here. and martin bashir interview of princess diana deemed deceptive by the bbc. the lead reporter is going to join me in the next few minutes. but first, four stories about this network, cnn, including chris cuomo s apology and rick santorum s departure. we ll get into all tv so let s start with the subpoenaing of barbara starr s records. everyone week we are learning more about what the trump era justice department did, more about its practices, about secret seizure of reporter phone records. first the washington post was notified that phone records for three reporters were subpoenaed by trump s dodj and it also happened to barbara tar. her phone and email records seized by federal investigations investigating leaks. snooping on reporters has been a
to making changes to the guidelines in issuing subpoenas and possible changes in the statutory act. it s the beginning of a conversation. i m not sure anybody s satisfied until we know what happens, but it was a starting point. it was a starting point, reid, and we know that there are more meetings coming, one today. and eric holder is looking at making change to policy, so has been said, making it tougher for prosecutors to get reporter phone records. what s your takeaway of what we ve learned so far? well, as you say, there are more meetings happening today. i don t think anybody in the media is terribly thrilled with this. eric holder has been a lightning rod for a long time for the conservative side of d.c. now the sort of the fourth estate is getting involved too and questioning his behavior and actions. and this is not going away. you know, president obama doesn t fire a lot of people and eric holder is one of the few cabinet secretaries who has had lasted into the second t
reporter phone records. will a positive economic message ultimately drown out those controversies? likely not. to tell you the truth, first of all we re not at the end of the irs controversy so it s still playing out. certainly there are elements of benghazi as well and there is the ap in this new report they went after another reporter who revealed something about north korea. these things will be ongoing because congress keeps them ongoing and as you know this is a town that s sort of driven, actually a country where great news, the economy, you ll see the president out there kind of talking about it and pushing it, on the other hand good news is not where headlines go. the headlines are on the irs and things like that. it s hard to get this off the table, certainly helps the president, strengthens his hand as he moves forward with legislation. i don t think it erases the
of reporter phone records and targeting of conservative groups by the irs, the president s approval rate is holding steady for now. here s cnn national political correspondent, jim acosta. reporter: as president obama escaped the white house to deliver a commencement speech in a steady rain at moorehouse college in atlanta republicans were pouring it on. there s a culture of intimidation. reporter: top gop leaders fanned out on the sunday talk shows vowing to get to the bottom of the irs targeting scandal. who knew, when did they know, why did they do this, how high up in the government did it go? they are trying to drag washington into a swamp of fishing expedition. reporter: dan pfeiffer was asked when did the president find out about it? when it came out in the news. here s why. because here s the cardinal rule when you do situation like
worked in secret, unrecorded and untranscribed interviews with witnesses. republicans remaining focused on getting their hands on more information into what happened that night, such as video surveillance and the gap between the consulate attack and the white house talking points email released just last week. shannon, back to you. thank you very much. the obama administration is juggling three major flashpoints, the irs targeting conservative groups. new details about how the administration handled the deadly benghazi attacks, before, during and aft they happened and the seizure of associated press reporter phone records. joining us to talked about the issues, members of congress from both sides of the aisle. trent franks and danny davis. gentlemen, welcome to you both. thank you. thank you very much. all right. congressman franks, there has been an apology from the irs. the president has expressed outrage and said that americans have a right to be angry. are you satisfied tha