absolutely i mean the. problem in yemen is as much a a result of of the weak central government of himself and his rule i mean you know he has not been the perfect. anti-terrorist terrorism partner for united states and most u.s. officials will acknowledge this certainly in private you know he's ever since the u.s.s. cole bombing there's always been a very love hate relationship you may say between the u.s. and yemen when it comes to fighting terrorism in fact you know one of the key reasons why. it is is is even as as influential as today is because of a prison outbreak that happened a few years ago which many believe was an inside job by the but by the yemenis themselves so so there's there's always been this this really imperfect partnership. to fight terrorism in yemen in the u.s. and the and the emmys ok stephen if if the if the outside world were just to leave the yemen alone in the people of yemen alone could they sort out their own affairs instead of having these sarah good election sarah good presi

i mean whatever if i go to aden i mean i thought i still feel very suspicious of this because i see geopolitical politics behind it i mean the united states invaded iraq without any kind of u.n. mandate ok and it's about eight it was applying sponsibility to protect in some form or another but it's just the picking you know it's the west picking on people he doesn't like ok and it's the using these great words of responsibility protecting civilians i mean it's easier to swallow maybe for western audiences what do you think. well in principle i don't have a problem with the idea of states having a responsibility to protect our own citizens and nor do i have a problem with the idea of the international community having a responsibility to intervene if necessary to protect citizens who are suffering egregious human rights violations under you know committed by the states that to me seems a perfectly logical premise however my problem with responsibly to protect isn't that it fundamentally disrupts the relationship between states and its citizens are that facilitates great power intervention we've a

that has big implications on the trading traders behaviors so well i mean i expect i mean so you're saying i mean you're more on my side as you're more on my side of the issue because i think a lot of this pricing is extremely artificial and i think there is an enormous amount of speculation there because of who controls the oil market curd if i could go back to you if there are some people who will say that anything about seventy five dollars a barrel now in today's conditions is speculation that means that's thirty dollars a barrel speculation you think that's outrageous is it possible i don't think it's outrageous there's so many paper instruments now that trade oil i mean the average investor can now can go into the stock market and actually get a sort of hybrid security that looks like a stock but trades in the futures markets and these have become so enormous and so influential in the marketplace that i think they do have an upward effect on the oil prices of course if we get a crash in oil at some point which i think we will because it because i think the economy is weakening then a

i mean you can go to heritage dot org we have a piece on our website it's we think the u.s. military intervention in syria is not a good idea so i think it speaks for itself jim let me stay with you here you also ok let me let me stay with him here jim what is the what is the future now you think of the humanitarian interventions right now because there russia and china particularly russia has been very much criticized in in western governments and and western media for its veto and the russians are standing by it was listen to what russia's ambassador to the u.n. but how he had to say about that. our effort was directed at ending bloodshed those who are accusing us have been trying to fan civil war and conflict in syria so you know i don't want to want to make them in using this kind of hysterical language but we should have. called the track record in dealing with the situation of syria supporting opposition sometimes with arms with their goals of fourteen change so. history will show i think. russia has been doing everything we can and continues to do everything we can. ok

all bets are off i mean we should have learned that in the wreck i mean should we label i wish we did i wish i had assurance that we did the politicians talk about why this is all necessary and even though many people don't support it is this because these people are in an elite stratosphere where they it's necessary maybe for them for political reasons they're facing reelection or to please their constituents or or whatever but these decisions won't affect them they're not the people that are going to be crippled by higher oil prices or have their kids sent off to war for that matter. well i mean it depends how high oil prices go i mean you could make a scenario and i'm not saying it's likely or probable but it's not impossible where you know or oil prices go to any number you can pick two fifty three hundred if we do something in iran and that cripples or shuts down a rainy an oil i mean a rainy an oil is just shut down for whatever reasons and it affects saudi arabia see that's the elephant in the room i mean everybody's looking at israel and existential threat to israel and that's

literally have to settle it with i don't know for so you know i want to go to nic in amsterdam here i mean it i find it very interesting is that i don't think i'll agree with jim and washington d.c. i don't think there's any love lost for this regime in damascus here but i think there are some countries important country in the world they're worried about what's going to happen afterward just because assad leaves let's say a parent that equally it doesn't mean it's the violence is going to necessarily stop it actually could get worse yes actually i think everyone worries about what happens next in syria and which is why the russians and the chinese in particular they don't want to see the regime gone necessarily but to answer your question. i don't think that the united states and western powers nor israel particularly want to intervene in syria exactly because they fear. what comes next we have a very clear understanding of what's happening on the ground. in all this because the syrian regime limits international media entrance into syria. i don't think we know what we're getting ourselve

already i mean when he's twenty seven years old i mean i think a lot of you'd best years on the other on the other hand would say leave him alone let him do what he wants look what he's created i mean it cuts both ways in looking at how management will change. i think that's true however the corporate culture in the us. is true magically different than in russia. partly the laws are different partly the enforcement of the laws are different but also the corporate culture is a lot different in terms of executives who looped the company who don't grow shareholder value lose a lot of social prestige. and unfortunately that's not true in every country and i think that. is going to be very. loath to not. live up to expectations and best players are saying hey you know we're counting on you to grow profits to keep this as a financially successful company i don't think he's going to use his voting control to go off and flights of fancy and say thank you shareholders public market shareholders you gave me some money. and i'm taking it and doing what i want with it you know you've got lots of

know it's look it's been a great run ten years you know it's time for me to move on i mean i've been under an exclusive contract at fox for the last ten years i'd like to be able to do other media but i had a great time and it's just time to move on that's what i'm going to say about that mike your tweets up here right now it says i don't have to deal with their propaganda anymore you want to add me thinking. well look i just think there's a big opportunity out there right now to talk about economics and policy sort of in a non mainstream way and that's what i do and that's what i bring to the table and i think you know my voice might fit better at another venue we'll see but i had a great run it's a great organization and it's time to move on my you personally mike what can i say i couldn't agree with you more about the opportunity for non-mainstream views especially given they economic turmoil that we continue to see you know three years after the financial crisis i can't tell if it's getting better or worse but let's talk about greece because here is somewhere where we can we can a

i was going to get you i mean but if you find the right balance i mean with this is a campaign here i mean and it's a mixture of promises he's making to different audiences do you how does he have the right balance in your opinion. i think he's i think you struck him quite a good balance and what is very important about this election he's very likely to win but it's the manner in which he wins he needs to win religious and at the least be perceived to win the. legitimacy so that he can push through what's a very difficult reforms that we think he really does understand from an economic perspective that need to be pushed through in russia and most important much more important almost in political pluralism is addressing the issue of tariff liberalization getting russians to pay the proper market price for utilities that they it that's costs are reducing russia's dependence on the uprising and we think that that's what he'll push through after the election has a small timeframe to do probably two years so we think that this reform story will will triumph over the populist agenda that he

iran i mean there's definitely a concern about them getting a nuclear weapon i think it's legitimate the i.a.e.a. has given a report recently that says they're working to acquire the means with which produce one or that they well that's a different question you say north korea has one china has and pakistan has one if we had only one or what among among other winners but if you had it within our druthers we would prefer that they didn't have one quite frankly i think we're concerned about north korea north korea has intentions against its neighbor pakistan and it's very very concerning for us they were thinking if iran does get up they want to swap with saudi arabia so they don't go along themselves they just have one of their own nuclear proliferation could expand throughout the middle east that's a very touchy region for us not just us but for the whole world actually because of the wars we've had there but the dynamics the economy because of oil and everything else so the fact the matter is whether or not iran wants to have one can get one they really shouldn't happen they're goin

go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to stay that way actually and what we are experiencing is this huge up and down rollercoaster. you know newt gingrich is receiving endorsements rick santorum is receiving endorsements i think this race is going to stay divided for quite some time i do see this going all the way to the convention as it should go what do you think about that i mean is mitt romney got the big mo is he going to be able to sustain this. well right now he clearly does but i think the next month and it's going to be a challenging month for the other candidates because there's only one debate and we enter into the next contests three out of four of them are caucuses so you could you could see a situation was situation where someone like a ron paul who has a good organization does well and these are states that mitt romney did well in. four years ago but you know katrina is right only five percent of t

i mean. i get it gave a. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome is a big issue.

started bombing when the death rate started to decline dramatically i mean again i mean this is the law of unintended consequences i mean it was nato went in there are under the guise of. the mandate to start death and destruction but it actually accelerated it and it wasn't given a mandate to change the regime which it did in and this is what again this kind of mission creep with syria under the r two p. they're going to try to get rid of assad using nice words. i agree i mean and i disagree with aiden in terms of the idea that the responsibility to protect has had no effect or is insignificant or doesn't change anything politically legally i think it does and it does so for the worse if you take for it mean while it's true that great powers have always been able to have their own way i don't see in the past i don't see that that's an argument for abolishing whatever legal barriers stand in their way to make intervention easier and having those legal barriers and political barriers in place is one way of making it easier to hold power to account rather than allowing for the less re

war i mean there is there is violence being committed by at least two sides and i would say all sides what do you think about that. i'll definitely answer to that but if i could first go back to patrick saying with what he said that there is one point to keep in mind syria is no exception from the arab spring from any other country that's taking part in the arab spring that these are revolutions and syria is not an exception the only thing that makes it an exception is the excessive use of violence by the syrian regime and the fact that the syrian government has as managed to continue killing its people without anyone stepping in or able to protect the civilians the syrian people have tried themselves the international community has also tried but failed to do anything and in that case in terms of syria now facing this civil war this is definitely over exaggerated this isn't this isn't almost as far as being claimed but what we're seeing in syria is the government basically placing this propaganda that there is a civil war coming in syria that it's already begun and that there's secta

of the country is sunni and the alawite so i'm with you in damascus supporting the current regime i mean there is no love lost between them either could you potentially see a partition there and i guess and they're selling necessarily mean it's good for anybody in the region or israel or any other country in the neighbors syria. well i think i think those are all very good concerns and questions and actually if you go back and look at iraq and say two thousand and five in two thousand and six and he and the problems that you saw come to the surface what happens when you take away a government which really doesn't provide much governance other than oppressing its own people we have deep sectarian divides we have all kinds of other divides we have a democrat sions when you have access from transnational terrorist groups when you take that away you get iraq and in two thousand and five the two thousand and six syria would essentially be iraq in a very small place it would be a very very difficult and problematic situation and i think that's why. people talk about this but i don't think anyb

we're going to going to go all the way through and say ok everything is permissible i mean people are going to want to cut costs somewhere but i don't think that that's where the religious objections come up and i do think that once we're talking about you know forcing religious employers versus regular employers to do certain things i mean if we're talking about somebody who runs a small business for instance and employs the rest of his family not a religious organization but this person is a religious person they should be forced to purchase something that they don't that they don't agree with you know in terms of moral i don't understand why there were even be any connection i just i don't want my employer to know anything about my health care i don't want them to have any. hand in it if they are paying for my health care insurance i should be it well i think you buy at the exit eventually and you're invited on the racket insurance company will not have you much power and that should be and you almost agree with me and so you know we'll get a fist bump out of it i mean you know whi

being a breakthrough i mean i mean i mean a live streaming from court from polish station this is this is that was unthinkable i mean even a couple of years ago you know i'm a member of presidential council on human rights and we like them so will this work yes or no in the console and my friends call it members of this console we can see it's a very democratic state really yeah you think this will work yes we agree on this point it's very interesting so just and we will do everything that. that will be a real result that is its main point and i would repeat my question to you as a member of this council if it's a closed trial if the court decides it's got to be a close trial will this well web camera be switched off or will they cut the live streaming bill streaming but it will be recorded some system someone i was talking about polling station but come on not in the course of that the courts no i don't know if we didn't discuss it you didn't just go above that this is very may i mean a concrete step that britain can take any day in the current system of sort of top down. rule is to r

i mean, i would have ten ideas.d kind of pick them apart, one by one. >> one of allen's ideas gates didn't shoot down would lead to the personal computer revolution and launch microsoft. it was 1974. he was a college dropout working in boston, and one day he spotted a magazine announcing a new small computer called the altair. he ran to show it to his friend gates, then at harvard. >> i said, "here, look at the magazine! this is computer we've been waiting for." >> this is how the pc--the idea that we all have these computers--this is how it started. >> yeah, and it's amazing to think, back then, nobody had personal computers. i mean, there were computers in universities and in research labs and in corporations, but nobody had personal computers. >> allen's idea was to write software that would enable the altair to work as well as those large computers. >> and so we called up the company that made it and said, "well, we can demonstrate this software for you very quickly. are you interested?" and they said, "sure, if

i mean we see a sturdy. with a vengeance in europe and we can go to southern europe all the way up to germany the french are be experiencing it as well how can what is this the right formula and dimitri says it's not the right for me and to bring us back to prosperity because a lot more and more people are just being a misery. yeah well i think look the bottom line is it's really interesting people won't agree to us territory or comply with us if things are getting better you kind of need to be in bad times to get people to understand how serious a debt problem is and that it needs to be addressed i mean nobody was interested in addressing the debt problem during the boom it's only during the bust the people start to understand why but it is true that i stared he doesn't alone create price prosperity what does create prosperity are small entrepreneurs and this is really important two thirds of the net new jobs in all industrialized economies are created by companies that employ less than fifty people now whe

right which brings us to the philosophy of the phil gramm was pursuing or pushing and not just him i mean it is this whole thing as you point out you know from from carter forward and in and reagan put it on steroids and really nobody has challenges since then although i would submit that in some ways the obama administration is now starting to aggressively john eric schneiderman today in. new york really going after some of these guys but but this neo liberal notion using the european word today we hear in america we might call a conservative or libertarian notion that markets automatically self correct you know the austrian school of economics that is the von nice is always stuff the markets are smarter than the regulators could ever be doesn't this profoundly give the lot of that. it certainly it certainly raises lots of questions. the idea that markets correct themselves and you could argue that the markets didn't correct themselves they crashed but the problem is what happens when they correct themselves who suffers while the people who suffered were millions of americans people who

obviously people that are just like falling off here i mean so the other side of this is that it is positive news and like i would buy i saw the job numbers this morning i was like thank goodness some good news now republicans i think have an easy argument to make here when it comes to in terms of the political optics of this thing they can basically say look we would have been here a lot longer i mean a lot of long time ago were not for the president so so it's i think republicans are set now your question mitt romney i absolutely think that it's going to make it more difficult for him to run against obama simply on the basis of the fact that he hasn't done a lot to really help the economy because now as the economy improves his argument has to be look i'm a concern unless and emotions can he needs to find a way it's likely that the romney i mean he was on laura ingraham's radio show and he said look you can argue it is getting better the president you know the president's policies get kicked and it's getting better three point seven million jobs have been created since the presiden

just i mean even when we mentioned ending the fed when they just showed up to what twelve percent and we'd have massive defaults massive foreclosures massive unemployment and a depression i don't know about the unemployment of the pression part but the thing is the interest has to be good for savers right now as it was needed break there being looted every day and i couldn't agree more but what would be the damage let's be honest what would the damage be if all of a sudden change or a straight shot up to twelve percent wouldn't we have massive foreclosures massive people cast out on the streets i mean i just don't know how you know a little more conservative and i mean if the if we could lose some so labor's tractions like minimum wages and the new regulations stuff like this and the labor markets too in the resources we go to most valued labor resources nobody wants to work in a job and a boom economy we're going to get fired eventually anyway because the stuff that's sustainable so i don't believe in sustaining unsustainable booms so if we let the market take care of it that we see

abroad because of that but it comes to the american people i mean i never once felt any kind of danger or threat from iranian people very sophisticated very much like americans my first instinct and i still believe this is that iranians israelis and americans will become good friends again as they were historically you know until the overthrow bashar and then the iraq iran war were forget that iraq was being suppressed sponsored saddam was it was being sponsored by the americans against the iranians right so there is you know there was a lot of anger this is a long it's a trap that you're conflict that killed many iranians and so the fact that there still is calm as they are and sophisticated in this regard goes to show that we can deal with these people i mean i had great conversations with many politicians including one of the top advisers to the supreme leader these people are sophisticated trained in the west that many of them trained in america over one hundred europe speaking english and had a culture of i don't interrupt you but we're almost out of time and so i can have a dialo

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shirts if someone's got nasty arms with tattoos that someone has i mean come on i mean i think like you can't wear you know see through shirts and browsing and i've recently made a pretty sizable investment in drink go that are not going to get any returns on now because of this stupid law. it hasn't completely passed no it isn't there the house is going to set it nags to add now the people who are pushing it say that if it passes the senate they really want to try to make it a state wide very wealthy. ok let's talk about this other story that happened yesterday but basically we have no fly zones in our own country i mean out of that take a look. a fixed wing plane described as a cessna one eighty two like this one was brought down at long beach airport after flying in a no fly zone according to the secret service president obama was heading back to l.a.x. aboard marine one when a cessna entered restricted airspace fighter jets scrambled from march air base and intercepted the plane forcing it to land in long beach. so it was a drug plane and it's like you just. going to be trying to sm

is thinking from there you know i mean i think the n.b.a. does it well i think we're at the highest level of basketball and i think as the sport is looking to advance itself here in russia being able to tap into those that do it quite well i think is a great opportunity for those here in russia and again we know we plan on being very very visible here as the n.b.a. is they opened up an office about a year and a half ago here in russia it's a market that they want to develop and i think together will look to advance the sport of basketball well the last ten years they've seen russian business men investing heavily in foreign sports clubs some facts and figures in a report now by spotlights you know in the media. the trend was said by room on a broom or beach in two thousand and three he bought the british chelsea football club the two hundred thirty million dollars the russian tycoon also paid out the cops to me to promote which spared no money to the team's success that got him on the criticism for distorting the food boettcher. lance from m

i guess that means any place to sell a plan b. in a vending machine though it's college i think they should have been more proud i think they should roll them out more broadly and i think i think that building yeah the fact that you have them behind the counter and that you have to be over seventy i think is completely ludicrous i think that this should be the future. ok i can at least disagree with that we can seventeen before you get by that i mean what are you twelve year old kids can then maybe a little control a modicum of control who gets to decide that you can't legislate morality parents for the world you know and you. know i know you are going to. work at pharmacies are here's another interesting thing for you guys we have data that we think about legislating morality think about twitter followers right if you work for a company and then you leave that company but you have like fifteen thousand twitter followers the you got during that time when you leave who do the twitter followers belong to we're seeing this happen in a

domestic implications for them that they're really concerned about what you think about that james i mean what how does the rand play into all of this here because again i look at western mainstream media and they're just doing this typical colored revolution element here which we we all have to be honest with ourselves we don't really know what's much of what's going on on the ground because western media all media as far as i can tell been banned from the country so all these numbers coming about casualties guesstimates as far as i'm concerned. well that's a very valid point peter i mean the endgame here is iran i mean the neoconservatives in the us the pro israel lobby want to take down the ronnie regime because it supports the enemies of israel and hezbollah and lebanon and hamas and that's what this is all about that's what iraq was all about iraq wasn't about oil how much oil are we getting out of iraq it's negligible i mean it's nothing how many a lot with oil company merican oil companies there was about taking down saddam hussein because he supported the enemies of israel and wit

well that's a very valid point peter i mean the endgame here is iran i mean the neoconservatives and the rest the pro israel lobby want to take down the ronnie regime because it supports the enemies of israel and hezbollah and lebanon and hamas and that's what this is all about that's what iraq was all about iraq wasn't about oil how much oil are we getting out of iraq it's negligible i mean it's nothing how many a lot with oil company merican oil companies there was about taking down saddam hussein because he supported the enemies of israel and with regard to the palestinian resistance there so with iran that's what then game is for this agenda like i said i'm not saying that elements of the pros are a lobby started that revolution or uprising in syria but i think the numbers have been inflated i think i saw an artsy piece about that about it about reporting entity and they've been exaggerated in western media and like i said then game is iran you can read my friend's book the transparent cabal dr steven seagal ski and that is what we're we're working towards they want to take down

i think that i mean i like your work with a vacation because it's true these are great i love getting lost in these classic movies and books that growing up i mean there's only one of them that there's you know you worries don't the stories that parents are then substituting don't have the same moral values these stories teach you something you learn something from these stories and you know we all live happily ever after i mean it i'm telling you what i did really learn from cinderella. you know if. she persevered through various times have to hope that a prince is going to come along and all your little animal friends are going to help you clean the house. and go to the ball home. to be buried that's. what i grew up with these movies too i love them but. just saying ok let's talk about one of the most depressing things that happened this weekend which is that we lost somebody i know i grew up listening to. it is news that has left music fans around the world shocked and heartbroken houston was found dead as you said in her birthday leopold's hotel room at about three forty five los