if anyone watched the press conference between obama and putin recently, we know there s conflict there. once again, this situation proves they saw this coming, they re taking advantage of the situation to show they re not willing to work with the united states. i doubt the russians would even try this with many other former presidents. i bet putin wouldn t say if one of our spies were in his airport he was free. that would be a neutral area. they re keeping snowden there, because it s embarrassing for the united states, gives them an opportunity to hold power over our heads, they re going to continue to do it. what did you think, emily, the fact that the obama administration never asked interpol to issue a red notice for snowden which could have stopped him from traveling? look, he s hiding out in the airport right now, and so putin gave himself a little bit of room. it s the end of the day are we
going to send drones over russia for this? these are situations that come and go but the presidents that stayed on track. snowden has created a circus out of this, this is a perfect media story. we don t know where he is. he s created a circus around it. but the president is not letting it become a total distraction. his speech on climate today was a preplanned speech. you re missing the point. well, it he s moving forward with very serious priorities of administration, and not becoming a total distraction. the point is, that the obama administration has made this into a chaotic disaster. ed snowden came out as the leaker on june 9th, it took two weeks for the state department to pull his passport. that should have been done immediately. there should have been someone in hong kong, from the cia questioning him, instead he got to go out on the chinese media. and now he s in russia and they re going to give him asylum
the right to vote? you want to talk history, sean, let s talk about people given literacy tests. that doesn t happen today. that s what justice roberts was saying. you think in 1965, barack obama a black american could be elected president? in 1965, of course not. the world s changed, that s roberts point. no, it s not the point. the formula was old and there s no longer this need for protecti protection, and what i just said to you was, just last year in texas, the justice department filed suit, judges agreed this was an outrageous act of depressing minority turnout. let me speak to eric s point for a second. no one cared about the new black panther party in 2008. no one ever said they didn t vote or felt intimidated. it was one guy. you re making a big deal. one black person shows up and you say, oh, my god, he s threatening to you? i wouldn t want to go into a
the right to vote? you want to talk history, sean, let s talk about people given literacy tests. that doesn t happen today. that s what justice roberts was saying. you think in 1965, barack obama a black american could be elected president? in 1965, of course not. the world s changed, that s roberts point. no, it s not the point. the formula was old and there s no longer this need for protecti protection, and what i just said to you was, just last year in texas, the justice department filed suit, judges agreed this was an outrageous act of depressing minority turnout. let me speak to eric s point for a second. no one cared about the new black panther party in 2008. no one ever said they didn t vote or felt intimidated. it was one guy. you re making a big deal. one black person shows up and you say, oh, my god, he s threatening to you? i wouldn t want to go into a
if anyone watched the press conference between obama and putin recently, we know there s conflict there. once again, this situation proves they saw this coming, they re taking advantage of the situation to show they re not willing to work with the united states. i doubt the russians would even try this with many other former presidents. i bet putin wouldn t say if one of our spies were in his airport he was free. that would be a neutral area. they re keeping snowden there, because it s embarrassing for the united states, gives them an opportunity to hold power over our heads, they re going to continue to do it. what did you think, emily, the fact that the obama administration never asked interpol to issue a red notice for snowden which could have stopped him from traveling? look, he s hiding out in the airport right now, and so putin gave himself a little bit of room. it s the end of the day are we