members of the party committee who were kgb. what you have to do, where the west you can go or not to go. i felt i was ready to face the new world. i was 26, for a dancer, i was not a kid. although i did not prepare this decision. it was spontaneous. i was touring in canada. i knew that i would put under stress some members of my family in russia and of course people who made a commitment of my security of me being a good boy and staying with the company. something snapped inside. i thought, now or never, probably. i was alone. i lived alone. tavis: didn't speak english. >> i spoke french. but personal, you know, my mother and my father lived -- they were decent people, especially my mother. my mother was a very simple, wonderful russian. a very talented woman. they sent an occupying force in 1945. to latvia, i was born in 1948 over there. when i left already i felt, early in my 20's i realize how miserable their life was. they lived under a huge july. -- huge lie. they spent years and years in the country, latvia, the soviet re

. >> of former kgb boss has won the election in georgia's breakaway province. russia and georgia fought a brief war over the status of ossetia in 2008. both countries still consider it to be part of georgia. >> there have been clashes in serbia between police and protesters over the construction of homes by and southern belgrade. 14 police were reportedly injured. they set up container homes for many roma families. >> transportation workers in brussels or are in -- are on strike after the brutal death of a colleague. police have arrested a suspect. transport police have refused to call off the strike before measures are discussed concerning their safety. the nobel peace prize winning german author has been banned from travelling to israel. his poem published last week caused outrage in the jewish state. the poem also caused controversy here in germany. he said the country was "a threat to world peace." >> at first, few israelis seemed interested in the pelham, but the interior minister -- in the poem, but the interior minister's decision to declare him persona

his widow, without the knowledge of the leaders of the party or the kgb stood by his casket after alle they pulled the lid down, she did the unthinkable. in the soviet union. she put her hand over in the casket on her husband's chest. she made the sign of the cross. in the citadel of the war on religion, she made the sign of the cross on her husband's chest. and so i know that we're not supposed to do religious stuff in congress. but taking a cue from mrs. brezhnev, donald, there is no need to newark anymore. you're in the right place now. [ applause ] >> i am truly honored to be here today to pay tribute to a man i loved and respected, a friend for life and a mentor. to his family, i say, we say thank you for sharing your father, your father-in-law, your dad, your brother, your grandpa, and your great grandpa. you shared him with us and with the world. he was a busy legislator in d.c., in his district, and around the world. but nobody meant more to donald payne than his family. he was so proud of all of you. some have said that donald payne was greeted in heaven by martin luther king

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a former kgb officer has won the election in south ossetia. leonid tibilov won 54% of the vote. the south ossetia is backed financially and militarily by russia and is only recognized by a handful of other countries. polls have closed in aceh, indonesia's most devout muslim promise in an election seen as a key test of whether peace will be maintained. five candidates. among some, two former members of the rebels that wastes a 30- year war against indonesia. our correspondent from aceh sent this report. >> for many acehnese, this is a vote for stability. they've lived through decades of war and is a nominee. slowly but steadily, the trickle in to cast their votes for the next governor. >> these elections are seen as a critical test for this province. it's also indonesia's most about muslim province. a number of candidates have made sharia law part of their campaign messages. people we've been speaking to today have said more important than the islamic law and security. >> that's because the two main players in this election have both accused each other of intimidating voters. irw

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he was entrapped by the kgb, goodness knows why, but they blackmailed him.erous. career-destroyed information, the kgb took compromising photographs with him in bed with a young russian agent. early on in the mid-50s, and that was the kind -- i mean that -- somewhere in the back of his mind for the rest of his life must have been, and yet he dealt with it in what i regard as a very kind of heroic way. >> he appeared to be compromised. he said you're not going to have me. >> that's a very powerful moment in the play, in my humble opinion. >> it is. absolutely. it's a very powerful play and powerful importance to begin with but even though you sort of come from theater roots, i was reading you wanted to resist theater and now you say theater, beyond film or television is the most few filling place to be. when did you finally give in? >> it was during college days. i grew up in a theater family and i didn't wasn't to go in the family business. obviously i wanted to be an artist, a printer and a paint maker. a safer career. off i went to college and within a wee

par>> kgb, i'm sorry. he had like three full games with the packers?ry. it looks good for romney. in the 7 to 10 point range. basically the robbery establishment of washington or wisconsin behind rney and working it. it's a very organized state right now. >> from politico, thank you, sir. >> have a good one. >> our panel joins me next to kickoff the week. a programming note for you tomorrow morning. that's right. former alaska governor, sarah palin and television journalist if you recall will be cohoving the "today" show. the soup of the day is lentil. it's just lentil. i need a little beef flavoring. every time a local business opens its doors or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business, it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities. that's why we extended $6.4 blion in new credit to small businesses across the country last year. because the more we help them, the more we help make opportunity possible. not in this economy. we also have

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people who were tortured in the apartheid regime in south africa and by the kgb said this is the worse human body can't take this because you start to lose your mind. do i care about khalid sheikh mohammed? no. this is one of the critical guys who plan the 9/11. but we're we're not supposed to stoop to their level. >> the truth is about khalid sheikh mohammed, you really didn't break him. >> why, why you say that. >> he didn't tell but osama bin laden. he didn't tell you how to get him, find him. >> some of these people were not going to tell us everything. >> so you don't break them. >> there is a limit. there is a limit to what they will tell us. >> and apparently you reached that limit right away. according to the c.i.a. inspector general you didn't get any good information out of these guys. why did you do it 183 times if you weren't getting any information. you knew there was a limit to what you were going to get. god, this is such an embarrassment for this great great country. we're not supposed to be like tin pot dictators that torture detainees that they have. get a load of the

the fsb, unlike the soviet kgb, does not have a sizable armed force of its own. so putin will have to rely on the police and the interior troops, which are part of the same ministry but separate agency from the police, in order to quell the demonstration. he clearly doesn't trust the police and moscow and st. petersburg square. they've given every indication of being too cooperative with the protesters, and the last weekend interior troops were brought in to control moscow, because moscow police are not trusted. so when he the interior troops to come over to our side as we well. >> and follow-up question the are you worried about her own safety when you go back to? >> i worry sometimes. i mean, i don't want to overstate it because there are people, and the people i know, who have actually been really attacked and threatened in the last couple of years, and i'm not one of them. >> do you think the protesters might at some point turned violent at one point x. in one of the protests he was speaking in front of, threatened to take the kremlin, you know, we have enoug

on kgb over the weekend there was a discussion about political operatives being hired by cable news organizationss pundits. >> when cnn or the cable networks hire contributors who are also party activists, so, you know whether it's carl rove at fox or hillary rosen or carlie here or others at nbc, it enables detractors when they get in a bit of verbal trouble ha ha she hillary rosen is speaking for obama the campaign put up to this. that's what happens when cable networks hire. >> that's true there is consequences and they have to start considering damaging brand glenn beck on fox news and bill o'reilly that damages the fox news brand. >> bill: well, it can't be too much damage to fox news brand as the factor is the highest rated prime time news program in the country. ms. mason is obviously woefully uninformed. dick cheney won't come on the program. john mccain very hesitant to be interviewed by me when he ran for president. i will give you scores of other republicans that don't want any part of the factor. joining us purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. bernard goldberg. >> i hate at a time to com

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the ssb, unlike the soviet kgb does not have a sizable armed force of its own. so putin will have to rely on the police and then troops which are part of the same, but a separate agency from the police, under to quell the demonstrations, he coded doesn't trust the police in moscow and st. petersburg. they have given every indication that too cooperative with the protesters. and so last weekend of the troops were in to control moscow because moscow police are not trusted. so we need the troops to come over to our side as well. >> and a follow-up question, are you worried about your own safety when you move back? >> i worry sometimes. i mean, i don't want to overstate this because there are people, people i know who have actually been brutally attacked. i'm not one of them. >> do you think the protesters might have some point, violent at one point? in one of the protest he was thinking of, sort of threatened to take the kremlin, you know, we have enough people to take it. >> his rhetoric has a way of getting away from them. and i think it was very clear he couldn'

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he was former kgb. we have to work our relationship with them.olitics, a lot of things happen in politics. people are trying to get elected. i'm not going to make a judgment what he said. i have confidence in the president and that he is going to do the right thing to protect our country 100%. >> i've got to leave it there. we've run out of time. >> i disgre. >> we finally disagree. >> you were uncomfortable with the remark? >> i'm very uncomfortable and what it means for the united states and our missile defense posture and our allies' reaction to it. all very troubling. >> congressman rogers, congressman ruppersberger, thank you very much. >>> he has not locked up the republican nomination, but romney is already thinking about a running mate. could two of his rivals make the short list? >> he's the weakest front-runner in modern times. [ kyle ] my bad. [ roger ] tell me you have good insurance. yup, i've got... [ kyle with voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ kyle ] nope, i've got... [ kyle with

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the kgb, in fact, encouraged people the turn in friends and family members who they thought had uncommunist views. and what was the punishment for such a crime if convicted as people invariably were? well, it was exile to the brutally cold gulag, the harsh siberian labor camps in which many died of hypothermia, starvation and overwork. tens of thousands of people over stalin's reign. since coming to power in 1922, stalin had, in fact, killed up to 30 million of his own people through force collectivization of funds and industry, mass purges and execution of anyone who he thought would oppose him. the only news a russian could get was through the pravda magazine all via state-controlled radio. in fact, the propaganda ministry employed hundreds whose lone job it was to convince russians and, in time, most of ian europe that -- eastern europe that not only was communism inherently good and capitalism bad, but also that life in democratic countries was miserable. many believed these lies because they knew nothing else, and really they had been brainwashed by the kremlin into what was, in many w

key points to watch out for will be the kgb 6 volume, it's been declining progressively, so there an expectation that the management is going to make some amount of commentary on that. and we also have the buy back where there are more indications with regards to the buy back which reliance industries has announced some time back, as well as grms. grms are the gross refining margins this time around expected to be flat on a sequential basis. to put things in to perspective, expecting to be flattish on a sequential basis. team i said i can't expected to go up around 14.5%. margins expected to be above that stellar and profitability expected to fall 0.5% to be around flat of a half a billion dollars. so this is what we can expect from the two energy majors. >> thank you very much for that. >> let's get to some of the earnings news. nestle has posted better than expected results.world's biggest food group got a boost in emerging markets. and general electric reports. forecast to earn 33 cents a share. investors remaining focused on the health of ge capital and continued the overhang of

. >> kgb is wrapped up you got to get a little side work. >> i suppose it's better than east german hookers russian spies. >> is he living in a bond movie? >> russians? god he's old. >> yes. >> watch out for japanese guys in boller hats. >> yeah. >> reporting directly from octapussy. what? three more secret service being forced out of the agency. two others have been cleared in the investigation. [ nbc "nightly news" theme ] >> meaning they didn't pay for it? >> they got a neighbor kid who's urine is for sale for like $500 an ounce, some billionaire across the street is pulling up in a ferrari. the whiz kid. >> hey. john welcome. >> hi, stephanie. i have a couple of things to say this morning. yesterday shawn hanley was talking about all of the poor people can eat rice and beans. >> yeah. he apparently has lots of poor friends who eat rice and beans. by the way he is about to sign a new contract for around $10 million a year. >> yeah. >> eric holder is taking john edwards into court when he ought to be taking bush and cheney into court. dick cheney has a new heart, he can stand to be in pri