every time i try to learn a few words and then i go to portugal and latvia and i can't even remember my own area code. i make kind of a big deal about the fact that i'm a monoglot that substantiates my teaching. it's try to encourage americans travel boldly even if you don't speak the language and i'm able to go to europe and have tv shows speaking the world's linguistic. if a greek meets a norwegian hiking in the alps how do they speak? english. my son speaks fluent italian right now. i'm envy yes, sir. he has a better connection than i do. i wish i spoke the languages if you want to go to portugal, don't worry about it. have a good time. >> you travel with an open mind and an open heart. and that's perhaps more important than speaking the language. >> much more important. if you're going there to learn instead of judge. >> okay. how do you balance your relatively positive impressions of iran for them to develop nuclear weapons by seeming volatile leaders. >> i would try to arrange it they wouldn't have volatile leaders where they could elect a moderates. everyone else has nukes and

latvia or lithuania or some other nation might be able to get into the european union but we couldn't. our debt is an incredibly serious problem for us as a nation and for our children. and the irony here is that the bill that was air dropped into the defense bill designed to pay for the troops in the field came on the same day, the exact same day that the president of the united states and the leadership, the democratic leadership of the congress, met down at the white house to announce that they were going to reinstitute the pay-go rules. what are the pay-go rules? the pay-go rules require that when you spend a dollar, you pay for it. when you create a new program, you pay for it. the president came out and with great fanfare said the democratic leadership of this government, which leads the government, the president and the leadership of the congress are going to put in place pay-go rules. and all future spending will be subject to pay-go rules with a few exceptions that he listed, which were pretty big exceptions. but he didn't list this bill that spends a billion dollars and is n

every time i try to learn a few words and then i go to portugal and latvia and i can't even remember my own area code. [laughter] >> i make kind of a big deal that i'm a monoglot. my whole work has been try to encourage americans to travel boldly even if you don't speak the language and i'm able to go to europe and write guide books and have tours and have a good time with my family on vacation speaking the world's linguistic common denominator. that's the language you can be lazy. if a greek meets a norwegian in the alps how do you think they communicate. english. what greek speaks norwegian? now my son speaks fluent italian right now and i'm envious. my whole deal is if you want to go to portugal and you don't know how to speak the language, don't worry about it. have a good time. >> you travel with an open mind and a open heart and that's more important than speaking a language. >> much more important is your attitude if you go there to learn not judge. >> how do you balance iran? their drive for nuclear weapons by volatile leaders? >> i would try to arrange it so they don't have