And boy contribution and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to be joined by laura poitras, director of citizenfour, which has generated a great deal of conversation around the world about our government and specifically the role of the nsa in its surveillance operations. Citizenfour focuses on contractor Edward Snowden and takes a deep dive into the what, why, when, and how was his decision to leak classified information. Well take a look at a clip before we start our conversation. Ill come out just to go, hey you know this is not a question of somebody skulking around in the shadows. These are public issues. These are not my issues, you know. These are everybodys issues. And im not afraid of you. Youre not going to bully me into silence like youve done to everybody else. If nobody else is going to do it, i will. And hopefully when im gone, whatever you do to me there will be somebody else who will do the same thing. It will be the internet p