he.ryone is being too blitt alex: climategate also and itted wikileaks, turns out that information waserated, casting skepticism on the facts around climate change. this is something that needs to be handled serious. john: there has been discussion nwald e-mail that was doctored to make it seem as though his words were coming out mouth.ey blumenthal's there are instances where the trump campaign is alleging collusion between the clinton campaign and that the -- the department of justice. were giving information about hearings that were going to take place. they were already public at the time. people have to be really careful about these things. i am not saying the clinton campaign is innocent of all charges. everyone has to examine these things with diligence about motive and facts. what these e-mails purport to be. when we come back, we will bring in a surprise guest. you may recognize him. ♪ ♪ john: i am here in new york city with alex wagner. florida,cohost is in where donald trump hosted a rally. mark halperin, how is the weather? mark: really sunny. too hot. and rainy. thank you.

you've got the climategate hack, in which random scientists are hacked to discredit their work and now this, it seems like the press has a different role to play, because it's seems like there's an alley-oop being played for an actor who's up to something that's nefarious. >> there are two really important values, on the one hand the need to impose transparency on powerful actors, and arguably even high legal sony officials, and on the other hand to need the protect privacy. the important tradeoff as journalists that you have to assess is this person powerful enough to justify the invasion of privacy for publishing or is the material enough in the public interest. and every journalist is going to grapple with this question. >> does john pedesta have a right to privacy? >> i think he has a lesser right to privacy than the average person on the street, by virtue of the fact this he cease one of the most powerful people on the planet. he's going to be in the white house in a few months, in terms of how he shapes public opinion and what they're telling the public and not telling the public

. >> i think you need to go no further than climategate which also implicated wikileaks. it turned out that information was adulterated in a pretty profound way casting broad scepticism on the facts around climate change. so this is something that needs to be handled. >> there's some funny stuff that has gone on with these things. something eichenwald wrote in, it was, the e-mail was doctored to make it seem that those words he wrote were coming out of sydney blumenthal's mouth. there were these two enstances where the trump campaign is alleging collusion between the the clinton campaign and the department of justice. in both cases, they were giving notice of a hearing that would take place. they were public by the time they were supposedly clueding. they were on the d.o.j. website. i think people have to be really careful. i'm not staying chin campaign is innocent of all charges. i'm saying everybody has to examine them with the motives and the actual facts. what these e-mails purport to be. when we come back, we will bring in a surprise guest for donald trump's campaign

alex: i think you need go no whichr than climategate, turned out that information was adulterated in pretty profound way, casting broad skepticism on the facts around climate change. to your point, this is something that needs to be handled and handled seriously. john: there is some funny stuff going on with these things. there were instances where the trump campaign is alleging collusion between the clinton campaign and the state department and the department of justice, and in both instances, the things that are alleged as collusion were things where they were giving notification of hearings that were going to take place that were actually public already by the time they were supposedly colluding. they were on the doj website or whatever. i just think people have to be really careful about the stings. i know saying the clinton campaign is innocent of all charges. i just think everyone has to examine these things with regard to the motives and the actual substance, what these e-mails purport to be. all rights, when we come back, we will bring in a surprise guest from donald trump's