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Done as a russian supported operation. >> tucker: yes, you demonstrated that, he boarded a plane with an invalid passport and that only could have happened with the complicity of the russian government. what happened to the rest of the documents? you say only the small percentage made it into the hands of journalists? where the rest? were all of them released? >> that's the trillion dollar question, in the murky world of espionage, we don't know who gets what documents, we don't know if they want to russia, china, if they were divided. if he threw them into the sea. the damage was basically th...

China, if they were divided. if he threw them into the sea. the damage was basically the military, the pentagon had to spend a five months going through 1,500,000 files every sort, every method had to be canceled, a huge district of exercise that happened and we've suffered because of it. >> tucker: i didn't understand it from what you wrote on why the nsa would have given snowden who was not an employee, a contractor access to level three secrets, the highest level secrets. why would they have let him handle those or have access to them? >> snowden somehow learned that another contractor booz...

What phone calls are you not listening to or recording, but are you tracking. and this whole national debate was about, no, all we're doing is taking the phone calls from overseas and making sure we understand who's calling here to keep america safe. and now we're learning through these leaks that the program is much more than that. and what i think our government officials have come out and said is you should have known this was happening since 9/11. everybody knew. well, we really did not know. and how did we get to that point? >> well, i think there's a lot of misinformation about what is t...