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Here's the Truth About the NDAA and Our "Military Industrial Base" | Congressman Michael Turner

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

CHAPTER

The Law of Insinuation

Michael Turner: If I learn something or you learned something in a classified meeting, and we walk out until that information to the public, we have broken the law. He says Comey was lying about so many things during his testimony before Congress. "How am I supposed to find out what's real in the news?" he asks of reporters who ask him how they can tell if someone is telling the truth.

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Speaker 1
Yeah, unfortunately,
Speaker 2
this is one of those loopholes in the law. And actually, when we had Comey in front of us for one of these hearings, I made this point in questioning him, trying to signal what our issue and problem is. And that is, if I learned something or you learned something in a classified meeting, and we walk out until that information to the public, we have broken the law. If you and I learn classified information in a classified setting, and we walk out of the room and lie about what we've been told, you haven't broken the law. And so I've told reporters all the time, do you really think that this person is willing to break the law and put themselves in that situation? Or do you think, should you question and understand that they're probably just lying to you?
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's crazy, isn't it? And he was lying. I mean, about so many things, he was insinuating constantly that, oh, you wouldn't believe what we've got. And it's like, okay, we'll wear it. And of course, never materialized. It was all insinuation, playing off of the ignorance is a strong word, but just the lack of knowledge amongst the public. Why would people know about this? Why would people know about the rule that you just stated? People have no idea how this stuff works and what's real? That's a question I get asked constantly. How am I supposed to find out what's real in the news, Dan? Like, I don't know, people are always lying to me. And I don't know necessarily how to answer that question. So I just listen to me. I'm not lying to you. I'll tell you when I don't know about that. Listen to people who give some air of humility about a given subject that might be a good start as well. Not everything is noble, not everything has a definitive answer, but that's politics more generally. Do you want to speak about politics more generally? Drama with speakers, race? You want to dive into that? At all? We definitely have some suspense, don't we? Yeah, we do. We're going to figure it out, I think. Let's hope so. Michael Turner, everybody, thank you so much for being on. Thanks for kind of illuminating the process of the NDAA. Why it's important, our national security is important, and giving us a small glimpse into the intelligence committee. Thank you. Dan, thank you for your hard work. Appreciate
Speaker 2
it.

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