The veteran prosecutor told MSNBC's 'Hardball' that he would lock up people making threats against the whistleblower.
with invective, calling them fake and highly partisan, and suggested those who gave them information that led to the complaint should be executed as spies. The White House is trying to find out the whistleblower's identity.
"It's called the Whistleblower Protection Act not the Whistleblower Destruction Act," said Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. with three decades of experience and now a legal analyst for MSNBC, duringWhen asked what should happen to the whistleblower, Kirschner said they must be put in the federal witness protection program.
"I'm sorry to say, because you have the most reckless things said by the president and by the [senior White House adviser] Stephen Millers of the world," Kirschner said. "I'll tell you, if I were prosecuting a case and I had a witness treated the way this whistleblower was treated, I would look to lock up the people who were communicating threats against the whistleblower.", a CIA intelligence officer. They made an official complaint to the intelligence inspector general about Trump's conduct towards Ukraine and alleged efforts by White House officials to cover up the president's wrongdoing.
In the complaint, references are made to a call between Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. A transcript of that call released by the White House shows Trump asking Zelenksky for a favor and to investigate former vice president Joe Biden.
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