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Wish to blow us up, all of a sudden americans are very, very concerned. >> you are seeing both sides of the issue. you think it is okay for the nsa to collect data. >> and it is okay for google to collect data. i dont really care. >> but you actual lie think snowden -- you think he should be in prison for it? >> yes, absolutely. >> and who could disagree with you? perhaps the man to your right. >> i dont even know where to start with this story. use of the phrase man up is so obviously problemat...

Williams for t. >> i was trained as a spichlt in traditional senls of the word. i lived, worked, undercover. overseeds pretending to do a job that tie am not. being assigned a name that is not mine. but i am a mek ni cal specialist. expert. i dont work with people. i dont recruit agents. what i do is i put systems to work for the united states. >> the national security agency decloond ined to comment on the interview. snowden has been living in russia to escape prosecution for liking documents o...

>> its still creating political tension and blowback as far as getting policy from the cia and transparency has been helpful. it may not be u.s. soldiers going into conflict, but this is war by a different method, and we have to be very understanding, appreciative of the policy impact. i think that is, again, where perception and reality is working. its in the situation about surveillance. the president was in the united states senate when we first heard the "new york times", i believe it was, a...

Concerned, and we will, of course, be following all of it for you. now on to the spin. nearly one year ago edward snowden became a household name when he released classified documents on secret surveillance programs. he exposed the nsa mass surveillance operation and how it worked. he is a wanted man. he searched for a safe haven. for ms. he has been in exile in russia. the u.s. has insisted snowden was a low-level analyst, but in an exclusive interview with nbc brian williams snowden lamz his r...

>> for the layman, how does what you put together combat that? >> right. so were actually a small team of physicists and nuclear researchers from harvard and m.i.t. and we created an e-mail solution thats immune from nsa spying. the way we do this is we use a technology called end to end encription. it means is when you click send on your e-mail, as soon as you click that, your data is encrypted and protected so that when its going through the internet, if the surveillance programs want to spy o...

Office you talked about new york being too city slick, the haves and have-nots. do you think the people who made over $500,000 have not contributed much? because thats how it feels and i dont think thats what you mean. >> thats not what i said and not what i meant. i want it to be a city for everyone. a lot of people have been struggling. this economic crisis for the last five or six years i think dislocated people more than has been acknowledged. we have to do things to help people that are str...

Were folks who immediately said, okay, find me the census and tell me where the muslims live or tell me where the arabs live and the answer was we cant, theyre white. so we havent thought of this group as other. in this moment then the question becomes who is the other. well, it must be muslims. they can be the group that is dangerous which is exactly what weve seen with this nypd question. >> exactly. post-9/11 the muslim community bake the other. it was a target of government policies, includi...

You. >> yeah. it absolutely does. i work here in new york. were connected to new york. weve been through now twice as a family. and to think that were now shutting down these surveillance programs and announcing it. i think thats an important part, too. not only are we saying that there has been surveillance, but now were shutting it down. that weeks of politic. >> bill de blasio has said this is fair, that hes glad that the program has been shut down. these were investigators that were going th...

>> my lady, i thought it was somebody coming out to attack me, so i fired my firearm. >> your defense has now changed, sir. from self-defense to involuntary action. >> remember that 14-year-old girl who sent a tweet to american airlines claiming to be part of a terrorist plot? she has been arrested by dutch police after sending the tweet in question, the girl began to backtrack saying she made a dumb joke. but the airline that you now been inundated by similar tweets from copycats. the "washin...

Will boomrang against their own economy. >> crimea is gone and under russian control clearly. what else do we expect to hear from the president on any of this today? >> he has a news conference coming up and we will get a few questions. every time he is in europe he gets questions about the nsa surveillance programs. the europeans are very upset about that and murkala had her calls listened into and there is pressure on the president to reform the programs. and that is why you saw the leak sayin...