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Wikilea wikileaks. she joins me live from london. thank you for coming on. i have to ask, first couple of questions, where is edward snowden right now? >> as julian assange confirmed this afternoon on the conference call, he's in direct contact with wikileaks. at this stage they're not tis closing where he is. he's in good health. he's in high spirits, we understand. they are not disclosing his whereabouts. >> can you tell me where he would like to go? priority number one? >> i understand, my instructions are, and has been widely reported, that he has now sought asylum from ecuador and has mad...

Then they would view him as a dissident. there is zero history, no history, of russia returning dissidents to the u.s., brooke. >> jessica yellin for us at the white house. thank you much. let's talk ecuador here. ecuador yet to make a decision whether it will give edward snowden the refuge he is clearly seeking. one lawyer for wikileaks pointed out that there are other options for the fugitive. >> the other country in south america who've been willing to take an independent stand from the united states, venezuela, ecuador, bolivia, argentina, cuba. that doesn't mean anything about what he's d...

Once china decided to let him go and russia said, okay, you can land here in moscow, it wouldn't matter if he had a u.s. passport. those are separate countries. they can let a political refugee land even if he doesn't have a pa passport if they view the person in this way. he doesn't have a passport now. he's traveling elsewhere. some other country may allow him to enter. it may not be ecuador. this could be a total fake by wikileaks. notice how careful robinson is being, attorney for wicky leaks. >> very careful. >> we're not telling him to go any place. we're not giving him money. we're just...

The big question, why ecuador? let's talk about that with paul callen here. cnn legal analyst. doing some reading on ecuador today, you have a leftist president. rafael correa. perhaps wishing to deflect criticism on his own repression of free speech. my question to you, what's in it for snowden? obviously there's the assange connection. is it that or do you think it's more political than that? >> you know, his options, snowden's options are getting increasingly limited. he's looking at venezuela, cuba, ecuador. countries that have foreign policies hostile to the united states. i suppose he fi...

Cuba, to venezuela, ecuador, et cetera. if he does land in cuba, what are -- walk me through, patrick, just sort of some of the possibilities while he is on cuban land. >> reporter: you know, does he ask for political asylum here? enjoy the dozens of other american fugitives? most of the people the cuban government claims have a political element to their cases. black panthers. people who came here in the 1960s and '70s who've enjoyed asylum here despite the fact for years the u.s. has asked for their return. the u.s. really doesn't have anything they can do. there's already an economic embarg...