McDermott will fight fine for Gingrich tape

Washington Congressman Jim McDermott says he'll ask the U-S Supreme Court to decide whether he had a right to leak an illegally taped phone call about Georgia native House Speaker Newt Gingrich. McDermott gave reporters the tape of a 1996 phone call in which Ohio Congressman John Boehner and others discussed ethics violations against Newt Gingrich. In May, a federal appeals court ruled against McDermott, but he says it's a free speech-free press issue. McDermott was ordered to pay John Boehner $700,000.