one you're not supposed to see and still live. watch how quickly that temperature shoots up, from 100 to nearly 900 degrees in less than 15 seconds. if you were standing here, this would be the last thing you ever see. in a moment, you'll hear from people who get nearly that close time and time again as a job, for some, as a calling. first, martin savidge joins us live from colorado springs. martin? >> good evening, john. we're standing outside of the incident command center where they have been calling the shots on this historic fire for the last three days. and for most of that time the news has not been good. but today finally, finally, there is at least a glimmer of hope and a lot of that has to do with the fact, well, the weather. the weather had been the problem for some so long. now suddenly the weather has turned out to be actually a pretty good thing today. there is cloud cover overhead. that's good for a number of reasons. it drops the humidity levels.

raises those. drops the temperature. and the wind, the wind had subsided somewhat. that was best of all and then late this afternoon the skies opened up. now, we we should tell you when you get rain like this, it is a good thing as far as helping to douse some of the hot spots, but the problem is it brought a lot of lightning and that of lightning and that is a huge problem in this area because even though the ground has been dampened, much of the brush is tender dry. it will dry out and as a result of that, it is possible that we could be back into a high threat fire circumstance in just a matter of hours after the rain. but we were out there today. there are no walls of fire. let me just put that to rest, but what they did is get containment around 30%. that's very good. yesterday they were practically at zero and there is news they are at least able to call off some mandatory evacuations.

for some folks, they can go home. not those in the most devastated areas they have to wait awhile. those areas on the fringe can start to go back home. other good news is the fire crews can begin to get rest but i'll warn you, john, this fire is not out by any means, 30% containment means 70% of it is not under control and even though it's down to hot spots that have to be mopped up, they can flair and there are subdivisions packed on the outer edge of this fire that can be threatened. good news, turning a corner, significant progress but remember, there had been at least two deaths and there are fears more deaths could be discovered as people and authorities move into these neighborhoods after the claims, john. >> important prospective. you were out there with the firefighters today. give us details what those were like up close, the perspective. >> what you find is many of

these fire departments, the first four especially up in the mountains that took on this fire, these are small rural fire departments. they had two problems, number one unlike the waldo canyon fire that started in government land, this fire started in a neighborhood. they knew once it blew up, they were losing houses. it was turning street after street, row after houses, row after houses. they knew the neighbors. they knew their neighborhoods. they were fighting in the areas they lived. a fire crew, when they got to a house they realized they couldn't save it. it was a heart breaking decision but the next thing think did was kick down the doors and drag out the personal possessions inside. whatever that homeowner has left, it's because those firefighters went in and dragged it out. that's the kind of community it is. the other thing is the tax base has gone down due to the declining of property values.

they had to cut staff, and they had to cut back on purchasing equipment. all of that impacted their ability to fight this blaze. they did the very best they could, they take it to heart that they lost 370 homes. they know it could have been far worse, and they will tell their neighbors they did everything they possibly could to save their house. john? >> martin savidge for us on the front lines. someone who spent a good chunk of his career getting close to these fires so we can get a better sense of their power. national gee -- geographics mark is heading into it. >> this is getting too hot for me. tried to go around on that street but it's too hot over there and i'm hot right here believe it or not. it's too hard to hold the camera in my hand.

you know, i hold my camera up and i can't do it for so long because my fingers start to burn. i have gloves but i want a sense how hot things are. i want to know if my camera will melt on me. >> a brave mark theesen. he joins us tonight from a somewhat cooler location. mark, these fires, help us understand it's the wind and the embers fueling them, right. >> yes, when you get these conditions associated with a thunderstorm, it can cause dry lightning, and it can push these flames and embers that you can't see in the daytime. these pictures i shot at night, and you can see these embers. they get pushed into homes into the attic through the eves and they can burn from the inside out. >> these pictures are powerful and among them, before and after pictures you took of a house

during a fire. why does the house burn but not the trees around it? >> because the house is the most flammable thing in the forest fire. it's like a fly paper for embers. so when embers from another house blow into that house, they stick into the siding and into the metal trim around a window. they go into the vents of an attic and with these hot, dry, winds, they keep blowing and blowing and blowing and next thing you know, you've got fire and -- and the house is fully engulfed. every house fire starts out small and turns into a much bigger one. >> when the fires get so intense they can create their own weather system, right? >> that's right. when you got a fire moving across the prairie or forest, it's creating so much convection, the heat from the burning vegetation goes up really, really fast up into the sky just like in a thunderstorm and that air needs to be replaced.

it's replaced by other oxygen air coming from the sides and that helps push the fire even further. >> one challenge fighting them is how quickly they can move. how fast? >> well, i've seen fires in idaho move 50 miles an hour and that's winds pushing those flames and you can't catch up to it. you can't drive on a dirt road at 50 miles an hour to catch it. you have to call the district ahead of it to put a stop to the fires. >> reading something today suggested fighting this fire in colorado, has been hampered by high temperatures so may seem like an obvious question so how does that hamper the come burst? >> when you have higher temperatures, the humidity lowers. it gets less. the air gets drier and therefore it carries fire and dries out the vegetation ahead of the fire. so it just means that the fuels, the vegetation, if you will, is just more flammable. >> you've seen so many of these.

put this one in colorado into context. >> this is just a tragedy, you know. any time you have this many homes burning, you know, and loss of life, it's just horrible. it's something that is going to continue happening, as terrible as it is more and more in the future as our climate changes. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. and now the men and women who come not to capture wildfires but to kill them. fighting flames the way the 82 wins wars. gary tuckman tells their remarkable story. >> reporter: in the entire usa there are 44 4 of them. many of them are in colorado right now, marking on to aircraft which is their transportation to the action. their job, to fly into the fires just as new ones are starting up

and stop them from getting bigger, nowhere near any roads and sometimes quite a distance from any civilization. smoke jumpers court disaster every day they are on the job. >> when you talk to people you know, not close family, you tell them what you do, what do they say to you? >> they think i should get my head examined. >> reporter: part of the reason for that is how they get to the fires. >> firefighters is not an occupation for the timid. they don't just fight fires. they sky dive into potentially deadly combustion wilderness. >> reporter: we watched them jump into this canyon in colorado. after they land, their equipment is attached to their own parachute. >> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers

who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the person i was with was a trained paramedic. >> reporter: they clear fuels with the equipment and digging fire lines. also building backfires to stop the wildfires in their tracks. they have to get along with each other because their lives depend on relying with each other. are there times you're fearful? >> almost certainly. i think all firefighters have moments we're fearful. we saw courage isn't the absence of fear but the action making in spite of it.

>> reporter: and there is no shortage of action this season. >> remarkable guys there. just ahead tonight, now, departing on track nine your money. billions of your tax dollars on a train that was supposed to bring high-speed rail to this country but going nowhere fast. how much are you on the hook for? we're keeping them honest. we'll go behind the whitey bulger trial and they see him, more as robin hood than murder inc. the most powerful thing on the planet. love holds us in the beginning. comforts us as we grow old. love is the reason you care. for all the things in your life... that make life worth living. ♪

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sounds like a great idea, high-speed rail across the country and supporters say it would reduce congestion and pollution. the reality is much more complicated and the crown jewel, california's bullet train is in real trouble. this isn't only a california story, there are billions of tax dollars, your money, in the system for the promise. keeping them honest. >> reporter: for the past decade, california has been the

true hope for high-speed rail in america. a vision of the future the rest of the u.s. would certainly follow. backed by a nearly 10 billion-dollar california bond measure passed four years ago and $3.5 billion of your federal tax dollars, the idea was to link the two biggest golden cities with a 200-mile an hour bullet. which is why californians overwhelmingly approved it, a bullet train connecting los angeles with san francisco in a little more than two hours, but like many high-speed rail projects across the country, it hasn't happened yet and even once staunch supporters of this rain are asking where is it? >> i introduced as state sen tomorrow the first bill to create high-speed rail in california. >> reporter: when was that? >> 1992. >> reporter: he pushed it back

in 1992 and tried again in 1996 and as chairman of the high-rail authority. >> we're on our way. >> reporter: in 2008 rallied california voters to back the bond measure to pay for high-speed rail. so a lofty goal, a goal that everybody thought was a great idea, the bond measure passed with tremendous support. what happened? >> over the next three years, what happened was the collapse of the plan to run genuine high-speed rail. i call it the great train robbery. >> reporter: the great train robbery with millions already spent, billions pledged, the result in california has so far amounted to, well, nothing. his vision of boarding a train

in california and steps off in downtown los angeles turned into a blended system, sharing tracks, going some parts fast, some parts slow but not true high-speed rail and certainly not what californians voted for and remember, that's your money you the taxpayer are also along for this ride. >> what we're talking about is a vision for high-speed rail in america. >> reporter: the obama administration in the push to build high-speed rail has given california 3.5 billion federal dollars. >> as u.s. taxpayers and california taxpayers, are we getting ripped off? how are they getting away with this? >> under this plan, we're getting ripped off, no question about it. >> reporter: earlier this year we asked out going transportation secretary ray la

hood where is the high speed rail the obama administration spent $12 billion supporting. he told us, it's coming. >> i'm wondering after four years and $12 billion spent if you're disappointed at where the high-speed rail is. where is the high-speed rail. >> the high-speed rail, in four years, we've invested $12 billion. that's just the federal money. that doesn't count any of the other money that's been invested in california. the assembly just passed to sell bonds worth $10 billion and soon in california, they will be turning a spade of dirt and starting to build their high-speed rail. in some parts of the country we'll have trains going 200 miles an hour. >> reporter: when? >> as soon as we can get the kind of work that needs to be done started and it's starting. >> reporter: the general accounting office did give a lukewarm endorsement to the project but raised red flags that cost estimates could be

improved, warning the project faces funding uncertainty. we wanted to ask the chairman of california's high speed rail authority how soon and more importantly how realistic is it that california will actually finish what it hasn't even begun? but the chairman, dan richard has stopped giving interviews to cnn. his staff told us they don't like the tone of our reports. they did send a statement saying california's high-speed rail program is moving forward with a cost effective and efficient plan that was approved by the legislature. the statement goes on to say we >> i'm anderson cooper. in the hour ahead, you're going to meet somebody who has demonstrated bravery time and time again as a u.s. navy

>> reporter: no silver bullet and if former supporters are right, no bullet train. drew griffin, cnn san francisco. >> the high speed rail, at least the first part was supposed to break ground as you saw in that statement this summer. well summer is almost here, a week away, the ground breaking day pushed back until late last month. there is a lot of uncertainty still and this is after years of planning. a lawsuit underway in california says the high-speed rail plan is so far removed from what the voters okayed, they should go back to the original plan or scrap the project. we promise, we'll keep you

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crime and punishment, day three of whitey bulger's racketeering and murder trial. he threw back his head and laughed. what did he find so funny, testimony about a meeting between a man he owed business. he said he had another business besides book making and when the man asked what it was, bulger said killing a-holes like you. that's what tickled the former king-pen funny bone. he is now 83. the man that gave the testimony, 84. kevin, as i mentioned, these former bookies testified saying what a lot of people believe to be true that if you crossed whitey bulger or his gang you would end up hurt or worse, right?

>> absolutely. jimmy cats grew up about three blocks from where you did, john, i know the streets and jimmy talked about that, that he ended up in the hospital. i thought he was generous saying that because usually, if you really crossed whitey, you ended up in a grave. >> john confessed to 20 murders, two times ten and served two years in prison because of a deal he cut to testify against bulger and against steve fleming. testimony to say nothing of him and whitey bulger, they will be in the same courtroom after all these years. hype up that drama. >> i can only imagine. i'm sure whitey will stair him down but johnny will stair him down just as well. the difference between them is whitey is eating crappy jail

food and johnny is eating at a steak house. i can't afford to eat there and johnny is eating there. things have changed. but, yeah, it's bad -- that will be a big part of whitey's defense. you can see where the lead lawyer is going. he wants to make this about the bad guys that are testifying against whitey. he wants to make it about the fbi, the fbi enabled him and protected him and made honest law enforcement people go away when they were trying to take hem down. whitey pulled the triggers, he put knives to people's throat and extorted them. it will be a really hard slog for whitey's lawyers to get over

the hump of what they will say to him. >> well, i mean, it's -- you begin with the premise this is really a story of angels with dirty faces. if they film it today, they have to dig up people to play him and his brother. we're told we could not refer to him in court as bill or billy bulger but william. bill bulger was the most powerful politician in the state when his brother was the most powerful gangster in boston. the difference between whitey bulger and a guy like al caopoon had certain people on the payroll.

whitey bulger had the entire fbi protecting him. john conley was the handler and now doing 40 years or helping the guy get kill that protected whitey bulger, it went to the hoover building, john. he was protected at the highest levels in washington because they believed he was a useful informant. he was a useless informant. the defense will say he wasn't an informant. it was john conley protecting him because he wanted to protect the family because he grew up in the same housing project in south boston. i don't have to tell you, john, you're from this time. in a place like southty, everything is about loyalty, loyal the to your neighborhood, neighbors and loyalty to your family. >> that's dead on. kevin, before i let you go, one other thing i want you to tell people about, if you're not from boston you might not remember.

1991 you heard the news whitey bulger won the lottery. use the word win loosely. you can't make this up. explain how this worked in whitey world. >> a guy -- pat lenski was a friend and won. by whitey never had a legitimate source of income and took part of the ticket to say he had 80 grand in tax-free money every year. the first thing whitey did after he won the lottery was go to florida and buy a condo because the feds couldn't seize it because he had a legitimate source of income. that's all that was about. just another scram, just another day in whitey's world. it's whitey's world, john, we're just living in it. >> i wish i could be in that trial along with you. thank you very much. fabulous reporting. >> john, the increasing the

white house says they will include small arms, rebels and anti-tank weapons. yesterday the white house said syria crossed a quote red line by using chemical weapons against it's own people. the victims of the sanity -- sandy hook elementary school shooting were remembered with 26 seconds of license, one for each killed. a gunman burst into the school six months ago today. a higher judge ruled a former high school football player convicted in juvenile court for raping a 16-year-old girl must register as a sex offender for the next 26 years. massachusetts transit officer richard donohue went home from the hospital today. he was wounded in the shootout between the police and boston bombing suspects.

police fired nearly 300 rounds including the bullet that nearly killed officer donohue and we wish him well in his recovery. >> amen, we do. great to see him heading home from the hospital. thanks so much. coming up here, the incredible story of christian beck who came out as transgender after spending years as a navy sale and known as chris beck. now she says she's finally the person she felt she was but had to hide. a look at her next. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results.

now an ac 360 exclusive. kristen beck used to be chris back. for all those years she kept hidden the person she considered to be her real self-. we're getting an amazing look at her new life and courage. >> reporter: it would be an understatement to say that life is a lot different since chris began living full-time as kristen. >> all of the stuff that women

go through every day, we wake up. you have to do all your make up and try to look pretty and presentable and it's a lot more work than anybody would ever imagine. so now i'm ready for the day. i got a lot of dresses and skirts and different things in the last few months or last six months. when i first started shopping, i would go to victoria secret to make believe i was buying for my girlfriend and now because i'm a full-time woman and i'm buying things for myself, it's liberating. and just like any girl in the entire world, i have a pretty

good shoe collection. if i have to compare if i like my guns or my shoes better, i would have to say i like my shoes better now. when you have a really pretty dress on, item powers you and gives you that confidence, so my body armor i wear now is a very pretty dress and some of my heels. so it's kind of -- kind of funny how that changes. >> reporter: the changes she's embraced have her focus more on wardrobe than warfare these days. >> that's the beauty about this weapon, it's so simple. not a whole lot of moving parts. we got it all back together now. ready to go. >> reporter: for work, she supports herself with the skills she mastered as a navy seal. >> we're driving up to go to a shooting range. >> reporter: she's a paid firearm instructor through a security firm and trains a local police swat team free of charge. >> i just feel that weapons should be treated with respect and used properly then it would actually make a lot more peace in our world because the bad people are criminals now, they can't get away with taking advantage of people. this type of training, i see it

as a service definitely to use what i did in the navy seals and what i've done my whole life. >> okay soft you got all -- >> i'm ready. >> cool. let's lock and load. going hot. still shooting real high. i don't know why you're so high. let me take a shot. >> just wondering if it's off. probably not. >> they are going right in the same freaking hole. >> i put three in one hole so the weapon is shooting pretty good. i think we're good. okay. >> let me try -- >> now you got to get more accurate because i showed you it's not the weapon. >> no, i know that. >> perfect. that was good. how does that feel? feels pretty awesome. >> great. >> good shooting. >> that feels great.

>> do it again? >> yeah. >> right in the bulls eye. so there is the end of our training. mike, thank you. >> been a pleasure. remember, ladies night monday night after 4:00 shoot for free. if you would like to come more than welcome. >> great. >> that's good. >> we'll go to the motorcycle shop and we're going to check in with one of the mechanics that i do a lot of work with and see how the project is going. >> reporter: a long time motorcycle enthusiasts she build a bike ground up. that exhaust pipe part of a rocket grenade launcher. she ends the day taking us to her favorite bar. >> girls night out. >> reporter: most of the friends she has today knew her as chris but have stood by her in her new life as kristen. >> not cool to judge people because of anything. >> exactly. that's why i love you. >> you're going to make me blush.

>> reporter: just stepping out of the house these days dressed as kristen is courage. >> are you nervous? >> yeah. >> there is a lot of prejudice out there. when i walk out my front door, it's a challenge, a mission because i want to make sure i represent, you know, all of us women in a good way. this is my life. just ahead, an incredibly rare discovery, three sets of dinosaur bones found in the same spot. we'll take you to the secret location. tonight another 360 exclusive, an extraordinary discovery on a ranch. the remainings of three dinosaurs. piece by piece bones believed to be 67 million years old being excavated. our cnn crew is the only television crew allowed on this site. we've agreed not to reveal the exact location. >> reporter: miles down an

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jutting out of millions years old earth. i'm worried i'll step on something. >> if you step -- the white is okay. that's obviously a rib bone. >> reporter: this is a rib bone? >> yeah. >> reporter: is that a tooth? >> it's a horn. >> reporter: that's a horn. >> it's the trisarstops. larson believes these enormous bones were cracked and crushed by the meat loving t-rex that fed and discarded them at these feed sites. for the first time in modern science, three of them at the same site at the pain staking week-long excavation they believe one of these will rival the most complete skeleton of a trisasatpos found. how old is this? millions of years.

>> reporter: is it an addiction? >> it's an addiction, that's right. once you start doing this, you can't stop. >> reporter: the only time this independent fossil collector stopped digging, when we went to federal prison. in 1990 he paid a rancher to unearth the world's largest complete fossil of a t-rex on the land. larson named it sue. later the rancher, the u.s. government and su indians claimed possession. the government seized the t-rex and he was sent to prison for two years for illegal transport of money. they call that an example of government over reach using certain laws. he was -- sue was sold for over $8 million. larson never saw a cent. how do you come back and keep

digging? >> that was not fun but part of my life and i learned many things, things i have a curiosity about like what is life in prison like. >> reporter: it won't stop this fiercely independent scientists. new federal laws put in place say the land owner, not the government owns fossils. larson has already struck a modest deal with this rancher and a museum of the netherlands for the trio. for far less than he would have made at a public auction. larson says he's not in it for the money but the hunt. >> they are monsters, true monsters that were alive and to be able to hunt for those monsters is pretty cool. >> that is pretty cool. what is next? how long until the bones there are removed? >> reporter: well, it's going to take a couple more weeks, sean, if not longer to get all the bones out. they are not parenthesis of

discovering how many bones are in there. they have a lot of work ahead. in the lab it becomes more difficult. they are looking up to 20,000 hours trying to piece it together before it's in a form that you can take your kid to see in museum. >> wow, you called the man prolific. define that. how many dinosaur skeletons has he found? >> reporter: 100 dinosaurs. that's his argument. he's an independent guy and if it were not for larson and his discoveries, we simply wouldn't have them. >> that's cool, indeed. thanks very much. isha is back with a 360 bull ton. >> john zawahri left a farewell note apologizing for killing his father and brother. five people were killed.

no motive was given in the letter. cleveland police have released video of ariel castro and his brothers in custody. he's visibly upset and throws his body up against the glass window. he and padro were later freed and not charged with kidnapping three women found in ariel castros's home. in honor of the 150th anniversary, lego put together these maps of the system. what it could look like in 2020. each map took four days to build. john, the party may be over for the music group that claims to be the copyright holder of happy birthday to you. they filed a class-action lawsuit to put the song in the public domain and make it free. warner chapel music charged them $1500 to use the song. the suit argues the music group collects more than $2 million a year in copyright fees for the song and wants them to return

all the cash it's collected over the years. who would have thought it? >> wait, so if i say -- if it were you birthday and i sang happy birthday to isha, would i have to pay royalties? is that what you're saying? >> yeah and don't look for me for cash. because i won't help you pay the bill. you can mime it. you can mime it. >> thanks. michaela, the new anchor of new day which premieres on monday. i'll speak with her about what is on deck. next. even in stupid loud places. to prove it, we set up our call center right here... [ chirp ] all good? [ chirp ] getty up. seriously, this is really happening! [ cellphone rings ] hello? it's a giant helicopter ma'am. [ male announcer ] get it done [ chirp ] with the ultra-rugged kyocera torque, only from sprint direct connect. buy one get four free for your business.

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this coming monday morning is the whole new start, cnn new day with chris and kate baldwin and news anchor michaela pereira. welcome to cnn. my first question for you new day based in new york, you spent a decade on the west coast. what is it like from going left costa east coast? >> this really is a new day. it's an adjustment.

a lot of wide open space in the west. >> your former colleagues, i watched the old clips when you said farewell. you got a car for your birthday once. do your new colleagues understand that, what they have to do? >> i don't think they fully understand what i left in los angeles. i think they are starting to get a sense from the tweets and e-mails that i've been getting and i've been sharing with them. you spend a decade -- john, you know this you spend a decade in a market, fall in love with a place, you make connections, part of community. it was difficult to leave and made it difficult with the series of send offs. >> you get started monday morning, your new team, do you get an extra tax deduction for that? how are you guys getting along? >> it's so funny. these are three different people. kate being from indiana covering d.c., you've been working with her for quite awhile. you have chris, the cuomo last name is famous, traveling the globe doing the great stories, breaking news and you have me in the mix. it will be bright and early.

are you a morning guy, john? >> you'll find out because i will be there monday morning to be with you to help with the launch. i'm looking forward. tell the viewers what we can expect about new day, the format, how you look forward to the show? >> energy, enthusiasm and advocacy. we care profoundly about the world around us and what is going on. we're not trying to reinvent morning news. we recognize people want that information in a manner that they can manage at that time in the morning. we want quick news to get you around the circumference of the globe, if we can, what is going on domestically. financial, we'll have d.c. news, sports, weather a great gallery, peter will make sure we know all the weather coming our way. this year has been a big weather year already and some surprises

along the way, too. i can't give those away. >> don't give away secrets. >> i won't. >> news is and always will be our top priority here at cnn. you know this better than i do, you have to juggle. you have to talk about a range of issues. let's play word association. here is your morning tv test. >> here we go. >> justin bieber. >> canadian, ha ha. >> politics. >> d.c. >> wolf blitzers' beard. >> foxy. >> the kardashians. >> a lot. >> a lot. that's good. and finally let's be clear and honest, i'm just a fill in. anderson cooper? >> dreamy. >> i won't ask. >> i have background on you, my friend. >> we have mutual friends. >> we do. >> so -- >> we'll keep that hidden for now. >> michaela, great to have you

on cnn and we'll see you, chris and kate, bright and early monday. >> thank you. that does it for us for now. thanks for watching. ♪ from cnn's world's headquarters in atlanta. this is "early start" weekend. >> i either have a house or i don't have a house. there's nothing i can do about that. >> flames have destroyed almost 500 homes and scorched an area the size of manhattan. and now evacuees of the fire are wondering if they have anything to go back to. does he have a relationship with a foreign government and is there more to the story? >> he leaked united states' secrets and now he's on the run and some thing he's working for he