andrew and hugh and we re joined by rick stagle. mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. once said to edit is to choose. it seems to me when you are given a pile of stuff that is salacious and could be career destroying or at least anybody, including a r president-elect, you decide whether it s true or not. you don t act in reckless disregard. yes. i wouldn t reckless disregard. i would not have published it. it wasn t a news story. i d like to know why that was included in the intelligence briefing. it was included as a an addendum described in the papers as disinformation. which is another reason not
reputation destroying for anybody, including a president-elect, you decide whether it s true or not. you don t act in reckless disregard. yes. i wouldn t reckless disregard. i would not have published it. it wasn t a news story. i d like to know why that was included in the intelligence briefing. it was included as a an addendum described in the papers as disinformation. which is another reason not to publish it. but what reasons me more is what some of the panelists have said already. the president-elect has talked about narrowing liable laws in this country. it is very hard under the first amendment to liable a public figure. it is almost impossible to liable a president. the reason that speech is protected is because we have to speak truth to power. is this truth? this is not necessarily, but this is what he might do to the press during his presidency, which is worrying.
of unsubstantiated allegations, probably false, about donald trump. they weren t the only ones. buzzfeed came under harsh criticism by a number of news organizations today. we re back with katy tur, rick stang stengel, hugh hewitt. ben bradley, the great editor of all times at the washington post who broke the watergate story with the help of woodward and bernstein once said to edit is to choose. it seems when you re given a pile of stuff that s salacious and could be career destroying, at least reputation destroying for anybody, including a president-elect, you decide whether it s true or not. you don t act in reckless disregard. yes, i wouldt reckless disregard. we ll get to that in a second. i woul not he published it. it wasn t a news story, it was something included in an intelligence briefing. i d like to know why that is. but it wasn t included as