burning of a koran has a sensitivity that we do not understand and i think it goes to an underlying facts that we do not understand this country. we do not understand the region in general. i would be curious how many people we have in the various cabinet departments that speak any of the language tlmpts there s a fundamental lack of understanding of what we are dealing with and it s not just about security, it s about really supporting the local democracy in these places which is a difficult long-term process. you are hearing from the democratic elite increasingly lately that joe biden was right when he was urging obama to get his loss and get out. biden called it a god forsaken moon escape. and that is the feeling prevailing in washington. that was wood ward s book about the first few years in office, that obama was in
for reading the first amendment. that intimidation closed down descent for a decade in the united states of america. it s a very dark and dirty history. and when you start to use the he is spee naj act to criticize what you ve i m sure you ve handled classified documents. when you start to use that to say reporting is stretch ree, reporting is spying, you criminalize journalism. i recognize that history and i m familiar with the red scare, too. america is different now. oh, it s worse in some ways. i would disagree. well, i want to ask jeff a question. i want to come back to this wood ward discussion. you would agree with clay and nim me that julian assange would be precisely book wood ward if he was the recipient of these documents. is that sdplekt. i would have to know a lot more. but that might be the case?
it s a very dark and dirty history. and when you start to use the he is spee naj act to criticize what you ve i m sure you ve handled classified documents. when you start to use that to say reporting is stretch ree, reporting is spying, you criminalize journalism. i recognize that history and i m familiar with the red scare, too. america is different now. oh, it s worse in some ways. i would disagree. well, i want to ask jeff a question. i want to come back to this wood ward discussion. you would agree with clay and nim me that julian assange would be precisely book wood ward if he was the recipient of these documents. is that sdplekt. i would have to know a lot more.
this op ed writer says meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in rants and impulsiveness ill informed and reckless decisions that have to be walked back. how shocking to you is it that a senior member of the trump administration would write this and on top of that, there are multiple suspects? i think it s shocking but not surprising. what he s laid out here, i think all of us have heard versions of, this right? it s rarely been laid out as clearly and in as much detail as an op ed. it comes in leaks like wood ward s book and if you have this view and you are truly a senior official in the trump administration, what are your options? why do you do it this way?
with him veer off topic and off the rails. he engages in rants and impulsiveness ill informed and reckless decisions that have to be walked back. how shocking to you is it that a senior member of the trump administration would write this and on top of that, there are multiple suspects? i think it s shocking but not surprising. what he s laid out here, i think all of us have heard versions of, this right? it s rarely been laid out as clearly and in as much detail as an op ed. it comes in leaks like wood ward s book and if you have this view and you are truly a senior official in the trump administration, what are your options? why do you do it this way? i m not really that thinks this