. >> the ap courses are narrow. they often will cause teachers to teach toward the test. >> it's the research into the belief ap students do better than those who don't take ap course that is stirred up controversy. she says the jury is still out. a claim that has the folks who administer the ap balking. >> she makes itd provocative. there's no relationship between that and college success. that's what we object to and can't figure out why she said that. the study does not say that. examination scores are among the best predictors. >> one thing both sides agree on is the need for moderation. >> you have to look at the whole schedule next year. everything else you are doing and taking. get the sleep you need. adolescences need nine hours of sleep. not many get that. >> it's a message they are incorporating in the classroom. >> help them handle this piece of ap test prep. we need to relax about it, do our best but not get overly stressed. >> a student who once struggled, things are looking up. >> it's hard in the begi

the ap is saying their sources are frozen. >> i'm sure one of the things. >> we rely on the ap to give us news. >> we rely on the ap to give us news but there seems was an absolutely legitimate pursuit on the part of the government and i support the president's comments. >> no organization is going to exist solely on a leaker from the administration. >> on monday may 13th, doj, broke the sore he story about subpoenaing ap's phone records from the last year. the chilling effect hits now in the aftermath of the irs story. >>> we'll be right back with prescriptions. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. 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. >>> p

>> i'm a former ap reporter. my gut reaction was to be pretty concerned, pretty appalled. >> were you angry? >> of course i was angry. >> are your former colleagues angry? >> of course they're angry. >> a sense of being violated by the government? >> i think that's an important question but to me the broader question is the question of access. right? it's not about the ap. it's not about what happened to the a a p. it's about the issue of access in general and the obama administration definition of classified information. their definition of unfedered which is a word we're hearing a lot. >> justice department says this was necessary in the course of investigating national security leaks and president obama said the other day, no apologies for what was done to the ap. >> look, i think, again, he doesn't owe an apology to the ap, necessarily, but i think the ap what it stands for is this administration's aggressive prosecution of leaks. more, i mean, it's a statistic we have heard a lot lately, which is that his ad

so, how is the ap going to win this fight? joining us now is david schultz, thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> i'm sure that long exposition of the facts and my take on them does not exactly comport with yours, but in term of the ap's role in this, i should ask you -- >> i think you got it just right. >> it is a constant balancing act in the united states. t prel security or anything the government doesn't want disclosed. is it the ap's position that the justice department is within its rights to be investigating these leaks? it's just that they are doing it in a way that is too rushed. >> sure. i think the key, there is an inherent conflict between the government's ability to keep secrets and the ability of people to oversee their government, that you have to have access to government information. you need confidential sources to give you that information or the only things you're going to know about the government is what they're going to tell you. the real problem here is is that in the mess after

the ap. for reasons that he feels very comfortable with this president has been very aggressive in dealing with leaks, people inside the government talking to the media and in going after those leakers he has been willing to ride roughshod over what the media does. we'll talk about richard engel about the president's concerns and the leak in question later on in the show tonight. >>> maybe this shield law if we get one will offer real protections against this kind of thing that's just happened to the associated press but the other way to protect this important thing about ourselves as a country and who we consider ourselves to be as a country. other way to protect our gold standard free press is to not just depend on the government to do it. to do it ourselves, to take care of it ourselves, to protect the freedom of the press ourselves. that's now happening in a way that's edgy and diy and live as of yesterday. basic idea here is what if there was a way for sources to talk to the press withou

provide a road map to ap's news gathering operations and disclose information about ap's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know. the media reacted. here is one example from the huffington post on-line. this story really got the attention of everyone in the media. >> well, it certainly got mine and it's one story that's kind of brought the media together, left, right, large, small, because all of a sudden, our ox is being goered and suddenly we have to remind the american people that a spree press is one -- free press is one of those things we take for granted but essential in protecting a democracy. but there was one journalist when didn't get the talking points, if i can use that word, and that's wolf blitzer who says if there is a national security issue at stake here, shouldn't the government have the right to tap my phone? no, wolf. it shouldn't. >> well, so national security leak or no? who decides if it's national security versus freedom of the press? >> the administration has that option. so the "washington post" on friday made the point th

the ap records secretly obtained by the justice department. benghazi case, and the irs targeting conservatives and other groups, all of the latest news out of the white house. we'll bring it to you live. jenna: well it is a stunning revelation today from oscar-winning actress angelina jolie. in a "new york times" op-ed she writes see had ma preventative double mastectomy earlier this year after genetic testing she was at a very, very high-risk for developing breast cancer. dr. leigh vinocur is here to talk more about this. doctor, tell us about this option. who is a good candidate for this type of surgery? >> so you look at hereditary breast cancers which are really own by about five or 10% of all breast cancers caused by her red at this or in your family and, there are many different genes but two particular genes, brca 1 and brca-2 cause the preponderance of these hereditary breast canners and where the general population might have 12% risk over their lifetime of getting breast cancer people with these two gene mutations, because the genes

they ask if the ap program is living up to its promise. in tonight's class action, studying up on the ap. >>> so let's go to the first flight. >> they're brushing up on bacteria in ap biology in san francisco, prepping for the all-important exam. advanced placement classes like this one are college level courses so they're hard. so hard, in fact, that they have ten commandments to keep it all in check. >> thou shall not cram, thou shall get sleep and not panic and try your best. >> reporter: some students take it to heart. >> i don't feel very stressed out about it. >> i still managed to get eight hours, do track, get all of my stuff done for my ap's. >> but for others, it is a struggle. >> i had no sleep, i took a lot of my time, sacrificed a lot of social life. >> there is a proliferation of the classes. >> she is a co-founder of the nonprofit, challenge success, which recently examined the common assumptions about the ap. >> it is a real fallacy staying take every ap test. >> they say the courses may not always live up to the reputation

you can survive the ap. when i have a criminal defendant who is originally charged with robbery he is clearly taking the let's wait and see. it is a huge problem. this could be the end of eric holder. it is that big of a deal. it could be the time where the president called him and it says you have done a great job for me. thanks. melissa: through it all the market actually rose. let's pivot back to the stock market. we have breaking news on dell. the dow is approaching a 100 point gain right now. nicole petallides has been on the floor of the new york stock exchange. also i imagine listening to press secretary jay carney. i do know, nicole you want to bring the latest on dell because it is moving markets. >> we're finding out from dow jones what numbers dell is expected to report, we're hearing first about earnings per share of 20 cents, versus the 35 cent analyst estimate. that looks like is it will be below. operating income of 600 million. back to you. lori: nicole, thanks so much for that. again the dow

ap subpoenas.ou worked at the associated press for about 20 years. 20-something years. you made the point that you believe that the leak investigation actually has potential to do more harm than the initial leak itself. >> no doubt about it. you heard dan pfeiffer early use as defense of the irs all of those republicans doing a fishing expedition. how can they talk about the fishing expedition. it intimidates whistle blowers. go, anybody out there watching this show, paying attention to this story, has to worry about their own records. if the doj is willing to go after the world's largest news agency -- what are they willing to do to you? your mother? this is scary. three, the reason is, really undermines national security. to explain what happened here the ap like news organizations for many decades when they find out about this story, they got in contact with the cia. the government said that she this is dangerous. please don't put this information out. the ap as news organizations does, held off

in terms of the press, they are upset about the ap. they have been obsequious but all of a sudden they are very upset. it is their own prerogative and privacy. i think he asked to make his peace with the press on that because they are the ones mediates between him and the public. >> when nixon got in trouble on watergate, which was at the a burglary, he was hurt because he did not have friends. he did not spend a lot of time stroking senators and playing golf. he really paid for it. i am not saying this is on that scale. i dislike these analogies to watergate but there is a point that obama needs to have better friends on the hill. >> where have you heard that before? >> from every democrat in town from day one. tot to add to the point, richard nixon, it was said that he once said politics would be great if it were not for the gd people. he loved the strategizing. quite honestly, the personal relationships are not there. can see jeanne shaheen, new hampshire, mark udall, kay hagan, all getting daylight between themselves and the presid

sube la espuma por la denuncia de espionaje contra la agencia de noticias ap.vestigaciÓn de filtraciÓnes ilegales. procurador general se distancio de la actuaciÓn oficial aunque la justificÓ, como los explica blanca rosa vilches. >>> guerra de palabras entre la agencia de noticias prensa asociada y el departamento de justicia que protege. lt allÍ nae que separa lt apropiaciÓn de registros econÓmicos. >>> el fiscal general revelÓ que para evitar un conflicto personal Él se habÍa excusado y no habÍa participado en la decisiÓn de obtener en secreto los archivos telefÓnicos de la ap. intromisiÓn sin precedentes calificÓ prensa asociadas, registros que revelan comunicaciÓnes con fuentes confidenciales a travÉs de todas las actividades de recopilaciÓn de noticias llevadas a cabo por la ap durante un perÍodo de dos meses. proporcionan una hoja de ruta para la la recopilaciÓn de noticias para la agencia. que son para divulgar informaciÓn de las actividades y operaciones de la ap que el gobierno no tiene derecho a saber. >>> no nos han dicho lo que buscan y tampoco nos

what does ap fox stories say about that promise? do you find areas where he has improved above his predecessor president bush. >> it's not national security whistle belowers, but other when blowers. they have passed a law that helps other whistle blowers with security and other details. but if you believe this is fundamental to the kind of country we are and the way we function then unfortunately this administration has been terrible in terms of its policy, in terms of its politics, and how it has consistently taken the side and supported c.i.a. pentagon, private contractors. >> john: well according to a new cnn poll around 53% of adults think the ap story is very important. around the same think the irs and the benghazi stories are important. do you think that's about right? did you expect more public outrage because ap does seem to be the closest thing to a real scandal we've got here. >> well, it's hard, look people are struggling. there is a terrible, terrible economic crisis. people are without jobs. they're continue to go lose

let's start with the ap deal.re not sure if it's such a big deal. >> miss laura on fox & friends called it a scandal. it's know the a scandal yes. holder has a press conference coming up in a couple of hours. what usually happens in these kinds of things, is a via operation or covert operation, all right and they get wind of it. the justice department goes in and tries to find out who the leak is. and they've done this since george washington, it happens all the time. and congress and the supreme court have allowed them to do it, so let's just wait and see what this is. martha: clearly there is something that needs to be investigated, because there is other ways to go after a journalist and say we think there is a national security interest in understanding how you knew about this bomb attack that was thwarted, right. >> remember wikileaks, bradley manning the sergeant, they want to find out if there is a mole, they being the justice department inside the cia or the nsa or any of these intelligence outfits and tha

this went by the guidelines and the ap wrote a response, bro, not true. check out what you told us about. i want you to talk me through the law at issue here starting with just this basic question. before we get to the -- subpoenaed phone records from the phone company, can the government just do that when they want to see the phone records of anyone? >> well, no. i mean, they have to have probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and under the regulations, which go back to the watergate days and were passed in light of watergate, it's important, it's necessary to negotiate with the reporter, to pursue less drastic alternatives than actually a subpoena. the only time that a subpoena can be issued to subpoena the phone records of a journalist is when the attorney general thinks it might pose a substantial threat to the investigation to negotiate and let the reporter know they're investigating, but the attorney general has to sign off on this. evidently, the attorney general recused himself, so now, the deputy attorney general has signed off

he probably can't say much more about the specific case of the ap. what happened here, he said he was one of the people who was read into this highly classified program to foil al qaeda plot to bomb an airplane, because he knew about it, he said he was questioned by the fbi, and for that reason, he said he took himself off or -- to use the legal term, recused himself, putting the deputy in charge of supervising this. the investigation is being run by the u.s. attorney here in the district, but perhaps that's the area where members can talk about the policy of doing this. this is hardly the first time that the federal government has ever gotten reporters' telephone records. what seems unusual is the comprehensiveness, the main off number for three a.p. offices here in washington, new york and hartford. that i think is a somewhat surprising aspect to this. >> pete, thank you. i have to point out we're looking at the chairman of the committee, a republican from virginia. he is talking about the boston bombings. this hearing ostensibly brought to discuss

the answer is no. >> the ap says their sources are frozen. we rely on them to give us news. >> this is a legitimate pursuit on the part of the government and i support the president's commons on those. >> they have -- comments on those. >> at 6:14 p.m. they broke the internal revenue service story. and they broke a story about ap's phone records from the last year. this is the aftermath of the internal revenue service story. issue three, benghazi document dump. >> the white house has released 10 pages -- 100 pages on the attacks on benghazi libya and the atck on ber 11th resulted in the deaths of four americans. christopher stevens was among those killed. some members of congress has accused the white house for intentionally changing how it was covered by blaming them about an anti-muslim video rather than an intentional attack. they revealed the talking point from the cia which was produced at 2:27 p.m. three days after the attack. it says the attack may have been spontaneously inspired by the u.s. embassy in cairo and evolved into a direct

that indicates that the ap was amenable to working with you on this matter. if that is the case, why was it necessary to subpoena the telephone records? did you seek the ap's assistance in the first place, and if not, why not? >> again, mr. chairman, i don't know what happened. there about with the interaction between the ap and the justice department. i was recused from the case. >> meanwhile today, the president honored law enforcement killed in the line of duty on capitol hill today. but last night, the president responded to the internal report on another scandal that being the irs, targeting conservative groups. the president said in part the report's findings or intolerable and inexcusable. i've directed secretary lew to hold those responsible accountable and each of the inspect general's recommendations are implemented quickly so that conduct never happens again. joining us is kelly o'donnell. let's talk ago attorney general holder. there would be some anticipation that there would be this grilling. we know that a lot of high-level rhetoric coming in r

's phoneng at the ap records. >> this was a serious week. a very serious leak. it put the american people at risk. >> there is the attorney repo to suggestions the department of justice was out of line going after the ap phone records without prior notice. evan, the ap calls this an unprecedented intrusion. you wrote a book about the cia. what is your take? >> it is an intrusion. ofre are millions investigations but as they go along, the government is careful to narrow them because they don't want to have massive investigations they get the press mad at them. for some reason that did not happen. it is typical prosecutors want these things but usually somebody at a higher level says wait a second, let's tone it down. that did not happen. i do not know why but it is puzzling. i will say it seems like a bad week -- leak. there is evidence it was harmful. >> you are in journalism but you have been part of the security apparatus. conducted investigations. i remember interviewing an official suspected of leaking. there was nothing else we could do. the idea of going a

ap president and ceo gary pruitt says there can be no justification for seizing records. they demanded they return them and destroy all copies. >>> sharp posted a record net law in the business here that ended in march. sharp executives say the loss came to about $5.4 billion. that's bigger than they originally forecast. the executives noted that the liquid crystal business suffered an additional loss. they're upbeat about this year though. they expect a net profit of nearly $50 million. that would be the first profit in three years. they also announced top management changes. they will have a new chairman effective june 25th. the current chairman is stepping down after a year on the job. >> we carried out an early retirement program for the first time in 62 years. we also cut bonuses. our employees have been forced to suffer and this is a fact. as the manager who has made these decisions, i seriously take this to heart. >> executive vice president takahashi will succeed as president. >>> many business owners learned early on that they need to adapt more parish. those tha

what did jay carney say about the president's response to this ap controversy? >> well, we understand the president could not have alerted the press because he didn't know about it. jay carney said it is entirely appropriate, that criminal investigations be independent of any white house. he says the president, attorney general holder talk about policy, but not investigations, which is why the president says he found out about the ap phone records subpoenas from news reports. >> in a case like this when according again to the attorney general that this is an investigation that has to do with an egregious leak of classified information, it would be doubly inappropriate for other components of the administration to cross that line and to communicate with the justice department about that ongoing investigation. >> mr. obama has been accused of a failure of leadership for finding out from news reports about a number of issues, not just the ap phone subpoenas, but the irs scandal and even the fast and furious gun walking. shep. >> shep: the president has not said whe

i know you don't think this is a very big situation with the ap.e understanding of it than the irs thing. >> i am not going to go to the ap knowing to have a history of them snooping on their home phones, work phones. neil: you want to find out who is, mice and that security within the government. i know i am sounding out of sync, but there are extenuating circumstances. not on this. using it to sort of embarrass you and call you out, that is never good. >> on friday we also had the white house have a secret meeting taking a handful of reporters to come talk about benghazi. some are saying why wasn't i invited? there are all these scandals adding up, benghazi, the irs and they cannot ignore it anymore. neil: how long do you think that will last? >> it will continue to get worse. more and more leaks. neil: we shall see. in the meantime, forget about the irs snooping on you. did you hear about the iimigration belt that is doing all of that and on steroids? ♪ neil: wait until you hear about your privacy and to hear critics and tell us that is not the

it was a story that only ap had. ap obtained know that the u.s. had thwarted a-- an al qaeda plot to place a bomb on an airliner bound for the united states. and it was round about the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. >> schieffer: so this was good news. >> this was very good news, but strangely, at the same time, the administration, through the press secretary and the department of homeland security, were telling the american public that there was no credible evidence of a terrorist plot related to the anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. so that was misleading to the american public. we felt the american public needed to know this story. >> schieffer: now, when you got the story, at first the people who gave it to you asked to you hold it for a certain time. >> yes. so what happened was we got this story. we went to the government-- the white house, intelligence agencies -- they said there's a national security risk if you run this story, if guwith this story at this time. we respected that. we acted responsibly, we

ap noted the phone records were subpoenaed because the justice department told the ap. the president find any way that may fit in the balance you say? >> it would be inappropriate to comment on the specific investigation and the methods that have been reported. i can tell you that it is important to protect our national security, classified information. it is also in the president's view essential to allow journalists to be able to pursue in an unfettered way pursue investigative journalism. >> you keep talking about then senator obama as a fact he killed the legislation in october 2009 that made it so that the protections that he supported having judicial review. there was an opportunity for this still to be passed. chuck schumer was supportive of it. >> i think first of all, you are talking about separate pieces of legislation and legislative history that bears more looking into. the president has the same position as he was at senator. i cannot appropriately apply his support for that measure -- >> we wouldn't be having the conversation today. he supported a judicial

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and editors because it had no options left to find out who in the government was the source for an ap story about a highly classified effort a year ago to foil a terror plot. >> officials are telling us the cia thwarted a plot by an al qaeda branch in yemen to detonate a bomb on a u.s.-bound jetliner. >> reporter: the ap says the government obtained logs of calls from more than 20 phone lines last april and may, including some home and cell numbers and the general switchboard lines of its offices in new york, washington and hartford, connecticut. >> more than 100 journalists for the ap work at the places whose phone numbers and phone records were seized by the justice department. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder said today that he was not involved in the decision to get the phone logs, having take. himself off the leaked case last year to avoid the appearance of a conflict, because he knew about the classified operation before it became public, but he said he's confident the rules were followed in pursuing what he called one of the most serious leaks he's ever seen. >> it put

him, with benghazi, and irs, and ap/fox. neil: we call if fox/ap. >> either way, butar came out first. >> you are right. he seems more aloof by bringing up gitmo, and to what end? >> he wants you and i tonight to discuss gitmo, instead of discussing the woman yesterday who took the fifth amendment. neil: we led with that. >> a startling development. neil: like washington we can multitask. >> i have legal advice for mr. rosen, he should sue federal government, that would lead to discovery, they violated his civil rights in a way outrage aus by putting him in there as an unindicted coconspirator. >> why do they do it? >> the first judge refused their request to get records, so they

ap reports don't have names on them.don't know who the reporter is the government has to try to exhaust all other investigative means to find out who in the government. neil: understood. between that and the irs thing and the services went beyond their purview to ask companies to pony up dough for publicing health care. there are a lot sliery slopes here, aren't there? >> it is differe, different issues. neil: that one i will see the bigger scheme we hadthere are some extenuating circumstances. thank you very, very much. the irs and justice department, the government agencies, where was it going? >> i fought for you and i still fight for you. >> you fought for me? you manipulated me. you manipulated me. that is the legal 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 vi

. >> if you question on the subpoenas of the aps own record. did you sign off on this subpoena for two months of recrods? records? to whom did you delegate authority for the information? the ap call this a violation of the department own guidelines and asked you to return the records and destroy all copies. would you consider doing so? in june 2012d

and then the just department admitted the ap reporters targeted. john mccain calling for a special committee to look into benghazi on this show. others demanding reporters. reporters up in arms and a who is press secretary up against the wall. it's not how many of these scandals keep popping up but how fast they keep popping up. so here's what could be another summer bummer for an embattled white house all over again. what are we to make of this? >> well, neil, all coming together all at once for an administration that, you're right, has had a bit of a ride for a while that the press was seen as being fairly lenient with it, we'll say. but now it is clearly engaged across the board on a number of fronts, and the irs scandal is coming to a head. you can see democrats and republicans coming out with statements left and right that disthis will really be something that both sides of capitol hill will look at intensely, with hearing after hearing you have the ap situation, attorney general defending actions, although he recused himself in the actual act

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the ap says there is no justification for the broad subpoena of its records for 20 ap telephone lines the committee want to know why the justice department felt it needed to do this but we also heard the attorney general say once again that he recused himself from this because he had been interviewed about it and felt there was a conflict of interest. so he turned it over to his deputy, james cole and some members of the committee this morning were not happy with some of the answers they got from the attorney general on all of this. take a listen. >> why weren't there negotiations? >> that i don't know. >> there doesn't seem to be any acceptance of responsibility in the justice department for things that have gone wrong. now, may i suggest that you and maybe mr. cole and a few other people go to the truman library and take a picture of the thing he had on his desk, that said the buck stops here? because we don't know where the buck stops. and i think to do adequate oversight we better find out and we better find out how happened. >> and it's not just republicans. some democrats are cr

the ap is threating action for intrusion by the justice department. the claim that the government was snooping on the news organization's editors and reporters. our brian todd is following the story for us. >> reporter: the associated press said the justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records, of reporters and editors for the ap, records listed incoming and outgoing calls, the duration of each call and the work and personal phone numbers of ap employees according to that news agency. they recovered numbers for the new york, washington and hartford offices and the main number for ap reporters in the house of representatives press gallery. the justice department notified them of the seizure on friday, the tenth. now there is nothing to suggest actual phone conversations were monitored. the ceo of ap is furious and he let the justice department know it. gary pruitt in a letter to eric holder says these records reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the news gathering activities undertaken by the ap during a

the ap is still fuming this morning that government seized phone records last year. at issue the 2012 ap report revealing the cia's role in thwarting a terror plot in yemen. on tuesday eric holder defended the actions calling that article quota serious leak. >> this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three, most serious leaks that i've ever seen. it put the american people at risk and that's not hyperbole. it put the american people at risk. and trying to determine who is responsible for that i think required very aggressive action. >> holder recused himself from the matter because of a conflict of interest. the white house maintains it has no prior knowledge of the ap investigation. >>> for the second time in as many weeks a military member in charge of protecting victims of sexual assault is facing allegations of committing that crime himself. the pentagon says the coordinator of fort hood sexual assault prevention program is accused of forcing at least one subordinate soldier into prostitution and for sexual assaulting two others. he's be

the ap knows its phone records were subpoenaed because the justice department told the ap. the president -- i find any way that that might fit in the balance? >> again, it would be inappropriate to comment on the specific investigation and the methods that have been reported. i can tell you that it is important to protect our national security classified information. it is also in the president's view essential to allow journalists to be able to pursue in an unfettered way, investigative journalism. >> jay, you keep talking about the then-senator obama supported a certain piece of legislation, that is a fact that as president he killed that piece of legislation in october of 2009 made it so the protections he supported, having judicial review on this -- >> the president -- >> then there was an opportunity for this bill to be passed. chuck schumer was supportive of it. and he said it was the white house that killed it. >> i think, first of all, we're talking about separate pieces of legislation and a legislative history that bears a little more looking into. the president's

i think the press, i think is agitated especially over the ap story.ion is what does he have that would satisfy them? when you hear all of the analogies to nixon, in terms of the irs investigation. when you hear the level of acrimony coming from the press all of a sudden, and, you know, you can't help but remember that so many people have viewed the press as too kind to president obama, but when you hear it at that level i don't know that there is anybody who could be the white house spokesman who would be anything at this point but a target. jon: is it the ap story that really tipped this thing over the edge? the benghazi story, fox news was reporting on it for a longtime, not getting a lot of our brethren in the media to follow, then all of a sudden when the ap gets targeted apparently by the justice department, that's when all hell broke loose. >> it's when your cow gets skwerered. >> there are real questions about the extent of the threat being face eld. the one point i would make is that the just disdepartment had made clear to the ap that their s

going to the ap scandal. realized lieutenant a lot of this came together in the fact that the obama administration has declared war on the press. you have the ap, basically all their phone records were taken. and then you go over to see what happens to the journalist james rosen. we now know that the authorities were following him around, tracking his movements, in and out of buildings, looking at his phones. yes, all i want to say just one quick point, i think the only recurs to this kind of behavior by the government is to say back to the government we declare war on you and from this point forward we should no longer as a whole cooperate in any manner with the government in terms of when we're doing national security stories. we should withdrawal all of our cooperation and public everybody we know because it is a free press, it's not a free except when the government tells you to do it press. we've been way too easy going with these guys. we've let them tell us what to print, what not to print. i say be do

whether irs or looking at conservative group or justice department, targeting ap reporters. something is foul here, gretchen, is a privacy advocate. we have tea party katrina pearson. gretchen let's talk about how big it is, the al reporting is just the latest news, talking. a lot of pressure put on folks, who might not take kindly to that. and don't. >> right now you have the president, who has a major crisis happening, everything from benghazi to irs, now associated press, he has a credibility problem that is erupting, this abusive power cannot become status quo. this reinforces reason why we need the watch dog organizations, they were targets groups with government or government spending or wants to make america's better place, they targeted these people, this reinforces a need for those groups. neil: katrina, this latest development, on ap reporters, nothing, nothing getting reporters in mainstream media attention like going after me too! we could deal can be right wing groups. and tea party, and deal with you lying about any of the above, but when you go after us, that