facts were on my side and eventually jen psaki admitted what had happened.unning to me they could think they could get away with this deletion. they deleted it not only on their website. where they archive the videos of the briefings, but on the state department youtube channel as well. the record we've tracked a little bit shows that most likely this was exactly the way the briefing was put up three years ago. >> appalling. >> so i'm listening to this, james. i agree with jen psaki that sometimes diplomacy needs a little privacy, i think that's clear. however, the part where they cut out the question and then throw it away and as you said, they cover their trail on the internet as well. they covered it everywhere, therein lies the problem. there goes the transparency. what could she have, how could she have handled your question without giving away the fact that they were in some talks that maybe they didn't want the public to know about? >> you're talking about the original briefing with victoria newland. the press person can say no comment. it's okay to s

you just heard about jen psaki said. what james reported was a large segment of the video had been taken out. and that's the question we have. bill: why does it matter in 2011, 2013, moderate in power in iran. hardliners still in control after an election. why is that important? >> because the administration story is we began to think about lifting sanctions, about coming to an agreement after more moderate forces were in control in iran. that's one story where we began to think about lowering sanctions and doing negotiations back when the real hard liners were in control and there was no doubt about that. in other words, it was the president's plan all along to do this. that's just a question of whether the white house is telling the pun the truth about what's going on. >> what does the state department do now? how does it react? >> i think it will be an interesting state department briefing today. as martha pointed out, it was a clear edit. it didn't appear to be a mistake. it was a clear edit in the video of the state

between fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen and then state department spokeswoman jen psaki featured her statement that quote diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. state blames a glitch for the removal of the video covered by a white flash. but today it's spokesman says there are still questions. >> i say not just as the spokesman for the department, but the assistant secretary of state for public affairs i'm very concerned by this. and i have every intention of making sure that we look into it. thoroughly and try to get answers as best we can, about what happened here. we have an obligation to be transparent and to be fully so. and i take that very seriously. >> also a conservative group says it has submitted freedom of information act requests so it can quote expose the obama state department's latest stunt. >>> coming up, donald trump gets more acceptance, which for him is nice and more scrutiny, which might not be. >>> but first fox affiliates around the country. fox 5 in new york, a judge delays the release of a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the bridgega