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coming up on r t the us justice department spawning on journalists the associated press reveals that the d.o.j. has been taking their phone records for months now supporters of the first amendment are demanding answers for this violation of the fourth estate more on the fallout coming up. and the spy games continue us already is in moscow accuse an american diplomat of being an undercover cia agent there are even calls for the suspects expulsion from russia we'll have the latest on the case in just a bit and the supreme court yesterday sided with monsanto against an indiana farmer it's a real life case of david versus goliath we'll hear what the farmer thinks of the ruling that's later in the show. it's tuesday may fourteenth eight pm in washington d.c. lopez and you are watching r t well we in with the latest developments coming from the associated press news organization the u.s. justice department sees the records of twenty phone lines connecting journalists and editors and ranging from washington d.c. to new york and even hartford connecticut between the months of april and may o

the us justice department says it spied on journalists to protect americans but the seizure of phone records from one hundred associated press employees is causing shoot. fourteen countries try their luck by seeking permanent observer status at the arctic council this in order to gain access to the region's vast untapped energy resources.

today and scandal on a day in court was widely seen as a damage limitation exercise they do us justice department came up with a new reason for why a topic in defiance of one hundred journalists claiming it was necessary to protect americans from dangerous information leaks but norman so on and on from the fan media watch group that was all about teaching a lesson to whistleblowers that is really one of the last refuge of when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark about and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this is a ministration which has already waged a larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envoy up and tried to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . coming up next our report on the b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico. a fairly dickinson university study has been revealed to twenty nine percent of americans

this theory he has been using and that the justice department has been using.dispirit impact sing statistics to prove discrimination. if you have racially disproportionate outcomes, ipso facto is very disturbing so you have people like this obama, holder and perez putting forth this. people using government powers to save one group over another. these folks seem to more interested in making up for the past than in n a level playing field. it's very disturbing. >> paul: democrats seem to be still back go perez but how significant is the vote on the floor? >> i think the republicans are going to push to have 60 votes for the nomination. you had senior members against the nomination. grassley and hatch and cornyn and others. hatch said a lot of people don't feel that he has been straightforward with us. this is the first time that identifying one of core problems with this nomination. mr. perez is telling one story under oath but documentary evidence is telling another story about this st. paul deal. >> paul: do you think you should be confirmed? >> absolutely not

the three of us justice department people went in the room -- >> just give us the names of the two other people. >> jack goldsmith and patrick philbin, associate deputy general. i sat down in an armchair by the head of the attorney general's bed, the two other justice department people stood behind me. mrs. ashcroft stood by the bed holding her husband's arm, and we waited, and it was only a matter of minutes that the door opened and in walked mr. gonzalez carrying an envelope and mr. card. they came over and stood by the bed, greeted the attorney general very briefly, then mr. gonzalez began to discuss why they were there, to seek his approval for a matter, and explained what the matter was, which i will not do, and attorney general ashcroft then stunned me. he lifted his head off the pillow, and in very strong terms expressed his view of the matter, rich in both substance and fact, which stunned me, drawn from the hour-long meeting we'd had a week earlier and in very strong terms expressed himself and then laid his head back down on the pillow, seemed spent and said to them, but that d

this theory that he's been using and that the justice department has been using is very disturbing, paul known as disparate impact theory. it's using statistics to prove immigration, disregarding intense -- if you have -- >> rate of example -- >> if you have racially disproportionate outcomes, ipso facto means discrimination must be taking place. this is very disturbing, and it's disturbing that you have people like obama and holder and perez putting forward this sort of thinking. we've had a long history in this country of people in positions of authority using government powers to favor one group over another. these folks seem to be more interested in making up for the past than in a level playing field. >> democrats seem still to be backing perez. how significant is mitch mcconnell's statement on the sfloor. >> i think it's very significant. it signals that the republican are still going to push to have 60 votes for this nomination. you had some senior members come out against it. mr. mcconnell, senator cornyn, senator rubio, grassley, and hatch. senator hatch said something very impo

us. justice department says we didn't do anything improper. they say, look, we can get your records. you made the phone call. phone companies have them. we can get them. do you think something illegal was done? >> i don't know because we don't know anything. they have seized secretly the phone records for two months of ap phones, 20 different phone lines and, you know, i have no way to know if that's illegal or not. >> attorney general holder said that and the deputy attorney general wrote you a letter saying this, we are required to negotiate with the media organizations in advance of issues subpoenas unless doing so would pose a threat to the integrity of the investigation. they say they were looking in to try to find the person that leaked the information to you of a cia operation in yemen. they said they need to find the person that did that and prosecute that person and saying that telling you going after the phone records posed a substantial threat. would it have? >> so i'm a journalist and i ask questions. what kind of threat would that have posed? what could we have done to p

coming up on r t the us justice department spying on journalists the associated press reveals that the d.o.j. has been taking their phone records for months now supporters of the first amendment are demanding answers for this violation of the fourth estate more in the fall while calling on. and the spy games continue us already is in moscow accuse an american diplomat of being an undercover cia agent there are even calls for the suspects expulsion from russia we'll have the latest on the case in just a bit and the supreme court yesterday sided with monsanto against an indiana farmer it's a real life case of david versus goliath we'll hear what the farmer thinks of the ruling that's later in the show.

former justice department attorney tells us whether or no the attorney general can wistand yet anotheroversy. ♪ lou: the president today reaffirmed his support and nt ty confidence in attorney-general eric holder despite concerns g over the justice department's seizure of the associated press reporters and editors phone uest records.n our next guest served in the obama justice department and has subpoenaed records from a news r organization and tse share part of that with us tonight.iec oining us is christian adams, s former u.s. department of ght, j justice attorney author of the book and justice. good to have you with us.oo >> thank you. lou: let's turn to first what has happened here.l the internal revenue service tht site is about to become an even to b bigger scandal because of what e the administration appartly tried to do which was to ignore the fact that the woman who led that tax-exempt division was, i fact, left in placeat, of all departments, theaffordability -- the afforble carr unit that will be managing 16,500 irs agents added his support the individual mandate and obamac

and information content used to emerge regarding the department of justice keeping tabs on journalist and just who approved of those investigations into who journalists communicate with via phone and email well more than three weeks ago news broke that the department of justice seized phone records of the associated press reporters to find out who had leaked national security information then it came to light that fox white house correspondent james rosen was facing charges as a coconspirator under the espionage act for obtaining classified information from a state department source back in two thousand and nine president obama said that

us. the justice department not only subpoena it of fox news reporters private e-mails but also said james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and slash or coconspirator coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting the routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department's application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between a state department employee identified as the alleged the her and james rosen so these orders have established that the communication between the two has led to rows and writing an article in june two thousand and nine which said north korea planned to respond to. you when sanctions with another nuclear test and the alleged leaker in the state department was in the view of verification and compliance and the implementation they deal with arms control nonproliferation and does armament agreements and then monitor are the countries compliance with them so that is the story wow how

on sunday, they said the justice department used security badge access records to track the reporter's trips to the state department. two days later, they reported dozens of numbers were monitored by the doj, five of which appear to be associated with fox news. on wednesday, they denied claims the home phone of rosen's parents was also monitored. although, holder recused himself from a separate investigation into the leak of classified information into the ap. he made no mention at the time of approving the targeting of mr. rosen, president obama, meanwhile, addressing a speech at the national defense university. >> journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. our focus must be on those who brake the will you. that's why i've called obvious congress to pass a media shield law to guard against government overreach. and i've raised these issues with the attorney general who shafers my korn. so he's agreed to review existing department of justice guidelines, governing investigations that involve reporters. >> sticking with president obama, he's moving to reign in the use

uest records.n our next guest served in the obama justice department and has subpoenaed records from a news r organization and those share part of that with usning us is christian adams, s former u.s. department of ght, j justice attorney, author of the book and justice. good to have you with us.oo >> thank you. lou: let's turn to first what has happened here.l the internal revenue service tht site is about to become an even to b bigger scandal because of what e the administration apparently tried to do which was to ignore the fact that the woman who led that tax-exempt division was, i fact, left in place at, of all departments, the affordability -- the affordable carr unit tha will be managing 16,500 irs agents added his support the individual mandate and obamacar itself. i it could not get much worse forr that one small unit, could it? >> probably not. this is an administration that u knows how to use power and lovet it.bl ide they put their most reliable, ideological, seasoned career bureaucrats into the most ar important places, and that is was happening in health care act . lou: this may, in fact, be the s death nail for affordable care

used to get leakers and rosen's a leaky to use legal phraseology so if the bomb and ministration releases justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across and all the years i've been doing this. and in closing i mentioned your book when began the interview what do you hope that readers get from your book well the purpose of the book is to learn the lessons from the pentagon papers which is hate and the president messes with national security is going to be in deep yogurt wake up america and wake up president obama the country is going to be in bad shape and president obama he don't go after julian assad and call him a coconspirator that's. that for everybody so send a mockup here about. you know it's a good idea if you say mr goodell thank you very much for your time thank you for inviting me. a clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road full of dangerous. clear evidence from north to south. the roots of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting f

us off tonight. lisa, thanks. >>> and now to this other front the justice department is defending itself tonight after we learned the feds have tracked more than 20 phone lines used by the associated press, their reporters and editors, including their offices, homes and cell phones, a move that news organizations have called an outrageous and unconstitutional overreach. our justice correspondent pete williams paying us a visit here in our new york studios tonight with that story. pete, good evening. >> brian, good evening to you. this is far from the first time that the justice department has gotten a reporter's telephone records, a power that the courts have upheld, but what makes this difference is the apparent breadth of the records involved, covering phone lines that the ap says were used by scores of its reporters. the justice department insisted that it acted because american lives were at risk and tracked the phone calls of ap reporters and editors because it had no options left to find out who in the government was the source for an ap story about a highly classified effort a year ago to foil a terror pl

use. we're looking for captions for this photo. i have my own. we'll show the best ones later in the show. >>> let's get to our top story. the justice department under fire for using a secret subpoena to obtain two months of phone records from the associated press' reporters and editors. more than 20 separate phone lines including home phones and cell phones. and the main number for the a.p. and the house of representatives press gallery. more than 100 journalists were subject to this investigation. a senior official tells nbc news, the subpoena was necessary to avoid a, quote, substantial threat to the integrity of an ongoing investigation. that investigation is linked to the leak of information about a cia operation in yemen that stopped a terrorist attack. as many as six a.p. reporters who worked on that story were among those targeted by the government. and in a letter to attorney general eric holder, the a.p.'s president writes, in part, there can be no possible justification for such an overboard collection of the telephone communications of the associated press and its reporters. we regard this action by the department of justice as a s

what word would you use if the justice department got a subpoena catherine rarge, bret baier, catherine herridge and all other reporters who have done fine work on national security. >> i would use the phrase abuse of power this they did that. here's the difference. and i'm two minds on this. we know that the fbi is investigating national information leaks. just like the weeks thing. very, very similar to that and also we know the story crerntsz around a cia operation in yemen. all right? that found its way into the associated press. of the fbi is trying to find out who leaked the classified information to the a.p. now, you can agree or disagree whether the fbi should be doing that it's legal to do it and they're doing it? >> absolutely. >> bill: here is where it gets me furious. holder, the attorney general, recused himself from this investigation because he himself might have leaked it all right? he says i'm not going to do it because i might be a target of the fbi's interviews. so i'm going to give it to my deputy. so then holder going i don't know anything about it that's not true.

resolution and use the least s,t intrusive means, and most of alr , you have to have the attorney general personally sig off on your request, which she did for me. this justice departmenton't have the ey attorney-general sign-off. l they don't use the least use t restrictive means. use the most restrictive means an cast a gigantic neon, it is . lou: and in ter of frighting, you were also dited. >> yea %-least your political views, ad collusion with this highly policized administration. is this administration political orgization ts h now taken control of a federal government that -- there a day its seems tha this fedal government circumstance is attacking values, traditions and laws of this country and our citizens, as if they are warring on citens across the board, in this government. >> the are the people that founders feared, i saw it haening up close when i worked inustice department, the attitude toward government is a perk of power, you impose your rld view on the country. and now america starting to see it. and that is hardly vinditing it is very disappointing but, these scandals, ap, a irs this is what these peoplere about, this isot mismanage am this is a musc

the justice department being blasted after using a secret subpoena to obtain months of phone records from the associated press without the a.p.'s knowledge. >> obviously, we're distressed that the justice department felt the need to seize our records and not tell us about it. >> so the very head of the a.p. firing off a letter to attorney general eric holder, saying there's no possible justification for what the a.p. is calling a serious interference. >> accident waiting to become a nuclear event. >> so the new specter of big brother looming at the irs is being condemned by the left and by the right. a house committee planning a friday hearing to dig deeper into the tax agency's tea party probe. and in the senate mitch mcconnell said this in just the last hour. >> this morning i'm calling on the president to make available completely and without restriction everyone, everyone who can answer the questions we have as to what's been going on at the irs. who knew about it, and how high it went. >> so the white house besieged by lots of questions. in a staring contest with the so-called se

used the same wig sup plier over the last 30 years. or maybe it's the same wig. >>> president obama is standing by the justice department's use of secret subpoenas to investigate potential leaks by members of the government. during a news conference yesterday, the president told reporters there must be a balance between the first amendment and national security. >> u.s. national security is dependent on those folks being able to operate with confidence that folks back home have their backs. so they're not just left out there. high and dry. and potentially put in even more danger than they may already being. and so, i make no apologies. i don't think the american people would expect me as commander in chief not to be concerned about information that might compromise their missions or get them killed. >> the president says he has complete confidence in eric holder, dismissing calls for his resignation. >>> and the president addressed fallout from if targeting of conservative groups. a second irs official is stepping down. he follows the agency's acting commissioner who announced his resignation earlier this week. a white house budget off

us the u.s. justice department has admitted to spying on associated press reporters a peek and damage the sweeping phone surveillance as an invasion of privacy under threat to the freedom of press is going to check out more now on the story and its implications. the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers if you believe more than one hundred of its journalists may have been caught up in this surveillance sweep the a.p. boss called it a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations operate the justice department acknowledged having spied on a.p. journalists but would not say why it sought the records they cited an ongoing investigation a peace process and said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation now the guess is that the investigation had to do with a.p. is reporting on a cia operation in yemen last year and the government's possible hundred fleet the administration's unprecedented one food leaks

us the u.s. justice department has defended its spying on associated press saying it was necessary to find leads that could endanger american people these phone records of about one hundred journalists including their private numbers were seized sparking outrage in the media worldwide the white house has distanced itself from the probe saying if we knew nothing about it all she is is of all reports sound scandal. it's being called an unprecedented government intrusion the justice department secretly collected two months of telephone records from the associated press and its reporters. a.p. believes this story prompted the secret investigation the cia uncovered a plot to bomb a u.s. bound airliner a plot originated in yemen and was carried out by al qaeda they arabian peninsula by reporting this al qaeda was put on notice that the cia had an inside look at their activities be a piece as the justice department did not say why they needed the information but says among the nearly two dozen telephone records collected at least five of them were from reporters working on the story in question this wa

us. up next year, label the nationa security threat by attorney general holder and the justice department reporter james rose and now has the backing of the president of the united states. where was the when he was needed ? and later, the speaker of the house blasted the president ove the obama era scandal. joining me to talk about the speaker's words and his likely actions next. ♪ the ocean gets warmer. the peruvian anchovy harvest ffers. it raises the price of fishmeal, cattle feed and beef. y mellon turns insights likethe into powerful investment strategies. for a university endowment. it funds a marine biologist... winvested in the world. anchovy. bny mellon. ...amelia... neil and buzz: for teaching us that you can't create the future... and with that: you're history. inead ofooking behind... dea is looking beyond. 80 thousand ofs investing billions... in everything fromomhe best experiences below... to the finest comforts above. we're not simply saluting history... we're making it. it's delicious. so now we've turned hetoffee into a bins. my goal was to take an idea and make it happe

department of justice, the state department. et cetera. we have seen that now. three different incidents that basically use the government as an instrument of political activity. to target your political opponents. to make life difficult for people that are saying things you don't like to make life difficult for whistle blowers that are saying things about the state department that you don't like. and i believe that all that comes from the top of any organization. so i think that's where the questions are increasingly leading. and it's embarrassing for the country. these are things you typically see in the third world unestablished republicans and. you don't see that here. that's what's troubling about the recent string of events. >> bill: it's one of two things. either, it did come from the highest order of the irs and maybe somebody else told them to do it.

us. if you're depressed though allegedly necessary to plug a dangerous leak this according to the u.s. justice department or as one analyst told us so you could just be a way to scare whistle blows and stop them working with a.p. i'll take a closer look at that in a few minutes time plus. the no we're not talking about. rain that's a description is being given to you. and this important the submarine to run into trouble we've come here to the baron furnace where the submarines designed and built to find out what's been going on but more on that story coming up. new orleans police are seeking a teen suspect over the mass shooting at a mother's day parade on sunday which left nineteen people wounded the incident comes as president obama continues his push for a clamp down on gun owners but his answers more important i reports far giving no ground. it's the national wound that never stops. nineteen americans including two ten year olds were hospitalized after gunfire erupted in new orleans during a mother's day parade yet another mass shooting in the united states this time amid a national debate on gun con

. >> the premise of using the justice department to intimidate or muzzle journalists led to some veryomfortable exchanges today involving the nation's top law enforcement official. chief intelligence correspondent katherine harridge shows us. >> on the seizure of associated press phone records, affecting 100 journalists, the questions were direct. >> why was such a broad scope approved? >> i am not familiar with the reasons why the -- why the subpoena was constructed. >> the ap was amenable to working with you on this matter. >> again, mr. chairman, i don't know what happened there. >> attorney general eric holder confirmed his deputy made the call on the ap subpoenas, prompting one republican to complain -- >> this committee has been frustrated for at least the last 2 1/2 years, if not the last 4 1/2 years, that there doesn't seem to be any acceptance of responsibility in the justice department. >> democrats also voiced their discomfort. >> it seems to me clear that the actions of the department have in fact impaired the first amendment. >> one democrat called out the republicans' le

new polling is out that despite the irs scandal, lingering questions over benghazi and the justice department's use of secret subpoenas, president obama's approval rating hasn't suffered one bit. it's actually gone up. according to cnn, 53% of americans approve of obama's job as president. that is up two points from april. on the irs scandal, 71% find the agency's behavior unacceptable. and just 42% are satisfied with the president as hands willing of benghazi. a majority of americans believe the outrage on the right is justified. so no overreach in terms of public perception as of yet. 54% say republican law makers are acting appropriate fli response to the irs scandal and 59% believe the same is true when it comes to benghazi. now let's get an update on that train accident late last week. actually, it's on the weekend, on friday. train service for several major cities expected to be a mess for days after a weekend train collision in the state of connecticut. the ntsb found the two metro north trains were going 70 miles an hour just before they came in contact on friday evening in fairfield, conne

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there's no doubt there idea of using the justice department to go in and snoop on what reporters are doing has exacerbated things. >> "behind the curtain call" that got the most traffic, the most attention looked at the fact that there's been a real shift in the balance of power between press room and the west wing. we talked to people who worked in previous administrations with the new fragmented immediate yad that the old organizations don't have the cloud they did before and as a result there's clout for the west wing which, as jim said, is making videos, making >> and michael curry under clinton said "they get away with stuff i never dreamed of being able to get away with." >> rose: but there's also this. when politico first came out, i think it was the campaign manager, david plouffe who dropped it down on who dropped it down on david pfeiffer's desk and said "this is trouble." what did he see? >> i think to be blunt they would say it now. they would say it's trouble in that here's a group of reporters obsessed about politics. they're going to obsess about process. they're going

here we have the situation where the obama administration is using the department of justice use using fbi to go after journalists doing their jobs in a legitimate fashion. >> michael, don't you find it odd that the media is now freaking out about freedom of the bless when at the same time the obama administration when the bush administration was invading our privacy and doing illegal wiretaps, no one was saying anything. there was news in the independent press but the mainstream media doesn't care about that. >> the mainstream media broke the wiretapping story. i'm not surprised. the white house press corp are expletive idiots. i write about it in my book" panic." >> mark: they're in bed with the administration whatever side of the aisle ends up in the office. >> there are talented amazing reporters in the white house like jay capper, i could go down the list. i don't want to rat them out as being friends of mine. but i'm serious. i am not surprised that this occurred. look, there was outrage but there was outrage about surveillance on the media. but this is a direct ago on the associ

journalists and free speech speech activists in the us ranting on the justice department's probe into a fox news reporter the government's pulled a james rosen's of phone logs personal e-mails and security badge records over an alleged conspiracy rosen is charged with any crime and there's deep suspicion that national security is now a pretext to keep america's reporters on a type of each he's a washington correspondent and she sure can. the u.s. justice department not only subpoena fox news reporters private e-mails but also said that james rosen was quote an aider and abettor and or coconspirator in the alleged crime so these words appear in a court document basically accusing the reporter of breaking the law for conducting routine business of reporting on government secrets in the forty four pages of the justice department application for the search warrant of mr rosen's g.-mail account you see e-mail exchanges between the state department employee identified as the alleged the courier and james rosen so the authorities have established that the communication between the two has le

mean that really is for and try to name because it's usually used to get leakers so if the bomb and ministration releases justice department thinks that they can use criminal laws to get journalists because they're coconspirators i mean honestly that's one of the worst things i've come across them all the years i've been doing this the new yorker magazine has pulled a page from wiki leaks to protect those who want to share something the u.s. government doesn't want revealed it launched an open source dropbox where people can send leaked documents and messages without their identities ever being known the underlying code for strongbox was co-created by our assess inventor and open source activist aaron swartz he committed suicide in january at the age of twenty six while facing a federal trial and thirty five years in prison u.s. prosecutors were targeting swartz for downloading millions of online academic articles journalists are employed with the responsibility of informing the public and holding a lectern officials accountable the first amendment of the constitution protects press freedom but all one has to do is look at