saying that edward snowden should be free. so this is a tough situation for the white house but no reaction yet. alex. kristin from the white house, thanks so much. thanks. front page politics. new, wisconsin governor scott walker has signed a controversial new abortion bill that requires women seeking an abortion in the state to undergo an ultrasound before the procedure and in heubgts prors unless they have admitting privileges at a local hospital. opponents will sue to block that new law. president george w. bush is slated to give a speech on immigration reform. he s expected to explain why immigration reform is good for the country. and vice president joe biden will travel to arizona tuesday. he ll be attending the memorial service for those 19 firefighters who recently killed while fighting a wildfire in that state. let s go to egypt now where in cairo, the situation remains relatively calm with groups of protesters. but yesterday a much different
what s on tap for today? good morning, alex. as you can see, things are still pretty quiet. it s early in the morning in new orleans with the doors here open at the top of the hour. that s when the crowds will come for all the attractions here. things are taking place all over the city. the party got kicked off with a number of acts, jill scott, maxwell, l.l. cool j. tonight is new edition. and tomorrow, on the last night of this festival, the the queen bee of them all, beyonce. she is the last performer of this event, headlining the whole thing. this is a big event for the city of new orleans. it attracts tens of thousands of people to the city. as many as 90,000 by some estimates. and it comes at a good time of the city because this is the slow period of tourism. many are not in a rush to come to louisiana in the height of
what struck you as you heard each of them say, that is my son? alex, i m going to say something that s unpopular. i don t believe either of them. i ve listened to the tape. i have listened dozens of times, hundreds of times, and i do not think anybody could discern those voices. here is what i m saying. there is a signs of suggestibility. each of these women were presented with these recordings after knowing their sons were involved in this case. one woman s son is dead. she knows that information before she listens to the tape. she listens to the tape. of course she will think it is her son. the other woman has a son who has been arrested, who is facing life in prison. and knowing that he s claiming self-defense. she listens to the tape. she thinks the person screaming is her son. so i do believe that there is going to be a juror who is going
with america, not helping enough could hurt his stand with the russian public. that s why snowden has been such a headache for vladimir putin. alex? jim maceda. thank you so much for that. we ll go from moscow to washington and the white house. kristin welker standing by with more on this. first up, kristin, any reaction from the white house? well, we ve got the e-mails out, alex. but no reaction yet from the white house. as you heard jim say, there seems to be an extradition request from the united states to venezuela. the guardian posted a link on its website dated july 3rd. so a couple of days ago. that s important to note. senior administration officials have been consistent on had point really for the past several weeks. they are in contact with a number of different countries that might harbor or grant asylum to edward snowden and have really sent those countries a warning. which is if that were to happen
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