quote, today the court made clear that there is no absolute first amendment right to access the white house. in response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the reporter s hard pass. we will also further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future. there must be decorum at the white house. we ll keep you posted on any new information we receive. meantime, on capitol hill just about 30 minutes ago an intriguing meeting got underway. the lone democrat to step up and say she may challenge nancy pelosi to be the next house speaker walked into pelosi s office. congresswoman marcia fudge of ohio says she thinks the party leadership needs to change. we ve got a crew watching pelosi s office. we ll keep you posted on that. in the meantime, i want to bring in congressman elect josh harder who just wednesday became the apparent winner in his race for the seat in california s 10th congressional district. california putting a lot more in the d col
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 weren t. mueller has brought hacking charges against the russian individuals in d.c. if the justice department were bringing charges they d be part of that conspiracy already brought in d.c. i suspect this relates to the original chelsea manning leak or maybe the leak of cio information in 2017 that wikileaks published. if the justice department is able to get its hands on julian assange for any case, bob mueller and his team will have a number of of questions for him about his involvement in the stolen e-mails he published during the 2016 election. and we all remember, right,
that they get to use at the white house. prior to president eisenhower, it was just a lobby you could hang out in the lobby and try to look for people. they didn t have offices. they didn t have a press secretary that would necessarily, you know, create a climate where they would have access to information, so there s been an evolving relationship between, quote, the west wing and the white house, the executive branch and the press corps. i do believe in a strong free press. i also believe in a strong article 2 of the constitution. i defended presidents, but i tend to think president trump s administration has reacted a little more aggressively than i would have recommended. there were times when i actually think i can remember times that white house credentials were not susperespe when they were denied, some people were denied access. it was usually based on something that the secret service had to say was a, you
new president described assange, and he s obviously been holed up in the embassy in london. he called them a stone in our shoe that he inherited from his predecessor. sources are telling the wall street journal prosecutors have considered publicly indicting mr. assange to try to trigger his removal from the embassy because a detailed explanation of the evidence could give ek doi doirn authorities are reason to turn him over. the wall street journal reports u.s. officials, justice department officials are feeling increasingly confident he will end up back in the u.s. what do you think the odds are of that? i don t know. there have been two questions about bringing charges against assange that have been at the forefront for the u.s. government. really, going back all the way to 2010, 2011. one is could you bring a case against him for something other than just publishing information? for example, in the original wikileaks case, the chelsea manning case, chelsea manning leaked infor