President s had to deal with assigned with wiki weeks and with a fall out from would give weeks disclosures. There were different strategies. First, it was clear that the United States wanted to stop us on sooner rather than later. There was an attempt to have him arrested on Sexual Assault charges in sweden and the son, his fear was that even though the charges were false, he could be arrested and extradited to the United States. He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in london, where he was granted asylum, at least for a period. But the c, i a worked with the ecuadorian government to bug the embassy for audio and video. And they spied on assange and every visitor he ever had. The pace picked up in 2017, when we can weeks publish the volt 7 documents. These were some of the most sensitive spying methods that the c i a had ever developed. Almost immediately, the Trump Administration and the department of justice filed espionage charges against the assange. And then c, i a director,
Im pleasure to illustrate back from the domain today in the studio is always good to talk to you too. Well that wraps up how this msi news. I do check out all to call most of interesting story is the apps and thats all around the world will be back in just on the 30 minutes. Theres always an awesome international news. So we hope youll join us then, or a lead. The most famous wisdom, the lower in the world, is julian massage, the co founder of which he lives. He made a name for himself and for his organization in 2009 with the release of documents sent by chelsea. Manning. Then bradley, many, many of those documents embarrassed the American Government and a video that many included now known as the collateral murder video, showed clear evidence of a war crime. Im john, carry onto. Youre watching the whistle blowers the. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 julian assigned as a hero to many around the world who value transparency and human rights. The free speech absolutist has exposed countless governmenta
let s start with the war in ukraine and nato s secretary general has admitted there is a difference between allies on whether to use cluster weapons in ukraine. it follows reports that washington, is expected to announce a new weapons package for kyiv which will include cluster munitions. ukraine has been asking for them for months to boost its counter offensive against russia but many countries around the world, ban the use of such weapons, because of the danger they pose to civilians. here s whatjens stoltenberg had to sayjust a few hours ago. it is for individual allies to make decisions on what type of weapons. all allies agree on the delivery of weapons and ammunition to ukraine and allies are delivering an unprecedented level of weapons to support ukraine. germany and many other allies are delivering different types of ammunition, weapons to ukraine. but when it comes to cluster ammunition, there is a difference between allies because some allies have signed the c
humanitarian and disaster relief mission. reading up to the job, volunteers put up donation boxes, sorting through donations, and gruesome the u.s. partner companies put together pallets of supplies to help decorate them with messages from the holidays. finally, aircrews look at the palace on to the plains and dropped more than 200 packages and supplies and toys to over 40,000 people, living on 58 different islands. the operation took six days to complete and covered 1.8 million square miles. now, that is what i call spreading christmas cheer. and on that no, i wish you all, a very good night. from all of ourolagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popula
democracy that nobody is above the law. and that applies to presidents too. this is the ultimate test by kevin, how committed you are to that principle. 7 to 2. lisa rubin, thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i m just waiting for the next kate shaw op-ed in the new york times. next kate shaw op-ed in she . she is probably better than beyond. thank you. thanks to you at home joining me this hour. in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000, it wasn t just that electoral college, it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remai