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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 president's constant allegation of leakers or something new on behalf of the justice department? >> rep...

People on both sides, republicans and democrats say it's 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 you're looking to defend press freedom, maybe this isn't your favorite case. a lot of readers are wondering, she's at politco and buzz feed before "the new york times," throughout the period had a relationship with him. >> jon: and published a lot of stories about this committee. >> yeah. readers have to wonder if there was ...

I am a big, big believer in freedom of the press. but i'm also a believer in classified information. >> msnbc's 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, let's 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 director of intelligence at the senate intel committee. test man who he is sorts so many of the w...

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 investigating right now. as far as we know. we know there were four reporters who might have been getting in...

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 -- it's 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 case seems to have all sorts of special circumstances. there was the alleged lying to the fbi, also a...