At a Senate hearing, Senator Cory Booker says the reporters' phone records were demanded back to January 1st, six months before a July 9 story on the president being moved from the Qatari jet. Booker says that on July 23rd a federal judge in Manhattan said he would throw out every one of those subpoenas and raised sanctioning government lawyers over false statements in sworn applications.
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- Cory Booker
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Director, the president was secretly shuttled from the Qatari jet via an airport catering truck to a smaller Air Force jet on July 8th. The story ran the next day on July 9th. You demanded those reporters phone records, but you didn't just go back to this period. As an act of further intimidation of reporters, you went back six months all the way to January 1st before there was even a story, six months before there could have even been a leak. There was no crime in January. The judge admonished you for this. The judge saw this for what it was, an abuse of power. On July 23rd, a federal judge in Manhattan took this up. He told your government's lawyer he would throw out every one of those subpoenas. He raised rather to sanction your lawyers for false statements in sworn applications.
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