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Proves the story. because if the documents were, in fact, fake, there would be no reason here to sue. the president called this a totally fake news when "the times" started publishing documents about his tax payments and about his tax returns, so this essentially substantiates their reporting, because otherwise, why would you sue and why would you claim damages? i think that's an important thing that we want to note in the reporting of this. as far as this lawsuit was filed in state court, in duchess county, new york. it's something that will obviously take some time to go through the courts t...

The laws are fully force. apparently axios has been publishing documents that show you allied yourself with organizations that had ties to white supremacist groups that was the reason the trump administration sort of had a cold hands approached you for any administration appointment. can you address that? >> yeah, i saw that when it was in the paper. i had to laugh. the souther poverty law center, which trashes all kinds of people including people on this network, if they don't like our situation where our immigration laws are paid the southern poverty law center said kris kobach must be assoc...

It would be a violation of the first amendment and would be overturned. >> yeah, that's basically right. look, the justice department has wanted to find a way to charge julian assange since 2010, since the chelsea manning leaks that first brought him to prominence, the problem the justice department has come up against, it's hard to see how you charge a person for publishing documents. it's not just the act of publishing documents, it's also doing things like soliciting classified information, also something reporters do all the time. it's not because julian assange is a journalist, he's not a...

It was confirmed it was an error, probably a cut and paste error. news organizations took notice. the times is reporting that indeed assange has been criminally charged according to a person familiar with the case, it was done under seal, secretly, as far back as august, assange has been in the government's sights since -- his platform famously published the russian hacked e-mails from the clinton campaign and the dnc in 2016. justice analyst matt miller is the former chief spokesperson. for the department of justice in the obama administration. still with me, frank figluizzi. both of you gent...

Both of you gentlemen were in the government when people were talking about assange. matt, i'll start with you. it was my understanding that the obama administration came to the conclusion, and i will say correct conclusion, that there is no way to prosecute assange for publishing documents because it would be a violation of the first amendment and would be overturned. >> yeah, that's basically right. look, the justice department has wanted to find a way to charge julian assange since 2010, since the chelsea manning leaks that first brought him to prominence, the problem the justice department...