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Thank you. appreciate it. the associated press threatening legal action after it was revealed that the justice department obtained phone records of the ap staff. government lawyers were after the source of news leaks. but it's a massive and unprecedent unprecedented. >> the government subpoenaed this information. for five reporters and an editor. the government hasn't said why it needed the information. unauthorized disclosure of information after a story in may 2012 about an alleged bomb plot that failed against i u.s.-bound plane. members of congress from both parties asking about this. pr...

Start to leak? why does this happen? >> it is striking how often -- truman, eisenhower, nixon, reagan, clinton, w. bush all having second-term scandals that at least partially derailed their administration and i think part of it is arrogance. part of it is inattention or kind of a sense of the administration gets weary but i think also part of it is just the odds catching up with you. 1600 pennsylvania avenue is a dangerous place. you stay long enough things happen. somewhere someone does something wrong. i think you're seeing that kind of confluence now again with president obama. >> how dang...

An honorary degree. >> president crow and the board byhe gents will so lea >> reporter: he made it clear, if true, this is no laughing matter. >> thurao itio ocontrary to our accountable. and it's got to be fixed. >> reporter: how high did it go? the irs said the acting commissioner found out about it back in may 2012 when he was the deputy commissioner. as for the president, the white house said that he didn't learn about any of this until friday, house said that he didn't learn about any of this until friday, jonathan karl, abc n police in new orleans identified a suspect in the mother'sin...

This just in, calling it a quote massive and unprecedented intrusion, the associated press now saying the justice department secretly obtained two months of phone records of its reporters and editors. according to the ap report, the government hasn't even said why it wanted the records. u.s. officials have said in the past that the u.s. attorney is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information to the associated press for a may 2012 story about a foiled al qaeda plot to blow up an airliner. the u.s. attorney's office has just issued a lengthy statement responding in p...

Manipulate a system and hurt someone who does not deserve to die. so i just wanted to be very clear, when we came public, especially to the families of the deceased, we were not passing any kind of character assessment or moral assessment on their loved one, but given the nature of the business that was being conducted on backpage, like i said, it would have been unconscionable for us not to go public with what we knew. >> in may 2012 their hard work pays off. police arrest 24-year-old james brown in the detroit suburb of sterling heights. brown is held for several months on charges of arson a...