. >> why is president biden keeping the trump era charges against julian assange? ng the prosecution from publishing the truth about human rights abuses in iraq, afghanistan, guantÁnamo? does the presently the ongoing detention of assange is reasonable, even moral? >> i don't have anything new to say on julian assange. i would say we think of ourselves and we are approaching this from an entirely different approach of the last few years as it relates to freedom of the press and i think the department of justice's actions as it relates to the prosecution of journalists are how we are going to look at her go after records, something the attorney general made an announcement about, the president has spoken to come is clear evidence of exactly that. >> is is a freedom of press issue? >> i have nothing to speak to on julian assange. >> this is something i have emailed about months ago. there's been time. >> i understand. i do not have a new comment from your. amy: that is the white house press spokesman responding to chamoli halkett. jennifer robinson is with us. can you

and now we see julian assange was right all along at the the see i was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian size has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment, seeking that hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted of reporters without borders has joined the international. i cry over the alleged plot against the sounds which dates back to 2017. the press freedom organization said the report show, the wiki likes funder's life is still in danger and that he should be released from the u. k. prison for his own safety. while what he likes editor in chief christian her robinson discuss the case in our program going underground. you can watch the full episode here in our to later today menu. so stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state. so kids, nothing possibly killing. we h

plot to poison julian assigned, or to leave a door open at the embassy and to come in and snatch him. we have clear evidence that every journalist, every lawyer that went to visit assange was spied on their devices were open. this includes journalist from the washington post n p r, the new york times, who have said nothing about this. and we see that stella morris julian sanchez partner, was followed, spied on and that her child with julian size had their diapers stolen by cia, spies in london in order to trace the dna of that child. so, julian, his son was tortured, even before he was captured. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian size has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meeting. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment. seeking that hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julia sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted even serial killers wouldn't be treated. this is fascinated in such a fashion. it feels like they've reserved the special treatment for people who embarrass the government. what message is not sending now, just ho

with the c, i accused of plotting to kidnap and perhaps even kill julian assange. the u. k. must surely be now asking itself whether can really take washington's extradition request seriously. john, curiosity, pharmacy i am. listen, whistleblower is concerned about the implications. the report has full press freedom in the us. very important. as mac blumenthal said, and as, as ed snowden tweeted today, that, that the world to understand that the united states is trying to criminalize journalism. they refuse to accept the fact that julian assange is a journalist, that the american people only information and they have the right to know what it is. and that the government behind their backs, the backs of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been convicted of a crime, at least in washington. this is going to be a day long story. somebody is going to get promoted inside the ca for coming up with this operation. no one will be held accountable, just like no one was ever held accountable for the torture program or the secret prison program. you know, o

to $500 spent each billing cycle. >>> the ica reportedly plotted to kidnap wikileaks founder julian assangenapping. u.s. officials considered killing assange according to three former officials. one of the officials said he was briefed on a spring 2017 meeting which the president asked whether the cia could assassinate assange and provide him options for how to do so. joining us is yahoo! news chief investigative correspondent michalel isikoff. to be clear, the idea of kidnapping and killing assange wasn't approved but michael, this report is explosive, and just before we even get into the details, how did the trump administration, according to your reporting, go from donald trump being "i love wikileaks" which is what he said in the 2016 campaign trail to discussing kidnapping or even killing him? >> excellent question. what happened was even after the 2016 election in which you're right, then candidate donald trump embraced wikileaks, but once he came into office, the cia was confronted with what it viewed as the largest data loss in its history. that was the hacking of the vault seven ha

news is shining light on a campaign directed against wikileaks and its founder julian assange. e ecuador embassy in london, there was discussion in the cia about kidnapping or killing assange, according to three former officials. these discussions sparked a heated debate among trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. yahoo! news' investigation is based on conversations with more than 30 former u.s. officials. the cia declined to comment to yahoo! and pompeo did not respond to their requests for comment. the cia declined to comment to nbc news. we are also reaching out to mike pompeo. joining me now is a co-author of that report, michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. this is a big one, michael, as i welcome you. let's talk about julian assange, who had been on the radar of u.s. intelligence agencies for years. what sparked these plans for literally an all-out war against him? >> right, right. you know, assange and wikileaks got a lot of attention after the 2016 election when it was revealed, you know, th

internal documents from the spanish contractor that the ca appears to have been relying on to spy on julian assange and his associates inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. and those files also tell the story, these are text messages, emails of plans to kidnap assassinate assange and torment, and rob his associates thought. now that you know you've got the u. s. government and apparently in cahoots with the u. k. at some, where along the line considering the idea of snatching possibly assassinating somebody like a songs, it just pulls back the curtain, doesn't it on, on this? what has to be a lie that things like the rule of law, that the truth, morality and decency, they mean nothing. when it comes to your own personal political interest, what julian assigns was up against, he was up against the most powerful intelligence agencies. and when he said, even to his own lawyers were being spied on, everyone around us is working for the cia at the time. they didn't even believe him . and you had figures like james ball, former wiki weeks associate. now at the bureau. busy of investigative journalism

. >>> and the caa reportedly hatched a plan to kidnap or kill wikileaks founder julian assange. details of the wild plot considered by the trump administration ahead. thanks for being here, everybody. we begin with the critical week ahead for congress and for president biden's agenda, like the entire thing. and millions of americans' lives that will be affected by what happens. house speaker nancy pelosi delaying a planned vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill, pushing that vote now to thursday. she's working to unite moderate and progressive democrats within the party around that bill and the president's much bigger, broader $3.5 trillion spending bill. pelosi says the next few days will be, quite, a time of intensity. that is one way to put it. the infrastructure vote now scheduled to come just hours before a possible government shutdown and the potential of the default on america's debt. if the congress decides to not pay america's bills, that's also not far off. cnn's lauren fox is live on capitol hill following the latest here. lauren, lay out the state of play and the s

and more information spilling out about these potential ca, abuses in relation to dealing with julian assange, i mean, the seeming it seems less and less likely that washington's appeal for julian a sorry to be extradited to the u. s. is going to be taken seriously. don't. thanks for bringing us through all about. it's a dense report, but it isn't important. read donal quarter. thank let's set bring you to the u. k. where a few short it's crisis has cause long queues, petrol station really gripping the nation, the government, whoever is putting disruption down to customer behavior. let's go through that. the t o box are being caused by a shortage of laurie drivers, which has sparked a wave of panic buying, at least that's what the government, the saying. sally picks up the story. that's probably a variety of reasons as to why you've been seeing the scenes over the past few days . this we can just go on in the united kingdom of dr. as motorists panic, buying as much fuel as they can in some instances, as report so much that there were shortages of delivery drivers, fuel truck drivers across th

the ca was plotting to kidnap and perhaps kill julian assange, a new yahoo article includes testimony from key witnesses on the ca had fury wiki league, so called volt 7 disclosures on the u. s. by agencies, activities. while it goes all the way back to 2017, when assange was 5 years into his stay at the echo dory and embassy in london. and that was also when wiki leaks began. publishing its volt 7 documents, a series of document leaks, exposing the methods and tools that they use in terms of computer hacking. now, the agency considers this its largest data loss in ca, history, and according to the sources that yahoo new spoke with. they claim that the then head of the cia might, palm pale, was basically out for revenge. i mean, it talks about how the cia and british should tell intelligence believes that russian agents had come come up with a plan to rescue julian songs and bring him to moscow. and it also talks about how these western intelligence agencies were ready for shoot outs in the street to prevent this from happening. there were also plans to spy on kidnap and even kill jul

and now we see julian assange was right all along at the, the see i was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian, his size, has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the cia which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the us indictment seeking the hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case. and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted. the porters at our borders as joined the international outcry over the ledge plot against the songs the press. freedom organization said that.

there's no way that julian assange should or could be extradited to the united states and he should be free to go. the state of new york is considering whether to deploy the national guard to medical facilities to replace unvaccinated doctors and nurses. i will be signing an executive order that's going to allow me to deploy the national guard were medically trained, deploy people who've been retired and they have had a license lapse. bring in people from elsewhere. new york's medical crisis comes made a statewide mandate for all health workers to be in ok against corona virus. about 16 percent of medics have not received their shots according to the governor's office. that means that borrowed from hospitals and other medical facilities, we heard from the local paramedic anthony albert kara, and john don brown, sky chief executive of the washington pain center. they share their views on the decision. national guards are usually brought out for crises, hurricanes, tornadoes, things like that. this the 1st time i've ever known of it to be for a health care reason. hospitals, you know, do

downing passenger planes, and gun battles in the streets of london hall to the kids that will kill julian assange, the most famous journalist in the world. and with soldiers on standby, and i love your time to come britain's energy crisis, we investigated with a panic buying. and the collapse of privatized energy companies actually present the u. k. with an opportunity to say the whole list of all coming up in today's going underground today is the deadline for document submission that could release julian sons from prison in london. let's go to new revelations, about alleged discussions at the top actual to the u. s. government including the white house in the ca, that apparently involves a plot to kidnap and potentially assassinate the wiki leaks found as well as plans that involve gunfights on the streets of london and opening fire and rushing plane on new k soil. with the complicity of the british government, we've contacted to see a, the way to its former us secretary of state, my compare the u. k. home and foreign offices and 10 downing street about the contents of the investigation. but as

now if you accept that narrative than assassinating julian assange could be justified, as of course, and offensive counter intelligence operation as opposed to just killing a civilian without any sort of trial. of course, that's what it seems like to see i was trying to do, but we actually ask them for comment and they have yet to, to respond. we know that the story is getting traction now. what's been some of that reaction? the whole idea itself is pretty outrageous, and the biggest kind of reaction has come, particularly from journalists and whistleblowers, who are, i think a lot of them are thinking, you know, could i be next on the sea ice kill list? if i make some sort of report that the agency doesn't like very much, i mean we heard from ca, whistleblower edward snowden. he said that the charges need to be dropped against the psalms because he wasn't given any sort of judicial process in the c. i was already having plans to kill him. one of the other journalists that was actually mentioned in the yahoo news article said that the cia and now biden are looking like the ones respo

they refuse to accept the fact that julian assange is a journalist, that the american people only information and they have the right to know what it is. and that the government behind their backs, the backs of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been convicted of a crime, at least in washington. this is going to be a day long story. somebody is going to get promoted inside the ca for coming up with this operation. no one will be held accountable, just like no one was ever held accountable for the torture program or the secret prison program. you know, one of the things that we learned in this article was that the british intelligence serve as the external intelligence service m, i. 6, was apparently involved where they were talking about, shoot up the potential for shoot out in front of the ecuadorian empathy. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shooting when they talk about shooting out the, the tires of a russian plane. that might have been taking julian assigned to, to russia. that was the british that were supposed to be doing the shootin

why would they be worried about giving julian assange or a australian citizen, or you and i said, dick, citizen, when you were in that embassy talking to him, well, what, what seems to have the moods and it's sort of the, comes out in this article is that the traveler reason, let's pub despair. julia's leg was the location sensitivity of assassinating somebody of the center of love next to herbs. if julia had been in another location, why as she would have been considered just quite ok. interesting. you know, named in the article, but in the article they talk about the fact that these unnamed british american secret people are talking about targeting oscar winning. laura pointers, the film director, pulitzer prize winner, glen greenwald. i mean, do you think they put you on a can list? well, i'm curious to know, and i was sure i know after i'm i'm dead and gone and i will be made public. if ever i simply assume through the wording of the article and, and be what the sources are telling, telling them or the journalist is that least the core group within we can use were under extensive s

they refuse to accept the fact that julian assange is a journalist. that the american people only information and they have the right to know what it is and that the government behind their backs, the back of the american people, is trying to assassinate someone who has not been convicted of a crime. yes, but that well, anyone be how to count over these notifications? no, absolutely not. that's not how this works. right. it is going to be at least in washington, this is going to be a day long story or 2 day long story. no one will be held accountable, just like no one was ever held accountable for the torture program, or for the rendition program or the secret prison program. somebody is going to get promoted inside the ca for coming up with this operation. and, and no one will be held to account. but do you think the u. k. court will probably take this information into account when considering his expedition to the us. i certainly hope so, and i would expect so, you know, one of the things that we learned in this article was that the british intellig

the cia was plotting to kidnap on perhaps kill julian assange. the allegations appear in a new yahoo news report. the revelations are nothing new. they were erred on our t last year. the yahoo article includes testimony from key witnesses on the ca, heads, fury, and wiki leaks, so called volt 7 disclosures in the us intelligence agencies, activities, pompeo and other top agency leaders were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about vote 7 said a former trump national security official, they was seeing blood was damo quarter. i joined me here in the pseudo to make sense of it. the allegations be, are quite startling, aren't they? although we have, as we'll get to in a moment, seen them before. what's in the report, while it goes all the way back to 2017, when assange was 5 years into his stay at the dorian embassy in london. and that was also when wiki leaks began. publishing its volt 7 documents, a series of document leaks, exposing the methods and tools that they use in terms of computer hacking. now the agency cons

he believes that julian assange is being treated very badly.ary clinton and helping donald trump. hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trump-— hurting hillary clinton and helping donald trum-. ., ~' ,, ., _, donald trump. thank you for coming on. stay with us on bbc news is that how a satellite launch just over an hour ago will help us map climate change. a little bit more on the decision of andy mcdonald who announced he is quitting the shadow cabinet in the middle of the conference in brighton. the former chairman of the projeremy corbyn movement within the party and he says he is not surprised that mister mcdonald has decided to step aside. i can understand _ decided to step aside. i can understand why, _ decided to step aside. i can understand why, it's - decided to step aside. i can understand why, it's a i decided to step aside. i can i understand why, it's a terrible shame and i mean, he put enormous amounts of work into the employments rights agenda which was launched earlier this week and unfortunately overshadowed by the rows ov

let's go back a few more years. 2010. julian assange is at the height of fame wiki leagues has published thousands of secret u. s. military documents on the walls and of canister, and iraq. there might be a couple of deals of wiki lakes and julia, his his hero view. he's got the dangerous trouble make a view. i'll come all the news caught up on the internet. whereas the truth and all of this in this official document, both parties stayed the facts before the british supreme court. during a visit to sweden, fountains, sexual intercourse with 2 women, the women talk to each other and go to the police. they want to some time to go a medical exam to rule out sexually transmitted diseases. a preliminary investigation is opened, both women are questioned. the chief prosecutor and stuck on concludes that there are no signs of rape case closed. ready a possibility man, modification has yet to be clarified. the phone voluntarily stays in sweden and answers every question during a police interrogation. but a higher prosecutor, mariani decided to reopen the preliminary investigation of each grade d

me in the criticism of julian assange mar trice. he's accused of pursuing a personal agenda with leaks and of having contributed to the advance of donald trump. but even after trumps victory wiki leaks continues to publish. and soon the u. s. government and the trump will go further than the rock obama ever dad. the united states no longer operates in the shadows. it's time to call out with lakes for what it really is. a non state hostile intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like russia. they pretended america's 1st amendment freedoms to shield them from justice. they may have been to that, but they are wrong. the ecuador also has a new president. he wants to get rid of the inconvenient guest in his london embassy, which makes found to judy and sounds of internet access has been cut off saying that they don't want julian a sanchez, social media fee to jeopardize relations with other countries. that is thought to be in regard to a couple of tweets that julian just with stood out in the morning on me. going to keep him

news investigation that uncovered an unprecedented campaign against wikileaks and julian assange. developed a multipronged plan to kidnap or potentially assassinate assange while he was held up in the embassy in london. it was based on conversations with more than 30 former u.s. officials. now, the legalities of the plot reportedly concerned some national security officials. they feared it would not only be illegal but might jeopardize the prosecution of assange. the cia declined commenting on the yahoo! news reports. the courts will decide on a u.s. decision to extradite him. joining me now to discuss this is one of the co-authors of that bombshell reporting, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. michael, great to have you back on the show. how close was this plot to actual fruition and how would it have damaged u.s. foreign relations that there were so many countries at play here. the u.s., australia,ecuador. >> there were a series of plans floated by the cia after the then director mike pompeo basically launched this all-out war. it started at least in the public ph

at julian assange in breaking the silence, as i think it could be the will you to see says it's a money laundering. one dimension of this is a money laundering. man isn't cost whether it be $1.00 trillion or adrian. it's actually a way of taking taxpayers money or money of ordinary workers in west countries and recycling it into 5 big defense companies. and this kind of defense industry complex and, and it makes a lot of money. yes. but it's a, it's a way of financing imperial projects. i mean by the end of the ninety's for so the taliban was so embed with the us administration that it was calculated that every taliban official was paid for with us taxes. so was paid directly, of course. and when julian was talking about money being laundered through it, huge amounts of money was laundered through afghanistan. it all went bad, of course, with bad in their own terms. they didn't actually get, but they won't, in the same way. iraq when bad in a way, the same way that went bad, they usually to 0 class dimension to the type of african this interviewed on our screens. obviously urban they sp

and now we see julian assange was right all along at the the see i was planning to kill him. and now it's very clear that the entire case against julian assad has fallen apart. his inter attorney client privilege has been violated by the ca, which was spying on those meetings. and the key witness in the u. s. indictment seeking, the hacker has admitted to lying. there is nothing left of this case, and yet julian sanchez still being tortured, held and persecuted. the porters at our borders as joined the international outcry over the ledge plot against the songs the press. freedom organization said that the reports show the wicked leagues found as life is still in danger, that he should be released from prison for his own safety. in wild current, we can editor in chief kristin her office and discuss the case on going underground . you can watch the full episode throughout the day. you know, i'm anti many stunning revelation is quite shocking to see that this was being conquered in the, in the, in the state. so kids, nothing possibly killing. we had to wind up some of this before

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de facto mercenary for us, and how we should give to charity, but they won't be any news about julian assange, who is in jail just down the road from the studio. why in this book, do you adopt, maxwell can i'm as quote you about the idea that don't dare talk about chinese protest is in hong kong or bella, luce, you don't care about julian, it's the most bank. so you don't be, don't know, we don't we neuro spear. yes, no pretty. we experience for pretty if you go to the west, if you are in some you paid for by the 3. do you want to so the way where you want enjoyment warm, but the safety space? 3 don't you are going to the 40 money. you want to go to the you experience your store there or is your pretty booked today? it's no longer working class or even some kind of restaurant thing. you know, he's thing, he's watching gas he flo king think we can be here in liver thinking i know you got to where you are a smaller never got the least. you are 3. you can make the contract, there's no real work guess you meet d and they say you small. your brother is your last and you will surely for here or you

we're tansy to discuss that money trail. julian assange in breaking the silence, says, i think it's where it could be. the war you to see says it's a money laundering. one dimension of this is a money laundering. isn't cost whether it be $1.00 trillion or adrian, it's actually a way of taking taxpayers money or money of ordinary workers in west countries and recycling it into $5.00 big defense companies. and this kind of defense industry complex and, and it makes a lot of money. yes. but it's a way of financing imperial projects. i mean by the end of the ninety's for solid. the taliban was so in bed with the us administration. but it was calculated that every taliban official was paid for with us taxes. so wasn't paid directly, of course, and when julian was talking about money being laundered through it, huge amounts of money was laundered through afghanistan. it all went bad. of course it went bad in the road and they didn't actually get, but they won't in the same way. iraq went bad in a way the same way that vietnam went bad. they usually to meantime the taliban has officially announc

s. plotted to kill julian assange. although upon pay, i made it clear that whatever the trump administration did do he's not sorry. i couldn't tell you who they have is their sources, but the sources didn't know what we were doing. i make no apologies for the fact that we and the administration were working diligently to make sure we were able to protect this important sensitive information from whether it was cyber in russia or the chinese military. or anyone who was trying to take this information away from us. reporters without borders has joined an international outcry over the alleged plot against assange. it goes back to 2017. the press freedom organization said the reports corroborated not by multiple sources show that the wiki leaks found his life is still in danger, and he should be released apparently from a u. k. prison for his own safety. meanwhile, were helix editor in chief christians, ramson discussed the case in our program, going underground. you can watch all of that in full just a bit later in the da