films like the manchurian candidate in the early 1960s. in joe mccarthy s absence, though, once he was gone from the scene, the one person from his crusades who remained infamous for them for decades was his top aide. the joe mccarthy lawyer and staffer who was always at his side, who was considered to be sort of his grand inquisitor for his communist hunting stunts on capitol hill. it was that young lawyer i pointed out a few minutes ago named roy cohn. as an even younger lawyer, he had played a role in the proscouth of ethel and julius rosenberg who were executed as spies. cohn would later admit to having exparty communications with the judge in the case, which is a serious violation of trial ethics, but that admission, of course, came too late to save the rosenbergs. but after riding the mccarthyism wave with joe mccarthy in the early 1950s, after senator mccarthy was disgraced and
somebody whose game for at least at the very least an inquiry what they knew when and especially william barr. he s the attorney general. if anyone can profess iggerens of t ignorance of the law, it s not him rn. according to describing the whistle-blower sources, people in the administration who talked to the whistle-blower, as close to a spy and made a long, ram belonging comment how in the good, old days spies would be dealt with differently, i imagine that s an allusion to the days of rosenbergs and the likes when spies were executed. would that qualify as witness intimidation? it s just first of all for presidential behavior, it s disgraceful. he is supposed to be leading the executive branch and these are people serving their country in public service and working on national security matters. it s just disgraceful.
you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? the spies and treason. we used to handle it a little differently than we do now. he s talking about the chair. he s talking about the rosenbergs. that s what he seems to be talking about. he sounds like a criminal, chris. who snitched? who gave up the goods? let s find out who gave up the goods on us and make sure there s a consequence and it s serious and let that be a lesson to everybody else. and it sounds like it s straight out of some bad drama, but the fact is this is the president of the united states, and the concern that i have is that we have created a system for whistle-blowers to come forward because we want people to be trance parent about the abuses in our government. and we ve created laws that say we will protect them, and it should be the president of the united states above all who says that we welcome and we ll always
rosenbergs were indeed executed for it at sing sing. and if you accuse to someone of that, particularly an elected official, you are making a big charge. you are. this is the thing about this, it came up in your previous segment when you were talking about john brennan, who openly accused the president of treason. we now inhabit an age of exaggeration. everybody goes to battle stations and two devcon one over everything. so it is not to say that president trump unwisely sided with putin. no, it is treason and he is a traitor. and on the other side, of course, everybody is said to be corrupt and there is no reason of discussion going on right no now. everybody on all sides that goes completely berserk, hair on fire over everything. and on and on it goes. right now there is a battle royale race in washington over the interpretation of the
in some perspective, fox news senior political analyst greg hume has seen everything, and he can put that in the appropriate context and calm us down. nice to see you, tucker. tucker: what do you make of this? i read the letter and it references trump as some kind of trader and notes that the rosenbergs were found guilty of that, and were executed. i did not quite see this as a suggestion that trump be executed, but it was close to the line. and he might have thought the editors at the denver post would ve been more careful publishing it. but if we were not talking about it tonight, i do not think that the world will look longer than a few minutes to note that it would happen. tucker: but it raises the larger question, which is, and correctly that treason is a death penalty offense, and the