james o'keefe and your new book american muckraker you write that there's an indecently close personal and professional relationship between reporters and the people they are supposed to cover. is that a bad thing? parts yes. there has been tension between access and autonomy. some people need to get close to their sources. some need to adversary late investigate their sources. these days in journalism, -- they have delivered on a platter what the sources in the government what the government wants them to see. they're acting as delivery people for the sources rather than being adversarial or skeptical. you don't want to be too adversarial because that can engender biases of their own but you have to strike the balance. there's no more balanced. the national security force in the new york times act as servicemen for the people they administration. >> i want to ask about the subtitle of your book rethinking journalism for the 21st century. how does that fit with being a muckraker? >> the early in the mid 20th century, investigative reporting was you had the chicago sun-times doing these

that because just james o'keefe, then the bureau raided a former abc producer who is now missing for realfo. >> that story straight ahead. by now, you are all familiar with the campaign issue in lawsuits where marines who lived at the base were exposed to dangerous, life threatening chemicals in the water. but what about their sons and daughters? what about their spouses? one huge topic that is being overlooked is that they were all potentially exposed to the tainted water from drinking, cooking and even swimming. and , yes, the families of those marines living at camp lejeune between 1953 and 1987 were exposed to benzene, vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals. many of those family members also suffered from cancer and even death. the same legislation that allows marines to recover damages for health issues also applies to their sons and daughters, husbands and wives. if you or any other family member is at camp lejeune during that time period, please call stanly. stanly law is at the tip of the spear fighting for financial compensation for those family members who became sick or

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[applause] james o'keefe and your new book american muckraker you write that there's an indecently close personal and professional relationship between reporters and the people they are supposed to cover. is that a bad thing? parts yes. there has

the fbi showed up at james o'keefe's apartment.n the bureau raided a former abc producer who is now missing. for real. that story is satisfied. >> tucker: here's a completely bizarre story we can't even really guess as to what's really going on here, but an abc news reporter gets a visit from armed men with guns from the biden administration at home and then disappears and hasn't been heard from since. what? trace gallagher has the story for us tonight. >> he covered national security and terrorism for abc news. in april of this year, the fbi conducted a heavily-armed raid on his sixth floor apartment in virginia. the search warrant was approved by a federal jungle. during the raid the fbi also seized mr. meek's laptop. anonymous sources told "rolling stone" magazine the laptop contained classified information. james meeks' attorney believes only a source inside the government would know that, and says the leak is highly inappropriate. on top of that, the biden administration prohibits seizing documents from journalists without aut

and james o'keefe and your new book american muckraker you write that there's an indecently close personal and professional relationship between reporters and the people they are supposed to cover. is that a bad thing? parts yes. there has been tension between access and autonomy. some people need to get close to their sources. some need to adversary