 He was at the White House. He brought up the issue of Julian Assange. Prior to that, there was a cross-party parliamentary group who came to Washington to lobby U.S. lawmakers to say that they wanted to see Julian Assange back, that enough was enough, the case would be going on for too long. BBC correspondent Katie Watson in Canberra, Australia. The Dow is up 50 points and the Nasdaq is adding 51. This is SRN News.