says that flight 150 from moscow to havana getting ready to land in havana.bout a 12-hour flight from moscow to havana. we don't know if edward snowden is on that plane. we should know fairly soon for sure. we have a reporter aboard that aerofloat flight. we also have patrick oppmann on the scene at the havana airport. we'll let you know as soon as we know. the nsa leaker edward snowden is getting help with his global odyssey from wikileaks. that's the organization made famous for publishing corporate and government secrets. the spokesman from wikileaks is joining us from new york. thanks for joining us. do you know where edward snowden is right now? >> yes, we know where he is, and he is safe and well. but i cannot disclose his location at this moment, nor the plan that he has for travel. >> why is that? why can't you tell us where he is without providing necessarily an exact address, can you at least tell us, is he on that flight havana that's supposed to land? >> i cannot go into any details, i'm sorry about that. it's for security reasons. we've been aske

in havana, in the next 12 to 14 hours, mr. snowden may be landing. >> to south africa now in the health of nelson mandela. the former african president took a turn for the worse. his condition has been downgraded from serious to critical. robin is there for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see, there's tight security outside nelson mandela's hospital with new that is he is now in a critical condition. the president coming out late sunday saying doctors are doing everything they can for him and he's in good hands. his family telling me he's still fighting. ♪ >> reporter: on a cold winter's night, they came to sing for nelson mandela. behind one of these hospital windows, the 94-year-old mandela battles a lung infection in care. his wife sleeps here during the night. >> i want him to be comfortable. >> comfortable, is that all you can do for him now? >> when you see all that can be done now, no. they haven't stopped treating him with all the best medication there is in the world. >> reporter: do you think

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eastern time, a jumbo jet arrived from havana in moscow. edward snowden was expected to be in seat 17-a. edward black saw no sign of him. at this moment, the question that people around the globe have been asking all day, and most of the weekend still applies. where in the world is the man who leaked the existence of two big american intelligence gathering operations. that and some terribly inconvenient questions as well. who if anyone dropped the ball. was the u.s. played by the chinese? and is it being played by the russians right now? there's a lot of ground to cover tonight in a saga that could end in a u.s. courtroom or in edward snowden's political asylum. in someplace like ecuador. any way you put it, this is half written. here's how it began. edward snowden acted quickly after he was charged with espionage friday night. the u.s. revoked his passport. asked td the hong kong government to return him. he still managed to clear customs and board a flight. >> the decision to allow him to leave has a negative impact on the u.s. china rela

a reporter on the flight to havana say they did not see snowden on the plane. that flight passes over u.s. airspace. some believe u.s. authorities could force the plane to land. u.s. officials believe snowden is still in russia. >> we expect the russian government to look at all the options available to him, to expel mr. snowden back to the united states. >> snowden could take an alternate flight from moscow to havana. this flight plan has avoided u.s. airspace. ground staff in moscow denies this flight is scheduled. if snowden gets a flight to havana, he could catch a flight to ecuador, where he's requested asylum. snowden has applied for asylum in multiple countries, and latin america has the best legal options which is key for snowden. in this interview, he acknowledged the risks of coming forward. >> i could be rendered by the cia, have people come after me, or any of their third party partners. they work closely with a number of other nations, or you know, they could pay off -- that's a fear i'll live under for the rest of my life, however long that happen

a reporter on the flight to havana say they did not see snow den on the plane. that flight passes over u.s. airspace. some believe u.s. authorities could force the plane to land. u.s. officials believe snowden is still in russia. >> we expect the russian government to look at all the options available to him, to expel mr. snowden back to the united states. >> snowden could take an alternate flight from moscow to havana. this flight plan has avoided u.s. airspace. ground staff in moscow denies this flight is scheduled. if snowden gets a flight to havana, he could catch a flight to ecuador, where he's requested asylum. snowdem has applied for asylum in multiple countries, and latin america has the best legal options which is key for snowden. in this interview, he acknledged the risks of coming forward. >> i could be rendered by the cia, have people come after me, or any of their third party partners. they work closely with a number of other nations, or you know, they could pay off -- that's a fear i'll live under for the rest of my life, however long that happens

he reportedly checked in for a flight from moscow to havana. according to the other passengers on board, his seat is empty. nelson mandela is critically ill in hospital. the current south african president says doctors are doing everything possible for him. apartheidar-old anti- icon has been in hospital for more than two weeks with a lung infection. 50 lebanese soldiers have been killed in fighting with followers of the hardline syria and cleric known for his strong sectarian rhetoric against the shiia community. the army has surrounded his fighters and the coastal city. british police said they have arrested a man after three members of the same family were found murdered in france last year. a french cyclist was also killed along with a husband, wife, and grandmother of an iraqi-british family. daughter survived the attack. we are live in london. is?idea who >> the police have not released much information on the identity of the man they have arrested. in the he was arrested county of surrey this morning. the police have not said what his na

he was expected on a flight to havana. as journalists found out, his seat went empty. ecuador may take him in, but have not said whether they will

phil doherty, tom fuentes and patrick ottoman in havana, cuba. equador, why would edward snowden find safe haven there? >> well, you have to look at julien essange. there is a natural connection. in fact, he had advised snowden to go to some type of latin american country. relations between the u.s. and ecuador aren't that bad really, except there is that connection and the government, the president of ecuador is, you could call him in a sense a person who was tight with mr. chavez, now dead, who was the former president of venezuela. so there are connections there. we'll just have to see. i have to point out, this debate over how snowden got from hong kong to russia, et cetera, is still very open. in fact the department of justice saying that it is disappointed and disagrees. this just came out. disappointed and disagrees with the decision by hong kong to let him go and says they were in communication ever since the 10th and never heard any type of word back from the hong kong authorities that everything was not in order. that was the reason the

possibly heading to havana, maybe ecuador. this the latest twist in an international cat and mouse game with countries openly defying the u.s. requests to stop him. >> the obama administration furious he's getting away. the question this morning, is that their own fault? we have team coverage around the world this morning from the white house to havana to here in new york. we want to start with phil black live in moscow at the gate for the flight snowden is believed to be boarding. we say believe because there's not a lot of information we can get about snowden and his whereabouts. what can you tell us this morning, phil? >> reporter: just passing through actually, preparing to board this flight. it's due to leave for havana any moment. so far, we have not seen any sign of edward snowden. i can tell you, a lot of people are here, and it's the contention he will show. more than 50 people on board this aircraft is going to be journalists. there's significantly increased security presence here at the gate. i am, as we speak, bein

for instance, he could go to havana. there has been speculation that that of course is on the way to venezuela. so we want to bring in patrick ottman now. i hesitate to ask you you if there is any sign that ed snowden will show up there because we certainly had no news that he was leaving hong kong. what kind of reception do you think he might get should he drop by havana? >> reporter: you know, it would be fascinating because of course he would be so close to the united states but still out of reach of american justice. and i've been talking cuban officials and on the record they're saying there is no deal struck to let him arrive here in cuba or have safe passage through to another country. but julian assange had recently given snowden advice come to a latin america country, it will be friendedly to your efforts to stay out of the grips of american shorts out of their custody. so perhaps he is following that track and trying to find a country by venezuela, ecuador, cuba, that would give him a warm welcome. cuba's offic

edward snowden is on the flight to havana for today. and sarah, his companion, traveling companion, she is seated next to him. so hopefully i will have a chance to speak to mr. snowden on the flight in an hour. >> anna in moscow. we'll be checking back with you throughout the day on msnbc. we appreciate it. >> let's get to florida. danielle lee has the preview. danielle? >> good morning, and this is the day that the defense and prosecution have spent months preparing for. today's opening arguments are going to set the tone in this highly anticipated trial as the jury of six officially begins determining george zimmerman's fate. >> reporter: the prosecution gets the first word this morning in the second degree murder trial of 29-year-old george zimmerman. it's been more than a year since the former community watch volunteer told investigators he fatally shot 17-year-old trayvon martin. >> and i just grabbed my firearm and i shot him one time. >> reporter: now six female jurors will determine whether zimmerman murdered martin or fired in

chris yates is joining us live from manchester now to tell us more about this flight from moscow to havana give us some perspective from the pilot's cockpit about what this all looks like so so far no one's seen snowden aboard the plane do you think it's possible that he could have secretly gotten aboard by another entrance and he's perhaps is there a place you could hide a person on a passenger jet like that well quite frankly probably not you know we call this playing stuffed full of journalists and all sorts of other people. who are quite obviously tempted to keep an eye out for mr snowden. it's unlikely that he will be on the plane and given the fact that nobody such was seen him and you knew the fact of the matter is they may well still be in the transit lounge he may be held for some reason in the transit lounge because of the media scrum whatever the case might be but suddenly it appears that he isn't on the flight to the moment so if it turns out that he is on the plane or i've under the circumstances under which he is on an airplane is there a legal way to intercept it should it a

know, drove snowden to the airport so he could catch a flight to hong kong or fly the next plane to havana, the bottom line is had a sorkin should be looking at his own newspaper which leaked information about iranian spy program. >> speaking of airplane flights, media jump order that flight to havana from moscow and -- snowden was supposed to be and he wasn't there. >> he wasn't on and were tweeting. abc producer tweeting. you wonder -- day of -- budgets for media, dwindling, how much did that cost us for a no show? >> one point, at least -- my point. if we may think better of greenwald as a talking head, however, snowden's image as a spy, as somebody that clearly has been event leapt feelings towards the united states continues to grow. >> the president is saying, oh, this guy is not worth scrambling just yet. >> this is change in strategy because obama figured out that all of the attention on edward snowden international man of mystery was back pyring and it wasn't achieving what he wanted. he has to salvage american relation was russia and china. >> all right. next, mixed media reactio

to be continued maybe in havana, we'll see.mall gesture has made a big impact in boston as the winner of this year's marathon gave his medal back to the series that suffered so much in the attack that happened a few hours after this man crossed the line. you have the mayor who came out, he was on hand also at the ceremony to personally thank the man from ethiopia who said the commitment to sport and freedom can never be overshadowed by senseless acts of terror. here he is. >> we commit ourselves to sport and we promise that next year in 2014 we will return some boston to show the world that our commitment to sport, our commitment to our freedom is stronger than any acts of violence. martha: a beautiful statement on his behalf. there was a moment of silence held for the victims of the boston bombers before the boston athletic's association 10k run which happened successfully yesterday. good for him. a meaningful gesture. bill: when 02014 rolls around that race will be bigger than ever. big developments already in the george zimm

but his seat was empty, all the way to havana. >> no. no. >> reporter: u.s. authorities are turning up the heat on the russian government to arrest snowden and send him back. obama administration officials have warned that a failure to return one of america's most-wanted will have consequences. >> we expect the russians to examine the options available to them, to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. >> reporter: snowden is trying to make his way from russia to cuba and then to ecuador for political asylum. he's getting help from the anti-secrecy group wikileaks, which calls the u.s. an international bully. the group's founder, julian assange, told reporters by phone that snowden is healthy, safe and in good hands. >> edward snowden is not a traitor. he's not a spy. >> reporter: u.s. officials are increasingly concerned snowden could deal a devastating blow to national security, calling him a walking treasure trove of information, a dream to foreign intelligence services. >> i had access to, you know, the full rosters of everyone working at

via havana, cuba. we think.ody really knows where he is except wikileaks and they ain't talkin'. julian assange yesterday held a conference call with reporters. we were on it. where he said that edward snowden is not a traitor. he is not a patriot necessarily. he is a whistle-blower and he just wanted to tell the american people the truth. meanwhile, the supreme court yesterday kind of kicked the can down the road on affirmative action. they didn't say affirmative action was bad. they didn't -- and affirmative action, they said it could continue as long as there's a real tough test before people use affirmative action. we'll tell you all about it right here on current tv. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely a

he was expected on a flight to havana. as journalists found out, his seat went empty. ecuador may take him in, but have not said whether they will grant him entree. this as the u.s. is behind the scenes and issues statements on russia, ecuador and anyone else thinking of taking him on. now, he waits. julian assange, founder of wikileaks, a man whose own legal troubles led him to seek refuge in ecuador. a wikileaks staffer was traveling with snowden. >> edward snowden is not a traitor. he is not a spy. he is a whistle blower. he was told the public and important truth. >> assange said wikileaks paid for his flights and legal council, but wuld not say where he is but he is quote, healthy, safe and in high spirits. cnn, london. >>> new this morning, afghan forces pushing back an attack in kabul. the overnight asu sulssault was international headquarters. three guards killed, another injured. it appears the attack was an early test of afghan security strength coming a week after taking over from international forces. >>> immigration reform passing a key bipartisan test to

end destination is vanna and that's where many people suspect that snowden will then depart from havana and head off to quito in ecuador to bang she's our correspondent shouldn't every airport in moscow she has been following the developments from there. the whereabouts of edward snowden are nowhere to be found this is what we know yesterday on sunday he literally took out the media into a frenzy making us some sort of a play around with him catch him if you can we went as far as even getting journalistic by take it she go on to that cuban plane at that he was a supposedly found to be on had to chew on five at this afternoon here in moscow but then again we do have an inside story was he on the plane home was he not he got beeston up gives us an inside there's so much media on this plane for the last three minutes i'm sure the plane expecting snowden to say show up there will be increased security who are going to go before the police when we move the passengers sort of away from the teacher to be that up to country west point even the airport officials themselves understand the airplan

the plan is supposed to be he will fly out of from airport tomorrow to havana. technically, he can't come into the airport itself. he must stay within the transit zone. so where he actually is in the transit zone, nobody knows. at the moment, there are-- well, there are more than 100 journalists waiting for the passengers to get off the hong kong-moscow flight, asking people if they knew him, if they saw him on the flight. but to be honest, nobody really realized he was on the flight with them. so at the moment people are wondering where he is right now. there have been reports the venezuelan embassy took him away or maybe the ecuadorian embassy, but nobody really knows right now. >> schieffer: "nobody really knows right now." bob orr and major garrett are with us this morning. bob, you have been on the story from the very beginning. what other weird turn could this thing take? it's like now reports he's going to other communist-- sort of a tour of communist countries around the world. >> don't underestimate the next strange twist. this movie isn't over yet, bob

whistleblower after he sends a jet full of journalists chasing us all so frail to havana. that the russian federation has nothing to do with mr snowden if you will his travels around the world it's. moscow hits back at washington's threats and demands to extradite snowden saying he has even crossed the country's border. cavil's presidential palace rocked by blasts and gunfire as taliban fighters attacked just a week after the u.s. hands over security to afghanistan's government announces peace talks. six pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has vanished there's no public information anywhere about where he is after he pulled such a well planned disappearing act in a moscow airport that half the city's international press corps ended up on a twelve hour flight to havana. was aboard the plane packed with journalists but short one whistleblower. i just got off the swing we just landed in hawaii on a coming from moscow a thirteen hour long flight in what what can i see back and shooting me to

safe passage from hong kong eventually hopefully on snyder's behalf to ecuador by both moscow and havana and it is also wiki leaks who have attempted to broker the deal that will secure him they hype asylum in ecuador all right. thank you. well as snowden has apparently spent the night at the have the airport hotel located well within the transit zone let's now cross to across one and you've got a pretty good offers out the terminal very close to the hotel where you go to the morning to you mr snowden just wearing a. good morning and i'm actually standing in the terminal. airport this is the only terminal which receives influence flights coming from hong kong so this is the place basically where. edward snowden arrived to rebound quite pm on sunday accompanied by week two weeks of representatives well pretty much at by this at this stage this is the only precise information we know about them since they never walked out bill stewart's which you can see behind me there this is the arrival or there's speculation that they might have been greeted by a diplomatic corps which two thousand the

edward snowden they secured his they hope safe passage from hong kong to moscow and now moscow to havana before completing his journey we're expecting down to quito ecuador where he will be seeking political asylum and they claim that they brokered a deal with the ecuadorian government to give edward snowden asylum now of course we have to really look at what's happened over the last forty eight hours or so to put this story into context it was on friday that the charges against edward snowden first came to light. the complaint by the u.s. government was allegedly full teeth but they only really became public on friday and the charges under the espionage act which carry a heavy i'm a hefty prison sentence so it would snowden knows what he's up against that might explain why he's decided to make his move now and it was on saturday when the white house confirms they had started negotiations or. proceedings to extradite edward snowden with the hong kong with ortiz now the hong kong with ortiz dismissed america's request for extradition saying that it didn't fit within the legal framework an

secrets arrived in moscow over the weekend but did not show up for a flight to havana, cuba today.e's a picture of his empty seat on the plane. almost immediately snowden's empty seat 17 a had its own twitter account tweeting i feel empty. from havana snowden was believed to be headed to cuba and venezuela and on his way to ecuador where he was requesting asylum on the advice of julian assange who has asylum at ecuador's embassy in london. hours ago, ecuador's foreign minister acknowledged the potential impact for harboring snowden but says that decision is a sovereign one based on his country's constitution. secretary of state john kerry confirmed snowden's felony accounts and canceled passport and struck a sar castic tone on snowden's choice of hiding places so far sdmoom i wonder if mr. snowden chose china and russia as assistance in his feud -- in his flight from justice, because they're such powerful bast yans of internet freedom. >> senators rand paul and chuck snumer weighed in on -- schumer and rand paul weighed in on the russian factor. >> putin almost seems eager to put a

been on the ground here an hour in havana. trying to negotiate our way back on to a flight become to moscow. we think we have didn't. >> that's it for me. "erin burnett out front" starts now. >> vladamir putin says snowden is a free man. and a key part of the voting rights act struck down by the supreme court today. what it means for the next election. >> day two of the george zimmerman trial. shocking testimony. graphic photos tonight of the moments after trayvon martin was killed. let's go "outfront." ♪ ♪ >> good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, putin, 1, obama, 0. today russian president vladamir putin said that nsa leaker, edward snowden is a free man. putin said snowden is in the transit area of moscow's main airport and despite all the requests from the united states, putin says he isn't handing snowden over. since u.s. and russia don't have an extradition agreement and snowden hasn't committed any crimes on russian soil. how did the u.s. respond to that? well, yesterday, secretary of state john ke

he had reportedly booked a flight to havana, cuba, with the final destination of ecuador. but snowden never boarded that plane this morning, and it's unclear what his plans really are. let's go to michael isikoff, who is always good at these questions. where is edward snowden and where is he headed? >> well, i was on the conference call, chris, with julian assange of wikileaks today. he said snowden is in a safe place and in high spirits. so look, the u.s. government believes he's in moscow. he was thought to have been -- that he was going to take that plane to havana. he wasn't on it. the seat was empty. assange would not say where he is. would not say where he's headed. we do know that he's applied for asylum with ecuador. and iceland and possibly other countries. assange would not say what those other countries were. we did -- did he say that, because the question was asked, his passport has been revoked. how is he traveling that he received something called a refugee document of passage from the ecuadorian government, sort of shades of casablanca here. but how far that

he then goes to moscow en route to havana, en route to ecuador.ead of coming to the united states. a lot of people try to compare him -- >> what was his goal? i always ask this about people like oswald. when you do something you know is going to cause you trouble legally and make you a felon, how do you not have a plan to deal with that? >> you know, i don't know. but daniel ellsburg, famous for the pentagon papers. pretty much did the same thing. >> he put his hands out. >> exactly. he went to senators to try to get their help. he went to the press. he did go into hiding. he went to cambridge, but then he gave himself up at the boston courthouse. >> i love your attitude about this. what is the word on this guy? he's become as i said last night, a where's waldo. i don't think there's a person in america who watches the news and reads the paper who doesn't want to know where this guy ends up and if he escapes justice or not. >> we're all assuming he's going to try to get to ecuador. ecuador would certainly make sense. one, he has applied for asylum

but reporters waiting for snowden on a flight this morning from moscow to havana were greeted by an empty sewed. snow seat. "the new york times" reports the chinese government made the final decision to allow snowed ton leave hong kong. the white house said in a statement that it was "disappointed that hong kong officials let snowden leave the country. this morning secretary of state john kerry, who has called snowed an traitor to his country, had some harsh words for snowden and the countries involved. >> i wonder if mr. snowden chose china and russia as assistance in his flight from justice because they're such powerful bastions of internet freedom. i wonder if he was in either of those conditions he raised the question of internet freedoms since that's what he champions. >> kerry is not the only lawmaker disturbed by snowden's international game of cat and mouse with the u.s. government. >> i want to get him caught and brought back for trial. >> i don't know how anybody can view this person as anything other than a criminal. >> they should use every legal avenue we have to bring him ba

we're tracking reports of his movements some sources suggest he's already checked in for a flight to havana they're heading on to venezuela. and are shields and some other whistle blowers in washington's efforts to cap the doric of secrets from being revealed. five pm in moscow why mattress i bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news.

he failed to board a scheduled political to havana. abc7 news reporter is monitoring the disappearance from washington, dc and joins us. >> good morning. snowden was supposed to be in row 17 on the russian night to havana this morning. he never showed. so it is an international game of cat and mouse more mysterious >> at now airport edward snowden was not to be seen, missing the flight to cause behalf after reportedly spending the night in the airport hotel. the former n.s.a. contractor charged with theft and espnu nothing fled hong kong yesterday carrying four laptops with american government secrets and could be headed for asylum in ecuador which is sympathetic. >> we do not know where he may head or the intended destination and he places him self before the law with serious implications. >> officials are scrambling are stunned by the hong kong decision to rebuff requests for center addition. the business demanded russia expel snowden and warned other countries not to let him travel through. audi blow macy has funny ways of working a

abc report, go. >> snowden was booked for the 11-point an hour trip to havana.the plane pulled away from the gate, this is a picture of

>> the 165 kilometer journey havana to florida. there is a twist. she is trying to become the first person to make the swim without a protective shark cage. she is expected to reach the florida keys sometime on friday. that is it for us. much more on our website. thanks very much for watching. good night for now.

number one snowden has not gotten on this flight bound for havana.e took shots at the plane and waited to see the plane taxi to the runway. there was no white van suggesting he hi will be loaded on somewhere else. there's only one transit hotel. we've checked and they have suggested he's not been at the hotel. what's happened in the last hour is president putin has come forward and suggested they have no relations with snowden and the security services are not working with him add well. suggesting that the finger pointing from washington's not helping the situation. perhaps moscow is trying to buy some time to get the asylum worked out. perhaps they are looking at some of the documents snowden has as well. >> tonight at 6:00 p.m. on the situation room wolf blitzer is going to take a look at his trail. >>> nelson mandela remains in critical condition. crowds have been gathering there. earlier today white doves released in his honor. >> tell us what we know so far in terms of his condition and what is the anticipation? >> reporter: all we're getting at

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possibly heading to havana, maybe ecuador.nternational cat and mouse game with countries openly defying the u.s. requests to stop him. >> the obama administration furious he's getting away. the question this morning, is that their own fault? we have team coverage around the world this morning from the white house to havana to here in new york. we want to start with phil black live in moscow at the gate for the flight

he was supposed to be on a flight this morning from moscow to havana, cuba, but a reporter on the flighteted this photo of snowden's empty seat. meaning either he didn't show or he was in the bathroom. after all, he is a known leaker. the truth is, snowden could be anywhere, folks, even right here in had this studio. hold on, wait a second. jay, are you edward snowden? >> no, i'm jay. stephen: are you sure? you're white and you have glasses. >> so are you. tephen: oh, my god! i might be edward snowden. talk! am me: edward snowden? speak up, god damn it. [bleep]. no! okay. story checks out. folks, my job is not easy, as you can see. but lately my job has been kind of fun. you see, barack obama is engulfed in so many scandals, you almost forget he's black. for my money, his most serious scandal is the i.r.s.'s targeting of the tea party. well, last week those tea party patriots roared back. >> tea party protesters storming capitol hill. railing against the i.r.s. and the obama administration. >> thousands of supporters gathered outside the capitol to stand up against targeting from the i.r

abc report, go. >> snowden was booked for the 11-point an hour trip to havana. as the plane pulled away from the gate, this is a picture of his seat empty, and then he said he would fly to ecuador. they thought he had him boxed in hong kong. but the information they received was flawed. and they allowed him to fly into russia. >> this will have serious consequences for american-russian relation as soon as where is snowden? we don't know. the power panel right here, ana kasparian and also from "the young turks," jimmy dore is here too. the jimmy dore show, everybody check that out. we've got more, go. >> here we go. first on russia, he said it would be deeply troubling if they allowed snowden to escape from a russia. and he said he both places himself above the law and he betrays his country. and he has a choice words for the choice of countries snowden has chose to take refuge in. >> i wonder if mr. snowden chose china and russia in his assistance from flight from justice because they're some bastians of internet freedom. >> so, those comments about the champion

joining us from havana, one of the places where some people think it's possible, possible, mr.wden could head is patrick oppmann. we're told he's trying to get to ecuador. has there been anything said by the castro government in cuba and is havana potentially a pass-through point? >> reporter: all afternoon we've been talking to cuban officials and so far they just tell us they're monitoring the situation and no announcement to make. but cuban officials have been watching this case for the last few days taking some delight and embarrassment of the united states. i even had one cuban official ask me could this really be really that -- snowden to them is too good to be true, that a former nsa employee would be spilling secrets in such a public way. so we're hearing now that the united states is reaching out to cuban government, ecuadorian government, trying to get help. and if he does show up in one of these country, these are countries that even while they say they would like a better relationship with the united states, they realize this is an opportunity to embarrass their adv

moscow to havana. >>> news of the health of nelson mandela is not good.ey say the condition of the president has worsened, he is in a hospital being treated for a lung infection and is 94. >>> and james gandolfini's body returned to the u.s., arrived at newark airport on a charter flight from rome where the 51-year-old actor died of a heart attack last week. a funeral service for him will be thursday in new york city. anderson? >> 51, so young. randy, thanks. join us tomorrow for special coverage of the george zimmerman trial at 10:00 p.m. eastern, all week long. another edition of 360 with all of the day's stories is coming up after the break. >>> where in the world is edward snowden, the man who exposed the government's secret spying program, on the run. we'll have the latest twists and turns and what we know about where he might be hiding. >>> immigration reform a step closer to becoming law. can the president pull off a victory or will house republicans refuse to get on board? >>> pandemonium in d.c. a rare red panda found. how did it go missing in th

and off the radar after setting moscow's international press corps to the sunny caribbean shores of havana. moscow declares snowden has not crossed the russian border and demands washington back off with threats and intimidation it had to secure extradition. taliban fighters launch a heavy assault at afghanistan's presidential palace a week after the country's security forces took full control and the u.s. announced plans for peace talks with the terror.

an official at the russian airline says ed snowden booked a flight today from moscow to havana. right now that plane has just landed in cuba. another air flight official told reuters snowden's next stop was venezuela. and ecuador's foreign minister says ed snowden applied for asylum in that country, which is also sheltering the wikileaks its embassy in london. julian assange says wikileaks helped snowden make his escape so earlier today a bunch of journalist got on snowden's flight from who's co-to havana. airline official says snowden did not. in fact, here is his empty seat, 17 a by the window. president obama says the u.s. is doing everything it can to get snowden on a flight to the u.s. >> we're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure that rule of law is observed. >> snowden reportedly decided to leave hong kong at the last minute. that's what one of his lawyers tell the "wall street journal" which the parent company of this network owns. they celebrated snowden's birthday with pizza, friday chicken and sausages. ed

tom, you said snowden is going from china to russia to havana and then venezuela. believe ecuador is what you are thinking of. not venezuela. >> i get them confused. there are so many down there. >> dig your racist hole even deeper. >> well i am not surprised he would say that. look at him. typical white guy. >> i'm with you. the journalist on the snowden list flight is the greatest thing in the world. even better what the captain of the plane said when the flight landed in cuba and he was asked who was on the flight he said, quote, no snowden, no special people, only journalists. >> that's mean. >> i like that. johnny, you said snowden shouldn't be running that espionage charges are rare. he is the eighth person charged under the espy espionage act. only three people prior to president obama were charged under this act for leaking. it is becoming less and less rare. >> i guess so. thank you, president obama. >> obama has been charging a lot of people with leaking. that's what we can gather from what andy just said. >> yes. by the way daniel elsberg stuck around fo

they've asked havana if edward snowden shows up here that he be turned over to the u.s.ll no word back from cuban authorities on what they would do if snowden does appear here. something of a political battle of wills being played out. whether to place edward snowden under the care of political asylum or in handcuffs, brooke. >> as you point out this is all the what if game. we don't know if he's headed to cuba, to venezuela, ecuador, et cetera. if he does land in cuba, what are -- walk me through, patrick, just sort of some of the possibilities while he is on cuban land. >> reporter: you know, does he ask for political asylum here? enjoy the dozens of other american fugitives? most of the people the cuban government claims have a political element to their cases. black panthers. people who came here in the 1960s and '70s who've enjoyed asylum here despite the fact for years the u.s. has asked for their return. the u.s. really doesn't have anything they can do. there's already an economic embargo on cuba. they don't really have a lot of pressure they can apply that they

and there was just, it's a long and complicated story, but a school headmaster in havana, james baker, who had connections with the u.s. state department, and he managed to get the state department to give him and a group of people in if havana carte blanche to draw up visa waivers that would allow kids to leave about two, three or four months after they applied. parents required a much longer time, so the parents that wanted to get the kid out first, and the plan was to reunite with them. in just a matter of a few more months. but it didn't turn out that way because a little fallout from the missile crisis of october '62 that nobody noticed is that whenmy kieta kruschev took fidel castro's toys away, he got very angry, and he closed the door, and the parents of most of us were trapped and couldn't leave. for most of us it took the parents anywhere from 3-6 years or longer to finally pick it to the -- make it to the u.s. and what would drive any parent to do this? i'm asked over and over again, if you were in your parents' situation, would you do the samesome -- same? my answer is alw

and according to our producers there, he's bought a ticket to havana. we believe he's ultimately headed to ecuador. that's according to wikileaks, a news organization behind a number of other high-profile leaks. that organization saying that they are helping snowden with his plans, and helping him to essentially evade the united states charges that he is facing. now, i have spoken to a legal expert in international law who says that countries can accept people without passports. so in other words, the united states has revoked edward snowden's passport, but that doesn't necessarily mean he won't be able to continue with his travel plans. we also understand from officials in ecuador that he has asked the foreign minister there for asylum. he has requested asylum. this continues with a number of twists and turns, and legal ramifications, craig, and continues to get more complicated. but the united states at this hour, outraged by the fact that hong kong allowed him to leave. yesterday they had put in an extradition request with hong kong, urged hong kong

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is he in havana? no is he in russia? we think. but is he really there? drums. news has more. >> another flight took off without edward snowden. put tune confirmed that snowden remains at the airport. he has triggered a war of words between the u.s. and russia with the white house demanding moscow send him back. >> we would hope that russia would not see its interests in siding with a person who is accused of breaking the law in another nation and who is a fugitive from justice, according to international standards of law. cenk: oh, please with the fugitive from justice. you say he broke the law that's fair. you want to go after him i get it. fugitive from justice please. ana kasparian who is cohost "the young turks." do people know there's a show starring the beautiful and bright ana kasparian? >> they should. cenk: take it from here. >> understandably, the u.s. government -- not understandably the u.s. government is going after russia and pressuring russia to release snowden, even though it hasn't been confirmed that he is in russia. putin said the following: