>> mystic? >> if you're describing your [ bleep ] on the phone, yes. >> so every beep was their reference to naked selfies, they used a different phrase. we didn't want to broadcast that to you. for more on the unusual interview, i'm joined by cnn correspondent brian selzer from new york. the point was that americans would care about the naked selfies more than drier texts and other information. what do you make of the technique with edward snowden? >> reporter: he was trying to humanize and personalize something that can awfully seem big sometimes. this is an issue that critics of snowden have brought up for the past almost couple of years at this point. it's been almost two years since his initial revelations through journalists, at "the guardian," "washington post" and elsewhere. the story was too big, too broad, and too inaccessible to the audience. what john oliver was trying to do and i think succeeded in doing, was to make it personal by it about naked selfies.