have new ways to target and punish those with a functioning moral compass earlier my colleague union o'neill spoke to pink floyd founder roger waters who is a long time supporter of a song he believes there's more at stake than the freedom of just one man we his supporters have to be saying you have to bail him out he has he's suffered. way beyond any suffering that should be meted out see him for his worms mobo infringement which he sees only crime under u.k. a case of buy him now let the man begin to live this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist julian and some it's a battle for the survival of the human race if we give up the full 3 states if we allow. the united states government to crucify a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them. then we give up our access to the real world and we say ok we didn't believe you lives and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered journalists by machine gunning them from a helicopter in baghdad in 2007 and we know they did and here is the proof

earlier my colleague at union o'neil spoke to argue merican host rick sanchez who was a longtime colleague of the late larry king he gave us more insight into the character of the legendary interviewer. larry king was the king he was the king. communications in america the even when outside of america i remember there was a time when i 1st started working at c.n.n. and my kids at the time were small and they came up to me and they said dad we're so proud of you now that you're working at c.n.n. and i said why and they said because you're working with larry king lear eking is a guy who was so good at his craft that he was able to do what most people in our profession would never be able to do and that is he didn't have to book guests guests book themselves he would have a line out the door of people including presidents and prime ministers of every country in the world including the united states job easily who would be knocking on his door asking can you interview me i want to be interviewed by larry king what was it then record the thing that laurie brought to modern popular journalism wa

for existed in russia and definitely provide protection against this strain earlier my colleague union o'neill spoke with dr john dombrowski who is a pain management expert at the washington pain center he believes the easy way sputnik v. is stored is a selling point to such countries this is a 1st world problem that they have it has to be stored so cold so we're straight in the making of us wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even sorry not even a place to start sputnik 5 scene is easier to just store in a north african country with maybe less you know sophisticated storage material for another way of getting it out to the population for the globe that is more accessible is is very important the russian vaccine developers claim their job will prove effective against that how confident can they be at this stage he said when you work with an a if you viral vaccination you're looking at certain proteins of the virus and perhaps there's always something in common with a new strain hopefully they've caught sure that aspect of the protein where you could have you know resis

international my name's union o'neil. we begin with breaking news a british court rejected a u.s. extradition request for julian assange due to concerns about his mental health washington sees it will appeal the decision and still wants to try him on charges of espionage the president of mexico has offered political asylum to the wiki leaks founder we can take a look now at the reaction of a son just supporters are inside the courthouse when the verdict filtered art. i mean. it's true was it was you know was it was. was. was 6. was was was. was was was. was was as long as julian has to enter suffering in isolation as an unconvicted prisoner in belmarsh prison and as long as our children continue to beat the wrath of their father's love and affection. we cannot celebrate. we will celebrate the day he comes home a glimpse of hope to start the new year and hopefully a new era. it is a day. a day of with when for julian a song. we have people cautious it is not necessarily a win for journalists and. i'm delighted to welcome on to the program live roger waters the funding member lyrici

union. there have been times -- you know, during the reagan presidency, when he negotiated with speaker of the house to o'neillr presidential addresses -- o'neill was the great protector of the institutional prerogatives of the house, and he did not think fondly of presidents using the house to lobby for specific legislative items outside the contours of the state of the union address, but, no, no. that would, i think, indicate a decline in civic discourse that i would prefer not to imagine. even as you can probably tell i'm not a big fan of the way the state of the union has been reinterpreted over time. i do think when presidents make the request to attend that it is congress' duty to invite them to. >> do you think the state of the union should go back to being a nonpartisan speech, or is that even a possibility at this point? >> what do we think about that? what do we think about going back to either a written address or asking presidents to tone down the partisanship? is that even a possibility? >> i seriously doubt it, especially with the fact that the spectacle, all about the relationship between the pr