john boltop, what do you think? good day to you?i don't know why they are talking about it publicly. is there a possible back room deal that is happening now? >> it is possible, but absent some other important piece of information, it has to be one of the dumbest things to be speculating about it publicly even if they are comtemplating a deal with snowden and amnesty. the last thing people ought to do is enhance snowden's bargaining power. >> why are they doing it then? >> i think it is a big mistake. i have no idea. in my vow snowden committed troezon and ought to be convicted and ought to swing from a tall oak tree. that is closer to what you should be doing to enhance the bargaining leverage. we don't know how much of what snowden has and gave to the chinese and russians or they took from him and he doesn't know about. we have a big problem comtemplating amnesty that he may have solid the data already. >> 1.7 million documents, is that possible? >> it is entirely possible. i don't underestimate how severe the intelligence problem