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Heading to court charged with lying to the feds in the doj's massive crackdown over leaks. give jenkins live in washington with more on the allegedly carafes possible ties to a new york times reporter. >> reporter: the fbi has arrested james wolf, a long time staffer for the powerful senate select committee on intelligence whose job was to safeguard the security of classified information. we cannot overstate the importance of that job. accused of making false statements to the fbi during the leak investigation some of which occurred at the committee was investigating russian interference with ...

She revealed the information. >> we don't know. >> we know strzok and page were different -- >> yeah. more bias. the important is the information came up to damage donald trump or more likely he gave her the information to help her because they were dating. we don't know yet. >> a complication of that personal relationship. >> could have been sparked by their hate for trump. >> accountability? what does it look like here? >> we need to end the leaks. they're making an example of this person and i there mr. wolf was entrusted with a powerful position and was disloyal. >> it's coming up, a histo...

To hear charges filed against a former member of committee staff. the charges do not appear to include anything related to the mishandling of classified information but the committee take this matter seriously and they will be cooperating with the investigation. the new york times reporting the doj seized email and phone records from their own reporter, the times is the information predates her work at the paper but the fbi talks about a previous relationship with as they were investigating unauthorized leaks. reaction has been swift. >> the have been a cascade of leaks and no one is has been ...

Endanger reporter's ability to promise confidentiality to their sources and make it harder to shine a much needed light on government actions. but the case is complicated by watkins' three year romantic relationship with james wolf who was arrested yesterday. she was a reporter for buzzfeed when she broke the story last year on carter page, a former trump advisor met with a russian spy. watkins and wolf exchange 124 electronic messages that day, the indictment said. this book for 7 minutes after the story was posted and another 15 minutes after she appeared on msnbc. >> why did carter page con...

Excitement. she has denied receiving leaks from wolf. eric holder secretly obtained records from ap staffers and from former fox correspondent james rosen in the obama administration. attorney general jeff sessions says he's conducting three times as many investigations. >> i have this morning for would-be leakers, don't do it. for the past several months, we have already made changes and are seriously ramping up our efforts. >> be on the personal details for ali watkin's, for prosecutors to go after reporter's records and encrypted apps strike at the heart of journalism. the ability to provid...