TRISH: ALL RIGHT.
OUR THANKS TO RYAN.
U.S. AUTHORITIES ALSO KEEN ON
QUESTIONING ASSANGE ABOUT
WIKILEAKS.
THAT WIKILEAKS DUMP OF
DEMOCRATIC E-MAILS LEADING UP TO
THE 2016 ELECTION.
JOINING ME RIGHT NOW, A MAN WHO
HAS FACED QUESTIONS FROM SPECIAL
COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER'S TEAM
ABOUT WIKILEAKS RELEASING THOSE
E-MAILS, CONSERVATIVE AUTHOR
JEROME CORSI.
HIS LATEST BOOK IS "SILENT NO
MORE," AND HE JOINS ME LIVE ON
SET.
AND THIS IS THE FIRST I HAVE
SEEN YOU SINCE MUELLER CAME
FORWARD WITH THE REPORT, AND WE
SAW FROM THE A.G. NO COLLUSION,
NO CHARGES, AND I KNOW YOU'RE
HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
>> WELL, AND MY WIFE AND I CAN'T
THANK YOU ENOUGH, TRISH.
YOU DID THE FIRST COVERAGE, HAD
ME ON STAGE, ON SET SO WE COULD
EXPLAIN THAT WE WERE NOT GOING
TO ACCEPT THE PLEA DEAL, AND WE
WERE GOING TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST
ASSANGE.
AND I THINK THE APPEARANCES ON
YOUR SHOW, TRISH REGAN'S SHOW,
WERE CRITICAL IN OUR BEING ABLE
TO LAUNCH A SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE
AND NOT BE INDICTED.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
TRISH: WELL, JEROME, LISTEN, I
DON'T BELIEVE IN INNOCENT PEOPLE
BEING TARNISHED AND CAUGHT UP --
YOU HEARD FROM COREY
LEWANDOWSKI.
HE SAID THERE ARE PEOPLE NOW
BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AFFORD THE
LEGAL FEES.
WHO ARE BANKRUPT NOW.
>> AND MY WIFE ESPECIALLY THANK
YOUS IF YOU FOR THE ASSISTANCE
YOU GAVE US ALLOWING HER TO COME
ON STAGE AND TALK ABOUT HER SON
AND THE INJUSTICE DONE TO
INTERROGATE HIM BY MUELLER.
AND THIS IS ANOTHER ATTACK ON
JOURNALISM.
THIS IS ATTACK ON JULIAN
ASSANGE.
2013 THE OBAMA JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT DECIDED NOT TO INDICT
JULIAN ASSANGE OVER THESE
CHELSEA A MANNING ISSUES BECAUSE
THEY SAID IT WOULD BE TANTAMOUNT
TO INDICTING "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" OR "THE WASHINGTON POST."
AS A JOURNALIST, JULIAN ASSANGE
HASES A RIGHT TO PUBLISH EVEN
STOLEN MATERIALS.
I THINK THE INDICTMENT, THE
SEVEN-PAGE INDICTMENT, WAS VERY
WEAK ON THE JULIAN ASSANGE
COLLABORATED TO BREAK A
PASSWORD.
I DOUBT IF HE ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED
OR DID VERY MUCH.
AND "THE NEW YORK TIMES" AND
"THE WASHINGTON POST," IN 1971,
WORKED HAND IN GLOVE WITH DANIEL
ELSE BURG TO GET THE PENTAGON
PAPERS IN PRINT.
THAT'S NOT COLLABORATION THAT'S
CRIMINAL, THAT'S JOURNALISM.
AND JULIAN ASSANGE, I THINK, IS
BEING UNJUSTLY PROSECUTED.
TRISH: THAT'S INTERESTING.
YOU KNOW, THE DEMOCRATS WOULD
AGREE WITH YOU.
WE SAW PLENTY OF DEMOCRATS
COMING OUT VERY MUCH AGAINST
THIS.
WHICH SURPRISED ME, BECAUSE I
THOUGHT THEY HATED ASSANGE.
BUT THEN AGAIN, IN THE WORLD
WHICH WE LIVE, I GUESS, IF IT'S
POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT TO, YOU
KNOW, HAMMER SOMETHING THAT'S
GOING TO BE ANTI-TRUMP, I GUESS
MAYBE THEY'RE DOING THAT.
SO THEY'RE SAYING THIS IS
PAYBACK.
THERE'S ONE CONGRESSWOMAN WHO'S
NOW RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT COMING
OUT SAYING, OH, THIS IS JUST
SIMPLY A CASE OF YOU CAN'T BE A
JOURNALIST IN THIS ENVIRONMENT,
WAS IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST,
THEY'RE GOING TO LOCK YOU UP.
>> WELL, IN FACT, ANYTHING THAT
HURTS DONALD TRUMP, THE
DEMOCRATS ARE ALL IN FAVOR OF.
NOW, I WOULD RECOMMEND TO JULIAN
ASSANGE THAT HE FIGHT BACK JUST
LIKE I DID AND WRITE IN THIS
BOOK "SILENT NO MORE" AND GOING
ON THE OFFENSIVE.
JULIAN ASSANGE, I THINK, CAN
COME BACK AND PROVE THE SECOND
SHOE DROPPING, THE DOUBLE
WHAMMY, ROBERT MUELLER SAYS
THERE'S NO RUSSIAN COLLUSION,
JULIAN ASSANGE CAN PROVE THAT
RUSSIA WAS NOT INVOLVED IN
STEALING THE DEMOCRATS' E-MAILS.
AND I THINK HE CAN COME BACK AND
OPEN UP THE SETH RICH CASE WHERE
HE HAS SUGGESTED TIME AND AGAIN
THAT IT WAS THIS DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL COMMITTEE EMPLOYEE WHO
WAS MURDERED IN WASHINGTON
DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN WHO
SUPPLIED HIM THE E-MAILS --
TRISH: WELL, THAT IS CERTAINLY,
THAT HAS CERTAINLY BEEN A CAN OF
WORMS.
BUT I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IN
THAT THE U.S. SHOULD BE ASKING
THESE QUESTIONS TO JULIAN
ASSANGE.
>> YES.
TRISH: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
SURPRISED ME DURING ALL OF THIS,
THEY SOMEHOW THOUGHT YOU GUYS
WERE BEST BUDS AND THAT YOU WERE
TALKING TO HIM REGULARLY, AND
YOU SAID, NO, I HAVEN'T TALKED
TO HIM.
>> AYE NEVER MET HIM, NEVER
TALKED TO HIM --
TRISH: AND YOU SAID WHY CAN'T
THEY JUST ASK HIM THAT?
WELL, NOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE
ABLE TO ASK HIM A LOT.
>> EXACTLY.
THEY WANTED ME TO GO TO PRISON
BECAUSE I COULDN'T GIVE MUELLER
THE LAST PIECE HE NEEDED FOR THE
COLLUSION BECAUSE IT WASN'T
TRUE, AND I WOULDN'T LIE TO SAVE
MYSELF FROM GOING TO PRISON.
BY THE WAY, THINK JULIAN ASSANGE
SHOULD TO WHAT I WANT TO DO AND
WRITE A BOOK, WE'LL GET IT
PUBLISHED FOR HIM.
IF HE WANTS A CO-AUTHOR OR GHOST
WRITER, CALL ON ME.
[LAUGHTER]
TRISH: HEAR THAT, ASSANGE?
YOU'VE GOT A GHOST WRITER --
>> FIGHT BACK.
TRISH: -- OR A CO-WRITER.
HE HAS INFORMATION THAT CAN
ABSOLUTELY DESTROY THE RUSSIAN
COLLUSION HOAX.
HE SAID IT FROM THE BEGINNING.
I NEVER TALKED TO HIM.
ALL I HAD TO DO WAS LISTEN TO
HIS PRESS CONCERNSES.
SAID -- CONFERENCES.
SAID THE RUSSIANS WERE NOT
INVOLVED IN STEALING THE
E-MAILS --
TRISH: SO HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHO
IT WAS.
>> HE KNOWS AND HE CAN PROVE IT.
I TOLD THIS TO MUELLER'S
PROSECUTORS.
THEY SAID, DR. CORSI, WE'RE NOT
INTERESTED IN YOUR THEORIES.
WE KNOW RUSSIA DID IT.
I SAID, WELL, MAYBE YOU GUYS
OUGHT TO BE INTERESTED IN MY
THEORIES, BECAUSE I CAN PROVE
THAT JULIAN ASSANGE IS RIGHT,
AND THE RUSSIANS HAD NOTHING TO
DO WITH STEALING THESE E-MAILS.
TRISH: OKAY.
SO LET ME PLAY DEVIL'S ADVOCATE,
MAYBE IT'S GOOD TO HAVE HIM IN
CUSTODY.
MAYBE NOW THERE CAN BE SOME
NEGOTIATION WHERE WE SAY, HEY,
JULIAN, WE NEED TO KNOW THIS,
THAT AND THE OTHER --
>> WELL, IF HE WOULD DO WHAT I
DID AND SAY I WOULD NOT, BEFORE
GOD AND BEFORE A JUDGE, PLEAD TO
A CRIME I DIDN'T COMMIT, I SAID
PUT ME IN PRISON.
JULIAN ASSANGE CAN SAY PUT ME IN
PRISON, BUT I'M WRITING A BOOK
AND TELLING THE WORLD MY STORY,
AND YOU GUYS ARE LYING,
MUELLER'S LYING, D. OF JUSTICE
IS LYING.
I WAS ONLY DOING JOURNALISM.
AND HE SHOULD SAY I CAN PROVE
RUSSIA DIDN'T STEAL --
TRISH: HE'S KIND OF BEEN
CLASSIFIED AS A COMPUTER HACKER.
>> HE IS NOT A COMPUTER HACKER.
HE PUBLISHES WHAT OTHER PEOPLE
HACK, AND THE DEEP STATE HATES
HIM BECAUSE HE EXPOSES
GOVERNMENT SECRETS.
GOVERNMENTS WANT TO FIGHT
ILLEGAL WARS, THEY DON'T WANT TO
ADMIT TO THE PEOPLE THEY'RE
DOING.
THAT'S WHAT THE PENTAGON PAPERS
WAS ALL ABOUT.
THE LYNDON JOHNSON AND
McNAMARA, SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE, KNEW IN THE FIRST
MONTHS OF VIETNAM THEY COULDN'T
WIN THE WAR, AND 50,000
AMERICANS WERE ALLOWED TO GO
OVER TO VIETNAM AND DIE IN A
CAUSE THAT THEY KNEW FROM THE
BEGINNING WAS A FAILURE.
THAT'S WHY DANIEL ELLSBERG STOLE
THE PENTAGON PAPERSES AND WHY
THE SUPREME COURT SAID "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" AND WASHINGTON POST
COULD PUBLISH THOSE PAPERS AND
WORK WITH DANIEL ELLSBERG TO GET
THEM.
THAT'S JUST WHAT ASSANGE DID ON
THESE PAPERS WITH MANNING,
CHELSEA MANNING.
TRISH: OKAY.
ALL RIGHT.
AND MAYBE --
>> IF HE WANTS TO WRITE A BOOK,
GIVE ME A CALL.
HE NEEDS -- JULIAN ASSANGE NEEDS
TO COME OUT SWINGING.
TRISH: AND FOR THE NICE
INSCRIPTION FROM BOTH YOU AND
YOUR WIFE MONICA.
>> WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH,
TRISH.
TRISH: WELL, LOOK -- HEY,
LISTEN, HAD YOU -- YOU KNOW I
WOULD HAVE HELD YOU TO THAT IF
YOU'D GOTTEN CAUGHT UP IN THIS.
BUT MY GOAL ONLY IN THIS, AND I
LIKE YOU, JEROME, BUT MY GOAL IS
JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT AMERICANS
GET THE TRUTH.
>> AND I WAS VINDICATED BECAUSE
THEY DIDN'T PROSECUTE ME.
THEY WANTED ME TO PLEAD TO A
CRIME THEY KNEW, MUELLER KNEW HE