rosen as a suspect. do you see this going anywhere? you're going for, but i just -- i'm not quite sure you can advance the ball on this, can you? >> well, we can advance the ball as we examine what has been done with regard to the abuse of the privacy act. we can pass new legislation. we don't think the recommendations of the attorney general get there many any way, shape or form. it's good that they're having that discussion, but we think more needs to be done, and we will pursue that. but we also think that this is a long line of lack of leadership at the top of the justice department by the nation's number one law enforcement officer, and that's why we agreed on the republican side unanimously to send this to the president -- bill: understood. >> -- because he needs to focus on it as well. bill: bob goodlatte, thank you for your time, the republican from virginia on the hill. heather. heather: well, "happening now" is coming up at the top of the hour, and jenna lee joins us with a preview. jenna: big story today, the sentencing for

let's go to rosen. freed steps up and tells the cia and we get bin laden and they throw him in jail for 33 years. rosen asked the state department spokesman kerry's person what kerry is going to do about it it roll the tape. >> what is the united states doing to help get shaquille afridi the physician who assisted the united states in the hunt for usama bin laden freed from prison in pakistan? >> yes, thank you for the question. we obviously regret that dr. freedy was convicted and the severity of his sentence. the secretary raised dr. afridi's case with pakistan's leadership during his recent trip to islamabad. >> you get no good answers. >> i don't have anything about our private diplomatic discussions. >> bill: all right, rosen it looks like you were a little lonely in that press conference there. you and who is sleeping -- all right. they are not doing anything. allright, rosen? they are not doing a thing to get this guy out of jail, are they? >> what are their options for doing anything. you have t

just days later the original rosen was revealed and holder did approve rosen as a suspect in order tois e-mails. if rosen was a suspect, lawmakers conclude holder gave deceptive testimony to congress. >> that they would tell the court, as they did in the rosen case, that it was -- they had probable cause that he was at least an aider action abettor or coconspirator in an espionage case and then to tell us we never had any intention of prosecuting him seems as though it is a contrived way to get access to the e-mails of reporters which is exactly what they did in the rosen case. >> we are hearing from the justice department. a spokesperson wrote in part the report was produced on a purely partisan basis. its findings are contrary to the record and strongly disputed by many of the committee's own members. he went on to say they have revised guidelines for investigating media leaks to strengthen protection for reporters. back to you. >>steve: thank you very much. live report from d.c. >>brian: we've got scandals to talk about. the n.s.a. at the very least looking at it. then you have the

joining us, james rosen. rosen, what have you found out for us? >> here at the state department i learned that tomorrow, thursday, we're expecting to see members of congress briefed by the obama administration on the evidence they have, the intelligence they have collected, from israel and other sources, proving that the syrian regime did indeed use chemical weapons and kill upwards of 1,000 people on august 21st. that provision of that intelligence material to the congress will be coupled with an unclassified version going out to us, the public. after that, the predicate will be laid for military action. most observers expect that this will not be extensive military action, but today some officials did drop some hints, more or less confirmed to me, that the president is not just going to hit the assad regime simply to punish him for using chemical weapons, but actually going to try to degrade his ability to use those weapons again, and thereby help the syrian rebels. there had been a lot of concern that that wasn't a goal for this military operat

chef ben rosen field. it was a charter measure proposed that creates a process for the 1971 that 6 in the chart can be reduced and that's if so civilians are hired and added to the budget then officers can be sent to the streets and if the chief certifies as i recall it's appropriate as measured by the chief >> my questions is not about lowering the 1971 authorized strength but do we actually certify that are 53 officers going out and is answer is we've reviewed those and we do believe those hires will be sending the officers back to active duty. >> that was my question and a thank you. i want to go back to slide 12 on overtime. i'm pleased in 5 years overtimes been reduced from 23 million significantly all the way down to 8 point 8 million 2011 and 12 but i see that trending up in 2013 and wondering are we anticipating it will go up a little bit. what strategies do we have to continue it historic decline? >> the reason it's gone up to 9.6 because half of the mta order came over. basically, we're still fla

chief washington correspondent james rosen has the latest. james? >> chris, good morning. president obama and his national security team approached this day, the president's 52nd birthday, not in a state of celebration, but rather one of apprehension. the u.s. embassy compound in cairo, egypt, is one of nearly two dozen u.s. installations that would normally have been open today, about is now closed. at the u.s. embassy in yemen, heightened security was ready discernible. a senior lawmaker told fox news that terrorist chatter picked up by u.s. signals intelligence exceeds anything witnessed in more than a decade. lisa monaco, the president's counterterrorism advisor, and susan rice, now the president's national security advisor, who led the interagency advice. rice chaired a principals committee meeting yesterday that included the secretaries of state and defense and directors of fbi, cia and nsa. still another participant in that session says it appears plotted at western, not specifically u.s. influence. >> we're taking it seriously, which i think you'd expect us to do.

it has found rosen did not violate the law and is closing the investigation.e have new details in the investigation of a teenager in the asiana crash at sfo. a so-called helmet cam worn by a battalion chief adds crucial new information in the accidental death of one of the plane's passengers. these still images for the video first appeared in the san francisco chronicle. a fire department source tells the chronicle that first responders found 16-year-old near the plane but failed to communicate that to supervisor who is arrived later. first responders may have mistakenly thought she was already dead. investigators say the teenager was covered in fire retardant foam when she was struck and ultimately killed by a fire truck. >>> still head at 6:00, chevron is paying up. the oil giant agrees to fines in the wake of last year's refinery fire that sent thousands of people to the hospital. is it enough also? >> would you pay $22,000 to send your child to preschool for a year? some bay area parents are doing just that. and a financial emergency for santa clara county

go to immigration and rosen.aring that this whole immigration reform bill, just like the gun control stuff, is going it die and nothing is going to happen. is that true? >> it could potentially prove to be true, bill. this is not the typical story out of partisan where you have partisan gridlock. what we are looking at here is republican on republican violence. the biggest republican champions for some kind of comprehensive immigration bill, guys like marco rubio in the senate, they view the house speaker john boehner and his top lieutenants over in the g.o.p. house leadership as basically in agreement with them that we need some kind of comprehensive solution to immigration. you can't deport 12 million people and we don't want to revisit this issue every legislative session. but they know that boehner really can't corral the majority of house republicans who come from districts where there is very little sympathy for pathway to citizenship. what boehner is doing is he is signaling basically going to wait out the

i thought james rosen's piece made that point quite well.ne of the reasons that weighs on the side of people like charles that say support the military in egypt is that the muslim brotherhood and others are targeting coptic christians and others, and the military may be the last line of defense, so there's not a real ethnic cleansing or religious based cleansing of christians in those countries. >>> next up, an incredibly brutal, senseless crime, and how it is being covered. >>> do you have reaction to the christopher lane case? >> i am not familiar with that. >> in oklahoma, 22-year-old australian out on a jog, and young men apparently told the police they were bored and thought it would be fun to kill him. any reaction to that? >> just that it sounds like a tragic case. i wouldn't want to get ahead of the legal process here. the president i think has spoken eloquently about violence in the community. >> why hasn't he spoken out on this in this case? in the trayvon martin case, he spoke out extensively on that. >> in the rose garden? >> yes

in the meantime let's check in with james rosen. secretary of state kerry has taken a prominent role. chris mentioned yesterday, impassioned outlay of the intelligence and also why it is important for the u.s. to do something. your thoughts covering secretary kerry and his role in this entire affair. >> no question that secretary kerry yesterday with his speech delivering the intelligence assessment of the united states government with respect to the chemical weapon attack of august 21 enjoyed his biggest moment on the world stage since assuming office in february. there has been criticism this morning since retired intelligence officers of the kind -- that says why do we have our secretary of state delivering an intelligence assessment? why do we not have an int intelligence officer delivering the assessment. dating back to the cuban missile crisis, it showed soviet missiles installed at the united nations security council, going back to colin powell when he was secretary of state and holding that vial as he addressed a word audien

rosen, tell me about holder. what's real little driving this thing?, some people thought that this announcement, this flash announcement the american bar association by the attorney general was really driven by politics to accomplish two short-term goals. the first is to move the attorney general past some very high profile recent controversies, amply documented on our channel and also to placate certain core constituencies of president obama's by framing these issues as having to do with communities of race and color and so forth. lending some credence to that view is the fact that really what attorney general holder announced is going to have rather little impact on crime and punishment in america as we know it today. >> bill: the states are doing most of the prosecution. >> 95% of them. only 5% of criminal prosecutions are handled at the federal level. and those state and local prosecutors had 0,000 of them across the country say they are already exercising the kind of discretion the attorney general called for in both charging documents and in sen

rosen's phone and e-mailecords were seized by the department of justice during an investigation to an alleged state departmt leaker who had been accused of revealing sensitive information about north korea's nuclear program. committee chairman bob goodlaw told fox quote, i find the lack of leadshiership at the departm of justice extremely alarming. ththe deceptive and misleading testimony of attorney general eric holder is unfortunately just the most recent example in a long list of scandals that have plagued the department. joining us tonight, congressman james langford from the hoe oversight committee, alsoon the budget committee and chairman of the house republican policy committee. congressman, great to have you with us. chairman goodlatte of the judiciary committee saying effectively the attorney general of the united states is lying to congss. >> yeah. he obviously gave us testimony that wasot consistentith the truth. we can very definitelyay that. he came and said that he had n even contemplated any kind of reporter as a susct, then we findut days later not only had he contempl

chief washington correspondent james rosen has tonight's top story. >> reporter: in the nearly 12 months since a premeditated attack at two u.s. installations in benghazi killed four americans, including the ambassador to libya, not a single terrorist has been brought to justice. at the state department, an investigation by the accountability review board, arb, resulted in four employees being placed on administrative leave. now secretary of state john kerry ordered all four reassigned to different jobs. >> clearly things could have been done better. i think that's patently obvious to everybody that followed this almost a year now, but again, we have to let the facts lead where they may and these are people with real lives and real careers and we can't just take action that's not warranted against them to make us all feel better. >> reporter: eric boswell was the highest ranking, he resigned his post. another senior official testified in deposition six months ago, the only court testimony on benghazi to date that he didn't know why he was singled out. >> i have not seen the classified ve

let's go go to immigration and rosen. hearing this immigration reform bill is going to die and nothing is going to happen. is that true? >> well, it could prove to be true, bill this is not the typical story out of wash where you have gridlock we're looking at here is republican on republican violence. the biggest republican champions for comprehensive immigration bill guys like marco rubio view the house speaker john boehner as an agreement we need a comprehensive solution to immigration. you can't deport 12 million people. he we don't want revisit this every legislative session. they know boehner can't corral a majority of house republicans so what boehner is doing is he's going to wait out august recess before coming back to the subject so and he his flock don't get pounded they didn't do anything at all for immigration. conservative rank and file tell me this won't get him very far. >> bill: all right. soits not going to come off the main bill for a vote you don't say, the rest of the year they're going just -- . >> u

i thought james rosen's piece made that point quite well.f the reasons that weighs on the side of people like charles that say support the military in egypt is that the muslim brotherhood and others are targeting coptic christians and others, and the military may be the last line of defense, so there's not a real ethnic cleansing or religious based cleansing of christians in those countries. >>> next up, an incredibly brutal, senseless crime, and how it is being covered. my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long and i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. >>> do you have reaction to the christopher lane case? >> i am not familiar with that. >> in ok

james rosen at the state department with john kerry's big moment on the world stage. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry and a president on a very hot and lonely seat. good evening, ed. >> reporter: that's right, good evening, doug. a president that came to power opposing war tonight is on the verge of unilateral military action. after days of the commander in chief laying low on syria and twice letting his secretary of state take the lead, president obama called the gas attack in syria a challenge to the world, so he tasked himself as reluctant warrior, stressing this will not be another iraq by insisting any action will neither include boots on the ground nor an open ended commitment. >> i assure you nobody ends up being more war weary than me, when you have a regime that's willing to use weapons that are prohibited by international norms on their own people, including children, that they're held to account. >> reporter: his reset with russia in tatters at the united nations, and his ally in britain unable to deliver support for a coalition, the n

we have fox team coverage, james rosen at the state department has u.s. reaction to the renewed bloodshed. we begin with leland vitter in the middle east. >> reporter: hi, shannon. good morning. there's a tense calm on the streets in cairo, this is the scene in the past couple hours as there's overwhelming military presence on the street, the imposed curfew appears to be taking hold. anyone venturing out risks immediate arrest, these images are stark contrast from the near warfare we saw earlier today. from the air, cairo looked like an urban battlefield, smoke masking horror on the ground as bulldozers backed by hundreds of riot police are firing tear gas, smashed into protest camps set up by the muslim brotherhood following the army coup. the brotherhood claims sit ins and demanding morsi returned to power were peaceful, but documenting them firing ak-47s at security forces, men in uniform fired back. by noon, doctors reported hospitals overrun with countless injured and many dead. we are facing a massacre or even a war of genocide, claimed muslim broth

still with me are michael moynihan from the daily beast, jay rosen and, john cassidy. john, i want to go to you. one of the things when you see these sales over the last week, for a time you could forget how the media was funded. it somehow got to you every day and for a while you could just read it online and it was like a fact of life. i think now we're seeing there's actually a business model, right, and the business model in many cases is failing. >> sure. >> and as the business model fails, it changes either who owns it or how the news is delivered. i mean, you see on a lot of websites advertising or advertising is harder to distinguish from the actual content and it's an enormous amount of our informational resources. >> "the washington post" sort of embolizes the old model. they could go national. they rely on local advertising and really dominate the washington market which they've always done in northern virginia and maryland, et cetera. and that was an incredibly lucrative and rewarding business model for years. warren buffett bought in, made a fortune on the

since he took office president obama decidedime it right to reduce mandatory minimal sentences, james rosen with our report. >> we in federal government can become smarter and tougher on crime. >> to thosens attorney general ericolder announced new guidelines for federal attorneys to follo low level nonviolent drug offensers, individuals with no ties to gangs, kin syndicater cartels. >> they do not serve public safety, they let's be honest, some of the enforcement priorities we've set had a destable rising effect on particular community, largely poor and of color. >> reporter: federal statistic show while american population grown by 33% since 1980, u. prison population has grown by almost 800%, and african-americans make up 12% of u.s. population, they comprise nearly 39% of all federal and state prison inmates. holder cited come saying, in directing jusce department to consider early release for elderly inmates who are non-violent and have unevent fully served significant portions of their sentences. >> it will enable to us use our limited to resources to house those who pose a greatest t

james rosen has spent the day at the state department trying to get answers. another warning here, this report also contains disturbing video. >> reporter: as the syrian regime assaulted rebel positions in the damascus suburb not far from where an alleged chemical weapons attack killed up to 1800 people on wednesday, the obama administration with held judgment on whether or not the chemical weapons were used. they still reserve opinion on whether or not they can use them. and the u.s. has directed the intelligence community to nail down the facts. >> that means gathering information from witnesses on the ground. it means intelligence-gathering. it means open source reporting and examining that. and obviously, we've taken a close look at that. it means scientific gathering. >> reporter: but republican senator john mccain says he is confidence that the administration has used chemical weapons begin. critics speak out about whether or not he uses action against the weapons used in syria. the president is eroding credibility. >> if we do not act in a very, very cl

lou: james rosen. >> while the attorney general focuses on changing a criminal justice sim, fox news is reporting, that the obama administration's lax immigration policies are having major consequences on our boredder with mexico. -- border with mexico, illegaa immigrants are flooding processing centers, claiming asylum. to put detainees up in hotels at taxpayer's expense, this number of people now seeking asylum will swamp the system. they say, it is planned. and they believe in many instances coordinated. fox news correspondent william with our report. >> reporter: illegal ill grands are not typically treated to taxpayer funded hotel rooms but after 550 immigrants claimed asylum in one week near san diego, armed agents were forced to escort a flow of families to hotels. >> this has to have been orchestrated by somebody. this is beyond belief that dozens or hundreds of thousands of people would simultaneously decide they should go to the u.s. and make this climb. >> a i acai or is has a well for of future persecution. >> reporter: asylum claims stop any deportation proceedings among

james rosen of the state department reports on a surprise defeat in britain. we begin with what the administration is doing right now. >> reporter: we finally reached the pivotal moment where the obama administration is revealing its intelligence. to prove the syrian government is behind the attack. they are doing that as they make their case to congress even though they are not promising votes in congress. syrian president bashar al assad remained defiant denying his forces used chemical weapons. while white house officials hit hard with questions about another iraq insisted they have an air tight case over last week's mass chemical attack. >> these international norms are important. and it is not appropriate for totalitarian dictators to flout them with impugnity. >> reporter: a key republican is backing the president up on the intelligence but charges the consultation has been more like checking a box. >> i think the facts will be on the president's side but he needs buy in from congress. >> we send a shot across the bow saying stop doing this, that can hav

and now, we will hear from peter rosen, the german counsel general. >> thank you so much. and thank you, especially mr. mayor for gracing this ceremony with your presence tha, is appreciated and i would like to thank individually the chief of the police and the chief of the fire department for joining us here today and for interrupting their important businesses for joining us here at this ceremony, ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming and also to my colleagues from russia and from insurance, this is a great honor for me. i think and i will be very brief. i think that this is really a day of which we can be of which many of us can be very proud. but, probably most of all, i think that he must be very proud to see this beautiful bust now in this wonderful position standing in city hall because he has been working so long on this project. and i really would like to commend him and thank him for his tenacity. of course there are many more that i have to think, the artists and the sponsors and the political leadership of the city who all have supported this project b

james rosen with the news live in washington. james?is, good evening, just three years ago, every sign was that the obama administration was inclined to approve keystone. these days, president obama is openly ridiculing republican force touting the jobs the project would create. >> they keep on talking about this, an oil pipeline coming down from canada, that's estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs. that's not a jobs plan. >> they mocked the prompt and the jobs that it would create. i don't know how he can look measures in the eye and struggling and think there is anything to joke about. >> in fact, the state department, which is evaluating the project estimates the keystone could produce 42,000 jobs over the first two years of construction. some see the president favoring the environmental movement over big labor, which supports keystone. >> he can give them workforce development moneys. there are different types of tax breaks and other industries. there are other ways that he can appease labor with the environmental community, k

james rosen. james rosen. an unindicted co-conspirator named so by the justice department for the crime of journalism, for simply trying to investigate these stories. an accusation backed up by the attorney general of the united states. if that's not an outrage to the journalism community, what could be? last time there was a story done on that? june 6th. what about the wiretapping of ap reporters? going into their files. that's a whole company they went after, and we don't know if it's just ap, but we know it was ap you'd think there would be outrage. i want to know what the administration is doing to me. how dare they wiretap my phones and get my e e-mails. i'm a journalist. how dare they do this. i want answers. last time they did that, they don't want answers. where does it leave us? it leaves us today point that barack obama can do the politically impossible. he can dismiss these as phoney scandals. people are stunned. how can you dismiss the murder of an american border agent as a phoney scandal? tell th

james rosen at the state department looks at the possible blow back the action may carry for our allies and adversaries. we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry with where things stand now. hello, ed. >> reporter: good evening, bret. fox learned tomorrow the white house will brief top house and senate members about key intelligence involving syria, and also possible strikes that are planned against syria. what we're still waiting for is actual report to the public about what that intelligence shows and we're still waiting for the president to make his case. as president obama spoke out on the peaceful, nonviolent legacy of dr. martin luther king junior, another day passed without him speaking out on whether he is about to launch military strikes against syria. the commander in chief has thus far left his public case to vice president biden and others, while his counterparts in britain and france have spoken out. legislatures in both countries are coming back for emergency sessions. >> interesting to me the british parliament and french parliament have convened to discuss

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alisyn: so we want to bring in now james rosen at the state department. will be talking about? >> reporter: this is shaping up as secretary of state's kerry biggest moment on the national stage since he assumed office in fenn. his aides tell me drafts his remarks on his own ipad and seek to build off the remarks he made on monday. to that effect he will try to lay the predicate for the actions that president obama is still said to be weighing. here is what to look for. first and foremost, some kind of a preview of unclassified intelligence dossier that we're told the administration will release to the public by the close of business today. second, some indication of the scope that this campaign will be taking when u.s. missiles or planes are put into motion here in syria. we have herd all along it will are narrowly tailored. expect the secretary to make that point as well. whether he will give us any sign of the legal justification the administration will rely on this kind of operation absent any approval from the u.n. security council or the united state