my name is stephen edwards. >> shift to your right. >>> my name is stephen edwards and i live in the mission-dolores area. i'm here to ask you to make a priority of undergrounding utilities. for too long san francisco has relied on 19th century infrastructure to hold up 21st century infrastructure. something needs to be done about it sooner or later and you need to have a plan to do that. i spent some time, quite a bit of time in berlin, in east berlin, a city that was 70% destroyed in world war ii and suffered from 44 years of total neglect under a communist regime. it is completely undergrounded. the utilities were in such bad condition that the gas lines underneath the sidewalks leaked so much that they killed the street trees. that's how bad it was. our problem is nothing compared to this and it needs to be dealt with. please make a priority of it. thank you. >>> good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i have graphics. i know president mandela hasn't been well, but january 1999 he had answered [speaker not understood] on this letter, here it is. and he noted the supportiv

edward snowden? >> no, i'm jay. stephen: are you sure? 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.s. and to push back against big government. >> now it's time for the politicians to listen to all of you. you're here. and you're clear. with your message. >> stephen: that's right. you're here. you're clear. and if you happen to be queer, high muss band runs a camp that can cure you with jesus. luckily, folk

>> while the world is waiting to see where former cia worker turned leaker edward snowden pops up, last night, stephen character. >> i do find it suspicious that the same day this guy flees to hong kong, this guy flees to jordan to direct a serious movie? yeah, that's believable. and, and dig it, who's his replacement? a foreigner. nsa, you're going to want to keep your eye on this guy because he is suspicious and very talented. >> yes, it's finally happened. "daily show" host jon stewart is off directing his new film, and correspondent john oliver is filling in. so, let's see how he did. >> intelligence agencies are secretly collecting millions of americans' phone records on a daily basis. >> are you [ bleep ] kidding me! jon's been gone one day! one day! we had such a fun, gentle first show planned for you as well. you know, a few harmless british jokes, like, oh, this is a football, not a soccer ball. we call it a football. halfway through the show, we were going to break and have a little tea time. not only is the government tracking everyone's phone calls, but that's just the tip of the [ bleep ]

. >> edward snowden says catch me if you can. a global game of hide and seek >> stephende and seek. why did we agree to count all the way to 100? and has anyone checked behind curtains in the living room? now, folks, nobody knows exactly where snowden might be.

fake you so much for a closer look at the rough road ahead for edward snowden i was trying to earlier by international human rights lawyer stephen cohen stanley cohen i started off by asking him what types of dangers this in a say a leaker will face next because a capable young man put his life in the in the crosshairs of the united states which is seeking his blood and if i were advising him i would suggest that he should get to the venue that he plans on going to and that's willing to accept him and then continue with whatever way that he wants to do in terms of exposing some terribly illegal in some turban of the practices of which he became aware in the united states now hong kong reporters asked snowden whether he took the job at booz allen hamilton specifically to gain information about the national security agency and he said that in fact he did that job he had for three months does it change his status as a whistleblower and to something more like a mole and from a legal standpoint does that matter. no i don't think it matters and i think we've spent a lot of time discussing him rather than the subject matter of the mate

edward snowden has gotten some bad news. >> booz allen hamilton, the national security contractor where snowden worked for three months at its hawaii office confirming he's been fired. >> stephenat can't be easy in this job market. plus, he doesn't have any references. he only has all of yours. (laughter) now, among snowden's leaks was a paper that says the n.s.a. collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer network worldwide in march, the 2013 alone. but 97 billion! there's no building big enough to hold all that data! at least until they finish this one. >> these pictures are amazing. the compound is five times larger than the u.s. capitol. all the to store big data. there will be yottabytes of data. people are familiar with big gheits. well a yottabyte is a billion big bites and then a million of those. a million bill gigabytes. (audience reacts) >> stephen: to put that in perspective, one yottabyte is equivalent to 200 trillion d.v.d.s. which is approximately how many d.v.d.s i'm behind on "game of thrones." (laughter) so no one tell me about the red wedding. (laughter) now i have to admit, at first i found this program to be a shocking breach of the public tr

edward snowden's nsa revelations? which leads me to ask, could i win an emmy for my report on the guardian wondering if they could win a pulitzer. (cheers and applause) and -- >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> i hope you're voters. and will my morning rerun be eligible for a kid's choice award. should we even be discussing this? well, the president seems to think so. >> now i welcome this debate. and i think it's healthy for our democracy. >> stephen: yes, i welcome it too, very healthy. it's a debate well worth having. the moment we found out about it in 2006. so also let's have a debate about why the gilmore girls were cancelled. because folks, the fact is we had this debate. and we surrendered our rights back when we were properly in the grip of fear. and i know it won't be easy. we've got to dig down deep and somehow find the courage to stay scared [bleep]. (laughter) because if it really bothers you, folks, there are plenty of ways to avoid this government surveillance. just don't text, tweet, make phone calls, or use pal talk even though i know that's a sacrifice. instead, instead if you absolutely positively

whistleblower stephen prince but we are told every society needs them to expose the excesses of those in power the reality is very different though if you're someone like bradley manning or edward snowden you literally take your life in your own hands the message is clear obey and be silent or face dire consequences. to cross-talk whistleblowers i'm joined by elizabeth team in washington she is the co-director of the liberty international security program at the brennan center for justice also in washington we have michael cohen he is president of the national whistleblower center and in london we cross to charlie wolf he is a writer broadcaster and political commentator crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to listen if i go to you first in washington d.c. are whistleblowers an endangered species right now no not at all ok i think there will always be in every society people who are going to come forward if they have something to to report you know but the costs are pretty high my costs are high and getting higher to. the concert getting very high if you look at someone like bradley manning i don't think it's it's not easy to imagine a situation