This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, April 12th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.

And I'm Kelsey Bowler, filling in for Kate Tranko and Daniel Davis.

Today we're interviewing Donna Rice Hughes, President and CEO of Enough Is Enough,

an organization that works to make the internet safer for children and families.

We'll also catch up with Cassie Dillon, founder of the Lone Conservative and a rising star in the

Conservative movement.

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Now, on to our top news.

The Justice Department announced a criminal charge

Thursday against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, accusing him of conspiring with former Army

Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to commit the largest hack of classified U.S. government

information in history.

Assange was arrested Thursday morning and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London

where he was living for nearly seven years.

CNBC reports the indictment,

filed under seal in the Eastern District of Virginia

in March 2018, states that he and Manning worked together in 2010 to crack passwords on government computers

and download streams of information with the intent of publishing them on WikiLeaks.

Assange, who if convicted, could face five years in prison, called it a dark day for journalism.

Asked about the charges on Thursday, President Donald Trump said, I know nothing about WikiLeaks, it is not my thing.

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