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>> shepard: it looks like ed snowden is running out of options. his pals at wikileaks say the surveillance leaker has asked for than 20 countries for asylum. more and more world leaders are slamming the door in his face. including the president of ecuador, the same nation already giving asylum to the wikileaks founder julian assange at its ambassador in london. ecuadors president tells the british newspaper the guardian the latin american nation will not consider this new request unless ed snowd...

>> in a letter to senate intelligence committee chair woman dianne feinstein, clapper writes my response was clearly erroneous, for which i apologize. he explained faced with the challenge of trying to give an unclassified answer about our intelligence collection activities, many of which are classified, i simply didnt think of section 215 of the patriot act. this comes at the same time the person responsible for adding some of the classified programs, nsa leaker edward snowden, watch as politic...

He can call home. but without an american passport, snowden has no documents that will allow him to travel, so he remains in a transit zone at the moscow airport. with the help of wikileaks, he applied for asylum in russia but russian president vladmir putin laid out a firm condition for snowden. >> if he wishes to stay here, we have one condition. he must stop his work aimed at harming our american partner. >> snowden continues to lash out against the obama administration, issuing a statement b...

The decisions i made. i wont be around because its going to take a while for the objective historians to show up. im pretty comfortable with it. i did what i did. i know the spirit in which i did it. >> you can see more of the interview on the situation room. just in, breaking news. edward snowden, weve just talked about him. hes asked for asylum from russia. this is according to russia interfax. they are claiming the wikileakss advisor has presented a packet of documents in moscows airport re...

Justice in this unequal world. ed snowden apparently remains stuck in the transit zone of the airport in moscow. the russian president vladimir putin spoke out again today and actually seemed to defend the united states. he said that if snowden indeed wants to stay in russia, quote: there is one condition. he must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage to our american partners. no matter how strange it may sound on my lips. and strange indeed it did sound. catherine herridge is live for ...

Publishing process at this stage. great care has been taken to make sure that mr. snowden cant be pressured by any state to stop the publication process. >> and twice today snowden promising that he is going to leak more and that he feels free to do so even in the confines of that transit zone, shep. >> shepard: catherine, thanks. where are we the american people in all of this? well, we have just learned that federal court signed off on 71% more wiretaps last year than it did in 2011. thats acc...

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Fitting clothing in vegas can be very hard to do. >> tight. bring it with you today. >> thanks. >> you bet. >> lets get to your headlines and tell you whats happening if youre just waking up. the white house confirms vice president joe biden has talked with ecuadors president and asked him to reject the nsa leaker edward snowdens asylum request. the nsa believes hes holed up in a transit zone where he arrived last week. and new nsa leaked documents reportedly showed u.s. bugged european union of...

Activities is adding to todays revelati revelations. according to "the guardian," 38 embassies and missions across the world were targets of u.s. intelligence and techniques covered everything from planted bugs to data collection using specialized antenna. as far as edward snowden, as far as we know, he is still in a transit zone at moscow airport. he is facing espionage charges in the u.s. which yanked its passport and asked other countries not to give him asylum. >> reporter: this is the vie...

On the european union. it could get a lot worse. but a quick point, the russians effectively have embraced snowden and he was made a hero on russian tv. he is caught in the transit zone but we look weak. the russians have paid him a hero. they have called us hypocrites. >> gregg: putin has embarrassed the united states. >> that is the bottom line. they would not do to reagan or nixon or to bill clinton. at the end of the day, we have turned over 1,700 russians they have asked for, to them, and t...