Maduro rejects U.S. extradition request for Snowden

While Fourth of July celebrations were underway at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Edward Snowden is believed to still be at a Moscow airport --- his temporary home while he searches for a country to grant him assylum.

Complicating matters for the former intelligence analyst who leaked details about the U.S surveillance program is the fact that Washington is warning foreign governments that accepting him could damage relations --- a point that didn't seem to concern Venezuelan President Nicolar Maduro who earlier in the week said Snowden deserves protection

SOUNDBITE: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro saying (Spanish):

"The government of the United States presented to our foreign ministry, as we were flying in, a scrap of paper requesting the extradition of the young (Edward) Snowden...They do not have the moral right to request the extradition of a young man who is only warning of the illegalities committed by the Pentagon and the CIA and the United States. As head o