effort in the efforts in the balkans will go an awful long way. thank you very much for having me here today. [applause] >> my name is dan hamilton. i direct the center for transatlantic relations at johns hopkins. we are also part of a consortium of all of our fellow universities in the studies, so if we have colleagues here from the other universities i want to welcome them as well. thank you so much for joining us. we have been working a lot on the balkans over the years and hat many of my colleagues in in the government are doing that. we have to do a little advertisement. of course we have a book on the balkans. the title is important. "unfinished business." after investing so much energy and time in this region, there to retrench ation and look obviously into the huge challenges elsewhere. and i think that the senator has provided a good list of practical things to do. but to start off the conversation, senator, you know, as you said a balkans or a complex place and a lot of shifting dynamics and variables. but in the context of what you wer

i saw this firsthand during my trip recently to the balkan regions. on tuesday, october 21st, i landed in belgrade, serbia, the first stop on a five-country trip in the balkan region. my travels as chairman of the senate foreign relations subcommittee on european affairs would bring me to serbia, montenegro, kosovo, albania and croatia. within a few hours of landing in belgrade, i was handed the frame for my trip. at a soccer match between the serbian national team and the albanian national team, provocateurs piloted a small drone over the stadium during the first half of play. hanging from the drone was a simple flag portraying a map of the imagined territory of greater albania, a fictional state unifying all albanians living in the balkans. the atmosphere of the game was tense to begin with. the albanians had complained that the serbian authorities weren't allowing some albanian journalists into the stadium, the serbian fans were shouting inflammatory taunts at the albanian players, and the drone in a lot of ways was the last straw. it promised a me

effort in the balkans will go and awful long way. thank you for having me here today. >> my name is dan hamilton and i directed the relations at johns hopkins. we have colleagues hear from the other universities so i want to welcome them as well. senator, thank you so much for joining us. as sad, we've been working a lot over many years and many of my colleagues and also the government doing that. we have to do a little oversized. of course we have a book on the balkans that was done a wire like oh. i think that the title is imported at least for the context of what the senator said as unfinished business. there is a temptation to retrench and look at obviously huge challenges elsewhere and i think the senator provided a good list of practical things to do but to start off a conversation, senator you said it's a lot of dynamics in variables but maybe it's still the united states itself. so even what you say are the low-cost initiatives i wonder if you could reflect on what the real appetite is in the united states either in the admin

. >> mcandrew rudisill, ceo of emerald energy, he dropped a well in the balkan, confident that he can hold on, and definitely a thank you for joining us from denver. oilet he and rose, the dynamics hereunder spoken to it i like your idea that it helps agricultural -- >> destruction always has a destruction part, but what what is different than the early 1980's in midland, texas? >> the forces driving the shale e the general pressure that will things positive. >> there is the brakes. i remember it, a little different this time around. >> when we come back, filmmaker morgan spurlock joins us to

northern italy and deadly mudslides on the border of switzerland and italy is now rotating over the balkan peninsula. it's a weakening trend, however it's still packing lots of energy, enough to create more heavy rainfall, strong gusts, and thunderstorms over the balkan peninsula, and the black sea region throughout this week. rain is on the menu for the western areas of the iberian peninsula. 17 degrees for the high in lisbon. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. chris here is what is coming -- >> here's what is coming up. jewish worshipers fed back to their synagogue one day after a deadly assault that left -- head back to their synagogue one day after a deadly assault that left five dead. more from our correspondent, on the way. french citizen is reportedly identified as a perpetrator in the latest beheading video from the islamic state group. speaking on his trip to australia, president along says there is a strong suspicion the suspect is french -- president hollande says there is a strong suspicion the suspect is french.

the department of justice has advisers residing in four balkans countries, and we will soon be placing a regional counterterrorism adviser in the area. justice department prosecutors have also been placed in ten countries in the middle east as well as north africa. these personnel we provide critical assistance to our allies in order to help those who return from the syrian region bent on committing acts of terrorism. our counterterrorism prosecutors here in the united states also traveled to other countries to collaborate with their counterparts. and we have assigned a united states prosecutor as the interim director of the international institute for justice and the rule of law, or iij, located in malta which provides a forum to discuss the foreign terrorist fighter problem and work with international partners to arrive at solutions. the justice department provides vital expertise and support to the iij in partnership with the state department's bureau of counterterrorism and in collaboration the united nations counterterrorism committee executive directorate. finally, we're working

brutal battles of vietnam, stood up to a tyrant in desert storm, and stopped ethnic cleansing in the balkans. we celebrate our newest heroes from the 9/11 generation, our veterans from iraq and afghanistan. for more than 13 years we have been at war in afghanistan. our combat mission will be over. america's longest were will come to a responsible end. the end of war is the beginning of our obligations to those who serve in our name. these men and women will be proud veterans for decades to come, and our service to them has only just begun. as we welcome our newest veterans home, let's honor them by giving them the thanks and respect i deserve. -- they deserve. let's honor our veterans by making sure they get the care and benefits they have earned. that means health care that is there for them when they need it. it means continuing to reduce the disabilities claim backlog, and giving our wounded warriors all the care and support they need to heal, including mental health care for those with posttraumatic stress or traumatic rain injury. some of the most moving moments i have experienced as co

wellsrald oil has three in the balkan shale. they are about to only have two. began the game of chicken. former head founder, now the ceo of emerald oil joins us from denver. is that what is happening? x i think it is. it is a price war that was initiated by saudi arabia. i think they want to force compliance for their opec partners and want to punish some of the u.s. and she'll producers be are we're seeing that happen in the markets right now. >> bloomberg industries has a list of the biggest producers of balkan, acreage in exxon mobil, whiting petroleum at top. if you are at the bottom, how long can you hold out? >> we have a really good talents she come as we have about $240 million of liquidity that could be in on drawn revolver right now. low cost of gas, so one of the reasons why we decided to drop a rig in the first quarter of next year was to lower our x managers in 2015 by about $130 million. >> you are dropping one rig -- if economics do not work out for one rig, why do they work out for the other two units still got in there? >> we were outspending

it is across the - italy and the adriatic and the balkans, where you see vast amounts of rain. croatia seeing heavy rain. a 4-day total. probably about three times what you expect to see in the entire month. it's around the north-west of italy where we have seen the heaviest of rain over the last 24 hours. the region has been badly affected, and we see land slides occurring, one of which proved to be deadly. a torrent of rain coming down in response to the rain fall. we look at the forecast. there's an area of low pressure across the region, we are seeing significant amounts of rain affected, moving to the balkans. if the area moves to the south-east, so it's worse pointing out we'll see nasty weather from crete and cyprus. but the area of low pressure to the west pushes in, unsettled weather translates towards italy. back to scare one. >> thank you. still ahead on this newshour - we go to sport in qatar and russia's world cup bid given the all clear by football's governing body. jo will have the latest a little later. all the latest in sport, and here is joe. >> f.i.f.a. clear

i will talk about the legacy of the war in the context of the balkans, the post-ottoman balkans. it is true that most of the balkans gain some form of independence after the treaty of berlin of 1878 and some of the issues that resurfaced after world war i were already figured there. the big issue was minorities, because the population had been so mixed. after national borders were drawn, something had to be done about minorities. places like bogue area or greece had adaria or greased hoc regulation initially, what to do with those who were different from the nation. it is really the end of world war i, with his emphasis on protecting minorities, that forced the post-ottoman balkan states to articulate some sort of framework for dealing with those who are different from the hegemonic nation. on one level, on paper that was wonderful. sudden, muslims in bulgaria were given a special statute, quite a bit of autonomy to take care of their religious .roperty and affairs they had a democratic system of electing representatives to communal organizations. that came along with strict moni

this central balkan country is surrounded by more well-traveled spots like hungary, romania and new travel one that maybe should be definitely on more people's list to go to. - no, it's not on the traveler's trail, maybe because it's endured corrupt criminal leaders and brutal regional wars culminating with nato bombings as recently as 1999. - we had to hide in the basement. - but serbians seem uninterested in dwelling in the painful past, choosing instead to focus on its future and its many mostly undiscovered attributes. - we have the best-proclaimed public river beach in europe.

and given the number of catalan flags hanging from windows and balkan anie balconyies here, many support. they are a separate nation from spain despite attempts from the government to stop them, they insist the time for independence is now. al jazeera, barcelona. >> connecting china and europe 2,000 years ago, now there is a fund to connect neighbors including pakistan, cambodia and myanmar by railway lines. >>> sacrifice of the strongest storm ever recorded have remembering the dead. thousands were killed in super storm haiyan a year ago. many protest at the government's lack of aid. the grieving does not stop. for henry and his wife joslyn nothing has been more difficult than losing their two youngest children during typhoon haiyan. >> it feels like everything just happened yesterday. i still can't face it. the kids, i still can't accept they're gone because they were in my arms when it happened until the end. >> hundreds of people came to this cemetery in central philippine cemetery to look for unmarked crosses where they can claim for their own. it's where most of the haiyan victims

the system is now moving into the southern balkans and western turkey. still the chance for tornados and heavy rainfall. rainfall alerts are across southeastern areas of france and northern italy because of this system pulling in, so not a break at all for these locations where the flooding is just ongoing. another round of heavy rain could worsen the situation. wet and windy conditions will be widely spread across the peninsula and british aisles and we're still looking at warsaw here in the east with rain for you. it's still well above the average. winter pressure, very typical one, about 19 centimeters of snowfall day. that's like lly to add on top of what we have here. 50 sint meters in some sections of hokkaido. snow adding up to 40 centimeters in hokkaido and gts will be reaching about 126 kilometers per hour today. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of kn"newsline." >>> the financial markets just can't get enough. the world's largest floating structure. it could be allen g.'s answer to shale gas. and ch

up to about 65 kilometers per hour, so, n about in the southern areas hitting towards the southern balkans. towards the west, wet and windy conditions will be dominating. as for now, partly sunny skies, a lot of double digits and more sun. kiev even hitting the double digits, but rain will be coming into the saturday and sunday on your weekend. out here across the u.s., the pacific northwest, the british columbia especially and western washington is dealing with the torrential rainfall and a lot of that white stuff piling up in the higher elevations. reaching about 65 kilometers per hour and then out towards the northern most northeastern states are likely to see more snowfall, which is going to be addinging up to about 35 centimeters in the high elevations, so watch out for that. but meanwhile, the predominant thing is the high pressure system dominating much of the central locations, denver hitting 18 degrees, oklahoma city reaching 20 degrees. warm, so do enjoy these beautiful days. here across japan, we are still tracking this system. this system was a severe tropical storm, but now, d

that is headed eastward toward the balkan peninsula.ssibility of heavy rain and even severe weather. you can see that low-pressure system just churning across this region. damaging winds, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes. that shading of red, that's really the bulls-eye where we're expecting it into friday evening. we're also monitoring an active weather pattern across the united kingdom, the northwestern parts of europe at the moment getting inundated with cold front after cold front after cold front. and that is also caused some delays at the airports. you can see amsterdam expecting windy conditions this afternoon. 30 to 45 delays. i want to talk about north america and what was the remnants of typhoon niri which was to impact japan, but that's moved away quickly. now it's become a tropical storm as it moves throughout the bering strait. it's going to deepen and strengthen. look how deeply packed together. those are isobars which indicates to meteorologists this is a particularly strong storm. but what it's going to do is it's going

particularly if you start getting distressed situations within the balkan. >> sure. right but the fact is countries like venezuela and iran are balancing their budgets on roughly $100 plus crude. obviously having it in the $70s is a major problem for their budgets. russia has a large currency reserve they can probably work things off a little bit of time. if you look at crude oil denominated in ruble, it's not that much further downward. you raised an interesting point. if we do get a collapse in energy prices, that would certainly change the shift in balance. certainly not only geo politics, but also global economics. >> if i can interrupt myself here, let's be clear about something here. what happens in venezuela is irrelevant to the u.s. stock market largely speaking. what happens in a lot of these oil-producing countries is relevant to the u.s. stock market. in respect to balkan and eagle ford and the like, this has been a major thematic story. 1% of private employment is in the mining and exploration business. let's be clear. if things slow down or there are dis

as well as this low pressure departs from the balkan peninsula. we're also talking about some very sunny skies in north america as high pressure controls the central portion of the united states and extending its influence down toward the south and east. we do have a low that's slipping out of chicago and the great lakes not without it leaving its imprint of snow. the windy city expected to see some more snow and the high river valley as we go into saturday, that snow extends as far south as the piedmont of south carolina. we're going to see temperatures dipping down. by the time we get to saturday, creeping down. the deep south is going to be single digit temperatures. 7 in chicago, 1 below in winnipeg. we're expecting teens for friday. as we go into saturday, look at this, in pumpkintown, south carolina, saturday, looking for snow. 8 degrees for the high. even into pennsylvania, single digit readings. flip side, casper, wyoming, seeing dry conditions but temperatures are going to be cooling down. 13 degrees for the high on sunday. speaking of ha

enough to cause more flooding as well as mudslide landslides over italy and the western parts of the balkan peninsula as we go into the weekend. just heavy rainfall, there's a concern for large hail, damaging winds, and even some tornadoes. in fact a couple of tornadoes are cited in italy on your thursday. wet and windy over the british isles. and across the east, sunny weather and temperatures a little bit on the high side. 12 in kiev, and 15 degrees in warsaw. but still on the chilly side in stockholm, only 4 degrees for the high on the last day of the business week. now, across asia, we have a deep depression moving over the bay of bengal. this one will likely reach the east coast of india as we go into next week and another system just to the south of the indochina peninsula, this one is setting up moisture for the southern areas of thailand, as well as cambodia, and also malaysia, as we go into the weekend. now, across the philippines, actually tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of typhoon haiyan. tacloban is one of the hit areas, and this area will see some scattered thunderstorms.

but the balkan formation near north dakota is at a massive bottleneck. this is a shovel job, i know the president may not recognize any of those because he spent $800 billion trying to find them, but this is a shovel-ready job that alleviates the bottleneck in north dakota because farmers are complaining in north dakota they can't get their crops out and can't get the fertilizer in because every train available is being used to get oil out of there and as gary b. already mentioned, that's a far more dangerous way to ship this oil than it is by pipeline. >> jonas, where do you weigh in on this? >> first of all, it's taken so long that if we wait any longer there won't be any oil in the barrel. $40 oil, they are not going to be pumping oil out of canada because it is too expensive, the production costs. so we already missed an opportunity. it should have happened near very 130 already 140 a barrel. i never understood the environmental angle. to gary's point, the other way to get the oil markets are worse. the pipeline option is the best. if they want to he

it is meant to launch a kind of balkan riviera, drawing tourists from across europe, so the emphasiss on being as european as possible. elsewhere on the coast, there's less luxury, but there is still hotel after hotel. most are built in the last eight years. since independence, tourism has become the country's biggest economic factor. the european union has conducted talks with montenegro for the past two years. vacationers here would like to see it in the eu and soon. >> i think montenegrin should join the european union because we would be one family. >> for the tourists, it would be much easier because afterwards, it will not be unnecessary to cross the borders. >> they need some adjustments under the complex system. >> why not? >> yes, why not? perhaps because this is also one of the realities of montenegro -- an explosive device goes off in front of the offices of the daily newspaper. no one was injured in the blast. it was a scare tactic, and not an isolated one. this is one of montenegro's few independent newspapers. it has accused the government that has been in power for nea

this system is now moving into the southern balkans and western turkey.here's still some potential of tornadoes, large hail, and very heavy rainfall. excessive rainfall alerts are across southeastern areas of france as well as northern italy because of this system pulling in. so not a good break at all for these locations where flooding is ongoing. another round of heavy rain could worsen the situation. wet and windy conditions will be widely spread across the iberian peninsula and the british isles. and we're still looking at warsaw in the east with some rain in the forecast for you. but the temperatures not bad at all. still well above the average. winter pressure pattern, very typical one, is dominating much of japan. about 19 centimeters of snow today adding up on top of what we see here. this is due to the sea effect snow which is a typical event during winter time but a little early for this year. snow adding up to 40 centimeters in hokkaido and gusts will be reaching about 126 kilometers per hour throughout the day today. i'll leave you now for you

all right, across europe, severe weathermaker is still affecting parts of italy and the balkan peninsula. it's still packing lots of energy because of flooding rains, gusty conditions, and even some water spouts and mountain snowfall. and this system will likely whoever the same area into the weekend. so the west a new system is moving into the iberian peninsula. but things are turning wet in lisbon. your high is going to be 16 degrees. double digits in vienna and quite chilly for this time of year in moscow, minus 3 degrees. and zero degrees in kiev with snow on the menu on tuesday. and across asia, heavy rain is pounding areas like southern thailand, and malaysia and singapore. in addition heavy rain is likely to continue for the next several days. however, high pressure systems are bringing sunny weather for most of the korean peninsula and much of china. but skies are going to be gray because of air pollution in several areas like beijing, shanghai and hong kong. currently the air quality is at unhealthy level and conditions will get worsened in the northern areas as we go into wedne

severe weather is likely for the mid part of italy and the northwestern corner of the balkan peninsulaeven tornadoes cannot be ruled out, and out west another batch of heavy rain can be found over western france. gusty conditions expected on your monday. temperatures are in single digits across the east. only 6 degrees for the high in warsaw and minus figures in moscow despite sunshine. a quick look at asia. sunshine for you in many parts of china and the korean peninsula. across the kanto region as well. for the rest of japan rain is falling but by tuesday, clear weather should come back across the area. temperatures are as follows. tokyo at 17 degrees for the high with partly sunny skies. more than normal across seoul at 10 degrees. and also ulan bator at 2 degrees for the high on tuesday. here's the extended forecast. >>> people around the world continue to be captivated by the life and possessions of napoleon bone part. an enthusiast in south korea has forked out almost 1.9 million euros, about $2.4 million for one of the french emperor's hats. that's five times higher than expecte

reporter: for serbian nationalists it's a moment of joy, but for many of those who suffered in the balkan this is a dark day. ak coring to the terms of the release, he must not approach any witnesses or victims in his case and he just go back to the hague if summoned. >>> u.s. military advisors have arrived in iraq to train forces. [ explosion ] >>> meanwhile state television says that iraqi soldiers have retaken control of the strategic northern town of beiji. they are also trying to take back control of the oil refinery on the outskirts. >>> five policemendyed in a suicide back in the capitol of bagdad. the car bomber blew up a check point. >>> six soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing targeting the military camp to the north. they launched an offensive to retake the dam from isil fighters near the city. they say 14 ilz fighters were killed and several weeks destroyed. >>> in syria, the free syrian army commander says rebels will reject a u.n. peace plan. president bashar al-assad says the plan is worth taking a look at, but the rebel leader said this: >>> meanwhile syrian rebe

do you think, why should we send people to the balkans? bill said, we should go to all of them because we have the power to do that. we are the super. that is also insane. >> if you do get a job as a pundit, the good news is -- you can never be fired. the threat that the president has to see -- like the supreme court said we will know it when we see it. you elect a leader because you have faith. >> my question is about this divide between ideology and party. it seems like that has been intertwined in my generation. can we restore the bull boose progressivism or do we want to? do you see the future of conservatism being intertwined with a strong ideological foundation? >> and what was your question, sir? >> [inaudible] >> gentlemen? said earlier that conservatism is not an ideology in the sense that marxism is. marxism is ready made. you push in whatever the question is in the answer pops out. karl marx was able to for c 50 years in advance -- to foresee 50 years in advance because it was so constructed. conservatism is a series of principl

do have a couple of areas of heavy rainfall taking place down toward the southern regions of the balkan peninsula we have a low pressure system. another cold front off the north atlantic bringing a lot of moisture onshore from the british isles into france and the iberia peninsula. it's dg to be wet as we go through friday. lots of rain icons indicating the western southern portions of europe. a little bit dry so high pressure controls the northeastern portions of the continent. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. gg99Ñññ >> the headlines, barack obama meets with burma's opposition leader, the two call for the country to complete its democratic transition, this despite recent setbacks. world leaders gather in australia to discuss the world economy and tax evasion. this has the g 20 summit gets underway. and could u.s. immigration reform be on the horizon according to a u.s. media report. president obama could be planning to push through legislation by executive order. we have analysis.

i think that is true, that balkanization of our popular culture. what i'm struck by is how the audience has grown to include college professors and nobel laureates were all watching the same shows we are. what is interesting about that is simply that that is how good television has gotten. it is still terrible in some but you probably are cells will discuss a tv show before a movie before a novel. television is not like a novel. so much so that there was an novel i hadf a loved, i thought. it was adapted by bbc. tom stoppard wrote the screenplay. the screenplay was so good that it made the novel look bad. that is how things have evolved. nobody is going to movies because all the movie directors are now doing television. spielberg has a television production company. pretty much anybody with the name "s" has a tv show. frank and i work great fans of nora efron. -- are great fans of nora efron. when she was in the hospital, dying, she was determined to keep working. she was working on a television treatment. woman who is a compliance officer and real

on in the balkans in that ten-year period and the civil war in bosnia was just as intense as the civil war in syria today. so what's different is now it's the middle east. it's not east asia, it's not africa, it's not latin america. all those places -- you have a single, dominant language. . they were all part of a single country less than 100 years ago. so, instead of having half a dozen somewhat autonomous conflicts going on and a certain amount of contagion of among them, you have what appears to be an up evil in entire civilization, and the conflict more intense. it has several conflicting strands and one dimension. the second thing is, the immediacy and intensity and volume of the media content. americans were being killed in as brutal a fashion as the journalists who were beheaded in the 1980's. one poor man in a wheelchair was pushed overboard when an entire ship was hijacked. but there were not the u.s.. videos, there were only three channels and then of them are broadcasted. those pictures would have never gotten out. it would not have had the immediacy of seeing mr. foley the

on in the balkans and that 10 year period in the civil war in bosnia was just as intense as the civila today. so what is different is now as the middle east. it's not east asia and is not africa or latin america. all those places are relatively quiet. it's now the middle east. that's one difference. the second difference is the middle east is an unusually homogeneous place. if you have a single dominant ethnicity. they are almost all arabs. you have a single dominant language. they are almost all speak arabic radio the single dominant religion. they are all mohammad bin and they were all part of a single country less than 100 years ago. instead of having a half a dozen somewhat autonomous complex going on with a certain amount of contagion among them you have what appears to be and that people of an entire civilization. and the conflict is much more cross-border. it's much more intense. it has several conflicting strands, the ones you mentioned so that is one thing that makes it different. the second thing is the immediacy and intensity and volume of the media content. americans were

a man got on the second story balkan and went through the sliding glass door and 19-year-old said hecreams from the bedroom of his mom and fiance and the mom said the man coming through the glass door and screamed. the man said i made a mistake and took off and out the front door. that is when her son, 6' 2", 250 pound former high school wrestler and football player took off after him. >> i got up i seen red, playing football you see red and try to get the ball. i heard my million screaming, i wanted to get them out of trouble and started chasing the guy. >> police were cross the street dealing with another incident and saw him running after the man and the sergeant caught up to the suspect and he was arrested. this video was shot. miss say there has been an uptick in daytime burglaries in milpitas but something like this happening at my is is rare. >>> south korean officials are temporarily banning asiana airlines from flying into san francisco as punishment for the crash last year and is banned for 45 days. they currently have 15 days to appeal. if rejected, they can serve the puni

but for many of who's who suffered i in the balkan's war, . >> we go to the lawyer who served in the tribunal for the former yugoslavia. thank you for being with us. help us to understand first how it is that after four years after the trial there is still no verdict in this case? >> hello, and first of all good evening to all of you. at this moment it is unclear and very uncertain, the situation of the basic what is very worrying in this moment is that--let's say some political motivation, which was very certain, the moments in the trial itself will start. so what i do believe is that the tribunate this moment is trying to find a way out from this unstable case. >> you talk about political motivations in the case, but the crimes he's accused of are very serious. he said that he's not guilty, but these are serious crimes he's facing. >> yes, but what do we have in this moment now is that there is no final sense. after years of trial that is the main question. what is the role of the war, and we're talking about the ad hoc tribunal which in my point of view did not reach the main goal

troops on the ground now in the baltic states and poland and in the balkans so that putin understandsthat if he goes into those areas there's a risk of a direct military confrontation with the united states. i think we need to strengthen the capacity of the state to defend themselves not because they are going to defeat the russian army but because they are going to raise the cost to russia if it does do something. we know from the reactions in ukraine that there is sensitivity to casualties? the casualties are a problem for putin politically. you have to make it clear that if he tries this people are going to fight. then we need to reduce leverage over the long-term. we have got to get a new energy policy that reduces europe's reliance on russian energy thereby reduces its leverage. we have got to get the trade and investment pack'n play's to tie europe into prosperity sphere with the united states and i think that these are a number of things which in the short-run raise the cost to rush into putin if they should think about this kind of adventurism and in the long run reduces lever

how quickly in your judgment can we support our allies across all of eastern europe, including the balkan states? >> well, this is reminiscent of the situation we faced under jimmy carter, and we'll said how will this possibly be reversed. look what the ayatollah is doing with hostages. look what's happening with the invasion, the soviet invasion. we elected ronald reagan, and within weeks, the situation had reversed. but it took leadership to do it. and without that leadership from the white house, our allies are not going to be rallied. and so the executive branch is going to have to learn lead, and they better do it quickly because there are a lot of bad actors in the world that are learning the wrong lessons right now as we speak. lou: chairman, thanks for being with us. congressman ed royce. >> thank you, lou. lou: time for a look at online poll results. we asked whether you believe the united states and europe will continue to appease and accommodate president putin's expansionist ambitions? 89% of you said yes. >>> vote on our poll tonight, the question is do you believe there is a

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thing like don't follow the multiculturalism at all because that is leading down a path toward the balkanization and a divided country. it's going to be happening in the cities and neighborhoods, it's going to happen in the school board and that is not to minimize any of the tensions around the change that are happening in the different neighborhoods because they are there. they are also a lot of people in the neighborhoods that have been working together to try to find commonalities across the different backgrounds and histories. and i think that that is the kind of stuff that we like to uplift as a model looking towards 2042. >> host: one of the things that has been in the news and this whole conversation about the difference you mentioned belmar and part of what i've been wondering is it becomes another way to address the race and color issue by different means. to what extent do we sort of have to reimagine their racial contest now because again, people aren't just saying. as the other issues begin to emerge. >> guest: absolutely. i think that what we see, especially after 2001 is the sort o

will be sending legal advisors from the justice department to the balkans, middle east, and north africa the number of foreign fighter prosecutions there. as you know, the threat exists now on two fronts for recruits that travel to the region getting training and returning home, and those who are inspired to act without leaving their home country. holder told reporters today that he still didn't have the latest back on foreign fighters. the u.s. officials recently confirmed that the air campaign, as you mentioned, did not decrease the flow of recruits. about 1,000 a month with as many as 16,000 foreign fighters in thregion by the end of the year, gretchen. >> okay. so what are we learning about the fate of the isis leader? >> well, based on the intelligence two u.s. officials tell fox news that the leader survived last weekend. the translation of a new audiotape reportedly from baghdadi suggested it was recorded after the weekend air strikes because it refers specifically to friday's announcement that more u.s. troops are heading to iraq. "here is obama who has ordered the deployment of

so this is the largest european refugee situation since the balkan wars. this is serious. meanwhile we have a western governments throughout europe and even this administration, the obama administration, not noticing that russia is on the offense. it's a dangerous situation. the warning signs are there. something worse is going to happen and we need to watch this. shannon: super quick, we're almost out of time, but i wanted to ask you, do you think this administration comes up with a effective bulwark or stop to putin? are they capable? will they do it? >> i hope they will. i haven't seen the evidence of that, but i think if the senate can push them and push jon kerry in the state department and even secretary hagel. we may come up with something. at least ratchet up the sanctions. the russians listen to sanctions. shannon: rick grenell, always good to see you. thanks so much. >> you too, shannon. jon: newly-released surveillance video catches a school bus driver's jaw-dropping behavior. the outrage when seen climbing on board and then cracking a cold one. >> what? jon: pl