do what i did. so very intense. can you believe all this news. breaking news. edward snowden is on the move. i m not going to talk about where i think he s going. i want to get him caught. and brought brack for trial. what s infuriating here is prime minister putin. would love to have a little bit of coffee and a few conversations with mr. snowden. china and russia, they re such powerful bastions of internet freedom. if he could go to north korea and iran and he could round out his government oppression tour. an individual not acting in my opinion with noble intent. this guy s a bad guy. i think it s up in the air. calm, lord, help me to relax, father. i can t remember a week that was as historic as the one we re about to see. this is going to be a historic week for the senate as we pass comprehensive immigration reform. it will pass the senate but it s dead on arrival in the house. we re about at two-thirds of the senate right now. our momentum is gro
kong would comply with the treaty. now this raises all kinds of questions about the relationship that the u.s. thought it had with hong kong. candy? it does indeed. also, it raises a lot of questions about what an tradition treaty is worth. reporter: this is the person, keith alexander, who s been on the hot seat now for quite some is time, having to answer a lot of these tough questions about the u.s. surveillance programs, has defended it saying that more than 50 plots have been thwarted because of these surveillance programs. he was on abc s this week this morning. he was asked about how snowden could have even left hawaii in the first place. he couldn t even answer why no red flags or no alerts went off. but referring to him as an individual, said that snowden had betrayed the trust and confidence that the u.s. has in him. he said, he s not acting with noble intent.
that, in fact, before they were filed federal prosecutors and u.s. state department lawyers worked with prosecutors in hong kong to make certain that all right. we seem to have lost pete williams in d.c. we ll try to get you the latest on his information coming up a little bit later. the director of the nsa general keith alexander is reacting to all of this today. here he is just a short time ago. it s clearly an individual who s betrayed the trust and confidence we had in him. he s not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent. let s go now live to the white house and nbc s kristin welker. are you hearing any reaction from the white house to these latest developments? reporter: good afternoon, mara. i can tell you that president obama has been briefed on the situation by his national security team. according to one official, the
friday, the play that the obama administration ran on friday, which i think was guided by policy, conscience, and all sorts of noble intent, was also brilliant politically and put them in a better place on the field than where they were had they chosen that position at the outset. lawrence, i think it was more accurately a fumble and the president s side picked it up and ran it into the end zone. all right, i ll go with that. i ll go with that. but you score the same way, it doesn t really matter how pretty it looked in the end. you know, look, whatever the purpose behind it, to be having, you know, set aside the initial conflict with the catholic bishops, to be having a debate in this election year about contraception, which is, you know, pretty much a settled issue in this country, and to have now santorum at least for the moment in the lead, a man who would turn back 50 years of jurisprudence and allow a state
administration ran on friday, which i think was guided by policy, conscience, and all sorts of noble intent, was also brilliant politically and put them in a better place on the field than where they were had they chosen that position at the outset. lawrence, i think it was more accurately a fumble and the president s side picked it up and ran it into the end zone. all right, i ll go with that. i ll go with that. but you score the same way, it doesn t really matter how pretty it looked in the end. you know, look, whatever the purpose behind it, to be having, you know, set aside the initial conflict with the catholic bishops, to be having a debate in this election year about contraception, which is, you know, pretty much a settled issue in this country, and to have now santorum at least for the moment in the lead, a man who would turn back 50 years of jurisprudence and allow a state to ban contraception, it puts