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Methods, but i still care about you, and if you get extradited to the u.s., i would be happy to serve on your defense. >> mavanee anderson knew snowden was friends with him during their time in switzerland from 2007 to 2009, a time that snowden has described as a turning point for him in changing his opinion about how the u.s. does gather intelligence. another story we're following, syria on the defense this morning after the obama administration for the first time says the assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people, the syrian government slamming the claims saying they're, quote, ...

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Who necessarily have access who can sort of bring things to the light of day. i think it is so much more important, perhaps to have -- to make sure that we have the appropriate amount of oversight. so i don't why it is that i sound different when i talk about it. than he sounds when he talks about it -- >> well, mavanee, because there is huge difference between overreach and oppression, those are very, very different things, i think you and i can agree there is government overreach, and there is a lot of it and surely there must be some of that in the intelligence community. but there is a big...

And in a general sense about the stresses and burdens of the work he performed. he was already experiencing a crisis of conscience of sorts. joining me for an exclusive interview is mavanee anderson, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> mavanee, so you had a security clearance when you were there. were you working as a contractor also? >> i was not. and i guess i'll just say, so it doesn't seem mysterious at all, and because i think that it is information that can be readily gotten on line, i was a u.s. intern -- i was a legal intern at the u.s. missions o...

Oppression. and that big difference, it may be i'm suggesting, be maturity of things that you look at things with, and it may be that ed snowden may have more information than the rest of us may have. mavanee, thank you very much for being here, i know it is very difficult to talk about your friend with your own occupational history, and i really appreciate you joining all of us. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up, today of all day, was the long scheduled hearing on the nsa's budget and the head of the nsa got quite a grilling, thanks to ed j thanks to ed snowden. in just 5 days...