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>> thanks, anderson. >> thank you. let's dig deeper now with jeffrey toobin and jessalyn radek, a former whistleblower who now represents people who do what she once did. jeff, do you believe the british government was justified in detaining him for nine hours? >> i sure do. i don't want to be unkind, but he was a mule. he was given something, he didn't know what it was, from one person to pass to another at the other end of an airport. our prisons are full of drug mules. glenn's view is, as long as one of the two people on either end of that transaction was a journalist, he can take anythin...

>> i'm not arguing that. i'm arguing that under this law, to be held under schedule 7 of this particular law, you have to have a reasonable nexus to terrorism. and here there has been absolutely none asserted unless someone is trying to make the government -- the argument that journalism is the new terrorism. >> what about that, jeff? that is glenn greenwald's contention. >> the world "journal" is not magical immunity sauce that you can put on anything and eliminate any sort of liability. if he had the nuclear launch codes in there, they can take that. if he had the names of undercover operati...

>> the word "journalism" is not magical immunity sauce that you can put on anything and eliminate any sort of liability. if he had the nuclear launch codes in there, they can take that. if he had the names of undercover operatives, they can take that. our government and the british government regards the method of surveillance as just as serious a security breach. now, you know, that's the law. and i'm sorry glenn thinks that's a bad thing but, you know, that's the law. if you go through an airport carrying that stuff, you take your chances. >> jeff, what do you think of the fact that british ...

>> weird, isn't it? love to. how about global thermal nuclear war? >> it's a good game of chess? >> later. let's play global thermonuclear war. >> fine. >> all right! >> if there's one lesson that we learned from the 1983 movie "war games" the lesson was never disguise your launch codes as games like chess and checkers where unwitting hackers might bump into them and unwittingly start global nuclear war. we learned that in 1983 and turns out there's a whole amount of mistakes that could happen. l, c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activate...

Secret missile launch codes. >> these are probably the most sensitive codes in existence. >> reporter: bruce blair is a former nuclear missile launch officer who said the safety breach increases the the risk of an unauthorized launch. >> or it could lead to the arming of a missile that shouldn't be armed in peace time. so these are really serious, serious issues. >> reporter: yeah, but blair says that there's a bit of apathy that is set in. they used to climb down in that bunker knowing that you were ready to push the most important button in the world. but the cold war is over and these silos...