and i knew i would hit you and it would hurt you, but really that wasn t my purpose. i was just trying to get to the store. that s no defense. so i think on the law, her decision was right. rick: but that s basically the sort the naive defense, is what his team is arguing here, that he was a naive whistle blower. now we re seeing this, of course, against the backdrop of the ed snowden saga that continues to play out. one person s heroic whistle blowerrer is another person s spy or someone who has been aiding the enemy. it s sort of in the eyes of the beholder. is that the way it works with the law, too, or is it more clear cut? well, i think whatever his subjective desires, okay, whatever his subjective purpose, what the law asks and what you got to ask cause we can t have a different standard and say, oh, you re naive, so you can do whatever you want. the law asks is, did you know
the united states, i did it because our country s in trouble. many of you have heard the story of us, anita sitting on the couch and talking about that this wasn t my purpose in life. but our country was in trouble. and it was my duty to serve my country one more time. and this campaign s never been about me. it s about a movement of americans who see our country that s really not on the track that most of us want it to be on. $15 trillion of debt, some 50 million americans that are on food stamps, 13 million of us, 13 million of our fellow citizens that are out of work. they don t see a washington that s willing to make hard decisions, to help them, to get them back on their feet again. they re looking for people to make some right decisions.
in trouble. many of you have heard the story of us, anita and i sitting on the couch talking about this wasn t my purpose in life. but our country was in trouble. and it was my duty to serve my country one more time and this campaign s never been about me. it s about a movement of americans who are who see our country that s really not on the track that most of us want it to be on. $15 trillion of debt. some 50 million americans that are on food stamps, 13 million of us, 13 million of our fellow citizens that are out of work. they don t see a washington that s willing to make hard decisions to help them, to get them back on their feet again. they re looking for people to make some right decisions. they re looking for someone that will stand up and give them hope
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these entangling alliance. he believed what the founders taught us. he didn t want to be in nato. we certainly don t need nato and the u.n. to tell us when to go to war. but we have seen a great difference. the majority of the american people are behind us on this whole war effort. they are tired of the war, costs too much money, too many people get injured, too many people get killed, too many people get sick. and the majority, 70 to 80% of the american people now are saying it s time to get out of afghanistan. so those are the issues, those are the issues that we have brought front and center. they re out there. they re not going to go away. and we have tremendous opportunity to continue this momentum. it won t be long that there s going to be an election up in new hampshire and, believe me, this momentum is going to