sometimes reaching out with her own whereas for stories. >> it is clearly a pure attempt to lie about the news. in one case we have the spokesman from the justice department e-mailing media matters and saying, in effect, why don't you do a story on this? i just saw something on fox, and why don't you attack it? i'm sure they're watching this right now, there's no question about it. >> six months ago she, indeed, watched "america's newsroom." in that segment phillips made the claim -- vision rusely disputed by the obama administration -- that fast and furious was conceived to help usher in, quote, gun control laws. wide >> reporter: by that afternoon media matters' web site featured