administration stage. and here to accept that apology, glenn greenwald. mr. carter, thank you for joining us tonight. glenn is going to be on a little bit of a delay coming to us from south america. tell us how you did this most remarkable of things from washington creatures, changing your mind. i have a suspicion that living outside washington had something to do with it. >> it had something to do with it, but actually, just sitting back for a moment and saying, wait a minute, what did the man actually do? yes, yes, yes, he released some material. it was material which the government had no business having. that becomes clear. the second was material the government has been assembling in ways which no one outside the inner reaches of government had any idea that was going on. the combination was sort of overwhelming.