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Justice department. the title says former u.s. senate employee indicted on false statement charges. the long-time director of security for the senate select committee on intelligence is accused of lying to the fbi about repeated contacts with reporters. james a. wolfe, 58, of ellicott city, maryland was indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of violating federal law at the time he made the alleged false statements to the fbi. i want to go to congressman adam schiff of california, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. and this shocking development just occurred dur...

This is already an extraordinary case, a 58-year-old, 31 year veteran of the senate staff, a veteran of the senate intelligence committee. someone you would think would have known better than to ever find himself in a position where he's being charged with lying to the fbi about his contacts with reporters. and gene, if he had played it straight with the fbi, he would apparently, according to the justice department's release tonight, be in effect at that moment confessing to crimes, but the trouble he's in tonight seems even worse than it would have been. >> it seems -- yeah, when you lie to t...

Is james wolfe a senate staffer on the intelligence committee who you have met? >> i don't know, lawrence. i've been in the senate skiff before and encountered some of the senate staff, but i don't know that person by name. so i really couldn't tell you whether i've met him. >> just for people who don't know how this works, that's a very common situation between house and senate. there's little interaction between the committees and certainly less interaction between the senate committee staff and members of the house committee. congressman schiff, there are other developments on your committe...

These people are now going to be arrested for that, as we've seen tonight. so it's a big message, and i think that people on my beat, on ally's beat now will be possibly very cautious going forward. i think this could have a chilling effect. >> the "new york times" reporter involved, ally watkins who has been a reporter at other news organizations prior to the "new york times," she's the one subject to this subpoena at the "new york times." and the justice department release on this says that james wolfe was arrested today, or tonight, he will make his first appearance tomorrow in federal dist...

Justice reporter julia ainsley, breaking the story about the 31 year staffer being indicted tonight by the fbi. what do you know at this point? we know the name of the staffer is james wolfe, senate intelligence committee, he was in charge of maintaining the security and secrecy of documents on the committee. he's charged now with lying repeatedly to fbi agents in december of 2017 about repeated contacts with three reporters, including through his use of encrypted messaging applications? >> reporter: that's right, lawrence. we also know he's being charged with improperly handling sensitive com...