less than three months after his testimony, these documents, including a court order leaked by ed ward snowden showed the collection of american phone records, the meta data, was not accidental, but rather a fundamental nsa strategy to identify terrorism suspect pects and destroy plots. in an interview with nbc after the leaks, clapper offered a apology by saying the senators question was unfair. >> i was asked when you are going to stop beating your wife kind of question, which is meaning not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no. so i responded in what i thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner by saying no. >> there are a few precedents, given his job as a cabinet level post and that the obama administration has to share some of the blame. >> what they have done with the occurrence simply turns that on the head and go the security right and forget about the civil liberties and constitutional route. >> a dna spokesperson identifies that clapper has written to the central intelligence committee that it wasn't a lie but rather confused and thought it was about e-mail con

#ed ward snowden said he is willing to help brazil investigate alleged. >> let's get more from rachel who junes us now live in brazil. rachel, tell us, first, more about what snowden said and what the reaction has been. >> . >> what he did is published an open letter and one of the leading newspapers where he basically made an appeal for asylum. he at suggested that he would be welcome to help with the investigation. here in his own country in brazil. this has been mixed with reactions. the largest city, we did speak to people there, one of our colleagues who got everything from saying that he definitely agreed that brazil should grant him asylum. and oh people that said hey, if the u.s. doesn't trust him, why should we. so it's been a mixed bag, but it is definitely a new development in this on going case. with snowden and his persistence for seeking asylum. >> . >> they have been a very harsh credittic of this u.s. flying program back in september, during the u.n. general assembly, she basically blasted the u.s. he then cancel add state dinner in washington. she also instructed her

they were evenly split on whether id ward snowden was a patriot or traitor. >> are they unhappy with the president? unhappy with obama care? are they moving to the republican party? or are they moving to an independent category? where are they going? >> it shows the biggest increase in the independents. if they're disillusioned, right now the young voters are more disillusioned than they were in 2009. so it's looking really bad for the democrats right now. >> are the democrats worried about this? do they see this as a real threat? >> they have to. this is absolutely crucial that these voters turn out and i think they just need, the only thing that they can do right now is turn to other issues. you're going to see a lot of other issues. the president's talking about the minimum wage. that polls very well. you might hear more social issues on younger voters like ga rights, more liberal than people who are older. sow may hear more talk about things like ga marriage. issues that young people are still with the president. i don't know if that's going to get them to the polls in 2014 when

ward snowden turns into an international game of cat and mouse. >> the man who's been spilling u.s.n the move. but where is his final destination? >> first, hong kong lets him go. then russia refuses to extradite him. snowden's leaks were a major embarrassment for the nsa, revealing the extent the agency was spying on americans as well as international leaders and citizens. number two -- >> the pope resigns. leader of the catholic church stepping down at the end of the month. >> pope benedict becomes the first head of the catholic church to resign in 600 years. the 86-year-old said, it was because of poor health. >> the bell is ringing here in rome. the big ring. that means one thing, what does it mean. >> we have a pope. >> the first pope elected from south america. >> curtains are open. cross bearer is coming out. and there he is. >> dubbed the people's pope, francis is focussing on compassion for for the poor and afflicted. number one, civil war in syria. more than two years in fighting, 100,000 killed. more than 2 million refugees. in august, the chemical weapons attack kills hu

let's call them sheep and i thanked ward snowden for revealing the sheep in freedom lovers clothing. again. >>> welcome to a big night tonight on "the kelly file." charles krauthammer live with an interesting, new explanation of what really went wrong with obamacare. plus, a new warning from surgeons tonight. >> we just don't know. they don't know what plans will be available, what services will be available. no one knows what will happen january 1st. >> dr. novak is here, in a "the kelly file" exclusive. >>> and a special message from mistletoe madison. wait until you see how she's doing two weeks after she was told it's better to beg than to work without the proper paperwork. >>> we start tonight with a

i thanked ward snowden revealing the sheep in clothing. >> closed captioning got fired again. . >>> ohm greg gutfeld. it's 5:00, you knew that. >>> the north pole is melting and it's your fault. which is why for christmas, green peace has bar offed out a video of santa looking like saddam trapped in a spider hole. this is not santa but a bad actor playing him. >> i've dreamed of bad tidings. for some time now, melting ice here

. >> this is a debate generated by the hysteria caused by ed ward snowden and why we're listening to him is beyond me. >> lawmakers ask where exactly do you draw the line? also, winner? this is what we were waiting on. the first day of winter and it brought us a deadly mix of tornadoes, snow, ice, but also record high temperatures. and 2013 space odyssey, what a delay could mean for that is is's high stake s repair job in outer space. >>> but let's start with the deadline, shall we. deed line for people to enroll in dam care oobamacare is tomor. but there are a lot of last minute changes. this is how the "new york times" puts it. a series of decisions by the obama administration to delay some of the law's most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers. peter alexander is traveling with the president. he's in hawaii now. so peter, is the white house at least acknowledging that maybe some of these changes could be confusing and causing uncertainty for the consumer? >> reporter: i think pretty simply again on fr

the fact they want to rein some of it in is also a vindication, i think an important one, of ed ward snowdennd what it is he did in sacrificing his own self interests to bring this to our attention. but i also think it's worth noting this surveillance panel, like most of these advisory panels, was stacked with loyalists to president obama. people who were expected to essentially okay whatever it is that he wanted. and yet even this panel said that some of these programs go too far. and the reforms are really very, very mild. i think most people at the eclu say it doesn't go far enough. and yet you already see the white house saying oh, yes, our own panel has said the nsa should be separated from the military infrastructure but we're not going to do that. so there's this battle, i think, under way to say are there going to be real reforms or fake symbolic gestures to placate the american people. >> and you mentioned the aclu and obama administration. we have representatives from both later in this broadcast to discuss. my final question to you, what do you say to folks who look at this and sa

jamie: he will ward snowden is back in the news claiming his mission has been plirnd. he told a reporter that everything he was trying to do was validated when the media started reporting on the government's secret surveillance program. jonathan hunt is in our new york city newsroom with more on that. >> reporter: edward snowden seems to remain proud of what he has done. feeling it was necessary and that it set in motion much needed change in his view of the way government surveillance is run. he told "the washington post." for me in terms of personal satisfaction the mission has already been accomplished. i already won. as soon as the journalists were able to work everything i wanted to do was val -- was val dated. -- was validated. i wanted to give society a chance to change itself. a federal judge declared the nsa bulk data collection program as being probably unconstitutional. jamie: what does he say about the charges against him? >> reporter: snowden says he is not a traitor. has not been disloyal to himself or his former employer. he says i'm not trying to bring