[national anthem] rachel: wow. good morning, everybody. it is 6:00 in new york city pete: out of cats. rachel: i just love all those patriotic kid photos. i actually think we should do one with just kids. good morning, will, good morning, pete. pete: good morning. good to have you back. rachel: thank you. keep sending those pictures in, everybody, especially kids. we love those kid pictures. will: that ll be in the coffee if table book. a kids section, a dog section, not a cat section [laughter] and a military section. rachel: cats aren t patriotic. they re just so into themselves will: they re not looking at the flag. [laughter] pete: anyway, we are so glad you re here. do, please, keep sending those photos in. i get e-mails and textses all the time who say itune in at 6:00 to catch the anthem. it s our favorite part of the eau show. rachel: yesterday i wasn t here because my if oldest daughter graduated from the university of chicago, and there she is. by the way, i
mother? the 11-year-old fled the destruction all along and traveled 600 miles alone with a bag, his pat port and telephone number written on his hand. a harrowing story of survival amid putin s war in ukraine. it s one story of many in this devastating conflict that the united nations says has caused more than 3 million ukrainians to flee their country. the invasion creating a ukrainian child refugee almost every single second resulting in heart breaking scenes like this, a young boy crosses the border in poland crying as he walks ahead of a group of adults. hassan s journey to safety in slovakia began more than two
degree on a mother s day resolution at 84%, now this. what was said by the administration at that time was extremely frustrating. absolutely there was a deep frustration by individuals on the ground making it to the airport of the words coming from washington. we talked with families last sunday at kabul. they described the scenes of being blocked at taliban check points and areas outside. the confusion. even with a u.s. pat port it was not a cake walk. this description we saw often by officials in washington explaining how people can walk to the airport and get through was not the reality. i think you will hear this over and over again as people analyze what went wrong and where the communication breakdown happened. we also talked with troops on the ground too. i think it s important to distinguish between the politicians in pugh c and
states. venezuela under chavez led this charge. he was using his influence in places like ecuador and bolivia and other places to try to get an anti-american sentiment. so you see more of this. so i think the chinese got everything they needed they need out of snowden and now the russians too. and i think the next chapter in this book somewhere in latin america one of these countries who is antagonistic to the united states using this as a public relations tool. is it serious, though do you think? since he has no paper i do think it s serious. you think they ll give him papers or the pat port that he needs to get there? i absolutely do. and this is why we should be take putin for a grain of salt in this particular case. if he were serious, he would send mr. snowden back to the
of the economic damage that in harboring a wanted meamerican fugitive. nine of the countries can t process the application because snowden, the applicant, need to be on national soil or at an embassy. he s stuck here in moscow. he has no u.s. pat port, and he has no russian visa. if you remove all of the nos and not probables from that list of 20, you end up with venezuela, bolivia and iceland as front-runners so take your pick. just very briefly, jim, we know ironically the venezuela president was in moscow today. did he make any reference to snowden s allege asylum request? yes, he did. we approached him on it. he visited the russian parliament today. his first comments were that venezuela hadn t yet received the application but whether it did, it would respond to it. but then he went on to sound like the typical leftist