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Progressive wing of the democratic party, he and elizabeth warren. if clinton doesn't run and she is associated with de blasio it gives her traction when it comes to rebutting a potential argument from the left that she isn't concerned about the income gap. >> i want to turn really quickly to get this in because this has a lot of people talking about edward snowden and the nsa leaker and the new york times calling on the govern to allow him to come home. he deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. it's time to offer mr. snowden a plea bargain or some sort of clemency. w...

Entertain the idea or have discussions about granting clemency, what's at the stake for the u.s. if they were to seriously entertain that, this administration were to seriously entertain that, extend that kind of reprieve? >> what the government has to decide is whether it's worth it to get this stuff back. ben says it's not in the hands of the former kgb, successors of the kgb or the chinese officials. where are all the things that snowden took with him illegally? i don't know the answer to that. i don't think the nsa knows. they've got to know. he has the keys to the can incorporate dom ther...

Ensconced under the safety and protection of putin which on the world stage is allowing putin to gloat while at the same time putin agrees that nsa surveillance is necessary to international and world security. he is having his cake and eating it too while sheltering edward snowden. >> putin was one of the big winners last year and snowden was primarily the reason for it. i can't see white house granting clemency. not only in public but on the hill and right now the majority, i think, of people on both sides of the aisle in congress would be oppose. >> vladimir putin loved this because part of...

We asked and you answered. the question being the new york times on a pardon push for edward snowden. should snowden be granted clemency. ? rich said no. he should come back and face the music. i'm glad he pulled back the curtain. even if there is clemency, i don't think he's coming back. we ask you to keep those comments coming in on twitter and facebook because the conversation will continue. former prime minister ariel sharon is in critical condition and is fighting for his life. sharon is the architect of israeli settlements. he has been in a coma for the last eight years and the news of...

>> good to see you. thanks for joining me today. >> thomas, thank you. he's one of three openly gay members of the president's delegation to the olympics and brian boitano just recently came out. the olympic figure skater is here live in studio to talk about what it means to go to russia. also this -- >> we were reading the tag trying to figure out where this came from and it was open so we then discovered this was a very personal gift. >> pretty amazing. how one woman ended up with a christmas gift from the obama gift, a gift that was meant for someone else that was very close to the obamas...