you can t be. because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth, always. period. and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer, you re a citizen. you are a shareholder in the system. you are an owner of it. the people who run your government are your employees. they re like your cleaning lady. you may appreciate the work they do, good job, but the minute you catch them stealing your cuff links, you fire them. those are the rules because it s your house, not theirs. but what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing but instead of seeming ashamed and pen tant, he ripped around and attacked you like you were the criminal? well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talking about the destruction of the north stream pipelines. anyone who think that the biden administration was in any way involved with that sabotage, directly or indirectly, is
you can t be. because in a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth, always. period. and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer, you re a citizen. you are a shareholder in the system. you are an owner of it. the people who run your government are your employees. they re like your cleaning lady. you may appreciate the work they do, good job, but the minute you catch them stealing your cuff links, you fire them. those are the rules because it s your house, not theirs. but what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing but instead of seeming ashamed and pen tant, he ripped around and attacked you like you were the criminal? well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talking about the destruction of the north stream pipelines. anyone who think that the biden administration was in any way involved with that sabotage,
a problem. it will make it harder for lawyers to trust their doctors, their priests, their spouses when people will say look, even the president s most confidential communications with his lawyer can now be searched just based on probable cause, which is a very, very low standard, i think there will be great distrust of relationships that are very important to american society. confidential relationships between a priest and a pen tant and doctor and patient. brian: he met with the president. he said i would feel the same way if hillary clinton was president and they were doing it to her. i think this is a really critical time it almost seems like the media is pushing the president to fire rod rosenstein, pushing the president to fire robert
for the very latest, i m joined by nbc s chief global community set the scene, what is the latest in crimea? well, behind me in the parliament and there have been several hundred pro-russian demonstrators there all day chanting russian slogans, chanting for vladimir putin. and just about 45 minutes ago, chasing an opposition leader who for some reason came here to address them, chased him down the street and chased him through the city. it looked very dangerous at one point. but a lot of the attention today has been not here in crimea but ross tafl, which isn t far from here on viktor yanukovych, we saw the three faces of the former president, yanukovych the defiant, the yanukovych the pen