journalism and that should worry us all. >> we learned the feds authorized the search while investigating the leak of confidential national security information and that warrant indicated james rosen may have broken the law by doing his job as a journalist. doug is live in d.c. doug? >> "the new york times" reported the justice department alerted news corp, the parent company of fox news, on august 27, 2010 it seized the telephone records of a fox news reporter. today news corp issued a statement that rate and wore weeding. i while we don't take issue that they sent a notice, we do not have a record of ever having received it. >> that response comes after a flurry of calls from capitol hill for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the matter and the attorney general's admission he signed off on the search warrant two weeks after testifying that the potential prosecution of the press is not something that he had ever been involved in.