kevin gallagher attended brown's sentencing hearing on thursday.hen we come back, a major decision from the supreme court this week on whistleblowers. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> we turn now to a major supreme court decision upholding the right of federal employees to become whistleblowers. the case centered on a transportation security administration federal air marshal named robert maclean. in july 2003, maclean revealed to a reporter from msnbc that the department of homeland security had decided to stop assigning air marshals to certain long-distance flights in order to save money despite warnings of a potential plot to hijack u.s. airplanes. msnbc's report on the story sparked outcry and the policy was quickly reversed. maclean was fired three years later after admitting to being the source of the article. he sued beginning a multi-year legal battle. >> earlier this week, the supreme court in a 7-2 decision , ruled on robert maclean'

kevin. thanks so much. >>> for more on white house foreign policy and youtube diplomacy, they mix now, with our political panel allen combs, host of the allen combs show, mike gallagher fox news contributors. what am a talking about? i'm talking about the fact that after the state of the union the president decided to grant these interviews to youtubers, these people who have developed fame on you dubs. now, they're not necessarily dealing with politics every day so allen, do you see a problem with this? >> no i don't. i don't see why anyone would. the president ran two presidential campaigns very aware of what's happening in the digital world. it helped him win the presidency and being very forward thinking in terms of where the media is going. this is a smart move for the president. >> yeah, brilliant. it's really brilliant. >> that's true especially for the my legalials. >> i hear disdain from mr. gallagher. >> he's not campaigning again. he made that clear tuesday night. so why would he need to do these interviews? wouldn't it have served him to do something more substantive? >> you mean like go to paris, gretchen? he's still the president of the united states. t