salvi. it all points to this was -- and maybe and this is why we're looking into it, some coordinated effort to go after people, again, exercising your most fundamental right, your right to speak out in a political fashion in a political nature against your government. and that was targeted by this administration. >> you know what's really crazy about the al salvi case, she goes after him, loses, tries to extract a promise that he'd never run for office again. then dick durbin wins on the seat and he turns around saying we need to crack down on these con zefbtive groups and lois lerner was only too happy to respond. congressman, i've got to go. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >>> breaking tonight on the battle between israel and hamas. the white house has now joined the united nations and countries around the world condemning a rocket attack that hit a u.n.-run school in gaza earlier today. at least 16 people were killed including innocent children. a white house spokesperson today s

of being caught drunk on the street so what is your avodah for claiming that the russian state the salvi of state at least intentionally encouraging people to drink into oblivion well there's a lot of this is not necessarily always sort of an active push into the vodka bottle as it were but certainly stymieing any efforts to oppose alcohol or to encourage temperance were essentially part of the political whims of the government so if you go back to the beginning of the soviet experience lenin was and ardent prohibitionist and russia sort of adapted to a prohibition of dry law from from his imperial predecessors but once lenin is out of the picture actually in terms of the interpersonal rivalries between trotsky who is an ardent prohibitionist and stalin who saw the ramping up of the whole revenue as a means to avoid what he saw as being enslaved meant to the west in fact openly said this to international delegates and said that it was a choice that they had to make it was either what he said sort of slavery to western capitalism or going back to the vodka bottle and so apparently he chos