president vladimir putin. brian ennis has more on the possibility of all this from our new york newsroom. reporter: at this hour new tweets by edward snowden on the topic, but first, let s explain. a government source tells fox news that russia believes they have exhausted edward snowden s value, and he is now more useful to them as a bargaining chip to russian president vladimir putin. the implication that the russians would give up snowden in return for something. what, we don t know. president trump has called the whistleblower a, quote, terrible traitor and tweeted that snowden deserves to be executed. also says snowden deserves the death penalty. this information to fox news comes after an nbc report which seems to take things a step further than our reporting citing two government officials. nbc reports that russia s considering handing over showedden to the u.s. as a,