Maxine Waters Wants Confidential Leaks to Continue
EXCERPT:
FARIS: “I think also people are just really tired of government in general and the inefficiency of government. But I want to talk about these leaks that have been coming out. It seems a steady stream of leaks —“
WATERS: “Yes. Yes.”
FARIS: “— have been coming out of the White House and intelligence agencies. The Attorney General Jeff Sessions was just — he just delivered a briefing cracking down on this. But we — we have to be bothered by these phone conversations, these confidential conversations that he had with Mexico and Australia that were just illegally leaked to ‘The Washington Post’. There’s a lot of Democrats that are disturbed by the this because it threatens our national security. Are you disturbed by it?”
WATERS: “No, not at all. I’m so glad they’re telling us what’s going on. And —“
FARIS: “But we don’t need to hear these conversations. They’re confidential. This threats national security.”
WATERS: “I need to hear these conversations. I need to hear — (Applause) Unfortunately, this is his fault. He is in a White House where he’s got people working for him that don’t believe in him, don’t like what he’s doing, and they’re trying to tell the American public something.”
