alternative universe. and they wake up and look at the house intelligence committee report of july 7th. have you seen that, michael? the senate report? i have seen it. i m totally this got zero coverage on cnn. this reported that internal security agencies to the united states are leaking on average once a day, top-secret classified information against the president and his administration, there are 144 leaks up until that report on july 7th. almost every single day since he s been inaugurated. and the washington post comes out with a story today, with another embarrassing leak, classified leak, it s a criminal act to leak that type of information. to hurt attorney general sessions. and nobody wants isn t that an issue that we should be discussing? why are there so many internal government leaks? that are illegal, being made
against the president? don t you think that you as a press organization, look, we all benefit from leaks, because we talk about them in the press. but the truth is they re very harmful to the country. but chris, respectfully what about the substance. i am talking about the substance. we should be having the conversation about the leak? let s talk about the substance of the crime. the underlying crime is that somebody leaked classified information. the president s private conversations with world leaders have been leaked, i think three or four times now. these are probably the most guarded secrets a nation can have, the press doesn t think there s anything wrong with this. so when donald trump has a 15-minute private conversation with putin and there s no note-taker, they re surprised and shocked that he did this? you have to let me respond to this. if the story is true in the post today and i grant you it s possible that it s bogus
were. yet, we re already suggesting that somebody on cnn accused attorney general sessions of treason. that s a very serious crime to accuse somebody of treason and very unfair. i want to show you a tweet from the president. very active on twitter. a new on this subject, a new intelligence leak from the amazon/ washington post, this time against a.g. jeff sessions, these illegal leaks like comey s must stop. you ve just underscored these points. why the amazon reference? is that a play to the base. in other words, we re walmart people and it s the amazon folks, the liberal beltway that are trying to take us down? fortunately i m not a white house spokesman, or somebody that speaks on behalf of the president. he and i have not talked