their relationship with sources to discuss greg payless legal defense director for the reporters committee for freedom of the press joins me now welcome greg thank you so kind of break it down for us here at what exactly is this new effort what are you trying to accomplish let me first say that this is really the a.c.l.u.'s case and they've got a number of plaintiffs involved including amnesty international and some journalists and then we came in as a friend of the court we just wanted to give the court more information about why journalists need to be able to maintain confidential communications internationally the more you're covering foreign affairs or terrorism related subjects the more likely you are to have to do it by phone over international calls in the face amendments not the original face but the face amendments of two thousand and eight make it much easier for the government to and intercept those calls and journalists just don't feel comfortable that they can promise confidentiality in that situation and why did you think it was important to you to step in and back the journalists well b

for the convention. ceo of duke, jim rogers, even spoke at the convention. the committee disputes the report but certainly raises a lot of questions about crony capitalism. with me is tom borelli, freedomorks senior fellow. tom, there is another wrinkle to this cozy story what is going back and forth. duke received $200 million in stimulus money as well. >> absolutely. this is crony capitalism gone wild. there is real marriage between the democratic party and duke energy. obama stimulus fund gave duke energy a $200 million grant. keep in mind, duke gets 5% dividend to their investors. so our taxpayer money went to duke and they rewarded their shareholders. this is outrageous. jim rogers has gone all-in for president obama. he was on the host committee. and then he had the audacity to use corporate assets to back the convention and they also, they're also became a bank. they're a utility. now they're a bank for the dnc. also gave them free office space. now they're a realty agent. melissa: i thought that was amazing. i wasn't sure within the bylaws how it is possible. >> bylaws? melissa: they're a utility. how could they give a $10 million line of credit to the committee? one of the thi