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What’s the motive behind Julian Assange’s internet ban?

Season 2016 Episode 2930 | 4m 39s

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in exile in London's Ecuadorian embassy for four years. Now Ecuador says it's shut off Assange's internet access, months after WikiLeaks began to release documents and emails stolen from the DNC and the Clinton campaign. Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Raphael Satter of the Associated Press.

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