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Julian assange after president trump said i love wikileaks. look at the exciting information from wikileaks. it was about hillary clinton during the campaign. so what do you think about wikileaks and do you think they will be able to make the case that the first amendment doesn't apply here for julian assange's protection? >> this will be portrayed as a political decision. the critical question we were talking about 30 seconds ago is if the case changed. instead of revealing information, downtoid the justi department and others believe assange was moving edward snowden. alisyn, i think the hor...

Can be brought against assange. take a listen to cia director mike pompeo last week. >> wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. julian assange has pre-tretende first american justice hand freed them. >> reporter: assange is untouchable as long as he remain at the embassy. extradition is unlikely to happen. >> thank you, shimon. let's bring back our panel. we have a.b. stoddard and david gregory and joining us is phil mudd. so interesting, phil, to hear from cia director mike pompeo there. saying how pernicious that

When assange first gained attention revealing u.s. secrets stolen by the former intelligence documents from chelsy manning. and the obama administration determined it would be difficult to bring charges against assange because wikileaks wasn't alone in publishing documents stolen by manning. several newspapers, including the new york times, did as well. chris, this is significant. the u.s. view of wikileaks and assange changed after they found wikileaks played an active role in helping edward snowden, the former nsa analyst who fled to russia. it appears the current administration has taken a ...

Believe in government. i'll dump data on a web site and do it anonymously and reveal tens of thousands of documents. i think this is the wave of the future future. if i were the cia director, i would be critical, but saying how do we take advantage of this over the long term? this won't change. >> david gregory, pompeo and the government has something here. nefarious and a breach of people's privacy, that is something else. >> the hypocricy. people were all too happy to benefit wikileaks as long as it hurt their opponent. that is irresponsible. now they one the government and see how perniciou...

Case is changed and the statements that assange has made or evidence that has come to light of a conspiracy. i think what is interesting is you look at the cases not as wikileaks as an organization not like the new york times, but somehow working with those who are breaking the law to gets information and then publishing thats information. were they working with a state actor like russia to hack information and publish it. i think it would be evidence of conspiracy which would go beyond where the justice department under obama to file charges against assange and wikileaks is the same as going ...