the 2002 moscow tree was approved by a vote of 95-0. in 1991 start treaty was approved by 93-6. more than two years ago, president bush began the process that has led to the new start treaty we are discussing today. it has already received bipartisan support in testimony before this committee. as the chairman and the ranking member acknowledged, former secretary james schlesinger, secretary of defense for nixon and ford and secretary of energy for president carter declared it is obligatory for the united states to ratify it. today, i would like to discuss what the new start treaty is and what it is not. it is a treaty that if ratified would provide stability, transparency, and predictability for the two countries with more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. it is a treaty that will reduce the permissible number of russian and u.s. deployed strategic warheads to 1550. this is a level we have not reached since the 1950's. in addition, each country will be limited to 700 deployed strategic delivery vehicles and 800 deployed and non-deployed strategic missile launchers and hea

dependent on moscow so thag the noise of the soviets and create dissension in that relationship, and yet at the sot same time create leverage that beijing could then effectively at some point in the future, as i'll be recognized, be called bg upon to use by a future or current american administratione that could then compel beijing to recognize that logic. thank you. >> that's a good question. compe i'm going to ask the panelists to give short answers.ing to a e start with jack and then mov down the line >> thank you, scott.panelist nkhaanswer is, in my opinion, beijing is not deliberately doing this, but yes, it is by oi its actions extending the problem. but i concur with the october 5 visit of last year reversed what i described earlier that moment in time when pyongyang was as thinking it was on the wronghen path and needed to do something, after the wind as it, the north koreans absolutely reversed course and it gave them a new lease on life. them new lt believe the sanctions would affect them. they understood the lifeline that the chinese were providing was substantial. but i d

i -- i'm -- just been posted to moscow. i spent five years in china. i -- the -- the editor at the times, joe lelyveld,was nice enough to give me 18 months to get this book out of my system and to do this history that i saw a niche for on the -- on the -- on the china bookshelf. and i came back on the payroll last february and moved to st. petersburg, russia, for a couple of months and lived with a little old lady pensioner who didn't speak a lick of english, trying to learn my russian, get started and going to the ballet every ch -- every chance i got. i saw more of the kirov ballet than i'll ever get to see again in my life, and it was wonderful. c-span: now did you speak chinese? >> guest: i spent a year on my -- my chinese is ok. it's now rapidly receding as i -- replacing it with russian. i -- i think it's there to come back if i go and rehabilitate it. but i studied very hard for a year, every day, eight hours a day in taiwan before i went up to beijing and started work. so my chinese got pretty good by the middle of my tour. c-span: "a great wal

me there -- in the anglo-american school, which is now inside the us embassy compound in moscow but is about to move to a new campus. c-span: what's your wife's profession? >> guest: linda wagner tyler has written children's books with susan davis, the local artist here -- the national artist here, the watercolorist, who does -- has done -- graced many new yorker covers and -- and done my -- many murals in this city -- susan davis and linda tyler. c-span: patrick tyler's book is called "a great wall: six presidents and china," and he is on his way to moscow to become the new york times bureau chief. and... >> guest: in two years. we go in succession there. i have several colleagues there. i come behind them. c-span: how long will you be there? >> guest: four years. c-span: thank you, mr. tyle >> guest: thank you. sure was great. .. [applause] >> this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at "the washington post," we always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send a little notes and i still remember that

you have to understand that for us, we have committed to fight drug cartels in moscow but the problemis not just that. it is the effect they have on the whole public security issue in mexico. they chased away -- they change the way they operate. they don't commit drugs in the u.s. market. they are paid by their providers with drugs and they started to impact the local market and to sell to local markets and to become involved and other illegal activities. we are committed to make the border say if for both countries. -- safe for both countries. we want to prevent them from damaging the mexican people. this is not as willing cooperation, for us this is a temporary import -- this is a very important issue. in our political transition, we have not looked on those issues until recently with the seriousness and commitment with which the government house and which has -- with which the government has. we have a will to establish the rule of law in the country. ñrthat will surely happen. we are involved in a very self- destructive process. there are many inner confrontations that explained t

they showed me a prison inside of moscow.re are different zones and my character happened to come from a prison that was in a very bad zone. >> jimmy: bakery prison. >> right. what was interesting about the -- i had a guy actually come to my hotel room who had gotten out of a really bad zone after 13 years and had tattoos on and he came in and took his shirt off and pulled his pants down and then took his underwear off and i saw the details illustrations he had. eyeballs down near his groin -- >> jimmy: i have those. >> and i said to him -- >> jimmy: to remind me that god is always watching. >> i said to him, what are the eyeballs? because i used them in the film. my makeup guy didn't like that too much. i was standing there and kenny is on his nighs putting the eyeballs on. because if you get incarcerated really young, where you were there, what neighborhood you came from, what your political affiliati affiliations, your sex yum preference is, and they are diagrammed from their taupeso their fingers, and i said, what's the d

this pledge could be recited by a child in moscow. word for word. so how can you make it so it couldn't be. new problem. to store the rhythm and make it putman under god. so what you want to see us know i'm for intent. i'm a strict constructionist. i want the pledge back widthwise. most of you are under the impression that you always had those words and and the atheists are coming to take it out. it's just stupid. but of course it's flat-out unconstitutional. you may not do that. the first amendment is beautifully written. congress will make no law which they will make an exception. >> thank you. >> great britain is having an election this week and one of the candidates ucs been doing very well, nick clegg of the liberal democrats is a professed atheist. if he does very well in that election, does that mean something changing number 10 of the news that we don't have in this country? >> no, england is very different to the united states. when tony blair who was deeply religious was running for office, his main kind of [inaudible] said openly afterwar

the vessel named "moscow university" had been seized on wednesday, along with 23 russian crew members. it carried a cargo worth $52 million. russian forces killed one of the pirates in the rescue operation. ten more were captured. in india, the only surviving gunman from the attacks on mumbai in 2008 was sentenced to be hanged. mohammed ajmal kasab is the pakistani man caught on camera storming a train station during the mumbai assault. 166 people died in the three-day siege. luxury hotels, a train station, and a jewish center were the targets. kasab can still appeal his sentence and apply for clemency. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy. >> woodruff: new details emerged today about events leading up to the attempted attack in times square last saturday. investigators also stepped up efforts to run down any connections to militants in pakistan. newshour correspondent kwame holman has our report. >> holman: federal officials reported today they'

revenue sources and trying to rely on technology and now they're actually creating a whole city next to moscow that they want to -- they want it to be like sell sell -- silicon vay and they're trying to encourage innovation. the point i was making, we need to department to the situations, and everything is changing. the media business has changed drama -- dramatically. financial services has changed dramatically and will continue to change with regulatory reform coming down the pike. healthcare has changed. so it's very important to always look within us, always look at your own skillsets and assess, what do i do well? where are my skillsets? where are the holes in my skill sets? because we need to adapt. someone i interviewed said, i work in a steel mill for 30 years, a family of five, and my mill was just closed down. now i'm out of a job. what die -- do i know about making solar panels? he doesn't know anything, but that's the point. we need to ensure that we are best positioned for how this economy is changing. going forward no changes are waiting for us, it might be new training, mentor,

in neighboring ukraine, a former soviet republic locked in tense relations with moscow, fistfights brokement over proposals for russian access to ukraine's ports. even in poland's new alliances with the west, all is not smooth. polish relations with the obama administration remain delicate. since washington's decision last year, not to go ahead with missile defense elements planned in poland and the czech republic. joining us is poland's foreign minister. he's a former defense minister, also an author and journalist. he was a political exile in england and studied there in the 1980s. minister, welcome. well, we ended there with a picture of president obama. how would you describe relations with the united states at this moment? how important an element was that withdrawal of the missile battery from your soil? >> our american relations are solid. we have many projects in common. poland is the sixth largest contingent out of 46 nations in afghanistan. despite what your introduction stated the project was not canceled. its configuration has been changed. we rather like the new version bett

she's a former white house correspondent for the "baltimore sun" and moscow correspondent for the associated press. the virginia festival of the book is the host of this program and to find out more, visit tucsonfestivalofbooks.org. .. i read every single book literally with the words either panic or meltdown, and i do most of my reading at night. i had to stop. it is like watching the abscesses before you go to bed except the exercise has a happier ending. it is a more cheerful ending than reading this book. i kept on asking myself, i wanted to really find out the answer because the answers i were getting were so superficial. then i bought hank paulson's book on the brink and paulson was the secretary of treasury the last few years of the bush administration and his daily routine had to be much like the one dorothy parker describes when she says opening up a newspaper each morning, what is this? i don't agree with everything paulson says. but i think history will judge him well because he was probably the right person for the job at that time. it was a hellacious job. he and he had a lot of

and about the pilot who's crawling to moscow with no legs. it's interesting because if i speak to people from east germany and russia today, everybody has the same repairs to all the things you write about. and all these things he sort of exposed all of us in the same way. this again is from duvall dealing with the same things in the way, way. they are not exactly in the same order in time zone but what was important was the hungarian up. rising, berlin wall, then cuban missile crisis which came much later. president kennedy and his assassination in dallas and the vietnam war. this was interesting because i didn't know that it was one thing which was common for me and my wife who's american that we found out that we both were hiding the tables in the fear of the nuclear war. because it was the solution at that time the students would be hiding under the table like it would solve anything. i think i didn't like prague -- what was happening outside very much. it wasn't very friendly place. it was a dark place. that was not that much fun going o

dependent on moscow, so it creates dissension in that relationship. at the same time, it creates leverage that beijing at some point in the future be called upon to use by a future or current admiamerican administration that could compel beijing to recognize that logic. >> i'm going to ask the analys panelists to give short answers. >> thank you, scott. in my opinion, beijing is not deliberately doing this, but yes, it is, by its actions, extending the problem. the visit last year reversed what i described earlier as that moment in time when p'yongyang was thinking that it was on the wrong path. after the wen visit, the north koreans reversed course and gave them a new lease on life. they did not believe the sanctions would affect them. they understood the lifeline that the chinese were providing was substantial. i do not agree with the second part of that. if the chinese adopted all of the american hard-line positions, it would budge. i think the reverse is true. the problem is that you will not get the u.s. to do that. by saying that inteuntil the c

and most significantly, the interchange between president lula and president mad that it and moscow today pointed out that the brazilians are trying to climb -- hopeful that because of the president's visit that the iranians will agree to meet with the p 5 + 1, that they will accept their reactor proposal, and began to buy from the internet -- abide by their international obligations. president a dead bed mad that of -- president medevdev has said it did not give a one in three chance. they're reinforcing the authority of the security council, putting real teeth into the sanctions, uniting and gold -- a world away the will send an unequivocal message to the iranian leadership. i've told my counterparts in many capitals around the world that i believe that we will not get any serious response out of the iranians until after the security council acts. >> mr. haig, there have been several foreign secretaries under the previous government three i just wondered what you thought you could bring to the subject that might be different from the approach of the past government? at what point do you

institutes of fiscal studies has been right and provide us with a great service saying nobody in moscow between on how bad and how difficult these decisions are going to be in future and to be fair to us the liberal democrats have done a lot further in spelling would cuts are needed but the institute for fiscal studies is right when it says that all politicians except the case of the liberal democrats and will need to do more. but i tell you one thing i will not do. i tell you one thing that to the liberal democrats will not do and not only other parties are doing. it is full you into thinking that you can fill one of the biggest black holes in our public financing in generations through so-called phantom fantasy it efficiency savings. it's an insult to your intelligence that gordon brown to tell you to fulfil its structural deficit the size of which we haven't seen since the second world war through savings and paper clips. it is a joke, they are treating you like fools. cameron and brown are talking about billions of subtle efficiencies savings, don't believe a word. that is why the r

in the outskirts of moscow, russian enthusiasts ride horses during a world war ii reenactment. >>> atalist pulls a baby sea lion from under a police car. it will be taken to seaworld before being released into the wild. hot shots. >>> former president, george w. bush's last drink, the former first lady is telling us all. >> reporter: remember when all of us used to watch george bush with an eagle eye, to see if this former drinker would let the champagne glass touch his lips, wondering what was in the bottle. >> nonalcohol beer. >> reporter: now laura bush has spilled the beam. the jim beam. she was promoting her book. >> drinking was a very accepted part of our social life. >> you said the three bs. >> he liked to drink beer, bourbon and b and b. >> reporter: what's in a b and b? that makes four bs, beer, brandy and bourbon. in the movie, george bush was portrayed drinking bottles, cans, shots. dancing on the bar. crashing the car. fighting with george bush senior. they got one part right, about how george bush stopped drinking. laura bush told oprah they had gone with friends to cel

dependent on moscow, so it creates dissension in that relationship. at the same time, it creates leverage that beijing at some point in the future be called upon to use by a future or current admiamerican administration that could compel beijing to recognize that logic. >> i'm going to ask the analys panelists to give short answers. >> thank you, scott. in my opinion, beijing is not deliberately doing this, but yes, it is, by its actions, extending the problem. the visit last year reversed what i described earlier as that moment in time when p'yongyang was thinking that it was on the wrong path. after the wen visit, the north koreans reversed course and gave them a new lease on life. they did not believe the sanctions would affect them. they understood the lifeline that the chinese were providing was substantial. i do not agree with the second part of that. if the chinese adopted all of the american hard-line positions, it would budge. i think the reverse is true. the problem is that you will not get the u.s. to do that. by saying that inteuntil the c

the proposed agreement was signed in moscow on may 6, 2008. former president george w. bush approved the agreement and authorized its execution and he made the determinations required by section 123-b of the act. on may 13, 2008, the president transmitted the agreement, together with his presidential determination, and unclassified naps and annex to the congress for review. on september 8, 2008, prior to the completion of the 90-day continuous session review period, he sent a message informing the congress that in view of recent actions by the government of the russian federation incompatible with peaceful relations with its sovereign and democratic neighbor, georgia, he determined that his earlier determination was no longer effective. he further stated that if circumstances should permit future reconsideration by the congress, a new determination would be made and the proposed agreement resubmitted. after review of the situation and of the naps and classified annex i have concluded, one, that the situation in georgia needs no longer be considered an obstacle to -- pro

hatred filled their hearts for soviet moscow and many faces still haunt her today.of people, families, old, young, starving, sick, hauled off, standing like -- with standing room only in those box crates and she became one of the children of the street, one of the few survivors of that tragic time in history who ate grass, pine cones and anything that was chewble in the shadows, afraid that they might be taken away. people were begging, starving, eating anything they could find, a dead horse, if they were lucky. thousands of people were falling over dead. millions upon millions of innocent people killed under the communists. it was a sad time in history where during the height of the famine, ukrainian villages were dying at the rate of 17 per minute, leaving only a few survivors to keep the history alive. they were stacked up like logs. the horror and panic of that time of tyranny is still with her. the hunger that plagued russia and tortured the ukrainian people in their scream to slaughter and take over the middle -- scheme to slaughter and take over the middl cla

there were 14-year-old in moscow or beijing and they can do pretty much the same thing.e of the dangers of cyberspace and there is a presence in that there are no rules, or very few rules permit access is an ability of your cleverness to get to it. but that is an interesting question. fisa was more focused on the idea of the act of 1978 as a way to guide the united states government as to how they will do wiretaps in the good old days when we had phones with wires on them. it was reworked to try to deal with systems that now are very different in terms of being cell phones, the centetc. .t doesn't really cover it there or not it should is probably a good question. host: linda from taxes on the republican line. caller: i'm just calling about the airport security. people need to get over it. i had a mastectomy and flew to my daughter for christmas. because i was a lopsided, i got stopped and frisked both going and coming. i am a 59-year-old woman born and raised in dallas, texas. people need to get over it and understand security is for our betterment. host: we are collect

communications technologies roundtable and bilateral talks with the russian ministry of communications in moscowthis is the first round table since 2004. regarding the deepwater horizon oil spill, we receive two additional offers of assistance, which we are grateful for from the united arab emirates and russia. turning to iraq, we condemn what has occurred in iraq today. these will not undermine the confidence in the iraqi people have demonstrated in their government and security forces. the iraqi people overwhelmingly reject violence as a way to address their differences. we express condolences for the families of all of the victims. u.s. personnel were directly accounted for. finally, we joined the decision to invite as dona, israel, and slovenia to become members of the organization of economic cooperation and development. this is the result of an intensive process. the country was compelled to examine some laws and regulations, and in some areas, they were required to make regular changes to pass legislative reforms, so right now there were 31 members, and assuming the parliaments of these c

i have people from space operations at moscow that the flight readiness review. they are a member of the team when the russians have their dynamic reentries in the last couple of years while we were not a part of the engineering investigation we got all of the data on the mishaps and learned what had happened and we learned what they did to correct so i will use that as a model. the disadvantage to commercial is they don't have the experience that soyuz has. we have 90 successful missions on soyuz so that makes me a lot more comfortable with them than an upstart company and commercial development. but i willmake them successful because i will stablish standards and they are looking at them now to make sure we are not being unreasonable. as we thought about it a lot. >> will point out the previous experience nasa langley with commercial litigation there may be less informed -- >> the next generation air transport system we were talking about human spaceflight but that is incredle. the langley, the ames research center, we are intimately involved in trying to make

. >> i feel that i am back and moscow. [laughter] >> first one to be very clear what happened to mr. gros case park of the trial court applied price pterhouse and he won the ce waterhouse was inappropriate because he did not have a direct evidence and the supreme court said if he should have got the absence of direct evidence of the answer that question i very much doubt we would be here today. instead they articulated a brand new rule that not only stripped mr. gross of his perfect but imperiled that of many others as well. he seems to be arguing that it did not go far enough to provide the bridges to newhall plaintiffs and i would be open to enhancing the damages available but said it the choice between us 1756 but is there a question which standard is better for him with the victims? best 1756 dramatically improves the protection available to those victims. >> i have some questions but unrecognized a senator from minnesota. >> yes. are like to ask mr. gross are you surprised by 85 assertion of 55 that you are better off

i have people from space operations at moscow that the flight readiness review. they are a member of the team when the russians have their dynamic reentries in the last couple of years while we were not a part of the engineering investigation we got all of the data on the mishaps and learned what had happened and we learned what they did to correct so i will use that as a model. the disadvantage to commercial is they don't have the experience that soyuz has. we have 90 successful missions on soyuz so that makes me a lot more comfortable with them than an upstart company and commercial development. but i will make them successful because i will establish standards and they are looking at them now to make sure we are not being unreasonable. as we thought about it a lot. >> i will point out the previous experience nasa langley with commercial litigation there may be less informed -- >> the next generation air transport system we were talking about human spaceflight but that is incredible. the langley, the ames research center, we are intimately involved in trying to

salinas in the 1990's, the agenda was moscow.s agenda for next week will not be as ambitious as those. in part for optimistic reasons, in part for pessimistic reasons. the biggest issue today has been security. one reason this is not ambitious is because the u.s. and mexico have worked well 3 years on this agenda, so this is more pushing forward in small forms, a security agenda that has been quite developed, starting with the merit initiative under bush. under obama, we have seen a transformation of the merit initiave from military focus to getting up the socioeconomic factors underlying violence at the border, and we saw officials led by hillary clinton going to mexico city to hash out the agenda. so a lot of this has been done, and this side is really ratification and fleshing out of details on particular programs that have happened in the last few months. an issue that would be quite ambitious next week is north american competitiveness, and where that goes. obama put forth he wanted to double exports in 5 years, quite ambiti

effort that led to the first strategy arms limitation agreement with moscow two years later. the key question then and in the decades since has always been the same -- is the united states better off with a strategy arms agreement with the russians or without it? the answer for successive presidents of both parties has always been with an agreement. the u.s. senate has always agreed, approving each treaty by lopsided bipartisan margins. the same answer holds true for new start. the u.s. is better off with this treaty than without it and i'm confident it is the right agreement for today and for the future. it increases stability and predictibility, allows us to sustain a strong nuclear triadd, and preserves our flexibility to deploy the nuclear and nonnuke lar abilities needed for deterrence. in light of all these factors i urge the senate to give its advice and consent to ratification of the new treaty. >> thank you, secretary gates. admiral mullen. >> mr. chairman, senator lugar, distinguished members of the committee, i'm pleased to add my voice in support for ratification

there were 14-year-old in moscow or beijing and they can do one of the dangers of cyberspace is that there is -- there are very few rules there. access is an ability of your cleverness to get to it. it is a worthy question. the fisa question is interesting as well. the foreign intelligence service act was done in 1978 as a way of trying to guide the united states government as to how they were going to do wiretaps. that was when phones had wires. it was reworked for 9/11, to try to deal with systems that were of a very different ilk in terms of cell phones. there was a lot of controversy over this. it does not really cover it, whether or not it should is a good question. host: the next call comes from texas, a republican. . 'm just calling about the airporsecurity. people need to get over it. i had a mastectomy and flew to my daughter for christmas. because i was a lopsided, i got stopped and frisked both going and coming. i am a 59-year-old woman born and raised in dallas, texas. people need to get over it and understand security is for our betterment. host: we are collecting all th