do you think his outcome is going to be what's going to happen with him you know i'm glad that ed snowden is as patient as he is i'm i'm on record from from the very beginning as saying that i believe snowden is a is a national hero a bonafide american hero because if it hadn't been for ed snowden we would. had no idea that our government was spying on us now that's a violation of the law and it's even a violation of n.s.a.'s charter well what happened when ed snowden went public immediately he was vilified that's very typical of national security whistleblowers it's the press and the american people tend to not focus on the information that has been revealed instead they focus on the whistleblower himself what did he do wrong what brand of eyeglasses does he wear why is he and russia why is he running to iceland or ecuador or cube or wherever it is they were alleging that he was running that's not the issue the issue is he exposed waste fraud abuse and illegality and that's what we should be focused on so the fact that snowden has been so patient and has not demanded to come home i think

. >> stephen: just in case you don't win, did you save the address of where ed snowden is living right. because i'm sure russia would love to have you back. >> they would love that, they have the drill warmed up and ready. >> stephen: the strangest thing about russia to me is it seems so much like the west. >> yeah. >> stephen: you know what i mean it is like the uncanny valley of the west. you think it's western and then you go wait, that's not a leaf, that's a spider pretending to be a leaf, you know there is some weird evolutionary monkey-- brain that makes you scoot awayness certainly not something that i a rational person thinks i know what i do will, get in a relationship with this country, or ally, hypothetically but that would ever in happen, no one would ever suggest that, something that inexrensably stupid. -- income prehencably stu wid. we can't live in that world, please tell me that we don't. >> stephen: i done live in that world. last week tonight airs sundays not this sunday but after that. john oliver, everybody. we'll be right back with mike birbiglia. fios is not cabl