back with me is brian salter, jeffrey toobin and dr. judy ho.r we struggle with this after every tragedy. we just saw the anniversary of jfk's death. we show the video of him being assassinated, lee harvey oswald as well. when do we draw the line here? when do we decide that it's okay to start playing tapes and showing video? >> unfortunately some of those videos the jfk assassination is fortunately a wonderful example of this it becomes like wallpaper. i think we saw this after 9/11 as well. some of the scenes of the towers falling became replayed so often they were like wallpaper. they actually may desensitize people over time. that is not the intent and i think that's not a good thing. but i do err on the side of wanting to show people more rather than less. with warning labels, with viewer discretion advisories, i err on the side of wanting to show people more their than less to let them see unfortunately the horrors that are out there in the world sometimes. >> i'm not sure if you heard tom mauser whose son was killed in columbine. i said w

jeffrey toobin is joining us live. sara mentioned in her report about the emirate penal code and i thought you could shed some light on that when you can get locked up for satire. >> they don't have a first amendment to the constitution like ours. there is not freedom of speech. >> okay. >> and this is one of the paradoxes of the modern world where the internet is everywhere. you can post to youtube which we think of as an american company but it's not american in the sense of where it reaches the uae has a much more restrictive sense of what is okay and what is not. he's been held for eight months, which is a long time, and he's got to go through their legal system. >> for making jokes online. so speaking of their legal system, they tout themselves on a modern society. they certainly look like it when you see the advertisements, visit and do business in dubai. but the reality is, can our u.s. diplomats do anything for this man? >> not much. it's their candy store. it's their court. they get to decide who goes to their

jeffrey toobin gets the job of trying to answer both. so break this down for us, jeff.s is really interesting. a couple weeks ago we have a judge down in washington appointed by or nominated by george w. bush who says this will not stand. we can't hoover up this meta data and keep it forever. this judge here in new york two weeks later appointed by clinton disappoi disappoigree disagrees. >> i've never seen something pre sicily like this. you have two judges, exactly the same legal issue inside a couple weeks deciding it completely differently. i think the big difference is that the judge here in new york said there's a supreme court president that controls this case. there is a supreme court 19779 said when you tile the phone, you're telling the phone company what number you're dialing. you'll see it on the bill. it's not something you have any right to expect privacy. >> but again 1979 when we had rotary phones and the founder of facebook was negative five. >> that's what the judge in washington said. that may be the president on the books, but it's obsolete now. so i

cnn's senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin is standing by along with brianna keilar at the white house. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr, for the details. what are you hearing over there? >> reporter: well, if you think the intelligence community, the nsa is too much in your business, about what phone calls you make, this federal judge agrees with you. in a massive ruling today, a federal judge said that the nsa program to collect phone call information, who you call, what numbers you call, when you call, how long that call is, unconstitutional. that it violates your fourth amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. i want to quickly read to you part of what the judge had to say. quote, he says i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than this systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen. i have little doubt that the author of our constitution, james madison, would be aghast. the man who revealed all of this, edward snowden, now in moscow, also issuing a statement say

now with our panel christiane amanpour, jeffrey toobin, amy holmes and phil harper author of "lettersated brother" and star of usa network's "covert affairs." what do you make of the study? >> it apparently has happened over the last 30 years. we used to be number one, number one in college graduates, number one in math and science. and what popped out to me in the study is the disparity of how much in shanghai which is number one, how competitive it is to get a job as a teacher, how height salaries are. that it's considered a great job. >> same in finland. like the top 10% of graduates get the jobs as teachers. that's not the case here. >> very respected job. >> right and rewarded as well. which is obviously also an issue sometimes. although it seems in the united states, they're throwing a lot of money at the issue. >> theyer throwing a lot of money. but when you look at the actual stats they're not throwing as much money in certain areas as other countries. some of the countries doing better for instance have more money thrown at the schools where actually they need it. the disadva

gore and as jeffrey toobin reports at least one of them did in citizens united, that really puts the court into disrepute. and at the end of my book i predict -- about 100 or years past or future, i talk about what i think is going to happen in the supreme court over the next 50 years and i think it is when to diminish its influence as it becomes more and more partisan. >> good evening. as long as one of your 10,000 students i just want to say hello and i remember i returned in the late eighties or early nineties when you used to give me the loving term and my name is henry obviously. and so i wanted to ask about something else. i looked back at the end for years and hall law school and you stand out as one of the most hospitable to the conservative viewpoints, rehnquist and henry i felt comfortable talking in the class and other classes, too, but i got booed a lot and don't get the sense that the tolerance at law school has improved since then. we came in a critical time in a very contentious time when the legal studies were a very strong. i'm a sort of contemporary to the current p

he joins me tonight with senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin.do you make of the report, the recommendation? it's extremely important, especially in the wake of the federal court ruling found that the collection program is unconstitutional or likely so and now you have a panel of the white houses hand-picked advisors concluding the program in the current form should stop, it poise as serious danger to core liberties and just as the court found, there is no evidence it plays any important role in stopping terrorist attacks. >> jeff, as glen said, coming on the heels of the court rolling being unconstitutional, what do you make of it? >> i find it in an uncharacter tick, there is one aspect i don't understand. what they suggest is moving the meta data away from the nsa to the private sector. now, do we trust the private sector so much in this country that this data, which everyone is so worried about, is so concerned about, it's better to have it under the control of amazon or google or whoever the turns out to be rather than the united states gove

the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalists jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine. wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's just the beginning bratton served as l.a.p.d. chief he approved and supported a program that mapped large swathes of muslim communities to identify potential terrorists and claimed it wasn't racial profiling to mention his connections to several companies that sell technology and surveillance care to police forces across the country so let's hope this isn't it.

the one and only champ kind and next to him, cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. in tallahassee, the district attorney announced that quarterback winston is not facing sexual charges. what bothered people was the tone of the press conference and then the d.a. cracking jokes and laughing. >> i'm not sure. >> was there a sexual assault? >> well, that's kind of the -- why we're here. >> come on. >> all right. so regardless -- >> in a word? that's disgusting. >> what do you think? >> that's disgusting. >> nothing but laughs in tallahassee. it is bizarre. i have never seen a news conference like that but -- >> you have seen a lot of these. >> i have seen a lot of these and, you know, we are left in a situation where, who knows what happened? >> i have three daughters so it seems like whatever your opinion about whether or not it was a sexual assault, why don't you keep that to yourself. it's laughable to be thought about. that's disgusting. >> and celebrity. not just athletes but celebrities are treated differently in the legal system. sometimes actually more harshly.

of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine. wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's.

of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine. wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's just the beginning and bratton served as l.a.p.d. chief he approved and supported a program that mapped large swathes of muslim communities to identify potential terrorists and claimed it wasn't racial profiling not to mention his connections to several companies that sell technology and surveillance care to police forces across the country so let's hope this isn't a case of for me once shame on you for me twice you can't get forward again when it comes to build a blasio now let's break this at. the in the. it was a. very hard to take that or. should. i do that or how to act would that hurt me there. was. a. little. little. face in more than eighteen billion dollars

of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine. wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's just the beginning when bratton served as l.a.p.d. chief he approved and supported a program that mapped large swathes of muslim communities to identify potential terrorists and claimed it wasn't racial profiling not to mention his connections to several companies that sell technology and surveillance care to police forces across the country so let's hope this isn't a case of for me once shame on you for me twice you can't get forward again when it comes to build a blasio now let's break this at. the please please. please very hard to take that. lightly he ever had sex with her right there the. little. little. face in more than eighteen billion dollars in debt the ci

let's sort this out with cnn's senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. two decisions are like night and day. so make sense of this for us. >> impossible, can't be done. no, this is a very unusual situation. two very respected federal judges addressing exactly the same issue within a week of each other, and coming to completely opposite conclusions. the judge said, look, there's a supreme court decision that says when you dial the phone, you are telling the phone company what number you are dialing, so you don't have an expectation of privacy in that number. this bulk collection of data is simply just collecting the numbers that you dial. it's not collecting the contents of the call, so this is not a violation of the constitution. the judge last week, judge leon from washington said yes, you do have an expectation of privacy, that decision is now from 1979, the supreme court decision is obsolete. they're just obviously in flect and we're going to to wait for the appellate courts and perhaps the supreme court to sort it out. >> now, the aclu is the plainti

and you saw this with the democrat party, the democratic national committee, jeffrey toobin is knownadvocate. the on beyond the critics are coming out and saying, larry is totally wrong. the constitution is not a suicide pact. we need to protect americans. you don't protect americans i haven't fielded every time you pick up the phone or use social media that they are being watched. and people like me who are critical and more than critical, have been calling for civil disobedience and peaceful way. to try to eliminate the carrying out of we had at the other two branches of government. and it's clear what the nsa is doing. the american people can't live in a soviet style chinese state. that is exactly why the judge ruled and this is a federal judge who came up through the system. he is a hero and he stood there for the american people. and we want to monitor what goes on the judge needs to take control here >> beyond larry, here's the thing. the real weakness could be the contractors that the government hires to work on the nsa programs. what do you make of that? but the private secto

cnn's legal analyst, jeffrey toobin is here. it is limited. it only applies to this specific case, but are there long-term ramifications. >> that remains to be seen. but it's nothing but bad news for the nsa today. it only applies to the two individuals who brought the case. and the nsa can no longer collect data on them. plus, the judge himself, richard leon, who is, by the way, a george w. bush appointee and a well-known conservative on the bench, he says i'm going to stay, put my order on hold while the government appeals. so the government program is still operating as we speak, but now there is a real political and legal problem for the obama administration what to do no >> and as you heard earlier in the day when you and i were discussing this with ben wisener of the aclu, civil libertarians are arguing this is what happens when an open court discusses these things as opposed to a private fisa court. >> tomorrow president obama is meeting with a group of tech executives from google, yahoo, all the big tech companies who are not happy wit

that's for sure. >> in a way a lot of us are surprised by. >> it starts for many but it ends with jeffrey toobinthority. but last word. >> we like it. and with that we'll leave it there. jeffrey, great to see you. >>> to the weather here we go again, another major winter storm. it's like ground hog day, one time after another. it's amazing. it set its sights on the northeast. it's covered parts of the midwest with snow and it's about to hit new york and new england. it's one of the worst decembers that we've seen in a very long time. what is going on? lids get back out to indra petersons to get a little idea of what we know. >> a lot snow action up in here. we're seeing the snow falling. it is unusual. we've seen seven. >>s of snow in new york city. the average you may ask? it should be two inches. 5 inches above. another 2 to 4 could still fall just today. and this is not an isolated event. looks like a huge chunk of the country is dealing with all of the storm systems. overnight, snow, snow and more snow. after a weekend storm dropped as much as 16 inches of snow in maine, another round of win

>>> joining me is dan salvage, jeffrey toobin, in terms of scandals and skround ls, who was the top ofr list? to me is rob ford. i can't get enough of rob ford. >> this man has done enough -- >> how about -- >> every story, every quote -- >> but no -- >> completely. >> you would give one amazing press conference where he said, you know, probably in one of my drunken stupors and you think there is no way he can top it and he can top it. >> i'm from d.c. so we have the original mayor that smoked crack. but i'm thinking his wife. there is a whole lot of people behind him that this is probably been not so cute for. >> just to draw another scandal in, to me, what's awful about these scandals is when you do see the wife. anthony weiner embarrassed himself but his extremely accomplished admiral wife has to stand there. >> i'm waiting for a wife to stand up and say i knew, i don't care, all of you can go because they are the only ones to whom that stuff should matter. eventually there will be a sex scandal that's outed and they will stand up and say we have an open relationship. >> i think wom

. >> when you listen to bratten, when you listen to his conversation with jeffrey toobin.e police commissioner that bill de blasio appointed said look, stop and frisk is an essential tool. there were over 13,000 murders in new york city. in the period after the tenure, it fell, a difference of 7,000 people. most of those lives that were saved were black and latino lives. >> you saw the report that came out, not too long ago that showed the number of people, the overwhelming number of people who were shot in new york city were black and latino. mostly black people. >> having tougher laws. what ray kelly did to his credit, they started investing in community programs, non-violence program, anti- gang programs. don't stop them when 89% of them are innocent. >> ray kelly doesn't get any credit that over the last two years it has plummeted. >> we took him to court! that's why it plummeted. he knew he was wrong. he wants his legacy to be -- >> is that too much to put on a police department? you say give them jobs, is that the police department's job? >> it's the police and the m

greenwald broke the story and i spoke with him tonight along with cnn jeffrey toobin. >> a federal judge said the nsa program almost certainly violates the constitution. does that vindicate what edward snowden did? >> i don't think so. but one of the things people like me have been saying from the very beginning is what snowden exposed has not been shown to be illegal. today, a judge said it was illegal. so there's no question that today is a big victory for glenn greenwald and snowden and all of their supporters. >> in your opinion why doesn't it justify what he did? >> he still took classified information and exposed it in a completely illegal way requires tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of work by the american government to redo, plus, potentially exposed it to the chinese and the russians. so i don't support what snowden did at all. i don't think this vindicates him but it certainly comes a lot closer to vindicating him than any previous development has. >> glenn, should this vindicate edward snowden in the eyes of those who still believe he's a traitor? >> how could it n

. >>> joining me now is cnn senior legal analyst mark geragos and jeffrey toobin. what did you make of dr. miller and affluenza? >> this whole case is like a of everything wronged with criminal justice system, you have race, the difference of wealth and poverty and junk science of -- to a degree that is so shocking, the idea that this guy was allowed to testify in court at all, you know, the supreme court 20 years ago said we're going to try to establish some rules that not everybody can pretend to be an expert. a famous case called daubert. this guy should never have been allowed -- >> he's a practicing psychologist. he sees patients. worked with this young man for six months. >> you have to use techniques that are peer reviewed. there is no such thing as affluenza. there is no disease that 80% of us have. that was a disgrace, that guy. the idea he was allowed to testify, much less have a judge believe him and rely on him is really pretty shocking. >> mark geragos, what is your take on this? >> well, look, the -- he clearly can testify, jeff knows that. he's a cli

. >> and jim, appreciate your reporting, joining me tonight, with senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobinhat do you make of this report? >> this recommendation? >> it is extremely important, especially in the wake of the federal court ruling, found that the collection program is unconstitutional or likely so. now you have the hand-picked panel of advisers, concluding that it should stop and poses a dangerous threat to core liberties. also there is no evidence that it plays an important role in stopping terrorist attacks. >> jeff, again, as glenn said coming on the heels of the court ruling being unconstitutional, what do you make of it? >> well, i think i find myself in uncharacteristic agreement with glenn, by and large, although there is an important aspect that i just don't really understand. what they suggest is moving the meta data away from the nsa to the private sector. now, do we trust the private sector so much in this country that this data, which everyone is so worried about, is so concerned about, it's better to have it under the control of amazon or google or whoever it turns

of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine. wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's just the beginning bratton served as l.a.p.d. chief he approved and supported a program that mapped large swathes of muslim communities to identify potential terrorists and claimed it wasn't racial profiling to mention his connections to several companies that sell technology in surveillance care to police forces across the country so let's hope this isn't a case of for me once shame on you for me twice you can't get forward again when it comes to build a blasio now let's break this. it was. very hard to take. that back with that right there. facing more than eighteen billion dollars in debt the city of detroit finally filed for bankruptcy last july yesterday a u.s.

he joins me tonight along with senior cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. make of these recommendations? >> it's extremely important especially in the wake of the federal court ruling earlier this week that found that the bulk collection program is unconstitutional or likely. so now you have a panel of the white house's hand-picked advisers concluding that the program in its current form should stop, that it poses a serious danger to coure libertis and just as the court found there's no evidence it plays an important role in stopping terrorist attacks. >> jeff as glen said again coming on the heels of the court ruling being unconstitutional what do you make of it? >> i think i find myself in uncharacteristic agreement with glen, by and large. although there's one very puzzling aspect to it which i honest to god really don't understand. what they suggest is moving the metadata away from the nsa to the private sector. now, do we trust the private sector so much in this country that this data which everyone is so worried about, is so concerned about, it's bett

joining me live, brian weiss, cnn jeffrey toobin and brois watkins, co-founder of "your back world.comu believe the judge in this case did the right thing sentencing ethan couch not to a juvenile justice facility but instead to a top of the line rehab facility that his family is going to pay for in california. why do you think that is appropriate? why is that justice? >> because, anderson, this is a veteran juriest, probably nobody more respected certainly in tarrant county, maybe in the great state of texas. since 1985, a woman that's done nothing but hear these kinds of cases, and the family code tells her that she has got to act in the best interest of the child, that rehabilitation unlike vengeance and deterrence in felony court is job one. after hearing three days worth of testimony, which is virtually heard of in juvenile court, this judge decided that this was the appropriate sentence considering the facts of the case -- >> so let me ask you, though, why, though, just because this young man comes from a rich family and his dad can pay $450,000 a year for a rehab facility that ha

senior commentator michaela angela davis and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin in terms of scandalsoundrels, who is at the top of your list? for me it was rob ford. cane not get enough of the rob ford. >> this man has done more for journalism and those of us who revel in it than anybody else this year. every story, every quote. just completely nailed. >> one amazing press conference where he said probably one of my drunken stupors and you'd think there's no way he could top it and he he'd top. >> it he did. i'm from d.c. so i have the original mayor that smoked crack that then we re-elected. so it's a bit of nostalgia for me. but i'm thinking like his wife. there's a whole lot of people behind him that this has probably been not so cute for. >> just to draw another scandal in, i mean, to me what's awful about these scandals is when you do see the wife. anthony weiner embarrassed himself, but his extremely accomplished, admirable wife has to stand there. and it's just -- that's what's worse. >> she's amazing. >> i'm waiting for one of the wives at one of the press conferences to stan

. >> chris fer farley, jeffrey toobin, thanks so much.ut you off there. >>> coming up, he tried to sell a script about a crack smoking may mayor. no one was interested. that was before rob ford was all over our tvs. why he should send a gift basket to the toronto mayor, coming up. >>> welcome back to "the lead." finally from us in pop culture news, seth rogen and writing partner had a crazy idea for a movie a few years ago. a politician smokes crack and gets into zany trouble. the idea so whack, so edgy, so out there, hollywood wouldn't touch. it. what kind of politician smokes crack and finds himself in the middle of a hot mess? oh. right. that guy. rogen tells canada's "globe and mail" the script has sold now after years of rejections. he believes toronto mayor's rob ford recent misadventures turned his old script into a hot commodity. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news. new revelations. investigators announced they found no signs of proble

with me is christiane amanpour, jeffrey toobin and dr. drew pinsky. this is obviously a difficult decision. news companies around the country have been wrestling with this all day. where do you come down on it, jeff? >> i think they should certainly be released. i think they should be available to the news media to make a news judgment about whether we should play them or not. >> i agree with that. >> i agree with your decision that i didn't hear anything in those tapes that really advanced the story a great deal. certainly the 911 operators behaved very professionally. the custodian was certainly a very responsible person reporting it. but there is really nothing in the story that changes our understanding of what happened. and so i just didn't really see the news value in them. >> christiane? >> i agree. i've heard a few of them and seen written reports of some of them. it appears that the police reacted very very fast, were on the scene within four minutes. so the news value issue i believe has been laid to rest. that it's not massively newsworthy.

still, i want to get into this with cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and ben weisner, directoriberties union speech, private situate and technology project. jeff, i will start with you. the judge has ruled the plaintiff is likely to succeed in raising a constitutional challenge to the nsa methods of collecting phone records. what exactly does that mean? would that stop what the nsa is doing any time soon? >> no. this is a narrow ruling. it applies only to the two people who actually brought the case. the judge's opinion says one, stop collecting data on these two people and two, i'm going to put this whole issue on hold until an appeals court decides it. so nothing changes today except the legal landscape does really look different because now for the first time, someone has said what the nsa is doing is illegal and that's both politically and legally significant. >> ben, i want to read part of the judge's opinion. it reads like it could have been written by you to a degree. the government wants it both ways, virtually all the government's arguments to this court explain how th

our senior media correspondent is here with us as is john king and jeffrey toobin. dr. drew pinsky, host of "dr. drew on call." these are difficult decisions not only for us at cnn, but for all news organizations, when to play it, if to play it, what are you hearing? >> and these happened early this morning. days ago but early this morning and all throughout the day about what to do with these tapes. all of the networks and major news organizations took a wait and listen approach. they didn't decide what to do ahead of time about it. for example fox news within an hour played a couple audio clips, but not what they said was heart wrenching, abc is not going to air it at all. nbc is not going to air the audio at all, but cbs will. many different decisions from organizations today. >>> dr. drew, for the families, how painful could this be hearing those audio tapes. >> horrific, they need to not listen to this absolutely. the fact that the families need to avoid all of this, you showed the pictures of the victims, a bystander, and that was difficult to look at. the fact th

. >>> let's bring in our senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin.a case like this going before the justices? >> why i love this case is supreme court cases are usually about abstractions and complex ideas. i think everyone can understand this, which is how much can frequent flyer programs run the show? is this like a contract you have with an airline? or can they simply say, you know what? we changed our mind. it's like a discount or a premium, like the toy in your happy meal. this is up to the airline. that struggle, is this where frequent flyer miles fit within that commercial exchange, that's what the case is all about. >> and there are precedents potentially that could be set here that will affect consumers across the board, right? >> well, it's not just the precedent but the fact of frequent flyer miles. millions of americans have these. lots of people rely on them for their vacations, for all sorts of personal travel, and they feel like it's a form of property. the airline is arguing it's not a form of property, that under a federal law, this

joining me to try to decipher this he said/he said set of rulings, jeffrey toobin and paul callan.day's ruling? >> that this is a tough legal question. and very intelligent judges disagree about it, and it all increases the chance that the united states supreme court will have to settle this issue. it's worth pointing out, these two judges in one in washington, one in new york, were addressing the exact same question. is this metadata program legal? and they came to exactly opposite conclusions. the judge here in new york said it's legal. the judge in washington says it's illegal. both of them will be appealed. and we'll see what happens. >> all right, so paul, let me put this to you because just yesterday, we were talking about president obama a few months back calling al qaeda, quote, a shadow of its former self. but listen to what the judge said here. no doubt, he says, the bulky telephony met adata program vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from, or within the united states, but it represents the government's counterpunch to eliminate al qaeda's ter

our senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin standing by to weigh in on the arrest and whether she should, could go home, and next hour, we'll take you to new delhi for the reaction there. >>> by now, you know if you won or you didn't win the whopping $636 mega millions jackpot, but i can tell you today at least two people are going to have a very happy holiday season because their tickets matched all six winning numbers from last night. so the tickets were sold in san jose, california, and in atlanta, georgia. these still unidentified winners will split the second largest mega millions jackpot in u.s. history. elacoencenfer aer gin w wll f st imulst m.ogprraout iutts iasi ed fal beeeen ng these t treasurore ontho tumpelp p up the ecomony. rht mey mginag doredor,, papaula,a,nd sian ed, if you're getting anything on your blackberry. what's news? >> interesting news. it looks like in january, we are going to see tapering back of the buying of mortgage-backed securities and long-term treasuries. very small amount, though. we're going on the mortgage-backed security buys from $40 billion to $

. >> jeffrey toobin's latest book about the book as the following statement about his sources. quote, this book is based principle, interviews with the justices and more than 40 of their law clerks. the interviews were on a not for attribution basis. that is, i could use the information provided but without quoting directly or identifying the source. tony, how does he get access to clerks and justices? is it because he's writing books, he's not dealing with breaking news? >> i think that's part of it. some justices will talk to book authors where they won't -- just a beat reporter. so i think that that's one advantage. and while clerks will also do it if there justice lets them, or gives permission. the fact that it's "the new yorker" may also be a factor. there's another factor i guess you could call it the woodward and bernstein factor, which has to do with the fact that woodward and bernstein got all their scoops about watergate, but they weren't -- they weren't white house reporters. they were local beat reporter. sometimes you need to come in from the outside to get scoops

of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist jeffrey toobin he said if cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their job.