text:  It was back in October 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 had 36 points, the S&P 500 two points in the red. More on these stories at townhall.com.