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California woman that claims donald trump who she has never met wanted to marry her in the 80s. she claims shes a victim of extortion with her home being buzzed by planes and helicopters. last year the judge said she was a burden on the court system for filing frivolous lawsuits. also are handwritten notes. one is about the taxi business where cohen had substantial investments. other pages had jumbled word fragments. in a court filing, the u.s. attorney told kemba wood that 16 pages of cohens sh...

Identify him by name. he knew what he was doing. for whenever reason, for why ever he got off on being a source and whether he found it exciting or whether in part to impress the journalist or whether in part he was aligned against the president of the current administration, i have no idea. its all speculation. but from an operational standpoint he signed serious agreements to handle the classified information and broke those agreements. >> shannon: so buzz feed where one reporter was caught up...

Conflict. >> the disclosure valley watkins set off alarm bells in the news business. and willing to secretly abstain at journalists email records. this will endanger confidentiality to their sources making it harder to shine on much-needed light on government action. and james wolf was arrested yesterday. she was a reporter for buzz feed when she broke the story on carter page, for trump advisor met with the russian spy. watkins and will exchange 124 electronic messages that day, spoke for 7 min...

Border between sports and politics. but we begin with a shocking allegation that a "new york times" reporter has been in bed with a source of accused of leaking sensitive information. "the new york times" has the department of justice has seized phone and email records of ali watkins. and according to the paper, she has been in a 3-year relationship with the former director of security for the senate intel committee james wolfe. he was arrested yesterday and the doj charged him with lying for de...

Lou holtz on the disappearing border between sports and politics. but we begin with a shocking allegation that a "new york times" reporter has been in bed with a source of accused of leaking sensitive information. "the new york times" has the department of justice has seized phone and email records of ali watkins. and according to the paper, she has been in a 3-year relationship with the former director of security for the senate intel committee james wolfe. he was arrested yesterday and the doj...

Wolf had contact with three reporters. the one we know about is the woman on the screen now, ali watkins of the new york times and formerly worked for politico and buzz feed and reported on carter page the former trump campaign volunteer and she acknowledges she had a three-year romantic relationship with james wolf and the new york times is she is contending she never got classified information from her ex-boyfriend and told her employers about the relationship. >> bill: is this tied to the pre...

People on both sides, republicans and democrats say its a -- tries to be a nonpartisan committee. they do a pretty good job of that. he was as nonpartisan as they get. but he also had a romantic relationship for this woman who is a reporter for "the new york times." >> if youre looking to defend press freedom, maybe this isnt your favorite case. a lot of readers are wondering, shes at politco and buzz feed before "the new york times," throughout the period had a relationship with him. >> jon: an...

I am a big, big believer in freedom of the press. but im also a believer in classified information. >> msnbcs garrett haake is outside the courthouse for us. also with us is the ethics chair at the the pointeder int institute for media studies. garrett, lets start with you. tell bus this case. >> ali, as you pointed out this case goes back to a number of different reports that that rotter had in particular at buzz feed. information that the government believes must have come from jim wolfe, the ...

They are a recipient of classified or sensitive information. give me your take on this. >> there are a number of troubling questions raised in this case. in the first place, the reporter, al lee watkins, who was at buzz feed at the time. the issue of concern -- apparently the fbi wanted to know how she got a story for buzz feed that russian spies tried the recruit carter page, an adviser to donald trump for his campaign way back in 2013. she published this story last year. and fbi began investig...

The obama administration did conduct more of these justice department leak investigations than all previous administrations put together. that began what seems to be a trend that may well have intensified under -- its worrisome -- under the trump administration. jeff sessions says he now has three-times as many leak investigations going on as were left open by the obama administration. that tends to suggest that this -- this is intensifying. and it does have a chilling effect. this particular ca...