>> extraordinary aspects to that attempt by mike rogers to suggest that journalists such as myself are engaged in criminal conduct in selling koumtss and the like. first is that he's not only lying and he is lying, but he not only is lying but knows that he's lying. this what is mike romgers is notorious for in washington, literally making things up and smearing political opponents and journalists he doesn't like. he recently did it when he said there was indications that edward snowden was working with russian intelligence and every major newspaper in the country said not only is there no evidence of that, but that investigators have said it's not the case, that he acted alone. but i defy mike rogers, if he wants to make that accusation, to come forward and present actual evidence that any journalist has stolen -- has sold documents or stolen material or engaged in any kind of criminality.

mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists

he was talking about interviews done january 19th by mike rogers and dianne feinstein. >> i believe there is a reason he ended up in the hands -- the loving arms of an fsb agent in moscow. >> the two had congressional intelligence committees both muse allowed on the possibility that snowden, exiled in moscow has been working for the russians all along. snowden denies that and says it is not the smears that mystify me. it is that outlets report state. s that speakers themselves admit are pure speculation. it is interesting the institutions don't have an editorial position on this. these are pretty serious allegations. "the associated press" says it will no longer work with an award winning photojournalist after he admitted to digitally

mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists , also against snowden, making totally unfounded allegations somehow aden thing russian agent or cooperating with russian agents. so the timing of this site and why we felt it was so urgent to start reporting on these stories right now is to push back against this climate of fear and to say we as independent journalist are not going to back down in the face of government threats. that in fact, this is when it is most important to stand up for a truly free and independent press is when those in power start to try to push their fist down upon you. >> i went to play a recent

was said about daniel ellsberg, who everybody now regards as a hero, but 40 years ago you had the mike rogers and james clappers of that era calling him a russian spy and a traitor and engaging in treason and endangering the united states. it's really just a very similar pattern. i knew a long time ago when i went into journalism it wasn't the profession to go into if you want to be universally loved. if you do it the right way you're going to make a lot of powerful people and their loyalists unhappy and i'm perfectly okay with that. >> i hope to see you here in new

let's play the exchange between the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers and the fbi director from earlier this week. >> there have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. mr. comey, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, that is a crime? >> yes, it is. >> and would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the united states government, would that be a crime? >> it would be. it's an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering function, but in general fencing or selling stolen property is a crime. >> your blood must boil when you hear that.

now mike rogers the representative we heard from earlier has really been at the forefront of launching these accusations and he actually went as far as to say that. actually you know let's listen to this exchange between the. at this hearing yesterday a question that was directed to the chairman of the defense intelligence agency mike flynn do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me. so roger they're really trying to get some added ins that snowden is in fact working for the russians what do you think about that kristin about that about this claim that snowden is working for the russians now in this fight i mean we heard there at least we didn't hear any evidence yesterday in this hearing. of course you didn't have any any evidence because there is no evidence which was new to suggest this but this is a feeling that has been going on for quite some time until as you know since last summer that somehow this all has

>> first of all, mike rogers is a liar.is outright lying when he says i or any other journalist working on this case sold documents or fenced documents. the one thing missing from his accusations is any evidence because none exists. i defy him to present any. that is what mike rogers does. he just lies. i think the more important point than the fact that mike rogers is a pathological liar is the fact that this is part of a broader campaign on the part of the obama administration, as jeremy said, to try and either threaten journalists that they will be criminalized or outright criminalize them by prosecuting we're the journalism that doing. it comes in the context of this campaign because accomplices by the top national security official keith ellickson enter two months ago in a speech, raise the idea of selling documents will we did our first reporting canada with the cbc, the right-wing harper govern ment attack just as having sold information. the obama administration has been worse on press freedoms than any president si

mike rogers is here with us to weigh in on it all. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west."y -- i'm emily chang. the conference kicking off your in san francisco -- the ongoing edward snowden nsa scandal is sure to be front and center. house intelligence chairman of mike rogers is here with me in the studio. thank you for joining us. withave been meeting industry ceos today. what's on the top of their mind? >> how do we rebuild the confidence that our intelligence services are not violating privacy and not encroaching on won six of our economy growing right here in silicon valley? all of those conversations are happening. >> what do you see are the chances congress will finally come to an agreement on some sort of cyber security legislation? are you willing to alter your proposal to get the deal? >> im as long as for of bills the mission. people think the nsa and the intelligence services are doing, they are not. we are trying to say here is exactly what the threat is. can we do a competent builder so we know that the nsa is not listening to their phone calls? we should do t

let's play the exchange between the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers and the fbi director from earlier this week. >> there have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. mr. comey, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, that is a crime? >> yes, it is. >> and would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the united states government, would that be a crime? >> it would be. it's an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering function, but in general fencing or selling stolen property is a crime. >> your blood must boil when you hear that. what was your reaction to that? what do you think they're trying to do by saying those kind of things? >> extraordinary aspects to that attempt by mike rogers to suggest that journalists such as myself are engaged in criminal conduct in selling koumtss and the like. first is that he's not only lying and he is lying, but he not only is lying but knows that he's lying. this what is mike romgers is notorious for

and mike rogers knows that full well.s about is trying to take journalism that they dislike because it shines a light on what they're doing, namely invading the privacy rights of millions of americans without their knowledge, and trying to turn it into a crime by intimidating the journalist out of continuing to report. just like all repressive and authoritarian politicians around the world always do. thomas jefferson said 200 years ago those who most fear investigation of their actions are the firs ones to attack a free press. what they're talk about is called freelance journalism. when you're a journalist like bart gelman is or like i am that have done the nsa reporting and you go to a newspaper and say i have a big story and i want to report it with you and you enter into a contract will them and they pay you as a journalist to write the story and you then publish it, that has been called for 250 years in the united states journalism. mike rogers and james clapper seem to think that should be called a crime. the u.s. co

mike rogers has very good sources. again that is still the subject of investigations and something that cannot be ruled out. >> why do you think, if i can shift to another subject, that is immigration, a week ago the speaker, john boehner, said he thought there was real chance for immigration reform then friday he kind of stunned everybody in washington by saying, nope, not going to happen this year. we just don't trust president obama. what happened? >> there was republican retreat last week, this would have been tough in any case to get majority. republican districts this is not a very popular issue, nationwide something republican party should do when you take it district by district it's hard to get majority of republicans to sign on to it. john boehner wanted to make every effort to do it before ryan did. the national leadership would like it done. then president's state of the union didn't help matters and started getting a push back from republican base against members in these districts where there is no real s

that's congressman mike rogers, we're talking about vice admiral mike rogers. this stanley will make for tough questions for him when he heads to capitol hill for confirmation hearing next month. congressman, great to see you today. you had a situation where for four months iranians were somehow able to hack into the navy system. apparently they didn't get into e-mails. what do you know about the investigation? >> the iranian threat is very real. they vowed death and destruction to america and we're concerned about the nuclear options they are trying to build and put forth. but they have constantly been trying to attack and penetrate various internal systems we have. for them to have success, although an unclassified setting, i have to tell you there are 800,000 or so people whose accounts may not have been compromised. they are in there for months. hopefully these been sorted out but it is a very deep penetration and something you obviously have to be concerned about if those are one of your accounts. >> here is the deal. vice admiral mike rogers, now the pres

revelations to light is the target of debate on capitol hill one of the biggest critics representative mike rogers the chairman of the house intelligence committee he. says for stealing a secret documents but it's not just snowden he's after he's also speaking out against journalists that work with him. so if i'm a newspaper reporter for fill in the blake and i sell stolen material is that legal because i'm a newspaper reporter right if you're a newspaper reporter and you're hocking stolen jewelry it's still a crime and if the hocking stolen classified material that are not legally in the possession of for personal gain and profit is that not a crime i think that's a harder question because it involves a news gathering function could have first amendment implications it's something that probably you'd better answer by the department of justice. after that hearing rogers zeroed in on a particular reporter he told politico that investigative journalist glenn greenwald was a thief for stealing government information at the time greenwald published the leaks he worked for the guardian now he freelance

make a significant change the riches embezzler the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers call on the russian government to be more cooperative with pre olympics intelligence sharing according to him we don't seem to be getting all the information we need to protect our athletes america has offered to provide its own security become what do you say to this that there has a bit a lot of cooperation on the security end first of all those lympics going to be held in russia. so it's our responsibility to ensure that the security is provided for all and we're going to circumvent russia has a lot of capabilities to deploy for these purposes minium much more than maybe some other countries third the reason ongoing dialogue. aeration between law enforcement russia and other countries including the united states and if you hear it was the representatives of the administration of the united states are suggesting that certain they would like to have more i think he plays i think time but they are very much satisfied with the quality of interaction with the russian law enforcement and

mike rogers' wife christin becomes ceo of defense contractor, then is hired by a lobbying firm. elligence committee, and according to the federal election commission, political donations from the d the defense industry quadruple. all legal, within the rules, all routine in the family business of washington. >> drew joins us now. drew as you said, this is all somewhat routine in washington. almost taken for granted. but the numbers are astounding. 100 families of congressman are registered lobbyists? >> so normal inside the beltway we hear the same thing every time we go there. this is old news to them. they don't think there's anything wrong. d.c. is a family town. these family connections are very important. and the examples are everywhere you look, both parties. it's why people elected to office when they leave office they don't leave washington. >> unbelievable. drew, thanks very much. we'll continue to follow this throughout the year. >>> olympic skier bode miller breaks down that post-race interview on nbc. you probably heard about this. when asked repeatedly about his late

mike rogers' wife christie becomes ceo of defense contractor. then is hired by a lobbying firm. s chairman of the house intelligence committee and according to the federal election commission, political donations from the defense industry quadruple. all legal, all within the rules. all routine in the family business of washington. drew griffin, cnn, washington. >> all right, drew. if you have a story for drew griffin and the cnn investigations team, you can go to cnn.com/investigation. cnn.com/investigation. >>> you know, he is the host of the wildly popular show "dirty jobs. "his name is mike roe. and he is here. that's him. hanging out with me in the newsroom. it's fun and games. but i have some serious questions for him, as well. we're going to talk about his connection to walmart, among other things. we'll be right back. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you

mike rogers, rawstory.com, good to have you with us. thanks so much. >> thank you, ed. >>> coming up, just one week left to make sure the white house hears your concerns of the keystone xl pipeline. we'll have more from our series "divided heartland: the american deba debate." >>> still ahead, amid one of the strongest lobbying efforts nebraska has ever seen, landowner concerns were met with silence. nebraska farmer jim tarnik tells us what happened when he traveled to washington to meet with his representatives. >>> next i'm taking your questions. ♪ ♪ [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ [ birds squawking ] my mom makes airplane engines that can talk. [ birds squawking ] ♪ my mom makes hospitals you can hold in your hand. ♪ my mom can print amazing things right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] my mom makes trains that are friends with trees. [ train whistle blows ] ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ >>> thanks for staying with us. tonight, love this segment, really appreciate the questi

secretary chuck hagel announced yesterday that president obama will nominate navy a vice admiral mike rogers as the next director of the national security agency this is contrary to the white house appointed review panel's recommendation to place a civilian the head of the n.s.a. the defense secretary also announced that richard ledgett a civilian has been selected to serve as the deputy director of the n.s.a. you might remember allegedly from an energy you that aired on sixty sixty minutes in the summer he was asked if the u.s. should strike a deal with word snowden so my personal view is yes it's worth having a conversation about i would need to surance is that the remainder of the data could be secured and my bar for those assurances would be very hard it would be more than just an assertion on his part these changes came just two weeks after president obama's speech to reform government surveillance programs vice admiral mike rogers will have to undergo a senate confirmation large it will not. now we move on to the peace talks in geneva between the syrian government and the opposition th

blinking red" and mike has had a distinguished career most recently in government's chief of staff to mike rogers on the house intelligence committee and also spent seven years in various senior positions with the national security council under the george w. bush administration. he managed to write a book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business all in the space, and continue work on the hill at the same time so very impressive. mike has agreed to speak about the big themes and stories in this book for a half an hour and engaging q&a and throw it out to you in for questions. mike. >> thank you. i will go over to the podium if that's okay. >> i think you can do without that. >> i want to thank the new america foundation for having me today especially peter for the invitation and thank you all for coming out in the rain to hear a little that's about my book "blinking red" and i look forward to q&a about other pressing intelligence community topics. "blinking red" is an attempt to write the authoritative object if history of the most substantial restructuring of the u.s. in

mike rogers chimes in on edward snowden and the nsa scandal. how the russians may have helped him more than we think. he will talk about the latest in the ukraine, coming up. samsung unveils its first verbal -- wearable devices, running software that is not google. two smart watches, and one fitness band. they also showed off the samsung galaxy s5. a look at what the new phone actually does. sam grobar got his hands on one. take a look. >> this is the new samsung galaxy s5. i want to show you five things that are new. the phone was announced today. for starters, it is a larger display. this is 5.1 inches. the old galaxy, only five inches. also, you have a fingerprint sensor on the bottom. sounds like the fingerprint sensors we have seen on other phones. on the back, there is a heart rate monitor. you put your finger here, and the phone will tell you whether you are about to have a cardiac episode or something. there is also better materials and a camera along the back of the phone. some criticisms from the galaxy 4 and 3 that they appeared too

ago she married the powerful chairman of the house intelligence committee, michigan congressman mike rogers the ceo of the american branch of aegis, a defense and security contracting firm, where according to her new employer, kristi rogers successfully developed and led a two-year pursuit and capture strategy to women a five-year, $10 billion contract under the department of state's worldwide protective services program. and yes, it's an area her husband's committee has congressional oversight, making sure diplomats and their staffs are properly protected. you would think congressman mike rogers would at least disclose that family connection or that in appearing before congress kristi rogers would disclose her marital ties. but on his website, congressman rogers only states he's in fact married. no name. and kristi rogers in an appearance before a presidential commission back in 2010 didn't mention the name of the man she just married, even though she missed her first appearance due to her honeymoon. >> it was an unfortunate perfect storm. i had just come off my honeymoon. that was not the

. >> host: can you give us an update on your's and mike roger's work on the securing of the communication link lis in t united states? >> guest: i served on the house intelligence committee. we had term limits there. i was there when he was so we have partnered on many things, even more successful at energy and commerce. there is no question that we have to address cybersecurity in the country. the federal government represents 5% of the pie interestingly enough. 95% is in the private sector. how do we leverage what needs to take place between the private sector and the government? sharing is very important. but there has to be guarantees for companies to share. so there are participants -- parts -- of the legislation i didn't like or agree with, but bottom line, is this has to happen in the country. this is happening every day. you can ask people walking in and out of target. we have a problem. we have a security management problem in the system. and the snowden revelation says we didn't have the security management necessary in our software to secure especially the family jewels. this i

almost were able to score a real victory against the patriot act 215 provision. >> and your boss mike rogers of course courses one of the main defenders. >> that's right. he and senator feinstein i think it's fair to say have aggressively defended their oversight of the rob graham and aggressively defended what nsa's role is in this particular matter. >> tele spent about 702. this seems less controversial. americans seem to be comfortable with the government. >> 702 is shorthand for a status that refers to the fisa amendment that do we debated and passed through congress in 2007 and eight is the shorthand for our ability to intercept foreigners phonecalls if perhaps they transit through the united states. phonecalls and e-mails. this has been a big issue. i know of, i read the papers and those in europe and germans are very upset that you are right it's less of an issue within the united states because it's about foreign intelligence collection. >> it really became an issue when an american citizen was killed. he didn't become an issue on the hill until that point trade. >> i think you are r

. >> can you give us an up -- update, representative eshoo on yours and mike rogers' work of the securing of the communication links in the u.s.? >> well, congressman rogers, as you know is not only a member of the energy committee but he's also the chairman of the house intelligence committee and i served on the house intelligence committee. we have term limits there so i was there when he was there so we had partnered on many things, even more successfully at energy and commerce. we had a real meeting of the minds in different matters. there's no question that we have to address cybersecurity in our country. interestingly enough, the federal government represents 5 bank account of the pie -- 5% of the pie. 95% is in the private sector, so how do we leverage what needs to take place between the private sector and the government? sharing is very important but guaranteesto be some for companies to share. there are parts to have legislation they didn't like or didn't agree with but overall this has to be addressed in our country. this take place place every single day. all you have to do is

. >> schieffer: do you -- have you picked up anything to suggest, mike roger, he believes that the russians helped snowden. are you getting anywhere on that? >> no. i have -- there's allegations about russian and chinese help, i've never heard anyone to confirm that or i've never seen any evidence. bututs out there because the government continues to make these charges. >> you know, this impulse to blame the russians or blame ((the disbelief that one man can do this with programs that you can download over the internet. it's interesting, because this whole story, we talk about it in a binary fashion. on the one hand civil liberties concerns, the other hand the national security concerns. but we're not talking very much about this dependence, this incompetence of intelligence apparatus that allowed a guy to take everything, essentially, without anybody knowing it. that's what this story in the "times" this week suggests which is that he was robbing the pantry blind. >> schieffer: you know, margaret, i want to ask you about this, while we're talking about the nsa and who it's monitoring and w

disclosures that stole the show and led to some hair raising comments by members of congress its chairman mike rogers that has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians but at today's hearing the witnesses on hand refused to confirm that accusation do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me later in the hearing congresswoman jan schakowsky asked for evidence of a snowed in russia connection she was told that was best discussed in a classified hearing also during the hearing chairman rogers suggested that journalists who are handling the snowden documents are breaking the law though he was unable to get the director of the f.b.i. james komi to agree with that assertion so if i'm a newspaper reporter for fill in the blank and i sell stolen material is that legal because i'm a newspaper reporter right if you're a newspaper reporter and you're hocking stolen jewelry it's still a crime

comfortable that everything will be fine there is a great deal of cooperation going on right now i know mike rogers would prefer the be more cooperation on a higher level but during my recent visit i talked to various people involved and i've been briefed here as well and there is a significant level of cooperation much higher level than we've had before in trying to prevent this sort of radical islamic terrorism from taking the lives of innocent people no matter who were country they come from who would like to attend the olympics so tune in for about an award tonight at nine pm right here on r.t. america and with the twenty fourteen winter olympics about to begin you would think the u.s. media would be reporting on athletes and sporting events tonight's resident looks at some of the more bizarre stories the u.s. media is actually reporting about going into the olympics check it out. the twenty fourteen olympics are about to kick off and so to freshen up we should all be excited to root for our favorite athletes right the problem is the american media hasn't bothered to even tell us who the hell t

now those include a house of representatives intelligence committee chairman mike rogers the president's may twenty thirteen policy changes for the us targeted strikes are an utter and complete failure and they'd leave americans lives at risk the ap has agreed to withhold the name of the country that bananas and as a matter of national security. the suspects would not be the first american man has been told by a drone strike. he was indeed the second. to date there have been four americans killed by drone strikes muslim cleric anwar on the lockheed was killed in jenin in two thousand eleven along with some near pune all of the sixteen year old son of gold miner was killed and another strike two weeks later and then in pakistan in june it can on mohamed was killed and another attack all our table was the only reported us to target killing of an american the others were considered collateral damage. meanwhile a new article by glenn greenwald and jeremy state jail and he tells the national security agency's role in drone attacks. now according to the article the primary method used to locat

been put in place now those include a house of representatives intelligence committee chairman mike rogers the president's may twenty thirteen policy changes for the u.s. targeted strikes are an utter and complete failure and they leave americans lives at risk the a.p. has agreed to withhold the name of the country that the man isn't as a matter of national security this suspect would not be the first american that has been killed by a drone strike he wouldn't even be the second to dates there have been four americans killed by drone strikes but muslim cleric anwar although locky was killed in yemen in two thousand and eleven along with some near khan all along he's sixteen year old son of durham on was killed in another strike two weeks later and then in pakistan judith ken on mohammad was killed in another attack a lockie it was the only reported u.s. targeted killing of an american the others were considered collateral damage meanwhile a new article by glenn greenwald and jeremy scahill details the national security agency's role in drone attacks now according to the article the primary

secretary took a toll announced yesterday that president obama will nominate navy vice admiral mike rogers as the next director of the national security agency contrary to the white house appointed review panel's recommendation that the place as the billion as the head of the nsf. the defense secretary also announce that richard liked it as a civilian has been selected to serve as the deputy director of the nsa. you might remember what it's from an interview that aired on sixty minutes in december. he was asked if the us should strike a deal with edwards noted. so my personal view is yes this would have a conversation about. i would need assurances that the remainder of the data to be secured to my bar for those assurances would be very high to be more than just an assertion. these changes come just two weeks after president obama speech to reform the government surveillance programs. vice admiral michael rogers will have to undergo with senate confirmation. a juvenile when police officers use deadly force named bree or conveyor we face criminal prosecution in the usually claiming that the

down there for the russians must be behind him the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers has been pushing this mean a lot here he was trying to get the director of military intelligence to provide evidence for this link between starting a russian and it didn't quite work out i think we have to. do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me. excuse me these are not exactly at all what exactly the answer you wanted you didn't get the answer you wanted so the next question this is the very next question he asked do you think it's possible so he changes it do you have facts to strickly going in your window and here's how we rephrase the question from there. do you believe that mr snowden who is in the custody of intelligence services in moscow today by your own information has the possibility of them to be under the influence of russian intelligence or yes there is a possibility so we don't have evidence but

comfortable that everything will be fine there is a great deal of cooperation going on right now i know mike rogers would prefer the be more cooperation a higher level but during my recent visit i talked to various people involved and i've been briefed here as well and there is a significant level of cooperation much higher level than we've had before in trying to prevent this sort of radical islamic terrorism from taking the lives of innocent people no matter who were country they come from who would like to add to the olympics. so tune in for that young more tonight at nine pm right here on r t america with the twenty fourteen winter olympics about to begin you would think the u.s. media would be reporting on athletes and sporting events russian hockey player alex ovechkin who plays for the washington capitals called out the media today he told the washington post quote i've been in three olympic games i remember tyrann and vancouver and nobody said something bad about vancouver enteron why you guys always try to find something bad in sochi so it's resident takes a look at some of the more bizarr