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Russia's president isn't being spefg but putin told this to reporters today, quote, mr. snowden is a free man. the faster he chooses his destination point, the better for us, the better for him. also i can tell you in the past half hour, the white house has asked the white house, pell snowden. they agree with president putin. they do not want this to impact the bilateral relations. while we do not have an extradition treaty with ryu is that there's nonetheless to ex-pell mr. snowden based on the status of his travel documents and the pending charges against him. let's go to cnn's john defterio...

That's what one of the journalists who broke the nsa surveillance story is telling the "wall street journal" which the parent company of this network owns. glen greenwald of the guardian says the majority of the revelations that are significant have yet to be made. as we reported at the top of this newscast, the russians have now confirmed ed snowden is hiding out at the airport in moscow, but they say he is in a transit area, not officially on russian soil. and they tell us they have no plans to send him back to the united states. some republicans say president obama should get tougher with t...

Snowden is believed to be hiding out in the transit area. john you, have been standing there, there you are at the airport. is there any sign of snowden at this point? how big is the part of the airport you are in where he is? >> well, like any other modern airport around the world, erin, this is a sizable facility, the hub of intrigue. matter of fact. 72 hours ago, snowden landed here from hong kong. he has not been seen since. in the last 18 hours, we know a few things. he was thought on the plane to havana yesterday, that leaves at 1400. the flight left again today at 1400 for havana. we wa...

The united states because he is not technically in russia. or that's the word from the president there, vladimir putin. he said it today. he claims snowden is in the transit area at the moscow airport so he isn't officially on russian turf. the white house says it is not buying that argument. quote: we are asking russian government to take action to expel mr. snow deb without delay. but the russian president is calling criticism from the united states ravings and rubbish. officials in hong kong say they let ed snowden get on a plane this weekend because the u.s. request to arrest him did not f...

Is a free man, but are they also secretly pumping him for information? and one of the leads on the leaker that came up empty. stand by for a first hand account of a rather bizarre flight to cuba that snowden never got on. i'm wolf blitzer. this is a "situation room" special report. nsa leaker on the run. there are only so many places inside the moscow airport that the nsa leaker can hide. as we've told you, the russian president vladimir putin conf m confirmed today snowden is somewhere in the transit area between the arrival gates and the passport control check points. but his exact locatio...