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Eyes are on moscow where edward snowden may be spending the night after arriving there earlier today. the wikileaks group helped him get there and it says snowden is heading to ecuador. russian news agencies report that he may first stop in cuba. jonathan turley of george washington defended espionage cases before. professor, we just spoke yesterday talking about the espionage charge and how that may complicate things. why not the u.s. have not instead impose a theft of government property? this is different. so much for the red flags issued across the world. the globe. all airports that becau...

Motivational evidence, things that would appeal to the jury. if you're bringing an espionage charge, a lot of that is going to come in because intent is part of the crime. but what's really of greater concern is that snowden, in the view of many people, is a whistle blower. there is no evidence that he was trying to harm the united states. to the contrary, he says, and a lot of people support that, he was trying to reveal this program which he considered to be a danger to democracy, danger to privacy. he's not the only one that takes that view. >> and do you think -- well, hong kong will be sy...

In our d.c. newsroom. what do these charges mean, exactly, catherine? >> well, shep, a short time ago, i spoke with a leading defense attorney who has handled a lot of these national security leak cases and he said to me the charges in some ways are very straightforward. theft, for example, conversion of government property. in this case it probably simply means that when snow den went into booze alan hamilton and he put that thumb drive into the computers and copied the documents and took them home that would have amed to the conversion of government property. he took it home for his own use....

Is another. and interesting to think of greenwald sitting there holding names of agent, undercover operatives, whose lives can be in danger if his files are compromised or he decides to publish this information. i mean, there is a reason why we make people like mr. snowden take an oath not to do this. >> that's exactly right. he will be facing that charge. it may not be a treason charge or even an espionage charge, but it could be disclosing top secret information, which he was sworn to uphold. and he violated that. so he could be facing that charge. but simon raises an important point about t...

Espionage charge, as have been my clients like tom drake. >> tom, when you spoke out at nsa, you did so, obviously, that cost you your job, now an indictment. obviously somebody in nsa were the ones who let go this information. "the washington post" and the "uk guardian" didn't get it on their own. somebody gave it to hem. did that tell you that there are other people, your former colleagues, who have will enough? >> yes. >> so what can we expect? will more people stand up and say this is out of control? we can't let this happen? >> i would hope so. we need maximum exposure in the government t...