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>> shepard: it looks like ed snowden is running out of options. his pals at wikileaks say the surveillance leaker has asked for than 20 countries for asylum. more and more world leaders are slamming the door in his face. including the president of ecuador, the same nation already giving asylum to the wikileaks founder julian assange at its ambassador in london. ecuador's president tells the british newspaper the guardian the latin american nation will not consider this new request unless ed snowden actually enters its territory. remember, ed snowden has apparently been hold up in the transit z...

>> in a letter to senate intelligence committee chair woman dianne feinstein, clapper writes my response was clearly erroneous, for which i apologize. he explained faced with the challenge of trying to give an unclassified answer about our intelligence collection activities, many of which are classified, i simply didn't think of section 215 of the patriot act. this comes at the same time the person responsible for adding some of the classified programs, nsa leaker edward snowden, watch as political options for asylum vanish every day. >> reporter: the nsa leaker waits in the transit zone of mo...

He can call home. but without an american passport, snowden has no documents that will allow him to travel, so he remains in a transit zone at the moscow airport. with the help of wikileaks, he applied for asylum in russia but russian president vladmir putin laid out a firm condition for snowden. >> if he wishes to stay here, we have one condition. he must stop his work aimed at harming our american partner. >> snowden continues to lash out against the obama administration, issuing a statement blasting president obama stating the obama administration is afraid of you. it is afraid of an inform...

The decisions i made. i won't be around because it's going to take a while for the objective historians to show up. i'm pretty comfortable with it. i did what i did. i know the spirit in which i did it. >> you can see more of the interview on the situation room. just in, breaking news. edward snowden, we've just talked about him. he's asked for asylum from russia. this is according to russia interfax. they are claiming the wikileakss advisor has presented a packet of documents in moscow's airport requesting asylum for edward snowden in russia. he still remains in that international transit z...

Justice in this unequal world. ed snowden apparently remains stuck in the transit zone of the airport in moscow. the russian president vladimir putin spoke out again today and actually seemed to defend the united states. he said that if snowden indeed wants to stay in russia, quote: there is one condition. he must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage to our american partners. no matter how strange it may sound on my lips. and strange indeed it did sound. catherine herridge is live for us in d.c. what are we hearing now more from wikileaks, right? >> all day wikileaks promising a big ...