Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, april 11, 6 00 in new york. Breaking news. Just moments ago, a huge development. London police tell us they just arrested wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange took refuge inside Ecuadors Embassy in london where he spent seven years to avoid extradition over a Sexual Assault case. The initial assault case has been dropped since. We are told assange is in a Police Station and is expected in court soon. This is obviously a developing story. Well bring you all of the developments. Now to cnns Nick Payton Walsh live in london with what we know thus far. What happened . Reporter extraordinary development. Bringing perhaps to a close or opening a new chapter in the fate of Julian Assange whos become a curious figure holed up inside the embassy in ecuador. He did not walk out, police said, suggesting that the police went into the embassy to remove him.
Emergency as weevil. Well. The precedent the president is setting here should be met with unease and dismay by the republicans. Paul lets bring in Editorial Board member kim straw straws m. You made Campaign Promises about building a wallnd dont wt have much to show for it right now. Just using the own administrations data, illegal crossings are at the lowest level in decades, sinc since the 1970s. Yes, there are problems on the border. We need a better asylum policy, we need no more judges adjudicag claims and so forth. There are places where a wall could be an effective deterrent on the border. Whether this rises to the level of a National Emergency, i dont see the argument there. Paul do you think hell be sued . He will definitely be sued. That was promised before the words left his mouth. Paul so kyle, but the president says look, other president s have declared National Emergencies for even lesser urgent matters. Is that going to matter as this proceeds in the courts . I dont thin
Lawmakers questions. The questions begin with whitakers threemonth oversight of the Mueller Probe which he spent much of the Previous Year attacking on television, radio and online. Well bring you the session live. It begins at 9 30 a. M. Eastern at the bottom of the hour. Until then we have experts and analysts standing by beginning with manu raju on capitol hill. For a guy who has only had this job since November Whitaker and who will be replaced likely this month, there is a lot of drama around this. Reporter no question about it. The firing of Jeff Sessions that occurred after the midterm elections, democrats have a lot of questions about the circumstances of the hiring of matt whitaker, whether the president had discussions with him about whether he would recuse himself of overseeing the mueller investigation, why whitaker decided not to recuse himself, whether the president talked to him about the Michael Cohen guilty plea and the fact that federal prosecutors implicated the pres
Setting here should be met with unease and dismay by the republicans. Paul lets bring in Editorial Board member kim straw straws m. You made Campaign Promises about building a wallnd dont wt have much to show for it right now. Just using the own administrations data, illegal crossings are at the lowest level in decades, sinc since the 1970s. Yes, there are problems on the border. We need a better asylum policy, we need no more judges adjudicag claims and so forth. There are places where a wall could be an effective deterrent on the border. Whether this rises to the level of a National Emergency, i dont see the argument there. Paul do you think hell be sued . He will definitely be sued. That was promised before the words left his mouth. Paul so kyle, but the president says look, other president s have declared National Emergencies for even lesser urgent matters. Is that going to matter as this proceeds in the courts . I dont think it will. One of the if you look at the law, what hes goi
His celebrity sorrow real, or are they just acting . Plus, media blackout appeared yes, the editor of vogue explains politics behind her cover girls and why melania is not welcome there. And trumps dark knight fan video get stricken from social media. Raymond arroyo is here with all of the details. But first, intimidation by imbeciles. Thats the focus of tonights angle. For more than a year now, we have been documenting how the democrats, working in tandem with far left smear squad, have set about to stifle conservative speech. Now these folks think of themselves as rough and tumble, kind of football players, but there ultimately blinded by the bright lights. Campaigns of full outrage have stoked up social media. They whip up their frenzied followers, and then that justifies their trampling of the freespeech rights of others. Everyone is all upset. But theyve never tried their little charade on someone like Candace Owens before. She entered their holy ground, the Judiciary Committee he