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Moscow airports transit zone to meet with mr. snowden. >> our position also remains that we dont believe this should and we dont want it to do harm to our important relationship with russia. >> the president spoke with russian president vladimir putin by phone today. snowden was among the topics discussed. harris? >> harris: so interesting. so they meet at the airport. what do they say at that meeting? >> well, they said he seemed to be in good spirits. the video released by wikileaks shows him ...

Behind closed doors, in the transit zone of moscow airport where he has been holed up for the past three weeks in this sort of purgatory of not being able to go one way or the other. so lets bring in foxs jennifer griff in for the latest on this. what more do we know about these meetings today with amnesty, international? >> this is fascinating. its the first glimpse that weve had of edward snowden since he arrived at the moscow airport on june 23rd. he called in the representatives of am naesty...

Our own engagement moving forward. >> senator, let me ask you about another national security concern. that is nsa leaker edward snowden, still stuck at a hotel in this transit zone in russias airport in moscow. hes been offered asylum now by venezuela. there are other countries in latin america including bolivia and nicaragua offering him asylum. chairman of the foreign relations committee, what are the repercussions? what should the repercussions be for those countries if they grant him asylum...

Snowden saga, catherine? >> reporter: thank you, jon and food morning. the presidents of venezuela, bolivia and nicaragua offering asylum to the nsa leaker entering the third week in russia report he hadly still in the transit zone of the moskow airport. cuba is likely transit zone from moscow to central or south america. it is significant that the cuban president is signaling he is supports the decision to help edward snowedden. we have new information from daniel ellsberg who leaked the pentag...

Forward. >> senator, let me ask you about another national security concern. that is nsa leaker edward snowden, still stuck at a hotel in this transit zone in russias airport in moscow. hes been offered asylum now by venezuela. there are other countries in latin america including bolivia and nicaragua offering him asylum. chairman of the foreign relations committee, what are the repercussions? what should the repercussions be for those countries if they grant him asylum? >> well, clearly its ver...

Ready to come to him. for the latest, im joined by nbcs jim maceda in moscow for us. explain the controversy around the bolivian presidents plane and also where it stands with the whereabouts of snowden and where he wants to go. >> reporter: well, lets start with snowden. because it is an easy segue for me. snowden is still believed to be in a secure hotel. forgive me, because the wind is really kicking up here. in the airports transit zone. weve been talking about that transit zone now for 12 d...

Administration has made is the important thing is to get this guy and get him into court. >> he is as far as we know, hes in the novatel hotel in the transit zone of the airport right now eating cinnabons and applying for asylum. imagine having to pay for your paycheck. its happening now.

The american power is a real thing. we saw exactly what it looks like last night, its a force field over the western coast of all of europe that you cannot fly your plane through. it makes me think like, they really -- our government wants edward snowden desperately to risk the kind of diplomatic fallout that was precipitated across five nations last flight, bolivia, the four nations that divide airspace plus all of south america which are meeting today. to risk that shows how badly they want ed...

Administration has made is the important thing is to get this guy and get him into court. >> he is as far as we know, hes in the novatel hotel in the transit zone of the airport right now eating cinnabons and applying for asylum. imagine having to pay for your paycheck. its happening now. shes still the one for you - you know it even after all these years. but your erectile dysfunction - you know,that could be a question of blood flow.

Incident. its still really unclear how portugal, france, italy and spain all got wind of it. >> we have all of these different leaders in the area for the energy forum that you referenced. what more do we know about snowdens current whereabouts and also the abundant amount of asylum requests that are out there, which ones have been verified and which ones have been denied? >> right. we can spend probably an hour analyzing and parsing that. the consensus is that hes still stuck inside the airport...