What's up podcast team? This is John from South Philly thinking about how excited I am to see his live on the 26th as I am on my way to get a cheese steak that I will probably regret later.

This podcast was recorded at it is Thursday, April 11th at 120 Eastern things may have changed by the time you listen to this.

But one thing that won't change is me buying regrettable cheese steaks.

You should never regret a cheese steak ever. Genos or Pats? Well, that's a whole other political question. Mara and you know what?

We are going to discuss it in detail on Friday that's 26th. If you want to be there for that political discussion,

their ticket's still available at nprpresent.org. Hey, there it's the NPR Politics podcast.

I'm Scott Detro. I cover Congress. I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department. I'm for you a National Security Editor.

And I'm Mara Lias and National Political correspondent a lot to get to today. First of all, early this morning,

Julian Assange, man behind WikiLeaks was arrested in London. This is after years of camping out in the Ecuadorian embassy.

And the Attorney General says the Mueller report or at least a redacted version of it is coming.

It's going to be public within the next five days. We'll get to all that. But let's start with Assange.

Ryan, real quick, because there's a lot of backstory we're going to get to, what exactly is Assange facing charges for right now?

Well, the charge in the United States that he's facing was unsealed today. It's one count came out in the Eastern District of Virginia.

And what the charge is is conspiracy to commit a computer intrusion, basically that just boils down to a computer hacking conspiracy.

So Phil, I'm a little confused because my understanding was the reason he has not left this embassy in seven years is because he couldn't get arrested in it.

So what happened? Why was he suddenly arrested now?

Julian Assange has benefited for a long time from the diplomatic immunity granted him by the British authorities because he sought refuge in this embassy that Ecuador has in this office building in London.

In fact, it's not far from here. It's a department store. But then the government of Ecuador took it away.

And all of a sudden the ambassador there from what we understand opened up the door and said to the British police who are outside.

Come on in. I understand you've got a warrant for this guy who's been in my office since 2012.

And they came in with several metropolitan police officers. And there was these extraordinary TV pictures of these London cops carrying Julian Assange who now has a beard and long hair out of the door of this office and then putting him in a police van and then taking him off to court where he was booked.

Assange has had this surreal life in the embassy. He had his own cat. The government of Ecuador yelled at him because he wasn't taking good enough care of it.

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