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But are very important. that sort of thing is highly newsworthy, serves a genuine first amendment purpose, and the public would know less. >> walter, were those leaks over the line? >> you know, i think they were. i do in this instance. i think they were over the line because, you know, what they showed was that the president sounds foolish in talking to foreign leaders. but thats really very sensitive material, transcripts of presidential conversations. not as sensitive as something that would ...

With impunity. we must balance the press role with protecting our national security and the lives of those who serve in the intelligence community, the armed forces, and all law-abiding americans. >> sessions also announced the trump doj leading more than three times as many leak investigations as were open at the end of the obama administration. there have been as many criminal leak referrals in the first six months of the trump administration as there were over the past three years combined. i...

Community, the armed forces, and all law-abiding americans. >> sessions also announced the trump doj leading more than three times as many leak investigations as were open at the end of the obama administration. there have been as many criminal leak referrals in the first six months of the trump administration as there were over the past three years combined. in response to the increased number of investigations, the fbi has working to expand a counterintelligence unit for the cases. four people...

First amendment purpose, and the public would know less. >> walter, were those leaks over the line? >> you know, i think they were. i do in this instance. i think they were over the line because, you know, what they showed was that the president sounds foolish in talking to foreign leaders. but thats really very sensitive material, transcripts of presidential conversations. not as sensitive as something that would reveal sources and methods, that would reveal the fact that we have, you know, a w...

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...

>> sessions also announced the trump doj leading more than three times as many leak investigations as were open at the end of the obama administration. there have been as many criminal leak referrals in the first six months of the trump administration as there were over the past three years combined. in response to the increased number of investigations, the fbi has working to expand a counterintelligence unit for the cases. four people have also been charged with unlawfully disclosing classifie...

To begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reportrepor folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mueller has sent to the white ...

In supporting political candidates. it must be mr. trumps position that only trump supporters are allowed to investigate him. people were either for trump or for clinton, and mueller would not have given that any consideration whatsoever against staff. i dont see that they have anything. the idea that robert mueller would risk his reputation that he has spent a lifetime gathering to try to go after someone just because of a 6-year-old fee dispute at a golf club is beyond absurd. >> walter dellin...

Computer systems, the undisputable fact that private information was released for the whole world to see of these private citizens. we know that the russians and guccifer and wikileaks were involved in this. their argument is that they believe the trump campaign and, in particular, one individual were involved, and theyve got lots of meetings and lots of information. and now, of course, their case was strengthened this past weekend with the release of the e-mail showing that senior officials of ...