s as well as many other deeply concerning abilities and joining me now to discuss the case of josh marshall to vault 7 of the espionage act is civil rights attorney robert patel oh thanks for joining me let's have real so i want to 1st start what are the civil rights concerns privacy concerns with what came out of the vault 7 really well let's let's understand why that would do so so important that it will leave over 8000 documents the. details on how the c.r.u. . able to smartphones now they're able to access the information on your phone even when the phone is turned off how they were able to clone a smart television set so the television could be turned off you would think that it's opposite a listening device bugging you the as automation continues to infiltrate our homes most of us have voice control module such as the lex and siri that weren't even in existence when the vaults of release happened we have to have more and more concerns that every single device that mean listen to being access and we do have a constitutional right to privacy we have a constitutional right to our own aff

and we have the progressive writer and journalist josh marshal, he's been profiled by "the new york timesdividual journalism, it's true. and comedian and friend of "the beat" including star talk radio, the serious and intense. thanks for being here, guys. do you have an impeachment fall back? >> ques, i i want the republicans who won't let the witnesses talk to fall back. they've got this thing where they're taking up the whole time and the witness is like -- and they're like zip it. zip it everybody, right? even schiff had to get in. >> you're good at this kind of investigative questioning. you solicit and elicit answers that help. if you're bad you just use a lot of time. i had to get to something that obviously piqued my ears but a lot of people ears. the indication that asap rocky during these hearings, we're going to show you some of the hearings and the cultural response. >> we primarily discussed asap rocky. >> a sap rocky. >> asap rocky. >> you can tell the kardashians you tried. >> something we've not gotten to much at all in our entire day of coverage is asap rocky. >> that help

bolt isn't you believe there is this theory on a talking points memo, a liberal organization, josh marshalling around that it's a get the chieftuous tis to compel john bolton to testify at a senate trial than it would be waiting around to get him to congress. do you buy into that? >> i think that may very well be true. now, people like john bolton, whose deputies had the courage to come in and testify, are going to have to answer oneÑ 'Ñ why they saved what they knew for a book rather than tell the country when the country needed to know.p ñt&c% but i do think that when it comes to documents and witnesses, that if it comes to a trial and again we're getting far down the road here, that the chief justicerbbwñ will have to a decision on request for witnesses and documents. and so i don't envy thatí >> he may say that you should be a witness. they may want to call you. are you ready? >> look,uiúe if the senate wan call ne as a witness, then they pretty much made the decision not to take this process seriously. i'm not-ç fact witness. i was a chairman of one of the committees doing an investi