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brezhnev hand was doing stories but at that point in time i was doing point-blank by jack abramoff'seople. i had used the word that he had duped me and tom delay was standing up for him and as a result he was helping to do some stories that would cause me heartburn. jock was feeding the items of what we did and where we went. the second was the will whistleblower -- everybody says emily miller but the whistleblower was tom rogers. he then a native american involved in native american issues. the first one to uncover rightfully so the dealings with jack abramoff and the dealings with indian tribe. he said your people were worry and cash games and high state card games with reporters. members of congress but mostly staff and lobbyists. at that point in time i had played cards with the brezhnahan and paid him money. towards my last year that i was in trouble and i knew they had some card games going and i felt that was important to reveal in the process. i didn't think that should occur and i felt that brezhnahan in the way he would carry out stories on people that he himself is a repor

you know the danger is of course you get hooked on stability you know everybody refers back to the brezhnev area search over stability you know gradually became stagnation and we you know we the last decade or more saw that fear is still in everybody's mind to the government just gets stuck in this mindset of stability and doesn't take the risks in terms of the right spending or efficiency or investment policies etc then you know we'll end up in this low growth environment for far too long when we clearly need initiatives to drag up investment on the radio and sometimes those decisions are painful as in any economy and i get in that becomes a political issue here it does have a point in many ways in looking at you know you know making stability the be all and end all of everything and doesn't necessarily create a. growth and he was right in two thousand and eight mr cooper and was right then because if spent all of its oil windfall time to develop some big projects and lost a lot of the money at the time the economy would be very overheated and going into the crisis. there would be a tremen

. >> if the cold war is on, do you see leonid brezhnev or stalin saying read my piece in "the new york times"? >> the naivete of the west toward russia, the former soviet union, is really astonishing this time around. it really is. if you -- anyone who does not believe that russia is manipulating this situation in a manner that america had always manipulated in the past and was expected to, i just point to the gorbachev-reagan summits as one example. then boy, i should just put -- i want to put a rat down your shirt and everyone else who believes that. the russian -- at the arbakov institute, u.s. and canada institute which you're familiar with run by the late george a rbakov, where this letter came from, something they said in the early 1980's, and in the 1970's when i was in herimans and russians laugh and say americans never get it. >> that was then and this is now. >> russians play chess and americans play a game of football. >> what makes you think the americans aren't playing a game of chess? everyone is trying to gain advantage. obama in the first instance is probably breathing

russia, syria, these are now -- we're back to the era where that's brezhnev saying, listen, don't worry about it, we got your back covered there, jimmy carter. >> there is a bit of a cold war element. >> isn't it? >> reuters says that the president will still make the case that congress needs to authorize force. whether or not he needs it in the end is a different question. but that issue of verification is increasingly coming into play. would you argue it's the single most important reason we gained 140 snounpoints? >> yes. we know war historically has been good for stocks. there was a notion that oil is going to go through the roof, even though syria is not a big oil producer. actually, it's been an importer. uncertainty versus that nothing happens has moved it up. we're in a weird -- look at the mcdonald's sales, that was europe that turned around. >> mcdonald's did have better gains in europe. the company says its mcdnld's promotion offsetting what it calls a persistently challenging environment. a year ago the u.s. was 3% and now .2. >> what is happening? >> difficulty in the dispa