There's always going to be consequences for opposing people in power.

These are risks worth taking when I came forward it changed the law.

I'm Mayor D'Hassan, welcome to Deconstructed.

My guest today is the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden,

guest a man himself who became a global household name almost exactly five years ago.

He joins me from Moscow to talk about everything from privacy and Facebook to Vladimir Putin

and Donald Trump. I think people are asking for too much when they hope that the

Mueller investigation is going to come up with kind of a smoking gun and say yes,

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump in the hotel room with the piss tape. Life is not that simple.

So this week, the Edward Snowden interview.

Breaking news tonight reports that through a secret court order, the Obama administration

is collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers.

It was June 2013 and I remember reading the breaking story on the Guardian website about the NSA,

the National Security Agency, collecting the phone records of millions of innocent,

unsuspecting Americans. It's a program that's been known as Prism.

And I remember thinking this is huge. This is going to be a big, big deal.

The NSA has called for a criminal investigation to determine who exactly is behind these leaks.

Now I am here. They didn't have to wait too long to find out.

My name is Ed Snowden. I'm 29 years old.

I work for you now.

In an instant, Edward Snowden became one of the most famous, one of the most wanted people on earth.

And in the years since, he hasn't become any less controversial, any less divisive.

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