we know that snowden tried to leak material to him months before eric clapper made that statement.f many false payments made. >> what difference does that make? >> he was collecting billions of classified documents for years. >> is there ever a justification to break the rules and leak something? >> i think that there may be justification. if you go through this to make sure that it won't hurt you why didn't he ask to meet with senator wyden. i know having been in the committee, there are many members who come to us and say that we have something we have to tell you, don't give running away. there are people who claim otherwise. i know that the system works. >> one question is whether he revealed secrets that endanger americans. did he carefully decide this one i'm not going to reveal in this one i will. this comedian asked him about it. >> how many of those documents have you actually read? >> i have a value weighted all the documents. >> you have read every single one? >> i do understand what i turned over. >> be difference of understanding what is in the documents and what is in