our continent will not be achieved overnight he needs to go step by step and european union's eastern partnership skee to achieve this strategic objective. the partnership is about extending and anchoring stability rule of law investment opportunities and grows beyond u.p.a. and union borders the partnership is not against someone it is for something it is about making the countries in our neighborhood more prosperous and giving their citizens better living conditions this is something that can only benefit our other partners and signal it will not harm russia. that's why today also we have agreed that you should pursue by littrell consultations at expert level on the eastern partnership association agreements and their possible economic consequences for both sides. our eastern partners should be free to decide their own path be there for a look forward to sign this is an agreement with moldova and georgia later india. we naturally as also discuss ukraine. we express deep concern about escalation of violence casualties and reports of missing persons and violence against protesters and journalists

on our side i underline particular the benefits of the eastern partnership for all our eastern neighbors including russia. abortion. they believe cannot make any situation environment improved market access and intensify trade to relationships with rank in the mountains and create new business opportunities for all russian companies are well placed to benefit from these new opportunities and i made it clear that eastern partnership does not affect russia's economic traits social human and cultural links to many of our common neighbors these links will not be put at risk but on the contrary stimulated by more and more dynamic and successful economic development into partner countries. if human dechen be different interpretations and misunderstandings on the s.o.c. asian agreements and that's why we both agreed to push you bilateral consultations at expert level on the eastern partnership s association agreements and the economy consequences on both sites. as a concrete and telling example of the huge potential for all i would repeat what i said last saturday was so in one nine hundred nin

next summit we have agreed on the needs to deepen our dialogue on matters regarding eastern partnership the president of russia has confirmed that he has no problem with the concept of distant partnership that he sees it as a contribution for a more in knighted europe but at the same time he wants to know the consequences of some of these agreements in the russian economy and so forth and so from the point of view i think it was a useful. discussion and i think it's the way to be here we cannot pretend that everything is all right then everything is not all right yet difference on some of these issues on energy matters i've explained once again to my russian colleagues how important it is our sort package for us that is not discriminatory that we are applying these rules for. all companies in the world as we do in competition matters to all of you pin companies or american companies so we try to avoid to politicize ation of issues ok we have at the same time received the concerns of the russian partner and in fact we are committed to through a pragmatic dialogue to solve some of the con

says that they will go on with the consultation on the eastern partnership program with ukraine being a part of it now there were a lot of questions as to russia's position politically if in case of the opposition in ukraine does indeed take power and this is what my putin had to say on that matter. when they were boys and he credits agreements with the ukrainian government no matter who's heading it we've never had any problems talking with political powers in ukraine this has never been used to brew what is important for us though is we want kiev's economy to be credit worthy we wanted to be able to successfully restructure and develop to put in want to take a very pragmatic approach of where ukraine is concerned especially in terms of economic policy now there are also concerns about some e.u. officials appearing in a protest sites or joining protesters in front of barricades for instance and this is what he had to say on the matter russia is not going to interfere with ukraine's affairs i can imagine how our european partners would have reacted if in the midst of the crisis. it's

russia and the us as the people going on with consultation on the eastern partnership program the ukraine being a part of it now. there were a lot of questions as to russia's position politically out if even he said the opposition in ukraine does indeed take copper and this is what to blog or could it have to say on that matter beginning the first one to place any trade its agreements with ukrainian government minister who's having it. we've never had any problems talking with old school pal is in ukraine this has never prevented her from what is important for us to do is we want kids economy to be critical and we wanted to be able to successfully restructure the answer to that. don't want to take their pragmatic approach to wear ukraine is concerned especially in terms of economic policy. now there are also concerns about some eu officials appearing in a protest sites are joining protesters had in front of barricades for instance and this is what we have to say beyond that. russia is not going to interfere with ukraine's offense i can imagine how white european partners would have reacte

says that they will go on with the consultation on the eastern partnership program with ukraine being a part of it now there were a lot of questions as to russia's position politically if in case of the opposition in ukraine does indeed take power and this is what putin had to say on that matter . russia went voice any credit agreements with the ukrainian government no matter who's heading it we've never had any problems talking with political powers in ukraine this has never been a subaru what is important for us though is we want kiev's economy to be credit worthy we want it to be able to successfully restructure and develop. and he's also taking a very pragmatic approach that's what he says as far as the economic policies of ukraine is concerned and also urged the international community that for those who were urging. to act in a civilized way to act to ask the same of his opponents now as we speak of the e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton is visiting a kid. as well as if we've had a visit before from other e.u. officials and on this this is what happened to have to say. r

draw the way nato has ex-panned into estonia and if you go back to when the european began the eastern partnership program and in the former soviet space, russia was saying we don't like this idea and europe was so tone-deaf they were running nato exercises in georgia. >> putin had an to go help cypress was a bailout and wasn't willing to put the money on the ground, ukraine -- >> rose: so what about this recent amnesty for pussy riot and the russian billionaire. >> he didn't want to release this billionaire, he chose to let him go a few months early .. hoping that there would be some pr benefit out of it, but i think it is more than that, a reflection of how much support there is in russia for getting on a different track, putin himself has had to talk a lot about the rule of law, about opposing corruption, rhetorically he is in many ways on the defensive, and he has tried to use the release as well as the amnesty for the other political prisoners as wit ass f showing ruks is a somewhat more normal country, it is unclear yet whether that is going to turn out to be a successful gamble, just as i t

the aotheration agreement was to have been signed on november 28 through 29 at an eastern partnership summit meeting in lithuania. on november 21, the cabinet of ministers in ukraine unilaterally suspended negotiations with the european union due to excessive pressure from russia. outraged by this, ukranians began to protest by creating european squares across the country, including in the capitol -- capital of kiev. the ukranian government sent special forces to clear the area using physical force and tear gas resulting in many protestors and journalists with dramatic injuries and several still unaccounted for. in response to the unprecedented use of force against peaceful protesters in ukraine's history, several high-ranking deputies and officials in the governing party defected from the party. since then protests have continued with the reported one million ukranians taking to the streets on december 1. every sunday since has brought european 0,000 to the squares. special forces using chain sauce and metal batons broke through many makeshift barricades made of park benches and othe

and strengthening the services and the quality of the network in the eastern neighborhood needs to be something that is a partnership with mtc and mta and, so we can come back to you, in the future, with >> commissioner kim, thank you. >> and i will pose in questions today but not to get them answered, but maybe for the next time that we have this conversation there are differences in how the funding is prioritize td over the next years and i am sure that both will be evolveevolving as we have further discussions. >> there is a lot of conversation about how to fund the needs through 2030 and it really drives home how important our existing local funding sources. and i am glad to see that there is a vision for the south of market and that is elevated to an action item and i appreciate to that and i am looking forward to the implementation of the programs and this is not an exaggeration to say that the worst in the south of market can be difference between life-and-death and so it is important that we are able to fund these safety improvements for the safety of our residents >> thank you, commissioner kim. >> i could

hari sreenivasan narrates our report, produced in partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting. >> reporter: near a remote village in the easternphilippines, at a small camp in the forest. a man bites down on a plastic tube, adjusts his mask and disappears into water as opaque as chocolate milk. descending as deep as 40 feet, he breathes from a small diesel- powered air compressor, while blindly digging into the sides of a narrow tunnel. for hours at a time he fills bags with mud and rock that a partner hauls to the surface, where the sediment is broken down and, using mercury, panned for gold. according to thomson reuters, in 2012 the philippines was the 18th largest producer of gold worldwide. large companies are responsible for much of that, but there are also many unofficial, small- scale mines like these. many lie in the poor coastal province of camarines norte, about 200 miles southeast of manila. where some of the country's highest concentrations of the precious mineral can be found. but much of it is trapped in ore underwater. so-called "compressor mining" originated in this region of the philippines as far back as the

office of faith-based and neighborhood partnerships, talks about the devotional e-mails he sent to president obama in "the president's devotional." at 8:30 p.m. eastern, christopher parker, social justice and political science professor at the university of washington, contends that the tea party is part of an american tradition of reactionary movements. founder and editor of national affairs, "uvall levin, is our guest on "after words" at 10 to present his thoughts on the divide between the political left and right. and we wrap up at 11 p.m. eastern with john nichols and robert mcchesney who argue that the increase in campaign spending over the past four decades has hurt democracy. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> we're talking with karen houppert at the national press club. tell us a little bit about "chasing gideon." >> well, i worked on this book for about a year and a half, and it's tied to the 50th anniversary of the supreme court decision gideon v. wainwright. and my initial idea was to go out and kind of take the temperature across the country to see how this issue of the right to counsel has played out in the last 50 years si

eastern. "the ed show" is up next. >>> good evening, americans. live from new york. let's get to work. >> i am out there negotiating the trans-pacific partnershipeconomy, world's economy, together. >> this is another nafta disaster waiting to happen. >> this has been a good deal. both have become more competitive in the world marketplace as a result. >> and there is a tooth fairy and an easter bunny. >> the trans-pacific partnership, which has an ability to be able to raise standards of doing business. >> let's look at reality instead of theory. >> i can tell you trade promotion authority is a priority, not in theory but in fact. >> the middle class is being offshored. >> literally millions of jobs have been lost, have been sent offshore.

getaway spot, but as chip reid shows us a unique partnership is helping to put it back on the radar of space exploration. >> reporter: on the remote easternhave long been drawn by the wild horses of chincoteague, and by the stunning sunsets and the wild serenity of nature. >> three two, one. >> lately there is another sound that's growing louder than ever before. >> liftoff. >> reporter: because at the nasa launch site here business is booming. >> it's like nothing we've seen. >> reporter: bill robel is the director of nasa's wallops flight facility. >> a lot of people who live a few hours from here didn't know it existed. will that change? >> i think ittal already has. >> reporter: it's changing because they've been launching rockets since 1945 now wallops is going big. the rocket launched thursday is carrying 1.5 tons of supplies to the international space station, food tools and some science experiments including one by this group of high school students from pennsylvania. >> how many people let alone teenager, have the opportunity to say they sent something into space? >> and all of that cargo is carried by a rocket owned and operated

union and eastern bloc countries and we align many of those countries and the number a number of them have just celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2013. continuing to add four more partnerships and we're working on those with combatant commands right now. bringing the teams together to build a long-term partnerships and we have helped those countries build capacity within their security enterprise. and i will just leave you with one bit of this. it just occurred not too long ago that an offshoot of the partnership program was the war started and many of these countries wanted to assist. the most recent one was a story out of bosnia and maryland who was a second partnership and we started this thing after 2003 where we would bring partner nations and we would plug units into them or they would plug individuals or units into our formations and then deploy to iraq or afghanistan together. i don't know how many deployments we did with the illinois. but the one that was very unique kind of summarizes this and bosnia wanted to deploy -- they have been deploying this into a rack and they wanted to get in and deploy to afghanistan to assist nato and so 26 bosnian military police bed

eastern block countries. a number just celebrated their anniversary in 2013. we are continuing to add. i think in 2014 we will probably partnerships. we are working on those with combat and commands right now togethering the teams and build long-term partnerships. and we help those countries capacity within their security enterprise. and i will just leave you with of this.it i mean the one i really like and really focused on and just occurred not too long ago. an offshoot of the partnership program was as the war started, of these countries wanted to assist. recent one that just redeployed was a story out bosnia and maryland. bosnia and maryland have a partnership that is actually the for maryland.ship and we started a thing after 2003 where we would bring partner nations and we would plug units in to them or they would plug individuals or units in to our formations and then iraq or afghanistan together. poland didn't. manyight know how deployments poland did with illinois. kind of was unique and summarizes how great pa has grown ornship partnerships is bozia wanted to deploy. deployingeen ordinance units into iraq but wanted to g

eastern time. cnbc is part of that and windsor media, an investment firm run by former yahoo! chief terry stimble, it's signing a separate partnership for news coverage. this takes effect today so you'll be seeing some of these folks right here on cnbc. and there's been a lot of speculation about what this is going to look like for a long time. this ends a little bit of that. joe, over to you. >> did you see the clock strike midnight? >> i did see the clock strike midnight. >> i didn't. i fell asleep. >> that was my point, andrew. you're there and you're like, this is new year's coverage. for me, it was -- you know, and i'm always doing this schtick about being out of the loop of the younger people and stuff. >> do you miss them? >> i don't really miss them, but i realized it's a clear group of information. they were making fun of the tea party. >> andrew even said it felt a little -- >> it was like i know how old people they must have looked, who is this dick clark guy? he likes that rock and roll music. >> but at least you stayed up and watched it. i fell asleep. >> that's because you can't sleep when you -- >> i flipped around ch

convert usa assets to a national partnership and spin off assets and the chairman and founder donald drapkin will be live on "fast money halftime report" at noon eastern >>> the latest case-shiller report showing double digit gains in the 10 and 20-city composites year over year but for november the two composite posts month over month declines for the first time since november 2012 and first on nbc is robert shiller, nobel laureate and professor of economics at yale university. good to see you, first of all on home prices overall we've seen substantial gains in home prices across the united states. is that going to be set to continue into this year? >> i think it will continue. but likely attenuated. if you look at the cme futures market they're predicting only a little over 20% increase out to 2018. i think that's a reasonable forecast. it also corresponds to the forecast i got from a survey of home buyers who said, that was last may, and it said that they were expecting 4% a year for the next 10 years. so, those are reasonable forecasts i think right now. >> so, let's talk about the knock-on effects. we've seen household equity home prices go up. h