The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev dismissed two heads of the migration departments of Moscow for
The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev fired two employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal
because of russia s decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum. the obama administration says there are several other factors as well. senior white house foreign affairs correspondent is in martha s vineyard where the president is vacationing with the first family. wendell, lawmakers are waying in on this relationship and the decision to cancel the meeting there at the summit. reporter: harris, they did on the sunday talk shows, few if any willing to say canceling the summit was a mistake. but there are a lot of questions about and criticisms of the relationship. john mccain says the u.s. ought to press harder for the european missile defense and he asks what edward snowden was doing with so much classified information anyway. it couldn t have been part of his job. what about congressional oversight? have we had a failure there? clearly, mr. snowden s being granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad
either of those. the information is that it s related to ramadan and that s why the embassies will be shutting down. tracie, thank you very much. defying the request from the u.s., russia has granted edward snowden temporary asylum. the self-professed nsa leaker got the proper documents to leave. he is in an undisclosed location this morning. and while it might help the former contractor this morning, jim aceda is joining us. what are the implications for what has happened with the whole snowden scenario? reporter: good morning, betty. the snowden situation has strained difficult relations between the united states and russia. the u.s. does see the snowden asylum as a slap in the face
good morning. thanks so much for being with me. i m carol costello checking our top stories at 32 minutes past the hour. hiring hit a slump last month. the economy added 162,000 jobs, well below what some analysts had predicted. retail and food service workers were a bright spot, with 85,000 jobs added in the sector. in the middle east, a terror threat is prompting the state department to close u.s. embassies across the region, embassies in israel and across the nation will shut their doors on sunday. ed royce tells us the believes it is al qaeda linked. and options being weighed in light of russia s decision to grant edward snowden temporary