any country but well that's perhaps a slightly in my stance i remember one of the predecessor mr rasmussen robeson was once asked a question to speculate precisely maybe a similar question maybe some other and he said if i knew what would be happening in his five ten years i'll be playing in a stock exchange so of course but the truth i mean speaking really seriously is that you know it's a serious issue of any country to. as of the security orientation and therefore so it would be inappropriate to speculate but the most important thing is we have the makings we have the structure which is a really a joint baby it's it's our it's a common creation that we put together with russia and let's make the best use of it it's has great potential in so many areas which are important for the security of our citizens you know in moscow in washington in warsaw in building out of places so that's that's really what we should and i think that's what we are concentrating on well they are completely rebuilt because i have also i have always thought that that mechanisms like the russian nato council like t

mr. rasmussen thought there was a problem otherwise he would not have made this harsh speech. what can you do to contribute more to the military situation whenever there is one rather than just thinking you can lead the all hard -- the war fighting to the united states? >> i do not think europe thinks that. every month we talk about nato collaborations. i think he has the job of worrying about defense commitments. it is what he has to do. looking at the issues of finance across the european union, i understand why he wants to raise the concern. having said that, i do not think you're sees itself as being the soft end of the spectrum. far from it. what was really interesting that came at the nato summit was the concept where a core part is collaboration with the year. our commitment is to be working side-by-side with these two. there are problems and issues that need a full spectrum. if you take afghanistan where individual member states have their own troops, with the european zone s -- were the result is supporting the training of police on the ground. i have indicated the eu

i ses mr gandhi strong is another this general rasmussen he has seen live in villages of the current strategic concept of nato and he is endeavoring in o.c. own way to make build bridges with the. country with russia has been regarded by hillary clinton i think for some from these cables anyway so it appears some sort of pale pink lefty and hillary clinton seems desperate to stop. anders rasmussen making any positive reach to russia. he will is the upheavals in tunisia and egypt have spread all across the greater middle east with opposition protests sweeping through other countries in the region clashes between rival demonstrators who once again proved to yemen and what's now the eighth day and rise until government activists have been do using social networks to call for as many people as possible to head the streets on friday demanding the country's president ali abdullah saleh to step down after more than thirty years in power clashes also erupted in jordan's capital amman go on to government demonstrators calling for reforms and abolishing the peace treaty with the zero protest a

americans in a rus rasmussen pol said they would like to have it repealed and the numbers of people that thought all of us ought to be able to get waivers was even higher than that. mr. mccain: well, i want to thank my colleague for his enormous contribution to this debate and his knowledge and background in the medical profession. there's just one other issue very quickly i'd like to mention and that, of course, is that i was very pleased to hear the president of the united states at the state of the union message say that he -- that we ought to look at the issue of medical malpractice reform. i can't tell the number of times we've tried on this floor to have at least a beginning of some kind of meaningful or any kind of medical malpractice reform, and i said to the secretary of health and human services at a hearing the other day that i hope that she would be making some proposals to us, to the congress, to -- so that we could obtain some kind of medical malpractice reform. as we all know, sometimes as much as 20% to 30% of the cost of health care is accrued because of the physicians' prescription of unneeded, unwanted and unnecessary tests for fear of finding tha