government. it s time chuck schumer. they ve done that. it s time chuck schumer starts playing tough. absolutely. politico s sam stein, thank you very much. thanks, guys. coming up, after testimony on capitol hill from a facebook whistle employeer, the naacp is demanding a meeting with the social media company to discuss hate speech on its platform. more on morning joe. act, congress can tackle it head on. with tax credits for clean energy companies that create millions of new jobs. .and ramp up new technology and clean energy manufacturing. it means families pay less for utilities. .and america becomes the global leader in clean energy it s time to build back better. and that means taking on climate change. with clean energy jobs
sure. when you reveal information to government agencies, the sec, congress, that s generally protected. when you go to the press, when you give the wall street journal thousands of documents, that s a little riskier, but sometimes it s necessary. because a whistle employeer is trying to expose serious wrongdoing in the hopes that change can be affected. and if you go to the sec or sometimes even to congress, you re not assured that information will get out. sometimes the media is the best way to to this and often is a necessary step for whistle-blowers. we saw that in the trump administration, concerns that, following the internal process could be quashed by outside partisans. are whistle-blower laws written
was unaware of the most damming line. most of them that i ve talked to never bothered reading the mueller report. you take all this together and of course this is why they can runaround saying nothing to see here, move along, move along. or those who have read the report and those who have read the whistle employeer complai-b those who have read the so-called transcript, that memo, they re taken up the james carvel strategy and pointing off in the distance saying look at the bird, look at the bird, even though they know that theory they re pushing about joe biden is discredited. again, i just want to say really briefly, it is so important, if you actually read the memo from the white house, the so-called transcript, you see that the
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the new york times and the guardian are call him a whistle employeer and pushing for the government to either drop its case against him or offer him a deal so that he can return to the u.s. without fearing life in prison. the times editorial board writes this, considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed and the abuses he has exposed, mr. snowden desesrves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. he may have committed a crime to do so but he has done his country a great service. it is time for the united states to offer mr. snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home. snowden is currently in russia, where she was granted temporary asylum. he faises espionage and other charges in the u.s. for guiving journalists classified information about the nsa s mass phone and internet surveillance programs. cnn justiceer evan perez