Ted Cruz: “Federal law, and typically state law, protects…”

“Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Well, that is inevitably, number one, the law, Federal law, and typically state law, protects whistleblowers, that gives you legal protection. because you want whistleblowers to, to call attention to fraud. But number two, if a government official goes after the whistleblowers, attacks the whistleblowers, refuses to follow the law and whistleblowers, that is powerful indication of a guilty mind, that you're covering something up.” (09:47–09:58)

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