here is lonnie snowden. at this point when you consider many of the statements made by our leaders, leaders in congress, they are absolutely irresponsible and inconsistent with our system of justice. they have poisoned the well, so to speak, in terms of a potential jury pool. where my son chooses to live the rest of his life is going to be his decision. but i would like at some point in time for him to be able to come back to the u.s. whether he s going to live the rest of his life here or not and face this, because i believe that the truth will shine through. gretchen: i don t know if he s going to have a choice of where he ll live the rest of his life. he s committed crimes, according to the law in the united states. right now he has temporarily asylum in russia. if he comes back hooks, he would back here, he would have to face a federal trial. eric: president obama the question was asked of president obama whether ed snowden has become a whistle blower now or is he still
but now one group is trying to shed its boots to get into the olympics. will pole dancing make the cut? one can only hope. fox & friends starts right now. gretchen: i knew eric would not lead read that lead-in without personal commentary. they look athletic, right? eric: they do. they look great. this is impressive in its way. it is an olympic sport. tucker: maybe it is. i m open-minded. gretchen: glad the two of you open-minded gentlemen are joining me. tucker carlson. eric: i m in for brian. gretchen: technically. we re in a new studio in case you haven t noticed. sofas a little bit of a lighter color. we re over in what studio is this? eric: d. gretchen: okay. does huckabee still do his show here? eric: he does. gretchen: behind us here is a studio audience. maybe we can have a camera shot of that at some point. there it is. this is going to be the temporary home for awhile until i guess sometime in september, something like that. eric: brand-new studi
0 right when he encountered them in a remote area of idaho known as the river of no return. the first red flag? james dimaggio and hannah anderson didn t have any hiking or rain gear with them and the teenager, hannah, was wearing pajama bottoms. it was like a square peg going into a round hole. they didn t fit. he might have been an outdoorsman in california but he was not an outdoorsman in idaho. he didn t fit. another red flag for those horseback riders? dimaggio told them he was red for the salmon river but going the wrong direction. another rider noticed hannah looked scared and was troubled by her behavior. we didn t know if it was the horses or what. when i turned and talked to him a little bit, i just didn t had a gut feeling about him. the group ran into them a little later at a lake. and just as they were about to leave, hannah said something that made little sense at the time. gretchen: thanks, ainsley. we have other stories developing. while you were sleeping a s
taking the advice of his father, lonnie snowden who told me in an interview we did on thursday from washington, d.c., that if he were his son, he would stay here in russia and make a life of it because it s a strong country, he said, that could resist extreme u.s. pressure to actually to hand his son over to face a trial on espionage charges. meanwhile, official russian reaction to snowden is gaining a temporary one-year asylum here has been muted to say the least. there s been absolutely no word from president vladimir putin on the subject. the kremlin, perhaps, waiting to see how the obama administration reacts. it s interesting to note, mara, that even as some u.s. politicians are calling for strong reaction, a strong retaliation like trade sanctions and some are calling for boycotting the upcoming winter olympics in sochi very quietly behind the scenes on friday mike mcfauld, the u.s. ambassador
0 i want you to have this and use it how you want. the man traveling coast to coast giving away hundreds of dollars to unsuspecting americans. could your hometown be next? we begin with a worldwide heightened security threat. tod todayinter pole issued an extra security after recent prison breaks in iraq, libya and pakistan that could all be the work of al qaeda. it comes as the u.s. government issued its own worldwide travel alert for americans and orders 22 u.s. embassies and consulates across the muslim world to be closed tomorrow. u.s. officials tell nbc news it s based on a significant increase in chatter they intercepted in the region. we re taking concrete steps to make sure our personnel overseas are safe. what we can tell you, andrea, it is al qaeda linked. it emanates from the arabian peninsula. nbc news white house correspondent kristen wellker is live at the white house with the very latest. kristen, good morning, good afternoon, rather. u.s. officials say that