let s begin with edward snowden. he s america most wanted fugitive. you say the problems began with the federal prosecutors who dropped the ball in a couple of ways allowing him to get to moscow in the first place. this is a declaration of incompetence with the federal government. they can t seem to get anything right. his name oh cording to officials is edward joseph snowden. you would think they could present the proper paperwork. their paperwork says edward james snowden and edward j. snowden. the hong kong authorities say we don t see a passport number and we see three different names. could you clarify this. they contacted the department of justice and said we need
0 picked it up from there. gregg: one of the things prosecutors had to consider is whether to call the father of trayvon martin. they may have decided that was too risky. at one point in time he said either that s not my son s voice or i can t tell if it s my son s voice. now he says yes that is my son s voice. it looks as though the prosecutors will stick with the mother of trayvon martin, then rest their case. the defense tried on cross-examination that the mother has been unduly influenced by politics. why? because she admits on cross examination that she first heard that 911 call when she was in the mayor s office. the mayor of sanford. in politics eventually ratcheted this up after prosecutors decided not to charge in the case. they sent it to a special prosecutor who did. take a listen to this. would you tell us the first time that you listened to that tape, when you listened to it? where were you? i was here in sanford. i believe it was the mayor s office. that was pursuan
0 he could get in there and rub it in a little bit more and he s not doing that yet. let s reserve judgment on that. we ll reserve judgment, that s right. that s it for the lead. i turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room who will continue the coverage of the george zimmerman trial. happening in his own words, jurors see and hear george zimmerman on tape recounting those dramatic chain of events that ended in trayvon martin s death. also, it s the deadliest blaze since the 9/11 attacks and the deadliest in arizona history. and former government george w. bush breaking his silence about the nsa leaker edward snowden in an exclusive interview with cnn. you ll see it and hear it here in the situation room. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. in the meantime, we re continuing our live coverage of the george zimmerman trial. mark o meara is continuing his questioning of chris serino, one of the first police officers on the scene. more so than the sho