official part was diluted with an informal walk and a photo session with the townspeople and tourists edmond johns studied the footage. vladimir putin and alexander lukashenko agreed to meet half a year ago to discuss in more detail, off the phone , issues of strategic cooperation between the two countries. and apparently negotiations. we started on the way to the konstantinovsky palace. where the president arrived in one car, all of our plans are being implemented. and even better than we expected. i would like to note such a good state of the economy of russia and belarus. all the main indicators give us reason to believe that this year , at least confidently calmly , first of all, the leaders of the two countries discussed the development of the union state. the indicators are generally good. mutual trade continues to grow. the nuclear power plant has already generated, in my opinion, 18 megawatts. uh, the second block will be for the push launched this year already starting. well, it works great. another important topic the failure of the ukrainian counter-offensive to discuss this issue, alex

let's go to john edmonds -- and wisconsin. tell us what union you are a former member of. caller: i'm not quite sure. it was so long ago. we almost went and striped on one contract, but we did not. we got a five cent an hour raise one year and then the next year. $.15 a year, the next. i quit that job. that is why i voted for bill clinton. the union was starting to vote democrat. i do not let anybody tell me how to vote. host: it sounds like you might not have the best opinion of unions after being a member. is that accurate? why do you feel that way? caller: it is. after i left that job, i got hired and i got a dollar 50 -- dollar $.50 raise. i was making $10 an hour when i got hired in 1993. never had any problems, in my opinion, as long as you show up to work each day and do your job to the best of your ability, most companies treat people fairly. i got a $.25 raise every few months. i was making a dollar an hour the. when it comes to the workers out in hollywood, i see the people get paid millions of dollars to do a movie, and the lead actors are walking and marching.