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Michael, that wikileaks has the same kind of protections as a news organization, even though as far as we know they dont provide news content but they provide information. >> thats right. again, there are good minds that disagree with me on this, maybe better minds that disagree with me on this, but i believe when theyre a distributor of news like the snowden stuff, theyre under first amendment protection. cia director pompeo thinks tlaer a none state hostile intelligence service. if thats mufs ...

That he did, what kind of protections might wikileaks have in this investigation that they may have obtained information, that they may have passed it on our publicized it? are there protections? >> yeah, its a great question. wikileaks, according to u.s. law enforcement, is a nonstate, hostile intelligence service. according to many, its the first amendment protected news organization. if it is a news organization, then they stand like "the washington post" did when it received the pentagon pap...

East germany and like so many people that grew up behind the iron curtain look to america just as reagan said, is a city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see, one of the first things that happened after the wall came down, she and her husband got on a plane, flew to california, and understood america really was all she believed it was, and -- >> when that fell apart she said well take as many refugees from syria. >> i thought you were going to say when george bush tried to massa...

Why is this different? >> its potentially huge because the way wikileaks released this information is by claiming these cyber weapons, these hacking tools have actually left the cia, no longer in the control of the cia, theyve been leaked. the idea here is potentially the entire cias hacking arsenal is now outside of their control and potentially in the hands of cyber criminals who can steal the personal information or bank account numbers orman any from people like you and me or its reached the...

President of the united states or he can defend his agency. thats a really tough place to be. when you have the president sort of making these kind of wild accusations, and clearly, according to what weve heard from aides to the president, did not even contact the fbi to ask for clarification of any of this stuff, the fbi is seen as either sort of a tool of the president whose authority can be sort of slung around, and its implied that the fbi, if anybody was going to do the wiretapping, might h...

This. salena zito, errol louis and jeremy diamond. the president says he supports this, reach og tout folks in his own party who dont. he had lindsey graham over. is a full-court press from the white house and the president im self. some democrats call this trumpcare. if it is indeed trumpcare, what does that mean? does it help it, hurt it? >> trumpcare is i think more political jargon than anything else. the president himself said, hey, nobody knew how complicated this was. by nobody, i think h...

Secrecy, particularly secrecy around what our government does as well as surveillance. i dont think we can say whos winning that yet, but i dont think the government is winning right now. i think the snowden stuff coming after they had already tried to sledge hammer bradley manning, julian assange and others is interesting that a man would still come out knowing what they did to them. i also think its important to understand that if we keep using these kind of sentences against people like bradl...

Threatened by the attempted criminalization of journalistic work. you cant have it both ways. and this is where greenwald is so frustrating. i like what he has done with the snowden stuff, and then it gets this stuff and its annoying. >> people that know greenwald know that he is kind of, you know, he is a weird dude. >> i disagree with andy. he does not want it both ways. he is happy with dudes. i saw that clearly. >> if i did not see that joke coming im as dumb as a cat on a subway. i should c...

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