nsa collection documents. no one can know for sure, but it would be stunning for both china and russia to miss this opportunity to download everything that s on his computers, to copy of his documents and to get whatever they can of snowden s own personal knowledge. reporter: the founder of wikileaks, julian assange, told reporters in that conference call yesterday when asked about whether snowden had been interviewed by russian or chinese authorities that this was, in fact, not the case, but we don t really know what that status is, and the longer he s in russia, the view of former intelligence initials is that it s officials is that it s entirely likely he will stay there as long as it takes for the russians to get whatever documents he has with him copied. jenna: wow. basic question, too, with such a massive surveillance program why he wasn t flagged if he s been collecting information all this time. catherine, thank you. reporter: you re welcome. jenna: you know, it s been