my dealings with my sources in the reporting that has become at issue were practiced in accordance with the same sources and methods and information as i try to bring as a working reporter to all of my sources and all of my stories. as for why james rosen was targeted by the justice department in the first place, he said this morning he doesn t think the fact he worked for fox was at any point overlooked. shepard? shepard: peter, rosen says there were legal and ethical considerations about how much he could say today but he tells us he does fully intend to say a lot more some day. well, president obama says we need to act on climate change before its too late. republicans say his plan will do little to cost americans their jobs: among president obama s new proposal first ever limits on the amount of pollution that power plants can pump into the air.
washington tonight. peter? and, shepard, our friend james rosen stands by the story at the center of that leak investigation about a planned 2009 north korean nuclear test and james says he doesn t have any second thoughts about writing it but he believes there have been a number of what he calls egregious and historic firsts connected to this case and james comments today exposed how personal the justice department s probe really was. one of the disclosures associated with this case was that telephone records relating to my parents in staten island, also apparently were obtained in some form or fashion. that was a moment when i felt real world impact associated with this. james rosen said today he does not think his reporting threatened american national security and that he believed the public has a right to know about what the government does to keep it safe. furthermore, james says in this case he treated sensitive information with care.