united nations this week about my situation. i think we are making it quite hard for the doj to successfully froms cute us without inflicting serious damage, serious political damage on itself, so i call on eric holder to do the right thing, dismiss this prosecution against and investigation against myself and my staff. it will proceed to a chilling effect on all other publishers involved in national security journalism. there seems to be an attempt, in fact, to split off national security journalists from other forms of journalism and severely marginalize them. it s not just happening to me. we can look at james risen, for example, with the new york times and his source. president obama has now initiated more espionage investigations and prosecutions than all previous presidents combined going back to 1917.
security in this case? guest: they are obsessioned. they have a passion about making decisions in private. this administration has six six espionage investigations going on. there were three that were started since the act was enacted in 1917. you can see the extent to which the administration cares about controlling the message. again, if the press lies down and accepts the lame excuses, i just hope this is a signal to us to wake up and challenge the media, to challenge the president, and to make sure that people know why a free press is so important. gregg: judith miller, you have spent time behind bars defending your . guest: my own telephone records were gotten by the
are talking about fliynn, what does it say to you that the scope of this investigation, it appears to be getting more broad, is it? this happens a lot in federal investigation, you don t see it on tv because none of them are dramatic or publicize. it is high profile. usually you will get into the investigation especially when it comes to counter intelligence and espionage investigations. while you are doing the investigation along the same good face and looking into the different aspect, you will find all these other criminal violations that carry a heavy hit. i think that s what you are seeing going on here now. from what you know, robert mueller, do you think he has donald trump s tax returns? no. i don t know if he has donald trump s tax returns or not. i can tell you bob mueller is no stranger to pressure.