Did you watch the interview? There were multiple hardball questions, including one with a critical premise regarding drone strikes and another about regulatory capture (which the president didn't give a real answer to, but oh well). No Snowden though. I also found the rest pretty interesting/informative due to the breadth of topics covered, although of course he's said it all a million times before.
I appreciate that some hardball questions were ultimately asked, but did you notice the part in this blog post where he mentioned that his own first instinct was to ask softer questions and it was actually the people from Google who pushed him to ask harder ones? A good journalist would need no such prodding.
