chris cole and social temple in thailand continue to bless. ec treaty to watch what happened next the next threat assessment nhk well and listening to the polyester crispy that one of the world's foremost authorities on thai politics and history. he shared his insights and and six. chris baker has lived in thailand for nearly three decades the extensively on the changes he sees taking place in thai society. in two thousand for his wife published a biography and then prime minister seems to mind. nature has a unique take on the increase in the complex social conditions underlying the current situation. when you knew both costs and we change in personnel nineteen ninety on the cheek. all in all different apple tree looking wonderful. there is an element of class a smile they took us to confront the people support him immense amount of fun that they can create all kinds of people from the street and it's equally and we have a lot of people from the south who are coming into the city at the moment to support these current demonstrations which you

want to bring in congressman tom cole, republican from oklahoma, a member of the budget and appropriations committee. good to see you again, congressman, good morning. >> chris to see you. >> we were talking about this in our last segment about congress not exactly having high approval ratings. could americans be saying light ul bulbs, that's what republicans are fighting about? >> if you look at the bill, it's over $1 trillion bill, detailed line-by-line spending. and it saves a lot of money. it's going to come in literally $164 billion less than discretionary spending in the last year of the bush administration. $27 billion less than last year. but it pluses up some important areas, as you pointed out, head start, violence against women, those are winners. i'm not sure i would agree about the pentagon winning. it's still $35 billion less than overall than it had last year so it's continuing to go through cuts, just wasn't as bad as it could have been. again, it's a bipartisan compromise. we worked together. i expect a majority of both parties to provide the votes for it today. very pleased that the president has urged support for it, as well. it's actually

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