Questions about the scopes, node.js, and express

I really suck at understanding scopes and other things of that nature in just about every language. Right now I am building an express application that takes user input and then queries an arbitrary api and then feeds it to the console. To handle the rest api, I am using shred. I know I can use nodes built in get request, but for some reason, I could never get it to work. The user makes the following get request to my app, /query?query=. This is what I have now. I can't really describe what I'm doing so pleas read the code comments.

var http = require('http');
var Shred = require("shred");
var assert = require("assert"); 

exports.query = function(req, res){
    //thequery is the string that is requested
    var thequery = req.query.query;
    var shred = new Shred();


    console.log("user searched" + " " + thequery);
    console.log();

    //The if statement detects if the user searched a url or something else
    if (thequery.indexOf("somearbitratyrestapi.com") !== -1){
        console.log("a url was searched");
        //find info on the url

        var thedata = shred.get({
          url: "http://somearbitratyrestapi.com/bla/v2" + thequery,
          headers: {
            Accept: "application/json"
          },
          on: {
            // You can use response codes as events
            200: function(response) {
              // Shred will automatically JSON-decode response bodies that have a
              // JSON Content-Type

              //This is the returned json
                  //I want to get this json Data outside the scope of this object
              console(response.content.body);

            },

            // Any other response means something's wrong
            response: function(response) {
             console.log("ohknowz");
            }
          }
        });

            //I want to be able to see that json over here. How do?


    }else{
        console.log("another thing was searched");
    }
/*

    res.render('search-results', { 
        result: 'you gave me a url',
        title: 'you gave me a url' 
    });
 */
};

I tried doing this

var http = require('http');
var Shred = require("shred");
var assert = require("assert"); 

exports.query = function(req, res){
    //thequery is the string that is requested
    var thequery = req.query.query;
    var shred = new Shred();
    //I created a variable outside of the object
    var myjson;


    console.log("user searched" + " " + thequery);
    console.log();

    //The if statement detects if the user searched a url or something else
    if (thequery.indexOf("somearbitratyrestapi.com") !== -1){
        console.log("a url was searched");
        //find info on the url

        var thedata = shred.get({
          url: "http://somearbitratyrestapi.com/bla/v2" + thequery,
          headers: {
            Accept: "application/json"
          },
          on: {
            // You can use response codes as events
            200: function(response) {
              // Shred will automatically JSON-decode response bodies that have a
              // JSON Content-Type

              //This is the returned json
                  //I set myjson to the returned json
              myjson = response.content.body

            },

            // Any other response means something's wrong
            response: function(response) {
             console.log("ohknowz");
            }
          }
        });

            //Then I try to output the json and get nothing
            console.log(myjson);


    }else{
        console.log("another thing was searched");
    }
/*

    res.render('search-results', { 
        result: 'you gave me a url',
        title: 'you gave me a url' 
    });
 */
};

Sorry for the bad explanation of my problem. Can someone please help or explain what is going on.