spied on a mobile phone of the german chancellor. i have, therefore, opened preliminary proceedings based on an initial suspicion according to paragraph 99 in the penal code. >> reporter: this investigation has been going on for a while. the way things are going to move forward now is they're going to continue to start questioning people. these are going to be official witness testimonies. one of the witnesses that might actually be questioned would be he had war snowden. the big question would be would na happen by a video conference with snowden in moscow or could the german government potentially try to get snowden over to germany? there are some top level german politicians who believe that is a slim possibility but a possibility nevertheless. he's put together an official query to snowden's lawyer asking for official information, however, he has not gotten that just yet. one of the big issues in all of this is that the german government is also saying that they've also launched a further investigation into whether or