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Has tried to intervene in any way. a slight complication is given ecuador's 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 russia's interest to intervene and detain snowden here or send him to the united states or anything in between, they would do so. at the moment it is unclear what their intention is or h...

We know the flight edward snowden was aboard flew in five hours ago we haven't 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 diplomatic vehicles from ecuador's ambassador. we have not seen the ambassador but his car has been parke...

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, joe johns. where do they begin? they tried to get hong kong to cooperate. that fell through. now, wh...

How in the world did this happen, in your view? >> fredericka, a lot of questions have to be answered first of all. i don't 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 it's resolved. and in this case the decision was made by hong kong and probably in the end by china, they didn't want him extradited to the united states, wanted him out of hong kong, strictly a political decision, not a legal decision made. i think we have to hold china and hong kong to that in the ...

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? >> let's say, if his passport was revoked we believe it was, the u.s. passport, when he got to moscow, there's 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 country of origin, to the united states, or it could send him back to the country from which he c...