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Good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. vladimir putin live on cnbc slamming president obama and also unclear on whether he would support the results of this weekend's voting in ukraine. president putin answered questions posed by cnbc's europe jeff cutmore including about edward snowden. >> translator: he turned up on our territory because of nonprofessional actions of the americans themselves who tried to catch him. i used to work for special services why did they scare the entire world? they downed the planes with presidents on board and the plane with snowden on board could be down an...

>> it's a very odd allegation. i suppose what congressman rogers is saying is that edward snowden had an agreement with the russians that he would fly not to moscow but to hong kong. give the information not to russian intelligence but to american journalists and struck those journalists to publish only those documents that are in the public interest and with hold things that would cause harm, then fly to russia, rather than be greeted by open arms be stranded in a transit zone and apply for asylum in 20 other places. i think spies get treated better than mr. snowden has there. i can tell you ...

Security agency leaker, edward snowden. he got stuck in moscow because cuba caved in to u.s. pressure. snowden planned to fly to cuba aday after he arrived to hong kong. cuba would not let the plane land in havana. he accepted a year's asylum in russia after spending weeks in the transit zone of the airport. lots of people trying to access chinese websites hit a wall. the initial name is the denial of service attack. it was one of the biggest ever to hit china. this kind of attack overwhelms websites by flooding them with requests. no one has taken responsibility for this. imagine, it's an...

I think it's horrible and you draw distinctions between government activity. >> jeslynn do you agree with that? >> no, i think that's a distinction without a difference. bedetaining him in a transit zone on a terrorism law, when there was no suspicion whatsoever even asserted by the united kingdom was purely a detention under the very antiinflammatory label of terrorism and the way i understood the incident at the guardian to unfold is that the uk wanted copies of the information, and instead, the guardian wisely said we'll destroy it before handing it over to you, which is a prince pa princip...

Different kind of government activity. >> do you agree with that? >> that's a distinction without a difference. by detaining him in a transit zone on a terrorism law, when there was no suspicion whatsoever, even asserted by the united kingdom, was purely a pretextural contention under the label of terrorism. the way i understood the incident is that the uk wanted copies of the information and instead the guardian wisely said we will destroy it before handing it over to you, which is the principled thing to do. when it suits mr. toobin's interest, he's glad to claim first amendment interests, b...