to discuss russia's economy i'm joined by martin quinn he's managing partner at frontier. editor in chief of business new europe and. fletcher head of global asset allocation renaissance asset managers all right gentlemen let's start out with your marker my favorite segment here i want an up or down long short however you want to describe it the following topics oil prices stay roughly where they are israel doesn't have a mandate. around. for oil prices happening in. the middle east conflict. decreased. china. china soft landing seems to have happened. growth still seven percent or so i don't complain that some some percent some in the lower forms and restructured to do this various bones in them which they need to do is but again in the short term they seem to be tackling all those problems bullish. trying to growth accelerating my future and doing really well courses reforms but it's on the what's on the way here is old. still tons of issues to work through kicking the can down the road kicking the can down the road as in other two years i think and so we come back to th

quinn, margaret hoover, republican consultant, cornell belcher, democratic strategist who served as a pollster for president obama's 2012 re-election team. i wonder how you think this anniversary, this martinback to even when he was senator obama. he always talked about, he also understood the gravity and talked about, i stand on the shoulders of the great men and women of the civil rights era who made this possible. even early on, many of the civil rights leaders early on in the primary process were with hillary clinton and it took a while for them to get used to obama and sort of trust him and know who he was. and he used a lot of that conversation saying, look, because of you all, i am possible. and i remember we saw congressman lewis there, he was one of the people who had sort of that great turmoil because he was originally for hillary, then he said his consciousness, he changed for barack obama. i think the president gets it, he understands it, and he's very respectful of it. >> i also think about, he spoke about the fierce urgency of now early on. for many in the gay community in the united states, they didn't feel that he had that sense of fierce urgency. i think today after the sp

quinn of espn asked, "this is the emotion many were wanting to see. here's my question -- do you feel like you've finally seen the real guy?" and comedians had a field day. steve martin is now even inspired to fess up to cheating himself. he says, "i'm ready to go oprah to admit doping in 1968." for an in-depth look at the disgraced cyclist, watch "the world according to lance armstrong" here on cnn tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> fast-moving developments to tell you about in an ongoing hostage crisis in algeria involving americans and other westerners. there are reports the algerian military has launched a final assault on islamist militants holding people captive at a besieged gas facility in the sahara desert. we're hearing there are casualties. let's get to cnn senior international correspondent dan rivers. he's in london to to see bring us the latest. good morning. what can you tell us then about the reports of this final assault? >> reporter: well, this is being carried out by algerian state-run television saying that seven further victims have been recovered and 11 militants. now it's really difficult to grasp the total number of hostages that have bee