moscow had been in the midst of an unusually warm spell. it was already late november it dandelions and daisies were poking out of the earth, nurtured by a steady balmy drizzle. few flakes of snow that had fallen at quickly vanished leading cobblestones glistening on the ground of. as the springlike days wore on it seemed like winter might never come. but it did finally as december 89 the eight arrived. a chill snuck up on moscow like an invading army, snow began to fall before daybreak and continued without interruption. soon a thick coat of white. the city, within a day temperatures dropped another 15 degrees leaving russia's then second-largest city in its more typical seasonal states -- gray and frigid. little else however was typical that december day, particularly at the corner just past the cast iron bridge. a pathway that led directly to red square and the kremlin. since a 8m crowns flowed into this neighborhood known as the hub for moscow's flourishing at merchant class. wealthy businessmen are live with their elegant wives and unb

the moscow mule. it was incredibly successful in part because john martin borrowed some of smirnov ultrix. he took one of the very first polaroid cameras and he went into the bars in la and he took one picture of the bartender making the moscow mule and he gave it to the bartender. he took a second picture and he walked to the next bar and he said hey, your competition is making this great drink. is called the moscow mule. everyone is making it, why are you making it. 37 it became extra in a popular drink in the united states and smirnov took off in the united states. i find it amazing, smirnov was born in 1831. he died in 1898, and today the smirnov is the best selling spirit in the world, the number one brand, the most valuable spirits brand in the world. it ubiquitous as you might imagine. it james bond vodka of choice, for god's sake. how much better does it get than that. the story, it's kind of an amazing story because relevance today. we know the product. there's things happening in russia that

i am very excited to speak from moscow. richard gave a comprehensive picture of what we would like to achieve. as you said, very needed. without practical steps. 60 years, we have a full step. it is a gigantic test. president and, confirmed global zero is the target for mankind and the russian situation. we are heartened by this statement and we hope what will be achieved in terms of negotiations, declaration of some kind. the secret of the warheads and weapons and missiles during this negotiation, will be a step in the right direction. we wish them very well, try to bring them arguments and we are very thankful for the efforts. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you for joining us, igor yurgens. we look forward to seeing you at our next commission meeting in moscow. >> 100%. >> take care. >> before i open the floor to questions, we have a little audio/visual presentation to make for you. to do tha to do thagha to do thalid to do tha gun to do than to do that, i would like to call on of the global organizat

we do have someone on the phone with us, from moscow. he is the chairman of the management board of the institute of contemporary development and enjoys close ties with the presidential administration in russia. i will give you briefly the main results of our deliberations to date. i would just make one introductory. . i think there is a general consensus amongst the commission that whatever impact , positive impact nuclear weapons may have had in terms of enforcing deterrence and stability during the cold war, at any residual benefits of these weapons have been more than overshadowed in recent years by the growing risks of nuclear proliferation and the related risk of nuclear terrorism. that is why you can see a group like ours which is really representative of a group of over 150 former ambassadors, military leaders, government ministers who have joined this effort. the recognize the risks associated with nuclear spread out way any stabilizing a fact of nuclear weapons in today's world. with that in mind, i would like to show you a cha

and this was the top position of moscow. a journalist asked ghazi now that you're going after the brothel's does this signal the taliban of islam and his response was when rudy governor of new york he went after the brothels of new york, did anyone call that the talabanization and it wasn't quite analogy but tuesday. >> host: de are much more media savvy than the westerners realize. >> guest: he had a master's from the university, secular university in islamabad and in 1997 the same year he visited osama bin laden in kandahar with his father he also was an employee of unicef, said he had a foot in both worlds which made him accessible and incredibly dangerous because he knew how to work the media. he also knew what sold and what didn't. he never talked -- he would talk about his opposition to the government and sympathy to the taliban but never about the sympathy for the secretary organizations the red cross was affiliated with because he knew sunni skilling she has didn't play well in the media. so this is me once in ghazi'

but henderson and kaman were both in moscow during the war years. and he came back he found he was ahead of the head of the policy department and was old friends from moscow. he worked with 10% on this memo and this is what they told truman, imagine here's a new president kept out of the loop by fdr getting this memo from someone as brilliant and forceful as jfk, they wrote the united states supports a partition already brought about loss of u.s. prestige and disillusionment among the arabs. the saudis warned where the anti-american mood american oil basis and oil concessions and foreign bases were in danger. if partition became reality, they warned moderate arabs would be swept out of power and replaced by extremists. particularly come with eight warned the grand mufti of jerusalem. than the arabs "would hate the west in direct proportion to the support of the zionist army's and of the partition in particular. then secondly if it occurs at a jewish state created do become a threat to the success of the marshall plan because the arabs would cut off

it is also significant the treaty's provision undergird the moscow treaty. why not negotiate a one or two year extension to permit time to perform the complex analysis that are involved in appropriately sizing the u.s. nuclear force posture? at the same time, the administration could device a plan for the modernization of our nuclear weapons and the complex which support it. otherwise, the administration will be asking the senate to ratify a start follow on that may include significant strategic arms reductions which compels serious and lengthy review based on the panoply of issues addressed. without the necessary modernization plan which, in light of the fiscal year 2010 budget request, would have to be included in the 2011 budget request that won't be submitted to congress until february of 2010. so the administration either needs to slow down on this ambitious start follow on, move forward on a follow on that only deals with the necessary issues, or submit an amended budget request that reflects modernization programs recommended by the last administratio

as i prepared him as it -- as a prepared to visit moscow, we will work with the russian government on issues where we agree, and honestly confronting those areas where we disagree. in moscow, we will continue to explore ways in which we can advance our common interests, including our commitment to reducing nuclear arsenals and strengthening the global non- proliferation regime. meeting these challenges will be neither quick nor easy, but i am reminded of the blessed -- of the lesson from what i went to a timeless baroque church devastated in the second world war. for decades, it lay in ruin, a symbol of war. thanks to the donation some of germans, americans, and people around the world, it was rebuilt, and is quarry restored. today, it stands as a setting symbol of what is possible when countries and friends work together. in that spirit, i want to welcome my friend, chancellor merkel. >> thank you very much. let me say that we have very fond memories of your visit, and also during live in memories of your visit to the concentration cap -- concentration camp. we're more than aware of

but it was my researcher and moscow -- i had a real vision for what i wanted to do this but so i was able to put all questions to her and then she would really got to the countryside and deal with. >> [inaudible] >> how did i find her? there was actually a woman in san francisco who is a friend of a friend here and i talked to her about two deals a lot of the russian community here ended new emigrants to the area. she actually knew the woman who turned out to be my researcher from her efforts. to put me in touch with this woman not because she thought she knew my researcher but she thought she might have connections with somebody who would be my researcher but when we met in moscow and talked him she was excited, as excited about the story as i was and agree to put her courage on and work with me as a researcher. so it was really so lucky. >> how much of your book addresses the current situation with a trademark suit or effort that is making, and what is the basis i am curious from a business or a legal point, what is the basis of the claim of a family unit that the brand was literal

of the nuclear-free world. >> they are suggesting it is still a different type of visit going to moscow than europe or even going [inaudible] ase eight any different in terms of preparations? >> no, i think everybody understands the importance of the issues that are guinn to be discussed. i think in many way is the preparation is in that much different. we certainly hope that we can make some substantive progress on issues we know are of importance to both sides. the first row has asked me questions. >> [inaudible] >> i don't know they have spoken since the june 20. i know that obviously general jones has spoken with his counterparts. mike has had many discussions but i don't believe the two presidents have spoken since. >> in the past week has the president spoken to any outside the government experts on iran and if so, who? >> i can check. i don't -- >> is he talking to anybody on the subject? >> outside the government, i don't know the answer to that but i can certainly check. >> early in the week the president thought the supreme leader was aware people of iran were concerned about

the border area little did i know there is a mosque right across town in islamabad called the red moscow islamabad is an incredibly dull place. no night life. one friend called it low self-esteem abad. it was run by a charismatic said the brothers and the youngest ran the media operations while the other ran the religious side. i needed introduction to dead-end and a guy who introduced may actually was the same individual, a very close friend of osama bin laden and the person. >> host: let me interrupt. you are talking to someone who is a close friend of osama bin laden your brother is fighting afghanistan or in iraq in the marine corps uniform and your father is work is in the u.s. >> yes. a broad made to a moral and pass more than once like what you said you have two of the pfizer you'll never be allowed and. you have to show a sincere interest they understand when someone is trying to come in and get a quote. i was able to successfully convey i was in seriously interested in their agreements with the pakistani state. this individual was very close with osama, a former pilot in the pak

he talked productively with our historic adve shareyings in moscow.n wall was a testament to the wisdom of his policies. after restoring our economy and restoring our confidence and setting the stage for the end of the cold war, ronald reagan retired from politicalings. then he retired from public life. when the lord calls me home, whenever that may be, i will leave with the greatest love of this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. you will remember we bid him a final farewell five years ago right here in this capitol. with the deepest respect and with love and yes, with tears. and with a renewed appreciation of what he had done for the us of america. that shining city on a hill that he saw so clearly and that he loved so very dearly. and now fittingly comes this magnificent bronze statue of this great american. it will stand forever as a silent century in these hallowed halls to teach our children and our grandchildren about that which once was and to inspire them with visions of that which can be again today, tomorrow and through ge

in moscow we will continue to explore ways in which the u.s. and russia can advance our common interests, a joint commitment to reducing our nuclear arsenal and strengthening global proliferation. in meeting these challenges will be neither quick nor easy. i am reminded of the lessons from my recent visit. the chancellor took me to eight broke church devastated in the second world war. thanks to the donations of the germans, americans and people around the world it was rebuilt. and it was restored. today it stands as a stunning symbol of what is possible when countries work together. in that spirit, i want to welcome my friend, angela merkel. >> thank you. we have very but fond memories of your visit to our nation and moving memories to the former concentration camps. we are more aware that germany would not stand as it stands today after the second world war, but now in the 24 sec the central challenges cannot be met by just one nation going alone. we need to do this together. we conducted our talks. i would like to underline that the iranian

talks and i assume that good progress will be reflected in statements made by both presidents in moscow next week. >> some small addition -- just have this to say. the united states and russia and the soviet union destroyed 40,000 warheads. c-span3 ask for another 20,000. we are long way to zero. >> good point. >> how do you address japanese television? how do you address the nuclear weapon -- it is not clear, but some weapons affect the intention by some islamic countries that they're going to have another weapon in the future. i wonder, because the information of other countries, members of this organization, not a part of it, could you address that issue? >> that is a very good question. i can tell you that in the deliberations of the commission eaton yesterday and today, we are including israel in our plan. we are assuming that way will be found so that israel can and will participate in a process of undertaking reductions and elimination. i say that in full knowledge, just to repeat, we are realists here, we recognize there are regional issues that will affect our ability to get to

speech in prague in which i said all of us have responsibilities that i am going to be traveling to moscow for a summit to restart significant arms -- nuclear arms reduction negotiations with the russians, that i want to reinvigorate our nonproliferation treaty. i think we should create a stable consensus in which countries who want peaceful -- nuclear power for peaceful civilian use are able to do so. and that our goal collectively is to eliminate proliferation, lock down the loose materials out there, negotiate a whole series of treaties that lower the temperature, and ultimately make nuclear weapons obsolete. now, that's not going to happen in my time, my lifetime. it won't happen in president sarkozy's lifetime that -- but if we start moving on that pathway and other countries can look and say the united states is not just talking the talk but it's walking the walk, then i think that will indicate to the iranians, for example, that the goal here is no to single them out, per se, to suggest that this is dangerous for everybody, including them. their security interests will not be served

anyway, in this context, i would like to emphasize the next summit in moscow. it will be critically important for it to be successful in encouraging. >> we are going to leave the remainder of this recorded program and take you live to a discussion on the disputed iranian election and its aftermath. mahmoud ahmadinejad is declaring victory in the race. the opposition candidate, mir hossein mousavi, has called for a second round of voting. the woodrow wilson international center for scholars is hosting this event. >> we hope that our speakers today will give us patterns and clarification in what we should make of this important election. amongst the things that i hope they will address -- is the election as significant as the media in the united states and europe has made it out to be? as the opposition to the regime been broadly and not based -- broadly enough based that it can continue to work behind the scenes? is compromise possible for desired by leadership? ultimately, if, as the guardian councils validation of the election yesterday seems to indicate, mahm

trip to russia, the president will give a speech to the commencement of the new economic school in moscow. this will be an opportunity for president obama tubes because but mutual interest in economic growth. >> is the white house confident that you have the vote? >> the present has spent time talking with members of congress. -- the president has spent time talking with members of congress. i think this is an historic and poverty to take specific action to reduce our dependence on energy, to reduce greenhouse gases, and, most importantly, to create a firm market place for clean energy jobs. we like where we are now. i would bet on the president. >> [unintelligible] >> i do not know how many members he has talked to. the energy team and congressional team have been talking for quite some time. i think that others in the white house have made calls, too. >> [unintelligible] >> i have not talked to him about the outcome yet. carol, obviously, is the head of that inside.

i recently explored that possibility on a visit to moscow, prague, and warsaw, and came back with positive things to explore. i invite your comments on whether that could change the overall dynamic in the region, and might cause iran to recalculate in the nuclear weapons ambitions. we would welcome comments that you might have on the potential for the nato russian council to serve as a useful forum for discussing such possible defense cooperation. the general mcchrystal, if you are confirmed, you'll bring fresh eyes to commanding nato's assistant force, and u.s. forces afghanistan. outlining the president's strategy will require significant coordination, up one reporting up to the nato supreme allied commander in europe, the other through u.s. forces afghanistan through general petraeus u.s. central command and to coordinate between the military and civilian components for the effort in afghanistan. the next commander will confront a myriad of challenges, including a resurgent taliban, effectively open the border in the area between canada hard and pakistan, over which border extremists re

but when we met in moscow and talked, she was excited, as excited about the story as i was and agree to put her courage on and work with me as a researcher. so it was really so lucky. >> how much of your book addresses the current situation with the trademark suit or effort that's making, and what is the basis, i'm curious just from a business point or legal point, what is the basis of the family given that the brand was literally sold in the earlier as you mentioned, and what you think is going to happen with the current litigation? >> well, that particular piece of litigation actually was settled in 2006 . . it is actually fascinating. one chief claim of vladimir, his son who escaped russia and license the brand did not have a right to do that because he had already sold his shares in the business to his brother which he had done before the revolution. but that brother died. 2 of the other brothers died and because he lived in russia he could not revive the grant. no one was around 35 grant. the claim was it was wrong people in the first place and he didn't have a right to do it an

and moscow was having a difficult time coming up with leaders.they had leaders dying over in a couple of weeks before mr. gorbachev came in. we have to remember we have to have the proper climate and the right attitude and take that and not just use the historical comparisons. >> maryland, thank you for waiting. caller: since we're hearing this through interpretation, i'm referring to the ia tolla. i like to ask here if -- is the language correct? i know some parts said death to the u.s. what were the other cheers? also, could you please clarify what he meant when he referred to hillary clinton. i heard it twice and i still don't understand it? am i missing something, please? host: go ahead. guest: i'm not sure about the hillary clinton comment. is >> regarding the supreme leader, it seemed like he was backing down when he said the charges needed to be looked at. he came back strong on friday, after confrontation on the scene, those in the revolutionary guard. he figured this is a time to step up and warn these protesters. for the most part, tran

that was moscow said. ok, i do not know anything. those two things made it really easy to learn. it also made it really easy when i walked into the writer's room and said, how do you do this? to this day, we have guys who come in and day are going to wreck a spec script and they are like, they want to act like i know how to do the show because i watch it. i did these episodes. if they do not come in terrified with the 20 questions on their sleeve, they are doomed. i think journalists -- it is amazing how many people who got into this profession you're not curious or terrified to ask questions. >> what kind of a relationship to you have with the rank-and- file of the baltimore police department and how have they acted -- reacted to some of your criticism? >> the detectives and patrolman that are still there -- the ones who are still there up to rank of lieutenant maybe are fine with me. the ones who are middle management can go either way up to the rank of major. colonels and the but hate my guts. that is the way it should be if you cover a beat. that is the best way to cover a be

and africa i will be discussing later this summer in moscow and at the g8. so i want to be clear, that there is another path available to north korea. a path that leads to peace and economic opportunity for the people of north korea, including full integration into the community of nations. that destination can only be reached to a peaceful negotiation, but achieve the full and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that is the opportunity that exists for north korea and president lee and i join with the international community in urging the north koreans to take it. president lee and i also discussed our efforts to confront the global economic crisis here earlier this year in london we agreed on full and sustained action to jumpstart growth and to prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again. today, we reaffirmed this effort as well as our commitment to resist protectionism and to continue our close collaboration in the run up to the next meeting of the g-20 in pittsburgh. in addition to taking immediate action to put our economies on

would seek to record and a new agreement levels of reduction that will be low word than it in the moscow treaty. >> do you have specific numbers yet on those two areas? >> they're talking about specific numbers but i'm not one to talk about specific numbers. we do want to have a significant reduction though >> north korea. could you update the situation with north korea vessel in the chinese see tracked by the u.s. navy and do you have any plan to ask permission to the vessel to make interdiction? >> i'm not going to be able to tell you any more than i told you on friday. i think you saw what secretary gates and admiral mullen said last week. i'm not going to go into any details of any specific ship, except that, of course, as always, we call upon north korea to refrain from provocative actions. what we are focused on especially here at the state department is we are focused on a vigorous enforcement of a puzzle bush and 1874. and of course, ship inspections are an important element of this resolution. and we also call upon other u.n. member states to enforce 1874. >> on taiwan, and i re

a fourth of july events in the and as you all know on sunday night the president will depart for moscow. >> [inaudible] >> i'm not that i am aware of. >> [inaudible] >> yanks. mr. fowler. >> robert, a quick follow-up on iran, the president said there is no doubt that any direct dialog response to iran will be affected by the events of the last release and i wanted to see if you could add a bit to that, what he means by no doubt there'd of what has definitely changed at this point and what is still remaining open? >> i figured the presidency at his news conference earlier in the week at right now the focuses on what is going on there in the ground. and obviously it was passed to daschle lot of things have to going to have to shake out and get figured out obviously as we watch that. i think the president has been clear on matt. as i have mentioned here, there are multilateral invitations and looked, a lot of this is the iranians have been offered and a path away to meet their responsibilities. in many ways their actions are up to them and i think that's what the president said today. the

and on guam, our health care provider shortages are so severe that often residents of moscow off island to get the care they need to manage their conditions. and so the health equity and accountability act of 2009 will accomplish what so many previous health bills failed to do. to remember the u.s. territory and to include the thoughtful provisions that will improve the health, the health care and thus wellness and lives of all americans, including those who do not live on the mainland. that truly is what health equity is all about and it is precisely why i am so honored to be here with my colleagues from the tri-caucus standing in unison and in support of this legislation that we feel strongly should be included in the health reform bill. this bill also includes comprehensive measures to ensure cultural and linguistic competence in health care. and this is what my colleague congressman will address. so i introduced her. >> good morning, everyone. i'm congresswoman, chair of the congressional hispanic caucus and i am pleased to be here today with my truck caucus colleagues. i'm proud to

. >> host: and clearly religious refers to the moscow summit is on the basis of religion not the basis of national aspirations. to a one by the way i would add that the brigade is crafted in the image of hamas. this was fatah as ways to compete with hamas in the late 1990's as the popularity grew. >> host: a religious popularity line jonathan schanzer it is trying to rebranded self. >> host: what basis could the member of a brigade oppose somebody from hamas? says they're almost identical? >> guest: they know who pays their salary their family or clan has been a long affiliated with hamas so if you are in the more radical strain of the talk you will perhaps support this organization. >> host: the muslim brotherhood is suni and hamas is suni, fatah is suni of the biggest support for hamas right now finding appears to be the islamic regime in tehran that is she a. from eight years have we heard experts tell us shia and sunni could not possibly cooperate on any realistic level because the religious ideological buy between them was so deep by yet here you have as i and a stand it, movers o

on a tax cuts of the individuals -- and talks about the individuals -- head of security forces in moscow as saying that iran is working on a program one or two years away from having a nuclear program. i'm getting mixed signals here, because we are all very familiar with the capabilities that we need to protect western europe and maybe even the united states from the missile coming from iran, and it is necessary to have the radar in the czech republic as wallace -- as well as the poland opportunities. they are ready and willing to do it in the polish parliament, even saying that they are hoping that we don't regret our trust in the united states. i would like to have won if you respond to what is confusing to me, -- one of the response to what is confusing to me, that we now have russia saying that they don't want to participate in this, or don't want to approve this unless they have certain conditions met on the start treaty. and yet to turn around and say that it is necessary to have this. where you think russia is and how important you think -- let us start with you, admiral stavridis

and again, as you all know, president obama and president medvedev will be meeting again soon in moscow. our group, as other groups, is focusing on the importance of nuclear arms reductions. perhaps what makes us somewhat different is we're not only focused on the near term, that is the negotiations which are now underway between the united states and russia on further strategic arms reductions, but we are in the process of putting together what we call an end to end plan of how actually to get to zero. that means not only another phase of u.s./russia reductions but a multilateral negotiation which would include all nuclear powers to reduce and then go down to

associated press reports this morning in the wake of the iranian election, the iranian embassy in moscow said president mahmoud ahmadinejad has put off a visit to russia. and it is unclear whether he will come at all. again, we will get to your phone calls in just a moment. a couple of other stores to look at from the front page this morning of "the denver post." the report on a story happening in the denver area but also nationwide. rental fraud find home on line. skimmer's put ads on creag list for properties owned by someone else. with the economy forcing increasing number of people to rent homes, scams are proliferating online, a particular craig's list. real-estate brokers are seeing more of the homes they have listed for sale poppas rentals on the on-line classified site. potential renters are showing up of the homes telling the owners there responding to an atom craig's list. and in one instance, a couple moved into a home, unknown to its offsite owner, after responding to a fraudulent add on craig's list. also this morning, we ask for your tweets on twitter. south carolina is rep

this message will not go unnoticed in moscow. this passed the committee, including $4 million for the constellation program. yet today, the bill before us takes all that funding back and then some. poof, like a shell game. if the inadequate funding level for nasa that is contained in this bill is allowed to stand as it is, then our nation's human space flight program will be dealt a serious blow. let's look at several of the spending items in the bill. the bill increases funds for the cops program by $252 million over 2009 and this on top of $1 billion in the stimulus bill. the bill sends 7.4 billion on the census, an increase over last year. the bill increases funding for national science foundation by $446 million over 2009 to promote scientific research by students, yet, it cuts funding for human space flight. a if the head of patents and scientific discovery. . i appreciate the work that you do and the challenges before you. with that the united states cannot maintain our leadership in space if we don't have it. it is for thi

want to look for questions out there and make sure you have a microphone before you start to talk in moscow right over here if we can, start here. >> i have two questions. and the first is can you give some background on the fatah hamas negotiations sponsored by egypt which have been apparently totally unsuccessful, and my second question has to do with what you just alluded to which was american support for the peace process. it would be manifest that the u.s. government knows that there is no palestinian interlocutor and therefore there is no real prospect in the near future for any peace coming yet the administration is pushing mess. i thank you suggested a moment ago that the purpose of it was basically as a fig leaf that this was all a charade and that is going on to provide cover for the so-called moderate states. can you confirm that that is your view and if you have any discussions with the administration are they aware that this is a quixotic effort on their part? >> okay, two very good questions. in the first, the talks taking place between the two palestinian factions in egypt ha