Hello everybody I'm John Fawcett in for Lou Dobbs on this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, June 25th.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finally released from UK jail after spending nearly five years there.

Assange was confined to a cell for nearly 23 hours a day,

eating his meals out of a tray, surrounded by over 200 books,

and allowed only an hour a day for exercise in the prison courtyard.

This week he agreed to plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining

and disclosing national security material in exchange for his release from prison.

This ending his years long standoff with the United States. for his

long standoff with the United States.

Assange now heads back to his homeland of Australia.

Barack Obama is reportedly getting very anxious about the election

and getting, quote quote increasingly involved in the

Biden campaign.

New York magazine is reporting that Obama speaks more often with O'Malley Dylan,

Biden's campaign chair, including about Biden's efforts to target hard to persuade young and black

voters.

They are also reporting that operatives in Obama's personal office coordinate with Biden's campaign

to make sure Obama is in the loop on all campaign updates.

One of Obama's close friends saying, quote, his anxiety about the election is real.

And a new poll from CBSUGov this week shows that President Trump is making gains with

black voters would support at 23%, nearly double from what it was in 2020.

Exit polling in 2020 showed that only 12% of voters supported President Trump, which was still higher than

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