let snowden leave hong kong. up next we have new details of the closed door high level deliberations. and the 30-hour airborne odyssey in search of the nsa leaker. dad. how did you get here? i don t know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look. you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you ll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really?
abc s tahman bradley has the very latest. good morning, tahman. reporter: diana, john. good morning. the obama administration is demanding russian officials turn over snowden. fbi director mueller in touch with russian officials so far no sign that moscow will help. edward snowden is believed to still be in russia after he did not board a flight from moscow to havana. the obama administration is urging the russians to expel him. we re following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that rule of law is observed. reporter: it s now believed that snowden is trying to seek asylum in ecuador, but the u.s. government is warning latin american countries not to allow snowden or allow him to pass through other destinations. the white house is not happy about hong kong letting snowden leave. this was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant. and that decision unquestionably has a negative
there are others angry as well. we heard from the president last hour. jessica yellin was there. the white house press secretary seemed prettying aggravated whee spoke about snowden. tell us what happened. reporter: this is a tricky dance for the white house. they are working this behind the scenes but not sounding terribly optimistic that any of the countries named as the potential place of harbor for snowden will turn him over. in the briefing jay carney blamed china for letting snowden leave hong kong and said that china s relationship with the u.s. is going to be strained as a result of it and he flipped that to pressure russia into turning snowden over. i asked has president obama gotten on the phone with russia s president and called him and said he like him back. do what we can to get him back to the u.s. here is what jay carney had to
the u.s. government with espionage, edward snowden has fled hong kong and reportedly arrived in moscow. from there he may head to cuba later today and possibly to ecuador where he has requested asylum. after revoking snowden s passport american officials requested hong kong arrest snowden but the government declined saying u.s. documents filed for the request did not comply with hong kong law. the new york times is reporting that it was chinese, not hong kong, officials who made the final call to let snowden leave. the paper also quoted intelligence sources close to the u.s. government that say they believe the chinese government, quote, managed to drain the contents of the four laptops in snowden s position. the latest twists outraged u.s. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. i don t know how anybody can view this person as anything other than a criminal. i want to get him caught and brought back for trial. they should use every legal
would want to stay out of the grasp of the u.s. government. dan elsberg said the same thing on cnn the other night. so, it doesn t come as a surprise to me, no, that he s trying to avoid falling into the clutches of the u.s. government. so, wikileaks is saying this morning that they are helping snowden leave. were you aware that this is in the works? well, wikileaks have made public statements over the past several days that they are attempting to help him either seek asylum or attain asylum in third-party countries, meaning not hong kong and not the united states. so, i think that wikileaks has been pretty up front about their support for snowden consistent with their values of transparency. they have contacts around the world, and i don t know what the extent exactly is of their involvement, but it doesn t surprise me that they re supportive of what he s doing. so, let me hear what you think. do you think that hong kong allowing snowden to leave is going to strain their relatio