>> reporter: snowden is part of a small group of trump die-hards who call themselves front row joes. you personally under president trump? >> it's been the greatest ever. >> the greatest ever? >> ever, yeah. we wake up every day thanking the lord that donald trump is our president. >> wow. >> yeah. we love him. >> you drank the kool-aid gallon, sounds like. >> unsweetened, too. >> reporter: richard says he found his candidate the minute he saw trump come down that escalator in june 2015. >> sure you disagree maybe on 10% or something, or sometimes you say i wish he hadn't made that tweet. but us supporters understand why he's doing these tweets. so we love him more than ever. >> reporter: this even as the president is under investigation for asking the president of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden, his political rival. two weeks ago the white house released its memorandum of the phone call between the two leaders. what do you make of this impeachment inquiry into the president? >> well, it's a witch hunt. it's terrible because there's no impeachable offenses there. a phone call to

wiki leaks also helped engineer the escape of edward snowden a former n.s.a. employee who lifted the veil of secrecy from global u.s. surveillance operations. a world without julian assange on jan wiki leaks that would also mean that revelations about u.s. spying on french presidents would never have been made public. when we revealed that the 3 presidencies had been deeply penetrated by the united states and the president's personally for. what should have been the crypt response. of the french intelligence of the future to come immediately to us and say do you have more how we failed. to protect the president from your response. that didn't happen so why didn't that happen well i don't believe the french intelligence services are idiots. that's the 1st thing to do. the concern about possibly offending the americans their concern. was so much. that they prefer to be a victim i didn't understand what was going on. aug 2010 in the swedish capital stockholm julian a son she responded to the ultimatum the pentagon had issued to wiki leaks. one of those. was that

mr snowden was a patriot he is a law breaker he violated american law he violated his duties that he assumed when he took the job that he had let's look at snowden here you know some might try to shift say that oh he's a great human rights crusader he is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past might argue that this case is different because this whistleblower didn't run to the press but simply followed standard procedure but the record seems to show that a lot of cases have whistleblowers who do follow this procedure so why jail time for some of them it turns out the law does not actually protect them from retaliation they can be fired or prosecuted so are all future whistleblowers doomed well not quite secure backers carefully protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential so if you're a whistleblower in america take a step back look over what you have and ask yourself get this information benefit anyone powerful in america if not your official complaint will probably be ignored and if you don't shut up after that the con

what are your viewpoints on snowden as a whistleblower? guest: i will just simply repeat what i said before, all charges against edward snowden should be dismissed with prejudice. his travel documents should be returned to him and he should be able to return to the united states unmolested. thes responsible for passage of legislation in 2015, past and direct response to the revelations snowden made about illegal, warrantless government surveillance. we got another dose of reality this last week when they released a court opinion they had been holding onto for a year but showed under the phis amendments act, the fbi had been conducting backdoor searches against the stored data of americans that as far as i am concerned, should not even be stored on government servers. snowden did all of us an enormous service by bringing this to light to begin with. he looked at the whistleblowing mechanisms in place at that time and understood the imperfections and problems in them. one of the documents he leaked was from the nsa ig in which they openly ta

that is irrespective if it is untoward or not. >> that is what edward snowden.ll the nsa whistleblowers including edward snowden. also leadership of the nsa. there's two sides to every story. so i want to examine both and then say try to let the nsa officials speak for themselves. general alexander is a character and let the whistleblower speak for themselves and then i try to keep out of those narratives for the truth. but also to have for yourself but snowden is an interesting case because if you look at what he reveals those links and violated the law to reveal that information, he showed that the nsa after 9/11 had adopted emergency procedures because we had been attacked on american soil. the world trade center, pentagon. the plate in pennsylvania. those are justified in my view. we want to prevent another attack. but what happened those emergency procedures became business as usual without any discussion or if that's at the american people wanted. and snowden forced that discussion and as a result we got change. the patriot act was changed. so i wrote one

i mean that edward snowden will be with us via video tonight. .. we here at length for the first time with mister snowden himself with this book. in combination with the aclu mister romero hill discussed the how and why of the why he did it. mister snowden leapt a cache of documents to journalists, journalists he believed would release them without tolerating government interference in censorship. those documents showed us our rights are being violated on an unprecedented scale. intelligence agencies were engaging not in targeted surveillance as they told us but gathering up everything they could scoop up on us. a personal private data of anyone and everyone who uses a cell phone or the internet. a data from the underwater cables crossing the ocean through which all that traffic travels. they required the telecomsto build backdoors so that they can hack us . doing so they acquired a lot. a lot on us. so much in fact that in one points i think itslowed down the internet . the officials engaged in this line to congress, said they were not doingit, ma

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but the contractors edward snowden is a contractor at the time.hey don't have protection they are doing the work of government but not government so this is proprietary trade secrets. and problematic mix. and then to keep us safe and oversight to ensure that happens. >> and by that pervasiveness. and irrespective of when they were involved. >> that's what he revealed if you follow the story. i interviewed all nsa whistleblowers including edward snowden but also the entire senior leadership of the nsa. and then to understand but in that we try to let the official speak for themselves. when out of those two competing narratives. and then to judge for yourself but snowden is an interesting case because if it violates the law he really show the nsa after 9/11 adopted emergency procedures because we were attacked on american soil. world trade center. the plane in pennsylvania. the pentagon. those are justified in my view. we want to prevent another attack. but what happened it became business as usual without any public discussion over what the america

snowden -- >> reporter: among other things, snowden was charged with giving national defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified information. he's living in exile in russia. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> randi, thank you for that report. >>> the u.s. supreme court starts a new term on monday and justices will confront a number of politically explosive issues. >> it will be a challenge for the chief justice to keep the high court out of the spotlight when the rulings emerge during an election year. we have the details. >> reporter: a mow men to us term is set to again. the justices will tackle an array of issues, lgbt rights, gun rights, and last week the court agreed to hear an abortion case. all these opinions will come down in the heat of the next election. they'll be heard by president trump's two nominees, gorsuch and brett kavanaugh. on sunday protesters gathered at the court to mark kavanaugh's one-year anniversary they're furious he was confirmed despite allegations of sexual misconduct that came out during his confirmation process. liberal

snowden purloined. >> among other things, snowden was charged with giving national defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified information. he's living in exile in russia. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> with us now, a journalist and author whose new book on whistleblowers just hit store shelves. it's "crisis of conscious, whistleblowering in an age of fraud." tom mueller is here with us. also here our political analyst patrick healey. tom, you wrote this whole book on whistleblowers and now we have news that there are multiple whistleblowers into actions happening at the white house. does it necessarily make the accusation against the president stronger if more than one person comes forward? >> it certainly does. what we're seeing now is a community of whistleblowers coming forward. each revelation by each individual, much as a series of witnesses to a murder, will strengthen the original statements and give it more depth, more credibility. >> two whistleblowers now. the president and his allies are on the attack. let me read what lindsey graham

snowden -- >> reporter: among other things, snowden was charged with giving national defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified information. he's living in exile in russia. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> well, police in the u.s. state of kansas are searching for a man who open fire in a bar killing four people. his companion was taken into custody on sunday. the suspects have been identified as 29-year-old ugor v vil new eva. >> two of the victims were mexican citizens. they believe the shooting was triggered by a dispute inside the bar. >> we do not believe it's random. we do believe this was an isolated incident, i guess you would call it. we don't feel that these suspects are going to go out and do this again. >> and at the time of the shooting, about 40 people were inside that bar. >>> just days after testifying in the murder trial of a police officer, a key witness is gunned down. coming up, what connection, if any, the two murders share. we're back with that in a moment ♪ this is the family who wanted to connect... to go where they could ex

whistleblower edward snowden who tweeted wow the f.b.i. is running and warrantless internet surveillance program so flag really unconstitutional that even the secret rubber stamp court that approved 99.967 percent of surveillance requests over 33 years felt they couldn't turn a blind eye. my friends when your surveillance scandal runs so deep that you can get a wow from edward snowden then you know you've reached a pretty obscene new low which is why we must always be watching the hawks. like you that i got. with that we. would prefer to deal with this. because. while the women watching the robot turn out of the islands. well as a.

department sansa coolest married to a washington spy killed british teenager harry done well and with snowden documents suggest the drone communication base already if crowton was crucial in president obama's illegal surveillance program president obama is doing some major international damage control after news that the n.s.a. has been spying in france mexico and brazil and now germany may be on that list as well german chancellor angela merkel says it would be quote a serious breach of trust if u.s. intelligence targeted her cell phone she complained about it yesterday to president obama himself he told her the u.s. is not monitoring and. will not monitor her phone did obama lied did he break the law when his agents brought down an airliner and visited edward snowden who turned to wiki leaks for help before being granted asylum in moscow well wiki leaks founder julian assange just still alive as he faces extradition to the usa in a hearing in london on friday for revealing war crimes will speak to julian assange his father john chipped in and bought 2 but joining me now via skype from bruss