0 reflecting that. i do think, i share david s view, we got to talk about this. not everything that s secret is news. what should be news is malfeasance, misbehavior, lying. not the fact we have a source in the north korean leadership. congresswoman, do you think the attorney general needs to resign at this point? i think that the attorney general has definitely lost the trust of the american people. when you are out in my district, people feel betrayed by the conduct of this administration and this attorney general. and, you know, it is an issue of leadership. just as david sets the standards and decorum for his department and his classroom, the president sets that for the administration. and people are wanting answers. they don t want excuses. they want accountability. they don t want evasion. they have lost the trust. i think it ll take a generation to rebuild trust in the federal government at this point. let me bring in tom brokaw who s with us from new york. special corresp
there are things that you have to keep secret for the security of the people who are risking their lives out there. and for national security, how do you balance that against the public s right to know, which is a very sacred principle as well. that s a discussion we should be having. i think part of the discussion we have to be having is also a question of leadership. if that s what it is. there s obviously going to be a political target for holder, for republicans and the media that are going to target him, but i m focused, too, on the president. and the idea of making no apologies and then appearing to make apologies about all of this. here was the president middle of last month when he came out when the seizure of the a.p. phone records first surfaced. this is what he said. leaks related to national security can put people at risk. they can put men and women in uniform that i ve sent into the battlefield at risk. yet then within a week he s changing his tune. this
michigan congressman mike rogers, about that. and the expected nomination of former bush administration official jim coemy as director of the fbi. also, the president back to business and tries to shake off scandal. will the irs investigations undermine work on job creation and immigration reform? with us democratic senator from new york, chuck schumer. later, our political round table. what michele bachmann s exit means for the tea party. does the president have an economic plan for the second term? and a discussion of the new study this week that shows more and more women are the primary breadwinners in american families. good sunday morning. news this weekend foreshadowing another bad week ahead for the irs. as an inspector general report is expected to reveal lavish and wasteful spending at irs conferences around the country. we want to start with another political distraction for the obama administration. the attorney general eric holder under fire for investigatio
Battlefield at risk. yet then within a week he s changing his tune. this is what he said now. i m troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable. journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. tom friedman, was this a president and attorney general, do they think they overreached and alienated people normally that were with them, and that s the news media? that s what makes this case interesting. because there was overreach maybe on both sides to some degree. red lines were crossed. clearly red lines were crossed at the department of justice, in effect, krimmelizing reporting. at the same time, you know, you look at that fox report about north korea and other people i respect a lot, walter peyton and jack schafer made this point. you do have to scratch your head about, what was the news in there there justified we had a
0 next minute i m in the back of an ambulance having a heart attack. i was in shape, fit. i did not see it coming. i take bayer aspirin. [ male announcer ] so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. see your doctor and get checked out. this sunday, national security versus freedom of the press. the tension and the political fallout as the attorney general appears to backtrack. republicans have their sights set on attorney general eric holder. did he level with congress about whether he sought to criminalize the work of journalists? with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for disclosure of material, that is not something that i ve ever been involved in or hord of, or would think would be a wise policy. holder reportedly regrets the treatment of the press in recent leak investigations and tries to reach out. has it worked? how should the administration balance the protection of secrets and the free flow of information. we ll ask the chairma