Welcome to pushback.

I'm Aaron Mette here with Randy Critico, satirist, and broadcaster.

We've been talking about the conviction and sentencing of Roger Stone.

Now we're going to turn to the plight of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

You have been doing a video series, a podcast series about Assange,

trying to highlight all the critical disclosures that he has published over the years and trying

to campaign for his freedom. You're about to go over to London to take part in protest for Assange ahead of his extradition hearing.

What is your message to people as to why they should care about Assange's case as he now faces the possibility of extradition to the U.S.?

Well, listen, we have political prisoners in this country.

Linder Palitir, Muma, has been in jail.

Both of them, between them, 70 years now.

There are people that should not be in prison.

There are other political prisoners in this country.

Chelsea Manning right now is a political prisoner.

The message is that if this were to work, if, in fact, he's actually died in here,

that particular case leans into

fascism if they can do that, bring a journalist over here and put him in jail.

I mean, you get to that point, the long reach of the U.S. government where the laws internally

don't apply to people externally.

This is something like in Rome, the citizens of Rome, they enjoyed the laws that protected

them.

But nobody in Egypt did and Mesopotamia did.

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