The red line was several years later when Wikileaks published information about surveillance by the CIA

Stella Assange speaks to Tucker Carlson after conclusion of two day extradition hearing for her husband, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange

Lawyers in court detailed evidence of a "truly breathtaking" CIA plan to murder Assange #FreeAssange pic.twitter.com/1TdtjvK4py

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Assange has not been charged with a crime, yet he's being held in the Belmarsh Prison in London.  To Assange, why do you think you're being held in prison without ever being charged of a real crime?  Here's what he told us.

He first became famous when Wikileaks published documents and videos the US government had kept secret from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that were gravely embarrassing to the Pentagon.  But that wasn't the red line.  The red line was several years later when Wikileaks published information about surveillance by the CIA.  So I asked him directly, are you aware of anyone being harmed or being killed on the basis of information being published, and he said, of course not.  And he said it in a sincere way, he said by the way I think if people were killed because of his publishing, because of the stories that he put online, he would feel bad about it.  He seems like a humane person.  He withheld information about the CIA because he didn't want to get people hurt.  He famously published the contents of Hillary Clinton's email account.  I asked him when you published these emails did you realize how powerful Hillary Clinton was?  Looking back, do you regret doing that?  And he was like, "Honestly, it was fun."

They wouldn't allow us to interview him on camera.  

We've been in court for 2 days and this decision could be the final one.  If the UK decides in favor of the US it will put Julian on a plane to the US.  That is how imminent it is it's a very high risk moment for Julian and what happened in these two days the two judges said that they would withhold their decision for at least a week so we don't know what will happen next.  It Remains the case that if he loses his round that's it with any appeals in the UK.  He can try to go to the European Court of Human Rights.  But last year only one appeal to stop an extradition or deportation out of 63 with the European Court of Human Rights was granted.  Only rare cases and of course we assert that it is one because he would experience irreparable harm.  So Julian could be on us soil within a matter of weeks.

What's the role of the UK in this as far as I know Julian has never been charged with a crime in the United Kingdom yet UK is holding him, holding a journalist without charging him I mean this is what we accuse the Russia, Iran, and North Korea of doing.  Why are British politicians degrading their own system and their own history on behalf of the United States government?  I feel like I'm missing something. 

This is the default state of affairs.  The UK views itself as the lap dog it was obvious in court at one point where one of the judges asked the U.S., "Well, if your argument is that the Home Secretary sees that the US filed the extradition request on the face of it that she wouldn't be able to do anything.  And the US lawyer said "Yes, that's absolutely right.  It's totally lopsided.  The US can do whatever it wants basically."  You have to take the statements of the prosecutors on face value you don't want to offend the United States, our ally.  You would be implying that the prosecutors were lying and, of course, that would never be the case.  So they were trying to convince the court to take it all at face value.