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Thank you so much. Thank you kindly. Book tv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to the john f. Kennedy junior forum. My name i am a junior studying government at college and i am a member of the jfk junior Forum Committee at the institute of politics. Before we begin, please note the doors located on both the parkside and the jfk streetside of the form. In the event of them emergency, locked to the exit closest to you and congregate in the jfk parking lot. Please also take a moment to silence her cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the jfk junior forum live and interact with our student run instagram at jfk junior forum for behindthescenes highlights. Please take your seats out and join me in welcoming our guests and director of the center on media, politics and Public Policy, nancy gibbs. [applause]. Good evening and for those of you that have not had a chance this semester to make it across the charles hotel
You and congregate in the jfk parking. Please also take those moment now to. [silence] your cell phones. You can join the conversation online with the hashtag, jfk junior farm life. Editor with our student run instagram. At jfk junior forum behind the scenes and lights. Please take your seats now join me in welcoming our guests, and director of the center on media and politics and Public Policy. Nancy gibbs. [applause] getting for those of you havent had a chance yet the semester to make it across the charles hotel, the center over on the industry is focused on the intersection of many of politics and Public Policy which means we are basically looking at the quality of information in a free society. So a lot of that means working to get the best research into the hands of journalists to help newsrooms with hard questions that they are facing in all that is about promoting good highquality information. You will understand why at this moment in our history, a lot of hard work is also foc
instead he said something we ve started hearing a lot from defenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting from the facts, focusing on the leaks. marco rubio serves on the intelligence committee, explaining away the way the fbi classified documents as a storage argument. this is really at its core a storage argument they re making. they re arguing there are documents there. they don t deny he should have access to the documents. i don t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they ve done. now senator rubio and others are focusing on apparent leaks. that doesn t seem like the kind of thing you should have in your post-presidential desk drawer. well, let s break this down. first of all, again, we really don t know. let s go back and understand that all of this information is coming from one side and one place. and that is sources with knowledge of the investigation. who are the sources with knowledge of the investigation? the fbi an
foreign countries nuclear capabilities. cnn has yet to come that said, when reached by the post, did not deny the substance of. it instead, he said something that we ve now starting a la ronda fenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting the facts, focusing set on the lead. for example, here s marco rubio who serves on this this past sunday, exploiting the way the fbi recovering as a storage argument. this is really, at its core, a storage argument that they re making. there are documents there, they don t deny the access to them. i don t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they ve done. now that the washington post published a report about nuclear secrets big involved, senator rubio is focusing more on apparently cause. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing that you should have in your post presidential desk drawer. let s break this down. first of all, we really don t know. let s go back and understand that all this