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Knew of it, at that point, his passport was pulled within two hours. >> reporter: the u.s. also did not ask interpol to issue a red notice to arrest snowden. a red notice is sent when you dont know a fugitives location. but it was clear snowden was in hong kong. a furious white house says hong kong and beijing knew exactly what they were doing. >> we are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official. this was a deliberate choice by the government to relea...

Snowden needs to come back to the united states and face justice. secretary kerry is traveling in india right now. he weighed in a little white ago on the fugitive. snowden has been trying to avoid prosecution in the united states on espionage charges. he said snowden broke the oath to be loyal to the united states. >> by his own admission stood up on television and announced to people that he was the person who did this and broke faith with the oath he took to serve his nation, to protect it, d...

Know, is it not counterproductive for wikileaks to be interfering with the u.s. government seeking a fugitive facing criminal charges here? what would wikileaks response be? >> wikileaks hasnt interfered. edward snowden as was reported by the hong kong government left legally and voluntarily from hong kong and has traveled to moscow. there is no international warrant that has been validated in those jurisdictions that were aware of as yet. so he was free to travel internationally. it is his righ...

Should we help? how is this anything but a slap in the face by hong kong and russia? >> it absolutely is a slap in the face. to have this international fugitive on these flights flouting u.s. law makes the u.s. look weak and impotent. were being poked in the eye by other countries who are not really acting like our allies. >> the question now, what can we do? is what is the chance the u.s. can get edward snowden back on american soil? >> very difficult. the one high risk maneuver thats on the ta...

Then they would view him as a dissident. there is zero history, no history, of russia returning dissidents to the u.s., brooke. >> jessica yellin for us at the white house. thank you much. lets talk ecuador here. ecuador yet to make a decision whether it will give edward snowden the refuge he is clearly seeking. one lawyer for wikileaks pointed out that there are other options for the fugitive. >> the other country in south america whove been willing to take an independent stand from the united ...

Were kicking off 30 free minutes of political news. >> we have a decision day at the supreme court, major cases still left undecided. also, china and russia sheltering a u.s. fugitive. will edward snowden get sent back to the u.s.? a very big question. >> john king is here to break it all down for us. chief political correspondent. john, first lets ask you real quick about the fallout of edward snowden. my wonder is what are the political --s wh whats the political fallout for the president with...

And beyond that, ill refer to the justice dertment. >> reporter: white house press secretary jay carney blamed china for letting snowden flee hong kong and warned -- >> this is a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s.-china relationship. >> reporter: as of monday afternoon, the administration believes snowden remained in russia. the president made a call to president putin, and i...

Question about the chinese government, we are just not buying this is a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official. this is a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on u.s./china relationship. >> what are the repercussions in the u.s.-chinese relations -- >> im not going to speculate but the chinese have talked about mutual trust, as you know, we think they have dealt that effort ...

>> i think you need to understand as i believe is the case that on matters of interpol red notices, red notice is most valuable when the whereabouts are unknown. here we knew the fugitive was in hong kong and directly sought his pending arrest while the charges were under seal. its unfortunate that hong kong failed to take action on our request and permitted a fugitive to leave their country in an obvious attempt to escape justice. >> the administration was embarrassed when you had a 29-year-old...

Yet? >> well, theres a host of diplomatic countries that were looking at, treaties, trades, all sorts of issues. and i think that president obama and -- and secretary kerry and eric holder all today made clear that they view the situation as -- as really serious. >> peter, ill give you the final word. when -- when snowden left hong kong, jay carner, white house press succeed, set, "im not buying. this is a technical decision by hong kong." a deliberate choice to release a fugitive despite a vali...