wiki leaks a legal team says julian assange is considering the u.s. senate's formal request to testify but only if it conforms to a high ethical standards the senate intelligence committee wants the wiki leaks chief to answer questions on what it calls russian interference in the twenty sixteen american presidential election and see a church and then following the story for us. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london where as we all know the wiki leaks publisher has been holed up for the last six years this letter is addressed to julian assange basically calling upon him to testify in what is being described as a closed interview a mutually convenient time and location now given we all understand julian assange has made it clear he has no plans to be leaving that embassy any time soon out of his own free will but this is going to be some kind of question and answer session that is probably going to be taking place via some kind of web link and we have seen no that we can leak or julia songes legal t

a wiki leaks founder julian assange is considering a request from the u.s.senate to testify on claims of russian meddling in the twenty sixth election. across a story. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london where as we all know the wiki leaks publisher has been holed up for the last six years this letter is addressed to julian assange basically calling upon him to testify in what is being described as a closed interview it's a mutually convenient time and location now given we all understand julian assange has made it clear he has no plans to be leaving that embassy any time soon out of his own free will but this is going to be some kind of question and answer session that is probably going to be taking place via some kind of web link and we have seen no that we can leaks or julian assange his legal team already react to this letter saying they would be open to this kind of testimony but it must conform to a high ethical standards well of course all of this falls under the existing narrative led by the we

on to other news now wiki leaks the legal team says that julian assange is considering the u.s. senate's formal request to testify but only if it conforms to high ethical standards the senate intelligence committee wants the wiki leaks chief to answer questions on what it calls russian interference in the twenty six thousand u.s. presidential election. as the story. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london where as we all know the wiki leaks publisher has been holed up for the last six years this letter is addressed to julian assange basically calling upon him to testify in what is being described as a closed interview at a mutually convenient time and location now given we all understand julian assange has made it clear he has no plans to be leaving that embassy any time soon out of his own free will but this is going to be some kind of question and answer session that is probably going to be taking place via some kind of web link and we have seen no that we can leaks or julian assange has legal team already react to this lett

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we can fix founder julian assange is considering a request from the u.s. senate to testify on claims of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election season this. has been following the story. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london where as we all know the wiki leaks publisher has been holed up for the last six years this letter is addressed to julian assange basically calling upon him to testify in what is being described as a closed interview at a mutually convenient time and location now given we all understand julian assange has made it clear he has no plans to be leaving that embassy any time soon out of his own free will but this is going to be some kind of question and answer session that is probably going to be taking place via some kind of web link and we have seen no that we can leak or julian assange has legal team already react to this letter saying they would be open to this kind of testimony but it must conform to a high ethical standards well of course all of this falls under the existi

server and taken sensitive information to be passed on to julian assange and wiki leaks to be leaderpublished so hopefully with this kind of testimony that will now apparently be taking place sometime soon with the u.s. intelligence committee more light can be shared in terms of setting the record straight. ok let's get the thoughts now of human rights activist peter tatchell who joins us peter good evening what are your thoughts who do you think it's in mr songes interest to testify i think it probably is in his interest to testify if only to put the record straight and give his side of the story however i am certain that the u.s. senate intelligence committee has very of tyria motives i think they want to snare he mean to somehow admitting or implying that he got information from russian sources that that seems to be the focus of their attention. and i think it also may well be a way of gathering for the evidence against him for use in the subsequent prosecution in the united states so during a sand has to tread very carefully and i'm sure he's quite capable of doing so sure i mean

servers they had taken some sensitive information allegedly prostitute julian assange later published that information and despite julian assange himself having denied any of this countless times and numerous appearances it seems this is still a prevalent understanding in washington so that's why they want to talk to him about it but julian assange has made his position clear a handful of times. it is not the russian government and it is not the state party this is something fourteen year old kid a fourteen year old kid. and so they have to try to break. the russian intelligence services hillary clinton stated multiple times falsely seventeen u.s. intelligence agencies had assisted. russia was. the source of publication. that's false. well so now with the wiki leaks legal team saying assad would not be against talking to them we might be able to get some more information in terms of a songe setting the record straight when it comes to investigation being carried out by this u.s. intelligence senate committee. ok thanks atmosphere and situation of that for a say in london well let's ge

and to testify to say what he knows in turn we already do know that julian assange has. a number of times vehemently denied any involvement he's denied being a russian spy he's been stressing very hard that he's that he has no political preference that he's like more of an anarchist so to speak he just that he is no. well no allegiance he did not plead allegiance to anybody there and so in fact we did have some reports suggesting reports of a jewel in a songes associates who were saying that julian in fact himself wants to testify that he himself wants to clean up. this whole slate so if that is what they want if that is what he will be if this is the opportunity that the united states are willing to provide to julian assange now this could be indeed a good thing for sure and we understand the assailant's camp is saying we are considering the request the latest from them take ok thank you but that was at hugo's our affair with the latest. thank you for watching just coming up see you at five thirty in the afternoon here in moscow we're back again at the top of the. he sa

julian assange has said it did not come from russia or any intermediary. i don't know if you could speak to veteran intelligence , for sanity. they were formed in 2003. they do good work and what they an attack.s is not it's a leak. that the download speeds would not have allowed for this to be a hack, but it was done on site. one less thing, julian assange was on a dutch program shortly ,fter this happened and he said what he intimated was that seth rich was involved. he brought him up unannounced and the person asked him what are you saying? and he said i'm not giving up my source, but he did. , -- professionals have said this was a leak from inside. and julian assange said russia has nothing to do with it. host: with gotcha guest:. we have to let our guest respond. briefly, i think that fake dative idea to have him -- that is a creative idea to have him testify. host: i will take you back to august 8, there's a reporting of several platforms and alex jones not being permitted on those platforms. what is your take about the actions? guest: i'm in full su

julian assange gave me heeds up and anything along those lines ever?what did he discuss is that he did not have any direct communications with julian assange. julian assange went on cnn in july of 2016, said the goods were coming i there it's been pretty public knowledge that randy was the intermediary between the two of them. that is the story he has repeated from 2016 on to now to me as a personal friend. so i believe that that is actually the truth. >> martha: when you were in the grand jury and they were questioning you. what was their attitude about their case. >> i think they are legitimately investigating whether collusion happened. but their attitude is that i mean, they are prosecutors in a room with a grand jury that they have a relationship with. they have been there for months. they seem to be on joking and fun sort of camaraderie in there which is concerning. there is nobody there to present another set of facts and that also is concerning. >> martha: what kind of questions did they ask you? did they ask you anything that you thought was s

unclear whether julian assange who is still in the embassy in london will agree. but mr. trump's admiration for wikileaks is clear after revealing the hillary clinton hacked e-mails. >> i love wikileaks. >> this wikileaks is unbelievable. >> it is like a treasure trove. >> and there is more election year turmoil as chris collins was indicted on suspicion of insider trading. collins a president early supporters charged with 13 counts of securities fraud and bank fraud with his pharmaceutical company. >> congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. >> reporter: so the white house and the president have not responded to the insider trading charges there for one of the president's top advisers. but it is still russia that is hanging over the president on a variety of fronts. but as for the potential interview, rudy guiliani is saying that he wants to avoid a perjury trap potentially and not have the president sit for an interview on questions he's already answered. so, wolf, as they go back and forth, this is one of the longest and hottest negotiations of t

want to start by asking where do things currently stand with the possible impending expulsion of julian assange from the ecuadorian embassy you know are we truly at the any day any hour any minute point. well it seems like that last week when president clinton was in spain and england and he made a couple of statements to the spanish press about we've got to do something right away it got a lot of us worried there is a growing movement out there right now there are demonstrations people are coalescing in support of julian as sons and all over social media and i think let them out on oh so all of that and he's in a very tough position he can either mollify the brits and mollify the u.s. or he could just be you know one of these guys that stands up rather than being liked but tista he'll be seen like a butt tista or a true hero or somoza if in fact he would have turned julian assigns over so it's really not in his interests in terms of his legacy to do this and he'll be the scorn of south america he's got one card to play to maintain his dignity and that is not giving julian a sign over but you k

they consider julian assange a criminal. and it's possible, brian, that roger stone may have actually tripped into coverage by the u.s. intelligence community of assange and wikileaks and it's possible mueller has all of that documentation, even intercepts, and is sitting there with it knowing exactly what stone said and did with julian. >> and ken, as no one needs to remind you, that last part of what frank just said, in effect the equivalent of walking through the beam of a spotlight would be a very bad look for roger stone. ken, given what you know and talk about what stone has called his 40-year friendship with donald trump and the kind of damage a guy like that can do. >> yes, i also think that roger stone, frank used the phrase, "trip into," roger stone has made a long career of sort of exaggerating this role and his significance in some of these episodes of dark arts and dirty tricks. all the way back from watergate, where he was just the tiniest bit player in the nixon operation but has managed to make a whole career

trump jr i am julian assange. the way to london to meet face to face. >> no worries. as secure and off-the-record as sliding into my twitters dmss, i thought this might be safer. i trust you came alone. >> my brother eric is waiting in the car. w not ry -- i told him to honk the horn if he gets scared.

kind of hell hole that chelsea manning into it a day they'll probably throw away the key with julian assange. he's done that too well and so if these leaks the leak then leak actually i mean we can leaks doesn't know where the leak came from but the leak almost certainly came from within the democratic national committee the same body that is now conducting this ridiculous action against against wiki leaks and the rest you might as well the same thing would be directed against the new york times or the washington post want to publish the pentagon papers and back in those healthy in days when they did real journalism if anyone needs the support of democrats of journalists of those who believe in basic freedoms freedom of speech freedom of knowledge freedom to know freedom of real journalism it's him. thank you. that's it for one of your favorite shows from this season will continue to show your favorite episodes and away back from season one wins even if there's a temper don't think either of us but social media is easy. i. think. we have no idea what's doing on vacation but she will be back

party i think this is serious because i had to recheck it he is suing donald trump russia and julian assange and mickey mouse it's it's it's just of so good. i'm a as the ruler inquiry progress is still as if the goal is a road in that within the road to stop this was save the house intelligence committee ruled out found off the months of you looking into it he conspiracy between trump and the russians it was the probably the clinton cables the hillary clinton cables particularly the protests the ones the protests the ones that showed that hillary clinton the absolute embodiment of the democratic of stab a shipment. that her foundation that she knew rather she knew that the the the force of the saudi arabia qatar were backing isis they were backing these extreme to harvest movements and he had she she and her foundation benefit from huge donations into into the clinton foundation and she did and went on the secretary of state to so-called negotiate the biggest alms deal that america's of unknown with those states so that's the that's important information that tells us how power works that's

don't know for sure, is aimed at convincing stone to talk to mueller about his relationship with julian assange, because stone has obviously you reported him denying any collusion. he did have a wrp assange and there is a suspicion that there was some kind of go between the trump people and julian assange, who's wikileaks was the conduit for the stolen e-mails from the democratic national committee. so that's my guess is where it is and where they're heading. i don't think the activities of a manhattan madam are particularly relevant, except the way the to pressure roger stone. >> stone, wikileaks, another example of all the tentacles dealing with this investigation him people wonder why it's going on the so long. well, threw go. all right, here's another angle the trial of former trump campaign manager paul manafort. they helped him cheat on his taxes. we learned he was in $1 million in debt in clothing spring alone from your paper when he volunteered to join the trump campaign. what's the significance at trial we have learned so far, you think? >> well, again, it feels leak they're using issu

and of course when it comes to the topic of russia and being somehow involved in the country julian assange self has denied any of these allegations over and over again really countless times tell source is not the russian government and it is not all that. something a fourteen year old kid a fourteen year old kid could practice so they have to try to break is that russian intelligence services hillary clinton stated multiple times falsely seventeen u.s. intelligence agencies had assisted. russia was. the source of all publications. that's false and of course the latest that was talked about in washington is twelve russian intelligence officers who were said to have broken into the d.n.c. server and taken sensitive information to be passed on to julian assange and wiki leaks to be later published so hopefully with this kind of testimony that will now apparently be taking place sometime soon with the u.s. intelligence committee more lights can be shed in terms of setting the record straight human rights activist peter tatchell believes the senate's often maybe just an excuse to go after a so

so how did you get involved with julian assange? an activist. - was it ever romantic? - there was definitely a romantic, kind of, connection. i think that, you know, he's not close to people like he is to me that i-i can can really-- honest, i have a real personal relationship with him. is that a yes? ( chuckles ) it's a high-tech sleep revolution. the sleep number 360 smart bed intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts. so you wake up ready to run the world. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999. timeit should be measuredsured byby how long steak & lobster is back at outback. back by popular demand, steak & lobster starting at $15.99! and time...is limited, so hurry in today. outback steakhouse. aussie rules. -we're in a small room. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it's a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that's right for you. -that's amazing! the only thing

he talked about being close to julian assange during the campaign. he bragged about it.e claimed to know that mr. podesta was next in the barrel. lo and behold, surely after those e-mails came out. he pulled back on that after the fact, but it's hard to do that. this is pretty important stuff if we're talking about conspireing with a foreign power to affect our democratic process. he claimed publicly to have that awareness and that knowledge. >> and devin nunes, as you know, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, told an audience at a republican fundraiser recently why he thinks they have to keep the majority in congress. he said if robert mueller won't clear the president, then, quote, we're the only ones. what do you make of those comments? what do they say about devin nunes and how he's been handling his position as the chairman of that very important committee that you sit on? >> yeah, i think it's a public acknowledgment of what anyone should have known all along. mr. nunes directed the house select committee on intelligence to tank the russia investigati

and in roger stone's public comments, his comments with julian assange were through an intermediary and messages with gus sifr were inof course cuous, it's clear the special counsel is investigating that much more further and may not necessarily believe roger stone, brought in for weeks been talking to people very close to stone and you'll recall when one of stone's closest friend went in afterwards, caputo came out and said it was very clear to him they are investigating russia collusion. so it suggests perhaps that stone could be central to that case. we'll see what they have. and it's also interesting, john, stone has not been contacted yet by mueller's team. that also suggests that you don't want to be the person not being contacted when you're being investigated. >> you don't want to be the last person. that means it's about you. it's interesting, andrew mill every, the former stone aide defied a subpoena and they are challenging the legality of the investigation. that will be another test in court for bob mueller. he passed every one so far when people have said you're outside

hierarchy i mean you know it's like getting their physiological needs met julian assange over there that was i don't remember city if he dies journalism dies it julie and we all die a little bit we are all julia in a song. keep that in mind sucker but the point is i want to talk about is that massless hierarchy of needs and here are thousands and tens of thousands of people americans on the west coast who can't who cannot meet those basic needs now my sources tell me that masses hierarchy of needs that chart there is used by our u.s. intelligence agencies ok member number two is defense and safety right that our own us intelligence agencies use that chart when looking at when to start to topple or coup other governments so if like haiti when when haitians were eating mud pies that's a good time to overthrow their government and installed our own and never let a crisis go to waste obviously our elites are not stupid obviously these journalists and people on cable news shouting know that these hierarchy of needs and that is the logic that jeff bezos has a war on people that there are no lo

to be had about the corroboration of sam nunberg, who said that he told him he was talking to julian assange, was with him at different points in time. so perhaps she could give him information about that particular aspect of it. >> but then stone said he was just puffing when he was talking to nunberg, and nunberg says that could be true. so how do you see the decision to have kristin davis on the stand? >> i see the decision as one that's a comprehensive investigation to not leave any stone -- forgive the pun -- unturned because you have -- >> it's a good pun by the way. >> i thought so. you have to have good corroboration about things like that. you can't take everyone's word for it if credibility is a factor here. >> schultz, let's come in on this. the idea is how tenuous are you going to get? you haven't called stone. if you want to know, call stone. but they're calling people around him. how far away from somebody, how small a role can somebody play in someone's life and still get called before a grand jury? >> look, they are clearly looking at the people in roger stone's orbit to see

said he wasn't in contact with julian assange.the people around him and even roger stone himself are waiting t ining to be indicted. they think an indictment could be coming at some point. they say it's trumped up and roger stone has done nothing wrong, but they're also bracing for potential financial charges. they know that mueller is going through his past dealings, the work he has done, and the people he's worked with in the past. there's no telling what mueller could find along the way that he decides is worth prosecuting. >> i'm sure, sabrina, the president is worried when he sees what's going on not just with roger stone, but with michael cohen in new york, and allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer at the trump organization, have been called to testify as well. i'm sure he's not happy about this. >> absolutely. and i think it's important to recall that although roger stone was removed from the trump campaign in its early stages, he has known trump closely for decades and he has acted as trump's most long-standing po

political activist, randy credico who's known for his past relationship with roger stone and julian assange, mueller has indicated that his office does intend to subpoena him to force an interview. we confirmed this from a direct source with knowledge of the special counsel's outreach to randy credico's attorney. if you watch this show and our reporting, some of this may be familiar because credico was on this show last night and explained the lead-up to all of this. he said publicly for the first time that he declined a request to participate in a voluntary interview that was made as a with when federal agents working for mueller approached him in new york. >> has bob mueller called you in to testify? >> they did. they actually didn't call me in, they actually showed up and asked me to come in and do a personal voluntary interview, which i did not -- >> who is they that showed up? >> somebody from his investigation. they asked my lawyer if i would like to go down and do a voluntary interview, and he said no. i didn't get a subpoena. they asked me for a voluntary interview. >> that was the

and the response from him at that time was, i've not had any direct contact with julian assange. so before this was such a colossal undertaking and event here, we were already getting straight answers from him. >> sam nunberg says differently. inasmuch as he says that roger was much more direct and strong in terms of saying that he thought he had some access and knowledge. >> well, i think that there was an e-mail that he says jokingly to nunberg, saying, i'm having dinner with julian assange. but that was a joke, and sam nunberg tends to call you 50 times in the course of ten minutes and e-mail consistently, annoyingly. >> wait. why would that make -- >> roger putting him off and making a joke like, please leave me alone. >> you don't believe he had plans to have dinner with julian assange? >> no. he's not left the country. in that year. his passport would show that. >> i remember back before neither of us knew better when i was talking to roger about guccifer and him talking to them, he didn't believe anything about guccifer was real or anything like that. and whatever he was t

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there's a lot of talk that julian assange has fallen out with the ecuadorian authorities and will soonave to leave the embassy to face the music. tonight, we will hear from his lawyer on his health, his problems and what life he faces when he leaves. join me now on bbc two. that's it. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a very good night. ireland stun india and make through to the semi—finals of the hockey world cup. but the netherlands prove too much for england who are knocked out. they'll be popping the corks at burnley who score late to beat aberdeen in the europa league. and captain kohli scores a wonderful century to keep india in the first test. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm chris mitchell. a lot to get through this evening. england's world cup journey has come to an end at the olympic park. but ireland's continues after an amazing win against india. our reporterjo currie is at the olympic park. nederlandse the world number one. we are disappointed naturally as english france but is this unexpected? it was not to be for england tonight. you mentioned

were there contacts with julian assange? was money transferred back and forth? you know, things leak that. >> do you think she will know all of that? >> i think it's clear from what we heard in the reporting she has both a business relationship and some type of personal relationship, friendship, whatever it is a good, close, personal relationship with roger stone. you work as a prosecutor, you work through people's associates. you lean on them. if you are trying to get them to influence in some way roger stone. >> phone e i don't know if it's leaning as much it is, if you think of who might have been roger stone's confidante, it appears this lady may have been that person or at least know a lot of nchlg. he may have shared some things with her that's not out in the public sphere. so that makes it not unusual at all for the mueller team to see what he told her, what she knew about. did she share his plans? did he talk about frustrations me hafd? >> i got that part. paul manafort, four days of testimony now, we seen the luxury clothing he had. we got to the meat o

julian assange has said it did not come from russia or any intermediary.'t know if you could speak to veteran intelligence , for sanity. they were formed in 2003. they do good work and what they an attack.s is not it's a leak. that the download speeds would not have allowed for this to be a hack, but it was done on site. one less thing, julian assange was on a dutch program shortly ,fter this happened and he said what he intimated was that seth rich was involved. he brought him up unannounced and the person asked him what are you saying? and he said i'm not giving up my source, but he did. , -- professionals have said this was a leak from inside. and julian assange said russia has nothing to do with it. host: with gotcha guest:. we have to let our guest respond. briefly, i think that fake dative idea to have him -- that is a creative idea to have him testify. host: i will take you back to august 8, there's a reporting of several platforms and alex jones not being permitted on those platforms. what is your take about the actions? guest: i'm in full support

given the fact that roger stone during 2016 talked about the fact he had talked with julian assange -- he later walked that back, but given that fact kristin davis is probably of interest to the special counsel so she could shed light on what she knows about this possible interaction between roger stone and julian assange. but she did testify before the grand jury today. >> what about andrew miller, the former aide to roger stone? he was held in contempt. >> kristin davis answered her subpoena, she was here before the grand jury. andrew miller did not. he refused to comply with the subpoena and as a result the judge held him in contempt and issued a 93-page opinion. the judge put the contempt ruling on hold until monday so andrew miller's attorneys can go through the appeal process. they're arguing the appointment of special counsel mueller in and of itself is unconstitutional so they said by virtue of that fact their subpoenas shouldn't have to be complied with so they're in the midst of appealing that. andrew miller an associate of roger stone but refusing to comply with the subpoen

robert mueller is appointed special counsel and tasked with the investigation into the julian assangee and other members of the trump inner circle. the targets pile up --

also, roger stone himself had made statements to people that he was communicating with julian assange, then he jokes that he was just joking about it. and then another individual that you mentioned, this radio host randy credico under subpoena now by the special counsel. he has claimed that he may have set up some communications between julian assange and roger stone so mueller would want to talk to him about that. now, randy credico as we know, an also long time friend of stone. stone issued a statement of randy. he said that credico a source that confirmed assange 2016 cnn interview in which he said that he had substantial information on hillary clinton. as i testified, he told me that this material would be released in october. i now realize that the source was a wikileaks lawyer and not assange himself. no time did he tell me what the source, content or scope of the wikileaks disclosure would be. now, obviously, stone has continued to deny any involvement in any kind of -- with the russians or interference and he spoke to our anderson cooper on wednesday and here's what he had to

we will see you posted when or if the senate intel does in fact interview julian assange. by the way, the house, they need to do the same thing. if the american people, you deserve the truth. but regardless of what you think about wikileaks, it's irrelevant. we know one thing for certain. president trump in no way y colluded with russia and instead the president has been extremely tough on vladimir putin's hostile regime and today we have one more example. tough new u.s. sanctions levied against russia in response to an assassination attempt of a former british spy conducted with chemical or biological weapons. these new sanctions will be applied to all russianon state owned businesses and will reportedly affect 70% of thehe russian economy. i thought the president was compromised by putin.ia that's what fake news tells us, or nbc news suggesting he might actually be a russian agent. president trump -- while the president makes serious policy decisions and as he's conducting consequential peace through strength diplomacy, many on the far left, they are obsessing over ice,

during the campaign, during 2016 talked about the fact that he had talked with julian assange. that back. but given that fact, kristin davis is of interest to the special counsel to shed light of what she knows of this possible interaction between roger stone and julian assange. but she did testify before the grand jury today. >> he was held in contempt? >> rite. so kristin davis, she answer herd subpoena. she was here before the grand jury. andrew miller did not. he refused to comply with that subpoena. and as a result, the judge here held him in contempt. he issued a 93-page opinion about it. what's interesting, though, is the judge actually put that contempt ruling on hold until monday. that's so andrew miller's attorneys can go through the appeal process here. they're arguing that the appointment of special counsel mueller in and of itself is unconstitutional, so they said just by virtue of that fact that their subpoenas shouldn't have to be complied with. so they're in the midst of appealing that as this all goes to the process. but, yeah, andrew miller, an associate of ro

that we have done is that it could be that mueller's team is seeing stone as a back channel to julian assange, to wikileaks, and whether or not he knew about the emails that wikileaks was going to lease before they released them. after all he sweeted it will soon -- tweeted it will be john podesta's time in the barrel. it was john podesta's time in the barrel. and whether or not he spoke to donald trump about these wikileaks. what capacity was he in contact with donald trump? was he an official advisor? was he an unofficial advisor? john, hold on. why did he leave the trump campaign in 2015? was it because he wanted to, or was he fired as the trump campaign campaign has said? tell me about the way wikileaks works, this is something you study, and what pops into your mind? >> we have to be careful not to jump to too many conclusions that it's just roger stone that they are focused on. we have seen three names come up. we have been surprised several times over the last year about names that sort of pop out of the hat that are people that have either been conduits or came in contact with differe

joke like please leave leave me alone. >> you don't believe he had plans to have dinner with julian assange? >> no. he's not left the country. >> i remember back before neither of us knew better when i was talking to roger about guccifer and him talking to them, he didn't believe anything about guccifer was real or anything like that. and whatever he was talking about on twitter, he didn't think was a big deal. but since then, the intelligence community has shown that they believe that guccifer is exactly what we were afraid it was, which is a front for russian hackers. do you believe roger stone knew who he was dealing with at guccifer in. >> absolutely not. half the time roger stone wasn't in charge -- you know, there were numerous hands in his twitter. he was getting so many tweets. you know, there's five or six people helping manage that process, automated systems. you know, roger's not particularly technologically savvy with some of the things going on in technology nowadays. >> now, for the audience's edification, you are biased. you know, you like roger stone. he is more than a forme

interview the head of wiki leaks on alleged russian meddling in the trying to fix the election julian assangehas been paid to deny had anything to do with the election related documents the brits posed by wiki leaks. and social media giants are accused of silencing debate after twitter suspend several prominent libertarian and conservative figures for alleged hate speech. we meet a woman who faces a lengthy jail term for terrorism the following as been to syria where he joined islamic state. thanks for joining as you're watching r.t. international. we start this hour with breaking news because the united states is unveiled new sanctions against russia over the poisoning of double agent and his daughter in the u.k. in march of this year the new penalties are expected to come into effect around august twenty second according to the state department and some serious accusations have been thrown in moscow. the united states on august the sixth twenty eighteen determined under the chemical and biological weapons control and warfare elimination act of nine hundred ninety one that the government of

hierarchy i mean you know it's like getting there physiological needs met julian assange over there that'swhat i don't remember see if he dies journalism dies it julie and we all die a little bit we are all julia in a song. keep that in mind sucker but the point is i want to talk about is that massless hierarchy of needs and here are thousands and tens of thousands of people americans on the west coast who can't who cannot meet those basic needs now my sources tell me that massless hierarchy of needs that chart there is used by our u.s. intelligence agencies ok member number two is defense and safety right that our own u.s. intelligence agencies use that chart when looking at when to start to topple or coup other governments so if like haiti when when haitians were eating mud pies that's a good time to overthrow their government and installed our own and they're all in a crisis go to waste obviously our elites are not stupid obviously these journalists and people on cable news shouting no that these hierarchy of needs and that is you know i jump on something that jeff bezos has a war on pe

he says he asked him to get him in touch with julian assange. >> who is he? >> he's a public persona. he calls himself a journalist. >> randy credico, that's his name? >> that's right. >> what could come of this? >> well, we're seeing robert mueller closing in on roger stone it seems. that's six people in stone's inner circle. it looks like they're moving in on roger stone. >> moving in on roger stone. gosh, so much going on. up next, russia's currency. the ruble crashes after the announcement of new u.s. sanctions. president trump authorizes the doubling of some tariffs against turkey. later, vice president pens announces a new branch of the military. the space force. monica lewinsky said it on twitter, every time i hear space force, i hear alf. stephen colbert heard that announcement and it reminded him of another out of this world speech. >> being calleded to something we're already doing. yes. since the 1960s in fact. the speech reminds me of jfk's immortal words. we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. not because they're easy

leaks legal team has right trash can with the security of the whistle blowing site's founder julian assange that's after the us senate committee looking into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixth elections requested that he testify we can show you the letter that was sent to the ecuadorian embassy where a song just holed up inviting him to a close interview he says the meeting can take place today mutual mutually agreeable time and place but as lawyers all cautious as the u.s. is seeking to extradite him over his revelations is a quick reminder of some of those revelations. about. the two. don't be sorry for what any leader of the millions of those who are. with you we can walk like a hostile intelligence or hard like a hard old girl. and we discussed the issue with our former m i five agent i mean she thinks the u.s. going after a silence for publishing classified information creates a very dangerous precedent i'm sure that after seventy years mewed up in the ecuadorian embassy he wants to give his side of the story he does know exactly what happened he must be absolutely frustr