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Reporter with "the guardian" the newspaper that broke the story said on monday he will not be the one to reveal his source's location. >> i know where he is generally. i'm not going to talk about where he is either in general or specifically. he's a source and i'm not going to disclose information about his whereabouts. he's perfectly capable of doing that himself if he wants to. >> reporter: snowden sparked suspicion before he revealed himself. investigators visited his honolulu home asking about his long disappearance from work but they were too late. he and his girlfriend had cleared out. n...

I'm not going to talk about where he is in general or specifically. he's a source and i'm not going to disclose information about his whereabouts. he's perfectly capable of doing that himself if he wants to. >> reporter: and signs snowden sparked suspicion before he revealed himself, investigators visited his honolulu home asking about his long disappearance from work but they were too late. he and his girlfriend had cleared out. new national survey conducted by the pew research center shows a majority of americans are okay with the government surveillance. 56% of respondents say they approve ...

Secret clearances. one third of them private contractors. still, new polling shows the american people are generally in favor of the clandestine programs. according to a "washington post"/pew poll, 62% favor investigating threats at the expense of privacy and 56% say the nsa's phone tracking program is acceptable. but more than half of those surveyed believe the government should not monitor e-mail to prevent terror attacks. eugene robinson, you wrote about this in your latest piece. i want to read a part of that and ask you a question, but first, we do need to make clear exactly what they're ...

Treason, quote, it's pretty dam close. snowden's whereabouts are unclear and he may have left hong kong where he had been staying in a hotel for weeks. lawmakers and federal officials want to know how a private contractor with limited experience and an apparent lack of formal education had access to such sensitive material. it's shining a spotlight on the government's use of outside companies to deal with national secrets. 1.4 million people hold top secret clarntss, one third private contractors. new polling shows the american people are generally in favor of the clandestine programs. accordi...

There's a reason why these programs are classified. i think there is a suggestion that somehow any classified program is a, quote, unquote, secret program, which means it's somehow suspicious, but the fact of the matter is in our modern history there are a whole range of programs that have been classified. >> remember the nsa's phone tracking program had been going on for several years and congress knew about it. it's not the biggest, just the latest leak to hamstring the obama administration. the white house is launching an investigation to find out how that secret got out. >> what we're focu...