assange so whole they can do is use legal cases about against julian assange and wiki leaks which they have that. in two thousand and ten a legal case was opened against a sand in sweden for sexual assault by. on the testimonies of two women he denied the allegations and asked to be questioned in london a common practice in such cases he said he feared that going to sweden could lead to an extradition to the us the swedes initially refused but eventually interviewed him at the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and sixty six years after the investigation began then the swedes dropped the case without ever laying charges a basic fact that seemed lost on news organizations the week of the treasure for yourself now. do you think sweden will reactivate the rape charges that the two jobs get. despite the swedes closing the case the u.k. says it will arrest a sanch if he steps out of the embassy for breaching his bail conditions it's a standoff the un calls a case of arbitrary detention a denial of a sanjay human rights stefan you're more it see is an investigative journalist who has probed

assange so whole they can do is use legal cases about against julian assange and wiki leaks which they have done. in two thousand. a legal case was opened against a sanch in sweden for sexual assault based on the testimonies of two women he denied the allegations and asked to be questioned in london a common practice in such cases he said he feared that going to sweden could lead to an extradition to the us the swedes initially refused but eventually interviewed him at the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and sixty six years after the investigation began then the swedes dropped the case without ever laying charges a basic fact that seemed lost on news organizations the week of the treasure for yourself it's all going out. do you think sweden will reactivate the rape charges or the two jobs and. despite the swedes closing the case the u.k. says it will arrest a sanch if he steps out of the embassy for breaching his bail conditions it's a standoff the un calls a case of arbitrary detention a denial of a sanjay human rights stefan you're more it see is an investigative journalist who ha

you know this is a perfect storm against julian assange isn't it. you know it is if if truth if truth was was the gold standard by which professional journalism was measured then wiki leaks and julie songe would be heralded heralded right now instead of hounded yeah joyce and could walk right out the door within weeks and he would have had everybody rallying on his side but there's been a major political alignment a realignment as it were and i think this began under the obama administration is has to do with a lot of things including the the division or split of this of the antiwar left or the remnants of it opposed to bush but also the fact that russia that's the reason d'etre of washington right now in terms of geopolitics and so that that split is pronounced but the other thing is. that with the guardian two to knowingly they had a heads up the day before when the when the story was published online you needn't think that they were they still ran with it on the morning print edition the following morning i went to the newsstand and there was thi

julian assange and wikileaks. the leaks of the cables up to the 2016 elections and possible russian interference. as you know, this all came to light due to unrelated, it seems, court filing in august and only unsealed last week. it actually took a professor from george washington university who loves to look through the court filings to reveal what was going on and reporters started picking up on it. there was an additional issue with the assange case. the spokesperson for the eastern district of virginia said they would not comment further. we are seeing reports of charges made against julian assange. we don't know what those may be, but you have to keep in mind that u.s. authorities have been looking at assange since 2010 for the leaks of the confidential leaks of the cables and the things that wikileaks has done since. julian assange has been hiding in the ecuador embassy in london since 2012. he has been claiming asylum. until then, they were supportive of him. in the last few months, we have seen the shift.

so whole they can do is use legal cases about against julian assange and wiki leaks which they have that. in two thousand and ten a legal case was opened against the sand in sweden for sexual assault based on the testimonies of two women he denied the allegations and asked to be questioned in london a common practice in such cases he said he feared the. going to sweden could lead to an extradition to the us the swedes initially refused but eventually interviewed him at the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and sixty six years after the investigation began then the swedes dropped the case without ever laying charges a basic fact that seemed lost on news organizations being a victory for yourself now. do you think sweden will reactivate the rape charges that the two jobs get. despite the swedes closing the case the u.k. says it will arrest a sanch if he steps out of the embassy for breaching his bail conditions it's a standoff the un calls a case of arbitrary detention a denial of a sanjay human rights stefan you're more it see is an investigative journalist who has probed how the es

i'm joined by julian assange's lawyer. you and i have spoken and you have always maintained that the u.s. was targeting julian assange for prosecution. you must feel vindicated. >> well, it's a very unsatisfying we told you so. this has always been our concern about the united states. this disclosure that's happened over the past couple of days has come out of the eastern district of virginia. that's a criminal investigation which started way back in 2010 in relation to the publication of u.s. diplomatic cables, the u.s. and afghan war logs. the materials showed evidence of war crimes, corruption and human rights abuse and details that the "new york times" and other media organizations published. this is confirmation of what we've been concerned about for many years, which is the risk that the united states would seek to prosecute julian assange for having accomplished truthful information. it's the reason he was granted asylum and we have confirmation it was correct to have son done. >> when was the last time you saw juli

where backcross talking in moments today peter and guess tackle the latest updates on the julian assange. international. seemed wrong but. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because that's ahead and in detroit because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer an it be on the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying just moon doesn't mean that we want even many of the terms families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the fate of juli

amy: that was julian assange and allan nairn. can you talk about what julian and what youere know of the mueller investigation, investigating links between president trump associates and russia's 2016, whether they were interfering with u.s. elections and what wikileaks had to do with that? as julian assangege said, wikileaks has made very clear they did not receive the information from a state source. -- they're careful about their sourcing and protecting the resources, which is why the organization continues to receive such sensitive, public interest in formation. there have been no information further from, at least that we received, but any indication of potential charges. i think it raises questions about sourcing and the protection of publication -- publisher's ability to be able to publish. in our view, there's no connection between wikileaks and any kind of conspiracy. there's no evidence even in the dnc suit that has been publicly there isinst wikileaks any indication of any prior arrangement or conspiracy that wikileaks

julian assange denies it. but if it's true, would that be clear-cut evidence of collusion linking the russians, wikileaks, trump associates, and the trump campaign? >> half a step. the one final piece you need is if he traveled -- if manafort traveled to london to meet aassange, i want to see assange giving him something in exchange. that doesn't have to be a piece of paper. it could be, we will release information on wikileaks in states that are important to you and we'll let you know in advance. i'll tell you, the one thing that's interesting here, manafort is obviously denying this, if they've got -- that is, the mueller people have things like his travel records, airport records, visa records, e-mail, if he's lying again for about the 18th time, "a," he's in trouble, and "b," if this is confirmed, we are half a step away from saying the campaign colluded. >> and that's the key. finding out if small business who is an american citizen traveled to a place like london is not that hard. i mean, you need a pass

the name assange, we all know that name, julian assange, they're saying it has no apparent connection to a routine motion filed months ago in an unrelated case. it certainly suggests the wikileaks founder may soon be in a major legal fight of his own. >> let's go to laura jarrett. laura, it looks like the lawyer here used a template, right? for another case, and that

i talk to wikileaks founder julian assange. >> looks a little different now. on that same show, both manafort and assange talked all about the russian hacks. >> does it not also matter if a foreign government wants to take part in our election, do you condemn that? >> of course we condemn that. that's not the issue at all. mr. trump was making the point that isn't it ironic 33,000 e-mails that our fbi can't have are sitting probably in the vaults of foreign countries. >> if a foreign government is involved, isn't that crucial information to civilians? >> i think that is an interesting question. we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. that would be irresponsible. >> you can't speculate, you know the answer. >> he did know the answer. i'm joined by nick ackerman, former watergate special prosecutor. how does this bombshell impact the collusion part of the probe? >> i think this is what the probe's all about, conspiracy. not collusion. conspiracy is the crime. and this is more evidence of that conspiracy. in fact, i think the big takeaway from paul

let's watch. >> have you ever had contact with julian assange? >> no, i never met julian assange. i never spoken with him. i never e-mailed him. i've had no contact with julian assange. >> laura: why would he lie about that? there would be some type of record of some type of meeting. seems like assange and wikileaks laying out lot of money saying these meeting they claim occurred didn't occur. >> special counsel will pass on a lie they say if he now changes his story. they will not oppose probation for him. i've been through it so many times where the prosecutor if you say certain things it's the key to the jailhouse. i remember as a young lawyer in watergate when archibald cox said, we're not here to get the president. we're here to do a thorough investigation. that's what i would hope the american people deserve for the mueller investigation. >> laura: how many people believe that andrew weizmann who a staunch hillary clinton supporter and others who are in this special counsel's office mark penn, they are -- there's getting the information. that's all they want is the informati

the fate of julian assange is unclear washington is determined that he be sent to the u.s. to face criminal charges most likely under the one nine hundred seventy s. . the british government is more than happy to make this happen even the ecuadorians are in the army after we are watching unfold in front of our eyes is the criminalization of journalists. and u.s. officials have confirmed that a deadly bombing raid earlier this week in afghanistan's helmand province was carried out by american warplanes local officials say thirty civilians were killed along with sixteen taliban fighters this young boy was in the area and survived the bombing the air strikes were called in by afghan government forces and u.s. advisors after they came under fire from the taliban in a compound the afghan government says local forces were not aware of any civilians in the area or relatives who have been describing what happened. but a number of different kind of around nine pm the first helicopters circling overhead and then a jet from the house but there were thirty people in the family all of t

aka, wikileaks, julian assange. the body of the message red get to julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy and get the pending wikileaks e-mails. they deal with foundation, allegedly. so you heard assange, remember the d.n.c. leak before the convention, may have had more information. in this case on the clinton foundation. and they want to know what he has. roger clearly didn't know exactly what the e-mails contained in any way. in no way did he urge anyone to steal or hack the clinton campaign or john podesta e-mails. no evidence of that. jerome corsi flatly denies ever having contact with julian assange. in fact, he voluntarily handed over his computer and cell phone and access to e-mail and social media account. that is how they gained access to the e-mail we showed you. now they are trying to get him to testalie, say what we want and we'll go easy on you. if not, he is 72 and he may spend the rest of his life in jail. it's asking about years' old e-mail chain he obviously didn't remember. this is now my advice

julian assange is denying it. what might that signal to the special counsel? >> would signal to the special counsel all those protestations to the contrary are false, which is important. why are you lying about something if there was nothing wrong with it? i noted paul manafort said publicly or to his counsel about the "guardian" article is libellous. if it was an innocent meeting, if he's lying about it now. >> that would show the mueller team maybe there was something not good afought. obviously, given what transpired after spring of 2016, with the wikileaks dumps and the scheduled harm on a regular basis in october, timed significantly in ways to the clinton campaign to the extent that paul manafort was about to become a very, very lie level campaign person. in fact the chairman of the trump campaign, that gets you close to this thing people are not talking about. it's not the legal term a more informal term collusion it's the very sort of essence of it. >> both manufactured and roger stone spoke to president trump throughout the company. how plausible do y

is claiming that paul the man of court and julian assange and work together during the twenty sixteen campaign they allege that there were secret meetings between paul man of war crimes lawyer and julian assad oh man of forty three secret meetings with wiki leaks founder julian assange including one in twenty sixteen around the time he became a truck campaign chairman he met three times with wiki leaks founder julian a son living in ecuador's london embassy man afford met with wiki leaks founder julian assange on john several occasions there was some sort of a cordon nation or collusion this would seem like there's more evidence pointing to that if it's true of course the implications are explosive right they only relied on an unnamed source allegedly from ecuador and they gave no explanation as to why the london metropolitan police who spent millions of dollars to monitor the ecuadorian embassy around the clock didn't detect such a meeting. why is there no evidence why is there no evidence in the visitors logs that are supposedly complete and thorough and manifolds they are there are

s guardian newspaper to court saying it lied over an alleged meeting between julian assange on and from campaign chief paul manapul. as american car maker general motors announces the closure of several factories president trump faces a backlash over what people see as his broken promise to protect american workers. ukrainian sailors are set to appear in a russian court after admitting they intentionally ignored orders to stop their ships follow sunday's clash between russian and ukrainian vessels in the code straight near crimea. there is wednesday the twenty eighth of november eight am here in moscow i'm calling welcome to the news from r.t. international first of all this morning julian assange is in the headlines once again with wiki leaks saying it's ready to sue britain's guardian newspaper is accused of fabricating a story of a song secretly meeting donald trump's former election campaign chairman paul manner for wiki leaks and already a lot of fun to support the legal action with the songs instructing lawyers on the case the notion of those secret talks is rapidly spread over th

julian assange's lawyers from meeting with him. so there is some speculation that maybe they are preparing to turn julian assange over to u.s. authorities. and this bombshell from "the guardian," if it's true and we have no reason to doubt it but it also hasn't been backed up by anyone else yet today, is a good sign of why paul manafort may be in some jeopardy with julian assange. >> right. just staying with you briefly, if they're saying wikileaks you saw the tweet flat out denying the two ever met. they're saying there weren't visitor logs but wouldn't it be easy to prove in manafort was there, flight records, security, surveillance cameras, et cetera? >> london is the most watched city in the western world. if paul manafort was there, there's also certainly cctv camera footage of that happening. of course we know paul manafort's travel records coming in and out of london as well. >> dana, to you and your reporting with trump's attorney rudy giuliani that the plea deal has been breached with manafort, he's been lying to federal i

i've never met julian assange, i've never spoken with him, i've had no contact with julian assange whatsoever. >> laura: why would he lie about that? there would be some type of record of some type of meeting. seems like assange and wikileaks is laying out a lot of money saying the meetings they say occurred didn't occur. million-dollar bet on that. >> the special counsel will task on a lie if he changes his story. they will not impose probation for him. i've been through it so many times. the prosecutor you say certain things, it is the key to the jailhouse. i remember as the young lawyer in watergate when they said to a few of us, we are not here to get the president. we're here to do a thorough investigation. that's what i would hope the american people deserve from the mueller investigation. >> laura: how many people believe that andrew wiseman who is a staunch hillary clinton supporter and others in the special counsel office, they are getting the information. that's all they want is the information. they are going to put it out there. it seems highly unlikely. that's why people like dir

even julian assange just supporters can see that wiki leaks this practices can be contentious such as exposing material without redactions after the failed coup in turkey in two thousand and sixteen it published what it called the emails three hundred thousand of them they revealed the personal details of millions of turks putting their privacy and much more at risk similar complaints have come from afghanistan saudi arabia and other countries and the sanchez decision to publish material during the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election campaign e-mails from inside the clinton team hacked by persons unknown but that u.s. intelligence agencies say came via russia have damaged wiki leaks is journalistic stand and infuriated anti trump forces in america it's true that julian assange has used to be a lot more popular before somebody undermined american democracy with the help of the russians and gave us this president who is destroying democracy in the united states and threatening me and our world i don't see a songe as a victim anymore i see it as someone who helped to victimize america

government get their hands on julian assange. there does seem to have been some softening with the relationship with ecuador. the government's position seems to have softened somewhat and that does appear to give the u.s. government a little more confidence that could they bring charges, and it appears they can actually get their hands on assange. >> yeah, this is not about -- this was done as we've said repeatedly by the eastern district. this was not filed by, right, matt, anybody related to the mueller investigation, but he does have his own probe of wikileaks, and five individuals getting a close look, trump's long-time adviser roger stone, jerome kor see, the former trump campaign staff sam nunberg, and deceased gop activist peter smith, all but smith we understand have gone before the grand jury. i'm wondering where do you see this affecting potentially the mueller investigation? >> so i will say there's no reason to believe that these charges relate to the russia investigation and there's some good reason to believe they w

hopes a clearer picture would emerge as to where the former wiki leaks from julian assange will face challenges in the state's been put on hold after hearing brought by a journalist have official information unsealed was adjourned and has the story for judge has asked both sides to come back in one week with supplemental information and a response so no conclusion at the courthouse in alexandria virginia now essentially what is taking place is that the reporters committee has filed to make it public any charges facing julian a son of the co-founder of wiki leaks now essentially we've had a grand jury in alexandria virginia that has been hearing testimony related to julian massage and at this point there are no public charges that been filed however they document has been made public a case file from the prosecution and that led many to believe that there were going to be criminal charges pending against julian aside now at this point there is no public record of that in the court will neither confirm nor deny any charges prosecutors say that any charges against assad can't be made pu

in moscow your news this morning julian assange in the headlines once again with wiki leaks saying it's ready to sue britain's guardian newspaper it's accused of fabricating a story of a secretly meeting donald trump's former election campaign chairman paul manifold wiki leaks has already launched a fund to support the legal action with a santa instructing lawyers on the case the notion of those secret talks is rapidly spread across the media and comes as a force also accused of lying to the f.b.i. in a russian collusion probe on the former campaign manager was jailed earlier this year after being found guilty of charges including bank and tax fraud manifold agreed to take part in the middle probe of a russian meddling into the twenty sixteen u.s. election he denies cooperating with russia as well as meeting a son. this story is totally false and deliberately libelous i have never met julian a songe or anyone connected to him i have never been contacted by anyone connected to wiki leaks either directly or indirectly i have never reached out to a songe or wiki leaks on any matter we are

have you ever had contact with julian assange? >> no, i've never met julian assange, never spoken c with him, never emailed him.an i've had no contact with julian assange whatsoever. >> tucker: have you ever had contact with russian intelligence or subverted -- knowingly subverted -- the interest of your own country? >> absolutely not. i've been a loyal american, iit had no contacts with russian intelligence, i have no business interest in russia, i have nothing to do with russia. i've neveruc been to russia. >> tucker: so tell me if i summarized what happened to you accurately. the special counsel's office gets a hold of your personal computer and your phone. they've got all the records, all the data, and they start asking you about things they already know, and they ask you, have you ever try to broker a meeting with assange? you don't remember forwarding this email, they come back and say, bingo, you just committed a felony. is that what happened? >> it's even worse. first of all, i offered -- i gave my computer to the special

you don't forget the fact you're asked to make a contact with julian assange. i mean, how many times do people in america suddenly decide, oh, i'm going to speak to julian assange? it's not something you forget when you're called to a senate committee and you wind up destroying the very evidence that shows that you were right in the middle of this whole thing. >> matt miller? >> yeah, look, i think nick hit on the absolute key point and that's the thing for me. you can sometimes go in and say, look, you know what? you asked me this question and i forgot that i got this e-mail, i forgot about it. the fact that he tried to conceal this by deleting his e-mails is the thing that makes him look so guilty. it's hard to come in and convince a prosecutor, convince a jury, convince anyone listening in the interview that i just forgot about that when before the investigation started -- right when the investigation started you went and tried to destroy all of the evidence of this conversation that you now say you forgot you had. it just looks suspicious. i have to say, i

corsi about julian assange. so again, to the president's temperament or mood or whatever we were talking about before, i mean, the circle is closing here. i think it has to worry the president because he did communicate with roger stone. unless roger stone is lying about it which is a possibility. >> that is the counterargument that roger stone has a lot of bluster and issues that he may not have direct knowledge. >> and not a lot of credibility. but that just adds to the list. now paul manafort has no more credibility as a witness at all because -- >> there is an entire cast of characters here who are not credible. these are not truth telling people. they have repeatedly lied to investigators. nearly everybody charged in the special counsel's investigation has included some kind of charge of lying to federal investigators or prosecutors. paul manafort experienced back before his virginia trial he had been pulled back from his supervised release because he was accused of witness tampering and making false statem

a son living in ecuador's london embassy hall man afford met with wiki leaks founder julian assange on jun several occasions there was some sort of a coronation or collusion this would seem like there's more evidence pointing to that if it's true of course the implications are explicit right they only relied on an unnamed source allegedly from ecuador and they gave no explanation as to why the london metropolitan police who spent millions of dollars to monitor the ecuadorian embassy around the clock didn't detect such a meeting why is there no evidence why is there no evidence in the visitors logs that are supposedly complete and thorough and manifolds not there there are video cameras everywhere and police everywhere and there's no record we can withhold judgment and remain skeptical but a possible explanation for the lack of evidence is that there isn't any evidence our channel has actually reached out to the london police to see if they can confirm that such a meeting ever took place now we've not yet received any response wiki leaks is saying they will pay big money to anyone wi

it's not because julian assange is a journalist, he's not and never has been. the first amendment protections of the constitution don't only say they apply to journalists. you have to think, both, about the precedent you're trying to set and the bad law that you don't want to make and also the fact that, you know, bringing charges that don't survive a court challenge doesn't do anything for the justice department. a couple possibilities here. one, the government has found a way to charge him for something publishing plus, maybe conspiring to violate hacking laws or acting as a foreign intelligence agent if these charges relate to the russian hacking or it's possible the trump administration just isn't worried about the precedent of charging someone for publishing only and not worried about the court challenge and potentially losing the case. these are all possibilities we're looking at right now. >> what do you think, frank? >> well, this is spot on discussion. boy, there was great debate over whether wikileaks was a journalistic entity or a foreign adversary.

they are reporting that former trump campaign manager paul manafort went to see julian assange where he lived in ecuador three times in 2013, 2015 and march of 2016, and the same month that manafort joined the trump campaign assange had been granted asylum there 14 years ago. this comes after one day that mueller canceled his plea deal alleging that he repeatedly lied to the fbi about a variety of subject, and manafort's attorneys saying that he did not lie, but they did agree that the deal is over. all of this over the rish sha probe, and how much losing this could hurt the mueller team or if there is other evidence if he caught nim a series of lies, and the biggest question of all. does he have some secret assurance from the white house that he can avoid a tough sentence because of a tough pardon? joining me to sort this out is pete williams. and former dep the ti assistant general, and also reporter kristen welker and msnbc reporter danny cevallos. and now, first of all attorney mue mueller and paul manafort agree nag the deal is off, and they will proceed with the sentencing. >>

in fact, suggesting there is a criminal complaint against julian assange. now, the spokesperson in the eastern district of virginia said that this court filing was made in error, it has nothing to do with assange. it was inadvertent, but raising questions about what he's facing. whether it has to do with the d, there c hack of e-mails as we remember during the 2016 campaign, or whether it has to do with other documents that wikileaks has posted over the years. various treasure troves of classified government information. we don't know exactly what charges he's facing but his attorney is saying this is a haphazard, really a serious error and any prosecution of him for disseminating public information that's truthful is dangerous, kate. >> laura, thank you so much. i mean, really a head scratcher here. joining me is cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez, chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin with me, and chris cillizza. jeffrey, it really is -- >> be careful with cut and paste. that's the message here. >> there's one lesson today. it's funny, and so seriou

how does that prosecutor accidentally put julian assange's name on a document? how did it get revealed? >> it is puzzling. i have talked to people saying they have never seen anything like this and you have to feel for the prosecutor, assistant u.s. attorney in virginia he was preparing a motion to seal criminal charges in an unrelated case. and of course, the case law is the same for, you know, whether it's julian assange or anyone else and cut and pasted from a secret julian assange motion to seal criminal charges and put it in this other file, forgot to change the name and then filed it publicly in the courthouse and then alert researcher saw it, posted it on twitter last night and the rest is history. the reason we're caveating, we are not confirming that charges are pending against assange because it's possible it's a draft document that the prosecutor cut and pasted from. what it shows is that the eastern district of virginia investigating wikileaks and assange for years is down the track of deciding that there are potential criminal charges and wanted to

the latest developments center on paul manafort and julian assange. when we left you last night manafort had just been accused in a court filing of repeatedly lying to investigators there by breaching his plea deal with the special counsel. today this, britain's guardian newspaper reporting manafort met secretly with assange several times in london. according to the guardian one such meeting took place around march 2017 weeks before wiki leaks released democratic e-mails. the guardian says it is unclear why manafort saw assange and what was discussed and should point out that both strongly deny the meeting ever took place at all. manafort says he doesn't know assange. separately cnn has learned team mueller has been looking into a meet manafort had last year with equ equidor's president. clearly any possible connections between the trump campaign and wiki leaks appear to be a focus for the special counsel. we already know what the president thought about wiki leaks during the campaign. >> this just came out. wiki leaks, this stuff is unbelievable. ano

this was a different case, nothing to do with julian assange. they were using a template, it seems, for something that they were filing, and that was to keep sealed, essentially what they probably did in the julian assange case. and what they wrote in this court document is that the complaint supporting affidavit and arrest warrant as well as the motion and the proposed order would need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges and the criminal complaint, and can there were fore no longer e and avoid arrest in this matter. this has to do with the eastern district of virginia that doesn't appear to be any connection to the robert mueller investigation. but we know from what robert mueller has been asking of people associated to roger stone, that wikileaks -- that julian assange is in the crosshairs of this investigation. and though while he may not be facing charges related to the russia investigation or other things out of the eastern district of virginia, he could still be facing charges out of the district here

i never met julian assange or anyone connected to him. as another character in the saga says that he refused a deal, saying that he simply would not lie about something he did not do and that he would rather "rotten jail." our panel here on all of that in just a moment, but first, trace gallagher it says rolling tonight. hi, trace. >> hi, martha. if you look at that major players robert mueller is focusing on, the common denominator appears to be julian assange with the question is who knew assange and who was in cahoots with assange. let's begin with former campaign trauma paul manafort, who "the guardian" newspaper said bent with julian assange in 2013, 2015, and most importantly in 202060 in just months before wikileaks released the hacked emails of hillary clinton's campaign chair john podesta. manafort's at icm are met with assange. now robert mueller's investigation is claiming manafort violated his plea deal by lying to them repeatedly related not say about what. manafort denies lying but could soon be sentenced to decades in priso

prosecutors are asking after the guardian cited sources saying paul manafort met julian assange three times at the ecuadorian embassy in london. the third meeting was apparently severalarch 2016, months before wikileaks began releasing a stash of emails stolen by russian military intelligence. assange's group denied the stories. it will give bob mueller something else to look into as part of its investigation as to whether russia tampered with the u.s. election. manafort had broken his plea deal by repeatedly lying. he was convicted of a number of crimes ranging from money-laundering to unregistered lobbying. may leaverevocation him facing a decade of prison time. he could be holding out for a pardon from the u.s. president, who has clung to the same message for at least a year now. >> there was no collusion. >> no collusion. he cranked up the vitriol against mueller to its highest level yet. >> the phony witchhunt continues. mueller and his gang of angry dems are only looking to one's died. -- one side. mueller has said nothing about his ongoing investigation which is already netted

. >>> leak suggesting the feds may try to indict julian assange. that case has all kinds of implications. >>> we begin with bob mueller rattling trump who made some actual news when he spoke to reporters today revealing for the first time that after months of negotiations which you've heard of by now, donald trump is taking mueller's questions on collusion saying he's now written up his answers to mueller and stressing he did it all by himself. >> my lawyers aren't working on that. i'm working on that. i write the answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i've answered them very easily. very easily. i'm sure they are tricked up because that i can ley like to people. >> a president claiming he's not relying on his lawyers for answering a question in a legal case. way too experienced in courtrooms and deposition rooms to mike thake that mistake so t claim does sound false. trump committing his collusion defense to writing is an important development. tonight we know that was the backdrop for trump's

prosecutor's efforts to diet wikileaks founder julian assange. they posted thousands of e-mails stolen by democrats by russian agents in the 2016 election. assange spent the last six years in asylum in the embassy in london. >>> julian assange has been holed up in this embassy behind me since 2007. they seemed to have inadverte inadvertently mentioned his name twice in an unrelated case. they have been investigating him since 2010. wiki leak was was recently ensnared from publishing the hacked hillary clinton e-mails in the election. they needed to keep the charges against asasange confidential. a spokesperson say that the filings were made but mistake but they would not comment further on any possible charges. his attorneys in the united states and the united kingdom called it troubling and a dangerous path for democracy to take. we didn't see assange at the embassy today, but it appears his welcome may be wearing thin. hi was recently called a stone in our shoe and he fears he may be forced out soon. in fact he lost a court case last month and

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and manafort calls the story totally false and deliberately libelous -- "i have never met julian assange or anyone connected to him." robert mueller said russian government officials used wikileaks to spread e-mails stolen from the clinton campaign. manafort is in more legal trouble tonight, accused by muller of failing to cooperate as promised when he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his ukraine lobbying. prosecutors said he's been lying to the fbi on a variety of subject matters. manafort may be hoping for a presidential pardon, but that won't help if state prosecutors go after him. >> he has admitted to bank fraud, loan fraud, money laundering, and tax fraud, and those admissions can be used in a state prosecution for similar crimes. >> reporter: another potential plea deal with mueller's team appears to have fallen apart involving jerome corsi. investigators want to know if he helped tip off the trump campaign that wikileaks was going to reveal the stolen democratic e-mails. corsi says he told the truth when he denied doing it. >> i'm being forced by the justice department to