food, investigators finding the carcasses of dogs, cats and giant anteaters at city landfills, a drop in global oil prices hurting the country s economy, causing more people in venezuela to go hungry. fugitive edward snowden could be back on u.s. soil soon. he is, of course, the former national security agency contractor who leaked classified information. well, now there s a report russia wants to send snowden to the u.s. to curry favor with president trump. snowden says this report alone proves he was never a spy. brian ennis is following the story. reporter: a government source tells fox news catherine herridge that russia believes they have exhausted edward snowden s value, and he is more useful as a bargaining chip to russian president vladimir putin which implies the russians would give up snowden to the u.s. in return for something.
no country trades away spies as the rest would fear they are next. russia has granted snowden asylum until 2020, fueling accusations he has given russia u.s. secrets in return for safe refuge. the department of justice has made it clear they would welcome snowden s return to the u.s. he s facing at least 30 years in prison for violating the espionage act. snowden stole top secret documents in 2013 while working as a contractor for the nsa. he gave those documents to journalists who exposed top secret domestic and global surveillance programs. julie? julie: all right, brian, here in new york, thank you. kelly: investigators this france arresting four people in connection with a planned terror attack that was allegedly in the works including a 16-year-old girl. prosecutors saying a raid uncovered a makeshift laboratory and ingredients to make a bomb. kitty low began is live from kitty logan is live from london with more. reporter: the french interior ministry says those
what, we don t know. president trump has called the nsa whistleblower a, quote, terrible traitor and tweeted before he was president that snowden deserves to be executed. this information comes after an nbc report which seems to take things a step further than our reporting, citing two government officials. nbc reports that russia is considering handing over snowden to the u.s. as, quote, a gift to president trump in an attempt to curry favor with the president. the concept of a gift speaks the intent. a gift could mean that the russians would give up snowden for nothing in return which is different than a bargaining chip, but it also raises questions as to whether there is a more sinister intent by the russians. why would they freely gift something to the americans? a putin spokesman tells nbc talk of returning snowden to the u.s. is, quote, nonsense. snowden tweeting just yesterday about this report, quote: finally irrefutable evidence that i never cooperated with russian intel.
obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. without any judicial order the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right, a right that belongs to everybody, the right to seek asylum. and now snowden is promising to reveal more secrets. in a letter to ecuador s leader snowden reportedly says he remains free to publish information that serves the public interest. and snowden is quoted as praising president rafael coria saying there are few world leaders who would risk standing for the human rights of an individual against the most powerful government on earth and the bravery of ecuador and its people is an example to the world. snowden may have a pretty strong motive to praise ecuador s leader. according to wikileaks, ecuador and russia are only two of a total of 21 countries that snowden has applied to seeking asylum. wikileaks says the asylum requests were hand-delivered to a russian consulate by someone
representing snowden. well, for now the nsa leaker is in something of a state of limbo at sheremetyevo airport in moscow. that is where our jim bolden is right now. he joins us live. jim, everyone seems to be looking for snowden. he is doing a very good job of laying low somewhere. reporter: that s right, natalie. this is my second time in the airport as we do these rotations. and haven t seen him yet. so he has been here for more than a week. and let me show you the transfer board here because this is a massive transfer airport. a lot of transfers. so now that he s seeking asylum in what, nearly two dozen countries, there are lots of flights he could take to some of those countries. especially those in europe. and of course you could take transfers on to cuba, venezuela as well. of course every day reporters go over to the other side of the terminal, to the flight that goes to havana to see if he s on the 14:05 to havana.