As the U.S. continues to pursue WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition from the U.K., an explosive story from Yahoo News has revealed that top officials, including then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, discussed extraditing and even assassinating him. Michael Isikoff, one of the reporters on that story, joins Ryan Grim to discuss Assange’s fate as well as Isikoff’s recent portrayal in the FX limited series “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” which dramatizes his role in the revelation of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Transcript coming soon.

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