tonight we have an exclusive interview with one edward snowden who is both revered and reviled for spilling america's top secrets. yahoo! global news anchor katie couric traveled to russia where snowden is hiding in plain sight. >> do you think u.s. officials know where you live, know where you are? >> i think they have a general idea. at this point, you know, after three years, if they can't >> reporter: this mild-mannered 33-year-old is arguably america's most wanted fugitive. nsa whistle-blower edward snowden. >> breaking details on that whistle blow history leaked top secret documents -- >> faces almost certain criminal prosecution -- >> reporter: for more than three years hiding in plain sight in the russian capital. can you walk around freely the streets of moscow and not be recognized? >> i walked here. >> are you ever recognized? people have no idea who i am. if i walk into a computer store, everyone in the store will immediately recognize me. >> reporter: since august of 2013, he's been living in exile. provided asylum by russia after leaking an undetermined number, perhaps as high

how hypocritical is this of tha paper to take a stand against pardoning edward snowden? >> the "washington post" sopa sureley made the choice, remember snowdon didn't make a choice to publish any documents. the "washington post" made theei choice to publish hundreds of top secret.it's only for the editor the paper to turn around and faced node should be imprisoned for leaking the documents that we then "washington post" made the choice to publish and to win a pulitzer prize for having done so. it's bizarre. if they want to be persistent they should call for their own persecution. kennedy: last question hillary clinton has asked for greater collaboration between the government and so con valley. donald trump has called for more profiling in the wake of the latest terror attacks. which administration do you fear more from your prospective? >> if you combined to that narrow question i would certainly say they are pretty ominous.s.f co imagine wanting to vet facebook and twitter and google these unaccountable tech giants with the ability to collaborate to decide which is and

nsa whistle-blower, edward snowden. >> breaking news on that whistle-blower -- >> faces almost certain criminal prosecutions. capital. >> can you walk around freely in the streets of moscow and not be recognized? >> i walked here. >> are you ever recognized? >> if i walk out on the street, people have no idea who i am. if i walk into a computer story, everyone in the story will immediately recognize me. >> reporter: since august of 2013, he's been living in exile, provided asylum by russia after leaking an undetermined number, perhaps as high as 1.5 million classified n journalists, exposing systemic government surveillance of civilians here and abroad. a disclose your that both enraged and embarrassed the american intelligence community. he was charged under the espionage act and faces up to 30 years in prison if he returns to the u.s. with his residency permit set to donald trump tweeted about you, snowden is a traitor. >> i wonder when it is that he thinks america was great. we are a country that was born from an act of trees an against a government that had run out of control. but

according to edward snowden, yes.ims david petraeus handed classified information to his mistress and got off scot-free. >> the system of justice in the united states where people who are well connected to government or have access to an incredible amount of resources get light punishment. kennedy: there are calls to have snowden tried as a traitor or pardoned. are theretwo criminal justice systems in this country? >> yes, hillary clinton was treat the differently. snowden gets up on his high horse. he says no one presented evidence that this damaged u.s. security operations which is nonsense. petraeus unforgivable what he did in sharing this information with his girlfriend. edward snowden traveled to hong kong briefed them on u.s. intelligence. kennedy: do you think the president will pardon him? >> my head will explode if he does. kennedy:he wants to come back. >> he's giving our secrets to our enemy. i don't understand why you want to come back to a country you have done so much damage to. i love general petraeus.

thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, katy. >>> up next, edward snowden. the subject of a scathing new report of the intelligence committee. it calls him a liar and accuses him of being in contact with russian intelligence. what he's saying about that report, coming up next. nd messy. they are the natural born enemy of the way things are. yes, ideas are scary, and messy and fragile. but under the proper care, they become something beautiful. ♪ everything your family touches sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. because no one kills germs better than clorox. keeping the power lines clear,my job to protect public safety, while also protecting the environment. the natural world is a beautiful thing, the work that we do helps us protect it. public education is definitely a big part of our job, to teach our customers about the best type of trees to plant around the power lines. we want to keep the power on for our customers. we want to keep our community safe. this is our community, this is w

. >>> edward snowden went worldwide today thanks to san francisco bay's periscope. scott rudman was part of this live stream. >> he did this on twitter, which is known as donald trump's favorite social network. more than 100,000 people tuning in to the q and a saying be careful when it comes to your smart phones and politics. >> please join me in welcoming edward snowden. >> reporter: twitter headquarters connected to an undisclosed russian location for a live periscope q&a with a defiant edward snowden. >> even though it cost me a lot, it was the right thing to do. >> if you pick up a phone and you dial the number, you are making a record in the government databases. >> and defending the actions many called traitorous. >> i have never published a single thing online that says this is a classified program, this is how it works. i provided evidence of these kirnz of activities. >> do you think social media is the way to get things done? >> reporter: richard craig says snowden likely had an a audience in mind on periscope, young, hip and interested in cyber security.

right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. >>> welcome back: former nsa contractor edward snowden says he has advice on how to improve twitter. here's a photo of snowden speaking on the big screen at twitter headquarters in san francisco yesterday. he had a long list of suggestions on how to improve twitter including one user should not be allowed to edit their tweet after sent. he is the former nsa contractor who leaked top- secret information about government surveillance programs . >>> federal regulators want the cars of the future to be able to talk to each other with the aim of reducing the number of accident. transportation department says under the proposed rule all cars and trucks would be required to use the same technology for vehicle to vehicle communication. cars could send their location, speed and direction to other cars. regulators say that will help to avoid collisions. >>> cuisinart is recalling food products after open blades have been found in food. about 30 people have cut their mouse.-- mouse -- mouths. if your blade has 4 of those rivets that is a recall prod

edward snowden -- yes, he is somewhere out there, too, saying the u.s. eyes everywhere, too. if you are on this internet or that one, you are never alone anymore. up next on "hello, world," i travel to chile to go hunting for the origins of the universe and find myself with the help of a shaman. ♪ "hello, world" is supported by ca technologies, power and opportunity in the application economy. explore more at ca.com. ♪ ♪ >> i am emily chang. this is the "best of bloomberg technology." we bring you the top interviews from the week in tech. trump's mostnald outspoken critics. big tech leaders came face-to-face with the president elect this week. plus, yahoo! out with a new numbers. the second hack affect did over one billion users. what does it mean for the verizon deal?

from our abc >>> he's filled some of america's top security secrets, now former nsa contractor edward snowden is revered as a brave whistleblower and revered by others as a traitor. katie couric went to russia to talk to snowden. here is some of the conversation. >> reporter: this mild-mannered 33-year-old is arguably america's most wanted fugitive. nsa whistleblower, edward snowden. >> breaking news on that whistleblower -- prosecutions. >> reporter: he's been hiding in plain sight in the russian capital. >> can you walk around freely in the streets of moscow and not be recognized? >> i walked here. >> are you ever recognized? >> if i walk out on the street, people have no idea who i am. if i walk into a computer store, everyone in the story will immediately recognize me. >> reporter: since august of 2013, he's been living in exile, provided asylum by russia after leaking an undetermined number, perhaps as high as 1.5 million, classified nsa documents to journalists. his revelations exposing systemic government surveillance of civilians here and abroad. a disclosure that both enraged and emb

ashlee: those new laws passed this year would make edward snowden weep into his borscht.mands that all sites access -- all sites russians could access move their servers here. including googles and facebooks of the world. they have to store six months of data about people's every move online and then give the kremlin access. companies like mailroom protested. they said these measures would take a ridiculous amount of storage space. but they obviously lost. american companies have said there is no way they are moving to russia, so now they are criminal enterprises here. and that's how you build a sovereign internet. ashlee: just a couple of weeks after we visited dmitry, he stepped down as ceo. a government approved ceo is taking his place. the new guy also has -- also happens to be the son of the head of russia's largest state-run channel. coming up next, it's off to siberia where the russian government is trying to build a tech utopia in the tyga. >> "hello world" is supported by ca technologies, powering opportunity in the application economy. explore more at ca.com. ♪

. >> with those more current defense what do you think of the edward snowden situation quite. >> i think probably is the up perfect embodiment the focus of a epilogue in diameter many more books will be written about it but the perfect example if you hear the word trees and used quite often other people call him a hero. and then he tries to sort that out. >> maybe that awareness has changed. >> i think if we used uh turmoil little less frequently we have seen one case of treason those that was doing barack propaganda videos but in 1952 it is a very foreign concept now with something to write on the of log that i know it when they see a standard set out in the constitution. >> the when the treaty was passed nothing good happened to him. [laughter] unlike george logan with the future tryst from emerging the job was not waiting for him when he back and the state department and for many years for he in his wife to make that and winfield scott forged an alliance to petition abraham lincoln they were not to key on that idea so anonymously not until the late 1860's with the expenses incurred wh

in an interview released today, the former nsa contractor edward snowden weigh in on petraeus.isten in. >> perhaps the best known case in recent history is general petraeus who shared information that was far more highly classified than i ever did with journalists. and he shared this information not with the public or the benefit, but with his biographer and lover for purchasing benefit, conversations that had access to classified programs, top secret conversations with the president and so on. when the government came after him, they charged him with a misdemeanor. he never spent a single day in jail despite the information he exposed. >> okay, there's a lot of backstory going on there. but look, on the other side, you look at david petraeus' bio, he served 37 years in the army, four-star general, former cia director and former centcom commander, nonetheless, do you think edward snowden has a point? >> well, no, i wouldn't -- i would not give the credit to edward snowden who clearly was egregious in his actions and put a whole host of great americans and folks that were out th

you may remember in september the intelligence committee said edward snowden is a serial liar, that hehe was trying to protect civil liberties but most of what he stole had nothing to could wi do with that. a lot of intelligence programs that he's compromised. this is now the full report. >> what you can see tells you what some. >> the new things in here, they say that -- i'm going to quote one sentence. since snowden's arrival in moscow has he has and continues to have contact with the russian intelligence services. now, he has always denied that and in a series of tweets today he says it's still not true. he says the report notes that in june 2016 the deputy chairman of the russian parliament's defense and security committee asserted that, quote, snowden did share intelligence with his government, snowden in his tweet says, this is if an npr report and they leave out the part where the guy says i assume that or it's my speculation that snowden has done this. he basically says it's a hit job on him, factually untrue things. a couple of new things. it says that snowden failed or flunke

. >> it is not like edward snowden who did it for --. >> please stop with the snow a ran damage excuseo bash edward snowden. >> he if it to have a movie made. >> but petraeus was in love with the reporter. >> but show has done quite well and she on her own publicity tour for the last year. >> it worked out for her, she deserved the job. >> petraeus would be great ambassador. that is an ambush. now we are in an oil and gas executive for the top diplomat. i am sorry to say this buttic he is coming back to mitt romney the one guy endorsed going to end and donald trump has been very compliment of him throughout >> the guy ran the olympics. that is what they say when they bring him up, he ran the olympics. and the hair. it would show total bravery on trump by picking mitt romney because his share so beautiful and trump's hair is unique. >> i'm all for a good look myself but i will keep it real. if it comes down to hair opposed to a cool mustache i would have to go with the mustache. >> what do you make of the process? anything? >> for me personally, mrs. mcmahon is a great choice. i am a su

go general david petraeus risk being bigger by edward snowden. in over the weekend as a contender for secretary of state. >> american airlines flight attendants say new uniforms are making them sick. what they are demanding from the airlines. >> camp news is benched. highlights and low lights. >> edward snowden taking a shot at petraeus. he leaked information to his biographer and broadwell and that was worse than leaking classified info to the world. >> general petraeus who shared information that was far more highly classified than i ever did with journalists. when the government came after him they him with a misdemeanor. he never spent a single day in jail. >> he also claims he was led off because he was well respected. general david petraeus' past indiscretion take him out of the running for secretary of state? log on to facebook page after the show for a live debate #keep talking. >> a fapair of christian artist refuse to make same sex wedding invitations. sp they are accused of violating a law th law. >> we don't force artists to create ar

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last night we had edward snowden speak to us via skype.y question, how think edward snowden's actions would be judged differently by media, especially if he had exposed same level of corruption and lawlessness from within a corporation rather than from within the government? [applause] >> i think it might be treated differently. john: some conservatives say he committed treason. people putting their lives on the line for america may die because of what he revealed. >> well i think he broke the law. i think he should pay for breaking the law. i think that is requirement under our system, that people take responsibility for breaking the law. but i also think that the law is bad the way it is written. the law should be changed. we need to allow people inside whistle-blowers come to people on the outside, like member congress. for example, snowden and others like him can not come to regular member about congress like me. they have to go through the intelligence committee. that is outrageous. they should be able to go to anyone in congress. we

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does that slam the door to any type of repatriation or pardon for edward snowden? >> you can't pardon him. the moment he set foot on an airplane, he was under control of kgb. you don't do anything in that contract, especially an american contractor, they met him as soon as he got off the airplane and started a debriefing. he is under their control. he is not going to leave russia without their permission. russia, it remains a police state and that's the end of the story. he's not coming back. he is not going to be forgiven for this. i just do not believe that. >> thank you, bob. thank you, ambassador. appreciate it. >>> more of our coverage of israel asking donald trump to weigh in on a controversial u.s. resolution. ♪ lend him a helping hand. ♪ put a little love in your heart. ♪ ♪ take a good look around... ♪ ...and if you're lookin' down, ♪ ♪ put a little love in your heart. ♪ ♪put a little love in your heart.♪ ♪ in your heart. (avo) the subaru share the love event is happening now and will have given ninety million dollars to help real people like these. when yo

now, 2009 that was the last time we had edward snowden on the ground and that was left over from that big storm that where he had earlier in december. that snow on christmas day the last couple of times it happened was 1992 and 2003. it doesn't happen often around here. tonight yourself looking at the capitol wheel. the humidity is at 68%. the dew point is 40. we have a 10 degree spread. we he some rain on the way. it's going to be main now, the stuff that you see here maybe a little bit of it reaching the ground in southern and south western west virginia. the air is still dry so we are not seeing much showing up yet on the observations. that will change later tonight. 40 in town, upper 30s in the valley. joint base andrews one of the cold spot at 36 with easton and cambridge right now at 37 degrees. we are talking about a dry evening with the rain late. the rest of us i'm thinking maybe not until over night. a wet saturday morning. yellow weather alert for rain and showers around on saturday morning. only saturday morning. we will dry out some of the afternoon. a dry and mild christ

edward snowden calling out petraeus saying what petraeus did was worse?green party candidate jill stein says she can't afford the $1 million fee for the recount. so jill, where did all of the money go? we'll talk about that. >>> in case you needed a reason to watch this morning. >> if you don't stick around and watch the show, no soup for you! ♪ >> on the back of the clydesdales, here on 38th street. >> i love this show. >> you never know what you're going to get. >> one minute you've got the incoming chief of staff, reince priebus and in another minute you have budweiser clydesdales and. >> we have soup nazi over here and we were wearing slippers in the 6:00 hour. >> while you interview reince priebus. >> we start with a fox news alert and the latest on pt dance club death trap. a massive fire in oakland california warehouse party. nine people are con fermed dead but 25 are missing. >> the man behind the warehouse speaking out for the very first time after debris trapped 100 party goers. >> live at the devastating scene with the latest. good morning, ada

and with respect to edward snowden and thinking in view word keeping track whether letter or the e-mail that is the message people got very scared and worried can you clear up what is going on? >> uh public was stampeded. >> and with that responsibility and we should have been far more accurate to explain a we are doing with that essential element that you describe in from electronic communications that is say law-enforcement tradition that the supreme court decided that who you called also was the outside of the envelope the court held just like the outside of the envelope with no expectations and not to be constitutionally protected the. >> menu gathered all of that data congress had access to metadata with intelligence but it was not constitutionally limited and after 9/11 the commander in chief of decided that to the degree to stop the commander in chief that was inherent. and don to locations that is a given. so be gathered the data. to go along with it. to gather the data we don't try to create those relationships that could be a common practice. and then to have knowledge of wond

a panel of security experts is asking president obama to be lenient on edward snowden for leaking secret government information. the so called church committee was formed decades ago to investigate intelligence abuses. some of its members say snowden did not act for personal gain and his actions did expose questionable government actions. they say, snowden should cut some kind of deal to return from exile. a deal has been reached, so that soldiers don't have to pay back thousands that they were mistakenly given. the incident caused a controversy the defense department had been trying to get back 20 million dollars in reenlistment bonuses, that were given to people who weren't eligible. now only soldiers who knew they weren't supposed to get the money, have to repay. the deal is part of a larger defense bill due to be voted on in the coming days. back here in colorado this is the big story over the last 24 hours frankly. very very sad. today people are coming to pay their respects to a mom and her two children found dead yesterday. the three were found in a vacant after being missing for

. >>> "the new york times" says a new congressional report link edward snowden to russian intelligencencies. he responded on twitter saying the report is filled with obvious falsehoods. snowden has lived in russia since 2013 when he revealed how the national security agency spies on americans. >>> central jersey.com reports the cancellation of the princeton men's swimming season because of racist and vulgar e-mails. the university learned last week about offensive posts by team members. similar issues prompted the recent cancellation of the harvard men's team. >>> there was no cure or vaccine three years ago when outbreaks in africa killed more than 11,000 people. the vaccine was developed by the u.s.-based drugmaker merck. >>> time reports the opening of the world's first solar road in a french town. now the panels in the half-mile plus stretch are designed to power the town's street lights. it's part of a broader initiative to encourage renewable energy. and the system could be used throughout france if it works. pretty cool. >>> still ahead, uber's self-driving cars find friendly te

. >>> san francisco hooked up with russia today for an exclusive chat with edward snowden. jack dorsey spoke with cyber security, government surveillance and the recent election. snoed snowden insists he did nothing wrong by exposing classified documents a couple years ago. he warned anyone on a cell phone, though, that the government is listening. >> if you pick up the phone and you dial the number, you are making records of government. >> he doesn't want to necessarily be seen as some great villain. he doesn't want to be seen as someone changing world events. >> there have been rumors snowden may get a pardon but scott budman tells us the less than flattering things snowden had to say about mr. trump today. that story in about ten minutes. >> reporter: one plan to build a stadium in oakland is picking up steam. i'm jodi hernandez at oakland city hall, where the raider nation has reason to be hopeful. >>> that's something money can't buy, is making that particular wish come true. >> a young woman's wish that has an entire high school coming together. tonight's bay area pro

targeting provisions means we did not know what they were until edward snowden lead to them. the targeting provision 4702 that has to go to the pfizer court. [inaudible] >> let's stick with the theme of part of your critique is that a lot of americans get sucked in as well. like we care if our stuff is collected, but some people don't lets a drop that frame for a moment and think about it from a more global human rights perspective. non-americans abroad. can you-- we mentioned earlier presidential policy director 28 and for people who are not familiar can you layout the groundwork of what that was and what it means not from an american perspective, but from a global perspective? >> after the edward snowden revelation there was this international outcry from people who are not americans who are beginning to get a sense of the scope of the us surveillance directed at them. one of the post edward snowden reforms and many people feel like this is a major positive result of the disclosures was presidential policy directive and it does a couple things. it limits the uses to which y

it's sort of like edward snowden. one step up the fbi subpoena. there he was kidnapped. not only was he picked up his a, his brother and his adopted daughter who all naÏvely went looking for him. to set the broader scene a devoted stalinist at this point. at this point in the late 20s and early 30s immediate why there would be an attraction to the soviet union, and if you could talk us through that. they haven't come as xavier and they had an enormous impact and many american intellectuals were attracted to at that point. can you tell us more of that? >> there are parallels between that age and present euro into disenchantment he had a whole generation that was disenchanted with capitalism with 11 million people out of work and he was raised as a quaker and i would say an exceptionally sensitive man and he is a complicated. it sounds very odd to call him sensitive, but he was at the outset. the injustices abounded and in the 30s racism, anti-immigrant sentiments which were at play in the execution which was a watershed moment. what is extraordinary is he never let go of

russia has harbored people le edward snowden. theyre a big supporter of the iranian regime, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. these things have been happening for a number of years and the administration's response has been not to do much. but now we have these actions which to me are too little too late. i think trump can approach putin from a position of strength. i think that's what he respects. david: dose say he won't retaliate and maybe will in some way? >> i agree with the points made by the congressman. we are dealing with an extremely dangerous regime. vladimir putin is playing tricky games with the united states. it's important the administration not fall into the strap set for barack obama 8 years ago. the whole russian reset of the obama administration was an utter disaster. you have to project strength and resolve to the russians. david: it's early days net. trump hasn't been inaugurated. but do you think trims falls naive as hillary clinton when she brought out that target reset button? >> i don't thin

kennedy: that's how edward snowden felt before he left the nsa. i continues sleep for a week until after i saw that evil jigsaw. >> tone it down a little until corporate gets off our back. okay? >> all of our legs have been chained together at the ankles. kennedy: topic number five. the stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that some bourbon would soon thereby. all i found was coal and viewer mail. dave starts with excellent. you ratchet up like a tight bean burrito. jeff rights, kennedy, don't be that girl. you mean the smart, fun, well dressed girl with a sassy haircut? harry advise. kennedy stop being negative like everyone else and putting crap in people's heads. all right, i'll just put crap in your oatmeal. yesterday we talked about a video from mtv. when i saw your face on mtv, i thought it gone it to some of those magic mushrooms they found in nyc. i would like a box of see's dark chocolates and a four-door bentley. email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. go ahead and tweet me your worst christmas present. i'll retweet them. i lo

even what the nsa did with the edward snowden also were techniques developed of reasons -- real-time regional game away -- gateway with those capabilities with those sophisticated algorithms. they say they are going dark because of the encryption that we as a society will allow companies to make a phone even with a warrant you cannot break into. these models will be less effective no question. >> let's go to your questions. >>. >> thanks for the talk. i am with csis. of course, so much specialization with the counterterrorism policy since 9/11 fax -- but looking at counterterrorism when wine country needs to deal with the entire perspective that is so there how to deal with terrorism given what has happened in paris recently, being a reporter in this field other then the specialist? >> good question. for one thing the intelligence sharing and cooperation that we do is not characterized by the european intelligence model. they don't talk to each other like our agencies do so there is a very big problem if a terrorist comes into greece or turkey going into germany for through france cr

. >> ambassador, this is totally unrelated, but i am curious what your opinion is of edward snowden. i know it is a great american hero. >> do i get to answer this question? >> the question is what is your opinion of him saying general petraeus shared information that was highly more classified than what he ever did. >> you have 10 second had. >> you -- he gave away a lot more and he is a traitor that should be prosecuted. >> okay we willed at this time that out. the constitution said the president of "red eye" shall not hold local office and if he or she accepts the position must vacate the field of red eye president. "red eye" constitution is like the federal one and yours is the state one. it is that doctrine. >> as soon as i write it i'll show you. >> obama said we need to be treated like alcohol. greg you said you were offered weed by our key grip. we don't have a key grip. >> it is somebody posing. >> somebody has it. one of the cameramen is laughing. kennedy, if the president believes this why not have his attorney general appoint the dea and treat it like cigarettes or alcoho

mike pompeo favors federal surveillance program and wants to execute edward snowden. let's ask dr. ron paul. he ran for president. he changed the shape of freedom in this country. which one frightens you more and why? >> that's a tough contest. i can tell you, the two of them, they do not give me much reassurance we are going to change things in washington. i would consider them non-civil libertarians. even good conservatives are more libertarian than that it's fearful for me who argues the libertarian viewpoints and privacy. i have been arguing for years that we ought to protect the fourth amendment. n people in high positions with the technology now, i keep wanting favorable changes as i am but i don't know how this could reassure anybody who has an inkling about what libertarianism and privacy is all about. even with some of the appointments with the influence of wall street and goldman sachs it's disappointing to me. >> the civil liberties aspect of it is troubling it depresses me. i look at this. i'm taking stock in the obama presidency. he claims that the last 8 years have be

former nsa contractor edward snowden has remained in contact with russia's spy services since arrivingee years ago. the heavily redacted report did not provide proof of its accusations. three years ago he revealed the government efforts to hack into the data pipeline used by u.s. companies to serve customers overseas. he fled the country to avoid prosecution. in france, national front leader is having a hard time finding cash. she needs $21 million to fund french presidential and legislative campaigns next year. her problem is that the national front russian lender has bailed. they have look for backers in countries including russia because frank -- french banks are refusing to provide funding. -- a delicate line recess -- restructuring and deutsche bank. the bank is trying to restructure some of trump's roughly $300 million of debt as part of an attempt to reduce any conflict of interest between the loan and his presidency. this comes as deutsche bank negotiates a multibillion-dollar settlement with the department of justice from mishandling the sale of mortgage bonds to other banks.

. >> edward snowden's plea for a pardon getting more desperate why the nsa whistleblower is afraid for to take office. >> why santa is giving one young boy the best gift of them all. fox & friends first continues right now. >> good morning. i am clayton morris. >> i am heather childers. it is half past the top of the hour. we want to go straight to the fox news alert. refusing to take responsibility. the california warehouse manager who posted about personal law after the deadly inferno speaking out for the first time and says that he is being unfairly blamed. >> the brand new evidence shows disaster is waiting to happen like a tinder box a building with hazardous conditions he knew about for years. >> we are live where prosecutors are considering murder charges. right, claudia? >> the criminal investigation is real gliting started. really the first thing here is to determine liability. here is the scene and i can tell you the work continues we saw a crane pull out a charred piano and recovery crews hope to finish the search for more victims. they have about 25 percent of the warehouse

>> no extradition agreement ws russia and as we have seen with edward snowden, there is no chance that we are able to get criminals that we wanted from russia in the past. you can imagine of these two of the chance of getting them back is very slim. >> belan does have a russian passport. >> and appears to be a dozen of alias as well. >> they are both known to travel -- belan is known to travel in other parts of the world and they are mobile. if you have taken that much money that's alleged in court document, they have the means to be able to probably sustain themselves. >> tom winter is continuing to dig into these thank you and fantastic reporting. >> millions gathering in times square and celebrating the new year's and what law enforcement is doing to keep everyone safe. blacher will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. at the marine mammal cen

we had this experience with edward snowden.informs china first, and then went to russia where russia gave him asylum into in this case, they're very clever. pugh stin a strong man that likes to show his muscle at all times. he says look at me, that's what i can do. so china may be a bigger threat, but russia is one that one has to watch over because they be very open with what they can do. even more than the exacts that russia does, the perception that they can do all of those horrible or remarkable things as pew tin says he can, is something they're very interested in. >> is he not incentivized there is rail oil and gas exploration he wants to get done. >> that is very true, but he does seem, knowing putin, he thinks he can do it all, he thinks he can threaten the west, he thinks that he can wrap donald trump around his finger, wrestle wild animals, all of those amazing things, but he also believe that's if the west doesn't leave the sanctions, they will have oil deals, and all of them can present an opposition to the west. >>