The journalist who released Edward Snowden’s leaked information through The Guardian is coming back to the U.S. to receive the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting. Glenn Greenwald returns despite the fact that he may be detained and charged as a criminal by the government (his partner was recently detained in London Heathrow airport for nine hours).

He reveals a pretty interesting perspective on returning to the U.S. during his interview with Huffington Post. Watch below to hear his take on it.

Full interview from HuffPost Live can be seen here.