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Media-manipulating president. len downey of "the washington post", supervised a panel that concluded that this administration has been the most secretive, the most manipulative of the press of any since richard nixon. that is quite an indictment. but by and large the mainstream media tended to give him the benefit of the doubt. they gave him the benefit of the doubt on benghazi. the only time they kind of finally rose up, said, wait a minute, when this administration started targeting us. and they named james rosen of fox news, a coconspirator in a espionage case. and finally people said, with...

This august recess, there's a lot on the plate. >> that's right. >> do you think immigration reform will be put on the back burner? >> very tough, heather. especially with a looming shutdown potentially with the budget. we're having to come up with a budget compromise. it's going to be very hard to get this done. it doesn't mean it can't get done, but republicans around the house are going to have to compromise if we're going to get to a bill. >> all right. we'll see if plan b. is an option. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, heather. edward snowden, bradley manning and now anot...

Their position precludes that, they need to resign and that will call attention that they are not getting the support that they need. but the problem with starting out from the assumption that you have to have a special council, that has led to them being very lengthy, very expensive fishing expeditions. so i think it's an appropriate step. i am confident that the gentlemen will do their job, but having prosecuted an espionage case myself, these are very tough cases. it is very difficult to get to theb bottom of a leak of classified information. and there are very real risks with it, that if y...

out front a major terror plot on u.s. soil foiled. a senior administration official tells me this was international murder for hire. here's what we've been told. two men charged in an alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. one is a naturalized u.s. citizen in custody and identified as 56-year-old mondaysor ar bab si ar. he appeared in a courthouse this afternoon. he did not enter a plea. according to the complaint that we read, he planned for someone to kill the saudi arabian ambassador at one of his favorite restaurants in washington, d.c. he ...

What are we looking at, aiding the enemy, espionage, treason? >> if you look at the substance of the allegations, i think the two main charges that are going to be triggered under the uniform code of military justice, which is the military's version of our penal law, spying and espionage. now, i think there's probably a good defense with respect to the spying charge, because under the ucmj, before you can be convicted of spying there has to be a congressionally declared state of war, and we had the force authorization but not the congressional declaration of war. gregg: what about espionage, b...