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Those passports had prevently been reported stolen. now, if they were leaving through the united states, passports coming and going, does require the database to determine if a passport or other travel document being use had been reported stolen, and is in the database ant interpol in re-on- >> tom fuentes, thank you very much. rin rene maersh joins us by phone. it's very unusual a plane would disappear at this cruising altitude. >> reporter: absolutely, fred. i've been talking all day with people within the industry, and they all seem to agree. we really are not in a good place here. here i...

Boarding a flight until he's at least consulted with the venezuelan government about whether or not he actually wants to go to the country, although his options are narrowing pretty much, so it's difficult to see how he's going to say no to that. but yeah, the expectation is that the venezuelan government are going to be speaking to him on monday, as i say, and discussing with him how he's going to get out of the country, because it's going to be very difficult practically for him to get to venezuela from the transit terminal of moscow. it's not clear whether the venezuelans will give him a tr...

Fredricka, it still is anyone's guess whether or not he's going to be on that flight because as we also know he does not have a valid passport after the u.s. revoked his passport, so he would have to get some sort of travel document presumably from the venezuelas, fredricka? >> what about russia? is russia commenting thus far on why it continues to hold him if it's assisting or why it wouldn't grant him asylum? >> reporter: well, the russians commented on this very quickly and it's interesting they did so so quickly because it shows snowden is increasing becoming a headache for the putin admin...

Ready to come to him. for the latest, i'm joined by nbc's jim maceda in moscow for us. explain the controversy around the bolivian president's plane and also where it stands with the whereabouts of snowden and where he wants to go. >> reporter: well, let's start with snowden. because it is an easy segue for me. snowden is still believed to be in a secure hotel. forgive me, because the wind is really kicking up here. in the airport's transit zone. we've been talking about that transit zone now for 12 days. we believe that he's been in this kind of hotel, sealed off floor in a special hotel in t...

To give him his papers to come back here to face free and fair trial. >> and just to reiterate what snowden wrote in that letter in going after president obama personally after noting that the president has pressured other countries not to allow snowden to come in, this kind of deception, snowden says, from a world leader is not justice and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. these are the old bad tools of political aggression. that from snowden blasting the president of the united states. jill, you wanted to make one more point? >> i think it's very important, the word "exile," i thin...