u.s.-brazil. we will have some time for discussion moderated by brazil institute director paulos otero, as well. please help me welcome tom shannon. [applause] >> good morning. it is a great pleasure to be here. two jane harman, thank you so much to your welcome. to tony harrington, thank you for your kind words. my mother appreciates them. otero, thank you for the tremendous work you have done here at the institute. before we came out here, we were talking about the work that the and thewilson center brazil institute are doing on our larger western hemisphere issues. as many of you know, this is a busy town. a variety of diversion and immediate interests and keeping our thoughtleaders and leaders focused on our larger neighborhood. sometimes it is a challenge. you have institutes like the issuea council expressing in trying to establish their own focus, then distribute to the richness of this field and the importance of it. i am grateful for the tremendous work that you have done here. thank you.

u.s.-brazil. and we will have some time for discussion moderated by institute in brazil institute director as well. please join me in welcoming ambassador tom shannon. [applause] >> well, good morning. it's a great pleasure to be here. to jane harman, thank you very much for your warm welcome and thank you to the woodrow wilson center. to tony harrington, thank you for your very kind words. my mother appreciates them. to paulo sotero, thank you for the tremendous work you've done here at the institute. you forget after we were talking about the great work that the woodrow wilson center and in particular the brazil institute are doing on our larger western hemisphere issues. as many of you know, this is a busy town, and a town with divergent interests and a variety of immediate interests. and keeping our elected leaders and our thought leaders focused on our larger neighborhood, our own hemisphere, sometimes a challenge. but i think the woodrow wilson center, the brazil institute have done spectacul

u.s.-brazil relationships. but especially on the strategic side of the relationship as both brazil and the united states look for ways to share understanding of the world and to chart cooperative path that i believe will benefit all of our countries. nearly four years ago in february of 2010, actually in january of that year, i was kindly invited by the paolo to speak you before i went to brazil as ambassador. in that instance i made a few assertions. the first was that although brazil had been described as an emerging power by many analysts, i said that i didn't agree with that. that was not emerging, that in fact it had already emerged and as already exercising a role an important global player that needed to be recognized and understood. said that brazil's emergence was really the product of its own domestic transformation as it addressed long-standing social inequities like poverty, inequality and social exclusion, built a functioning democracy and created one of the largest economies in the world. it is an

our brazil institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u.s. brazil policy. we were first to honor dilma rousseff and sponsored the brazil economic conference. we regularly hosted brazilian government and legislative in our interest a platform to air the good, the bad and the ugly in our relationship.

u.s.-brazil policy. we were thrilled to sponsor the president there and host governors prfrom brazil and we will air the good, bad and ugly in the ship. shannon is part of the good. i hope he is relieved to hear that. after four years as the ambassador to brazil, he is back as senior advisor for secretary kerry. there are rumors about his future... to remind brazil is the b in bricks. the president was a target of u.s. surveillancsurveillance. she's issues and more will be addressed by ambassador shannon. tony harrington is here to introduce tom. but before that let me applaud brazil and the u.s. to move past the edward snowden information. i know about surveillance issues and i disagree with what edward snowden did. none the less, i welcome to public debate about how we should restart/reset what we do on surveillance. as the two largest economies we are dense. and as tom shannon says the challenge for the united states and brazil government is to catch up and align their policy. and tom is here to help u

brazil and the united states. for all the reasons you described, you know? on the u.s. side, there has always been people who have tended to view brazil within a south american context and tended to view it as a country that has behaved differently than many of our partners, that has different kinds of ambitions ask that is sometimes -- and that is sometimes viewed as attempting to limit and frustrate our influence and presence especially in south america. while on the brazilian side there have been skeptics who wonder, sometimes quite loudly, about the value of brazil attaching itself too closely to a country like the united states because of what they perceive as the asymmetry in power and interests. and especially the global reach of the united states and the extent to which brazil finds itself kind of sucked into our wake and is forced to participate in things or act in a way that it does not feel are in its best interests over time. and part of our challenge has been to address those skeptics and reshape understandings of the relationship recognizing that there's a

into his letter was this statement that in order for him to help brazil investigate potential crimes against their country committed by the u.s. when doing surveillance against brazil he would have to be given asylum so that he could really participate in this inquiry his terms for a temporary asylum in russia you want to respect what russia has given him basically doesn't want to look like he's not grateful for what russia has been able to do for him so that's why that was that way and so there is this concern and this interest in going to brazil because yes tried to go to germany and that hasn't worked out that was rejected by uncle of merkel and there are these other countries like every door that was initially a possibility and that didn't work out right and as we know the journalist who broke this story glenn greenwald is actually based in brazil along with his partner david miranda do you think that could carry any weight in convincing brazil that they should open their doors to snowden are they doing anything are they speaking to the brazilian government at all on snowden's behalf. well you know that's an interesting q

brazil investigate n.s.a. spying on its soil but could not fully participate in doing so without being granted political asylum because the u.s. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak snowden went on to say that quote american senators tell us that brazil should not worry because this is not surveillance it's data collection they say it's done to keep you safe they're wrong there is a huge difference between legal programs and these programs of dragnet mass surveillance put entire populations under an all seeing eye and save copies for ever keep in mind that leaked documents have already revealed that brazil is a top n.s.a. target in latin america and that includes a surveillance of communications for brazilian president dilma rousseff the revelations angered rousseff who earlier this year canceled an official visit to meet with president obama in washington this september she also spoke at the un general assembly where she pushed the united nations to give citizens more protections against unwarranted surveillance meddling in such a man there in the lawyers and the fears of other countries is a breach

expectations for the right to privacy so you need that in canada you need that legislation in the u.s. brazil needs to take action other countries and take action but i also believe. we need privacy to be enshrined as a human right at the u.n. there's a civil society coalition called necessary in proportion and that's pushing for that we've joined in that that open media with groups like the electronic frontier foundation and others so i think that the you know writers coming out and speaking out about this is a kind of welcome step welcome development and i think you're probably going to see more gamers actually speaking out about this stuff now that it's been revealed that gamers are being spied on and what's happening is more and more people are realizing how this affects them in their personal lives and then they're becoming more vocal and engaged in the issue and i think that's going to continue and i hope that the politicians realize which way the wind is blowing that is going to continue and that there were some concerns from brazil so they wanted to kind of wall off their internet and

u.s. to brazil. i have a sense it is much less but i don't know the numbers and what you see as the future and that side? >> i will address the last one first. it is less. i don't have the exact figure, but >>> over time. to begin with, historically when americans have done overseas university since it has been focused on europe, largely the u.k. spain and italy with some friends thrown in. but that is starting to unchanged. we are seeing more americans going to mexico, more going to argentina and it is our hope that especially as we build out our component of education in the americas, 100,000 strong, is that we will be able to build a larger u.s. presence in brazilian universities. in order to do that successfully we need the help of brazilian universities because many brazilian universities are not equipped to take international students easily. they don't have dormitories or international student program so it tends to fall to the student to find a place to live, support networks and some student

they cited examples of the way braz brazil -- the u.s. spied on brazil saying: >> his appeal was met with mixed reaction in sao paulo. >> translation: edward snowden has a very important role in history are and contributed a lot by revealing the information. by considering this brazil could give him asylum. >> translation: no, brazil should not give asylum to edward snowden. he's not a person you can trust. if his own country cannot trust him, why would ours. >> brazil would be a major target of the n.s.a. spying program. documents leaked by snowden revealed that the n.s.a. spied on the president herself. after the revelations, president dilma rousseff cancelled a visit to washington, and condemned u.s. espionage at the assembly meeting. >> edward snowden has political support. legislators has asked for support in hearings. the only person to grant him asylum is the president. >> and the brazilian government sis it has not received initial request from edward snowden for asylum. the white house appears to send a message to russia, with the

there was a warmer encounter, maybe u.s. braziler. >> if you look at still photo, bill clinton and jimmy carter. jimmy carter had unique relationships with nelson mandela. barack obama had an important personal connection, also the connection, charlene was talking about that. george w. bush was really transformed in many ways, the pepfar agreement, all the work he's done since and repeated trips to tanzania. >> even people who didn't like george w. bush's politics or wars, whatever, have to give him credit for the pepfar program which literally saved millions of lives especially in southern africa providing retro viral drugs for aids to people who otherwise would not have had this lifesaving treatment. it's an astonishing accomplishment and recognized and appreciated across the continent where he's probably more popular than he is anywhere in the world. >> i was going to say um becki, mandela's successor has a reaction area view that aids somehow was not the treatment and so banned retro viral drugs. it was mandela and mandela foun

u.s. ambassador to brazil talks about u.s./brazil relations and later senator john mccain on his trip to the ukraine. >> as a moderate in the privacy debate and in the privacy world, i have come to a troubling conclusion. the data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have a shame. it will sell any information about any person regardless of sensitivity for 7.9 cents a name, which is the price of a list of rape sufferers, which was recently sold. lists of rape sufferers, victims of domestic violence, police officer's home addresses, people who suffer from genetic illnesses, complete with names, home addresses, ethnicity, gender and many other factors. this is what's being sold and circulated today. it is a far cry from visiting a website and seeing an ad. what it is is a sale of the personally identifiable information and highly sensitive information of americans. >> this weekend on c-span, your medical history, income, lifestyle, the senate commerce committee looks into data mining saturday morn

the leaders from the u.s., brazil, the haven't of china, namib namibia -- libya and president raul castro of cuba will be up on the same stage with the president of the united states. i wonder if they'll shake hands, exchange words. could be a little awkward since the u.s. does not have the full diplomatic releases with canada and still cuba is regarded as a state sponsor of international terrorism. have they said anything at the white house about this? >> the white house has not commented on this specifically. i expect we'll get some comment on this as we just have gotten the program really in the time that president obama has been on board air force one and a lot of firms are trav-- officials are traveling with him. former cold war enemies have had very much limited ties. there's been some conciliatory language in recent years, but certainly this is not any sort of relationship that you see on a day to day basis the way president obama has with other leader, but i think what's sort of fascinating and that a lot of people looking at this program and are fascinated by the fact that presid

he also sent an open letter to the people of brazil offering to help investigate u.s. surveillance against them and reminding the world that he's still looking for political asylum. now, the tech firms invited to the white house today released a joint statement a few minutes ago reading quote, we appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform. i want to bring in our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. the president's meeting with all these tech gurus was a closed meeting but what details can you give us about what the executives were pushing for? >> reporter: well, jake, it was a long meeting, obviously, and they covered a lot of ground on it. a participant in the meeting telling cnn they talked about a number of things, including collection so broad blanket collection of metadata, internet usage, phone calls, as well as the privacy law that governs this type of surveillance. they talked about the secret court that grants th

u.s. and brazil caused congressional hearings and protests in the streets.used google and yahoo to team up to fight our own government. now, glen greenwald, the reporter that works with snowden, does point out only 1% of the secrets have been spilled so far, so for snowden, there's always next year. >>> other news, twitter has skyrocketed to another high. better than $53 a share this morning. would you believe it's been just a month -- in that time the stock has doubled. >>> yahoo mail has entered its second day of trouble. the company says people who can't access their mail on the posts we're reading say many mobile too. this is two days without e-mail. that could be really tough, but if you rely on e-mail for your small business, guys, it's a nightmare. >> thanks so much, scott. >>> an airline known in canada is known for its special stunts during the holiday season, but this one may take the cake. >> a nice little story. westjet in calgary installed a virtual santa outside its gate that asked boarding passengers what would you like tore christmas? well, t

u.s.-brazil relations. then a pentagon briefing with defense secretary chuck hagel.

brazil. offering to help investigate u.s. eillance of brazilian citizens. >> snowden put the open letter to the people of brazil on the internet saying the united states monitors all cell phone calls in brazil and keeps track of people who are having fairs. snowden says he wants to help investigate what he calls u.s. crimes against brazil. >> relations between brazil and the u.s. have been a bit frosty for a while after reports that the nsa was spying there including on the country's president. the former nsa contractor of course, now living in russia under moscow's protection. >> the bipartisan budget deal supposed to gave the government billions of dollars but critics say veterans will be the ones paying for some of those savings out of their own pockets. we've got that story up next. of two young boys life could be hectic. angie's list saves me a lot of time. after reading all the reviews i know i'm making the right choice. online or on the phone, we help you hire right the first time. with honest reviews on over 720 local

u.s. . canada. brazil is. not true as far as thailand. and much of europe basically the large group of protesters that people. tast they're furious with the stereotype allah says in europe the n.s.a. surveillance and drones in america and a wide range of concerns like freedom of the press and the loss of the secular state in turkey. disenchanted disagreeing and desperate to be heard when they go through the usual channels of electoral democracy they just have a feeling that the governments aren't representing their interests so they feel they have no alternative but to take to the streets and express themselves in a way that the governments cannot ignore them and the governments haven't ignored them there is certainly a problem in many of these places to some sort of gap between popular feeling and the way government triac many of the protests sparked on different continents and in different countries these here and up these clashes between protesters and authorities the greatest fear the government has is that people will feel protest is

u.s.-brazil relations in a discussion with a former ambassador to brazil. outgoing federal reserve chairman ben bernanke help us live news conference wednesday after the fed's open market committee meeting. he explained the decision to start trimming the economic stimulus program known as quantitative easing. >> good afternoon. the committee decided, starting next month, to modestly reduce the pace at which it is increasing the balance sheet. the current near zero range for the federal funds range target likely will remain appropriate after the unemployment rate declines below 6.5% -- especially if projected inflation runs below the long- term goal. today's actions reflect the decision that the economy is making progress but that it has much farther to travel before conditions can be judged normal. the economy has been expanding at a moderate pace. we expect that growth will pick up in coming quarters, helped by accommodative monetary policy and waning fiscal drag. recovery clearly is far from complete, with unemployment still elevated and with underemploym

u.s.-brazil relations. then a pentagon briefing with defense secretary chuck hagel. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> florence harding once said she had only one real hobby. warren harding. she was a significant force in er husband's presidency. despite many struggles including her own poor health, flarns harding set many precedents that would help define the role of the modern first lady. good evening. tonight we are going to tell you the story of florence harding, who has been neglected and derided throughout history. in her time, the hardings came in as very popular people. we are going to learn about her and her husband's time in office and her interesting story not many people know. let me introduce you to our guests. katherine sibley is a history professor at st. joseph college. her book is called "first lady florence harding: behind the tragedy and controversy." thank you for being here. david pietrusza is a guest as well. he's author of many books including "1920: the year of th

u.s. embassy. in brazil, the countdown has very much started ahead of next year's hotly anticipated football world cup. one huge challenge for the brazilian authorities will be securing the global event, as well as a social protest movement that shows little sign of wange, the threat of violence from criminal gangs also looms large, with stores of thousands of foreign fans expected, the brazilian police have asked for advice from their french counterparts. >> words of wisdom from french riot officers to military police in rio de janeiro. they're here to teach brazilians how to deal with rioting. >> we're not used to demonstrations. this is something new for police in rio and brazil as a whole, i think, so we really have to get trained up. >> these officers are more used to fighting heavily armed drug taskers than taking on political activists. >> we're putting combat success on nonlethal methodsly to restore public order by respecting the idea of citizenship and the sense we're not dealing with delinquents.

u.s. had spied on brazil.es one day after a big victory for the anlt spying could not continue gentle. a federal judge ruled the nsa's domestic program is likely unconstitutional. the ruling only applies to this single suit and it is somewhat controversial brought in part by a pretty controversial figure. larry clayman. >> reporter: this isn't his first legal crusade. >> our goal here is to pry open this veneer of secrecy. we are now ruled quote/unquote by a president who bows down to allah. >> reporter: last year he filed a lawsuit arguing that barack obama couldn't be president because, quote, neither mr. obama nor the democratic party of florida, nor any other group has confirm that mr. obama is a natural born citizen. back in the '90s, he file at least 18 suits against the clinton administration. he's also taken on former vice president dick cheney, facebook, opec, even his own mother. he is a professor of bjorntown university and a former member of george bush's senior staff. he too has been clued by mr.

u.s. ambassador to brazil. later, what is next for north korea. >-- >> this week on "q&a," the former ceo of the bill and melinda gates foundation patty stonesifer discusses her new career. a washington, d.c. based family services charity. >> patty stonesifer, ceo of martha's table. what is it? >> it is a wonderful community- based organization that was founded 33 years ago with the idea that everybody deserves dignity and opportunity.

published and open letter today from snowed deny where he said he would be willing to help brazil's government investigate u.s. spying on its soil as long as he gets political asylum there. edward snowden is apparently looking to upgrade his living conditions. right now he is living in russia. >>> george zimmerman is now a painter and bids for his first piece of artwork are soaring on ebay. the painting features the words, god, one nation, and with liberty and justice for all. starting price bid was 99 cents. but now it's more than $100,000. bidding goes until next saturday. zimmerman was acquitted earlier this year in the fatal shooting of trayvon martin in florida. >>> you could send out a traditional christmas card to keep your friends and family updated on your life. or you could do this. [ rap ] >> the holderness family, raleigh, north carolina, made this video set to will smith's song, miami. it's already gotten more than 3.5 million views on youtube. that was dad. >> i like the jammies. >> it could have been dad. >> the 6-year-old dad or the wife. >> mom, dad, little kids. >> all right. >>> forget the

u.s. ambassador to brazil. later, what is next for north korea. "washington journal >-- >> this week on "q&a," the former ceo of the bill and melinda gates foundation patty stonesifer discusses her new career. a washington, d.c. based family services charity. >> patty stonesifer, ceo of martha's table. what is it? >> it is a wonderful community- based organization that was founded 33 years ago with the idea that everybody deserves dignity and opportunity. we provide food support and clothing support but also childhood care and afterschool care to ensure opportunity for those in our community and washington, d.c. what area do you serve? >> all over the city. we want to meet people where they are. hunger is everywhere. we go into the public schools. we know food stamps and families' bills are challenging. in terms of food, we are everywhere. 14 different locations. in terms of childcare and afterschool, we are at the corner of 14th. >> you came from a diverse career. how long did you serve microsoft in the state of washington? >> i was in the tech f

and people say, all of the stuff made in the united states, and china and brazil and vietnam. and u.s. manufacturers are not likely going to be making those products. they make the pharmaceuticals and the chemicals and the airplanes, and i think that to a certain extent, we're primarily a service economy. we spend 2/3 on services and not goods. so as i said earlier, if we spend more money on goods, we'll have less to spend on services like massages and haircuts and education. >> josh, i want to get to something you were talking about before the break. to quote john mackey's book title, conscience capitalism, it speaks broadly to this shift that we're seeing in america, and if people are thinking more critically and closely about where the products they consume come from. is that something that you felt on this 30-day journey? >> of course. when i was traveling, i had an overwhelming response. people really believe that made in america equals jobs made in america. and on my thought on a former segment, you talk about regulations and free trade, we can go into all of these different tal

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brazil is doing some interesting things. when you look at some of the bribery legislation -- the u.s. has been there a long time ago uk, eu, brazil will have some legislation come into place. norway. a number of countries have been doing that. going back to the point that president kim was saying, you need to work at all levels. not just one level. you need to bring all the parties to the table. that is the people. first of all, they need information. industry, business can have an important role to play. between government, civil society organization, who support and work with the people but who also provide advice and work with industry and government. you need to put a fire under all of these people and bring them around that bonfire. i would like to say word about the bank. the bank has had and continues to have a tremendous role to play. it is in just about every country about the world. there are people on the ground who can help to share and exchange that information, that knowledge, provide support through lending money as well of the grant money. provide some support for that.

it received a letter from edward snowden asking for political asylum and offering to help brazil investigate u.s that letter published on the newspaper's web site, snowden says he could legally offer assistance only if he's granted asylum. snowden right now is living in russia. that's where he was granted temporary asylum for a year. >>> president obama is meeting with more than a dozen silicon valley ceo's at the white house this morning. the president wants to get the high-tech leaders input on fixing the healthcare.gov web site along with talking about how to grow the economy and create jobs. the group includes apple's ceo tim cook, yahoo's marissa mier and google's eric schmidt. the nsa surveillance program will probably be a topic of discussion as well. many of the high-tech companies have complained about the extent of the government surveillance. >>> ed just yesterday a federal judge ruled the nsa's collection of americans' phone records is likely unconstitutional. in his 68 page ruling the judge said the nsa's indiscriminate and arbitrary collection of personal information infringes on t

from former nsa contractor edward snowden asking for political asylum and offering to help brazil investigate u.setter published on the newspaper's web site snowden said he could legally offer assistance only if he's granted asylum. snowden right now is living in russia. that's where he was granted temporary asylum for a year. >>> lottery fever heating up as people across the bay area rush to get their megamillion dollar jackpot tickets. tonight's jackpot is estimated at $586 million. however, it could top 600 million depending on ticket sales. there has not been a winner in 21 drawings and people right here in the bay area are hoping to trike it big. >> -- strike it big. >> it only takes one dollar to get in the game and you only need one ticket to win, the one with the right six numbers. >> if no one wins this week, it is possible that the jackpot could reach the $1 billion mark for the drawing on christmas eve. >>> now meantime, many lottery tickets worth thousands of dollars go unclaimed every year. the lottery says only about 2% of the total prize money awarded in lotteries is paid to people

i have served twice in brazil with u.s. aid. you talk about bilateral cooperation and talk about trilevel and you mentioned the opportunities in education and we have had major successes from the early 1970's with brazil, linking american and brazilian universities. theyhave come back and now are running those institutions in agriculture and health and other areas. you alluded to agriculture. i'm wondering about energy and environment. what opportunities for bilateral cooperation do you see? >> let's move to the next question. yes, there. >> i am with the house ways and means committee. success we saw a great led by a brazilian inspector general. right before that success was singed, it looked as though some would be theayers reason for the failure of the bali discussions. to what degree coming out of bali do you think that brazil's view of its own specifically trade leadership is changing from one in which it is a leader of the developing world to one in which it is a broker of some sort between the developing world and the deve

u.s. wins the world cup they will have earned it. friday was draw day for the brazil 2014 world cup. a divided the 2 22 eligible countries into eight groups. the u.s. finds themselves in the group of death. germany, portugal and began gha. they'll have to travel 9,000 miles. they'll take on two of the top five ranked teams in the world. >> it's going to be one. most difficult groups. that is no doubt about it. there are wheel leptions that c. zplnkts it's a huge opportunity for us. >> playing ghana and maybe a story with it and to clean it up. >> and it's something that doesn't happen everyday. sand germany for us is a big name we are going through a blow si --process of two-and-a-half s now to face opponents and do well and now we can prove it. >>> today is conference championship day across college football. one of the most interesting match ups is duke cake taking n florida state. duke has it's hands full. gla florida state has crushed every rank opponent they have played this year. it's going to be a big task to take down the goliath florida state. with that said. knock should be

u.s. ambassador to brazil. at 10 asee him live clock a.m. eastern on c-span. >> she was everyone's soul sister. everyone thought they knew her ram they did pretty much. she lay in her life out for everyone to see. us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960's through the 1990's. things, sheonderful wrote mainly humor and it was humor that was accessible to everyone. it is humor that happens in everyone's lives. we have to be on the lookout for them. and she was the one who focused our attention on the funny things that happened in the family. moment, it seemed like craziness and driving you nuts them,en you look back at you think it was really funny. that is a real gift. it's a literary gift. the life and times of irma life and- >> the times in dayton, ohio, on c-span 2 and on c-span 3. house press secretary jay carney took questions on the release of a report on the nsa surveillance program. here's what he said. click the review group on intelligence and communications technologies finished their report, as you know. this

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u.s. spying has offered his services to brazil but says his assistance will come at a price find out what he wants on our website. up next the homeless man finds his feet by using his fists stay with us for that. they're calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us will just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i've probably checked my email about seven times obama's place note i said most of us but the president isn't supposed to be like men. all of us it's one thing when you're fourteen and too stupid to realize that selfie photos at the wake after grampa's funeral is a bad idea but it's another thing entirely when one of the most photographed and powerful people on t

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u.s. efforts to spy on brazil, citing examples the way the u.s. government was spying. he wrote: his appeal was met with mixed reaction in sao paulo. >> snowden has a very important role in history and contributed a lot by revealing this information. i think considering this, brazil should give him asylum. it could damage relations with the united states, but it was their mistake. >> no, brazil should not give asylum. that he is not a person you can trust. that that if his own country could not trust him why would our count are i trust him no. >> brazil has been a major target of the n.s.a. spying program, causing political friction with the united states. documents leaked by snowden reveal that the president herself was spied on, along with her senior advises. after the revelation, a tate visit was canceled to washington and u.s. espionage strongly condemned in september. >> snowden does have political support in brazil. several ladies and gentlemen laters have asked for his support in hearings about the n.s.a. the only person that can grant asylum is the president. alj

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u.s. troops killed. did they survive their helicopter's crash landing only to be attacked and killed by the taliban? >>> and an unusual offer. nsa leaker edward snowden says he will help brazil investigate u.s. spying. what does he want in return? the former spy valerie plame is standing by to weigh in. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news out of colorado right now, where investigators are revealing disturbing new details of that high school shoot that left one student gravely injured and the gunman dead. we're now learning that senior karl pierson had written about the attack on his own body and what he intended to carry out was so much worse. our crime and justice correspondent joe johns is working this story for us. what have you learned? >> these details about the shooting last week are simply chilling and a huge indicator of how much worse it could have been. authorities say the shooter had used an indelible marker to write a phrase in latin on the inside of his forearm which translates in english to "the die has been cast." along with that latin phrase, the shooter had also written five separate letters and numbers on his