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of the appropriate justice department regulations. >> shepard: tonight, journalists vs. the justice department. russian security forces detain an american and accused him of working as a secret agent for the cia. and trying to recruit a russian officer as a spy. now, see the evidence for yourself. plus, changing the drunk driving a new recommendation to lower the amount of booze you are allowed to drink before you get behind the wheel. but first from fox this tuesday night. jay carney said in 2006 he wouldn't be any good as press secretary. today would have been difficult for anyone. reporters hammered him with questions on three major stories in the news. the attack, the terror attack on benghazi, libya, that left four americans dead, the justice department's secret grab of associated press phone records. the irs acknowledging that it targeted conservative groups. and these issues at least for today completely overshadowed the president's second term agenda. coverage coming on all of it, beginning now with the irs. breaking today, the attorney general eric holder says the justice department is launching a criminal investigation of the tax collecting agency. he calls

forces say they've killed the right hand man of russia's most wanted terrorist and a special operation in the north caucasus. justice department of vs journalists outrage over what seen as a government swipe at media freedom ah so it all gets a false news reporter who published secrets from an official. and there were.

a result of the department of justice seizing a.p. phone records. amid a justice department scandal perhaps more than ever before journalists and citizens are raising questions over the freedom of the media to get news and talk to sources in private while details remain murky there are very clear guidelines when it comes to the justice department getting subpoenas of the news media because our standards d.o.j. sets for itself let's take a look at them now. according to the rules the investigation must be as narrowly drawn as possible as of now the a.p. isn't convinced that this is the case that all the facts point to the opposite we know now that the justice department traced incoming and outgoing calls and twenty telephone lines in three separate bureaus and the capitol press gallery this includes private and work lines traced over the span of two months the a.p. believes that over one hundred employees could be involved with this in mind it appears the investigation was quite broad and not at all narrow another requirement is to first seek information from alternative sources the justice department says it did in fact try to identify the person th

running guantanamo bay speaks to a lawyer for one of the hunger strike who claims to have been a nearly shot daid by prison guards. justice department versus journalists i'll draw a wild scene as a government media freedom popular dog of the folks news reporter chris from an official. wanting r t a line from our headquarters in moscow with me. now russian security forces say they have killed a key deputy of the country's amaze wanted terrorists during a special operation in the north caucasus. has the details bandito operations of place in a residential neighborhood in russia's southern republican in the caucasus police walked a private hells where a group of suspected militants was writing be refused to surrender only a woman accompanied by a child came out she's believed to be the wife soulful one of the armed men and shortly after she did they opened fire and were eliminated now soon after the operation ended the investigators found out that one of the militants was the right hand men of russia's number one terrorist or took the responsibility for various terror attacks across all russia including the two moscow metro. and the attack on them i did

of the terrorist attack in benghazi. others are criticizing the justice department's seizure of journalist phone records as part of a leak investigation. >> i know what the message being sent is that if you talk to the press, we're going to go after you. >> reporter: the ap says it's losing sources because of the seizure. another consequence the white house contends with this week. despite the controversies, the latest poll just released yesterday shows the president's approval rating is largely unchanged. 53% of americans say they approve of the president. betty betty? >> thank you so much for that. a widespread dose of computer chaos could be in store for tens of thousands of people traveling along the nation's busiest rail line as metro north workers rebuild 2,000 feet of damaged track following friday's collision between two trains in southwest kentucky. the ntsb is investigating what went wrong and in connecticut alone 125,000 passengers travel per day through the area where the derailment occurred and 30,000 people use the stations where service is closed. if those train commuters take to the roads, officials say t

obama has rejected calls to launch a probe into the government while tapping of journalists with the associated press news service this comes as the u.s. justice department came up with a new reason for watching the phones of one hundred journalists claiming it was necessary to protect americans from dangerous information leaks but norman solomon from the firm media watch group says it was all about teaching a lesson to whistleblowers. that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark of doubt and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this isn't ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envoy and try to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . one of some other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day and please be aware the following footage contains some graphic cont

of ap journalists. >> on friday we got a notice from the justice department that they had seized the records of 20 of our telephone lines, work and personal lines, belonging to ap journalists and connecting to ap bureaus in several locations. >> the records were from april and may last year. they include an incoming and out going calls from ap offices in new york, washington, and elsewhere. the agency's senior vice president says government officials have not offered an explanation. but an ap article suggests investigators were looking for the source of a story about a foiled terror plot. it ran last may. the story contained details of a cia operation in yemen. agents stopped al qaeda members from blowing up a u.s.-bound plane. 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 suf

they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society of the american government. journalists and free speech activists in the u.s. rounding up the justice department's probe into a fox news reporter the government's paul james rosen's of science logs of personal e-mails and security bets records over an alleged conspiracy and as not to charged with any crime and there's deep suspicion that national security is now a pretext to keep america's reporters on a type leash is a washington correspondent and she can. the u.s. justice department not only subpoenaed the fox news reporters private e-mails but also said that james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and or coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department's application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between a state department employee identified as the alleged leaker and james rosen so the authorities have established that the communication between the tw

of course its implications. the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers a few believes more than one hundred of its journalists may have been caught up in this surveillance week the a.p. boss called it a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations operate the justice department acknowledged having spied on a.p. journalists but would not say why it sought the records they cited an ongoing investigation a peace process and said the government stalked and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation now the guess is that the investigation had to do with a.p. is reporting on a cia operation in yemen last year and the government's possible hundred fleet the administration's unprecedented weeks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism a number of journalists with major news organizations here told me that isn't it's never been as hard for them to do their job as it is now because sources that they had previously communicated with now either don't return their calls or say out front that they'd rather not talk they can go to

obama and it would have given more protections for journalists and news organizations from department of justice snooping specifically it would have made it a lot more difficult for the department of justice to seize journalists' phone records as what happened in the a.p. case but the bill then under heavy opposition by president george w. bush failed in congress it was reintroduced in two thousand and nine by senator chuck schumer but again it went nowhere now as this controversy picks up steam the white house wants the bill brought up again but here's where the details are very important now it is true in two thousand and seven then senator barack obama co-sponsored the media shield bill to protect journalists and news organizations from the department of justice subpoenas but then just two years later as president he worked hard to water down the legislation in carve out more national security exemptions for the d.o.j. to target journalists those efforts to water down the bill in two thousand and nine ultimately killed it. so when the white house says they want this bill remember it's a much weaker bill than the one senator obama support

of any kind. >> they are not forgotten, from daniel pearl to nick berg. >> sean: karl rove is here responding to the obama justice department, precedenting targeting of a fox news journalistrankly the entire fox news organization. we have breaking details on this disturbing story. then did anyone in the obama white house try to conceal the benghazi cover-up, the ap scandal or irs scandal before the election? we always want to hear from you, we always want to hear from you, our companion site, just go we always want to hear from you, our companion site, just go are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. welwhere new york state is... investing one billion dollars to attract and grow business. where companies like geico are investing in technology & finance. welcome to the state where cutting taxes for business... is our business. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. new york state is throwing out the old rule book to give your business a new edge, the edge you ca

department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on national security issues government officials secretly a teenage reporters' phone logs and personal e-mails trying to find out who leaked classified information to the press. if you side with this president over those of us in the media who challenge him and his administration it is important to remember the president these action set going forward perhaps when it's not your guy in the white house the guy currently residing in the white house has prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than all other administrations combined and now experts say u.s. news outlets are being persecuted just like wiki leaks has been and the obama administration has really taken the executive branch powers have been committed aiding the free press from under the bush administration and exponentially multiplied them addressing the nation this week the us president said journalists should not be at legal risk for doing

of any kind. >> they are not forgotten, from daniel pearl to nick berg. >> sean: karl rove is here responding to the obama justice department, precedenting targeting of a fox news journalisthave breaking details on this disturbing story. then did anyone in the obama white house try to conceal the benghazi cover-up, the ap scandal or irs scandal before the election? we always want to hear from you, our companion site, just go to our companion site, just go to hannityliveandtelluswhatyouthin. hannietive.foxnews.com. is where she grew up. what? (announcer) designed for your most precious cargo. (girl) what? (announcer) the all-new subaru forester. (announcer) designed for your most precious cargo. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] ow! ow! [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums starts working so fast you'll forget you had heartburn. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums you'll forget you had heartburn. all stations come over to mithis is for real this time. step seven point two one two. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most inn

of the associated press surveillance going to what was going to be seen as a damage limitation exercise the u.s. justice department came up with a new reason for watching the phones of a hundred journalists claim it was necessary to protect americans from dangerous information leaks but norman solomon he's from the media watch group says it was all about teaching a lesson to whistleblowers. that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark about and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this isn't ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envelope and try to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . well that to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back with a news team with more in just have a thirty minutes from now in the meantime it is the latest edition of a money show the kaiser report off of the short break is t

of obese and sick people because we have a crappy food system. on thursday president obama ordered a review of the justice department's investigations of the associated press and fox news the government says it sees journalist records over concerns about the leaking of classified security data this comes amid what seen as washington stepped up persecution of whistleblowers artie's marine important i reports from new york. he's the australian wiki leaks founder holed up in the ecuadorian embassy on u.k. soil and across the atlantic members of the american press corps are learning what it feels like to receive the julian a songe treatment the justice department subpoenaed in obtaining the telephone records of the associated press over a two month period without any notice think about the harm done to the a.p. here you know object of interest to intimidate people who talk to reporters the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press apparently it also went after fox news reporter our very own james rosen what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized dozens of journalists have been secretly investigated by the justice department for reporting on natio

a manhole was. russian security forces say they've killed the right hand man of russia's most wanted terrorist in a special operation in the north caucasus. justice department versus journalists our age over what's seen as a government swipe at media freedom after a targeting fox news reporter who published secrets from an official. and lebanon's hezbollah joins the syrian civil war in the most intense government offensive this year sparking fears of a region wide spillover. for pm in the russian capital watching our team with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the search for survivors continues in the suburbs of america's oklahoma city devastated by one of the deadliest tornadoes in years a massive cycle and tore through a residential area leaving chaos and its wake. fifty one people are confirmed to have perished as homes and schools were flattened at least twenty children are among the dead but the number of victims is expected to rise as rescuers sift through the rubble president obama's declared the area a disaster zone are the sam sachs has more from washington. a massive tornado ripped through oklahoma ripped through the areas around oklahoma city it was the f

of a northern town reported hearing a blast. >>> politics is taking no holiday this memorial day. there are increasing calls for more to be done in the probe of the justice department investigation of the journalistscally james rosen of fox. doug mckelway has the latest. >> news corp indicated it had no record of being notified by the justice department of its request to seized phone records of a fox news reporter. in a statement, they said, while we don't take issue with the doj's account they sent a notice, we do not have a record of ever receiving it. the response comes as number of republicans on capitol hill are calling for independent counsel to investigate the james rosen controversy. >> we are beginning to criminalize journalism. >> and independent counsel would remove the attorney general what critics say amounts to an investigation of himself. >> i certainly think we need to separate it from the authority of the attorney general since the decisions were made either by him or under him. >> holder is coming under more scrutiny after friday's acknowledgement that he signed off on the search warrant but discustted it with staff that conflicts with his testimony. >> with regard to the potenti

used to get leakers so if they bomb a ministration or looses justice department thanks laws to good journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across and all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects press freedom but all one has to do is look at recent events to know that doesn't always happen reporting from new york marina portnoy r.t. . well president obama ins

of e-mail seizures and a phone record regarding a north korean nuclea test. the department of justice going as far as to call rosen a criminal co-conspirator. in indeed his duty as a journalist. this glass was say the attorney general claimed was for congres with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for th disclosure material that is not something that i have ever been involved and, heard of, or woul think would be a wise policy. the ms ration trying to deflate distract the public from a rising number of scandals. the white house with another reversal on the ir scandal. the press secretary is sticking with his standard playbook response to mount the information and being truthful and director of the american public. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry has the report. >> new problems for president obama and the irs scandal. a spokesman seemed to change th account in two key ways. >> the white house counsel was informed that the inspector general for tax administration was completing the report about irs employees improperly scrutinizing what are known as 501c4 organizations by using words such as tea party and patriot. >> now saying he at least some

and attorney general eric holder at this very moment on the hot seat over a justice department subpoena of journalists' phone records and the irs targeting of conservative groups. the scent of scandal has whetted republicans' appetites for a scalp. and if you think heads will roll, well, house speaker john boehner's got much more than that in mind. >> my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is, who's going to jail over this scandal? >> the speaker there referring to the irs examination of conservative advocacy groups. an inspector general's report released late tuesday blamed poor management at the irs for the targeting of the tea party. the president issued a statement saying, the report's findings are intolerable and inexcusable. the white house announced the president would be meeting with officials from the treasury today to discuss next steps in the case and make sure that those responsible are held accountable. nbc news has learned that two irs employees have already been disciplined. but just a tday after the attorney general ordered a criminal investigation into the matter,

reporters committee for freedom of the press with the backing of dozens of journalists the organization sent a letter to the justice department demanding answers and expressing quote displeasure with how this incident was handled and demand that any similar actions in the future be handled with greater consideration of the news media's first amendment rights and it's not just the media that wants answers now members of congress are questioning remarks attorney general eric holder made where he denies having any knowledge of prosecuting journalists with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material that is not something that . i've ever been involved in heard of or would think would be a wise policy it turns out holder personally signed off on a search warrant that labels fox's rosen as a coconspirator in a national security leak now some lawmakers say the new revelations contradict what he said before congress under oath in a letter to holder congressman james sensenbrenner says quote the media reports and statements issued by the department regarding the search warrants for mr rosen's e-mail

topic of national security leaks the president said he's asked attorney general eric holder to conduct a 45 day review of the justice department guidelines for investigations that involve journalists. ann? >> all right. peter alexander. >>> in moore, oklahoma, darkened skies again today as the first funerals were held for the 24 victims of monday's tornado. ten of them children. for the survivors this is also a day to reconnect and start moving forward again. we go moore now. >> reporter: good evening. just what they didn't need. thunderstorms and flooding putting this community on edge and shutting down clean up efforts for several hours and came on a day when students and parents are taking their first steps towards something resembling normal. the children of moore, oklahoma headed back to school today. days after the tornado ripped through two of their buildings, killing seven of their classmates. >> we talk to each other. >> reporter: students from the two devastated schools were sent to other schools for the final assembly, a chance for closure, to see friends, to say good-bye. >> this will bring more impact to what happened because you're t going to see some of your friends

. >> jon: the headlines this week, big news the department of justice spying on more journalists and this time it's personal. fox news is the target. a respected reporter in our ranks labeled a co-conspirator for doing his job. media reacts as fox news chief, we will not allow a climate of press intimidation. >> i have not done anything wrong. >> jon: a key player in the irs scandal is shown the door and put on leave for her role in targeting conservatives. some try to spin the story ignoring the wrongdoing. >> i never heard you say i'm sorry. >> i don't think i used those two words. >> the jodi arias murder trial attracts big attention. using the media to plead her case. >> the press sweeps into oklahoma following a monster twister. report ought death and destruction. some using the tragedy to push their agenda. has obama spin man jay carney found a new groove. >> before you decide somebody is culpable i think you need to get the facts. >> on the panel this week, judy miller, cal thomas, jim pinkerton, contributing editor to american conservative magazine and ellen ratner and grip ard grenell the spokesman to the last four ambassado

make peace with the media who are outraged over the department of justice's heavy-handed seizure of journalists stone and e-mail records. meanwhile, ats extending majority of americans

justice department spy on journalists? >> got a notice from the justice department that they had seized the records of 20 of our telephone lines: the white house says it had no idea. >> we have no knowledge of any attempt by the justice department to seek phone records of the associated press. >> i'm confident that the people who are involved in this investigation followed all of the appropriate justice department

of the associated press and even scandal and what was widely seen as a damage limitation exercise the u.s. justice department came out with a new reason for why a topping the photos of one hundred of journalists claiming it was necessary to protect americans from dangerous information leaks but norman solomon from the fan media watch group says it was all about teaching a lesson to whistleblowers that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark about and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this is a ministration which has already waged a larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envoy up and tried to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . coming out i mean monson takes aim at the mainstream media and break. a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of americans think that a revolution will just happen in america but needs to be done

a bipartisan house group is backing it. they are advocating for the shield law to protect the press in light of two recent cases in which the justice department obtained a journalistecords. we see some republicans, some democrats from the states of texas and new york supporting it. digging into the story from politico, it says -- it is called the free flow of information act. according to the bill journalists only have to disclose the information if a court compels them to. let us go to cap -- let us go to patrick and the independent line. that you am surprised mentioned that supposedly the justice department let news corp know they were investigating that fox reporter. this ties back to the yemen leak, the government begged us not to make that public. they kicked us out, they would not let us do any more operations for over eight years. this ties back to that leak about the bomb plot, the flying airplane -- to use the airplane as a bomb in the usa. you do not think we should try to put a stop to that host: elaborate on why you think it's significant that the fox news corp., the corporation that is apparent of the -- that is a parent of fox news, the dick caller:

the publication of the pentagon papers there has been a very serious question about the department of justice going after the source of the leak within the government or the journalistho publishes the leak. over time very stiff guidelines have been pput in place that require a very high test before the justice department goes after the reporter and requires personal approval of the attorney general or his deputy. in this instance i think the admintration went way too far and what their motivations were i don't know. it was just plain bad judgment and a chilling effect on a free press. when the president says he believes in a free press he ought to back it up by taking action to either discipline or criticize his own attorney general for having done this. >> i will tell you what i think is so weird. number one, from the 1970s the department of justice has guidelines where if they want to subpoena recordskuzrqv go to th news organization and look for cooperation and try to narrowly tailor the request to meet their needs. they got the subpoena to get james rosen's phone records. and they did it secretly. they didn't notify the news organization. james didn't have custo