you described, there would have to be some sort of accommodation, there would have to be some sort of negotiation with a media outlet or a reporter before a reporter was surveilled in this way as part of a leak investigation, i ve got my control room needs to stop talking in my ear for a second. thank you very much. sorry, matt. i had two people talking to me at the same time i was trying to talk to you. at the same time as holder if holder put in those rules, obviously we have a different attorney general now. if this was done in violation of d.o.j. policies, if this new york times reporter was surveilled inappropriately, how was that policed within the justice department? it would have to be policed by the inperspective general. there is a loophole the attorney general can use if they determine i think negotiations say if negotiations with the media outlet would pose a substantial threat to the investigation, if it would harm national security. the attorney general can
new regulations put in place so that reporters would be protected from sbrusive severance basically as a way of proelting the freedom of the press. base country you described some sort of accommodation, negotiation with the media outlet or a reporter before a reporter was surveilled in this way as part of as part of as part of a leak investigation. i ve got my control room needs to stop talking in my ear a second. thank you. sorry matt i had two people talking to me at the same time. i was troo trying to talk to you. at the same time as holder if holder put in the rules obviously we have a different attorney general now. if this was done in violation of doj policies. if the new york times reporter was surveilled inappropriately, how is that policed within the justice department? it would have to be policed by the inspector general. there is a a kind of loop hole that the attorney general can use if they determine that i think the regulations say that if negotiations wit
was incorrect and he also says that it violates rules. one being, you don t talk about an ongoing investigation and the second one that holder put in place himself, which was not to take unnecessary action very close to an election. is this unnecessary? that is really something we don t know. a lot of unanswered questions. all right, thank you very much. let s bring back the panel. evan perez and washington bureau chief, jackie kucinich and alex burns and washington post reporter abby philip. evan, as the justice reporter for us here, everybody says who knows anything about the situation that comey is dealing with a lot of political pressure in house and out of house. how true is that? boy, he s in the middle of all of this, chris. you re right, he s getting pressure both inside his organization and outside.