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Start," i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. the top story, where in the world is edward snowden? perhaps more importantly, where is he going? the nsa leaker was expected to leave moscow monday heeding to cuba, then ecuador. he wasn't on the flight from moscow to havana. no journalist saw him at the airport. russia's prime minister saying he hasn't entered the country. john joins us from inside the airport. john, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, we have a few things we know right now. we are inside the airport and our ability to move is limited. we are in the transit zone, using a...

Jon: possible sees pursuing the guy. jenna: new comments from president putin by the way. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. we'll get to the comments from putin in a moment. in the meantim mean russia's foreign minimummer sister says that they vie hra*eult eu violated the law for housing edward snowden is unacceptable. they say he is in a transit zone of a moscow airport. that is important because apparently that means he is not in the area where russia is talking to him or reaching him or so says the russian president. the russian president goes onto say he will not be extradited to the united st...

That may be difficult to do given that he has no certainty it would be accepted. ecuador is processing it. if he has to leave the moscow transit zone, it's not clear at this point where he will go. >> certainly being run by wikileaks right now. but in essence, is russia laughing off this extradition request by the u.s.? and this is coming after just one day of tough talk that we're hearing from secretary kerry as well as jay carney from the white house. i want to play it for everybody. take a listen. >> we continue to hope that the russians will do the right thing. we think it's very important...

More now on the developing news on the high stakes global game of hide-n-go seek. russian's president vladimir putin says snowden is in, quote, a transit zone of moscow's airport. and russia will not be extraditing him. this hours after officials insisted snowden wasn't there, calling u.s. claims ungrounded and unacceptable. today we are learning much more. one of snowden's attorneys claiming in a new interview that it was as simple as this. >> evidently, he went through the official channel instead of being arranged to come through this cham. nothing unusual happened.

Everything went on as usual. as normal. >> seems simple to me, right? joining me now, michael issikof. a lot of people will be scratching their heads about that one. but explain what is going on here. >> well, first of all, the statement from putin does seem to clear up what was mystifying a lot of people t statement from the foreign minister that he never crossed the russian border. i spoke to kristen shortly after that statement who is the official spokesman for wikileaks who confirmed one of wikileaks's staff members, sarah harrison, was with snowden when they flew from hong kong to moscow ...