>> reporter: well, governor bill owens a republican, the former republican bill owens, i should say,ho lobbied that criticism. he said during another really huge wildfire here, during his term, president bush wanted -- then president bush wanted to come and visit colorado and governor owen said, absolutely not. we don't want that kind of attention diverted from the actual fire fighting. of course, now the governor is a democrat. so it's kind of like owens versus hickenlooper, but i don't think the people -- i haven't heard anybody on the ground in colorado springs saying, why is he coming? >> everything that the president sdp in an election year is political and politicized. >> reporter: and criticized. >> criticized, of course. this does make a lot of sense in that we see him as a leader, caring about people and turning the conversation literally and figuratively away from washington into him being a man of the people. look, if you want to talk about the politics of going to a natural disaster and trying to comfort people and trying to get some resolution to it, imagine what the rea

the state's former governor bill owens called it quote, a distraction.t spending more money on a federal fleet of air tankers that fights fires. hickenlooper was asked about this particular pieceç of righ wing criticism. here's his rather brilliant response. >> were these the same conservatives that were worried about the obama administration spending too much money or different conservatives? >> the ironies in politics, but they're particularly brutal when they come to emergencies. people who hate the federal government, despise washington are in phone with seconds with the 911 call when they want the federal money. >> correct. >> but there is an inconsistency there. >> two things. one is it's changed a bit recently, disaster relief funds used to be a non-partisan thing. now you have to find pay force for them in congress. they don't want to appropriate more money. with respect to the president showing up in colorado, had he not shown up, the criticism of him would have been ten times worse. it's a delicate thing here. when he went to the gulf, everyon

bill owens, thank you for coming, former governor of colorado here for many years.i'm honored that you could attend. paul and marlene god bless you i love the poor -- will. my family, my wife, our son to just graduated from college and my brother-in-law, steve, thank you all for joining me tonight. it makes it very special. the topic is intelligence. why is that important? why will it be of greater importance, and what should we do? we as citizens. i include myself in that category, private citizens. i left government service more than five years ago, and as i reflect back on my many years in the government, 24 with the cia and 18 months serving under secretary rice for counterterrorism, and follow current events, i believe that intelligence is going to be a much greater importance. why is that? primarily because of the growing complexity our nation faces and the battlefield and the marketplace, really all the aspects of life. there are three variables that i would like to underscore very briefly that i think impact on this global landscape. the first is the asymmet

however, he is receiving some criticism from former colorado governor, bill owens, a republican who ise, energy, and resources. he declined an offer of a visit in 2002 by president george w. bush to a wildfire. the white house, in response, is saying that obama insensitive to is sensitive to ensure that his visit does not impede on the response and governor hickenlooper here, a democrat, says he's looking forward to the president's visit. martha: alicia acuna, thank you so much. live in colorado springs, colorado. bill: what does it mean now, america? we are talking about the health care billing in the insurance industry. the insurance industry responding to the ruling print warning that the law will raise health care costs. for many americans, supporter of the law for saying that it's designed to bring premiums down. what is right? joining us now is robert circle -- zirclebach. gentlemen, to both you, welcome here. >> thank you for having us see one robber, what you do you think it does on the insurance front? >> we need to focus on portability. there are a number of significant provi

that's just picked up a huge twenty year bill could you please pick up a bill for greece portugal ireland spain and possibly even italy owen by the way your commitment to this is indefinite is it any wonder that all of me german focus saying we just want no part of this i think what's really interesting is there is a reawakening in germany of a sense of german identity you know you've got to remember that history hangs very heavily over the german people their sense of guilt for what happened in world war two has dominated that country's international relations ever since the new forty five but there is a younger generation growing up who do not feel the guild in quite the same way that their parents or grandparents did and they are saying we want to be a modern democratic country that's nice to people we are happy to be co-operative across europe but we are not going to be the bugs of this game we are not going to go on. by giving out failing southern european countries who frankly should never of joined this eurozone in the first place. there was no fool it was a very astute politician knows that if she says yes if she b

bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. you're watching live from moscow with me kevin owen thanks for being with us now if you're watching the last hour you will know the president putin said that russia should implement to europe start legislation to regulate opposition mass rallies the statement came after a meeting with e.u. leaders and some petersburg which we brought you live let's get more on this and more thoughts about it a really good. in some previous but the issue of opposition rallies in russia has been in the spotlight since the country went through an election period recently that was talked about as well wasn't it. yes absolutely and of course that was one of the questions which was asked actually was the first question which was asked to during the press conference and they did look for a minute like the leaders looked uncomfortable well that is all of them except for budget was it was really quick to respond. to the question about the protests which are happening in russia sporadically from time to time his opinion of course is that it's a good thing that p

lawmakers pass a bill that sparked some of the most heated debate and set a new parliamentary record to boot. hello this is r t it's four pm right now here in moscow my name's kevin owen with the top stories for you this hour and the eurozone debt crisis is getting dangerously close to the money tree unions powerhouse germany moody's has cut the ratings of several german banks including the country's second biggest lender austria is also affected let's get some thoughts of what all this means that with max kaiser our financial guru and host of course of the kaiser report max hello what's moody's worried about here how exposed is the euro zone's biggest economy to the problems of the struggling so. well first of all let's keep in mind that moonies is not an impartial judge in this they were caught picking sides during the two thousand and eight crisis or a publicly listed company with warren buffett as a huge shareholder they don't downgrade for example wells fargo a bank that buffett has an interest and they downgrade other countries and other banks that they are as commensurate with a pay for rating scheme that moody's itself is highly corrupt countries like germany