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>> lynn, the white house has said the reason they moved some of those conversations in transcripts to one that was more secretive is because there was so much leaking going on in the administration. we know president trump met with his white house lawyers yesterday and personal counsel to talk about the democrats and about this impeachment inquiry and this personal tore jay sekulow said theres no war room being set up right now. what is happening behind white house closed doors? do we know the s...

He engages in a moral relativism. a democracy to the dictator ship. he does it in interviews and private meetings as well. if we can find out what else he has said to leaders like putin and mohammed bin salman. and conversations which have been filed in the code word protected system. clearly to keep them out of public view. this is the equal of the white house tapes. for the nixon white house. this is damming stuff. were seeing it come out. the ship of state is springing leaks. impeachment has ...

>> what if the national security risk is theres too many leaks? theyre killing me in here. we have to protect these things. ukraine is a sense it have situation, theyre a fragile place, mbs, have to keep this stuff quiet, away from the leakers. >> look, leaking -- truly classified information is unlawful. that should not be done. but this stuff, again, it is not in my mind properly classified when its done just to protect the political interests of the president or other people or to preserve th...

Stuff quiet, away from the leakers. >> look, leaking -- truly classified information is unlawful. it should not be done. this stuff in my mind is not properly classified when its done just to protect the political interests of the president or other people or to preserve them from embarrassment. and in the executive order that governs classified information, it says that. thats what the rules say. can you not classify information just to prevent embarrassment or cover up violations of law, inclu...

Shows how deranged they are. look at the impeachment poll this week in the midst of all of this hysteria about ukraine gate only 36% of the american people supporting impeachment of trump and if you get into the heartland, where i grew up, tucker, impeachment drops to the low 20s and you start to think about how stupid they are when you get to the swing districts of oklahoma 5 and illinois 14 which are real pickup opportunities for the g.o.p. in 2020, they are going to make those members watch w...

I think they will start to realize they will start eating each other. but as did you go down this path, i think they -- it shows how deranged they are. look at the impeachment poll this week, in the midst of all of this hysteria about ukrainegate, only 36% of the american people supporting impeachment of trump, and if you get into the heartland, where i grew up, tucker, impeachment drops to the low 20s, and you start to think about how stupid they are when you get to the swing districts of oklah...

Scale weve never seen in modern times. you had the leaking of information, so-called investigative information trying to push the ball against candidate trump and now president trump. you denied it and he also wrote self-serving memos that belong to the government. and had leaked some of those. number two at the fbi had lied about it and is now potentially facing criminal charges. the general counsel of the fbi top to resign. the top level like that. your book, you have a brand-new book coming o...

That was a fight for democracy. when the wall fell, they were essentially saying we want democracy. inside the u.s. government right now you have one by one patriotic government officials saying we want to defend our democracy, and theyre finding strength in numbers. and yes, its snowballing, as you said. >> let me extend this berlin wall comparison a bit. a year earlier, those people who were dancing on the berlin wall for terrified of going near the berlin wall. a year ago the people who were ...

Example as the child of the hungarian revolution, my parents both left after the hungarian revolution failed. that was a fight for democracy. when the wall fell, they were essentially saying we want democracy. inside the u.s. government right now you have one by one patriotic government officials saying we want to defend our democracy, and theyre finding strength in numbers. and yes, its snow balling, as you said. >> let me extend this berlin wall comparison a bit. a year earlier, those people w...

It has proven to be born out already. to dismiss this as a political hack, it seems to me to be an effort by the presidents defenders to try to make something -- to make nothing out of something and there is something here. >> what do you make of the attempt to, you know, turn the conversation to negative information about this unknown whistleblower and even donald trumps seeming threat to the people who spoke to this person? >> yeah, it is somewhat worse than just the classic blame the messenge...