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No one knew about that, the program was leak to the associated press. that had to be such a narrow circle, it has to lead to people very high up in the white house. >> jamie: just as one example, the president announced that he must sign off on every single drone strike. i don't know whether there's protocol, but saying something like that, do you think -- would you classify that as trying to look tough on terror? >> sure he is. no one wants to know what the president's doing. he is not supposed to be talking about drone attacks. we have never confirmed we have that program. he has baseball ca...

"washington post" and other newspapers, administrations have said to newspapers, this is really serious national security stuff. we are asking you not to publish and sometimes newspapers will do this. as very th investigation goes forward that will be one of important questions, what if anything they tried to do. >> chris: and in the case of computer virus that was trying to sabotage iranian centrifuges, they pulled back information but it's a good question. that raises the big political issue, we heard senator graham in the beginning make the charge someone in the white house to show that oba...

Led to the arrest of a pakistani doctor. they had a double agent that penetrated al-qaeda in yemen and foiled a plot to bomb an airliner. president obama personally approved the kill list for drone strikes. u.s. and israel was behind the computer virus that sabotaged iran's nuclear program. how damaging are they to our security? >> dianne feinstein thinks they are very damaging and she knows a lot more than i do what our enemy did know before these leaks. now, they know and put two and two together and find out things they didn't know otherwise. there is bipartisan outrage on the hill. dianne ...

but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to "the new york times" and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. >> a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama look good. >> david sanger, the author of one of those stories, will be here. plus walter cronkite...

chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now with the breaking news. so the administration has been feeling clearly bipartisan pressure for several days now on these leaks. what do we know? >> look, it's a time tested washington strategy leak unpleasant news on a friday night and hope the media is out drinking and too busy to pay attention. the president, joking a little bit, the president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at a press conference today when he didn't definitively say whether or not the administration was investigating these leaks. h...