documents that he claims to have innocently received not demonstrative in the way of a government trying to impose a chilling effect saying with a speech we don't like, we're clamping down? >> i think the factual leap you're making there is one that we don't know is true, which is how did he get the documents? if he conspired with private manning, that makes the government's case a lot easier. if he simply received these documents over the transom and published them just like "the new york times" did, i think it's a very difficult decision to make. by ta way, they haven't made it yet. he's been charged with nothing. >> shortly after assange published those documents, of course the attorney general of the united states stood up and made a big claim and a big show, rightly so, i suppose, to say we're going to investigate, suggesting something was about to happen. everything we're hearing is that nexus, that connection between assange and private manning, has not yet been established. if, in fact, assange was a mere recipient, he begins to look kind of like knox's parents.