living on chips. a few months ago he had a place in hawaii. he said for me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission is accomplished. i already would be. i ve already won. barton gelman, who has leaked some of the explosive documents last spring, spoke to snowden in person in russia last week. he said he is not trying to burn down the nsa, he is not trying to stop the collection of intelligence. he is trying to enable a debate in which the public can decide whether it agrees with him, that intelligence collection should be targeted. reporter: since snow deb wants the american public to decide the fate of some surveillance programs, one deputy cia director said he should put his own fate in the hands of an american jury. if you believe americans should be the judge of this
we have much work to do. this story is far from done. laura: meanwhile attorney general eric holder has made an offer to russia telling him we won t torture or kill snowden if they hand him over. well, joining me from new york with reaction, fox news host geraldo rivera. hi. laura: geraldo, first his father comes out. snowden s father comes out o, defends him, defends his integrity. surprise is there? no. i find it very hard not to be sympathetic to the dad. the dad is doing what any father would do, i think, under the circumstances. my son is a computer nerd and i could see, you know, he and his friends are so behind edward snowden, i could see how there is, you know, kind of ethical or more ambiguity about what he did. look what happened in the congress of the united states yesterday you had 94 house republicans among the most conservative republicans voting for an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to end exactly the nsa snooping program that snow deb exposed.
this story is far from done. laura: meanwhile attorney general eric holder has made an offer to russia telling him we won t torture or kill snowden if they hand him over. well, joining me from new york with reaction, fox news host geraldo rivera. hi. laura: geraldo, first his father comes out. snowden s father comes out o, defends him, defends his integrity. surprise is there? no. i find it very hard not to be sympathetic to the dad. the dad is doing what any father would do, i think, under the circumstances. my son is a computer nerd and i could see, you know, he and his friends are so behind edward snowden, i could see how there is, you know, kind of ethical or more ambiguity about what he did. look what happened in the congress of the united states yesterday you had 94 house republicans among the most conservative republicans voting for an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to end exactly the nsa snooping program that snow deb exposed. so, there is some moral
we have much work to do. this story is far from done. laura: meanwhile attorney general eric holder has made an offer to russia telling him we won t torture or kill snowden if they hand him over. well, joining me from new york with reaction, fox news host geraldo rivera. hi. laura: geraldo, first his father comes out. snowden s father comes out o, defends him, defends his integrity. surprise is there? no. i find it very hard not to be sympathetic to the dad. the dad is doing what any father would do, i think, under the circumstances. my son is a computer nerd and i could see, you know, he and his friends are so behind edward snowden, i could see how there is, you know, kind of ethical or more ambiguity about what he did. look what happened in the congress of the united states yesterday you had 94 house republicans among the most conservative republicans voting for an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to end exactly the nsa snooping program that snow deb exposed.
the united states because he is not technically in russia. or that s the word from the president there, vladimir putin. he said it today. he claims snowden is in the transit area at the moscow airport so he isn t officially on russian turf. the white house says it is not buying that argument. quote: we are asking russian government to take action to expel mr. snow deb without delay. but the russian president is calling criticism from the united states ravings and rubbish. officials in hong kong say they let ed snowden get on a plane this weekend because the u.s. request to arrest him did not fully comply with hong kong law. the feds deny that ecuador s foreign minister says his government is considering snowden s application for asylum and tonight the russians say snowden is a free man who can go and do whatever he wants. the fox report s correspondent jonathan hunt is in our newsroom in new york. and for the moment, at least, it sounds like vladimir putin s position on this matter i