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Jonathan, home question here, like the guy based on where he ends up. if he ends up in iceland, rand paul and the libertarian wing of the world say okay, we can live with that if he ends up in a commie or a dictatorship or a left-wing country like ecuador, no good. this goes to the distraction that edward snowden has now become. we started off talking about nsa and what it s doing and what it s not doing and how it s stretching the bounds of the patriot act. now we re discussing whether he s in havana or moscow and reporters jumping on flights that he s not on. let me say something good about him. i do enjoy this pursuit. he told us stuff we are glad we know. that s one of the great ironies. in my religion, you can do something wrong and you are not a perfect vessel. he is not a perfect vessel. we know more about our intelligence gathering than we knew before he started talking. thank you, simon marks. it s great to have you on. you have my attitude towards everybody. thank you. ....
Headquarters across the street from westboro baptist church down in topeka, kansas, and made the house into a visual statement of gay pride. there it is. well, the latest even though gay marriage is not legal in kansas, the equality house as its known went ahead with a same-sex marriage ceremony over the past weekend. as expected westboro protesters were on hand with signs to protest, but the brides were unfazed. quote, i knew the signs would be there and i wasn t even angry about it. we were just so ecstatic to be getting married. said one of the brides. local businesses pitched in to help cover the cost of the ceremony and the reception. nice people. up next, the chase for edward snowden is teaching us a lot about who our friends and allies are. so far, russia and china don t seem to be our buddies. that s ahead. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. ?ñ?h ....
To target conservatives. no political influence from the white house. and no nothing. what do i want to know right now, it s a big question, why are we only finding out this now? why are the wheels of knowledge going so slow? plus, russia s president vladimir putin, he s a happy guy. he admitted today we all expected that edward snowden is still in the transit area of the moscow airport. that s a nice place to sleep. here s the important lesson for that episode. when you re in trouble, your enemies pop up. who is popping up against us in russia, china, they re seizing their opportunity to make us look bad. why did president obama try to move the ball on global warming and climate change today? because cities like miami are about to turn into atlantis if we don t do something about this. they re only five feet in the air, miami. they only got about three feet coming at them. so there will be two feet left of them in a couple of decades. finally, let me finish tonight with this point ....
The strange saga of edward snowden doesn t seem to be ending soon. russian president vladimir putin confirmed today that the nsa leaker was indeed still inside the airport in moscow. and putin said the russians wouldn t send him back to the u.s. as the white house has been demanding. well, the russian leader said snowden is free to go wherever he wants. yesterday news that snowden was heading for cuba set up a frenzy among reporters buying tickets on the flight to havana, only to discover snowden wasn t on board. the next scheduled flight to cuba is on thursday. one thing we know when you re in trouble, your enemies pop up all over the place. right now the countries are russia and china. simon marks from feature story news and a veteran correspondent over in moscow, and jonathan capehart is an opinion writer for the washington post. he is a great columnist and an msnbc contributor. simon, let me ask you about the general atmosphere. why is putin being an s.o.b. about this? well, i ....
That he hasn t in some fashion been debriefed. you know, i was thinking about this and what it says about, i grew up in the cold war, jonathan. i m older than you. and i remember there were defectors on both sides. we cheered their defectors to us. if they were in the show business or whatever, they departed from some acrobatic team, we were glad to have them. is this a fair representation of the other side where we don t put up berlin walls, we put up walls to keep immigrants from coming in. but we don t put up walls to keep people in. are they just enjoying the irony of one guy probably in history that s fled our country. i don t recall a time. since oswald. has fled. he came back. here s the thing about edward snowden that drives me crazy. he does this thing which we now know he joined booz allen for the sole purpose of stealing these documents. and took the oath of secrecy. exactly. ....