Unless he's a complete idiot, of course the Senator knows that calling for denying Snowden publicity is actually just going to get Snowden more publicity. That's irrelevant as long as making such a call gets him more publicity for his anti-Snowden credentials too.
>Unless he's a complete idiot
Possibly...
well, he definitely got himself on the incumbents-whose-challenger-i-will-financially-support list
Maybe he's a Wikileaks supporter, cleverly drumming up attention for the speech.
That would be quite clever. Remember he's a politician.
For the life of me, i cannot find a link to a live stream. Are you talking about seeing it in person, or is it available online somewhere?