it is believed wikileaks helped chelsea mann leak and edward snowden leak classified documents about u.s. surveillance techniques. the case against assange may be an uphill battle. i think the government is going to have to prove that assag he somehow aiding and abedding manning in acquiring information or aided and abedded someone else that acquired information that wikileaks published. they can t base the process just on publication of the information. during chelsea manning s trial the government did present chat logs documenting alleged conversations between assange and manning in which they discussed how to crack a pass word to an army data base. assange telling manning he had the tools for doing that. some believe that could serve as basis for conspiracy charge against assange. today assange s attorney told me
back. from confinement in london, julian assange lashes out at the cia. cia has been deeply humiliated as a result of the ongoing publications. wikileaks founder in an interview with former u.s. presidential candidate ron paul is responding to a recent barrage from cia director mike pompeo. assge is a narcissus who uses others to make him famous. wikileaks is referring to vault 7. thousands of files among the cia s massive hacking situation. time to call out wikileaks for what it is. nonstate hostile intelligence service. u.s. officials say russian intelligence used wikileaks to publish stolen damaging e-mails from hillary clinton s campaign. assage denied it to fox news. our source is not the russian government. tonight the trump
difficult it is. is he saying he wasn t prepared for the job? that s sure what it sounds like to me. though most presidents aren t prepared for the job because it s such a unique job. no one would think it was easy except maybe donald trump because he s very self-assured. i think anyone could say that about donald trump and, you know, it s possible he didn t contemplate the scope. you think of the presidency maybe in broad brush strokes. you don t think that in addition to issues like north korea you re going to have to be dealing with lumber trade issues with canada. so for somebody who wasn t necessarily in politics, who wasn t in government, just looking from an outsider s perspective, you could see how it could be a bigger, broader job than you expected. you re retired now. you were the pentagon, states department spokesman. what the president is saying the the reaction from china, from south korea, from japan, there s
it would be and admits his he misses his old life. and julian assange lashes out at the agency saying he s been deeply humiliated at his organization s leaks. now the government plan foss go after assange over document thefts praised by president trump. why is the attorney general defending the president s words? i m wolf bliltser. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news. president trump shifting plane to the obama administration for the failure to properly vet ousted national security adviser michael flynn in a new