liberal democrats. what was it with mr zhirinovsky another campaign slogan of your party you're in says holds liberal democrats for the poor but i think the last time it was the forty headed by vladimir lenin that used the slogan in nine hundred seventeen don't you fear it could against you. we are not afraid of any historical comparisons our party album holds the freedom of discussion that rejects any left wing political ideology because we believe these are defeatist used that have no future when we say that we stand for the poor we don't mean that we are against the rich rather our aim is to help them get rich we don't seek to sprawl create asses from someone and give them to the needy we want to remove any hurdles that prevent the majority of the poor from getting wealthy that's the message of our slogan there can be no historical comparisons no similar examples no connections to the policies of the bolsheviks we absolutely reject anything of the sort. here an old timer in the russian parliament and during all these years you have the decisions of the ruling party however recently you have stepped up your

don't know what to spend their patriotism on but it's no compere use logans to those of the liberal democratic party of russia it's a very popular party that's why i want to do it they have a slogan no saying that liberal democrats are for the russians you slogan reads is russia above everything isn't it the same thing is definitely not best for russia does everything i would like to point out that the russian people comprise up to eighty. percent of the country's population and the russian culture and social protection of russians are all very important but recently some politicians have taken up their role of the defenders of the russian people i'm not sure that the russian people really need this kind of protection but use of the interest when they say that they want to defend the russians they should address the government those officials who are russian and ask them whether they protect the russian people or not what's this protection all the bugs if it's about extremist views if it's about ignoring all other nationalities and overlooking the fact that we're live in a multinational state and i

democratic party yabloko. mr mitrokhin you just said it nearing important things you said that elections in russia have become more liberal and democratic as a member of an opposition party you're saying that now you have more opportunities for campaigning well actually i only mentioned one aspect of the contain which is of course important yes but the president gave us a promise he gave a promise to all the leaders of russian parties when we met insults and that's missing we demanded broader access to media else demanded equal conditions for non-parliamentary part is because parliamentary parties have a special logo and seem them equal access to the media but this law does not have. lied to us so the president made this promise and this is actually happening today even though of course united russia is dominating all news programs on the two biggest television channels but at least we haven't seen since to take part in the debates united russia is not taking part in the wreath right there where you can this looks rather strange studio to world when a ruling party refuses to take according to the us which i personally thi

. >> one reason they aren't doing that is the liberal democratic party have no shame.y hoped it would move out. they tried to blame the tea party for it but it didn't work. >> good to see you. thanks for being with us. time to check in with a special on the record tonight, greta van susteran. nobody can miss it. it's in 19 short minutes. greta. >> are you sure you work on this network, sean? >> yeah, i'm a team player. by the way, i'm really looking forward to the interview. and if people don't watch it, they are idiots, they are missing a great interview. >> as you know, we have mrs. herman cain tonight and first time she's speaking. of course, it's going to be interesting to see what she said. we've already interviewed you but the interviews look so different when you see it on tv than when you actually do it. and the florida attorney general is here, big news out of the supreme court. and congressman mccarthy has a new whip act. back to you. >> don't miss it. our great, great, great american ♪ [ man #1 ] i was fascinated by balsa wood airplanes ever since i was a ki

mitrokhin welcome to spotlight there are first of all your party one of the oldest in russia sometimes called liberal sometimes social democratic sometimes something else what about you how do you define its day our official positions. is a social liberal policy folks are not ignoring the party and social liberal vs exist in which of the world's prominent parties in which you compare yourself to those lights or there was a famous man living heart and made postwar germany one of the world's economic leaders because of he called himself a social liberal. you and i may know him but i'm afraid that most of our viewers are more familiar with the democrats the republicans the conservatives in the labor party and so on are used similar to any of those. in many ways we're similar to the liberals but we also have much in common with the labor party. by the way the liberals and the labor party in britain. regionally one party they were together for some time and shared the same views and then they could not agree on some points. our ideology is a social market a social oriented market economy where anyone can make money of course except

collaboration of liberal institutions the pillars of the liberal establishment the press the democratic party liberal religious institutions labor unions culture. which have sold their souls and in our democracy has been severely weakened if not destroyed because of it let's talk about those traditional classical liberals that you're talking about my grandfather was a socialist in the twenty's and thirty's i think it's what my father became a republic of the but. he they were there was there was actually from my recollections of my conversations with my grandfather where he died there was a mixture of hope for things like the soviet union and some of those experiments and of very pragmatic very hard nosed. you know the great flood to strike you know that kind of stuff where they just said we're we're taking a prisoner right now we're going to sit here and you can bring out the dogs you can shoot the guns were here and. where did those people go where they were destroyed and world war one was the rock on which they were broken the quote white macdonald with the rise of the creole commission co

liberals. the entire ideology of the party system was different. each party had in it both conservatives and liberals. the democratic party's had very conservative members in the south and liberals in the north. the republicans had a conservative wing from the midwest and a republic -- a liberal wing from the northeast. with the barry goldwater campaign was all about was trying to take over the party from the bottom up -- the bottom up being these conservative ideological activists. they had their meetings and country clubs and very fancy places. it was presumed that someone like nelson rockefeller was the heir apparent for the republican nomination. the idea that a conservative could have won the nomination was absolutely seen as a possible by the pundits. the pundits then said that america was a liberal center- left consensus. when dwight eisenhower not only embraced in the new deal but even expanded it, opening up something like the department of health, education, and welfare. instituting the interstate. it was just presumed that the conservatism of the 1920's, which was seen as something that have gotten us int

is an existential threat to the psychology of the victimization that holds the liberal establishment and the democratic party establishment together. if herman cain -- herman cain is clarence thomas on steroids. they would say that clarence thomas was appointed. condoleezza rice, brill brilliant leaders at their time, were appointed. cain cane is getting sloat votes. this is tapping into the will of the american people. they are afraid of him. >> sean: they're afraid because it destroys the narrative of false lie that has been advanced for years that conservatives are racist. it shakes this to its core. all right. now, let me throw this out there your uncle -- >> yes. >> sean: martin luther king jr. talked about a colorblind society, judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, words that resonate with people of good will around the world. right? these are the examples of the outrageous rhetoric. this is just one network. nbc -- i wonder if brian williams is proud of its network. one network and the things they have said since these allegations came up. >> we are going to se

parties simultaneously. the democrat and republican parties used to contain serious internal debates between moderate and conservative republicans, between new democrats and liberals. neither party does now. each party is too weak to push its own agenda and too encased to its own cocoon to agree to a hybrid. can either party become enough of a force to actually get something done? >> well, not right now. again, thomas, that's what the 2012 election is going to be about. which party is going to have a mandate to move forward with its agenda? the democrats have to be much more specific about their agenda. that is jobs and wages. democrats have got to put forward a very large jobs bill. the president has already put forward one. but it is relatively small, at least relative to the scale of the jobs problem. it's going to create maybe 2 million jobs, but 14 million americans are jobless. hopefully the president and the democrats will put forth an even more ambitious jobs program. the second issue is taxes. and the republicans say no new taxes at all. they are adhering to the grover norquist tax breaks. the democrat s are going to hopefully say to the public, look, thi

i think that's good for the liberal wing of the democratic party. >> the only exception, i don't thinkwill blink and they don't want it and it would be bad for the recovery, but they could do it. and if they want to do it, the best thing to say they don't want to have it happen but couldn't get to an agreement. >> and in the history of blink-offs thus far, the democrats have been the ones to blink first. we will see if that happens again. we're moving on to our next hot topic, which abc news took a look into president obama's headquarters. as of october, the campaign had 327 staff members working to build what they call the most technologically advanced campaign ever. no word on why those kegs were then empty. will the president be able to harness the youth momentum in this year as he did in 2008? initial reports say he's having problems with the kids. >> well, you know what, people are out of work, younger people don't have necessarily the time and it's not the same kind of thing. it's not yes, we can. this is now looking at what we did. it might be a little bit harder to get the same

democratic party? >> yes! >> erick, on the right, if ann coulter and sean hannity were so convinced the other day that this was coming from the democratic party and liberals is saying this is coming from maybe the perry campaign or some republican operative out there, i'm a tad curious. how'd they get there? >> well, you know, initial reaction, not wanting to blame other republicans or spread the fight around the republicans. it seemed pretty clear to me when it came out that it was opposition research from another campaign. i have no doubt there was a supporter for a campaign involved, whether it was a campaign director, i don't know. i know chris wilson very well, and he's not the type of guy to go into something like this, making it up. so i would be concerned if i was the cain campaign. it's all well and do to do the blame game, whether we blame the democrats or other republicans, but the moment one of these women gets in front of a tv camera and starts talking, this is going to be a whole different campaign discussion for herman cain. >> james, describe for our viewers what it's like to be in a campaign war room when this is happening and every secon

be reached between the six conflicting socialists, christian democrat, and liberal groups which split into dutch and french-speaking parties. belgium now holds the an enviable world record for a deadlocked country, the long as. without a government. -- the longest period without a government. it is not a record they can afford to extend much longer. will grant, bbc news. >> love his work or hate it, the british film director ken russell made a big impression. during his career, he was known for his controversial movies including "women in love," that won several oscar nominations and the rock opera "tommy." he died on sunday. we have all look back at his life and the films he helped create. ♪ portrait of a's composer. one of the acclaimed documentaries he made for the bbc in the 1960's. they were beautiful, seductive, and the early self indulgent. >> take 1. >> at the bbc, he learned as craft as a director and developed his trademark side -- stock, up flamboyant -- his trademark style, a flamboyant and visually extravagant. his second major feature of " women in love" was declared a masterpiece. >> we do not even know wher

released the followingay statement saying, quote, president obama and his ultra liberal job trading comrades of the t democratic partyays they are standing strong with the ecerican people, refusing to hike their taxes during h obama's great recession. i wonder what he meant by the subtle use of comrade. needless to say president obama takes a slightly different view of things.fferen >> there are still too many t republicans in congress who in have refused to listen to theise voices of reason andof reason an compromise coming from outside o washington.e they continue to insist on protecting $100 billion worth o of tax cuts for the wealthiesthe 2% of americans at any cost. c >> meanwhile, is newt gingrich crtually happy things got so crappy?>> i >> that depends on what thehe president and congress do. i think it is going to be.na i think it should be because, a it is exactly wrong.ho >> as always political stories such as these, let's go to whisper -- whisker rufflere theater where they hillary w enact the talks between the two parties. new >> who knew they allowedouldll biting. this thing never had a chance of working

. >> you know, ed, that a lot of his supporters on the left, the liberal base of the democratic partyopposite of socialist. they think he's been way to close to wall street. >> the critical view, he's got to be out selling america. he's the president of the united states, and not calling americans lazy. we've had some tremendous individuals, particularly our military and others over the last decade. the issue i have with that commercial is that the second part's not accurate. mr. perry came out yesterday and talked about cutting the salary of congress and sending them home. have a part time legislature like you have in texas and i just would say they ought to go read the constitution. the first article dealing with the congress. the third is the judiciary, second is what's about him. go read that, try to interpret that and i think the key thing here is he's got to protect himself, more strength into creating jobs. >> take a look at another ad. this one from michele bachmann and ed used to work for her campaign. she's going of the conservative credentials of her republican rivals. look

"president obama and his ultra liberal anti-job creating comrades in the democratic party are apoplecticause republicans are standing strong with the american people refusing to hike their taxes during obama's great recession." newt gingrich who now finds himself at or near the top of republican polls called the collapse of the supercommittee good for america. >> it's important to understand it's not that washington is inherently gridlocked, it is that the current players behaving in the current way are inherently gridlocked. it's part of the president's fault, part of the congress' fault, but it's a mess. they're, candidly, in my judgment, being even dumber, creating a committee of 12 picked by the leadership to magically get in a room to come up with something that 535 couldn't solve. >> and michele bachmann said something that i'm sure at least made sense to her. >> this is a failure on the part of democrats, republicans, everyone, to meet this challenge for the good of the country. last summer i said that all 535 members of congress needed to sit down then and pay the interest on the

november twenty sixth i appeal to the candid as of all the parties over four of us at first yeah right cause there russia and the liberal democrats. the communists refused straight away they must have been warned against it by someone. and then we started getting mixed messages from the older p.r. . and then the other party started getting threats. for instance there's been who is on the right cause ballot said he was prepared to bring his supporters to the rally. leaders and his party told him. that if he goes through interfax with me turnouts the rally or he will be taken off the ballot immediately . but many politicians talk about the election in these terms you see this party was told to do this their party was warned against that when you see this to mean that those recommendations come from the coming of course not only. will it be seen in some people close to the kremlin it seems like you are all it theater and they are the rhetoric. against say that formally the kremlin controlled all political activities. but it can no longer do today has it is getting weaker criminal officials are not the only ones influencing politics.

world's coming second our communists with fourteen percent the liberal democrats will secure at least nine percent for the other four parties it will be largely about how they perform in t.v. debates and to secure at least one seat in the duma they will have to overcome a five percent threshold i mean very for has the united russia party is least has even put his political future on the table seeing his possible post as the country's prime minister the brand and how well the party reforms and the election booths prime minister putin is also backing united russia and has even become somewhat of a trademark of the party over the years which are normal options will each receive as sparkling new tea set a welcome gift from the government the specifics of the order are exacting the subtle be made from white porcelain each with cream each cup must hold a certain amount of tea interesting new though not all scots are of the same size two hundred four key and coffee sets are twelve while the remaining four hundred fifty are just scaled down six person sets and while it's not clear which devotees will win which serves some joke the