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A fox contributor and former president of the women's media center. good to see you. let's start with you. ladies, you will recall attorney general holder testified before congress in may. at that time, he said he knew nothing of the potential prosecution of reporters. then days later, information came out, emerged that holder did, in fact, sign for a warrant to obtain fox news reporter james rosen aerps personal e-mails and phone records arguing he was quote a likely coconspirator in a leak case. so now he's going to appear before congress in a closed door session to explain this discrepan di...

Is saying is that we have laid out sort of in -- the full glare of daylight how we operate in terms of collecting the information, at least overseas and aggregate it. that's why he is talking about sources and methods and why companies would choose not to work with us. this is not the first leak we have seen like this near the is. >> shepard: this investigation getting deep. what were we learning? >> a former nsa official unsuccessfully prosecuted under the espionage act, says the blame will be turn on him. >> eave place he touched the system electronically. terminals, accounts, e-mails, both ...

Make a referral or basically a recommendation to the justice department that they look at it. that's step one. hasn't happened yet. step two, the justice department gets that referral and decides whether to conduct an investigation on that. and then would decide whether or not to open a leak case. i think there's some people in go government who think it would be surprising if they didn't given the highly classified nature of this document that "the guardian" got its hands on. no means a certainty, just seems very likely. >> nbc's pete williams. thank you so much, pete. let's go to our panel...

Gave that testimony he was aware of the fact that he had signed off on an fbi affidavit that specifically accused our own james rosen of being a criminal coconspirator are in a leak case and the question is now are the doj's denials going to stand up? joining me attorney with multiple cases before the u.s. supreme court and focuses on constitutional civil rights and civil litigation with the federal government. great to see you again. >> how are you? >> megyn: should mention a great lawyer at a fantastic firm called jones day where i used to practice. >> there you go. >> megyn: now, the doj we...

>> megyn: this is the testimony before congress they are trying to figure out whether it was false or not. let's list. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press tore disclosure of material that is not something i have ever been involved in, h heard of or would think would be a wise policy. >> megyn: again the word potential. the potential prosecution. let me ask you this, mike. he says with regard to the potential prosecution of a member of the press for the disclosure of material. could he about be splitting hairs between well, in that leak case i was saying rosen was a crimina...