donna thanks very much and if your thoughts on this donna johnson political right have lived here an ati thank you well a u.s. official says that america is not surprised by the news that snowden has been given temporary asylum in russia that follows weeks of washington pursuing the n.s.a. whistleblower with hopes of his extradition let's get the details now from. donna johnson's reaction to how she thinks relations between washington and moscow could be affected so tell us more you will that in washington tell us more about the u.s. reaction so far at this stage. well there is no official statement from the white house but from what we hear u.s. officials say they're not shocked or even surprised by the fact that russia granted snowden temporary asylum they heard president putin say russia is not going to extradite anyone so washington knew what to expect the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said moscow's decision will harm u.s. russia relations we heard calls in congress to punish russia for snowden to boycott the g twenty and things like that some senators have i

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