it's just not wikileaks, julian assange and roger stone who are being asked by the judiciary committee about wikileaks. we've been going through all of those document requests and it turns out a ton of people -- yeah, a ton of people in trump's orbit and related to the trump campaign have been formally asked by the judiciary committee now for any documents or communications they have regarding wikileaks. everybody from, you know, reince priebus to corey lewandowski, to brad parscale, to don mcgahn, white house counsel, to rhona graff, the president's secretary. i mean, all of these different people got judiciary committee requests specifically about wikileaks. all of these other people on that list. actually i should tell you, there may be more. there were 81 different document requests to go through. we might have missed some. that's what we got on the first pass. all the other characters in the drama are being asked about wikileaks communications. because of that and because of the criminal case against roger stone, you should also know that today in federal court in virginia, a litt

this was this unexpected insert in a random case which said that julian assange from wikileaks had been charged in an american federal indictment and that fact needed to remain under seal until after julian asasange had been arrested and everyone was like this case isn't about that and julian assange has been charged and he's going to be arrested and what? that was back in november. it was such a random way to learn that information and the u.s. attorney's office came out quickly and had their spokesperson say that was in error. that was not supposed to be there. that was just a mistake just a typo, fat finger kind of --. "the washington post" reported at the time that although that language about julian assange was unintentionally disclosed in that unrelated case according to people familiar with the matter that language about julian assange was quote true. oh. well, if so, that was a weird way to learn about it. today's news makes it seem like maybe it was true. today that same assistant u.s. attorney, that same federal prosecutor blamed for making that weird mistake and putting that

reactionary, right-wing forces in the trump administration who are the ones trying to imprison julian assangeikileaks in order to criminalize journalism, namely mike pompeo and the present rivers about to put wikileaks and assange behind was then attorney general jeff sessions, who has since left the trump administration? the obama administration tried to create theories to say that wikileaks did more than just passively received documents from chelsea manning and then publish them, because they knew they had to do that to prosecute wikileaks. otherwise, how do you prosecute wikileaks and justify that? obama, they searched high and low for evidence that wikileaks participated in chelsea manning's taking of those documents but found no evidence. oath thatied under she acted alone and they played no role whatsoever in her dedecision to do that. y yearsdenly, seven later, mike pomompeo claims that they havave evidenence or that y believe that wikileaeaks told hr to do it, therefore they intend to prosecute wikileaks. unfortunately, between the republicans who have exposed the -- who hatef wikile

julian assange. mr. assange told mr.ne that in a couple of days, there will be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. >> that's roger trying to be remaining relevant to trump. >> soon after that alleged phone call, wikileaks began its first dump of hack material. >> this weekend, wikileaks released nearly 20,000 e-mails sent and received by members of democratic national committee. cameras captured stone on august 8th, telling an audience in southern florida about his connection with assange. >> i have communicated with assange. on october 7th, the day of the infamous "access hollywood" tape. >> a massive document dump from wikileaks of what appears to be hacked e-mails from clinton's campaign, john podesta's g-mail account. >> according to his indictment, he received a message from the campaign official saying well-done. >> since 2016, roger stone denied speaking directly with julian assange. >> there is no suggestion or any court documents that roger stone was directly in touch with ass

roger would have loved to talk to julian assange. would have loved to see the e-mails from russia. roger would have loved to sit in that embassy with julian assange. if he even could have hacked the e-mails, he didn't. he was lying. now calling donald trump and saying that, that was roger getting himself in trouble. why? i was fired unfairly, roger quits. he had no reason to remain loyal to donald trump and got himself in this trouble. i believe that conversation happened. in other words, i believe michael over roger stone. i also don't believe that roger spoke with julian assange. >> roger was lying, trying to impress trump, engrashiate himself and keep himself relevant. he put himself out to do things for donald trump. roger needs to understand something. i met somebody that met with roger. i don't talk to roger. i said let roger understand this in a way he can understand this. did ehrlichman get pardons from president nixon? no. you want to go to jail for donald trump, that's your prerogative. >> cohen said that president trump kn

the eastern district of virginia has been handling some of paul manafort, julian assang so there are pieces already in the system. that's interestinea bob muellery abided by his mandate. and his mandate, he did not -- any time he worried he was going outside the lines of the mandate, which was specifically russian interference and any americans that helped. any time he thought he was delving into anything considered outside the mandate, he handed it off to another u.s. attorney so he never was violating his mandate. that is also -- that's why we're careful in how we word this and why they're careful i how they word it. >> let's talk about the contents we may end up seeing. barr's hands may be tied to a large extent and he said he'llc ult with rod rosenstein and bob mueller on what he can release. how mur will we h legitimately and how much through leaks?

thirty one year old drew pinto from portugal might not be as well known as we can exclude founder julian assange but make no mistake about it he is football's biggest whistleblower he is believed to have founded the football league's website exposing the dark side of the beautiful game. and football leagues has indeed shaken the full billing world from an official probe into the cristiano ronaldo rape claims doing an investigation into the financial dealings of the powerhouse of modern european football champions league quarter finalist manchester city all that and many more emerged thanks to football leagues it was like to see a bigger car with a. missile blowers and i also felt this is the. premier now is the in the field business will have all the people. in the forward and trying to do what i think is in fact at least four european states seeking information from pinto to aid their investigations into different cases related to football but they might not get that information because this week been to a loss the legal battle against extradition from hungary to portugal that is despite being

this buttoned up, apparently, for an indictment. >> reporter: responding to manning's jailing, julian assanged today that the government's efforts will chill future whistleblowers. as for manning, the judge said that she will stay in jail until she talks. jeff. >> glor: jeff pegues, thank you. r. kelly is still in jail, where he's been since the day after his jarring interview with gayle king. rts ofinterview have not been seen yet and will air later tonight on cbs, along with more of gayle's interviews with two women who live with the singer. here's jericka duncan. >> reporter: tonight, r. kelly remains behind bars because he owes more than $161,000 in back child support. >> are you happy? >> of course, i am. >> reporter: waiting for his return are his two girlfriends, azriel clary and joycelyn savage. >> what is your relationship, both of you, with r. kelly? >> we're with him. that's our relationship. >> we're with him. yes, that's what it is. >> we live with him and we're in a relationship with him. >> reporter: but gayle king spoke with joycelyn's parents, and they claim kelly has is hold

battle against extradition from hungary to portugal that is despite being represented in court by julian assange just form a lawyer. risks it in light of the european community and more about the very sophisticated structured character of the criminality which corrodes the football world. pintos legal team argues that if he returns to portugal it's authorities will destroy all the data he possesses on top of that pinto fears for his life by. home after reported death threats to his family some believe that many in portugal the country that sees football as religion would want to extract their revenge on the whistleblower why because not only did he take a swipe at the untouchable portugal's idol cristiana ronaldo but he also targeted the country's superclubs been fever and sporting leagues coming from being to alleged massive corruption and shady transfer dealings perpetrated by these two all things happening around him to have a striking similarity to the case of julian assange with one major difference while the australian whistleblower want to go into any court soon as he is still holed up in

amy: marcy wheeler, , he is sayg a lot of people knew that julian assange had said it publicly. >> julianssange said publicly he had material on hillary clinton. what he never set publicly is "i am going to drop it at the beginning of the dnc." what is interesting about cohen's story -- and to be clear, it is unlikely he really did speak directly with julian assange. we know from a bunch of stone's other claims, when you claim to be speaking directly with assange, he was speaking with a cutout. ist it appears happened preciselyrmed trump when the males were going to be dropped. as far as i know, that is not been made public with the public before. if the call happen on july 19, stone was meeting with nigel farage at the rnc that day. he is one of the people that it was clear mueller seemed interested in finding weather was a go-between people in the u.k. who knew about the emails and roger stone. so it is new information. it is consistent with roger indictment -- although, a means in the indictment dollar is referring to the president himself as a senior campaign official. it is more spec

these two all things happening around we've been to have a striking similarity to the case of julian assange with one major difference while the australian whistleblower want to go into any court soon as he is still holed up inside london's ecuadorian embassy pinto is expected to be extradited to portugal on monday to face trial on accusations of data theft after that the fate of him and the information he carries which could prove essential to multiple scandalous investigations will be completely unknown. r.t. reporting from moscow. the un has concluded that in order to protect the environment people need to eat less meat the report suggested a tax on red meat saying it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make people rethink their diet choices it's estimated that worldwide emissions taxes on foods could save around one gigaton of c o two and results in net health benefits at the global level due to reduced consumption of meat the report also states that space for livestock accounts for almost eighty percent of global farmland intensive farming uses huge amounts of water and beef genera

these two all things happening around we've been to have a striking similarity to the case of julian assange with one major difference while the australian whistleblower want to go into any court soon as he is still holed up inside london's ecuadorian embassy pinto is expected to be extradited to portugal on monday to face trial on accusations of data theft after that the fate of him and the information he carries which could prove essential to multiple scandalous investigations will be completely unknown. reporting from moscow and staying with the saving this is an international for you here in africa. you know world's big partners a lot you can see yours it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need.

julian assange. when they say they want records from julian assange, they want him to be interviewed, the guy is been hiding out because there's extradition orders for him all over the world. kennedy: yeah. >> is not going to come out. you can't take anyone seriously. kennedy: maybe pamela anderson will come out! she knows a lot about julian assange. they dated. >> i always learn something when i am on with you. that's for sure. kennedy: our interactions are a delight. but what's interesting here is that you have people who are so angry at the president and resisting so hard and they get so worked up that a lot of independents and republicans look at people like tom steyer and maxine waters and they say to themselves, i don't like these people. the president makes these people really mad! i think i like the president! and i think again, this works in his favor which means that this is a bad strategy. it is ill-conceived. >> yeah, i mean we think about it, some of these people that are coming after th

listen to this into roger would have loved to talk to julian assange. roger would have loved to have seen the e-mails from russia. roger would have loved if he could have to sit in that embassy and have the russians visit julian assange look through those e-mails. roger would have even hacked the e-mails but he didn't. he was lying. >> you said yourself you've known him for 35 years and worked closely with him. is is that the roger stone that you know, the one described by sam? >> no, it's not. every journalist in the country was looking for an opportunity to sit down up with julian assange. everybody in the country was looking for those e-mails. i don't agree with sam on this. i've known roger stone three times as long or even more than sam nunberg. sam nunberg has known michael cohen longer than i have. you don't have to look further than the indictment of roger stone because nowhere in there are they alleging he had a phone call with the president and i'm sure that michael cohen told the special counsel's office the exact same thing. he had to if he

considerably and you've got the latest as you said richard we've seen a progressive squeeze on julian assange and this latest story we're hearing gives us a sense of just how tense things have become at the embassy on march twenty fifth cassandra ferre banks a reporter with an american rightwing online outlet called the gateway pundit went to meet with the sun she says that her meeting had been pre-approved by the ecuadorian embassy but when she got there the situation became hostile fairbanks says she was locked in a room with cameras and surveillance equipment and she overheard an argument between a songe his lawyer and embassy staff including the ambassador she reports a sundress told he could not enter the room unless he submitted to a body scan now the suspicion was that he was taking in a radio device with him to interfere with any surveillance recordings the argument was loud heated and prolonged and eventually a two hour long meeting was just eight minutes we've got to consider the source here though don't we i mean gateway pundit is a hard right news outlet right alongside outfits li

in ecuador is willing to sacrifice julian assange. even surer. generally that was reported in new york times in the in early december. connectivity the government of ecuador which gave asylum to. perhaps the i.m.f. there washington i.m.f. deal for acquittal could possibly be that there's a connection there we don't know all the details of what has been going on behind closed doors but we see that there is a total of one hundred eighty degrees puts in the when when then he would also go from his for the recess or and the hostility towards julian it was an embassy has increased he has been. stripped of communications for weeks on end there is no limits on the visitors or can see him in the embassy and he is basically treated like a prisoner instead of the individual that was granted. diplomatic asylum which carry carries responsibility according to international law. international law they don't seem to apply to many countries not even the united kingdom who regards. international law when it suits kristinn hrafnsson thank you. well wiki leaks is a

president obama, now jailed again for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating wikileaks and julian assange. >>> president trump now claiming michael cohen asked him directly for a pardon. the explosive new allegation. >>> a powerful group of women united. the u.s. women's soccer team taking a stand for equal pay and fairness on and off the field.ol >>> and whoopierg shocks the audience by revealing a medical scare so serious she said she almost died. >> i came ve, very close to leaving the earth. >> tonight, a health warning ne ever should hear. >>> is is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, everyone. we begin with breaking news from chicago where actor jussie smollett has just beented on 16 felony counts for what authorities say were false claims, being the target of a racist and homophobic attack by strangers. the "empire" actor was arrested last month for allegedly lying to police, accused of orchestrating the attack to hi enhanccareer, but tonight finds himself in even deeper legal trouble. our migu details.ephas late >> rorter: not seen publicly since posting bail, to

to testify to a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange the. u.s. continues to venezuelan president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for not recognizing the washington backed opposition leader as interim president. those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays there's speculation that it's the president that's putting them off. yeah i can understand why people buy a car and then make sense but it's probably not. preferred to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. and i welcome to r.t. international live from moscow at eleven pm here in the capsule. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange is her lawyer describe the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order is certainly a typical term for this kind of proceeding u.s. a

government to prosecute julian assange and undermine freedom of the press in the united states julius songes a publisher and editor who published documents that were all truthful chelsea manning was a source for those documents or something and they published many more documents beyond jealousy manning's but chelsea manning was a source of some very important documents about the iraq war the afghanistan war guantanamo day prison and state department cables this really showed a big light on u.s. activity war crimes and war atrocities and how the state department works for transnational corporations or rather than for the people so she was prosecutor that she was convicted for that thirty five years in jail was her sentence and thankfully after a lot of public pressure president obama commuted that sounds and i mean obviously chelsea as we had that has no problem with speaking about the case or issues specifically with the you know perceived lack of democracy in that secret grand jury no press the lawyers etc why do you think this is being kept so closely on the reps. this is how grand

testify in front of a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange that score straight to us correspondent he's got more on the story thanks for coming on just give us some more insight into the story what's the background to this. well chelsea manning who spent seven years behind bars for leaking u.s. military information she apparently is once again locked up now from what we understand she was called to testify before a closed grand jury now it's being widely reported that the case it was involved with was involving julian assange and wiki leaks they wanted chelsea manning to testify against wiki leaks in this closed grand jury proceeding however it's not confirmed she has come forward and said that she does not know what the case is in regards to. now from what we understand prior to her arrest she did say she would be willing to be arrested for not testifying and that she did not believe in the grand jury process that the the method of centrally detaining people and forcing them to testify favors the government according to her analysis of this

before a secret grand jury that many believe is currently conducting a criminal inquiry into julian assange and wiki leaks in a statement released after her arrest manning stated quote i will not participate in a secret process that i morally object to particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech with manning now jailed for a second time by the united states government and many are wondering what the future holds for her and how many lives and constitutional rights will be destroyed in the u.s. government's quest to jail julian assad joining us today to discuss the latest imprisonment of chelsea manning is a journalist who's been following manning story since she first made headlines the managing editor of shadow press kevin gusto thank you so much for joining us kevan . thank you for having me and i think number one i think the biggest thing everybody is kind of wondering about this is how long could joe see manning be held for by the u.s. government this time around what do we know how long this poor woman is going to be

and, listen, he didn't communicate with julian assange and neither did corsi.communicate with those two guys. >> if that's true and i'll remind anyone listening that mueller has been crediting your side of the case. if that's true, is roger stone the saddam hussein of the mueller probe, bluffing about political weapons he didn't have? >> i don't know what his motivation was, i'll be honest. maybe that will come out, why he had to say that it was me or why he had to say he had a back channel. >> let me ask you something else. >> i don't want to be hauled before judge jackson. >> who would? >> me, by -- >> i'm saying nobody would want to be in this position. i think people can understand that. here's the big question i've been dying to ask you. >> where did i get this tie? >> no, no, close, but, no. mueller in roger stone's indictment reveals that a senior trump campaign person was, quote, directed to contact stone about additional releases and damaging information. did you have the impression that stone was talking to donald trump or senior aides about this kind

media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers minox you razzi nina julian assange the founder of wiki leaks has been in that ecuadorian embassy in london for seven years now over the past year the conditions of his asylum there have been tightened considerably and you've got the latest as you said richard we've seen a progressive squeeze on. and this latest story re hearing gives us a sense of just how tense things have become at the embassy on march twenty fifth cassandra fair bang.

stone, who you've long had an association with, i think it was on august 2nd, 2016, referencing julian assange. you said, "word is, friend in embassy," meaning assange, "plans two more dumps, impact planned to be very damaging." in the past, you've said that you used what you called forensic analysis or deduction to figure out that they were going to do that. do you really expect people to believe that, though? because, i mean, it doesn't seem to make sense that you were able to just deduce that. it sounds like somebody told you that. >> well, anderson, i don't know what people are going to believe and what they're not going to believe. they may not believe the truth, but the truth is, i did connect the dots and figure it out. in fact, if you take a look at my book, i wrote a whole book on all of this. none of this is secret. i've discussed this many times. "silent no more" is my book. >> right, you said you connect dots. jeff toobin wrote a piece about this last month, saying basically that your claim is dubious. he said, quote, there was nothing about the prior disclose sures that would give

i can't wait to interview julian assange before the world, that is not going to happen. they know it is not. they are doing this because they play to their radical base, and then, i think some of my colleagues are sincere, they are looking for a peg for impeachment regardless of what anyone says. they want an impeachment on president trump. kennedy: something we continually lose sight of, reason we have special counsel investigation, and comey admitted this bev congress, he liked his memos to a friend who then leaked them to the press. and he said he did that on purpose that running counter to the good guy image he tried to paint in the press in front of congress, and in his book could but, here we are, with that cloak and dagger nonsense for no reason. >> i think so. and i wish mr. comey would get a chance to be prosecuted for that. his leak and his react of the mueller -- his creation of mueller investigation. it is really, been a trial for president trump. and anybody trying to help president trump get the republican agenda through. i think he needs to bear the brunt

the julian assange has said he never spoke to roger stone.e again, we are caught up in a what could be the truth here? i will point out it is often the truth there is a go-between. whether someone else who represents assange remains a question and if somebody is even telling the truth, if indeed that is what he said. roger stone himself is operating under a gag order by a judge to we are not hearing him him. but it is one of several tantalizing things coming out of this testimony. emily: let's talk about the other tantalizing things. much of it reiterated his opening testimony, but what are the new and most significant revelations? >> i have to be honest, for prosecutors, there is nothing revelatory here. of the public,t it is astounding to see a sitting president attacked and treated like this in congress, quite unusual. not since bill clinton's impeachment hearings have we seen anything like this. the attacks on his personality and character are stunning. in terms of the legal issues, forn cannot speak prosecutors but can give us a glimpse

as has been investigating wiki leaks and it's founder julian assange for many years . and chelsea manning she leaked documents to wiki leaks and they ended up exposing exposing cover ups and potential war crimes committed by by the u.s. military and this video here that is probably one of the most famous pieces of leaves footage shows and two ground attack in afghanistan in two thousand and seven seven men ended up being killed including a reuters journalists now manning has reached the statement where she says that she has revealed everything she already know when she was court martialed and twenty to teen and she also expresses her objection to this secrecy that surrounds a grand jury now she writes i will not participate in a secret process that i morally object to particularly one that has been used to and trap and persecute activists for protected political speech crime what's the reaction bay to handling she's going to a lot of support on social media journalist glenn greenwald for example he gives what he calls an important reminder he writes that chelsea mannin

has been investigating wiki leaks and its founder julian assange for many years now and manning she leaked documents to wiki leaks which ended up exposing cover ups and potential even war crimes by the united states government. now this is perhaps one of the most famous pieces of the footage that shows an air to ground attack in iraq in twenty three two thousand and seven seven men were killed in this attack including a reuters journalists now manning has released a statement where she says that she revealed everything she knew back in her twenty thirty. courts martial and she continues saying i will not as a page in a secret process that i morally object to particularly one that has been used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech speech so this is probably this last point is likely what she refers to when she says she's willing to go to jail for his beliefs how much support does chelsea manning have for this decision she has received a lot of support special social media from people within the whistleblower community if you like. glenn greenwald for example he g

that was the second part of my question from the mueller probe. >> there's possibly the julian assangeo be tried. but i think everything that has spun from this investigation has already been indicted. you've had, you know, 34 people charged, including the russians, so i don't see that you're going to have any further indictments, which means likely that trump is not going indicted. even if he was indicted or if there was some suggestion he had done something wrong attorney general barr has said he doesn't believe a sitting president can be prosecuted. he can be impeached but he can't be prosecuted. >> there lies the problem. what you don't know and what none of us know is what else may come as all the other pockets of we have out here doing an investigation, like the southern district of new york, like the democratic controlled congress. so i think it's premature to give the benediction to this scenario and it's laughable that republicans are doing victory laps about it. >> no charges against donald trump jr., nor jared kushner. >> not yet. not yet. again, there's some ongoing investi

he knew he was dealing with julian assange. julian assange is not russian.r 2.0 who at one point was representing himself to be a romanian hacker. so if that was the state of mind of roger stone or the trump organization, that's actually outside the mandate of the special counsel. so we don't know what else is being investigated, but that's why i emphasize the narrowness of the mandate. >> right. to be clear, this is not a criticism. it's just trying to understand factually what he charged and didn't charge. what do you think of joyce's point that if you do the thought experiment that all the results came on a single day at the end and you had six trump advisers indicted, that no one's beaten a charge, how would that look? >> i think, frankly, what the special counsel has done in 22 months is extraordinary. if you look at the volume of work that that relatively small group of prosecutors had to do, everything from grand jury work and search warrants, all the way up through trials and post-trial sentencing of a lot of people. it was an extraordinary amount of

he knew he was dealing with julian assange. julian assange is not russian.g with guccifer 2.0 who at one point was representing himself to be a romanian hacker. so if that was the state of mind of roger stone or the trump organization, that's actually outside the mandate of the special counsel. so we don't know what else is being investigated, but that's why i emphasize the narrowness of the mandate. >> right. to be clear, this is not a criticism. it's just trying to understand factually what he charged and didn't charge. what do you think of joyce's point that if you do the thought experiment that all the results came on a single day at the end and you had six trump advisers indicted, that no one's beaten a charge, how would that look? >> i think, frankly, what the special counsel has done in 22 months is extraordinary. if you look at the volume of work that that relatively small group of prosecutors had to do, everything from grand jury work and search warrants, all the way up through trials and post-trial sentencing of a lot of people. it was an extraordi

julian assange obviously rejecting your request.ubpoenas next for him and/or for the others who have not responded? >> we're no longer powerless when it comes to requesting documents and then just having witnesses dictate the terms on their own. we can actually send a subpoena over and get the documents we need and i imagine that will be the case here. >> okay. so that's certainly going to be an option on the table it sounds like? >> yes, and any witness who in the last two years was able to get away with this should know the american people gave us the power to stand up to these refusals and put power on these. >> someone that's agreed to cooperate with you is hope hicks and the document that's come in. can you confirm she's agreeing to turn over some of this information related to her time work with donald trump? >> as far as i know, she is cooperating. she's someone who i interviewed with our interview team when she came before the house intelligence committee. i found that she had a deep knowledge of what was going on in the org

"the guardian" reporting about a fake conspiracy about mueller and julian assange. three cnn employees forced to resign after reporting a fake russian story about anthony scaramucci, our friend. fake news story after fake news story, lie after lie, propaganda after propaganda! if it had to do with russia, president trump, well, the story was hastily reported and facts were nothing more than an after thought. look at more of the video evidence. >> the sort of dossier of alleged dirt that the russians allegedly say they allegedly have on donald trump. alleged dirt they allegedly used to allegedly cultivate him as basically a russian asset. >> get the person's phone records. here they see these calls to the blocked number. now there seems to be good evidence that that was probably president trump. [buzzer] >> michael cohen claims that then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower. [buzzer] >> crucially, these sources tels us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel robert mueller. [buzzer] >> we begin

i want to end on the issue of where does this leave wikileaks, julian assange? also, chelsea manning, who has been held in solitary confinement since being sent back to prison march 8 after refusing to answer questions befofore a grand jury. she had been subpoenaed for questioning over her 2010 release of wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of state department and pentagon documents about the wars in iraq and afghanistan. david is right that there was a big difference between obama and clinton when he came to foreign policy. she was very critical of obama for not being more confrontational with putin, for refusing to bomb syria, for refusing to send lethal arms to ukrainians, for working with russia on the iran deal. obama was right that hillary clinton would have been externally dangerous because she wanted to be way more provocative toward russia and i watch you did not get a chance to do that. it would have been very dangerous for the world, although the trump administration is doing now. as for chelsea manning and wikileaks, the trump administration has made

still just hangs out there, did roger stone ever actually have direct contact with wikileaks and julian assange. that would be a good one to know the answer to. >> yeah, and this is where potentially barr's letter and mueller's report stops short. obviously we haven't seen the underlying questions about -- we haven't seen the understand lying report as comprehensive as it may be. but barr he 's summary says the was no contact between -- no contact or collusion between are russia and the trump campaign. sort of leaving open the question of was there conspiracy or coordination or knowledge between trump and wikileaks which has served through the 2016 campaign as sort of this cutout between russian intelligence on the back end of these stolen emails. and mueller sort of went out of his way in the roger stone plea agreement -- sorry, the roger stone indictment to not answer the underlying question of whether roger stone actually had contact with julian assange and wikileaks or was just representing that he did. and this is again sort of part of what is so puzzling at the end of this is that there a

he said he's not going to give you any communications with julian assange. what do you do about that? >> well, he will give us any information of which we credibly ask him, as will everybody else, otherwise they will be subject to a subpoena and eventually to contempt. it's not up to them to decide what information to give. one can resist a subpoena by saying there's some privilege, but that's very difficult. >> right. so you're willing to go to subpoena if you need to go to subpoena? >> absolutely. we need to get the information here to vindicate, you know, for two years, the trump administration has been attacking the core functions of our democracy and the congress has refused to do any oversight. they've refused to -- they've shielded him. they've acted more as shields than as what the congress is supposed to do, which is to be a check and a balance. we are going to be the check and the balance. we are going to find out, we are going to lay out the facts for the american people. and see what we can do about it and protect the rule of law. >> so you see i

other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers minox you roxy mina julian assange the founder of wiki leaks has been in that ecuadorian embassy in london for seven years now over the past year the conditions of his asylum there have been tightened considerably and you've got the latest as you said richard we've seen a progressive squeeze on. and this latest story we're hearing gives us a sense of just how tense things have become at the embassy on march twenty fifth cassandra fairbanks a reporter with an american rightwing online outfit called the gateway pundit went to meet with the sun she says that her meeting had been pre-approved by the ecuadorian embassy but when she got there the situation became hostile fairbanks says she was locked in a room with cameras and surveillance equipment and she overheard an argument between a songe his lawyer and embassy staff including the ambassador she reports sundress told he could not enter the room unless he submitted to a body scan now the suspicion was that he was taking in a radio device with him to interfere with any s