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Administration. last month you issued a memo which focused on ensuring first amendment protection force religious groups and individuals. the last two congresss senator lee and i introduced the first amendment defense act which you were a cosponsor of. as you know this legislation ensures the fundamental right to exercise one's religion by prohibiting the federal government from denying or excluding a person from receiving a federal gront, contract, loan, license, certification, accreditation, employment or other similar position or status based on their religious belief and marriage. can you ...

Whether they would go beyond that. but first, the justice department has to make their case that assange was somehow involved in leaking the classified information, not merely being the repository for someone who laid their hands on it all by themselves and then handed it to him to publish on his website. there is a big difference between those two potential fact patterns.ee >> greg: it's a distinction between aiding and abetting and simply delivering material. >> absolutely. >> greg: i happen to think delivering material is pretty bad, too. whitney, if you go after him, do you also go after t...

Offenders, cartel members for instance, but i don't know whether they would go beyond that. but first, the justice department has to make their case that assange was somehow involved in leaking the classified information, not merely being the repository for someone who laid their hands on it all by themselves and then handed it to him to publish on his website. there is a big difference between those two potential fact patterns. >> greg: it's a distinction between aiding and abetting and simply delivering material. >> absolutely. >> greg: i happen to think delivering material is pretty bad, to...

With us for more. it is interesting because his predecessors believed there just wasn't enough there because other newspapers had published the documents that perhaps he had some sort of first amendment protection. why are things looking different now. >> well, for one thing, as you know, this probe has been going on since 2010 when he gained attention for obtaining the thousands of documents from former u.s. military analyst known as chelsea manning. we're told by u.s. officials that since then, since 2010, that the fbi and career prosecutor at the justice department have wanted to bring char...

The law doesn't care that much about those distinctions that journalists have been obsessed with lately, what's sean penn doing, who is he to do this. "rolling stone" is a magazine afforded first amendment protection. as long as he did not aid or abet the fugitive in any way, he can interact with him. as i mentioned on air today, we have got interviews in the past with osama bin laden, julian assange, that is done. >> also, the narrative changes too if it comes out that he was really a pawn or del castillo was a pawn in figuring out where he was and being able to recapture him the way they did...