. >> reporter: and he bristled when akika schubert asked about it in october. >> so you don't want tother or not this is an attack on wikileaks? >> it's completely disgusting atika. >> reporter: then he walked out. but he may have a harder time walking away from the international fury over the leaked u.s. government documents. russia, for example, is angry over references in the papers to massive corruption. deep economic problems and detailed breakdowns of prime minister putin's relations with his deputies. putin told larry king in essence the united states should mind its own business. and the u.s. government may now be doing just that. the justice department is looking into what laws may have been broken in obtaining, transporting and publishing all these classified papers. >> well, i encourage -- >> reporter: a ssange could be charged with possessing stolen meryl up to espionage. according to tom fuentes who directed international operations for the fbi and is now a cnn contributor. >> someone accessed classified data bases or basically confidential systems and, therefore, those c