the men who said hillary clinton -- >> see, way back there are there hillary clinton supporters.enders. hillary clinton, two or three to one. &q!%11ie1ñ do you think it's gog to happen? yell yes if you think so? yell no. here we are, another irrelevant debate. anyway, here we are at java joes. we'll be right back. but we speculate here. morhardball, coming up. [ male announcer ] is zero worth nothing? ♪ imagine zero pollutants in our environment. or zero dependency on foreign oil. ♪ this is why we at nissan built a car inspired by zero. because zero is worth everything. the zero gas, 100% electric nissan leaf. innovation for the planet. innovation for all. cubanvation for the planet. ca jun raw seafood pizza parlor french fondue tex-mex fro-yo tapas puck chinese takeout taco truck free range chicken pancake stack baked alaska 5% cash back. right now, get 5% cash back at restaurants. it pays to discover. >>> i'm julia boorstin with your cnbc market wrap. a good day all around on wall street. the dow up 135 points. the s&p up 13. and the nasdaq closed up 23 points. leading the pack

those are on hillary clinton agenda. she will most likely raise them with the meeting with the president. the people want that high on the agenda. >> after her meeting with burmese government leaders, she is heading to bring good to meet with the opposition leader -- she is heading to rangoon to meet the opposition leader. what is the likely agenda? >> tonight, it is a private dinner. it is more of a getting to know you. she has spoken with both sides before, but this is their first face-to-face meeting. tomorrow, there will be extended political talks. tonight is a chance to talk privately with the president, the women sitting down to try to begin discussions about how the united states can best try to help this process of what appears to be genuine reform, but there are still daughters. there are those who say until there is proper peace in burma, then it cannot be properly called a democracy. at the united states is saying, what can we do to help? how can we keep the momentum going? how can we enforce you and the pro-

there was strong criticism from world leaders, including hillary clinton. on tuesday, the organization for security and cooperation in europe. >> this was a flawed duma election in russia, including efforts to halt election monitoring by a civil society organization. and those were exactly the kind of activities that a country committed to the rule of law should welcome. they have been subjected to massive cyber attacks. >> despite this, government supporters have also been on the streets of moscow this week, determined to defend the election results as a true representation of the will of the people. weekly question -- does the broader population believe this, -- the key question -- does the broader population believe this? bbc news, moscow. >> just two years ago, hillary clinton and sergei lavrov painted this picture of camaraderie. how times have changed. my colleague joins me now. you were in the room. do you think it was our real reset? >> there is some dispute in the terminology used in the reset button. well it shows united states and russia can coop

the leader made comments after a second meeting with secretary hillary clinton. they met with aung san suu had been kept under house arrest since about a year ago. the pair did agree much more needed to be done by burma's government including hundreds jailed for closing the military. traveling with hillary clinton is our correspondent, kim. >> never before has this house in rangoon welcomed such a high-profile foreign visitor. the american secretary of state, hillary clinton arrived in the morning in her black lem zdeno with her -- for her second meeting with a woman held under house arrest for at least a year. they test the waters and try to reengage with this country. a few weeks ago pro bowl pro bowl called aung san suu kentucky. -- she said she welcomed a visit by hillary clinton. only then did pro bowl pro bowl announce he was -- only then did president barack obama announce he was sending hillary clinton. she said she would stand for parliament in the upcoming election. these have been extraordinary days for burma but these are also early days. they will be

secretary of state hillary clinton is going to meet aung san suu kyi for a second time. they will discuss the pace of reform in burma. mrs. clinton said that the u.s. would be willing to consider easing sanctions if further progress was made towards political reform. the u.s. senate has approved new sanctions against iran despite warnings from the white house that the measure could alienate americans -- it could alienate americans. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles.

secretary of state hillary clinton, and here's her assessment of the talks. >> hillary clinton spent over two hours at the presidential palace here with the talks for burmese president thein sein. he described the visit as a historic milestone and said he hoped it marks the beginning of a new chapter of relations between the u.s. and burma. she described the meeting as productive. she said it was a step towards reform. more has to be done. this was just the beginning. mrs. clinton made clear what else was expected of burma now. she said political prisoners had been released, but more had to be freed. she said aung san suu kyi was now allowed to participate in political protests, but all political parties had to be able to open offices, and elections had to be free and fair. she said it was important to resolve the ethnic fighting and promote national reconciliation. she also said burma has to cut its ties to north korea. if the country did all that, clinton said washington was willing to help burma become part of the world once again. she dangled the promise of more aid. talks with t

clinton hillary don't forget hillary clinton last months the money fast forward to this century an american century as a pacific century and when obama went to southeast asia goes straight in southeast asia and his latest trip here now is the fact that the u.s. is going to basically they owned a spot china but also russia and central asia is the same say so the russians as these days you know what they're going to do they got cut off the supply of nato u.s. troops in afghanistan by closing the north and distribution network and the americans depend on does that work which is also rise by russia to supply their war in afghanistan because they back east enders they had enough with the americans as well and that he was of course the drone war in pakistan certainly a lot. going on here i want to get back to the elections in russia. and secretary of state hillary clinton in such a public outlash coming from her and regard to the elections you have to be curious as to why she's making such a public debacle over this do you think this is the obama administration putting on a tough face for the nex

wilkerson is going to join us for that one then just days after russia's parliamentary elections hillary clinton and lattimer putin are involved in a war of words so why the sudden rise in tensions and what will it mean for the reset marchetta manas is going to be here to hash it all out and today hillary clinton gave a speech at the hague about internet freedom we're going to take a look at whether her words of wisdom for the world match up with internet policies right here at home or have all that and more fit and i couldn't get us happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. so today the president gave a press conference after his pick for the consumer financial protection bureau richard cordray was blocked by republicans and the president came out swinging saying not only that a recess appointment wasn't off the table but the once again republicans have put politics before the interests of the american people and i totally agree here that it is ridiculous how much opposition republicans are showing towards putting somebody in a position that's s

kind of rule america has a moral responsibility to help iraq but i think it's for secret ok hillary if i can go to you do you see any positive outcome from this at all because i mean i asked if there is any winners and i picked up on one of them i mean the united states' position in the region in the arab world is in tatters and mr obama's calling it a profound event well i suppose it's profound in that sense. yes i mean it is but it is profound in terms of the u.s. strategic position which if you compare the u.s. strategic position in the middle east and globally today with what it was on the eve of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three it is quite dramatic keep in mind on the eve of the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the united states was in a very very significant powerful position in the middle east it had a constellation of states in the middle east call american clearly pro-american states aligned with it the states that were not aligned with the united states were contained constrained relatively weak saddam hussein's iraq was in a box the islamic republic

the men who said hillary clinton -- >> see, way back there are there hillary clinton supporters.o one. do you think it's going to happen? yell "yes" if you think it will happen? here we are, another irrelevant debate. anyway, here we are at java joe's. we'll be right back. but we speculate here. more "hardball" coming up. >>> welcome back to "hardball." with romney showing -- look at this crowd! wow. well, with romney showing a lot of strength out here, he may win next tuesday night here in iowa. who will emerge as his chief conservative alternative? can santorum's momentum carry him through tuesday night and all the way to south carolina? is he the new newt gingrich? chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent and our political director, of course. jeff zeleny covers politics for "the new york times." chuck, you were with newt gingrich today. does he have a sense of fading? or how would you be reporting on him today? >> reporter: well, i was actually with newt yesterday. today, i was with ron paul. but let me start with gingrich, because you're right, i interviewed him y

response to washington civic criticism of the vote for members is that wrong accuses his counterpart hillary clinton of using happy form with the organization for security cooperation in europe to score political points of. last ditch attempt to save the euro and the plan to sponsor you debate over whether that proposed change to. really help anything here is a. very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow a police are gearing up for another night of protest after the opposition and their rally against war they're calling on fire elections thousands have been gathering in central mosque day for the past two days angry with the results of sunday's poll that's. here is in downtown moscow for us these are take us through the current situation how's it looking. well what we're seeing on wednesday evening is riot police again deploying to square in the center of moscow now this is ahead of what could be would be a third night of protests and demonstrations by those both on the side of the united russia the ruling party here and those opposed to sunday's elections who allege that there were e

there was soon strong criticism from world leaders including hillary clinton. she expressed her dismay during a meeting on tuesday at the organization of security and cooperation in europe. >> witnessing the election in russia, efforts to halt the election monitoring. the work is the type of activity that the country, committed to the will of law should walk down. in the last few days, people have been taken into court and it the website has been subject to massive cyber attacks. >> despite this, government supporters have been out on the streets. they are determined to defend the election results as a true representation of the people. the key question is whether broader population believes this or will support for mr. putin's government and away - - ebb away? >> it was just two years ago that hillary clinton and sergei lavrov made this public display on hitting the reset button. did you think that this was a real reset? >> well, there is some dispute over the terminology used. i think it shows that while the u.s. and russia can cooperate in some areas, there

making history in burma, hillary clinton dines with aung san suu kyi. getting tough on tehran, the european union and poses new sanctions as the fallout spreads from the storming of the british embassy. >> the right hon. gentleman knows very well that he has no choice. >> meryl streep takes on margaret thatcher on the big screen. she talks exclusively to the bbc about her role as the iron lady. >> i wanted to in some way capture what everett was that drew people to her. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the u.s. secretary of state made history when she dined with nobel laureate aung san suu kyi. hillary clinton is the most senior official to visit the country in more than half a century. she met with the most famous political prisoner. is there a lasting guarantee that this new openness will last? >> an american secretary of state shaking hands with burma's president, thein sein, a former junta leader. then, face-to-face with aung san suu kyi. this was all unthinkable even a few months ago. this is a sign that things migh

by the way, could mitt romney be this year's hillary clinton? his experience, you know, i've got the experience argument, like hers, is falling flat right now. he has to defend his health care law up in massachusetts just as hillary had to defend her vote for the iraq war. and they both had debate gaffes. hillary got 18 million votes, by the way. could mitt be gone by february? and we learned over the weekend that the key witness in the penn state scandal told a very different story when he talked to his relatives. why did he not say he saw that boy getting raped? >>> let me finish tonight with the republican's deal with the devil. and you know who that is. we start with newt, the bomb thrower. howard fineman is t"the huffington post" media editorial director. david corn is mother jones editor. both are msnbc analysts. in south carolina, gingrich leads the pack. these numbers are growing, 42%. romney comes in a distant second, 23%. ron paul, down at 9. in florida, a state that was supposed to save mitt romney, gingrich's lead is also strong. he'

the men who said hillary clinton -- >> see, way back there are there hillary clinton supporters.both genders. hillary clinton, two or three to one. do you think it's goingu@s happen? yell "yes" if you think it will happen? here we are, another irrelevant debate. anyway, here we are at java joe's. we'll be right back. but we speculate here. more "hardball" coming up. [ male announcer ] is zero worth nothing? ♪ imagine zero pollutants in our environment. or zero dependency on foreign oil. ♪ this is why we at nissan built a car inspired by zero. because zero is worth everything. the zero gas, 100% electric nissan leaf. innovation for the planet. innovation for all. so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. >>> i'm chris jansing. here's what's h

button but hillary clinton offered just sort of a lover of during that meeting in february. my feeling is that a number of contradictions have accumulated since that time and the. biggest contradiction is the issue of the a.b.m. american a.b.m. system in europe. very tough statement which was made by dmitry medvedev on the score. in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the a.b.m. system is placed by the united states and europe without taking into account russian worries on this score i think that it was a world sold over and so it was not just a kneejerk reaction or some kind of impulsive statement i think it is the result of the fact that the negotiations on the pm basically have gone into an impasse. going summits where interim inventive. nato leaders in the vendor last year was declared. a success but it was maybe a success in the our relations i mean. the spirit of the summit was positive but the results of the summit with neil basically we. russia offered a certain plan which could have mean a compromise between russia and nato on the

will in the people's voice needs to be listened to and the post-election debate we've also heard hillary clinton wading into that she make comments and i was at the security meeting in vilnius she said the elections when i the free but now the comments were heavily criticized by moscow the foreign ministry saying that they were unacceptable that the u.s. needs to be looking first and foremost to its own electoral system to president live aid of also commenting on the. news of the conclusion about the sufficiency or insufficiency of parties is an area of responsibility for the russian authorities not for internet. tional organizations if they monitor the quality of elections and violations that's one thing but the issue of the country's political system is none of their business they will soon be telling us how to write our constitution constituents. now russia's stance is very much. it's the russian people to be deciding the future of russia and certainly what you are seeing here in the country at the moment is a very diverse and very active political debate continuing. many thanks for t

analyst and lecturer at the interdisciplinary center in herts leah i mean washington we cross the hillary mann leverett she is a professor of u.s. foreign policy at the american university and a former white house and state department official all right folks this is cross talk to me that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first marcia is this a major milestone in american foreign policy you know i think as far as getting the troops out it is a milestone with only a few thousand troops waiting to depart from iraq by december thirty first president barack obama's address last week officially spell the end to a nearly nine year military mission the pullout fulfills one of obama's key electoral promise says and winds down the war that has cost the lives of nearly four thousand five hundred u.s. soldiers and more than six hundred thousand iraqis despite iraq's still fragile security this could be the first real low in violence after four decades of political and social turbulence this is an extraordinary achievement one made possible by the hard work and s

it was just a question a matter of time and when hillary clinton decided that it is. affordable for the u.s. administration to attack. russia on the results of the election this has just shown that all this state of research between moscow and washington is extremely for jal so i not very optimistic about the prospects of the reset in the electoral both in the united states and russia alexei pushkov i'd like to thank you for joining us it's been a pleasure. loaf i didn't see. any. among the least explored areas. and untouched by my. surrounded by stupid law. case paintings on display for thousands of years. eastern science beyond the tiger. on t.v. . tens of thousands of grieving north koreans have packed into the capital to pay their last respects to their late leader kim jong il he's been laid to rest stop for them days of national mourning. egypt is. working to shape its post-revolutionary future restart mission relations abroad the country's foreign minister heads to moscow. britain considers measures to protect itself from the potential demise of the euro the pla

respond to washington the big criticism of the foreign minister sergei lavrov accuses his counterpart hillary clinton of using her platform at the organization for security cooperation in europe political points at a. class on last ditch i'd say you're right when a chance for me to debate over whether it's changed the e.u. treaty has been really help here a link here is a. very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow a pro-government rallies underway in the russian capital organized by united russia party supporters. opposition march on tuesday ended with a five hundred arrests the protesters angry with the results of sunday's elections complained of alleged that all fraud and clashed with police. well you've got the pro-government rally protesters turning out at the moment in central moscow. a night continued protests where we saw thousands of people taking to the streets both pro-government and opposition protest this now we saw some of those clashes with riot police happening again and a large number of arrests made last night is around six hundred arrests amongst some well known oppo

pushing for reform, hillary clinton holds formal talks with pro-democracy leader aung sang suit keep. >> and fresh sanctions against iran amid its cut to steal nuclear program. >> the united nations says the growing unrest in syria has sent them into civil war. rewriting the rules of the eurozone. at the french president unveils a new blueprint for the future. 12 noon in singapore. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the world. this is "newsday." >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has begun formal talks with the pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi. mrs. clinton said the u.s. about would be willing to ease sanctions if further progress is made towards political reform. a warning that this report contains flash photography. >> an american secretary of state shaking hands with the burmese president. hillary clinton and aung san suu kri, face-to-face, unthinkable a few months ago, but things may be changing and this isolette, repressive country. the burmese president laid out his policy for reform. the american diplomat gave some praise, but said a lot more w

clinton hillary don't forget hillary clinton bubblicious last months the money fast forward to this century an american century as a pacific century and when obama went to southeast asia it will strain in southeast asia and his latest trip he announced the fact that the u.s. is going to basically cool date owned a spot china but also russia in central asia is the same sake so the russians as if they say you know what they're going to do did not cut off the supply of nato u.s. troops in afghanistan by closing the the north. distribution network. it goes deeper than just network which is also rise but rush to supply build the war in afghanistan because it buckey studies they had enough with the americans as will have a good idea of course the drug war to buck the system certainly a lot a lot going on here i want to get back to the elections in russia. and secretary of state hillary clinton in such a public outlash coming from her and regard to the election they have to be kerry as to why she's making such a public debacle over this do you think this is the obama administration putting

the situation with hillary clinton was difficulty. she already had lost iowa and been the heavy frontrunner and lost iowa and she was facing political oblivion if she lost new hampshire, too, the polled had her down, a very different situation. gingrich, no voting has happened. now, look, i don't think this is going to help him but it is also not going do hurt him the way, for example, senator muskie choking up in 19712 hurt him the beginning of the undoing of his campaign. people are voting, basicallies on the issues, the personalities of the candidate, and iowa is a very interesting case with 120,000 people. >> hillary clinton was saying they did not want to fall backward as a nation taking a shot at george bush. we have governor chris christie with romney in iowa. there will be a potential romney and christie ticket? >>guest: maybe a tryout for the ticket. they seem to be appearing a lot and christie is a very popular surrogate for romney. romney seems to enjoy campaigning with him and responds well when they are in each other's pr

clinton hillary don't forget hillary clinton published last month's the money fast forward to this century an american century as a pacific century and when obama went to southeast asia to australia and southeast asian his latest trip he announced the fact that the u.s. is going to basically cool date owned us bought china but also russia and central asia is the same same. that was a asia times correspondent pepe escobar and speaking of double standards u.s. leaders now urging governments abroad to embrace internet freedom today secretary of state hillary clinton was at the hague to advocate internet freedom and today as people increasingly turn to the internet to conduct important aspects of their lives we have to make sure that human rights are as respected on line as offline and in the past president obama has also urged other countries to open up freedom of speech on the web the more freely information flows the stronger the society becomes because then citizens. countries around the world. they're all governments accountable but at the same time the u.s. is making moves to try and int

chief political correspondent candy crowley, and hillary rosen and sherry jacobus. candy, you were on the ground. were you surprised to see newt gingrich getting emotional like that? >> i think reporters were. but we do tend to see this sort of thing. it's a combination, it's holiday season, a tough campaign and really long hours. they tend to get tired. i don't know if you remember when hillary clinton sort of had to take a beat when she started to choke up in new hampshire. it's just been tough. we have seen newt gingrich's fortunes rise. now they're falling. lots of long hours. and he's talking about his deceased mother to a roomful of moms. and it was just -- you know, it all sort of came into that perfect storm where you see a candidate kind of show that human moment. >> sherri, you spent time with newt gingrich over the years. were you surprised to see this? >> yes, i was. you don't see newt gingrich showing that kind of emotion very often. he can be very fiery and passionate and sometimes you'll see a flash of anger and he can be very jovial as well. but this

basically is a declaration that they have accepted the results so you mention hillary clinton and the united states being specifically critical of these elections do you think that there's still a future for the reset and not reload policy promoted by barack president barack obama well i think that there may be a future for it but i think that it's time to reset the reset. the reason is not just these elections and the american reaction to this election is a seeing that there is. a crisis of policy. as stated in the beginning to mine for a moment when russia responded positively to the. button that hillary clinton offered just a lover of during that meeting in february two thousand and nine. my feeling is that a number of contradictions have accumulated since that time and the. biggest contradiction is the issue of the american a.b.m. system in europe. very tough statement which was made by me to me did it underscore . in which he mentioned a number of kontum measures that russia may take if the. system is placed by the united states and europe without taking into account russian worr

i wanted to give the award to hillary for handling is -- it so well. she's got a great belly laugh, it was totally authentic. chris: every year we hope we can skip the year -- prize for the year's biggest cad. there's an old-word name, cad. but the nominees for 2011 are, how could we recyst? dominique strauss kaun. the married man who had sex with a hote medical maid. arnold schwarzenegger who had sex with a housekeeper. and anthony winer, sending out those embarrassing cell phone pictures. herman cain with all the allegations about harassment, tommed op with the 13-year a -- affair. katty kay? >> i'm very glarksd kathleen, that there are no men up there. -- no women up there. >> it's men. >> it's -- it's got to be dominique strauss kaun for me. the alleges of what happened in the hotel room and everything that happened subsequently. future president of france, blew it all not just on one incident but the allegations that came out. >> it showed how he lived. >> i'm surprised the censure -- consequences of his actions had much broader reach but anthony