snowden, officially said to be filing for asylum in russia. that move comes aday after president putin accused the united states of essentially trapping snowden in moscow. john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., fox news contributor and, sir, welcome back here. what do you think is going on now with this guy? >> he is trying to buy himself time perhaps with russians but let me just say, i think this is important to understand. all of this many application for temporary asylum, visas, tradition proceedings all utterly irrelevant. this is all blue smoke and mirrors, pom-poms and confetti. it is irrelevant to the political decision that russia could and should make right now, sending back to us or send him on to somewhere else. what the russians want, i think has what he has got in his laptop computers and a lot of this depend whether or not they have got it yet. bill: that is a good question. we don't know whether he has given it over or not. and perhaps that could be part