the syrian war in the asylum granted to former nsa contractor edward snowdon were just some of the sensitive issues. but against all aunts a resolution to the crisis began to emerge. record cold the obama side on the sidelines of the g twenty meeting in a sit down a couple chairs and siren while their leaders are staring over watching them. in this conversation to raise the idea again of cooperation on securing serious to weapons. obama is a shorty skeptical or doesn't know what is a serious thing or not. they tell john kerry about it. kerry. it goes out and makes a statement a few days later his a press conference will look in syria due to avoid an attack she turned over every single bit of this chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. her head up call. suddenly seems like this the real possibility the people that pay attention to was his next athens greece is the best not going to happen. he was buried. making what he thought was a debating point he didn't actually think this is serious. daddy gets back on is playing annie is a phone call from sergei lavrov pieces

. >> final question for you, you've been critical of edward snowdon. you believe he broke the law with some of the revelations he made with the nsa, but at the same time you thought it was important that some of this was brought to light. >> i do. >> you said that you're concerned that your emails are being looked at by the nsa and that when you've had sensitive topics that you do hand-written letters. the head of the nsa say they are not looking at your emails. that's a relief. >> well, that's a relief to know. i remember when head of nsa--one of them said that they didn't monitor american, they didn't record american telephone calls and it turned out later that he wasn't telling the truth. i don't have anything to conceal but there are times that i don't want some of my private messages read. there is no doubt that nsa has actually recorded every telephone call and every e-mail message in the united states. they don't read the text but they know what message has occurred, they know what transmission has taken place. if they want to later on they coul

. >> again, that was edward snowdon appearing yesterday at the south by southwest festival in austin, texas. our guest was there on stage as well. what do you think happens to have were snowdon from here on out? >> that depends a lot on the u.s. government. i know that he wants to come back to the united states. he is an american citizen. he loves his country. there are some things that are out of his control right now. you know, he really wants to kick start a debate in this country. that debate has happened. the president has appointed to independent reviews that have recommended many sweeping changes. the president has even said that he will make some of those happen. you know, and bird wanted the public to be brought into the loop to find out what was being done in their name. i think, you know, in that regard he has been really successful. that does not mean that our job is done. we now need to rein in the nsa and make sure that the foreign intelligence surveillance court started doing his job and stop issuing secret reinterpretations of the constitution behind closed doors. you