is in asylum not because the u.s. is trying to extradite him, but because the government of sweden is. and so, you know, what might actually affect assange's situation is that donald trump has become an admirer of wikileaks. because so much of the information they released was about the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee and he is about to become president. >> that may help his case. >> it's interesting. i saw you tweet about this. many on the right are embracing wikileaks and touting them and yet their one of their biggest sources ever was chelsea manning, who they are critical of. it seemed sort of an odd way to look at things. >> yeah. everything is sort of turn around. i have been writing ability and defending wikileaks for many years, going back to 2009 and '10. back then almost no republicans were support wack i was doing. a lot of democrats were leaking information about the wars that george bush had started.