we know a government's abused their powers and i don't trust the government and i think we've seen over the last month how many different ways we've been let down by the government and shouldn't be trusting them because look at how. irs did things and how the justice department targeted journalists. they have gone outside the lines and i think that's something we have to look at. >> let's see what glen greenwald the reporter from the guardian who broke this story, what he told anderson cooper a little earlier this evening. >> if it were really my goal to do what people in washington are accusing me of, i could have just published that and what he was saying was that's something i choose not to do and would not do and let me just add that from the beginning of our interactions with mr. snowden he was assistant that he vetted these documents carefully, giving them to us and wanted us to exercise journal list judgment what should be published and what shouldn't. he didn't want indiscriminate document dumping. he wanted to inform the people who the government was doing