what's unclear is where we are in that process. whether it has gotten into the hands of a judge and the judge has issued that warrant. that remains unclear so far. >> okay. and in wikileaks founder julian assange, he spoke this morning. what exactly did he say? >> reporter: that's right. we have the text of this speech that he was supposed to give, but he didn't. and he does defend snowden saying in part, quote, the charging of edward snowden is intended to intimidate any country that might be considering standing up for his rights. that tactic must not be allowed to work. the effort to find asylum for edward snowden must be intensified. he went on to take a shot at president obama suggesting that the president is a traitor for broken promises and for not having transparency when it comes to these kinds of surveillance issues. so some tough words coming from assange who, by the way, was to have made this speech at the ecuadorian embassy where he's been hiding out in london but