that was the guardian book, the guardian wikileaks book. it was a temporary password, which would expire and be deleted in a matter of hours. it was a meaningless piece of information to anyone except the person who created the database." well, they're admitting they did and excusing themselves, trying to blame somebody else. but they didn't publish 250,000 diplomatic cables and almost half a million us army reports? they did. they gave the password. you can't get at it without the password. if you look at wikileaks‘ publications prior to that, you will see analysis and you will see redaction. yeah, prior to that, yes. you are mixing up two different things with respect, mr shipton. yes. there was the publication, the media partners of wikileaks, the guardian, new york times, el pais, der spiegel and le monde. they all worked together previously publishing carefully selected and redacted documents. when the quarter of a million cables, unredacted, were published by wikileaks, all those previous media partners condemned the decision of wikil

military, which wikileaks says shows u.s.diers opening fire on baghdad and killing civilians and journalists. he is now in a maximum security prison in the u.k. and continues to fight against his extradition to the united states. if he loses his fight and is convicted in the u.s., the wikileaks founder faces up to 175 years in jail. the rate case in -- the rape case in sweden has been dropped. brent: i'm joined by the unititd nations special rep at short on torture. it is good to have you on the show. our viewers watching and who maybe have followed the story may be asking, why is the u.n. involved here? has julian assange been tortured? >> yes, absolulutely. i can assure you it was not an easy step for me to get involved . i wawas myself a bitit p poisony the e public narrarative. when i wentt to visisit himnd te two memedical doctors examined m acaccording to a spealizized medical particle poetry -- focusing on torture victims. he showed all the symptoms of a person who had been psychologically tortured. brent: is the claim

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the whole world of wikileaks and russian intelligence was behind all of this.r established in this case nor in the mueller report. but as someone who worked on the other side of the obama white house, your reactions to this whole saga of roger stone? >> well, it's undeniable, wikileaks has done enormous damage to our national security. of course, even if we leave aside the 2016 dumping of emails pertaining to the election, we've seen any number of instances where wikileaks has chosen to disseminate whole cloth what were otherwise sensitive information in some cases deep within the vaults of the u.s. government. i'm also reminded, andrea, of what prosecutors said during the final days of roger stone's trial last year. they were explaining to the jury why he went about his efforts to obstruct the congressional investigation and one of the prosecutors, in fact, the prosecutor who resigned only days ago in the midst of this whole sentencing, said that roger stone knew if this information came out, it would look really bad for his long-time associate donald trump. a

confinement but warns of press freedom if he is handed over to the u.s. >> wikileaks is a journalist organization and the united states has no right t to start equating proper investigative journalism and journalism on national security issues with espionagage. ththat is outrageouss and allow to go ahead and sends dangerous signals to journalists around the world. anchor: wiki leaks editor-in chief was joined high assange's legal team. we were there and we have this assessment. reporter: his defense team claims that the defense is part of u.s. trump's war on journalism. assange was held in isolation in a high security prison in london to the extent that corridors were being emptied before he walked through. this has eased and now to be in better health. the court case starts next right. human rights lawyer expects the legal proceedings to last for several years. anchor: now to china, the could reasono virus has claimed the life of another health care worker. he was the head of a leading hospital the city of the epicenter. the death toll has almost reached 2,000. hong kong suffered ba

investigation that the house hoe intelligence committee was doing into russian meddlg and t role wikileaks played during the release of the democratic e-mails in the campaign. stone was convicd to lying to the investigators of the house committen he was also victed of trying to get a witness to not testify to thotise invtors. he was accused of threatening the witness and the witss' dog. even though the witness later wrote a letter saying he didn't threaten, jackson sn't buying any of it. she said this witness intimidation was "a corrupt and unlawful campaign to tamper with the witness." and really, the judge, all day today, was very, very crical of roger stone. she said, in particular, shei

investigation that the house intelligence committee was doins intoan meddling and whether what role wikileaks played in the release of those democratic e-mails dur campaign. stone was convicted of lying to those investigators for the house mmittee. he was also convicted of trying to get a witness to noify to those investigators. ed he was accf threatening that witness and threatening the witness' dog, even though that saying he didn'elte a letter threatened judgamy berman jackson, the judge who sentenced stone today, wasn't buying any of it. e id that this witness intimidation was quote "a corrupt and unlawful campaign to tamper with a witness." and, really, the judge all day today was very, verytical of

this one for wikileaks' founder julian assange. in a british court, one of assange's lawyers said his client was offered a pardon, quote, on instructions from the president if he would turn over proof that russia had nothing to to with the wikileaks hack of the dnc. that pardon offer reportedly came through former republican congressman dana rohrabacher who met with assange back in august of 2017. the white house denies this ever happened, but back in 2017 after that meeting, rohrabacher indicated a pardon might be in the works. >> if julian assange will make available to the people of the united states and disclose the fact that they have been the victim of a power grab and a con job, yeah, i think that deserves a pardon if he is expose that. >> what's assange asking for in return for this? >> that's all confidential. it's a confidential now interaction with myself and the white house to determine what can be offered. >> well, back then he might have been deliberately vague, but now the former congressman has told yahoo! news' mic

the e—mails were released by wikileaks injune and the e—mails were released by wikileaks in june andesidential elections. they we re presidential elections. they were hugely embarrassing and seen as were hugely embarrassing and seen as massively damaging to the democratic presidential nominee, hillary clinton. russell was widely suspected of hacking the dnc, stealing their e—mails, and passing them on to wikileaks. julian assange e—mails, and passing them on to wikilea ks. julian assange has denied rotten involvement and russia denies any responsibility —— rotten. that did not stop the usjostens department judging did not stop the usjostens departmentjudging 12 officers over the hacking. the accusation being it was all pa rt accusation being it was all part of a wide plot to interfere with the election. julian assange is currently here, london's belmarsh prison, but if exhibition to the us over the leaking of diplomatic cables. that extradition hearing begins next week. julian assange's lawyers say that during the hearing they will present a witness who will testify that while mrjuli

and of course, tomorrow, the trump campaign's contact with wikileaks during the campaign, while wikileaks was strategically releasing the material that russia had stolen, the trump campaign's link to wikileaks during the campaign, roger stone, is due to be sentenced in federal court tomorrow. mr. stone was convicted of lying to investigators about his contacts with wikileaks. he was convicted of threatening a witness who could have exposed the lie. roger stone was found guilty on all seven felony counts he was charged with. his sentencing is tomorrow and there has, of course, been a crisis at the justice department over the past week, not to mention a bit of a national uproar, since attorney general william barr, last week, rescinded prosecutor's sentencing recommendation for roger stone. more than 2,000 former justice department officials have called for william barr to resign as attorney general because of that. barr himself is now occasional threatening to resign. the president has been threatening the judge in the case, not to mention individual jurors in the case. it has just been nu

and she's recounting how roger stone is out there publicly, saying he was in touch with wikileaks. she's recounting how roger stone told congress he didn't have any conversations with the trump campaign about wikileaks, and she's saying we had witnesses up here who testified you talked to the candidate himself, you talked to candidate trump about wikileaks. so she's really running through, trying to set the record straight about the facts of the case, which is, of course, particularly important in the wake of all of these attacks as seen by president trump on the judge, on the jury, on this case in general as he has defended his friend roger stone. this has sort of been a moment of contrition in this courtroom, too, from the prosecutors as these are the new prosecutors on the case. they came into the courtroom today. they apologized to the judge for the confusion that they have caused, and they repeatedly agreed with the judge that roger stone deserved harsher sentences for some of these crimes he's committed, like obstruction and witness tampering. ultimately they said they would

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stone held himself out to the trump campaign as the connection to wikileaks in the run-up to the 2016and wikileaks is the outfit that published the emails that russians sold from the democratic national committeeand yesterday we got news about another potential pardon, this one for wikileaks starter julian assange, the pardon offer reportedly game from former republican congressman dana rorbacher. >> if julian assange exposes that, i believe that deserves a pardon. >> what is he asking for? >> that's a confidential interaction with myself and the white house to determine what can be offered. >> well, back then he might have been deliberately vague but now the former congressman has told yahoo news's michael isikoff exactly what he was offering julian assange. and he joins me next. n! oh, thanks! you know automated lights are just the beginning. pretty soon they're gonna have eyes... everywhere. well goodnight. geico. over 75 years of savings and service. if you're living with hiv, and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for hiv i

trump offered a pardon deal to the founder of wikileaks in exchange for some help on the russia investigation. claim the white house is slamming tonight as a big lie. with the president out west campaigning, his aides are scrammiscram i abling to keep the peace with mr. barr. >> the attorney general has made his feelings known about the president's tweet. the president has also made his feelings known about the attorney general and his right to comment. >> reporter: a source close to the president said the two men appear to have calmed down. i think they are cooling off. the president is still throwing his weight around the justice department granting clemency for the corrupt and well connected like rod blagojevich. a democrat who now says he's a trump supporter. >> i'm a trump-o-crat. >> are you going to vote for him? >> if i had the ability to vote, i would vote for him. >> reporter: the president is defending his decision splitting hairs insisting rod blagojevich did not sell the senate seat. he served eight years in prison with many remaining. he paid a big price. the reality is blagojevi

reports tonight wikileaks founder was offered a pardon if he said russia was not involved in the dnc e-mail leak. according to ta lawyer for asang who told a court in london a former congressman, putin's favorite. visited asang in 2017. in london. on the instructions of the president to offer a pardon if he would play ball. and the denials are rolling in. putting out a statement saying at no time did i talk to president trump about julian asang. like wise i was not directed by trump or anyone else to meet with asang. saying in a statement the president barely knows dana other than an excongressman. he's never spoken to him on this subject. or almost any subject. it is a complete fabrication and total lie. probably a never ending hoax and total lie from the dnc. yes, the old blame the democrats strategy. except the president met with him in the oval office in 2017 and endorsed him for reelection in 2018. that is the president seems to be on a campaign not just to fill his administration with loyalists but to reward high profile friends of friends and people who cases he has seen on tv

all related to his efforts to contact wikileaks and help the trump campaign in 2016. the sentencing comes amid growing concerns over the president's attack on the rule of law. in just this case that we're talking about with stone today, the president has tacked the prosecutors publicly, from his own justice department, attacked the federal judge overseeing this case and attacked the jury foreman involved in this case. and don't forget attorney general bill barr intervened in that shocking way to reduce the initial sentencing recommendation coming from the justice department. causing all of the prosecutors to withdraw in protest from the case. yes. that's just the background and we're still waiting for exactly what is going to be coming any minute now. let's get over to the courthouse, over to the courthouse, sara murray with all the developments. what is the latest you're hearing from inside? >> reporter: good morning, kate. this is ongoing. the judge has not handed down roger stone's sentence yet. but there is pretty remark activity playing out in court now. we have

assange's website, wikileaks, operating today.shed a series of emails that wereighly embarrassing for democratic nominee hillary clinton in the final weeks of th2016 campaign. president trump's critics was part of a tactic to claim a republican victory. they want assigns to face 18 charges, including conspiring to commit computer intrusion. the extradition hear nfor this presentation is madeossible by... man: babbel, an onne program developed by language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. narrator: funding was also provided by... freeman foundation. pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. viewers like you, thank you. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation is made possible by... woman: babbel, a language app that teaches real life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian and more. babbel's 10 to 15 minute lessons are available as an app or online. more inforormation on babbel.com. narrator: funding also provided by... the freeman fountion. by judy and peter blum-kovler foundati

in which prosecutors say he lied about his efforts to find out what wikileaks planned to do with thousands of hacked democratic emails. stone was also accused of pressuring radio talk show host randy credico and threatening to take his service dog. roger stone went on trial last november. witnesses included randy, rick gates and steve banion. president trump accused prosecutors of being unfair to stone and questioned why nothing had happened to other key players in the russia investigation. this past monday, prosecutors recommended that stone receive seven to nine years in prison when he is sentenced on february 20th. they wrote in the sentencing memo, quote, roger stone obstructed congress' investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. lied under oath and tampered with a witness and when his crimes were revealed by the indictment in this case he displayed contempt for this court and the rule of law end quote. early tuesday morning donald trump tweeted that this is, quote, a horrible and very unfair situation and that he cannot allow this miscarriage of justice. the preside

russia was widely suspected of hacking the dnc, stealing the e—mails, and passing them on to wikileaksent and russia denies any responsibility. but that didn't stop the us justice department charging i2 russian intelligence officers over the hacking. the accusation being it was all part of a wider plot to interfere with the election. julian assange is currently here, london's belmarsh prison, but faces extradition to the us over the leaking of diplomatic cables. that extradition hearing begins next week. julian assange's lawyers say that during the hearing they'll present a witness who will testify that while mr assange was staying at the ecuadorian embassy he had a visit from a former us congressman. this man — dana rohrabacher — and that he came with a message. prove that russia wasn't behind the dnc e—mail leak and you'll be pardoned. the white house says that the claim byjulian assange's lawyer is a complete fabrication and a total lie. julian assange went into the ecuadorian embassy in london 2012 to avoid extradition to sweden on allegations of sexual offences, charges he always

today the wikileaks must decide whether to allow.ajumper, to proceedings, dressed in a suit and a jumper, with a sheaf of papers in his hands. the lawyers argued julian assange had put the lives of informants at risk when he produced unredacted material about the iraq and afghan wars. it was said there was a grave and imminent threat to life. later this week, was a grave and imminent threat to life. laterthis week, lawyers was a grave and imminent threat to life. later this week, lawyers for julian assange will claim that extraditing him will be a blow to freedom of speech for journalists and that it is politically motivated by the trump administration. witnesses in this hearing are not due to appear until may, so there will be no ruling before then. young footballers will now be protected from risks linked to heading the ball, with new rules brought in by the football associations in england, scotland and northern ireland. coaches of primary school children will be told to ban the practice during training sessions and to limit its u

hacked before being published by wikileaks in 2016.hite house calls assange's claim a total lie. a representative from california ripped into pacific gas, saying they put great before -- greed before safety. pg&e's powerlines have been blamed for igniting a series of catastrophic wildfires in recent years that killed nearly 130 people and destroyed thousands of homes. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. >> let's turn to china and the economy there under strain. beijing planning to take over hna group and sell off its airline assets. the latest example resident x -- president xi jinping's government trying to halt the coronavirus outbreak. hna has been no stranger to a lot of speculation about its debt load. we seem to get word today that china found an answer to deal with it. >> this could be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. hna has long-running challenges regarding its liquidit

the enabling technologies that allow wikileaks to happen. this leaking thing i don't know if it's good to catch on. it was kind of a low. i think the wiki leaks thing was overblown. and ends the next year. this is what i had written a book about. i think they just kept coming. we had raised the generation of post- millenials. they head in their dna to do leaking. we are one of the big stories in the news right now. there is an anonymous whistleblower. it really took off. i just wondered if you kind of thought and connected that. if that is something about technology. did they build a new sort of sentiment around leaking. the idea of the book i did not expect to be talking about this book today. it was about mega leaks. the ability to be making that the mouth of data digitally. that has happened. they have a drawer for all of the leaks that i wrote about in that book. i was trying to show it. we are in this new era of very liquid information. we talk about this. not every major newspaper has the same kind of protected inbox for leaks. the wal

the exact same day wikileaks dropped the first batch of e-mails stolen from the clinton campaign. those e-mails distracted from the catastrophic tape of trump bragging about sexual assault. an aide to steve bannon sent an e-mail to roger stone saying well done. well done. what do you think he meant by that. roger stone was telling the campaign he was coordinating through back channels with wikileaks but he lied about that to investigators. he was tried for lying and witness tampering and convicted. prosecutors recommended he be sent to prison for up to nine years. yesterday trump tweeted the sentence was horrible and very unfair. later the justice department said they would change the sentencing recommendations. now the trump department is recommending far less than the original recommendation. now it is in the hands of a u.s. district judge who the president is now attacking on twitter and denied roger stone's new request for a new trial. carroll lee reported william barr has taken control of legal matters of interest related to the president. were you surprised to the president

. >>> a lawyer for wikileaks founder claims president trump confirmed the on assange. report. the white house calls it a total lie. back in 2016 wikileaks posted the stolen dnc emails after they were hacked by russian operatives. assange is being held on spying charges. his full court hearing is expected to start next week. >>> thanks to a controversial communation by president trump former l il governor blagojevich is officially a free man. the convicted felon seven years into a 14-year sentence for soliciting bribes to sell an open senate seat, attempting to shake down a children's hospital. this afternoon he thanked trump and called himself an underdog. >> we want to express our most profound and ever-lasting gratitude to president trump. how do you properly thank someone given back the freedom stolen from you? he didn't have to do this. he is tough, outspoken, he gets things done. he is a problem solver and a business where too many politicians don't want to solve problems. all they want to do is play politics and get nothing done for the people. he's -- i'm a trump-ocrat.

. >>> plus, wikileaks founder, julian assange now claiming that president trump tried to offer him a deal. what his lawyer told the court today. now, we know the trump strategy- try to win by attacking, distorting, dividing. mr. president: it. won't. work. newspapers report bloomberg is the democrat trump fears most. as president, universal healthcare that lets people keep their coverage if they like it. a record on job creation. a doable plan to combat climate change. i led a complex, diverse city through 9-11 and i have common sense plans to move america away from chaos to progress! i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. >>> in san francisco, new developments in the bribery scandal involving a well known restaurant owner. >> there are questions about whether he paid for a pride float on behalf of london breed before she was mayor. >> the pride parade is one of san francisco's signature events. nick bovas, the man who ran lefty o'douls was billed $1,250 for london breed's float when breed was still a supervisor. the mayor saying at this point, there is no indication that bov

assange say they will produce a witness at the hearing who will say president trump offered the wikileaksounder a pardon if he saidvo he was not ed in leaking hillary clinton's emails in the 2016 election. rod blagojevich, the former democratic governor of illinois, has thand president trump for commuting is presented sentence f his prison sentence, proclaiming hims trump-ocrat. he was convicted of trying to sell the senate seat held byck ba obama after he was elected president. mr. erdogan's warning comes ter talks which failed to create agreement on how to eg the fightin in idlib. this report contains some distressinerimages. repo ducking for cover. even if you can barely sta, it is time toun. with bombs falling nearby, the abdulaziz family are trying to pack up and goorhe fourth time. take the children inside, says ibrahim, a parent's instinct, but he knows they are not safe there either. ibrahim says they fled their village in idlib because o bombing but the war catches up wherever they go. they have joined aroup going to a camp near the border, already overflowing the-- preside assad

let's talk about the wikileaks founder julian assange and you heard jim acosta's report.f he was in fact offered a presidential pardon for exchange of his help with the russian investigation and all of that, and how significant would that be? >> politically, that is a damaging allegation. again, the president as we have seen in the last couple of days the president has pretty much unending pardon authority and it is politically however a very bad thing if the president is offering a pardon to someone who the united states is trying to extradite from the u.k. now, the person who allegedly tried to broker the deal, dana rohrabacher. >> former congressman from california. >> yes, and he has been public saying that the russians have had nothing to do with the interference of the 2016 election. we know where he stand, and the question is if julian assange has any proof to show that the offer was made or that we can even say that the president made this offer through dana rohrabacher. >> it is potentially to follow. the and now joining us is chris ku coons, a member of the fore

the emails which embarrassed hillary clinton were exposed on wikileaks.hite house has called the claims a total lie. day onnews 24 hours a air and on quicktake by bloomberg. powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. emily: the decency act passed protects companies like google and facebook from lawsuits. back then, the hope was that it would allow the internet to flourish that it bill barr gets his way, the rules will change. he says giving broad immunity to platforms that purposely blind does not create incentives to make the online world safer for children. he may does comments at a workshop. what is the upshot here? >> the upshot is there are a lot of complaints. we heard bill barr layout a lot. child safety, the power of platforms, we heard others spee. the ques is what we do about it and that is up to congress not the doj. that is not something that has been settled on. we may be getting closer but ultimately, congress will have to change the law. that means passing something in an election year.

all of it later published by wikileaks in 2016. the white house is calling the pardon claims quote complete fabrication and a total lie. >>> new york real estate heir robert durst is going on trial for murder five years after he was arrested. today was the first day of jury selection. theexcentric millionaire is accused of murdering his friend 20 years ago. authorities believe that berman helped cover up that crime. durst has pleaded not guilty. >>> governor newsom used one topic to essentially try to bring both republicans and democrats together in support. >> i don't think homelessness can be solved. i know that homelessness can be solved. >> coming up next, the financial plan to help the homeless with housing, and finance support, and the positive republican response. >>> plus president trump not giving up on the west coast. for a second day in a row, he made stops here in california. what he said at his rally in bakersfield. >>> and a new face joins the stage of the department debate tonight. what to watch for as michael bloomb

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. ♪ laura: the wikileaks founder julian assange appeared in court in london at the start of an extritionng on whether to send him to the u.s.. he is wanted on charges of conspiring to hack into bases.ary naomi grimley was at the hearing and sent us this report on the story. naomi: it was 2010 win julian assange hit -- when julian assange hit the headlines with this video. hundreds of sensitive diplomatic cables were also released. in 2012, he so ughtefe inside the ecuadorian embassy. thedish case was later dropped, but not before julian assange spent seven years inside the embassy. he finally emerged last year, dragged off the premises by metropolitan police. he has been kept in jail everca since use the u.s. produced the expedition request, which a judge must allow whether to allow. he sat listening t proceedings dressein a suit and gray jumper with papers in his hand. lawyers for the u. argued julian assange putnformant lives at risk when he publieded unreda material about the iraq and afghan wars. there had been a grave and imminent threat to human life. later this week, lawyers for m

disregard for american democracy when he lied to a house committee about his efforts to find out what wikileaks founder julian assange was up to with emails hacked by the russians about the hillary clinton campaign this was no political case, she said quote, you were not prosecuted for standing up for the president. you were prosecuted for covering up for the president. in a clear reference to president trump's relentless tweeting about the case, she said i is t's apdged a pson wh benefited politically from stone's conduct outside comments about the case, she said, were entirely inappropriate. the sentence, 3 1/3 years in prison, well below the maximum under federal guidelines >> i worry that people won't believe this is a fair outcome though i do believe it is intervention from political leaders casts a doubt on what happens in federal court. >> reporter: stone's lawyers have asked the judge to order a new trial claiming that one of the jurors was biased against president trump. stone won't have to report to prison until the judge rules on that lester >> all right pete williams starting us off

but stone was arrested early last year for lying to congress about his connection to wikileaks as welle trump campaign. in a veiled rebuke of the president himself judge jackson today said there was nothing unfair, phony or disgraceful about the investigation or the prosecution. and while jackson is still considering stone's motion to retry his case, president trump today said he's watching closely and waiting to make a determination of his own. >> i'd love to see roger exonerated and i'd love to see it happen because i personally think he was treated very unfairly. i'm going to watch the process. i'm going to watch it very closely and at some point i'll make a determination, but roger stone and everybody has to be treated fairly. >> i'm joined now by betsy woodruff swanpath and cynthia action ton who's a federal prosecutor. in the law, is this a reasonable judgment of 40 months? >> yeah, it's reasonable. that's the -- that's the -- one of the bizarre parts about it. if you looked at this case and you knew about roger stone and exactly what the threats were, it wouldn't be surprising t

counts of lying to congress, obstruction, and witness tampering related to his efforts to contact wikileakshelp the trump campaign in 2016. joining us now to explain how we got here and what to expect today, elie honig, he's a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. hi. >> hey. >> so what do you think is going to happen today? >> he's going to get sentenced. it's going to be controversial. it's going to be interesting. so first thing's first. who is exactly roger stone? roger stone has been a fixtuhar. he later worked for ronald reagan. and of course he worked in the 2016 campaign for donald trump. they've known each other since the '80s. what does roger stone do? he's never held elected office or been a government official. he's a back room political guy. here are things that have been said publicly about what he does. quote, a dirty trickster. he engages in trafficking in the black arts and he lives by the mantra admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack. guess who said those things about roger stone? >> roger stone. >> exactly. and you know who hi

>> it is not a state party, so the answer for our interactions is no. >> wikileaks was working with the russian government to influence the election. is that true in any way, shape, manner, or form? >> absolutely false. >> can you tell the american people 1000% you do not get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? >> we can say, we have said repeatedly, over the last two months, that our source is not the russian government, and it is not state parties. >> sean: okay. there are some agencies in this country that disagree with julian assange. that is separate and apart, by the way, from the fact that hillary clinton paid for russian lies to influence the election. how come she's not being arrested? how come she's not having charges brought up on her? this is a lack of equal justice law. the the question remains, okay, julian assange is aggressively targeting for publishing material, where are the charges for hillary clinton, who paid for russian lies and colluded with russia and paid for the russian lies and used it in the 2016 campaign? this is just one part of our dualal sys

troll of evidence that indicated he had lied about the fact that he was trying to find out from wikileaksere going to do with the emails, why does the president think he should be exonerated? >> you know, it's possible he will get exonerated, chris. chris: i'm asking -- >> i don't know roger stone. i think that lying to federal investigators, she should be prosecuted for and that's what the department of justice did. the president's frustration did, you see department of justice that comes up with original sentencing guideline 4 years beyond sentencing guidelines for offenses and when you see people like andy mccabe who also lie today federal investigators refer to investigation, what they get is lucrative contract at cnn, that doesn't seem to be equitable justice, that's what the president's primary frustration is. chris: he's not saying he got sentenced for too long, he got 3 and a half years roughly, here is what the president's attorney general william barr said. >> i think it was established, he was convicted of obstructing congress and witness tampering and i thought that was a righ

convicted specifically for lying about the fact that he in fact is trying to get informatin fromng wikileaksut what thee going to do with thousands of democraticde e-mails, why does e president, it was a treasure tre of evidence indicating he lied that he was trying to find out from wikileaks what they were going to do with e-mails. why does the president think he should be exonerated. >> it is possible he'll get exonerated, i get it. i don't know roger stone, i thik that lying to federal investigators, he should be prosecuted, that the departmentf justice. but i think the presidents frustration coming to the department of justice that comes in with original sentencing, for years beyond what they're suppod to be for sentencing guidelines. and when you see people like and mccabe who also like to federal investigators were referred for investigation get a lucrative contract with cnn. that does not seem to be equitae justice. that's a primary frustration. >> he is not saying he got cents for two months, he did not get e 7 - 9e years, he got three and f roughly. here's what william barr said. >>

the wikileaks information. he is implicated in this. the old law is that you can't be a judge in your own case. here he would pardon them, pressure the justice department, and barr would do what he was told. i think we push back on a legal system and i hope we can push back even more. this is such a constitutional crisis in our country, at the top we have corruption, people doing and serving themselves and not the law and not justice. i would hope that we on see the same thing that happened to mitchell and to meese happen to this guy. he has no business doing this given the speech he gave in nevada wheflt gave that statement that you showed on theary. that was outrageous. he has no on business. >> here we are a week out from all these efforts including the direct targeting of judge jackson, the senior judge in that circuit spoke out against. parts of the system are holding. we will 73 there are more developments. meanwhile, the other new reports that america's spy agencies are telling us. later, we will tell you about what we've learned

lawyers for julian assange claim that president trump was prepared to offer the wikileaks founder a pardon if he agreed to say russia was not involved in leaking democratic emails in the 2016 elections are at the emails which embarrassed hillary -- the white house has called the claims a total lie and federal reserve officials not wanting to raise interest rates at the last meeting. those are the highlights from the most recent fed meeting in january. officials say they were cautiously optimistic in the wake of recent trade deals. >> global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. >> thank you so much for that. is reporting that two passengers from a quarantine ship have died from the coronavirus. let's bring in our china correspondent in beijing and our markets anger -- anchor and hong kong. let's start with you. we know a sharp decline in numbers. tell us more. the province at the epicenter of the virus reporting 349 additional cases, significantly lower than the previous day, almost 1700. a key reason is change in methodology. it has

. >> a decade after wikileaks published military documents a hearing begins. set to face off in a london courtroom tomorrow. u.s. prosecutors say he conspired with army intelligence analyst to hack into a pentagon computer and release secret war files. arguing it's politically motivated. >> returning to our coverage of the coronavirus. it's taking a major toll in italy. a dozen towns are on lock down. a number of people infected in italy is 150. the most of any european country. leaders imposed restrictions on some cities turning them into ghost towns. people are thot allowed to enter or leave. leaders say they are cancelling the famed ve nis carnival. it's >> many cases are clustered in the north. >> coronavirus fears affecting fashion week as well. fashion icon says his upcoming show in milan will go ahead in an empty theater to protect health. no audience or press or buyers. organizers are leaving it up it designers to cancel or change shows. >> the question the board takes thup week in a special hearing. the march happened 2018. the apple engineer kild in

to inquire how materials belonging to the democratic national committee ended up in the hands of wikileaks and whether russia played any role in that. the committee had legitimate grounds, indeed a duty, to inquire whether there was any involvement, encouragement, collaboration on the part of the trump campaign. the legitimacy of the inquiry is an entirely separate question from whether anyone found enough evidence to draw a conclusion at the end of the day. roger stone, the defendant, took it upon himself to lie, to impede, to obstruct before the investigation was complete, and he endeavored to influence the result. how could the committee do its job and reach the correct conclusion under those circumstances? so what did the defense say to the jury on his behalf? they said, so what? so what? of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious. the judge says, quote, the truth still exists. the truth still matters. roger stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundatio

trove of evidence that indicated he had lied about the fact that he was trying to find out from wikileakst they were going to do with the emails. why does the president think you should be exonerated? >> marc: you know it's possible he will get exonerated. >> chris: i'm asking you, what is the president think you should be? >> marc: i don't know roger stone. i think that lying to federal investigators, he should be prosecuted for and that the department of justice did. but i think the president's frustration as you see a department of justice that comes of the original sentencing guidelines for years beyond what it's supposed to be for sentencing guidelines for his offenses. and yet when you see people like andy mccabe, who also lied to federal investigators, referred for investigation, a lucrative contract at cnn. that doesn't seem to be equitable justice. i think that's what the president's primary frustration is buried >> chris: he's not saying he got sentence for too long that she didn't get the 7-9 years, he got three and a half years, roughly. here's what the president's own attorne

lawyers for julian assange told a london court wednesday that president trump offered the wikileaks foundera presidential pardon if he agreed to publicly state that russia was not behind the leak of democratic party emails ahead of the 2016 election. the explosive allegation by came as part of a legal filing by assange's lawyers, who are seeking to block assange's extradition to the united states, where he faces up to 175 years in prison. according to the lawyers, then-congressmember dana rohrbacher visited assange in the ecuadorian embassy in london in 2017, claiming he had instructions from president trump to make a deal for a pardon. rohrbacher has since denied thte allegagation, saying he was on a personal fact finding meanwhile, lawyers for u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning filed a motion in federal court wednesday asking for her release from a prison outside washington, d.c., where she's been jailed since march of last year for refusing to cooperate in a federal grand jury investigation into wikileaks. manning could be held as long as 18 months on contempt of court charges. in m

stone "he misdirected the committee, dealing with wikileaks founder, julian assange."ying some specific things. she is dealing with the obstruction charge in her remarks. she's bringing up some things today that makes you think she may take a total look at that sentencing. that 7-9. he mentioned this too, carley, previous to the break. i haven't seen any indication it would be more than that, but we had indication it could be a lot less than that. i don't know, when you read the notes from the judge in the courtroom, brian, i get a feeling this could be strong. it's been more than two hours, by the way. >> brian: i was reading the crawl while doing the radio show. think to myself, "is that the ruling?" i was going through it as you were reading it. a couple of things, the fact that he said nothing blows me away. >> melissa: why? >> brian: he had a chance to show contrition. "there was a misunderstanding, there is extreme pressure at the time." happened. >> brian: the other thing is, could the judge feel somehow that she has a loyalty those toe four prosecutors that res

lawyers for julian assange have told courts in london that the wikileaks fouer will be denied a fairrial in the united states and it would be a suicide risk if he was exadited. protesters made their feelings felt outside the hearing. porter: but the judge and mr. assang lame that they could not hear proceedings in court because the protesters were so loud. eso court officials w sent out to tell them to be quiet. otherwise we bee the lawyers on both sides about whether he should be extradited. if again with the loggers for the u.s. authoritiesth arguing he could -- all the information about thafghan and iraqi wars including names of informants. he said that had posed a great threat to human life.♪ anchor: we are hearing in the bbc news room. harvey weinstein has been found guilty of sexual ass ilt and rathe trial and faces 25 years in prison. here are some of the mainc stories from rld service. mea pinister. in court today accused of murdering his former wife. the first lady, his current life has already been charged with the crime, too. the mathematician katherine johnson who helped

. >> reporter: also tonight, lawyers for wikileaks founder julian assange are claiming in court that a now former republican congressman in 2017 offered assange a pardon behalf of the president. if assange agreed to say russia was not involved in leaking democratic emails during the 2016 election nbc news has not obtained the lawyer's full statement tonight, that former republican congressman and the white house both disputing assange's lawyer's claims, the white house calling it a complete fabrication and a total lie. and late tonight, president trump is expected to name richard grenell, the ambassador to germany, as his acting director of national intelligence grenell is a long time political operative and a fierce ally of the president who is viewed as divisive, facing heavy criticism for his outspokenness, lester >> all right, peter, thank you. >>> let's turn to what now is probably the most remarkable story of the day nascar driver ryan newman walking out of the hospital in florida just two days after that devastating crash at the end of the daytona 500. nbc's sam brock is there