Censors conservative view. Documents weve obtained it raised serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms for publishers with an editorial agenda. Watching or 2 international bring your line news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. First we start with breaking news this hour as wiki leaks cofounder Julian Assange will not face a full u. S. Extradition hearing until february of next year a protest against his possible extradition is currently under way in front of westminster my guest rates court in london stateside songe faces more than 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents we go straight now to our tease saudia edwards dusty for more on this shes outside the courthouse for us. What is happening there right now. Well it really was crunch time for you in the sun just this extradition request was being hurt here at Westminster Magistrates Court though he was given a glimmer of hope he will not face the full extradition
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Of 2016 as the u. S. President ial race was getting underway, an individual was linked to the russian government reached out to the Truck Campaign for mr. Trump. In july of 2016 the russians began dumping the emails in the same fannish fashion. It was at this point informed of the russian outreach to patent jobless and aware that the russians were meddling in our elections through the anonymous release of information that the fbi opened up this investigation. As james comey would explain in his first public testimony in march 2017 and before this committee, the investigation began not as a criminal probe but as a counterintelligence investigation. What does that mean . How does the counterintelligence investigation differ from a criminal investigation . What does it mean that he u. S. Power . May be acting as a how could the russians use the compromise of u. S. Persons to influence u. S. Policy in a manner that jeopardizes our National Security . These are the questions we hope to answ
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