senator wyden, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. rachel, you are quite good at making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it s just not possible for me to get into it. let me just i want to push around the edges of that with great respect for your fidelity to your responsibilities as a member of the intelligence committee, sir. the times is reporting tonight that there is a connection between the justice department surveilling their reporter, looking at a reporter s e-mails and looking at her phone records while she was a reporter going back years. the times is reporting a connection between that treatment of their reporter which obviously raises a lot of first amendment concerns and this investigation into whether or not there were unauthorized leaks from a staffer on your committee. is the times right to draw those two things together? are these connected matters? rachel, i heard about the content of the times stor
exact on the democrat finance member and member of the senate intelligence committee. i m assuming he will not talk to us about this matter but i m asking him anyway. senator widen thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. rachel you are quite good as making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it s just not possible for me to get into it. let me just i just want to push around the edges of that with great respect for your fidelity to the responsibilities as a member of the intelligence committee, sir. the times is reporting tonight that there is a connection between the justice department surveilling their reporters, reading reporter as emails and looking at phone records while working as a reporter for going back years. the times is reporting a connection between that treatment of their reporter which obviously raises a lot of first amendment concerns, and this investigation into whether or not there were unauthorized leaks from a staffer on your c