stating that the western balkans emergency is to continue in effect beyond june 26, 2009. the crisis constituted by the actions of persons engaged in or assisting sponsoring or supporting i, extremist violence in the republic of macedonia and elsewhere in the western balkans region or double i, acts obstructing implementation of the date and accords in bosnia or united nations security council resolution 1244 of june 101999 in kosovo that led to the declaration of a national emergency on june 26, twin, and executive order 13219 and to amendment of that order in executive order 13304 of may 28, 2009, has not been resolved. the acts of extremist violence and obstructionist activity outlined in executive order 13219 as amended are hostile to the u.s. interest and pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary let to the national security and foreign policy of the united states. for these reasons i have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to the western balkans and maintain in force the sackses to respond to this threat. signed

odd clout turkey encloses itself and the anglo-french organized the region, the baltics, and the balkans i should say and the area south of the middle east. but as that area leaves the control of others, including the americans, the turks become much more important and influential. my third and final choice is the most controversy o , poland. why? because it faces russia. the north german plain has no natural boundary is. the boundary now is drawn on the line poland, russia, belarus, ukrai ne and poland is the key if it is not to return to central europe which it may not want to, but it may wind up doing. united states is extremely interested in poland. and that has a certain impact on a country. when a country becomes a fundamental strategic importance to the world's leading power, able to make massive economic concessions and technology transfer, that has a real consequence. as an example i will give yourself to react if i said in the 1950's that south korea would be one of the

he got the peace process back on track in the balkans. domestically obama credits his vice-president with winning the votes needed to pass the american recovery and reinvestment act. then, biden took on a thankless job of implementing it. he has gotten one $50 billion out the door quickly and with no waste. cabinet members tell me that his leadership is making this massive programmer. his task force on middle-class working families is making sure that average families are not forgotten when policy is made. so, what you think about vice- president joe biden's performance so far? you can send us tweets at cspanwj. cedar falls, go ahead. caller: yes, the constitution says the job is to be president when the president cannot be. so far, president obama has been able to be president every minute of his time. biden has been healthy, so he has done his job perfectly so far. i did have a comment about the previous thing. one of the comments that john lott kept saying is that there is competition right now and there really is not. most of the heal

they want is a this or balkanization that i saw on tv. and my wife would be on the back door when i would come home for my primetime show and she would you share at me and she would shake her head and say, you jackass. and then turn around and go to bed. [laughter] >> i would smile because i knew that she had a very good point. i was, in fact, a jackass and i played one on tv. so in 2004 after playing a jackass on tv for a couple of years i wrote a book called rove wasn't burnt in a day. and in this book i decided to tell the truth about the republican party, that the republican party promised less government but was in fact spinning at such reckless rate and forgetting all the promises that we've made to get elected in 1994, that i predicted that the republican party would lose control of congress. and that our economy would be racked by this terrible stewardship. conservatives hated that message. even though it was a very conservative message. i was once again this political dead zone. i saw that, we started a radio show and we are on l

some of the balkan states will probably be joining sometime soon. huge controversy in europe, of course, about whether they should admit turkey. turkey would like to join and in europe would not like them to join. host: any advantage to allow turkey? guest: i think the economic advantage in europe, and a sense it would increase competitiveness within the european union. very active, aggressive, competitive turkish companies which would press european companies to be -- a huge market of tens of millions of new consumers. by the same token, turkey is very, very poor. poorer than portugal would join the european union, porridge and greece when it joined. and one reason the european union worked so well is that the european union understood when it was creating conditions that they had to subsidize those countries initially to bring the standard of living up to a certain level. the cost of doing that and the european union would be enormous. and then there are all the cultural and religious problems that make the headlines of whether europe thinks turke

him about the timing of this that the franks inquiry had the events and only that the run-up to the balkans war in incidentally mr. speaker it was announced in a written answer to the house of commons not in an oral statement. let me say as far as the franc inquiry is concerned it dealt with the run-up to the falklands war, what this inquiry does is deal with the run-up to the complex, the conflict itself and all issues of reconstruction after the conflict. i can't think of any set of events that can be excluded that are of importance. >> in the future of our relationship with the iraq and is highly surprising that we're dealing with in the your time and dealing not just with the run-up to the war but that conflict itself and the aftermath of the conflict that the inquiry will take time to interview witnesses, take time to take evidence in this report will be detailed. i have said and i repeat this, i have said that the report should be as comprehensive as is possible given the issues of national security involved. in other words, all but the most sensitive of information should be somethin

the soviets had run that supply issues the farther they advanced in poland, parts of the balkans and the western allies had the same issue once began to advance across france. they had the material but they couldn't get it several hundred miles to the east where it needed to go. so, by the fall of 1944 the germans were able to recover, lick their wounds, set up fret strong defenses and stalemate the war on through the rest of a poor weather fall. a lot of rain, snow, and it was a horrendous winter in 1944 and 1945. that is where you are on the eve of the battle of the bulge in mid december of 1944. host: next up is armed from smyrna, tennessee. caller: good morning. john, i belong to an organization called veterans for pea peace. and in our last meeting there was a man there who spoke. i don't remember his name. but he has a website that is called notalone.com. and it is a website set up for veterans that are suffering from ptsd where they can go and share their stories. and they put everyone's story on the website and they try to help each other out by sharing the stories of war. i

the balkan in north dakota is fantastic. it's creating wealth for people who have been farming at that very narrow margin of profitability, zero -- 0% to 4% for years. mr. akin: you're talking about we're creating jobs and wealth and the government's not doing it? oh, my goodness, that's a novel idea, isn't it? the government's not coming in and telling you how to run everything. mrs. lummis: not only are we producing the cleanest burning hydrocarbon that there is, natural gas, but we are doing it in a way that makes us less dependent on foreign energy and we're seeing in this congress are policies that will actually make us more dependent on foreign energy at a time -- mr. akin: let me just stop you there. what you said is very, very important. are you finding sources of natural gas, one of the cleanest burning fuels that we know in terms of hydrocarbon-type fuels, anyway, and you're finding that, which is making it so that you can have plenty of jobs in wyoming, you're not doing it with a lot of government help and yet the