around the world, was back in the news this week, along with its mysterious and eccentric founder, julian assangesomeone-- it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents which had been in wikileaks possession onto the internet. when we first interviewed assange last january, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. none of that has changed, and the battle between the freedom to publish and government's need to keep secrets continues. in what is still his most extensive television interview, assange talked to us about the idea behind wikileaks and the prospect of facing criminal charges in the united states. i mean, you've been called a lot of names. you've been characterized as a hero and as a villain, a martyr, terrorist. >> assange: i'm not yet a martyr. >> kroft: rig

>> as you know, julian assange as for radical transparency, and that is wikileaks. once he came out, responsible publications did not release any of the confidential information, and amazon no longer hosted them, and pay pell no longer took money for them, so people stepped back, but google double down, and they backed julian assange completely. they actually indexed all of his stolen documents and made them available on the web. they said they made that decision at the highest levels. >> i will have to ask you to expand a little bit when you talk about radical transparency and indexing. he said that google is guilty of war antitrust violations. can you be more specific on what they are guilty of? cracks in 2008, there was a -- a case threat against them in order to drop the google-yahoo! agreement. they felt that broke up the microsoft merger and then created a collusive arrangements with yahoo! that the wanted to get approved that would have given them over 90% of the search advertising business. just last year, they were found to be colluding with five of the com

don't reports what i'm doing or or who i'm with or things like that in an interview with r t julian assange which stated that u.s. based social networks provide information to a secret service if they request it could that be true it's more than true and it's not just it's not just social networking sites first of all they don't need to provide anything it's right there the secret service certainly which specializes in computer crime computer activities is certainly smart enough to have one of their tech services people go online and look it up on your facebook page or your twitter feed or your you tube feed or whatever. i don't think that the secret service needs the permission of these sites but in fact all of these sites do cooperate with law enforcement and i think they should and it's not just social networking sites google is is so intimately and mesh with the u.s. government and i'm not just talking about. i hate to use this word i was going to say but nine. parts of the u.s. code and that sort of implies that there are not going on and that's not what i mean to say but google in fac

. >>> wikileaker julian assange is fuming that a publisher is releasing a draft of his autobiographypcoming film at a wrestling event, hugh jackman took what was supposed to be a playful poke at wrestler dofl ziegler. well, it wasn't so playful. the wrestler tweets, "jackman broke his jaw." i don't know what's more surprising. that jackman was at a wwe event or that he successfully broke a jaw. no offense, hugh jackman. that's impressive. >> he went for it. he's tough and showed it. >> from musical theater to wrestling and knocking out a wrestler. you should see the video, it's pretty funny. >>> i'm lynn berry, and this is "first look" on msnbc. don't go anywhere, willie gei"w early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> death. tonight's execution in georgia and why so many people have been fearing an innocent man being put to death. for the past few days and into today, all those who could have stopped the execution did not. now tonight his lawyers have appealed to the u.s. supreme court. >> 7:00 p.m. on the east coast now, and troy davis, a convicted killer, is about to be put to

will ever allow it here in this country. >> all right, the life story of wikileaks founder julian assange week and has 644 copies have been sold so far. assange was paid a $500,000 advance for the book even though it was written by a ghostwriter. so good luck with that investment. >> all right. >> yeah. >> interesting story about sports. so why don't you explain what happened with this little kid that plays peewee, and really, really good at it. >> he's unstoppable. he's 11 years old and he's in sixth grade and watch him play. steve, i'll deal you in here because you have a differing opinion. madre hill was an outstanding running back also in high school and he was so good they made this thing called the madre hill rule that says if you score, and he went to the same school, if you score 14 points and up by 14 points and that kid scored two touchdowns, that's all you're allowed to score if you're that kid. he is no longer allowed to carry the ball. >> and i said that i thought maybe that's not living out the american dream and i worry a little bit about what that does to the psyche of a k

also in the world update the julian assange could be facing prosecution in australia over wiki leaks cables recently distributed but not individual names being cut out government officials say at least one intelligence officer was identified as as a result of the leak and under australian law publishing information that might identify one of its security officials is a criminal offense and search is currently fighting extradition from the u.k. to sweden to answer allegations of sexual assault. the u.s. federal agency is trying to find a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against leading banks for misrepresenting the quality of mortgages soldier in the hells and crisis to the subprime debt scandal which last home loan giants fannie mae and freddie mac. more than thirty million dollars i should say thirty billion dollars resulting in a massive government bailout bank of america could be the biggest loser j.p. morgan chase bank also among those facing action. well i'll be back with a recap of our main story shortly for you but first you is next with business news . hello and a very warm welco

julian assange getting a taste of his own medicine. ir will go on sale in bookstores and on line without his approval. assange is reportedly enraged at the publishing company. they say assange wanted to cancel the book deal but since he didn't repay the advance, they went ahead with the publishing anyway. >> thanks, gretch. tonight is american -- rather, tonight, 15 american companies ranging from a small church in south dakota to ford motor company will be honored by the department of defense with the freedom award, this honor goes to businesses that strongly support employees who belong to the national guard and reserves and joining us right now is pat callahan of wells fargo and david mcguiness, the acting assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> david, let's start with you. what is this award program honoring different companies for? >> the employers support the national committee for employer support to the guard and reserve was established quite sometime ago, back in the

well, google doubled down, and they backed julian assange completely. they actually indexed all of his stolen documents and made them available to everybody on the web, to al-qaeda, to any bad actor that could find them. and they said they made that decision at the highest levels. >> host: gautham nagesh writes the hill.com column. please, go ahead. >> host: thank you. i'm going to have to ask you to expand a little bit when you talk about radical transparency and indexing. can you be a little bit more specific in terms of what you think they're guilty of? is. >> guest: sure. in 2008 there was a, um, sherman antitrust ii case threatened against them in order to drop the google/yahoo! agreement. basically, doj felt they broke up the microsoft merger and they created a collusive arrangement with yahoo! that they wanted to get approved that would have given them over 90% of the search advertising and search sipped candidated advertising business. just last year they were found to be colluding with five other companies on restricting the competition for hig

who else but the mainstream media has been quick to jump on this story soak up the drama to put julian assange into the spotlight again i'm fortunate result of this coverage is what's been overlooked what the cables actually reveal and recently made public state department cable provides evidence that u.s. troops executed at least ten iraqi civilians and then call that an airstrike to destroy the evidence among the dead are four women and five children and autopsies performed in the iraqi city of to create show that all the dead have been handcuffed and shot in the head it's a gruesome tragedy and you nobody wants to pay any attention to it joins me to discuss this is kevin just a civil liberties blogger at firedoglake ken i want to thank you for joining us tonight and now correct me if i'm wrong but were you one of the first people that actually spotted this in the cables yeah as part of the. hashtag venture that wiki leaks invited to participate in i was going through the cables and i happened to find this communications log. so once you actually put it out there at least tweeted about it th

plan and visiting a bridge at the he says would be repaired if the gop backs his proposal. >>> julian assange'sder says he's not happy about it. it's the result of a strained relationship between assange and his publisher. >> hope the publisher didn't leak it. >>> finally this half hour is our -- ready? nicely done today, guys. favorite story of the day. today's story involves two of my favorite things -- animals and my spiritual mecca, las vegas. one of my favorites. >> that's right. this is the story of a sin city family reunited with their missing dog after 11 years. ktnv's heather klein has the story. >> reporter: his name is duncan, an adorable corgi who's quite the escape artist. >> cried and cried. >> reporter: michelle and kip bought duncan for their two boys 11 years ago. he became their shadow and companion. >> one day he was gone. just disappeared. >> reporter: they searched in shelters and put up flyers, but never heard anything about his whereabouts until just a few days ago. >> i got a call from this lady from missouri. she says, i have your dog. i'm like, what dog? >> reporter: t

the founder julian assange had given the editor a pass phrase to open the file. the editor assumed that the pass phrase itself, the password would expire after a certain time along with the file. of course that's not the case. that's not how it works. wikileaks was supposed to remove the documents or was supposed to remove the file from that server after the guardian accessed it and never did so the file was always left online. >> suarez: just to be clear. the entire pile of documents and the password were at one time just sitting there on the internet if somebody wanted to look at it. >> the password wasn't on the wikileaks server. the file was. what happened was the guardian actually published the password in a book that it published back in february about its collaboration with wikileaks. it's unclear exactly why they felt it necessary to disclose the password at that point but they thought that it was no longer a relevant password. >> suarez: earlier you talked about the names of sources and other people that diplomats have spoken to over the years. has this

some prominent media groups condemning wikileaks and its leader, julian assange.rganizations, including "the new york times," all collaborated with assange in the past, but now they say a recent release of secret u.s. documents puts confidential sources at risk. >>> and there are new reports now that uncle sam is planning to sue some of the country's largest banks. reportedly, the fed will seek to be compensated for billions of dollars in losses claiming banks misremitted the quality of mortgage-backed securities that they sold. jamie: definitely not what you want to see on a holiday weekend at the beach or at all. off the coast of southern california, well, there are some pretty frightening memories already, at least three credible shark sightings near san diego including at least one fin that looked like it belonged to a great white shark. a pretty unpleasant reminder of a fatal attack in that same area. trace gallagher, who is safe in the west coast newsroom for now -- you're too smart to brave it, trace, i know that. [laughter] >> reporter: i tell you, jamie,

julian assange is blasting britain's guardian newspaper calling negligence this was his first publicments since wikileaks disclose the entire archive of united states cables. he told a trade fair our audience that a journal that published the past four to the encrypted files in his book. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> watch more video of the candidates, and track the latest campaign contributions was c- span website for campaign 2012. easy to use, it helps you navigate the political landscape. can a bit bios and the latest polling data, plus links to c- span media partners in the early primary and caucus states. -- candidate bios. >> this weekend, the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 on the c- span that works with live coverage of each of the memorial sites. new york city, the pentagon. saturday on c-span, the plight 93 national memorial dedication ceremony from pennsylvania. sunday morning at 8:30, a memorial center marini from the world trade center site with president obama and former president bush. on2 c-span at 9:00, vice president biden from the pentagon