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Republicans, too, a new reporter shield law. before a search warrant would be issued a judge would weigh national security concerns against the reporter's first amendment rights. >> if we can set up the rules we will avoid the morass. >> reporter: he says the shield laws has four co-sponsors from each party. harry reid has promises promised to bring it to the floor as quick as possible. >> shannon: as fox news corp had any nationwer is no and current spokesman but former general counsel? >> that is right. through email and certain filed mail, fax is not reliable, certain filed mail is more rel...

Source. there is a role for congress. we can talk about shield laws all we want but the espionage act, that is a highly elastic and overbroad and easy to abuse statute stating from hysteria of world war i. congress needs to step up and talk about repealing or substantially amending that law. >>chris: you have talked about respected figures speaking out about this and the chairman and c.e.o. of fox news also spoke out about this and here is what he wrote. "we will not allow a climate of intimidation unseen since the mccarthy era to frighten us away from the truth." the combination, nina, of the...

Federal government has broad powers to protect the united states and to protect us and avery talked about the exemption. you can have all the shield laws you want. when the government and the white house has that ability to couch their investigation in terms of protecting the united states, they can do it and there's no protection to the citizens. they are going to do it. again, just like in the prior discussion, there will be no criminality here. even though the request was overly broad and maybe never done in history before this broad, nobody is going to have to face any criminality here. >>...

Had sent to his psychiatrist. why would a judge compel her to reveal her source on that. is that public safety? what is the rational for forcing her? >> alisyn, you're right and shows the problem with insufficiently protected shield laws. we clearly have a person who committed this crime, mr. holmes behind bars. what happened, the judge imposed a gag order and that was violated presumably by the source that gave jana that information. now, what's happening now is holmes' lawyers, would i call it a fishing expedition, are trying to figure out which law enforcement official leaked this informati...

One south african man flew strapped to 160 helium balloons. he traveled from the island where nelson mandela was to capetown. like the movie "donny deck chair". >> alisyn: a fox news reporter lands in trouble by doing her job. jana winter is facing possible jail time if she does not reveal sources. >> tucker: here to weigh in is attorney david rifkin, thanks for being on. >> good to be with you. >> i know jana winter, one of the great reporters in new york city. how could this have happened? she's doing what every reporter does, she broke a story, an important story and keeping her sources pri...