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>> a lot of refugee process, fraudulent process goes on in transit areas in some of those airport. we have run into that in our business over the years, singapore, malaysia, thai land, whatever. someone gets a bogus airport never leaves the transit area. they december proi the documents they eninitially traveled from. they had to claim fef see stat does or the two stolen passports have nothing at all to do with this. it is possible they could as well. >> i think it was interesting

And calling the reasons he requested asylum unfounded. is this a slap in the face to the united states? did russia mean to do this? >> you'd have to think that it's not going to be received well by the united states. this is not going to do good things for their relations. russia has said all along, no, we won't send him back but at the same time try to maintain this difficult balancing act by saying at the same time we don't want this to damage relations between the two countries and that has been a primary concern without. we believe that's why snowden has been forced to remain in the transi...

With the justice department and the people who are conducting this investigation and i have lost faith in their interest in assuring he is given a fair trial. i think the focus is to bring him back and prosecute him to the fullest. the focus is not justice. >> snowden remains stuck in that transit area of moscow's airport waiting to hear on several asylum requests. the government had secretly collected millions of americans phone records along with information from u.s. companies about the online activity of people overseas. >> snhow much time should an ar private spend in prison for the bigge...

In the united states for leaking sweeping details about the u.s. surveillance program. right now he remains in that transit area of moscow's airport waiting to hear if russia will grant temporary asigh sxlum on friday, snowden's father defended his son during an interview on nbc's "today show." >> i believe my son when he takes his final breath, whether it is today or 100 years from now, he will be comfortable with what he did because he did what he knew was right. he shared the truth with the american people. what we choose to do with it is up to us as a people. >> what's next for snowden? an...

The nsa leaker has been holed up in the transit area of moscow's international airport since arriving back on june 23rd. yesterday the russian media reported that snowden received a document that would have allowed him to leave the airport and enter the country, but his lawyer says they actually have not received the paperwork. so last week snowden wrote to the russian government asking for temporary asylum. if that happens, snowden would be able to live in russia and even travel abroad. brianna keilar joins us from the white house. what's the white house reaction to all of this, this request ...