personally asked putin to send snowden back to the united states, because, quote, he shouldn t have to. this is something that is routinely dealt with between law enforcement officials in various countries. no, i m not going to b to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. but the president says he s concerned about what other documents the so-called hacker might have taken. by the way, we should give a note to the president. snowden has had a birthday in the last week. he s now 30 years old. katherine harridge live with more. katherine? the apparent softening on the administration s stance on russia, this news as one secret documents are published by britain s guardian newspaper stating that the obama administration allowed him to sp
normal after her first conversation with him since his arrest. president obama has picked a rmer bush administration official to beywg the new head f the fbi. chief intelligence correspondent katherine harridge on what james comey is facing. a former prosecutor who also served as deputy attorney general under president bush, jamejames comey is seen as a stg bipartisan choice for fbi director. to the extent the president wanted someone who is confirmable, he s chosen the correct man. ÷ to face an interrogation on benghazi and the failure to disrupt the boston marathon bomb u.s. wouldn t surprise me that the president thoughta÷qr] cq/l if o nominate lisa monaco he d be inviting a debate on subjects he d rather stay away from. instead a comey hearing, with
i m sure she is. [ ethereal music plays ] [ motorcycle revving ] getting you back on a brand-new bike. now, that s progressive. the premise of using the justice department to intimidate or muzzle journalists led to some very uncomfortable exchanges today involving the nation s top law enforcement official. chief intelligence correspondent katherine harridge shows us. on the seizure of associated press phone records, affecting 100 journalists, the questions were direct. why was such a broad scope approved? i am not familiar with the reasons why the why the subpoena was constructed. the ap was amenable to working with you on this matter. again, mr. chairman, i don t know what happened there. attorney general eric holder
i just found out i m going to be on shepard smith s show at 7:15. all right. we are going live to the white house. brebret baier and special repo are up next. good evening. i m bret baier. we re moments away from a statement from president obama. he will address the irs under bipartisan siege. also late this afternoon, a benghazi downtown dump within the last hour. if that wasn t enough, the attorney general spent much of the afternoon being grilled under oath over wiretaps. three scandals with one president under fire for all of it. we have fox team coverage tonight. james rosen with the breaking details on the benghazi document dump. we re going through it all. katherine harridge with eric tolder over first amendment abuses. and mike emanuel on the call for
it s unacceptable, it s shameful. as for the decision to take him out of the investigation, much to the surprise of lawmakers, holder says there was no paper trail, nor was there a written record of the decision. tomorrow the fbi director is also on the hill. his investigators are working the ap leak case. bret? bret: katherine, thank you. for the second time this month, a military man assigned to help prevent sexual assaults has been accused of sexual misconduct. sources say an unidentified army sergeant at fort hood, texas, is under investigation for forcing a subordinate into prostitution and sexually assaulting two others. he was a coordinator of a sexual harassment and assault prevention program. last week we told you an air force officer with similar duties was charged with groping a woman in a northern virginia parking lot. egypt s state news agency says terrorist linked to al-qaeda were planning suicide attacks on the u.s. and french embassies. it s reported that egypt s