so, on the evening of november 28, 2010, the new york times, the guardian, and der spiegel published. ( news reports overlapping ) >> smith: it touched every country. it was the biggest story on the planet. of all the files manning is alleged to have leaked, this was the mother lode. >> whoever leaked that information is guilty of treason, and i think anything less than execution is too kind. >> question-- do you believe that actually capturing mr. assange and prosecuting him will send the right kind of signal? >> mr. assange has disclosed this material without regard to the risk that it does generate to real people... >> smith: is there anything good to come out of this in your view? >> no. >> smith: nothing? >> the unauthorized release of 251,000 cables that covers every relationship the united states has with countries around the world has done damage to the national interest of the united states. >> this is a nightmare for us diplomats. >> smith: it was a window never before opened to the public. >> they are highly sensitive documents never meant to be read by the public. >> smith

help of mainstream news organizations away wikileaks has done recently with "the guardian" and "der spiegel" and "the new york times." two that the material, to fact check it and redacted if necessary and so on. like assange openly is about government transparency. but, you know, there's really no way for these organizations to know what the leakers actual agenda is. there some conscious stricken whistleblower who is leaking the information, or is it a political operative like scooter libby who is out for partisan advantage or to hurt a political opponent? let me close with this. however the first amendment issues play out, let's hope that our governments hands are clean. we know about joe lieberman's attempt to destroy wikileaks, but we have no evidence that the obama administration, the white house was complicit in developing the sexual misconduct charges against assange after wikileaks did three big releases last year. maybe just a quince event that following up on those disclosures, friendly sweden issued an extraordinary international arrest warrant seeking assange's extradition on a c

gas from n germany's r w e r to create a joint venture with plants across the continent earlier der spiegel magazine reports that the russian gas monopoly could become a key stakeholder in r w e investing as much as fourteen billion dollars r w e needs cash as it seeks to develop new sources of energy after the german government decided to abandon you clear power. well that's all the business news for now and join us for another update in about fifteen minutes in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines. with the end of the boer war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but because of the difference to use it as a threat all as an actual bit you know if you keep spinning a trillion dollars a year on weapons of benchley you're going to blow everybody up you can you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or build the new features. that r