Cracking Down on Leaks

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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For a year and a half, President Trump has threatened to crack down on leaks and leakers. The seizure of emails and phone records from a reporter at The New York Times tells a great deal about what that might look like. Guest: Matt Apuzzo, a reporter for The Times in Washington who had his records subpoenaed during the Obama administration. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is The Daily.
0:35.6	Today, for a year and a half, President Trump has threatened to crack down on leaks and
0:46.8	leakers.
0:48.4	What the seizure of emails and phone records from a reporter at the Times tells us about
0:54.8	what that will look like.
0:59.4	It's Monday, June 18th.
1:04.7	So in May of 2013, I was working at the Associated Press in the Washington Bureau with my now colleague
1:15.2	at the Times, Adam Goldman.
1:17.0	And we sat across from each other, separated by this cubicle and just spent all day,
1:21.8	every day talking to each other through the cubicle.
1:25.4	And we're sitting there and Goldman says, hey, did you get this thing?
1:30.2	And I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
1:32.6	He goes, I'm forwarding this to you.
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