well first the a.p. story at the time the a.p. finally published it it did not i mean as you know they went to the administration said here's what we have an administration asked them ok can you please hold us for a little while because we need a couple of days to protect the national security assets associated with this is so s

a.p., the d.o.j. targeting fox news, too. that scandal is next. and the benghazi emails. we'll show you what is in the hundred pages that the white house released. but where are the other 25,000 pages? the latest on that scandal, coming up. ht brothers became the first in flight. [ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing is how like us these chimpanzees are. [ laughing ] [ woman ] can you hear me? and you hear your voice? oh, it's exciting! [ man ] touchdown confirmed. we're safe on mars. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hi. [ baby fussing ] ♪ make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over, so we could head back to the dealership. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. test drive! but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a jetta. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. over any other carrier? many choose us because we have the largest 4glte network. others, bec

and democrat kirsten powers, also a fox news analyst. what about attorney general eric holder in? now he reciewsd himself on the a.p. tory but rosen, we don't hear a word about that and that's right in holder's domain. and you say? >> well, look, there is no point in signaling out holder without president obama. they both believe the same thing. the president even when he was asked about the a.p. scandal has said he makes no apologies for what they did. when he hasn't said a word about james rosen. and what happened there. so he is obviously not, you know, too up in arms about that since we know he called -- just picks up the phone and calls people if they have been insulted by a radio host for example but he hasn't spoken out about the government and their thuggish tactic its against journalists. i would say that both attorney general holder and the president don't look very good right now. >> shepard: okay. and you say, kate? >> i agree completely. i mean, it's very clear that this is an executive level decision that holder had to have been involved. holder admitted to the committee they asked him that he couldn't

and if you thought the a.p. d.o.j. scandal was the only case of the government going after journalists think again fox news now says its white house correspondent is now facing potential premeal charges for his story look at the chilling of the fourth estate later in the show. it's monday may twentieth eight pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching our t.v. well we begin tonight with breaking news out of oklahoma a massive tornado touched down in the suburbs of oklahoma city this afternoon the hardest hit area is the town of moore which is located in the southwestern part of that city at least four people have been killed including a mother and child numerous others have been injured the tornado was estimated to be at least two miles wide and it was at least an e.f. four with winds ranging from one hundred sixty six to two hundred miles per hour that's according to the national weather service hundreds of homes and two elementary schools fell in the tornado's path of destruction search and rescue teams are still in the process of locating numerous missing students oklahoma governor mary fallen has. actually dec

well fox news reports a case comes in the wake of revelations the government and us tap the phones of a.p. journalists something agencies top executives described as a massive and unprecedented intrusion and founder of the want to wake new support for charlie mcgrath told r.t. shaun thomas u.s. media is paying the price for going beyond official sources these networks that we're talking about are not new and. you need opinion yet you're not known to to step outside the line of the government press conference that you should just regurgitate exactly what the government puts out but if you have somebody that. actually doesn't journalism yes you can expect retribution and i don't know who could possibly consider that and not to work that way in their decision to be investigated jools well if there is a leak that could compromise national security doesn't the government have the right to do everything that they can to stop that leak that you got it is obviously stepping outside of that bounds if you're talking about reporting news information that is critical for this fruited populace yes it'

fox news and the a.p. did not attend.wing up the "wall street journal," abc, "washington post," chicago tribune, "usa today." here's the good news: word leaked out about what happened at which time it was a good listening tour. are they going to have tighter restrictions? have a high level of review before they go into reporters' phone records. he has until july 12 to come up with recommendations for the president. >>alisyn: is anyone else appreciating this meeting he's holding with media representatives about how to have greater transparency and work better with off the record? >>steve: they did change the terms. >>alisyn: fine. their first instinct was we're going to have off-the-record meetings about how to have a better relationship and have more media transparency which is why fox news set it up as well as "the new york times," as you said. there was an act -- it was suggested in 2007 that would have helped with transparency for the media. and in fact at that time senator barack obama was one of the cosponsors of thi

and one more. this involves the media. i mean, i think there is sort of a sense of, you know, coming together, even with fox news in part because the a.phad happened to the a.p. in that revelation earlier. but, also, because journalists, i think working journalists look up and think jeesh, was everybody looking at my emails? if they don't like something that i have to report i do have to worry about my parents' phone records being looked at? there is a sense in washington among journalists that that's a problem. we know journalists love nothing more than journalism. >> shannon: have us defended. we are just above lawyers and dentists, you know down there charles. >> i don't envy the fbi guy who calls my mother. [ laughter ] >> shannon: you have been warned. all right, panel. next up, we are going to get into whole lot of other topics. it's the friday lightning round. stick around. [ heart beating, monitor beeping ] woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't

a.p. story. reporters wiretapped. >> bret: this it is a fox news alert. this is bret baier in washington. there are busy news days and today. president obama weighed in on scandals like benghazi and the irs targeting conservative groups. breaking news on a potential third scandal. this one involves the justice department and the associated press. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge here with breaking details. >> the president of the associated press confirms in a letter to eric holder the department of justice seized records from more than 27 phone lines assigned to the associated press and journalists affecting ap bureaus in new york city. hartford, connecticut and the house of representatives. the letter sta

a.p. just like they did rosen at fox news, they go after the a.p. and get hundreds of phone numbers information because they say they are after this egregious leak, the attorney general told our committee last week, gee, most egregious things. one of the most egregious things he had ever seen. turns out most of all of the leaks that allow him to go after a conservative group or to intimidate a gloup like the a.p. -- group like the a.p., to them they are egregious, when we find out, mr. speaker, he could have just looked at the records of a handful of people in the administration, he chose not to do that. it might have embarrassed the administration. he abuses the freedom of the press. it's time that people who are responsible are made accountable. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for 30 minutes. mr. king: mr. speaker, i appreciate the privilege to be recognized to address you here on th

fox news reporter case comes in the wake of revelations the u.s. government tap the phones of a.p. journalists something agency's a top executive described as a massive and unprecedented intrusion as founder of the waterway news portal china groff it told r.t. sun thomas said if the us media is paying the price for going beyond. these networks that we're talking about are not new at least you need opinion yet they're not known to to step outside the light of the government press conference they usually just regurgitate exactly what the government puts out but if you have somebody that says it actually doesn't journalism yes you can expect retribution and i don't know who could possibly consider that and not to work that way in their decision to be investigated jools well if there is a leak that could compromise national security doesn't the government have the right to do everything that they can to stop that leak but yet the group is obviously stepping outside of that bounds if you're talking about reporting news information that is critical for the lives for the populace yes it's going to be things that can be reported that shouldn't be leaked but you'

and if you thought the a.p. d.o.j. scandal was the only case of the government going after journalists again fox news now says its white house correspondent is now facing potential criminal charges for his story a look at the chilling of the fourth estate later in the show.