Glenn Greenwald Answers 'why Shouldn't You be Charged with a Crime?'

really really disturbing video of of david gregory interviewing glenn greenwald of course glenn greenwald responsible for uh... uh... helping to tell the story about the documents edward snowden wanted to release oakland greenwald conducting an interview that one viral in hong kong with edward snowden and we talked about how peter king was saying we should be prosecuting anne journalists who leak information or publish information after it has been leaked of course it's completely absurd complete violation of uh... of press freedom in its just that's not the way we do things in this country david gregory himself on meet the press asking glenn greenwald shouldn't you be charged with a crime maybe or why shouldn't you be charged with a crime and grappling real world did not like that the line of questioning and i happen to agree with glenn greenwald here before you but i'd like to hear a noticed when i get the word insert here as well bob to the extent that you have a determined that it stony venice current more than that why shouldn't you history will be charged with a crime it's pretty extraordinary that anybody would call themselves internal s would probably need is about whether or not of their journalist should be charged with felony is the assumption in your question david is completely without advance the idea that i didn't have added them in any way this gamble that arose in washington before our stories began was about the fact the obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism by going through the the emails and phone records of eighty reporters accusing the fox news journalist um... the theory that you just embrace being a co-conspirator with felony in felonies for working with sources if you want to brace that period means that every investigative journalist in the united states who works with their sources who receives classified information is a criminal and it's precisely those theories in precisely that climate that has become so menacing in the united states is by the new yorkers dane mayor said investigative reporting has come to a standstill her word as a result of the theories that you just reference well the question of who's a journalist maybe up to a debate with regard to what you're doing and of course anybody who's watching this entity that gregory i mean there but you know it even if you don't agree with the release of these documents david gregory positioning black glenn greenwald here as a criminal who is eighty two and a bedded to me is disgraceful and you know what it reminds me of guys it reminds me of wolf blitzer what air on c_n_n_ uh... relating to the wiki leaks bradley manning document uh... disclosures and he was visibly angry and glenn greenwald actually describe this i believe it was the last year it either networks nation or maybe it was the year before at the free press conference in boston i don't remember where it was how is wolf blitzer a guy who is presumably journalists and investigates and divulge is information and does research why is he so visibly angry that it that uh... uh... uh... and dead and organization has released these documents he seems angry that he knows all of this stuff that the government was hiding from organizations like c_n_n_ i think it's disgraceful with david gregory did here well i wouldn't call it disgraceful he doesn't seem to be confrontational i think he may just be asking this question because it's a it's a sentiment that a lot of people in the media have expressed he he practiced it as the that aid and get you the aidid inhibited receipt didn't he went on in my opinion just kind of preface the question inouye that doesn't even include actual back he said to the extent that you've made in abetted and it's a fair point that there may not be any evidence that glenn greenwald has done that however to the extent that he has if he did i think uh... glenn greenwald kid obviously not be tried for any crimes for doing journalistic work including knowing and publishing classified leaks bride if he's aiding abetting a fugitive then obviously he shouldn't be absolved from that simply because he's a journalist completely different situation now you're right well i think what david broder was asking if i was there any way i know is that he was supposing he's assuming that he actually is a eighteen about i disagree with the assumption gregory made and i think it's indicative of a problem david david gregory has worked with sources and the fact that he's assuming that glenn greenwald here has committed a crime and now glenn greenwald needs to explain why he's not guilty of a crime well i i i i disagree with the entire i disagree a little bit because i think it's pretty clear even looking at the subjectively that glenn greenwald is is not only of journalist in this case he's an advocate for this guy he s going on t_v_ and defending a man explaining his position he's definitely intimately involved in a way that is in always typical of what colonel as to when they receive leaks i think there is that there may be something more to this that comes out in the end as to what glenn greenwald is doing here but that's totally separate from his job as a journalist and releasing the information i agree as well and remember this is what peter king wants prosecution of journalist this is what people pushing for add gag legislation why you should be punished if you report on crazy conditions that slaughterhouses this is not and isolated thing the eighty of criminalizing investigative journalism