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James rosen brings us more from snowden's debut. >> reporter: top house leaders agree thursday that ed snowden, the former national security agency i.t. contractor who leaked millions of documents about programs and is currently in self-imposed exile in russia should not be considered a patriot and should not receive leniency for returning home. >> he's damaged honorability to keep americans safe here and abroad. and there's no other word that should describe him other than a traitor. >> i really don't think we should set a precedent that says, if you reveal millions of documents, that's a pat...

What we were doing on the internet. government officials say such surveillance is critical to preventing terror attacks. they charged snowden with spying and theft charges. he has so far escaped by getting asylum in russia. in this new interview snowden seems to say it has been worth it. he says, quote, i already won. as soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that i have been trying to do was validated because, remember, dwant to change society. i wanted to give sosa chance to determine if it should change itself, end quote. if edward snowden says he already won, does that mean ...

>> i hope germany won't make that decision. germany understands just as we do that we can't have people working within our intelligence community or people working within theirs decide unilaterally, i don't like this policy and i'm going to ignore it and leak classified information. i think the german government understands that quite well. if germany wants to interview snowden, they can go to russia and do that. some of the parliamentarians have already done that. but i would hope that germany wouldn't do that. >> congressman, thank you for your time today. >> you bet, thank you. parts of h...

For weeks russia has been trying to determine whether to grant him asiylum and now the attorne general is weighing in. the white house is not throwing in the town when it comes to bringing accused nsa leaker edward snowden back to the yiet. eric holder is offering assurances to russia that if she he's return eed united states wl not seek the death penlty. snowden's lawyer says the letter from holder is inappropriate saying u.s. courts not the attorney general should determine the case against snowden should he return to the u.s. >> she shared the truth with the american people. >> reporter: du...