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Because we'd be doing something really illegal. if i thought somebody was doing that, they should go to jail. >> there has to be some degree of trust in those who serve the public that they're doing something for the public good. and that we have lost. i don't know our way out, but this is the world we live in right now. >> there's some kind of cognitive dissonance out there where people are saying, well, we've got to save democracy by overturning an election. that's more of a dictatorship than it is a democracy. >> i'm open to put my eyes on things. >> will you accept the results of these mid...

Army intelligence analyst and whistle-blower. she leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. now, to some, manning is a hero. to others, she's a traitor. but after serving seven years in a military prison, including time in solitary, she was granted freedom when then-president obama commuted her sentence in 2017. chelsea manning is now trying to reclaim the narrative about why she did and what she did. in a new memoir titled "read me .text." chelsea manning joins us now. thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> so the book is about offering your side of the st...

Chelsea manley joins us now. thank you so much for joining. >> thank you. >> so the book is about offering your side of the story about why you lead 750,000 documents, classified and sensitive, to wikileaks. what ultimately pushed you to take that extreme step? >> right, so, what if you boil down to was this incredible discrepancy, this cognitive dissonance i had between what the public was--i consider myself a very educated and informed member of the public, prior to enlisting in the military and deploying to iraq in 2010. but there is a discrepancy between what we had access to in the public...

There are constraints. the portuguese government has dealt with constraints for a very long time and the european union is a very big constraint. it forces a kind of fiscal responsibility to the government. liz truss came in and thought that she was able to set up and to enrol and implement a radical agenda for which voters had not voted in, in 2019. if she would be a student in my class, i would be doubted one of the first things i tell my students is that they need to learn the constraints, power matters. the fact that if you don't have powerful supporters, supporting your agenda, you are no...

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