they were saying to the russians that he was in a transit airport and he couldn't go anywhere and now he's getting this good treatment, treated by human rights officials. i think what they're afraid of now is that they're moving toward possible asylum. because you see that, as snowden said out loud, i will not leak any more information against the united states. that was one of the conditions the russians put out for his asylum last week. so the question is were the russians setting up this press conference to give him a chance to publicly meet those conditions. >> we also know that putin wants to have a good relationship with the united states. the only thing you could really picture happening other than the asylum thing is maybe potentially, and i'm speak la speculating, that there could be a trade. >> there is speculation there could be a trade. we don't know what's going to happen in this conferring between president obama and putin. officials say that's really a