Assange received some DNC emails. The hackers took more than that. Assange suggested that Seth Rich was a potential source, but he didn’t confirm it.
The DNC was hacked regardless of whether or not Seth Rich leaked anything to Assange.
Any chance the hacks occurred (read: were staged) later to create a detectable event that would throw off investigation into the “lost” mobile devices?
Assange told the NPR interviewer he got the emails from an insider but would not name the insider. He did not confirm or deny Rich. But he insisted it was not from Russian hackers.