i also want to thank john o'sullivan for bring at the moment from 16 years ago when he got carded. i was there. his hair was flapping in the wind as they chartered a amount of the room and i was tasked that evening by the speaker of the political union with preventing a mob of marauding koreans from breaking that were down with two by fours to get into this holiday pack mr. sullivan. >> south koreans. it was not a day you would never forget. it doesn't happen everyday. today we'd are not expecting moms of koreans to break down the door, but that is actually kind of relevant to our subject for today. i actually want to add post something that some of the earlier panelists on the stage mentioned, which is burnham's book come at the managerial revolution in my mind has the most profound implications for today. if you think about how the state has grown in the united states and across the west, what has been the state involvement in the economy. but our movement has done a reasonably good job of holding the line on state taxes. if you look at the percentage of economic output in gdp. i

going on the european continent and the past several years i was living in europe working for john o'sullivan of radio free europe and our polish and baltic colleagues would warn us about russian aggression, about the spread of russian influence and money and aggression against their neighbors and always derided as being these silly cold war era people stuck in the past-don't you understand that we have a new relationship with russia and why are you dragging us into these problems. now those people have been proven right, and i say there were some nightmares, actually gotten -- they could have said even worse things. look what putin this week has defended the hitler stalin past of 1939. this is very scary stuff. and i don't think most people in europe have come to terms with it and most people in the united states have come to term with and it how unpredictable this regime in moscow is. and the past year has shown some very discomforting fissures within the transatlantic alliance and countries we thought or expected to have been very firm supporters of nato, of the unified western response to