russia very much rented the work of ned -- ned helped support the group of the revolution. said this will not stand. they just refused to leave the streets until there was a run offer. he's the man who if you remember the intoxication yins. his whole face was destroyed. he rose to lead to ukraine toward nato and the european union. things have been rough in ukraine. if i was going to advice the soviet government, what they could do to take part of the international monetary system. i think the soviet union's only claim to credibility with western financial sight is to provide collateral behind a currency >> what happened to their gold in the last 20 years. they should is done that. i wish i would have fought harder. it was tho august everything fell apart by december 1991, the soviet union was no more. they gave people a very bad taste for capitolism. throughout the 1990s, russia was re real really grasping with disaster. it turned out we were worst off under so-called capitolism. i think even now if your currency has integrity, you can build on it. russia had a disaster in

>> it's called ned. and the national endowment for democracy, ned, was started under president reagan, but has a completely bipartisan, pro- democracy initiative. it is funded by congress through the state department, but it's independent of the state department with an independent board. >> who runs it? >> the board, and our staff. and what we do is take grant money -- approximately $110 million a year -- and we have this year over 1,000 projects. but we never tell people in another country what they should be doing to have democratic institutions. that is, we think the best formula for people is democracy. and that means free, independent media, fair elections, honest elections, rule of law, right to assemble. the national endowment is comprised really -- well, there's four core groups, and we give grants to them. but they represent the republican party, the democratic party, chamber of commerce representing private entrepreneurship, and a labor solidarity center representing unions. >> who nominated y

and then the latest on the global climate change treaty with ned helme. >> the prime minister has said that we are in afghanistan to protect british people against terrorism, and yet almost in the same breath threatens to pull out of the country if president karzai can't clean up the corrupt government. these are contradictory messages that are sending out mixed signals. can the prime minister now square that circle? >> we are in the country because of the threat to britain. a threat that has been seen over eight years as a result of projected and actual terrorist offenses in our country. >> now from london, "prime minister's questions" from the british house of commons. this week gordon brown answered questions on the british involvement in afghanistan. mr. brown announced this week that 10 nato nations are ready to send about 5,000 troops to afghanistan. they questioned about the iraq secrecy and asked about how the government was responding to recent floods in the u.k. >> doctor, refer to blackmon woods. >> before listing my engagements this week, i am sure the house will wish to jo

nothing to do with the organization that sponsored a washington meeting, but since that meeting was plan ned at that meeting, that could hardly be true. one installment in a regular correspondence between nixon and graham in the fall. earlier in the summer graham had reported that both johnson and rayburn had said if nixon were the nominee, religion would be the paramount issue of the campaign. at that point they greed kennedy would -- agreed kennedy would garner 100% of the vote. they had to name someone protestant that the protestants could rally behind. earlier this spring grant had sent nixon a clipping telling the story of 40u graham had led a resolution at the national consequence that was a repudiation of kennedy as a presidential candidate and an endorsement of nixon. in another long letter addressed to, dear dick, graham outlined some observations that emerged from the switzerland meeting. graham had been following the campaign with keen interest. he believed god was giving nixon, quote, supernational wisdom, end quote, to handle situations. a highly-financed office in washington to

host: ned helme here to take your calls.let's go to north carolina, charlotte, where martha is on the democrats' line. go ahead, martha, you are on the air. i think we might have lost martha. let's move on to minneapolis, where patty is on the republicans line. caller: i am wondering if your guest or you yourself are aware of the global warming cycle where the so-called scientists deleting their records, if it should give out, how they haveie manipulaì+ temperatures for certain years, how is the scientists wrote in a journal disputing and being accurate about it to a and some of their claims, that they would be ostracized. and if they published it, they would discredit the journal that published it. are you being -- are you aware that the whole farce is being exposed to? and you guys had a little bit about it on sunday, but none of the newspapers and the drive by media are talking about it, it is a huge story. it is a farce. there are thousands of scientists who disagree with this. -- this al gore bologna. his baloney about

host: ned helme here to take your calls.e lost martha. let's move on to minneapolis, where patty is on the republicans line. caller: i am wondering if your guest or you yourself are aware of the global warming cycle where the so-called scientists deleting their records, if it should give out, how they haveie manipulaì+ temperatures for certain years, how is the scientists wrote in a journal disputing and being accurate about it to a and some of their claims, that they would be ostracized. and if they published it, they would discredit the journal that published it. are you being -- are you aware that the whole farce is being exposed to? and you guys had a little bit about it on sunday, but none of the newspapers and the drive by media are talking about it, it is a huge story. it is a farce. there are thousands of scientists who disagree with this. -- this al gore bologna. his baloney about global warming. guest: and i sought andrew rivkin's story in the times about this. i think this is unfortunate that it goes on. but the

a whole lot of genetic research if you want to look at that you can go to the pub med database, qb nedt into google. i think there is a possibility there could be environmental contaminants that could be making some of this worse. but it is probably interacting with susceptible genetics. and what is being done in his genetic research as it is not simple like down syndrome whether as a chromosomal abnormality. it is a little tiny covariation inside of jeans. and possibly genetics could be interacting. you might have a situation where somebody that should adjust their name mild asperger's, maybe a little bit eccentric turn into low functioning. i'm concerned about some of the things like plasticizers and water bottles. what i've read in science and nature and would not feed a baby out of a plastic nursing bottle. i am not -- i cannot to be drink another glass or if you travel then use the one that has polyethylene bag inside the playtex nurse or it does not have hard plastic weird that's the bad kind. >> host: what do you think about testing for autism in vitro? >> guest: if you got rid