we will speak with julian assange's attorney jennifer robinson. in florida, the senate race is headed to a manual recount after a machine recount ended republican governor rick scott's thursday. narrow lead over democratic incumbent bill nelson. but the margin between the two candidates is still less than .25%. several counties missed the deadline for reporting recount tallies, including palm beach and broward county, which missed the deadline by 2 minutes. the florida gubernatorial race has republican ron desantis ahead of democrat andrew gillum by 0.41%, making him the likely winner, though gillum has vowed to keep pushing for all votes to be counted, including a number of ballots rejecected due to signature or other discrepancies. in maine, democrat jared golden beat out republican incumbent congressmember bruce poliquin after the state's new ranked-choice voting system put him ahead by a thin margin. the race was the first to use ranked-choice voting for a federal election after maine voted to implement the system in a 2016 ballot measure. to

. >> jennifer robinson, attorney for julian assange, who just saw him yesterday, thanks so much. >> ito bring in msnbc contributor the "new york times" national security reporter, what's your reaction to what we've just heard? >> that was a very interesting interview. jennifer robinson was clearly hitting on the press freedoms argument that wikileaks supporters and people who are honest about what companies like the "new york times" and "washington post" do, have been raising since 2010/2011 when the justice department started thinking about when they could bring charges against julian assange amid diplomatic cables and military documents provided by chelsea manning, i picked up on a couple point s of interest. she was clearly trying to make people think about this through the lens of that initial batch of documents, the manning era leaks and divert away from what it's been doing more recently, in particular publishing the hacks, stolen democratic e-mails that russia hacked in 2016 in an attempt to influence the u.s. election. so this is one of the big questions we have about what thi

. >> we had an opportunity in keir simmons' show, listen to jennifer robinson. >> reporter: it showshat journalists provided that they're not involved in any way, if they receive information, they are not implicated in whatever the criminal act is by anybody else in disclosing the information. >> so, ned, that's the question, right? is julian assange considered a journalist or not and what might those implications be on either side of that answer. >> well, she said something very interesting there, richard, something she may not have intended. if a journalist is not involved in any way. i personally would take issue with the label of journalist for julian assange. but let's set that aside for the moment and look at the incidents in which he's been involved. it's with chelsea manning, with the cia's vault 7 documents, it's with snowden, helping snowden abscond from hong kong to russia and wikileaks' involvement in the 2016 election hack. so my sense is if he has in fact been charged, that prosecutors do have evidence that he was involved in one or multiple of these incidents, going be

in fact, jennifer robinson tells me they have had no contact.listen. >> has julian assange been asked to give evidence to the mueller inquiry? >> there has been no communication whatsoever from the mueller inquiry. >> nothing? >> nothing. >> what does that tell you? >> well, from our point of view there is no reason for wikileaks to be investigated at all. this is a media organization who like many other media organizations received information and publishes is in the public interest. that is not in any way activity which is criminal and shouldn't be in any way culled up in this investigation. >> have you heard from any kind of prosecuting authority? >> we have been reaching out to the american authorities for many years, we have always been open to speaking to them, but our u.s. counsel has not had any communication at all from prosecutors, at least no information. so the information that was released by mistake over the past few days is the first confirmation that we have had of a secret indictment, of the secret charges that we were concerned

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