the wikileaks cofounder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade. let s look at the key dates that have brought us here. in 2010, julian assange was part of a flood of classified military files and diplomatic cables spilled by wikileaks that year. months later, an international arrest warrant was issued. sweden wanted to question him about sexual assault allegations made by two women. to avoid extradition, he sought refuge in ecuador s london embassy. he d spend seven years there. but in 2019 in a dramatic moment he was dragged out of the embassy after the ecuadorian government withdrew his political asylum. he was thenjailed for skipping bail. and soon, the americans were asking for his extradition. backed by his supporters, he fought against it in the courts and lost. his extradition was approved in 2022. butjulian assange kept appealing until finally this new plea deal with the us allowed him to fly out of the uk. more on our websi
to give up everyone in your life. for example if cohen committed years of crimes the government didn t know about, and he wanted a cooperation agreement he would of had to tell the government about all. that the point the southern district was trying to make today is he s not that cooperating witness. he didn t do that. he selectively decided what he was going to cooperate about. there he doesn t have that cooperation agreement. dana: were you surprised by the sentence of 36 months or did it make sense? i thought it made sense when you saw the probation department recommended how months. they provide advice to the judge before the sentencing. sometimes the parties know about it, sometimes they don t. here they revealed the reccomendation was 40 months. they didn t take into account his cooperation with special council s office. dana: why is that, is it separate? probation can be difficult for them to weight how helpful