35 days, that s how long the longest government shutdown in u.s. history lasted before the president, who said he would be proud to shut the government down, finally gave in and allowed it to end. supposedly temporarily but those 35 days have come at a huge cost for the hundreds of thousands of federal workers impacted, not to mention the millions of federal contractors who will never be made whole for 35 days, government workers like the ones you just heard, didn t know when they would get their next paycheck putting their homes and their credit in jeopardy 35 days were hard-working americans with good, honorable jobs, were forced to line up at food banks just to put food on the table. 35 days in which important government functions like food safety inspections were at risk. the government shutdown even temporarily shut down operations at a major new york airport on friday and caused long lines and
with julian assange. as i ve said, roger told me that they were going to release information about the clinton foundation my initial initially, i said to him, well, does he have any new information about benghazi and i would point to the fact that assange didn t release anything related to either one, so at that so, did i believe him initially when he told me? i didn t have any reason not to believe him, but when it didn t pan out and roger started making these public statements, i thought that this was just another, you know, dangerous but publicity-type sinking stunt by roger to stay relevant within the campaign and within the public sphere of the campaign. all right jill winebanks. sam, i would like to ask you because i think people would like to know, the evidence now gathered and presented in this indictment is so strong against roger. right. and he s still saying i m not going to plead guilty, i am going to stand firm. when is someone going to get to
assange delivered a speech billed as an october surprise. enormous expectation in the united states. but assange didn t unveil any new information, angering some of trump s supporters who were hoping for a bombshell on hillary clinton. in a reply to bannon, stone explained the delay. serious security concern, however, a load every week going forward. stone said his e-mail was based on public information. during his media event, assange promised more wikileaks material was coming. stone s move to publish the e-mails preempted a new york times story thursday about stone s efforts to pitch himself to trump campaign officials as a wikileaks insider. at least one campaign official told investigators stone told campaign officials he had ties to assange, according to a person familiar with the investigation. while stone made a show publicly and privately of bragging about his ties to assange in the 2016 campaign, he s since revised his story. stone says he actually relied on
individual or individuals who provided the e-mails were not connected to the russian government. here s a section of the news conference. wikileaks sources in relation to john podesta e-mails and the dnc leak are not members of any government. they re not state parties. they do not come from the russian government. what was surprising about the news conference today, assange didn t give more detail on who these individuals or who provided the e-mails because the intelligence report, as you noted from last week, is very definitive that the information was provided by the russian intelligence services working for vladimir putin and it was given to wikileaks because they have a reputation of being authoritative and carrying authentic documents.
everybody will have to get used to it. which will make secrecy more important. nick, do you not think the government should have any secrets? one of the things that is interesting about this, if the government knew what it was doing, none of this would be out there. assange didn t have to hack kneeing. there are hundreds if not thousands or millions of people with security clearances and they are not doing a good job at keeping these things secret. how about unhappy weird owe bran lehmaning. everybody in their mother, bill s uncle from sal tallahassee. the fact this bradley manning guy brought in a lady-gagacd,y rated it and put on the documents and walked out, that was not exactly cloak and dagger there. by the way if bradley