jeffrey sachs have seen this before.l never forget the young jeffrey sachs is the return to america from the soviet union after the collapse. i remember your voice on all things considering. is this anyway and related to old russia or do we get that trying toa new putin develop a new russia ? >> i think it is ? >> i think it is a new putin. the country is economically stable. it has had a decade of growth. of course buoyed by high international oil and gas prices . when i was there and listen to the economic debate, it was found, serious, forward-looking. i was pretty impressed. >> you wrote this up and project syndicate as well. the focus is on the northern shore of the black sea. that to be consider their territory? >> russia considers it to be a strategic interest without question. it has military stakes, historic stakes. it is the neighborhood. a china side -- signed free-trade agreement with mexico, the united states would take notice. we would say excuse me, we have quintess -- have interest also. looking, what has

we will also talk with jeffrey sachs. nation's experts on russia.he olympics, the next step for vladimir putin. >> thank you. >> a look at how european markets are trading. manus cranny is at the touchscreen with more. up in termsplit it of sentiment. the germans are confident. we have not seen it in 2.5 years. italians are nervous. will they get a new leader elected through parliament this afternoon? jpmorgan -- on a general basis, get ready for a nice uplift along the bottom of this map. mario draghi has been handed a pass. inflation comes in a little bit higher than the market anticipated. should you be concerned about what is happening in china? a look at the close of business. the biggest drop in almost seven weeks. lending to the property market and the property users and developers in china. they could come under pressure. what does that do to commodities? china is the linchpin, according to most of the people that walk you through the doors here. u.s. equity futures indicated virtually flat. traders out there are buying volatility. taking a

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jeffrey sachs.d at force, the mitt romney guy, he wants his son -- will take all four of his kids to the olive garden with you. >> good. do you think ed has been to the olive garden? >> i'm going to guess he's never set foot in the olive garden. >> i was just e-mailing with fournier, we were having a debate, just about as heated as that. it was basically olive garden versus applebee's. he's an applebee's man. personally i like the garden. >> what about friday's. >> the olive garden in honor of dr. sachs. >> the tour of italy takes you all over. >> really. can't leave out red lobster. >> ruby tuesday's. >> let me speak up for red lobster. >> please. >> go aheaders gene, red lobster. >> no, red lobster. that says it all. i would go there over olive garden. >> i've got the question for you, mika. >> yes. >> what restaurant, this is now your host, what restaurant have i eaten in other than mcdonald's or wendy's or crystal's or whataburger. what restaurant have i sat down and even the most meals in my li

listen it feels right to see jeffrey dahmer unabomber some horrible person it feels good to see them die or use of them wouldn't feel good to see like the heads of goldman sachs and a u.f.c. fighting match with brock lesnar beaten with stacks of their own money yeah i feel pretty good and wouldn't feel good to see the real housewives of beverly hills have dry wall shoved in their mouths and spackled shut yeah it feel pretty good and wouldn't feel good to see the heads of exxon and chevron drop in oil and then covered in bread crumbs and then sent into a closure with exotic birds and hacked yeah it feels pretty good right why don't we do those things because they're morally wrong so if we find all those things morally unacceptable why not a racist fault the death penalty and we haven't gotten into the racist thing yet i really do want to see the heads of goldman sachs know i go. through. some of the i know i know i know you do this i mean it's ok. but i think i think you get to the racist thing which is they've done studies and an equal death penalty trials the number one determinant of whether you're executed race of the victim race of the video race of the p