let s go from five star hotel to five star hotel having gourmet dinners with foreign ministers and to what extent would he represent the kind of stuff-minded america-first policies that trump has campaigned on. trump has to have somebody at state who s very tough and very willing to take on foreign leaders and say, wait a second, i m here to represent the united states. that was shady. newt gingrich campaigning in favor of rudy giuliani by the way for secretary of state. hadn t he ever heard of secretary of state hillary clinton? team of rival, exactly. but remember mitt romney defeated newt gingrich for the 2012 republican nomination. might be some residual hard feelings there and at the same time there is but this is this this crystalizes the debate inside trump world which is do we let somebody like mitt romney who called donald trump a phony and fraud into the tent? into the the inner sanctum? it s a debate donald trump will have to sort out. fascinating conversation.
and then the son of one of mexico s great newspaper barons with jayne and his family was escorted out of the land he loved. that kidnapped employee, by the way, the kidnappers simply released him nearly three months later, no ransom at all. by then, jayne and eduardo and their children had squeezed into what they expected would be a temporary exile, two months or so, at jayne s mother s house in america. why just two months? mostly because federal police assured them they had significant leads. they still insisted they knew the group responsible, a marxist revolution party called the epr. and besides, one of the officials who debriefed eduardo was soon promoted to commissioner of federal police and hadn t he promised personally that he would aggressively chase down the abductors? but two months grew to three, then six. no word. i tried to call different times.
week, hadn t he? i think one of the things you touched on is after that airliner was shot down by russia and invasion by putin in ukraine, many thought the president didn t do enough. if those economic sanctions are working, that s a big plus for this president and obviously the issue with cuba is a big plus. he has a partner in pope francis. ronald reagan was a close ally with margaret thatcher. you don t see obama having an international ally that he s been close to and now pope francis working with the president bodes well for him too. it will depend on what the economy is like in his last day in office is how historians will judge him. let s go back to the russian point. you were pointing out the adventures in ukraine.
three hours the jury announced its verdict. not guilty on all counts. i just broke down and started crying, because i knew what they had been through. next to marrying my wife, next to the birth of my children, that was probably the happiest day of my life. we ve lived with the family and felt what they ve been through and it s just a tremendous, tremendous load taken off our shoulders. the jurors came out and hugged tim hennis. they were adamant they needed to reinvestigate this case and quit picking on this guy. somebody said, why are they bothering this poor man? hadn t he suffered enough? talking about hennis. why are they bothering this poor plan? hasn t he suffered enough? a man that killed two men and a woman.
president obama was here when this all unfolded. he has been briefed on the situation, will likely continue to be briefed, but there s no indication we will hear from him this afternoon about what has unfolded here. still, having said that, senior administration officials continue to be in contact with law enforcement officials as they monitor this unfolding situation. and the president earlier today, of course, had been traveling, hadn t he? he had been back, what, a matter of two hours i think when this incident occurred? reporter: right. and he was out traveling speaking at an area construction company talking about the impact of a prolonged shutdown on businesses, small businesses. of course, washington has been focused on the shutdown, has been roiled by that. a lot of tensions here in the capitol as they try to sort through how to reopen the government and then, of course, this happens. no one was expecting it. it seemed surreal here to be in washington, quite frankly, when