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To publish them and to report on them because it would be a huge threat to press freedom if you start criminalizing the publication of information. >> going back farther in history, can you compare and contrast it with those who remember the pentagon papers? papers published by "the new york times," but is it on the same -- is it like that, only 2017 version? >> i couldn't agree more with that example. and, in fact, if you remember back in the nixon years, the nixon administration said all of the same things about daniels berg and "the new york times" that james comey is saying about wikileaks...

Worried tonight? should he be in prison? that was the key question as the fbi director gave us this brand-new phrase. >> wikileaks involves no such -- intelligence porn, push it out in order to damage. >> also can president trump really close the deal on a gop health care bill? and do some democrats secretly want, yes, secretly want house republicans to hold a vote on repealing obamacare? we're live on capitol hill. and a backlash to a backlash. it all began with jimmy kimmel's emotional monologue. and stephen colbert makes fun of president trump every night. but this time did he just go too...

It sounded like there were. >> sounded like he's in an embassy in another country. it was so nonresponsive that as a lawyer -- you're a lawyer -- the first thing i thought of that guy has a sealed indictment hanging over him. >> totally agree. greta, let me say this one thing. back in 2010, 2011, all the major media outlets, washington times, prosecuting wikileaks would be a major -- the tweet was saying the media was the men i. this would be a much graver threat to criminalize the top secret documents. the media has been weirdly silent about it. >> thank you. >> thank you, greta. >> secretary...

That the one who committed the crime is the leaker. so, then i thought, is assange, is he a journalist? in which case his receipt of information is not the problem, he's not the actual one who went in and got the materials. so, tell me your thoughts on this. >> so, the obama administration looked at this question very deeply back in 2010, 2011 when wikileaks was releasing this information about the state department and military cables. and what they concluded was that there is no way to prosecute wikileaks. the obama justice department, without also prosecuting "the new york times" and the gua...

National security, do people really need to know? is there some line out there? >> so, i think there is an ethical line. and i've criticized wikileaks for publishing, for example, information from john podesta's e-mail inbox that had no public interest or from the dnc. but that's not what they're talking about. that's not illegal to publish -- to make a bad editorial judgment. what they're talking about is publishing top secret information from the cia, from the pentagon, and that's when you get into the traditional reporting that the "the new york times" and the washington post and nbc news d...