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A video taken by News4’s partners at The Baltimore Banner shows Republican congressman Andy Harris telling a student reporter from the University of Maryland that she did not have permission to record him and threatening prosecution. “You do not have my permission to record! If you record, we will refer you to the prosecutor,” Harris told the student reporter. “Everyone in here is recording,” the student reporter said. “But you are not allowed to. We are in a two-party state,” Harris said, citing Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, which makes it a felony to record private conversations without consent from both participants. However, the law only protects private conversations, and recording is allowable in situations where there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy." The exchange went on for several minutes. The reporter then tried to ask Harris his thoughts on the Iran war. “You said that it could’ve gone smoother and it could’ve gone better. What did y...

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