This is Renegate Talk Radio.

And joining us now is CBS News, senior investigative correspondent, Catherine Herich.

Catherine, thanks for being here today.

Of course.

You are at the courthouse today.

What can we expect tomorrow?

Legal experts have told CBS News that the California tax case is a very serious prosecution.

It's nine charges, six misdemeanors, failure to file, failure to pay, and then these three felony charges that include allegations of tax evasion.

A judge in the District of Columbia is ordering Catherine Harage to participate in a deposition.

It's regarding a confidential source she used in a series of stories when

she worked at Fox News in 2017. It says a lot about our fading republic when Congress has to hold a

hearing where journalists testify on protecting their First Amendment sources. In the words of

seasoned award-winning journalist Catherine Harage,

when the network of Walter Cronkite seizes your reporting files, including confidential

source information, that is an attack on investigative journalism. Yes, it sure is. I'm just,

I'm just trying to, it seems to me there's a pattern developing here.

Failing upwards is the way the CIA institutionalized and government-funded Mockingbird Media

propagandized system operates.

In an article related to your case, the Washington Post reported how in 2005, five national reporters were held in contempt and levied fines of

$500 per day.

And in 2008, a USA Today reporter was held in contempt and faced daily fines of $5,000.

All of these instances where reporters upheld their journalistic integrity and protected their

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