right in the city with me here is journalism foreign policy analyst michael hughes is joining us live today to discuss the situation that we've been talking about now technically the u.s. and the syrian army on the same slide in terms of fighting they stomach stage group could those common sort of try and pull them together u.s. and damascus you would hope so de facto they're on the same side and it's kind of ridiculous now obama's top military advisers made two points number one we need to get them at their source which is number two air power alone can only do so much eventually you need boots on the ground and i draw an analogy to afghanistan the whole to. i'm the seekers in pakistan the head of the you know the taliban and we couldn't have on the ground there now pakistan has nuclear weapons so you know we are prevented from doing that but in syria you know we we have the surveillance flights going on overseas and all that means is they're probably establishing a plan to strike the country which would be a big mistake now ideally if they were smart they would start you know the mi

john journalist and foreign policy analyst michael hughes thinks that america's back to self into a corner. it's kind of ridiculous now obama's top military advisers made two points number one we need to get them at their source which is in syria number two air power alone can only do so much eventually need boots on the ground there probably establishing a plan to strike the country which would be a big mistake you know the military advisors should should you know propose a unified command you know syria the u.k. saudi arabia could help with the intelligence. so if they were smart that's what they would do but u.s. politics gets in the way of domestic and we've had an anti assad stance from the beginning so politically it'll be shoot themselves in the foot. differently here and syria. many of the members of congress of. syria in recent months. this. week. could. still be. the final televised debate between the yes and no camps and the scottish independence campaign has turned into it the destiny of the country's future will be decided in mid september auntie's we're in a culture of i was

alexander clocks and he is the founder of global political insight and here in moscow we cross to michael hughes he is a journalist and foreign policy analyst who often writes for the huffington post and the examiner right gentlemen crosstalk rules of fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it dimitri in london if i can go to you as we sit down here with the presidents of ukraine and russia have met in minsk there is no outcome of any possible one on one but they shook hands at least that ok. those wanting out of time is certainly out of money and a lot of people losing patience particularly the europeans particularly anglo merkel. where are we in this situation right now and we all know that winter is looming and russia and ukraine have no gas deal. well we're in the middle of a few conflicting lines i think. during her recent meeting with poroshenko with president poroshenko chancellor merkel centrally pressed him for trying to achieve a peace deal with russia i'm not sure if that is the right line to follow and maybe it should have been kiev should start tal

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michael brown. i'm joined here in new york by san danny cevallos, a criminal defense attorney and cnn legal analyst. holly hughesriminal defense attorney. let's continue this conversation. we were just having a heated discussion in the break about the photograph of the officer who killed michael brown, darn wilson. to you, holly, first, that this has not about leased by the police. and a lot of people are asking why. is that typical that you would not release this photograph? >> well, whether its it's typical or not, i don't think it's right. they have certainly put out there michael brown's photograph. they have released the video of michael brown allegedly stealing cigars. so, if we are going to have full disclosure, then why not put his picture out there? you don't want to paint a target on him and nobody wants to incite violence or have somebody going after him, but if you are truly innocent and if you are not doing anything wrong, then it seems a little disingenuous to put all the negative out there about the person who was shot, the victim, michael brown, and not release the officer's photograph. >> danny?

michael brown case with our legal experts. dapny sa val lows is here in new york with me. and in atlanta, former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, holly hughesof officer darren wilson, the ferguson plir who shot michael brown this photo was first aired by yahoo!.com yesterday, which said it was on wilson's father's facebook page. that page has now been taken down. a source close to the investigation has confirmed to cnn that it is darren wilson in the photo. so, to holly and danny, to you first, we were discussing this last hour and it's important to note that this photo was not released by the police. holly what do you think, does this change anything nor photo to now be out there? >> i think it may change how the community feels, poppy. legally, as we discussed earlier, nobody's entitled to have this. however, when we are talking about the media and reporting, if someone is a suspect in a case, and that's what we have right now, that's what we are looking at, he may eventually be charged with a crime we do put the their photo out there. think the community has been very critical of their leaders saying you put, you know, the photograph of

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michael bush lies and a number of people. i don't know all of his client, but he is the best. and kelley hugh washburne a little background was a congressman from illinois who was a fellow congressmen are fellow politician in illinois with abraham lincoln in a very close friend of jim. and went -- lincoln became president, it was washburne as much as anybody else who kept telling my kin, you've got to give this man grant a full chance to show what he can do because washburne came galena, illinois, which is for grant was living before the civil war started. but would also distinguish washburne was he was one of four brothers who all served in congress in the house or the senate. all four are from different states. all got reelected regularly. all four had distinguished careers. one was a general in the civil war. another was as the governor of maine appears to have been the first person to refer to the new political party is the republican party. and they grew up on a hardscrabble fireman in western maine in utter poverty. 10 children. and all those children were exceptional. it is an amazing,

michael beschloss, a number of people. i don't know all of his clients, but he's the best. and he was, ely hugh washburn was a congressman from illinois who was a fellow congressman or fellow politician in illinois with abraham lincoln and a very close friend of abraham lincoln's. and when lincoln became president, it was washburn as much as anybody else who kept telling lincoln you've got to give this man, grant, full chance to show what he can do. because washburn came from georgia lee that -- gallena, illinois, which is where grant was living before the war started. what also distinguished him was he was one of four brothers who all served in congress, in the house or the senate. all four from different states, all got reelected regularly, all four had distinguished careers. one was a general in the civil war, another was as the mayor, as the governor of maine was, it appears to have been, the first person to refer to the new political party as the republican party. and they grew up on a hard scrabble farm in western maine in utteroverty. utter poverty. and ten children, and all of those chi

michael brown. you get the sense in fact that those debates are just beginning. want to bring in now our panel, former prosecutor, holly hughes, she's joining me from atlanta and danny savalos, a bit closer to new york. danny, i want to start with you because you wrote a piece for cnn.com talking about robert mcculloch, the local prosecutor there, that he should be kept on the case. why do you think he should stay on this? >> well, it's more than we haven't heard a compelling reason why this prosecutor should either recuse himself or be disqualified. the it's been alleged that he has a relationship with members of the police. first, there is no specific alleged relationship with this police officer and that's the operative inquiry. the reality is prosecutors work hand in hand with police officers and know them socially and have general relationships with law enforcement all the time. every prosecutor when they get their badge knows that some day, they may be called upon to prosecute the police and as long as there is no direct relationship between this putative defendant and the prosecutor, then that alone, the mere fact that