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Thank you, david. >> here more is howard kurtz. your opening line was a good one. >> we in the news business make promises and give our word to sources and you are looking at the possibility of a jail term. a number of journalist have gone to jail. this makes me blood boil. we have an accused mass murderer that is playing a legal game and already damaged winter's career. >> colorado doesn't have the same shield laws. >> colorado has a weaker shield

Anything you do shield laws. what is your take on your former colleague's situation? >> i grieve for jim. i know what he is going through. i think we have to step back for a moment and look at it. there is really a long road judicially. it's pretty clear that his counsel will request an entire hearing by all of the fourth circuit and all the 12 judges and not just the three which has been roundly condemned as terrible ruling. this is is a ruling that we haven't had enough reporting on the fact that it flies in the face of other circuits, but there is report's privilege when it comes to testify...

Released in the very near future. among a few of the committee's options it could find holder in contempt of congress as it previously did in the fast and furious investigation. that was by the way the first time that that had ever happened. or, it could ask him to testify again in open hearing or could legislate new shield laws to better protect reporters in leak investigations. something that the senate side is working on as well. harris, back to you. >> harris: doug mckelway, thank you. the irs controversy now and republican led house committee voted lois lerner gave up her right to plead t...

Stuff of scandal. when a matter is sufficiently sensitive, that it has to be brought to the attorney general to decide. as happened in the rosen case, that alone should be enough to alert even an obtuse attorney general that is he handling dynamite. the last thing a president or a country needs is an attorney general who can't physician that out until he reads about it years later in the newspaper. bret? >> bret: brit, what about all this talk regarding a shield law, efforts to support shield law. there is no evidence that would effect the rosen case. >> it does not appear that it would have a...

Own party. >> that's right. some democrats are joining republicans in calling for greater shield laws to protect journalists from illegal jeopardy. other democrats are singling out the doj's targeting of reporters as doing a lot of damage. >> it seems to me clear that the actions of the department have in fact impaired the first amendment. reporters who might have previously believed that a confidential source would supreme to them, would no longer have the level of confidence. >> hold iris under growing pressure to amend the warrant that named rosen a co-conspiracy sir. i'm told the 'affidavi...