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To discuss strategies for dealing with this disturbing trend. and then the very first paragraph garland wrote that while spirited debate about public policy matters is protected under our constitution, that protection does not extend to threats of violence or efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views. the order was intentionally mischaracterized as part of a government plot to designate concerned parents domestic terrorists, a distortion that was repeated over and over again on right wing talk tv over the past few weeks. and because many republican senators seem to get their information mainly from partisan echo chambers, at yesterday s hearing with garland, they kept referring to those mischaracterizations as fact rather than actually reading the memo. i just have to ask you, would you really honestly put parents in the same category as a terry ....
that s quite simply wrong as a matter of law. when this whistleblower submitted the complaint through the intelligence community was a low protection act there s a specific exclusion in that statute prohibits the complaint being validated based on difference of opinion on public policy matters. of this was about reducing sanctions or the extent to which we provide assistance to the ukrainians that would not be allowed under the statute or validated. the reason they found the salad, the reason this went forward was because of the overall circumstances between the phone call and the surrounding details with rudy giuliani and ambassador volcker that suggested corrupt intent if not a quid pro quo to condition assistance to the ukrainians on their willingness to investigate the bidens. you mentioned texts, there s a july 25th text from volcker where he makes it clear, a visit between the president and volodymyr zelinsky is ....
I quote, according to white house officials i spoke with, this was, quote, not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code worded level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. not the first time and the whistle-blower source on that, dana, is a white house official. they say politically sensitive but not national security sensitive. right. that s the key issue. that gets that s on the first page of the whistle-blower complaint saying that this does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters, which is the core of this. this is about a national security question. i have to say, when you see that line it s not the first time it happened, the president spoke to a lot of world leaders where he has taken steps to conceal the record of the conversation. hamburg with putin, even confiscating the translator s ....
Involving classified information but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters. ned price, i want your reaction to this story as we know it at this hour. lawrence, i think there is a maxim we can attach to this administration. it could always be worse. it could always get worse. i m actually not sure that s true in this case, however. i will be honest that when i started to hear about this story, these rumblings, i had assumed there was a whistle blower within the intelligence community who was ready to tell superiors about president trump or someone in his administration, severe mishandling of classified information. after all this is a president who in recent weeks aileen has tweeted highly classified satellite imagery, leaked information to the russians in the oval office, has detailed the locations of nuclear submarines to foreign leaders. but i certainly don t think that s what the case is. that would be recklessness. that would be carelessness. ....
An intelligence activity involving classified information but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters. ned price, i want your reaction to this story as we know it at this hour. lawrence, i think there is a maxim we can attach to this administration. it could always be worse. it could always get worse. i m actually not sure that s true in this case, however. i will be honest that when i started to hear about this story, these rumblings, i had assumed there was a whistle blower within the intelligence community who was ready to tell superiors about president trump or someone in his administration, severe mishandling of classified information. after all this is a president who in recent weeks aileen has tweeted highly classified satellite imagery, leaked information to the russians in the oval office, has detailed the locations of nuclear submarines to foreign leaders. but i certainly don t think that s what the case is. that would be recklessness. ....