at home with the role. when i sat down with adam goldberg andset gordon and gave me the script and tonight fleshed out the character. there wasn t a great deal on the page so i started to throw out some suggestions and some ideas and they were very willing to incorporate a lot of my own perm exsentrities. that includes had a computer hacker. no, my contribution has to do more with the the sky mall. sky mall catalog. every time i m on a plane and look through the magazine and find a hidden treasure. there you go. and the personal favorite, the toilet if you want to a big sky mall they ve got us, man, cool stuff. are you re back in television and the third
decision i ever made. reporter: he says manning sought him out because of his reputation as an accomplished computer hacker. in a dozen online conversation, manning complained he was never noticed, regularly ignored, abused and so he became the wikileaks source because serving in iraq, he was actively involved in something he was completely against. but la many, os says he contacted army intelligence when he became convinced manning was in it for the huge attention and his huge unvetted document dump would put lives at risk. i regret, i had no other choice going forward. i wished that bradley manning had talked to me when he was planning it. reporter: back in his hometown, they re wondering if his troubled home life and service in an army that would not allow him to be openly gay had an impact on his decision to leak sensitive documents. some were already judging him, like former marine, roger campbell. i think he should be executed for doing what he did. reporter: even his f
yeah, it s a problem. welcome back to morning joe. we re live in the washington bower row today. the justice department is looking to bringing charges against wikileaks founder julian assange. what about the soldier who leaked all those documents in the first place. reporter: in oklahoma, bradley manning was the undersized sax player in the band and the quiz player on the academic team. he made people feel stupid because the used big words. reporter: now an army intelligence officer charged with downloading classified videos and thousands of classified documents made public by wikileaks. manly was only contacted after he contacted a famous computer hacker named adrian lam mow. it was lamo who turned him in. it was the most difficult
angeles. a chance of rain each of the next five days. it s not going to rain the entire time but it will be a chance of rainfall and that same forecast goes for san francisco. at least temperatures won t be too bad. this is milder pacific air blowing in. cloudy, damp right up to christmas. on the east coast, no problems at all. light rain down through the carolinas, into orlando. some snow showers possible around minneapolis. on the west coast, that s where all your weather issues are as we go throughout the weekend. more fallout now from the latest wikileaks releases. bank of america will no longer process transactions for the website wikileaks. they said it believes it may be, quote, engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal patrol sis for processing payments. wikileaks first began losing financial backers after assange was charge with sex crimes by swede dn. they arrested the computer hacker on december 7. he is now out on bail and in the
censorship. they need to protect themselves and this is what they believe to be a thermal nuclear device effectively in the electronic age. reporter: u.s. leaders continue to condemn the releases. with one republican telling assange a high-tech terrorist. he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. and if that becomes a problem, we need to change the law. reporter: the 39-year-old computer hacker is wanted for questioning by swedish authorities after allegations he raped and sexually molested two women in august. accusations he vehemently denies. even if he s arrested, it could be some time before assange is returned to sweden. i don t anticipate a final result in relation to extradition process within six months. that was nbc s peter alexander reporting. and now here s a look at some other stories making news today. police in new york are looking for a shooting suspect who left a cab driver in critical