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the book is called "edward snowdon." the author said that she found him fascinating. >>> the song is gaining popularity all around the world. in iran six dancers appeared in a video was arrested, most have been released, but we heard that the director is still being detained. >> yes, the video shows a group of iranian men and women dancing to the song "happy." take a look. ♪ clap along if you feel ♪ that's what you want to do ♪ here come bad news >> now this youtube video quickly went viral. iran police chief called it on season. within hours following the a announcement of their arrest thousands went on social media demanding their release using the hashtag, ashe tag free happy irania#free happyrussianens. it is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness. today iran's president wrote, happy is our people's right. we shouldn't be too hard on behaviors caused by joy. this whole incident highlights the political and social divide within iran. >> there is a division in the country from the hard

glen greenwald has been the journalist in the forefront of reporting edward snowdon's leaks.but his professional and personal life has been drawn into that debate. >> it was like living in a spy film, essentially. we knew a couple of things that this was certainly the biggest leak in national security history. if the u.s. government found out what it was that he was doing they would put a stop to it. i was shocked. i had spent several weeks talking to him. i knew that he had access to enormous amounts of top-secret material. i knew that he had security insights, and i knew that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison. >> this is from gary in honolulu. he said has snowdon expressed his opinions regarding his life of russia in light of putin's annexation of crimea. >> people seek asylum in the united states every year. you never hear someone say how do you feel about seeking asylum from a country that continues guantanamo. the point of asylum is not to seek the country you want to live the most. it's to seek protection. >> you can hear more of the interview here

we know about the documents released by edward snowdon.hey have made themselves more vulnerable, but what we don't know what exactly were they showing with the nsa? what did the nsa have access to? the reason we don't know this is because these meetings that general keith alexander had been discussing in these two sets of e-mails, they took place in a classified setting. so they were classified briefings. the executives had security clearance, and they've been unwilling to address it. these e-mails shed rare light on what has largely been very secret discussions taking place for many years now. >> jason, if my memories serves me correctly many companies were outraged and google went as far to say that nsa's actions were potentially illegal. in the wake of what we know now and what you know now, was that just a pr stunt by google? >> i'm not sure that it was a pr stunt. i don't think i would go there, but at the same time google should have known. they opened the door and invited nsa in. they should have known what was happening. i think it

. >> fugitive nsa leaker edward snowdon. ant interview comes a year after snowdon admitted that he stole a trove of documents revealing electronic programs. he said that he was not the low level workers that he has been portrayed to be. >> i was trained as a spy and working under a name that was not mine. they may frame it in a way that's a low level analysts but they're trying to use one position that i've had in a career here or there to distract from the totality of my experience. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry is responding to snowdon's comments saying that snowdon should, quote, man up and come back to the united states. he also responded to snowdon's assertions that he was forced to go to russia because the u.s. revoked his passport quoting again here for a supposedly smart guy that's a pretty dumb answer. and in today's power politics. first incumbent has fall in th this 2014 election season, and the tea party has a win. david shuster joins us with that. >> reporter: until last night incumbents seeking ele

edward snowdon, the nsa command u.s. surveillance state to live and call in at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> convergence. you use that word throughout your book. what does it mean? >> it means that throughout the country they're is a convergence of left right agreement on very important things. that is being pushed down by their corporate group on both the democratic republican party and their leaders. we start, for example, with public opinion around the country. does not matter, red state cobblers state. they are upset with the patriot act restrictions on privacy and civil liberties and free speech. they're is a big convergence. they don't like subsidies, handouts, giveaways to corporations on the backs of tax, especially the wall street bailout type. no crooks were prosecuted and put in jail. they want a crack down on court -- corporate crime. big business gets away with a lot of stuff. is the kind of main street versus wall street nexis. they don't like empire. right, left, they do not like empire. they do not like is pushing around all over the world. losing our so

snowdon sits down for the first interview with u.s. media. and the state department calls himself a patriot and an extensive report. edwardand walls systems analyst for how trains by classified information is told nbc that the government trend on down play its role. i was turned in the as a spy and traditional sense of work under cover overseas pretending to work and a job than not. even being signed a name that was not wanted he claim be a lecture at the counterintelligence training academy heat as interview with nbc nightly news was first with u.s. media since he liked the classified documents almost a year ago. police sparked national debate about privacy and security and surveillance program used by analysts say mci it. talking in moscow he stressed the brian williams he is now working with russian government because he no longer has any material to give them. he destroyed it. for example the russians can't break my fingers in compromise information or hit me with a bag of money until a give them something not to have it all. snowden and increasing appearance on russian state television for interview by a task about m