Alan Dershowitz: Michael Cohen wiretap shows the US is becoming a surveillance state

Published May 3, 2018 8:15pm ET



Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that reports saying President Trump’s personal attorney was wiretapped suggest the U.S. is on the brink of becoming a surveillance state.

“I think we are moving closer and closer to the surveillance state where phone calls are tapped, where emails are secured without a real basis,” Dershowitz told Steve Kornacki on MSNBC.

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