off the yacht. much ado about nothing, or should a secretary of state be allowed even during a crisis half a world away allowed to be on the yacht enjoying the fourth holiday. you saw the photograph, right? well, yeah, i saw it fredricka. i thought the state department spokesperson blew it by denying he d been on the yacht. without really fully checking it out. and then the pictures came out and they had to backtrack and say, well, in fact, he was on the yacht, but by the way, he was only on there a short time. give me a break. it was not right to do it that way. but to be fair to secretary kerry, he has been going through a grueling time. he came back from a 15-day trip to the middle east. the boston globe is reporting he s spent more time in the last four months with israeli and palestinian leaders trying to get new peace talks started than hillary clinton who, of course, traveled worldwide was able to spend with them for four years, he s trying very, very hard to
fredricka, it still is anyone s guess whether or not he s going to be on that flight because as we also know he does not have a valid passport after the u.s. revoked his passport, so he would have to get some sort of travel document presumably from the venezuelas, fredricka? what about russia? is russia commenting thus far on why it continues to hold him if it s assisting or why it wouldn t grant him asylum? reporter: well, the russians commented on this very quickly and it s interesting they did so so quickly because it shows snowden is increasing becoming a headache for the putin administration. the head of russia s parliament came out with a tweet and said he think it is a wonderful idea for him to go to venezuela and he said, quote, that snowden couldn t live inside the airport lounge, so they re fairly keen to have him move on. a lot of people believe that this is really weighing on the putined administration. at the beginning it looked good for putin to have snowden here for
make sense of the middle east. i think we ought to give him a break on this. i think if he wants to go out on a yacht with his grandson for a couple of hours, more power to him. he needs a break after the four or five you trips to the middle east. here is a guy who is really trying to shape american interests and to bring more order and more stability and more moderation to the middle east, so i think i think he deserves a break on this. all right, david gergen, thanks so much. good to see you. appreciate it. thanks, fredricka. take care. all right. all right. the northeast, guess what, it s getting baked by this heat wave. but other parts of the country are getting soaked. the holiday weekend forecast straight ahead. and the most unexpected wimbledon s women s final was played out in london today. we ll tell you who won after the break. plus, a royal baby due any day now. we don t know if it will be a boy or a girl, but we ll find out what names are topping the list of f
what you re saying today to me and to the jury yes. is that you have no memory yes. of any of the events surrounding the autopsy itself. yes. i try very hard. is that true? it s true. 100% true. reporter: so, fredricka, i think you can say this witness was very honest. he admitted he remembered nothing about the autopsy at all. but when he started testifying yesterday, i saw his head was down and he was listing his credentials, where he d gotten his education. i said to myself, i think he s reading this but i thought i must be very mistaken. well, he was actually reading all of that. it was his notes and that became a focal point because he hadn t told the prosecution they had notes but if you re reading from notes on the witness stand then both sides are entitled to them. that was sort of a stall in the whole thing and then his testimony got going again but the jury is left i think to wonder how much credibility should we give to someone that doesn t remember to
this offer comes a day after both venezuela and nicaragua said they would grant asylum to snowden. still unclear which country he might choose. and there s also big news to give you in the world of sports right now. all-star center dwight howard announced he is leaving the lakers. jeff fishell is here with more in this bleacher report. fredricka, thank you. the lakers don t get turned down by many superstars but dwight howard says he s going to the houston rockets. he says that s where he thinks he has the best chance of winning an nba title and howard says he s betting $30 million on it. that s how much less superman will make playing for the rockets instead of staying with the lakers. the big man announced his decision on twitter with this, quote, i ve decided to become a member of the houston rockets. i feel it s the best place for me, and i m excited about joining the rockets. i m looking forward to a great season. i want to thank the fans in los angeles and wish them the best.