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>> eric: national security leaks causing controversy in washington. the white house denies any wrongdoing. the new york times, when broke the stories, is weighing in. liz trotta joins us as she does every sunday at this time with her commentary. >> good morning, eric. >> eric: the times calls the stories, quote, insider accounts that are essential journalism, what's the debate? >> big surprise. this is -- comes in a piece written by arthur briz bane, the times public editor and ombudsman, if you have forgotten out there, it's basically someone who is a judge of -- an objective judge, supposedl...

This is the newspaper that i love, that i read every day. it's got the best writing in the world. the best reporting in the world. but the public editor needs to step up and straight ep these people out. >> but, joe, this is the home section. >> we love the paper. we think it's one of the best papers in the world. probably the best. and they do tons of great work. >> they do tons of great work. >> but i am amazed that after what they did four years ago, when they made these kind of choices regarding the mccains and the obamas, front page stories about michelle and cindy mccain that couldn't ha...

Liberal new york times credit for putting in that point of view with it's own public editor. i'm sure conservatives will run with this and say the editor of "the new york times" says he wasn't vetted. we are still talking about where he's born. jon: maybe you should be the editor. >> no, thank you. >> "the new york times" isn't challenging where obama was born. brisbane did say back in 2008 that "the new york times" quote basking a bit in the warm glow of president obama's election. that would appear to be by as. in the same piece as yesterday's new york times he talked about how "the new york...

gingrich's ex-wife on the eve of the primary, reviving the issue of infidelity, and newt denounces cnn's john king for using that report to lead off a deba dein south carolina. >> i astounded that cnn who take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. >> was that a mistake by cnn? was the abc story itself a late hit, repeating charges that marianne gingrich first made long ago? we'll ask the correspondent, abc's brian ross. fox's juan williams draws flack at another debate for challenging the candidates with a series of race-related incidents including this one with...

And tax expert apparently looked at some of this stuff and said sit would appear the spirit of the law was broken. but the questions is, was the letter of law broken here. if it was, john edwards is look at a lot of time behind bars if convicted. megyn: they have been spending a lost time looking into this and calling a lot of witnesses. the public editor for the "new york times" publicly admitting his paper got it wrong. they got political. and he says they should not have. in covering the tragedy in tucson. how about that. alan colmes weighs in moment from now. a womb on lights up a cigarett...