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Has tried to intervene in any way. a slight complication is given ecuadors diplomatic involvement, given the fact it would appear snowden is receiving some sort of diplomatic assistance, perhaps cooperation and cover, does that in some way limit what russia can do in these circumstances? i would say russia can ultimately do whatever it liked in this situation. if president putin, the kremlin decided it was in russias interest to intervene and detain snowden here or send him to the united states ...

We know the flight edward snowden was aboard flew in five hours ago we havent seen him since. one witness on the aircraft, one person got onto the tarmac, into a car and his baggage was put into that car. they assumed it was snowden and seems pretty likely. he has not emerged from the north american nal so we believe he is in there waiting to connect with a flight to his next destination. as you say, it has been affirmed he is applying for asylum. here in ecuador, we have seen a number of diplom...

Trial in the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. the prosecution says he confronted the teen but the defense says he was defending himself. the defense won the battle to exclude experts to testify abwhe voice it was screaming for help on the 911 call for help. back to breaking news, the u.s. urging ecuador, among other countries, to revvs to let edward snowden in. the big question is if and how to get snowden back to the u.s. to face justice. joining me with insight is justice correspondent, ...

How in the world did this happen, in your view? >> fredericka, a lot of questions have to be answered first of all. i dont believe hong kong when they say the paperwork is inadequate. that always happens in extradition cases. there are always a few more details needed and the person is held until its resolved. and in this case the decision was made by hong kong and probably in the end by china, they didnt want him extradited to the united states, wanted him out of hong kong, strictly a political...

Might have provided snowden a passport, was he able to leave hong kong? if this paperwork was sent to hong kong and if indeed his u.s. passport was revoked? >> lets say, if his passport was revoked we believe it was, the u.s. passport, when he got to moscow, theres a big question, like how -- what happens? how did he get into the country? how did he leave hong kong? what do the russians do? according to what cnn understands, the russians, if he did not have a passport, could send him back to the...

On this this cant happen without diplomatic consequences. >> what kind of diplomatic -- >> ecuador, cuba and venezuela. >> pardon me for interrupting. what kind of consequences are we talking about when you talk about the russian government and consequences there are? >> im talking about diplomatic consequences, trade consequences. this is a relationship russia needs as much if not more than we do. we cant allow to go ahead business as usual when putin allows something like this to happen. the o...

Lets start with the breaking news. the man behind the nsa leaks, edward snowden, is heading to c ecuador. the organization helped snowden get from hong kong to russia today. he landed in russia this morning and said he is heading to ecuador and tweeted he has requested asylum there. there are reports snowden will get there by way of cuba, possibly. there is also speculation he might head to venezuela. the u.s. said today it is asking all of those countries not to led snowden in. and a course is ...

Going to get cooperation from russia holding him and not allowing him to get on a plane and likely not to have leverage with cuba and ecuador? >> were in a very difficult situation. its ironic. this president came in saying how he would fix the relationship with russia, pressing the reset button and now on such a basic issue as this russia is saying no. this really involves or require as direct diplomatic involvement by the u.s. i find it troubling the president has been so quiet on this. again,...