it was the first hello mr fidel to thank you very much for being with us christine regarding the upcoming meeting with the president why did you start organizing these meetings out in the region. better or more convenient for you. than it was. oh well by holding those meetings outside a mosque or you're not just meeting with the president but you also get to meet with the representatives of civil society in the corresponding region and learn about their ideas and problems and then to present those ideas to the president to those it representatives can travel to moscow he they're interested in the meeting . with the well that's what we did last may it's good we invited representatives of numerous n.g.o.s from the north caucuses to come to moscow to meet with the president and the moscow the fourth one if it is in fact only two members of the council. in suitland i'm gonna skip are a famous human rights activists who are present and that meeting go. if you have an awful lot of other council members weren't at that meeting with the president. at the thirty just because you didn't think of ch

the diagnosis that mr cho has just made the spirit we might be able to argue whether his tactics are the best considering the circumstances and we do know that chavez and cuba's fidel castro a very very close friends and deed of venezuela is also critical to cuba's stability given the kind of close alliance between the two nations how would any changes in caracas affect the situation in cuba do you think. well you know there is a very very all the grieving that goes back to the former soviet union after the cuban missile crisis and the berlin wall crisis where by america has accepted it strategically to be hands off cuba so i i wouldn't invision another bay of pigs invasion on cue whatever however venizelos a different story altogether and i think that the cubans are making an intelligent and stable transition which of in israel will not be able to do so if anything i foresee that in the coming months i hope i'm wrong but in the coming months and years there will be increasing activity from the united states and its allies to promote regime change throughout latin america which will eventually help also to bring about regime change in cuba. south which he an expert

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mr. walker for his years of service for to our country and his fidelity that has so many aspects of his americanestion i wanted to pose to him, though, was, one of the reasons i believe that congress and senate and the president are all having so much difficulty in development consensus on this issue is they cannot just extend the debt ceiling without addressing structurally some of the -- some aspects of the deficit in terms of how are we going to pay for it and start paying it down? and i believe the rating agencies have already sat with both the senate and the house of representatives to inform them that that -- that they could extend the debt ceiling but without addressing the deficit in some meaningful way that they could still risk having the country's credit rating dropped to aa. is that not true? >> guest: that is true. first, thank you for your kind comments. there's two issues here. one, raising the debt ceiling limit so the treasury secretary doesn't decide which bills he's going to pay and not going to pay recognizing that the u.s. government spends $4 billion a day every day includi

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