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regimes get started. they get started by a demagogue, an authoritarian basically demanding fealty, and not just to himself but to his version of reality. we saw that start on the afternoon of the inauguration where, you know, alternative facts about the size of the crowd became the argument the white house was making to overlook the fact that there wasnt that big a crowd, and it continues to today where people who you would think not only know better but would want to do better are sid...

Assessment about whether documents are classified or not and whether there are privilege issues, but on the other hand theres this really interesting footnote late in the ruling where she says that if doj ultimately finds that the criminal investigation and the intelligence review come together in a way where theyre inextricably intertwined, that doj can just make that judgment and go ahead. this seems like a judge -- and it sort of pains me to criticize a federal judge because cases are often v...

The intelligence community process by doing something like this. i spoke to someone tonight in the intelligence community about this. theyre not very happy about this for obvious reasons because it kind of goes around the institutions that are in place to try and deal with things like this. and if the president is sort of known to circumvent this process, they feel what is the point of having this process? the president will decide to go ahead and do this, there is no point in having this proces...

Circumvented the entire process, the intelligence community process by doing something like this. i cantle yo tell you tonight i with someone and theyre not happy about this because of obvious reasons. if the president is sort of going to circumvent the process, they feel what the point of having the process? the president is go tag decide leltsz rr do this. this entire process, the president which we see time and time again has been circumvented. >> listen, the president has a right to grant a ...

The draft. there were changes in the intelligence community process. the most important point and general petraeus made this clear, the changes made were made to protect classified information. they did not want to be specific as to the precise group they thought was responsible. or groups. there could have been multiple groups involved. it was done to protect whiched information. he was very cheer this was never done for political purpose. this wasnt manipulated by the white house. all of the c...