Dignitary Calls News Today

>> i want to play something on the points you raise. look, i used to practice first amendment law, so i definitely share the concern about the obama justice department. they were highly aggressive on this. in addition, the other context, of course, is the internet, and it became drastically easier with groups like wikileaks to put out more voluminous material without the gatekeeper function of the press. i think that was the other macro factor driving more of those prosecutions although they con...

Prosecutions although they concern us all. walter, take a listen to floyd abrams who won the pentagon papers case, who happens to be my old boss. i had him on a show about the transcripts of these presidential foreign dignitary calls which a lot of people said are over the line. the president has got to have an ability to do private diplomacy. mr. abrams takes a different view, that they expose really problematic activities and statements by donald trump. >> the public was informed yesterday abo...

Of the press. i think that was the other macro factor driving more of those prosecutions although they concern us all. walter, take a listen to floyd abrams who won the pentagon papers case, who happens to be my old boss. i had him on a show about the transcripts of these presidential foreign dignitary calls which a lot of people said are over the line. the president has got to have an ability to do private diplomacy. mr. abrams takes a different view, that they expose really problematic activit...