george rhine closer to freedom tonight or is he his lawyer tells us he will be released to a halfwayry 6th months before his scheduled prison release date but another former inmate dead politician says that will barely be a step up from prison life. for me i did not like that at all. worse than life on the inside is almost impossible to believe. the fact of being locked in again the lock on the one door, your freedom is still not there, she would know the former cicero town president arrived at the salvation army halfway house in february of 2010 greeted by a throng of cameras it's the same place the former governor ryan is headed to on january 30th according to his lawyer after serving more than five of his six and a half years behind bars on that date to he should be transferred to the work- release program might understanding is that would be in chicago and the salvation army where many other federal prisoners have spent their time many others including the former chairman congressman dan former alderman reynolds, all guests at the salvation army residential reentry center. as of

that was very strong on the left in the '40s, '50s, up to vietnam which was rhine -- [inaudible] i think we can include george cannon, and i think that tradition withered within democratic culture, democratic party culture. you still have les gelb, maybe a michael mandelbaum. but i believe i read somewhere that obama, maybe because of the chicago connection nieber was there, that he's read nieber's writings. and you mentioned him in passing where he was given some writings of nieber for that west point -- >> no, this was for the speech on the nobel peace prize. >> oh, the nobel peace prize. >> yeah. >> but do you know more about whether you could call obama sometimes in a liberal, realist mode and then he moves away from it depending on circumstances? >> i think that's fair. um, i think, you know, he's fundamentally day in and day out a liberal realist, but when faced with issues, um, like the arab spring, he begins to moderate himself. i need -- thanks. >> hi. um, my question is sort of on the much-talked-about pivot to asia which could also be sort of -- sort of agreed the pivot to asia is a pivot away from