During Wednesday’s interview, which was the first of two parts, Kelly asked Assange if he believes that the forthcoming release will be an election “game changer.”

“I think it’s significant,” he said, appearing to shy away from using Kelly’s term. “It depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.”

“I don’t want to scoop ourselves,” he said when ask to describe the Wikileaks material. “We have a lot of pages of material, thousands of pages of material.”

“I don’t want to give the game away, but it’s a variety of different types of documents from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign.”