Why Is This Happening?: Explaining why Reality Winner is still in prison with Kerry Howley: podcast and transcript

Chris Hayes talks to New York Magazine's Kerry Howley about Reality Winner, convicted of leaking information about Russian election hacking.

The Intercept was an interesting place for it to appear. The Intercept was founded in 2014. It was bankrolled by Pierre Omidyar, who is the billionaire who made a bunch of money in eBay, and it’s of first three big flagship founders were Laura Poitras, who's a filmmaker who documented Edward Snowden's time in that Hong Kong hotel room. If you've ever seen a movie about that, it's incredible. Glenn Greenwald, who was the person who got the Snowden documents. And Jeremy Scahill, longtime reporter and writer who worked for The Nation, among other places.