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Peter Welch: “In his speeches at the Department of Justice, President…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch Calls Out the Trump Administration’s Freedom of Speech Hypocrisy

Published | Video Starts at 02:18

He's controlling the viewpoint of the Associated Press, and they're not relenting. He's called the department. In his speeches at the Department of Justice, President Trump said that the press that reports on him negatively should be, and this was his word, illegal. at the fcc. The chairman has opened investigations into press organizations that it doesn't, like PBS and npr. That's not an investigation that was opened on the basis of a determination by the full commission. (02:18–02:31)

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Asserts that President Trump suggested negative press coverage should be illegal.

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