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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, November 16th.

In today's news, President Trump keeps the door open to a government shutdown next month.

A Democratic challenger to Nancy Pelosi steps forward.

And the U.S. looks to smooth things over with the Saudis and the Turks.

But first, the big idea.

Federal prosecutors

inadvertently revealed an unsealed court filing

that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged with crimes.

The disclosure came in a filing in a case unrelated to Assange.

Assistant U.S. attorney, Kallin Dwyer, while urging a judge to keep the matter sealed,

wrote that charges against the activists need to remain secret until Assange is arrested and in US custody

because otherwise they'd never get him. Oops! Federal prosecutors in the

Eastern District of Virginia have long been investigating Assange. In the Trump administration, they had begun to take a second look at whether to charge members of the WikiLeaks organization

related to the 2010 disclosures of secret diplomatic cables and military documents.

Investigators had also explored whether WikiLeaks could face criminal liability

for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber tools.

Special Counsel Bob Mueller also has explored WikiLeaks publication of

emails from the Democratic National Committee and the account of

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