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Ed snowden will pay the price for exposing national surveillance agency surveillance programs. thats what attorney general eric holder is saying. he said the leaks put america in danger and im confident the person who is responsible will be held accountable. at last word, that person was reportedly hiding out in hong kong threatening to reveal more secrets. katherine is live in the newsroom. youre hearing we should take this threat seriously. >> reporter: a person familiar with the investigation...

We have to be careful we dont over throw assad and create a bigger enemy of the united states. >> that is the question a lot of people are asking right now. we expect to hear more from the white house on this topic. >> some in washington are worried the rouge contractor could defect to china. >> the nsa surveillance programs may help protect 9-11. lids bette pran has details for us. goose morning elizabeth. >> they began to probe into edward snowden if any he has with the chinese government. hou...

Lucky. now theyre trying to figure out what happened, something with the structure, too many people, was it the environment here, this is sticking out in the sea. all of that is being worked on, that investigation is under way now. >> and the number of people allowed on the deck based on its design. nbcs mark potter, thank you very much. checking the news beat, the british government says dont come here to edward snowden, issued alerts to airlines around the world to not allow him on a plane t...

Investigators take a much closer look at his motives including the possibility that hes taken refuge in hong kong to help china. welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now," im jon scott. jenna: that would be quite a twist, wouldnt it? of a all countries in the world? jon: anything could happen in this. jenna: hi, everybody, im jenna lee. mr. holder is saying the leaks have put the safety of americans and our allies at risks. in the meantime, the chairman of the house intelligence committee i...

Be unconstitutional. hes expected to hold a press conference later today joined by some privacy groups as a top intelligence official insisted these programs work. edwards snowden is hiding out with his secrets perhaps in a hong kong safehouse, now accusing the u.s. government of a global hacking operation. thousands of miles away on capitol hill, the director of the agency snowden once worked for argues the controversial surveillance programs work. >> its dozens of terrorist events that these h...

Dropout ended up privy so the super secret surveillance programs. >> ask you if youre troubled that he was given that kind of opportunity to be so close to important information that was critical to the security of our nation? >> i have great concerns over that. the access that he had, the process that we did and those are things that i have to look into and fix from my end and across the intel community. >> reporter: dan lothian, cnn, washington. >> glen greenwald is firing back at a congressma...

New york subway system leading to suspect najibul azazi, who was charged in 2010. >> it allowed us to know it was happening. >> reporter: but the target of the investigation contractor snowden remains defiant telling the "south china morning post" i would rather stay and fight the united states government in the courts. he accuses the u.s. of hacking network backbones like huge internet routers, targeting hong kong and china and proclaims hes neither traitor nor hero but what to call him is less...

Im brooke baldwin sitting in for erin burnett who is covering the presidential election in tehran tonight. well hear from erin a bit later in the show. but first, stopping terror. today the head of the nsa testified before congress that surveillance programs like the one leaked by edward snowden last week are crucial to our national security. >> its dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent. >> is the u.s. government collecting too much unnecessary data in the process? senator pr...

Big concern for a lot of lawmakers here in washington this week. there are concerns that, yes, while they may have understood the programs were in place, that perhaps they may have gone too far. some lawmakers saying they didnt understand the scope of these programs, one saying that they might even be unconstitutional. and so there are a lot of tough questions that lawmakers have for these various agencies involved in the intelligence sector. nonetheless, as we saw yesterday, one top intelligenc...

With the crews on the ground hopefully it will make a dent. robert mueller faces off with members of the house judiciary committee this morning and sure to feel pointed questions about the federal governments wide-ranging surveillance and data mining operations. kentuckys rand paul is vowing to spearhead a class action lawsuit on behalf of millions of americans claiming the operations are unconstitutional all while the high school dropout who revealed the secret programs is dropping more bombs...