wikileaks has published -- it is not just the cables.published since 2006, since the inception, many, many millions of documents, original documents, including the report about an eight air base burn pits, which was releasing toxic gas into the air base and basically harming u.s. soldiers and iraqis alike. wikileaks has published many examples and studies about the impact of armed conflict on the environment. another aspect which wikileaks has shed light on is how corporations have been spying on activists. with the explosion of the private intelligence industry and the extraordinary resources that the fossil fuel industry has in which it is able to hire these private spy companies, they are able to spy on journalists and activists. we have seen pegasus an example of how this happens. amy: we did -- juan: in february 2016, wikileaks published a trove of documents that exposed serious corruption and environmental degradation, central african republic, from multinational corporations that were involved in the extracting minerals there. cou

make use of the help and coordinate when wikileaks was going to publish what the russians stole fromhis opponent. none of that under donald trump complicity in that misconduct aired and none reflects after the russian misconduct to get ukraine into helping him cheat in the next election. donald trump's role in inciting a resident insect insurrection against his own government. i view it as a distraction that the fox news crowd likes to suggest that we should ignore everything donald trump did because it wasn't used by mueller. >> let's turn to your book in which you write, when you look at a map of the country a few years ago. the middle of the country was a sea of an intra- did read. the coast were blue. have we become a landlocked nation living together in the same landlocked household with differences so irreconcilable that we could never be whole. can you talk about the divide and what you are doing to bridget? >> i've seen as a result of how americans get their information. growing gulf between the two parties. people are reading and seeing different things from their neighbors.

i mean them is belma sh in london in effect, and it's, it's a black site when it comes to the wikileaks old can well, you can say that, you know, he's been kept in solitary confinement as i understand it for quite a long time. solitary confinement is, is considered torture when someone is in it for a long time, even more than a month. the new and rapid tour on torture said with this, this is basically a form of torture. so am, is he being not tortured? the way these people were, is he having water morning, is he being put in a little cage with an insect? he's terrified, are busy being strong up and held up. we'll resume the allegation when it comes to i was invited illness re also most of them are they were allegedly rep to re hydration, which is not a medical term. and you know, it's not re hydration when hummus they were on strike, not eating. so they just shoot how mess up the rectum. i mean, this is rate, this is sodomy. are some implements were used in some cases i believe, but yes, none. none of that has happened to julian of sanchez, but is it torture to be locked up for so long

have reversed course and have now granted permission to julian assange, the imprisoned founder of wikileaks, to marry his partner stella moris. the couple had sued the british government after their initial attempt to marry was blocked. to see our interview with stella moris, the fiancÉe of julian assange, she visited glasgow, scotland, the u.n. climate summit, go to democracynow.org and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. this is climate countdown. we are broadcasting from new york and glasgow. as this year's united nations clate summit enters its final scheduled day, negotiators are scrambling to arrive at a new agreement. this comes as the world's health leaders are calling on governments to match their climate commitments to limit global heating in order to protect people from what they called "unimaginable" health consequences. this week the global climate and health alliance presented a letter to the president of cop26, and the president of next year's cop in egypt, that was signed by 46 million health w

out there, along the lines of the way roger did, in the 2016 election, with all his claims about wikileaksght that. we've never seen an indictment like this. this is something new. >> one of the reasons we're fighting back, we don't take it on the chin. so, i mean, this is when's the last time you spoke to him? >> after the midrm election. i witch him well. i had other things to do. with that said, i think it's important to point out that i was shocked to see something else, ari, steve has this podcast, it's like number five or six on apple itunes. even after being thrown out of breitbart, this is someone who is media savvy. he may have diarrhea of the mouth when he talks, but he's able to get coverage. >> that diarrhea has found many, many pipes to get out across america and be streamed. there are some people who watch the news, they want to hear only certain things. we try to cover everything. you have added some important details and inpsych, including the following -- you can ignore these people and movements and supporters, at one ace peril or all be informed. i'm out of time, but sam

he stole data, intellectual property, from the clinton campaign and then leaked it to wikileaks as at out, #crookedhillary, you don't need to have a ph.d. in political science or russian studies to understand what they're trying to do. so, that part is -- that's overwhelming. we have the mueller report. we have the senate investigations. by the way, we academics have also written hundreds of pages on that fact. the second piece is harder, and you're right to disaggregate that. so, that's that -- that's the cause was that the russians were trying to influence the election. i do not think we have the scientific data to say that that independent factor of the russian intervention caused trump to win. but the fact that they were trying, i think, is overwhelming. >> right. it's like if i'm trying to break into your car, it's still a problem, even if i don't manage to get the ignition started. i want to follow up with this very quickly. where do you think -- what do you think the motivation -- because again, we understand the motivation of republicans and trump supporters. where do you thi

and trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information about wikileaks plannedr direction, stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared his purported knowledge directly with trump and senior campaign officials on multiple occasions. trump and the campaign believes that stone had inside information and expressed sats fax thatstone's information suggested more releases. the so say it, the republican senate, intel committee report on russian threats to american democracy. david frum, with reference to the hoax, they're spreading hor shit. that's all they're doing. >> you put the emphasis on grave. the emphasis needs to be on the word "counterintelligence. wts one of the things that did go wrong, i said it over 100 times on television between 2017 and 2018, -americans were lead to believe that would be a criminal choice. you're not going to be able to formulate the crimes here. it's a loyalty threat, security threat. it's not illegal for an american business to do shady business with characters. it's not illegal for him to hope for a giants