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"We're on MSNBC now, where close to 24 hours a day, the agenda of President Obama and the Democratic Party is promoted, defended, glorified . . . that doesn't mean that the people who appear on MSNBC aren't journalists," he said. "They are."
"I think the point is not so much about MSNBC and what happens here but more that sometimes when you talk about Edward Snowden, you do defend him, and some people wonder if that crosses a line," Welker responded.
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