so far, no smoking gun, but a lot of interesting nuggets including what she knew about the deadly benghazi attack in 2012 and when. here to break it down is new york times presidential correspondent and cnn political analyst maggie. what did we learn from the document drop from the state department? not a lot new. a little bit about the time line of events after the benghazi attacks. there were e-mails including her talking about the movie trailer that led to some of the protests. there was one e-mail forward about how benghazi was obama s 3:00 a.m. wake-up call. this was reference to 3:00 a.m. emphasis ad mrs. clinton aired. in terms of new information, anything that changed the dynamic about our understanding of what happened after benghazi or about how she ran the state department there s not a lot.
that could have prevented the tragedy. that s too much to think here on just a document drop, but people are going to think that. when i hear antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs found inside his home, i immediately think that s evidence in a case where you re trying to prove that you re insane. because one of the prongs you ve got to prove is that he s been treated for these kinds of illnesses in the past and he s got the drugs to prove it. sure, ashleigh, but there is a problem here. if you re the defense, you re going to argue that this demonstrates he was suffering from mental disease for which he was getting treatment. that speaks to the issue of mental insanity. if you re the prosecutor, you start off by demonstrating what was in his home. that establishes a plan, in order to plan, you have to be lucid, you have to be logical.
republicans indicate they ll give on is extending unemployment benefits for americans who have been unemployed for some time now. a lot of democrats say that isn t enough. you can certainly count the folks heading over to the white house now to speak to joe biden among those people saying that. then another big question on tax cuts, and this is up on the ticker at cnnpolitics.com. if they are extended, how long are they going to be extended for? and when you listened yesterday to state of the union with candy crowley you got a lot of different answers. senator hatch said he would accept a two-year extension. senator ron wyden of organize said he would accept a one-year extension. so that certainly is not a done deal. then wrap up this ticker hit with a little bit of fun, shall we? this is secretary of state hillary clinton, who is kind of making light of that very serious wikileaks document drop,
you can tell by the fact all the lawyers have been called in there is a discussion how they should be treated. uma: do you think, there is a talk in the media that the administration is reacting too late to what he has been doing. there is a lot of talk in the media about that. reaction to the news conference held by holder, this is the third big document drop. if anything, the one on afghanistan was more serious than the other two. it seemed to be any kind of everyone says we re investigating. but assange is hiding out in britain. there is an interpol order out for his arrest. swedes charged him with rape and also want to have an arrest warrant. they have two arrest warrants out for him. so the first thing is to find this guy. can he be extradited under the various laws uma: that will be the question. that will be the big question
state department released an e-mail if sent to the whistle blower founder outlining the dangers of exposing the sense of information. malini wilkes is live on the document drop. it s set for hours from now as we understand it. that s right. wikileaks is not backing down. just a short time ago, a half an hour ago, the wikileaks website tweeted this message. we are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. that s when an attacker targets a computer flooding it with information. a second tweet moments ago that the new york times, the british paper guardian and several other european papers will publish some of the classified u.s. embassy cables tonight even if the wikileaks website goes down, or remains down. today, wikileaks founder julian assange also reportedly told a journalist convention in jordan that the document release will cover every major issue in every country in the world. the a.f.p. wire service reporting that assange spoke via satellite from undisc