Hillary Clinton has said she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done'.
The former Democratic Presidential candidate said that the founder of WikiLeaks, who she blames for her losing the 2016 election, deserves whatever punishment is coming his way.
Hillary also launched a barb at Donald Trump and said it is 'a little ironic that he will be the only foreigner this administration welcomes into the United States'.
The comments are the first time that Hillary has addressed the arrest of Assange who was taken from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by British police where he had been hiding out for more than six years.
Hillary Clinton said that she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done' during an event entitled An Evening With The Clintons in NYC on Thursday
The comments are the first time that Hillary has addressed the arrest of Assange, who was taken from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by British police where he had been hiding out for more than six years on Thursday (above)
Assange has been accused by the Justice Department of hacking US military computers and prosecutors are seeking his extradition to America.
Intelligence agencies have said that the embarrassing emails that Wikileaks released from the Democratic party were provided to them by Russian hackers.
Hillary was speaking at An Evening With The Clintons at the Beacon Theater in New York alongside her husband Bill when moderator Paul Begala asked her about Assange being held - and got a cheer from the crowd
Begala joked that she had 'some familiarity with the work of Mr. Assange' and she laughed that 'I do, I do'.
Hillary said: 'I think it is clear from the indictment it's not about punishing journalism it's about assisting the hacking of a military computer to steal information from the US government.
'I'll wait and see what happens with the charges but he skipped bail in the UK. Sweden had those charges which have been dropped, but the bottom line is he has to answer for what he's done, at least as it's been charged'.
The talk was interrupted by one protester who called Bill 'boring' and had to be escorted out by security.
The Clintons have turned to public tours after being criticized for earning more than $150million from speeches to bankers, a fact which haunted Hillary's election campaign
The Clintons spoke at length about how to repair democracy in America and both called for the abolition of the electoral college.
Hillary blamed the lack of engagement in politics on the 'big industry designed to feed false information to people'.
Bill said that the sense of 'alienation' people feel was to blame too and admitted that even in his home town of Hope, Arkansas, people had lost faith in Democrats.
Begala said that in Garland County, where Clinton is from, it had gone Democratic from 1874 to 1965 but since then it was a solid Republican seat.
Clinton said that things were so bad for Democrats there that 'I couldn't even get elected dog catcher'.
Bill was asked what the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister
