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General, all over this blasted planets just realized this isnt american democracy to do something like this. t >> first, how is this stuff ad mr. myre doing today? i mean, i know they had to work painstakingly long hours this week in order to get the paper out on wednesday without their equipment. and unfortunately, the tragedy of mr. meyers mom passing on saturday the day after the raid. >> theyre doing all right. today was a tough day. today was the day that joe and mayer was laid to rest. but...

A group of media companies had also sent a signed letter to marion police chief, gideon cody, condemning the raid, including msnbcs parent company, and we see universal. the raid was in response to information that one of the papers reporters received from a confidential source about eight local restaurant owners drivers license history, which was suspended after a drunk driving citation in 2008. the reporter tried to verify the tips to public records and the restaurant owner accused the paper o...

Justice for what has occurred. its great that the county attorney has finally woken up and realized the search was illegal, and avoided it, and weve got the documents, the computers, and the phones back. but you know, its like putting a tourniquet on your leg after you stepped on a land mine. the injuries already occurred. and the idea that were gonna get any justice out of the marion police department without suing them seems farfetched since the agenda for mondays city council meeting, the fir...

Records, just like, you want your insurance agent to be able to confirm that you dont have 100 traffic tickets because if you do, they are going to cancel your insurance. same thing here. reporters could verify information that is received. that is not identity theft. the chief is just flat wrong. >> what if, you know, what if it had been a more even handed search? was the search at all justified in your opinion, if it was not a raid. i understand mr. myers saying the point, this was like bringi...

This is a threat to democracy, not just a threat to journalism. >> i couldnt agree with you more. it certainly has a chilling effect, even if this is an unsuccessful raid, and the documents, the computers or everything, turned back. the message it sends is that things like this should never ever be normalized in our country. bernie roads, thank you so much, sir, for joining us tonight. greatly appreciate it. we are still follow the story and check back with you as it develops. >> thank you. >> m...

A young Palestinian has died from wounds sustained three days ago after Israeli military forces stormed the Balata refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank.

Investigators? the marion county record, the newspaper? what do you hope will come from the oversight of this investigation at the time? >> what we are hoping is there will be an investigation into, not the record, about the police. and the sheriffs office. we keep talking about the marion city police. the police chief there was, clearly, the instigator of this. he started the investigation. he applied for the warrant. he executed the warrant. in fact, katie, he personally went to the newspapers...

A news room, except in the most extreme and unusual circumstances. because journalism is not a crime. and all that the paper was doing was engaging in reaching investigative journalism. if i understand correctly, it went over and above by actually notifying the police they may have been provided a document unlawfully, and volunteered. that did not in fact published the documents, did their ordinary due diligence to verify the tip, and thats just routine journalism. none of this should have been ...

And that is notice to the newspaper of what is being sought, and provides an opportunity to go to court and contest it. and explain why the material is protected by a shield of law or privilege, to have a judge review that in advance, and have all the arguments passed out in open court, instead of a law enforcement showing up unannounced to conduct a raid with a search warrant to seize books, papers, notes, computers, cell phones. and i think its clear, theres no way to know what was looked at a...

Happen without cooperation from local leaders? >> well, at this point, you understand even though the equipment has been returned to the record, that underlying investigation is still going on. its been taken up by the kansas bureau of investigation. so until they issue their final report or their final findings on the matter, were probably not going to see much reaction on that local level. however, i certainly feel like, and many other people feel like the citys police chief, gideon cody, and ...