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This lead at the opposition, a former director of public prosecutions, mr speaker, spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and notjimmy savile. theres no evidence to support what mrjohnson said. and in her resignation letter, munira mirza writes... "i believe it was wrong for you to imply this week that keir starmer was personally responsible for allowing jimmy savile to escape justice." "there was no fair or reasonable basis for that assertion." and munira mirzas says her resignation isn...

And i, the taxpayer, paid to oppose the government. thats of the leading opposition is, paid by the taxpayer to oppose the government, and what you get is you cant even walk in the street without being vilified and threatened. and if our society is treating democracy as nastily and disgusting is that, than the prime minister, what he says in the prime minister, what he says in the house of commons has to bear some responsibility, and on that basis, he should withdraw them remark. ., ~ , basis, h...

Them from issuing subpoenas to have journalists testify except in very, very rare cases and what jeff sessions is call more reporters to the sand and prosecute them if they refuse to testify. and he also talked about prosecuting journalists. >> theyre just keeping the door open to the possibility. does that concern you, matt? >> i think what we heard from rod rosenstein this morning and what we heard from jeff sessions is that they are doing a review on what their authority is and what it is not...

>> john king, how rare is it for -- whether its intelligence agencies, fbi -- for there to be leaks from, you know, all around in washington? >> there are always leaks in washington. this is the way it goes. you want to go back to the pentagon papers. you want to go back to any big story in washington. there are leaks in washington. go back to watergate. there are leaks in washington. often those leaks shed light on something that the public deserves to know. are they sometimes controversial? of...

The pointing out of journalists, he might have said i will say this on tv. he sees the peril on prosecuting journalists. >> maybe it was not just groups who could speak out about the elections? could it be that there were other groups targeted who opposed administration policy priorities? israeli groups that supported the west bank settlers? made them do something like produce 23,000 patients to sign off on it. could it be because he supported

Expires in september. its unclear at this point exactly when the nomination will officially be announced. meanwhile, house republicans are demanding answers from attorney general eric holder about a comment he made two weeks ago under oath. g.o.p. lawmakers are giving holder one week to explain this testimony about prosecuting journalists as part of a leak investigation. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that i have eve...