possible infringement of first amendment rights of reporters is a real issue? of course, it is an issue. the issue is how do you balance our legitimate national security needs with our first amend hement rights. you have to admit the whole thing reeks of hypocrisy. you had a lot of folks on fox going after the obama administration saying you are not gettin getting to the bottf the national security leaks and then the administration goes after the national security leaks and people say you can t do that. chris: that is not what people said. people said you can t talk about a reporter as a potential coconspirator. let me ask you a question as a lawyer. how many times has the justice department successfully prosecuted or even tried to prosecute a reporter under the 1917 espionage act? i don t think they have. so whose hypocrisy are we talking about there? and they weren t planning to
possible infringement of first amendment rights of reporters is a real issue? of course, it is an issue. the issue is how do you balance our legitimate national security needs with our first amend hement rights. you have to admit the whole thing reeks of hypocrisy. you had a lot of folks on fox going after the obama administration saying you are not gettin getting to the bottf the national security leaks and then the administration goes after the national security leaks and people say you can t do that. chris: that is not what people said. people said you can t talk about a reporter as a potential coconspirator. let me ask you a question as a lawyer. how many times has the justice department successfully prosecuted or even tried to prosecute a reporter under the 1917 espionage act? i don t think they have. so whose hypocrisy are we talking about there? and they weren t planning to
possible infringement of first amendment rights of reporters is a real issue? of course, it is an issue. the issue is how do you balance our legitimate national security needs with our first amend hement rights. you have to admit the whole thing reeks of hypocrisy. you had a lot of folks on fox going after the obama administration saying you are not gettin getting to the bottf the national security leaks and then the administration goes after the national security leaks and people say you can t do that. chris: that is not what people said. people said you can t talk about a reporter as a potential coconspirator. let me ask you a question as a lawyer. how many times has the justice department successfully prosecuted or even tried to prosecute a reporter under the 1917 espionage act? i don t think they have. so whose hypocrisy are we talking about there?