nato expansion. that causes them all sorts of anxiety. but for the europeans, the elephant in the room is the posture of the russian forces located far too close to their border. there is a lot to discuss here if we want to move in the right direction. those are just a few of the things that we are involved in. they are all part of the steps that we outlined in the first "wall street journal" article. >> secretary schultz. >> i think there are three c categories of things we can work on. number one is developing ideas about the subject that are going to be potentially useful. to think them through and publish them to put them out there. in the process, identify people who are really expert and are willing to pitch in and help. you offer these up to the government. that is something we have been doing. you mentioned deterance. we developed a lot about that subject. the second thing that you can do and all three of us take part in it. you can do a certain amount of what is called track two work. we mentioned the india/pakistan conference th

nato expansion. that causes them all sorts of anxieties. but for the europeans and east europeans, the elephant in the room of the tactical nuclear weapons by russia, and the posture of the russian forces still located far too close to their border. so there is a lot to discuss here. those are just a few of the things that we are involved in. they are all part of the steps that we outlined in that first "wall street journal" article. >> secretary

nato expansion. that causes them all sorts of anxieties. but for the europeans and east europeans, the elephant in the room of the tactical nuclear weapons by russia, and the posture of the russian forces still located

nato near russia's borders. so will his statements influence further expansion of nato? >> no third country, no third party can make decisions on behalf of nato. nato decides on our open door policy. and nato's deoor remains open ad that will be reiterated in chicago. nato's door remains open to european countries that are in a position to contribute to the security in the north atlantic region and countries that are in a position to further the principles on which nato is based. this is clearly stated in article 10 of our treaty. and that still stands. so it's for nato to decide on the open door policy. as far as georgia is concerned, we all -- i would like to recall the decision we took in bucharest in 2008 at the nato summit in 2008. according to which georgia will become a member of nato, of course provided that georgia fulfills the necessary criteria. and we cooperate with georgia within the nato/georgia commission to make progress in that direction. >> financial times? >> thank you very much. speert spiegel for the financial times. if i can get back to the opening

nato expansion falling face down causes the russians all sorts of an side is. but for the europeans and east europeans, the elephant in the room is the tactical nuclear weapons by russia, and the posture of the nuclear weapons located close to their border. there is a lot to discuss if we want to move in the right direction. those are just a few of the things we are involved in. they are all part of the steps we outlined in the first "wall street journal" article. >> secretary schulz? >> i think there are three categories of things we can all work on. number one is developing ideas about the subject that are going to be potentially useful, to think them through, to publish them, to put them out there, and in the process identify people who are really expert and are willing to pitch in and help. you offer these up to the government, who have to take the actions in the end. that is something we have been doing. you mentioned deterrence. we developed a lot of ideas about that subject. the second thing that you can do, and all three of us take part in it -- you can

nato expansion falling face down causes the russians all sorts of an side is. but for the europeans and east europeans, the elephant in the room is the tactical nuclear weapons by russia, and the posture of the nuclear weapons located close to their border. there is a lot to discuss if we want to move in the right direction. those are just a few of the things we are involved in. they are all part of the steps we outlined in the first "wall street journal" article. >> secretary schulz? >> i think there are three categories of things we can all work on. number one is developing ideas about the subject that are going to be potentially useful, to think them through, to publish them, to put them out there, and in the process identify people who are really expert and are willing to pitch in and help. you offer these up to the government, who have to take the actions in the end. that is something we have been doing. you mentioned deterrence. we developed a lot of ideas about that subject. the second thing that you can do, and all three of us take part in it -- you can

russia was upset about the expansion of nato. they were upset with a wide variety of the u.s. withdrawal of the treaty. and part of the obama approach has been to improve relations with russia. not just to be a good guy and get along better, but for concrete objectives because on the nuclear side, the american position under obama is that the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries and their use by terrorists, nuclear terrorism is now, in fact, the top security threat to the united states. it's not the threat of 3,000 reentry vehicle change with the russians or doing this with the chinese. it is nuclear weapons will be acquired by other states. the more hands involved, the more likelihood they will be used in asia or that they will be stolen, obtained in some way by non-government groups, some of whom, as we saw through 9/11, willingness to die in support of their goals. so, the obama objective has been to bring the russians and the chinese more closely aligned with our view that we have to stop that threat. and in order to do that, we need to have persuasive argum

making that a reality the first is this mindset that there's nato and that's all that's needed for european security the second our expansion plans on missile defense which the little bit of relief it's been a long time standing issue between russia and the u.s. and of course in cooperation with nato and after we saw the signing of the strategic arms reduction treaty in twenty ten between a bit of an obama there was a little bit of relief and it was seen really as the peak of the reset but lately russia has been pushing very strongly that they need a written guarantees which are not in that start treaty but there will be no expansion of missile defense and group that it's not aimed against them for another issue which she touched upon was the u.n. as a body and how it's become somewhat others seem to be used as a body of force rather than a body of diplomacy and there he was talking about syria and a lot of the rhetoric we're hearing about iran and its nuclear issue but to speak more about european security as a whole joining me now is a very special guest it's come out in this horrible moscow so cold room weather that we'r

world descending on chicago for the nato summit, the last thing emanuel wants is another such embarrassing confrontation. they've literally cleared the runway for expansion at the airport. gary's mayor announced a deal today that removes the last roadblock to the 162- million dollar project. the city and the canadian national railroad have agreed to relocate cn tracks allowing for a runway to be extended by 19- hundred feet. gary officials consider the hub to be chicago's third major airport. chicagoans are paying the highest gas prices here in history. wgn's sean lewis has a live report. it doesn't take long to find a higher price in the city. $4.67 is the average in the city but look behind me. $4.84 for regular and $5.14 for premium gasoline. some people filling out tonight joking that they while they are filling up their tank they're going inside to buy a lottery ticket to pay for it. as people make their way home tonight, i cannot believe that, he did a double take at the pump price. $5.14 per gallon. did you ever think you would live to see this? no. it is the highest we have ever paid for gasoline in chicago according to the triple a. because we h