exclusive with wicks i leaks founder julian assange, who has spent nearly three years inside ecuador's embassy in london where he has political asylum. assange faces investigations both in swede and not united states. here in the u.s. a secret grand jury is investigating wikileaks for its role in publishing a trove of leaked documents in the iraq and afghanistan wars, as well as state department cables. in sweden, he's wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct, though no charges have been filed. earlier this month sweden's supreme court rejected his appeal to lift his arrest warrant. swedish prirs are reportedly preparing to travel to london to interview assange after refusing to do so for years. while assange has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy wikileaks has continued to publish documents from the leaked draft of the t.p.p., the transpacific partnership to the recent disclosures of the british nuclear submariner whistle blower william mcneilly, to secret details of a european union plan to use military force to curb the influx of migrants from libya. i spo

someone was listening to julian assange's phone calls. >> the u.s. should apologize to evo morales to france. they should apologize for not following the law that we cannot predict when other countries will follow the law. amy: today, julian assange for the hour. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. saudi-led airstrikes have killed at least 80 people in yemen, marking the deadliest day of the two-month bombing campaign to date. the strikes battered the yemeni capital sanaa and the bakeel al-meer area near the saudi border, where residents said at least 40 people were killed, most of them civilians. arab planes and ships blasted yemen's largest military port in the city of hodeida, marking the worst attack on yemen's navy since saudi arabia launched its offensive on iranian-aligned houthis rebels in march. saudi-led planes targeted a car thought to be carrying houthi leaders in central sanaa, but an eyewitness said the strike destroyed homes and injured residents. >> thi

and what julian assange may have on hillary clinton. shawn: he is implying he has gathered public in -- information that is not public. and underscores the sense that nothing is private anymore when we are talking about data being kept electronically, how they store it, how they transmitted. -- transmit it. it is not safe. it is not secure. i don't know, when he talks about internet freedom, if he is talking about everything being insecure people not having privacy. that sounds like privacy being breached in a way. perhaps hypocritical. but i think that when we are talking about data being kept electronically, it is never going to be secure. we have two up and recognize that. emily: we don't know what julian assange has on hillary clinton. but go ahead. tom: there is an assumption made that the u.s. is a monopoly on being big brother. there are multitudes of government agencies from other countries as well as hacker groups and crews that have the capacity to maintain omniscience, to be telepathic as it relates to our personal comings an

. >> what about julian assange?at julian assange is doing is putting a spotlight on the secrets. emily: you tweeted you were going to be hillary's worst nightmare. how so russian mark >> it is probably more julian. i am aware of some of the things that are going to be roadblocks for her. if i can provide transparency with these people and make them part of what the internet party stands for, i will be happy to do that. emily: julian assange is going to be her worst nightmare? how so? kim: he has access to information. emily: what information? kim: i don't know the specifics. emily: she's an adversary -- kim: she is an adversary to internet freedom. emily: and you have a bone to pick with her. kim: i like hillary. i like obama. it is crazy all of this happened. emily: should hillary be worried about julian assange? i will to bring back my panel of experts. shawn henry at cloud strike. what do you make of his remarks? shawn: he is implying he has information that is not public. and underscores the sense that nothing i

kim: what julian assange is doing is putting a spotlight on the secrets. emily: you tweeted you were going to be hillary's worst nightmare. how so? >> it is probably more julian. i am aware of some of the things that are going to be roadblocks for her.

emily: you say julian assange will be hillary's worst nightmare. how so? he has access to information. emily: what information? kim: i do not know the specifics. emily: why hillary in particular? kim: hillary hates julian. she is an adversary of internet freedom. emily: she signed your extradition request. so you have a bone to pick. kim: i actually like hillary. i like obama. it is crazy that all of this happened. emily: the internet party has not worked out in new zealand, as i understand it. it has been something of a flop. how do you resurrect that? kim: a lot of times, when i created something new, it was a bit ahead of its time. i think a political party is something that grows over time. emily: if you are not extradited, what is next? kim: i think the case will go on for a long time. i have prepared myself for that mentally. emily: what do you want your legacy to be? kim: i am working on something new that i am really excited about called meganet, an alternative internet. i want to create a new internet that gives people power over the network rathe

emily: you say julian assange is going to be hillary's worst nightmare? emily: what about julian assange? what is your relationship with him? kim: what julian assange is doing, he is putting a spotlight on all the secrets. emily: how often do you talk to him? kim: why is that important to you? emily: i am curious. kim: i like these guys. i look up to them. i think they are very brave. they are going through a hard time. they chose to do that for the betterment of all of us. so, yeah, i love to talk to them. emily: you said you would bring the internet party to the u.s. in 2016. why? what is your goal? kim: because i think there is a big group of people out there that disagree with what is going on, you know? they want to have their privacy back. they want to have internet freedom. emily: you tweeted that you were going to be hillary's worst nightmare in 2016. how so? kim: i have to say it is probably more julian. but i am aware of some of the things that are going to be oadblocks for her. so, if i can provide some transparency with these people and make t

your say that julian assange will be hillary's worst nightmare in 2016? how so? dotcom: well, he has access to information. emily: what information? kim dotcom: i don't know the specifics. emily: why hillary? kim dotcom: julian hates hillary. emily: and she signed her extradition request. so you have a bone to pick with her? kim dotcom: the crazy thing is that i actually like hillary, i like obama, it is just so crazy that all of this happened. pimm: all right, bloomberg west anchor joins us now, emily chang, what is the latest on the u.s.'s attempt to extradite kim dotcom? emily: a lot of speculation going on right now on what julian could have on hillary right now, but the extradition was moved several times, and it was moved back to september, so there is a lot of doubt that this case will ever go to trial. it is an extremely difficult case to prosecute. people in hollywood disagree, but legal experts that we have been talking to say that it is going to be very difficult to prosecute kim dotcom, the middleman, when it was really the up loaders who are putting t

the same thing he did to julian assange and americans snowden. melissa: one of the 100,000 households hacked by the irs cyberattack. the irs believes the criminals were based in russia. our own blake berman has more from d.c. blake? >> good afternoon to you, sources have indeed told fox the data breach originated out of russia. the investigation expanded as the fbi announced this morning it will try to determine the scope of this scam. what still remains unclear the level which this was directed in more severe than previously thought. in march, a report from the government accountability officer said the irs made improvements to cybersecurity but were not good enough. here's the, quote -- certainly not the warning you want to hear there, melissa. melissa: no absolutely not. blake, thank you so much for the update. >>> president obama using visit to the national hurricane center today to warn that climate change will make storms more intense. but the ceo of exxonmobil isn't on the same page. rex tillerson telling shareholders the jury is still out

and could you speak in general terms what surveillance you think is currently being done -- julian assangeand edward snowden. mr. morell: second question, i have no idea. the first question, i obviously believe that security is very important, i wouldn't have spent 33 years of the central intelligence agency i didn't. i also believe that privacy and civil liberties of americans is extremely important. i am a supporter of the telephone metadata program. it fills important gaps that were there before 9/11. i believe -- i can't prove this. i can't a lot of evidence on the table to show this. but i believe that if the program been in place prior to 9/11, we might have seen some of the communication between the 9/11 hijackers. and maybe that would have allowed us to disrupt it, maybe not. we just don't know. but it was put in place specifically to fill a gap. i do get to remain. -- i think it should remain. let's start with a telephone metadata program first. i think it should remain, and in some ways i think it should be strengthened because it doesn't include all phone calls made in the unite

but then julian assange, he said this could hurt regulations. 250 tech companies, they oppose the tradepeople feel this way because a lot of these trade deals that we have had including nafta, many people say that we have a raw deal. president obama continues to push this. yesterday when richard trumpka came out, it wasn't a failed deal. the units are not going to back you on, it's seriously important. >> that's right, we don't want our trade to be based upon mexican companies and chinese companies come everyone in the united states, we prefer american-made goods and we have to make sure that the american company gets a fair shot at it. charles: i remember ross perot. he talked about american jobs leaving and not something that strikes a nerve with a lot of people. apple sells more products outside of this country than in this country. you go down the list, we want access and a lot of people think that obama is putting together a bad deal. >> the problem is, we don't know, the deal is under tight lock, which i think is raising suspicion among everyone and everyone's wondering if this is

people like julian assange, the ecuadorean embassy the great civil rights attorney lynn stork herself sent to prison, jeremy hammond, the hacker attended with cornell west the trials of chelsea manning and he lived at princeton and we would leave at 3:00 in the morning to drive down to fort meade and each lesson for each car ride cornell would usually drive with a less than classic soul. he knows everything including classics. he who wrote the song for james brown when he was 19? i got a letter from chelsea manning after she was sentenced and imprisoned, she was not allowed to turn around and look at who was seated in the courtroom to support her and i got a letter saying she had looked out of the corner of her eye and seen cornell, myself and she wanted to send a thank you. the greatest existence of crisis of our time is accepting the reality that is before us with all its bleakness and yet finding the capacity to resist. liberalism itself in the face of a crisis of this magnitude is any factual force. it is too intellectual. it is too passionless, too lacking in that quality that is

in germany, an artist has unveiled life-size bronze statues of whistleblowers edward snowden, julian assange, and chelsea manning in berlin's alexanderplatz square. the whistleblowers are shown standing on chairs with an empty chair next to them, which artist davide dormino encouraged people to stand on and speak out. >> what it is to represent the three icons heroes, that they have lost their freedom for the truth. so they remind us how it is important to tell the truth. to have the courage to know the truth. amy: and the governor of the u.s. territory of puerto rico has signed an executive order legalizing medical marijuana. governor alejandro garcia padilla said in a statement -- will offer them new hope." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in baltimore, where officials have lifted a 10:00 p.m. curfew. gray's family and attorneys say his voice box was crushed, his mind was 80% severed at the neck. this comes after baltimore state's attorney marilyn mosby dramatically announced frida

have stood up with magnificent courage to defy the system people like mo'ne yeah abdul jamal julian assangend the great civil rights attorney lynne storck herself sent to prison jeremy hammond, the hacker. i attended with cornel west that trials of chelsea manning and he lives in princeton. we would leave at 3:00 in the morning to drive down to fort meade and each car ride for now would usually drive with -- he knows everything about everything so he would say bootsy collins wrote that song for james brown when he was 19. and i got a letter from chelsea manning after she was sentenced and imprisoned. she was not allowed to turn around and look at who was seated in the courtroom to support her and i got a letter saying that she had looked out of the corner of her eye and scene cornel of myself and she just wanted to send a thank you note. i think the greatest existential crisis of our time is accepting the reality that is before us with all its bleakness and yet finding the capacity to resist. and liberalism itself in the face of a crisis of this magnitude is an ineffectual force. it's too i

a swedish court has rejected wikileaks' founder julian assange's appeal of an arrest warrant which has kept him holed up in the ecuadorean embassy in london for nearly three years. assange sought refuge over fears the warrant on sex crime allegations could lead to his extradition to sweden, and then the united states. he has not been charged with a crime. sweden's supreme court rejected the appeal monday after granting him the right to submit it last month. swedish prosecutors are preparing to travel to london to interview assange, after refusing to do so for years. former cia officer jeffrey sterling has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for leaking classified information to "new york times" reporter james risen about a failed u.s. effort to undermine iran's nuclear weapons program. risen later exposed how the risky operation could have inadvertently aided the iranian nuclear program. in january, sterling was convicted of nine felony counts, including espionage, becoming the latest former government employee jailed by the obama administration for leaking information. we'll have mo

a legal setback for julian assange. a high court refused to overturn his retention order.ed up in a london embassy for nearly three years. he is fighting extradition to sweden. he is wanting -- wanted for questioning and a sex crimes investigation. in hattiesburg, mississippi four suspects will be in the court today accused of gunning down to police officers. the officers were shot and killed during a traffic stop late saturday night. it was the first time in three decades that a hattiesburg police officer has been killed. in the nba playoffs, it is all about king james. lebron james nailed a jump shot at the buzzer's to give the cleveland cavaliers and 86-84 win. i hope you're watching, gary cohen. there was less than a second left on the clock. the eastern conference semi finals series is tied at two games apiece. that is why people love basketball. that is extraordinary. can you imagine the energy and excitement if you are at that game? there is nothing better. those are your top headlines of them wanted how do you not love the nba? when you see that and a player and a

you could speak in general terms like on what surveillance you think is currently being done on julian assangeand edward snowden individuals for whom they work? >> so the second question i have no idea. the first question, so i obviously be say that security is very important to i wouldn't have spent 33 years and the central intelligence agency if i didn't. but i also believe that privacy and civil liberties of americans is extremely important. i am a supporter of the telephone metadata program. it fills important gaps that were there before 9/11. i believe, you know i can't prove this i can put a lot of evidence on the table to show this but i believe if the program had been in place prior to 9/11 that we might have seen some the communication between the 9/11 hijackers and maybe that would've allowed us to disrupt it maybe not. we just don't know. but it was put in place specifically to fill a gap. i was a member of, so i think it should remain. [inaudible] >> let's talk about the telephone metadata program first. i think it should remain. in think it should rethink a convective thing in som

arrest to the prosecution of julian assange and edward snowden. be honest. >> putin is going to criticize the u.s. for almost anything. he'll probably complain we're observing halloween. that's a whole different thing. but, yes, he's absolutely worried about 2018 the soccer world cup there. anybody who's got -- who has had sort of success dealing with fifa is now going to have that success, that sort of box opened and examined very closely. did they give bribes? we know that bribe-giving -- this investigation suggests that bribe giving and bribe taking was rampant throughout the body. so it's not unreasonable for people to now start looking into the russian thing and he's basically trying to avoid that kind of skrut sni. >> we have to watch to see what happens. and of course the election today to find out who else comes under investigation and what this does to existing bids and hosting opportunities for these cities. we'll be watching. always a pleasure. thanks so much. chris, over to you. >>> have you seen this? it's the latest test case for pol