ryan lizza and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for "chicago sun times." also made clear these were dzohokhar tsarnaev's friends. >> people got it right and there was, you know, a change in the tone of the coverage. people being more careful. much more of a race to be first when something is dramatic and breaking as it was back on april 15th. you know, i think, also, what the media hadn't gotten credit for, a lot of the cleanup that was done after the fact. "new york times" did a fantastic piece that went through and explained almost every single detail of what was initially reported. a lot coming from government sources that turned out wrong and correcting the record. so, you know, as much as we beat up on ourselves and the media and rightfully so. when we get stuff wrong, we have a pretty good self-corrective mechanism in this business and a lot of good reporting that told viewers, told leaders what was initially wrong and most from government officials that was passed on. >> for example, "new york times" had done a very good job of this story saying the

and here in washington, tim carney, senior political columnist for the washington examiner and ryan lizza, washington correspondent for the new yorker and a cnn contributor. ryan, you broke the news this week that justice had gone after several phone lines belonging to the fox news washington bureau. let's start with the latest developments. cnn and "the new york times" reporting last night that justice -- or you should say law enforcement officials say justice did notify three years ago news korp about the subpoena for the phone regards separate from james rosen's personal g mail account and news korp executives indicating that fox news was not informed. does this change the nature of this story? >> i don't think it changes that much. it adds a piece of information. when i called fox this week and asked them did they know that these five fox phone lines were targeted, a spokesperson said no, and they referred me to a previous statement. of it sounds like from what fox is saying now is that there was some kind of communications gap in between news korp, the parent company, and fox news, a

ryan lizza and "the new yorker" as we discussed went in and looked at his record, looked at the indictmente stolen car, an arrest for concealed weapons. looked at congressman issa's defense, often saying his brother who's had troubles with the law was the target of these investigations. also a lot of serious allegations about arson in a factory he owned although he says it was an accidental fire. even before coming -- >> just on that, sorry, before we move off, that warehouse and that fire seemed to coincide with him just before the fire raising his insurance policy from $100,000 to $400,000. >> that's right. he took out a significant increase in the insurance and there was also an accident report that "the new yorker" discovered that talked about the fact that the nature of the fire didn't match up with the kind of -- kind of accidental arson -- nonarson, i should say, accidental fire that could have occurred. on the oversight committee, i'm so glad you showed some of those clips just now because people have to understand a lot of those exchanges including congressman issa telling eric ho

ryan lizza a reporter for the new yorker magazine sent out a tweet this morning saying that this department on rozen makes all the other scandals look like quote, giant nothing burgers, unquote. the idea being here this is really a quantum leap, even for this administration. as green walled points out the obama administration has investigated and prosecute erred morprosecuted more leakers than all other presidents put together. rozen is a leaky, a recipient of leaks and now they are trying to go after him too. we are not even done yet. who knows what tomorrow's' news will bring. >> 50 more requests are denied under obama than bush. as we say in the news business this is having a chilling effect on news gathering. jon: that is the question. i mean does all of this scouring for information about reporters and their sources, what is the affect on journalism in this country? what do you think? >> i think it's having a chilling effect, it's going to make as the ap president said it's going to make people think twice before they talk to us. we live and breathe, our bread and butter is leaks and p

joined now by ryan lizza, washington correspondent for "the new yorker" magazine.oing to get some new life this week, or are we basically moving beyond that? >> i think if you have investigations going on in congress when congress starts subpoenaing stuff, they find something out, they find stuff out. yeah, the irs scandal is not going to go away. if these were stocks, i'd buy irs, james rosen scandal, benghazi, i feel republicans banked a lot on the talking points being the center of some kind of conspiracy, and, you know, i think that's sort of fizzled out. having said that, investigations will continue. we'll find new facts. >> james rosen being the fox news correspondent who was being investigated, really, by the justice department for a leak he received from an official at the state department. >> that case took an interesting turn this weekend, wolf. i've been making some calls on this today. the justice department said they told fox about these phone records, these subpoenas. at first, news corp., the parent company of fox says yes, we did, but we didn't tel