SNOWDEN: I'M NOT A RUSSIAN SPY

National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden $4 NBC's Brian Williams Wednesday night that he has "no relationship" with the Russian government and has never met Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I have no relationship with the Russian government," Snowden said. "I've never met the Russian president. I'm not a spy, which is the real question."

Snowden's comments came as $4, the first Snowden has given to an American television outlet in the aftermath of his stealing of hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

Williams questioned him on whether he had access to the documents, and whether Russia's government could gain access to them.

"I took nothing to Russia, so I could give them nothing," he said.

Snowden is believed to have "touched" around 1.7 million documents on NSA servers. He gave roughly 200,000 of them to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras after meeting $4

Russia granted asylum on Aug. 1, from which time Snowden has been in living an undisclosed location. Some observers have speculated Snowden has become a Russian intelligence asset, $4 and the classified information $4.

Snowden's media blitz has already been countered by the U.S. government. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, responding to Snowden's claim the U.S. "stranded" him in Russia, said $4.