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Reporters, sent to the pentagon for an investigation because the flirtatious e-mails might indicate adulterous affairs. it's a government issue. >> if we never read about it, there would have been no problem. the reason it's catastrophic is because it was leaked. this is a story about leakage. >> it's bizarre. >> it's not an investigation into the leaking of classified documents. this was an investigation into half a dozen snarky e-mails. i am libertarian. you are individualistic about this. when the fbi was spying on the sexual activities of martin luther king and other activists, members of ...

Have the president of the united states know that the person he is communicating with at the cia, his director has been possibly compromiseed. that, to me, is what's inexplicable here, megyn. i just don't you said -- i just don't understand it. general petraeus could have well been come -- compromised, but inexplicable. megyn: julian? >> well, as you pointed out in the opening, the fbi rules and the statutes are very clear that during the course of an ongoing criminal investigation you don't share that information either with other executive branch agencies, including the white house, or with ...

Apply in the situation. don't they cover members of congress and others? why a separate piece of legislation? >> well, it has come to a lot of people's knowledge recently that there was really no ban on members of congress from dealing in information, that is trading on information. there has always been an ethical lapse there if you do it, you shouldn't to it and now we will try to make it statutorily and i think it ought to apply to the executive agencies, too. tell it the american people as much as we can that we are not going to put up with this. transparency is important. honesty and inte...

Around obama constitution technique. >> what about that? didn't the democrats do the same 1, 2, 3 inning to pr thing to president bush in doesn't they do the same thing? >> for starters, it was president bush's white house counsel who first said that making an appointments during pro forma sessions would be okay. the notion that it could get -- >> bush never did that. >> the notion it could give any more corrosive or partisan in washington seems hard to believe considering that republicans tried at all points to stop president obama's nominees be it for executive agencies, the courts, be it fo...

Didn't the democrats do the sam thing to president bush in doesn't they do the same thing? >> for starters, it was president bush's white house counsel who first said that making an appointments during pro forma sessions would be okay. the notion that it could get -- >> bush never did that. >> the notion it could give any more corrosive or partisan in washington seems hard to believe considering that republicans tried at all points to stop president obama's nominees be it for executive agencies, the courts, be it for anything he tries do. mitch mcconnell considers his number one job to stop th...