Espionage Prosecution News Today

>> hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you dont go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? >> i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i havent totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis its dicey. >> to your family and everyone, we say, thats a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see y...

This -- this effort around michael flynn is not being run out of main justice. its being run out of a u.s. attorneys office, in his case in the eastern district of virginia. a espionage prosecution or somebody with expertise in those matters, that the thing where the justice department might second a prosecutor from main justice to come out and work with the u.s. attorneys office, sort of a specialist on a case like that? >> yes. it makes sense to me that they would pair like that. the case need...

A espionage prosecution or somebody with expertise in those matters, that the thing where the justice department might second a prosecutor from main justice to come out and work with the u.s. attorneys office, sort of a specialist on a case like that? >> yes. it makes sense to me that they would pair like that. the case needs to be brought in a district where there is venue, where some of the aspects of the crime occurred. so eastern virginia may be a place if the flynn intel group is located th...

>> so miss radack, what about mr. snowden? does he want to enter into those conversations? >> sure. were always glad to entertain conversations, and were glad that holder made that statement. its a little disheartening that he seemed to take clemency and amnesty off the table which are two negotiating points. but again, none of us have been contacted yet about restarting negotiations. and also i think that no harm-no foul is not apt. i mean, there has been plenty of suffering on the part of edwa...

And while we are glad to dialogue be an negotiate, hes not going to come back and face an espionage prosecution. >> whats the punishment hes endured? >> hes endured having to basically give up his entire life and be rendered stateless by the united states government. revoking his passport while he was here in russia. he has been granted political asylum by four different countries because they all found that he had a valid fear of political persecution based on the very espionage act charges tha...