Andrea wet / I don't agree with that / If you look at every pod who do the American people have more faith in in terms of krag /? It's the Democrats / who do the American people /. Do they want to see s change in avectest in waq /? Absolutely /. But Senator / And I think they respect the fact that Democrats do have divisions And are debating this And not just marching in bocastop to whatever the President does Because they're not happy with what the President is doing /. This debate that Chuck and I are having / And that's going to help us / This debate that Check and I are having is likely to be the bay issue in the fat campaign / we're going to have this debate with the American people /. Spent ing of debates and rivalries Roe Call Newspaper reports Senator Schooner that you and your fellow New work senator Hillary Outon have such an sense rivalry that this week you and Harry Reid your Demo crack leader rather tried to exclude her fromn a news conference to announce one of her pet Issues / wen is & that intense the rivalry between you and Hitary Canton /7 to it's sesoutely journalistic chatter I Ted Kennedy 's been our leader on monroom ways /. mary Circon came up with a great ines The newworn wage to the pay increase /. So why did an't you schedule the news conference when she could show up /7 and Harry Reid / As we did /. And she showed up /. And then we had another one where she showed up /. Harry Reid as our leader has done a very good thing here /, He has said that as a party we 're going to support itdary 's idea that there be no pay raise und there's a moremom wage increase I. And we 've had two news conferences . um with Hairy led Kennedy Harry and myself / 8's worked out extremely well / Let me cut to the chase here ) If the announces that she 's running for president wis you do what is customary and support your fellow New York senator for president of the Urneed States /7 is that what / Hwary Canton is running for the Senate of the united States of New Work / She is doing a great job having / We spent all day friday together going through the flood on torn areas / Will you support her for president if she chooses to run for president /7 And she is focused on New work I wed was to cher the wiis for the senate to decks what to do /. But If she sources that she's go going to have to leave it right there ). Thank you very much / Thank you /. Senator Schumer Senator MeConnell /, and happy independence Day to both of you /. Thank you . Same to you /. And coming next freedom of the press versus national securty /. Our round table with meto host and witter so Barnett William Safire of The New tax Times Dana Priest of The Washington Post and john Harwood of The Wall Street journal /. All coming up on meet the Press /. Our round table on balancing press free domn's and national security after this bret station treat / Welcome at / Well Was the firestorm over leaks / un For years the President and the treasury have been trumpeting ther success in totowing terror money f. So As Bennett what is the harm in what The New wirk Tires and other newspapers out last week in pubashing their stories /7 was there are a it of people who are saying there's a lot of harm /. Ask the Undersecretary of the Treasury Stunt Levy who is very upset about it /. Ask the Secret tary of the Beauty departing secretary Secretary See / Ask Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton the co-cher man of the Nine Eleven Commission /. They ye not exactly Bush un un earnp followers / Torn Kean said in an interview . he said, a very successhold program which has been very successful in the war against terror has been list compromised because of this /. Well is not it true that in fact this program was has ed at in the Nine Eleven Conviviation report /7 And boch NAC analyst Roger Cressey who is a former na tional security official and is fellow former NSC officer Richard Clarke said thes no harm was done / Let's hit a who they wrote in The New ork Times about thes / wily overtown we the Burn admin istration 's protests that the press revelations about the mooncial monitoring program may tip off the terrorists /. They wart the pubic to believe that It had not aready occurred to every terrorist on the planet that hit telephone was probably monored and he international bone transfers subject to scrot my / How guide does the administration tore the American chizeny to be /7 Ba Safve does the press have an cologation / well . is that e /? is that if for me /? No /, Stand by /. I want to ask Be Safe to weigh in on this / Wet here we are /. But Does the press have an obligation to print or not in this case /7 and were they giving away state secrets /? Look un i do n't speak for the Times /. I've been in the Times for thirty years disagreeing with Times editorial pokey right down the line /. On this one I think they did the right thing / here we are on independence Day weekend two hundred and thirty years ago celebrating whist was the resistance to a king who said we're going to hang you for treason /. And here we have a long island congressman happens to be named King who's saying treason and put these re porters in jail . on I think there's a big fundamental thing going on here now on and oh across the board of get the press get the meds / And un book I used to write speeches for Spiro agnew / in on in I'm tip to this stuff / uh uh and I can say that it gives you a bap /. on it gives you a chance to get on the / the offensive against the damned macdis /. But uh in the long view of history it's a big mistake /. But is