allow me first of all to thank ian davis here, nato watch, paul ingram from basic, and anne and chris for the valuable contribution. this is an excellent conference. as president of the international, i thank you for getting us onboard. now, another good news is that in order to watch the snow white or the seven dwarfs you need a writer. somebody has to write about the story. so the story is that smart defense is a new story that is coming up. now the problem is smart defense not only reflects the united states cutting off the budgets but actually reflects more, i would say also, the european union perception we need to cuss back basically on everything and my country and myself, we have this small problem than is called financial crisis now. so we need to cut basically on everything. imagine the defense, measure of defense of greece, just cut back in one day say 100 million just like that. now, the problem is that nato is still -- nato should and still is valid and it will be valid for the future to come. for us in southeastern europe, nato is the only credible security organization

paul ingram from basic and chris for their valuable contribution. this is a excellent conference. i thank you for getting us on board. now another good news is that in order to watch the snow white and the seven dwarfs you need a writer. somebody has to write about the story. so the story is that smart defense is a new story that is coming up. now the problem is that smart defense not only reflects the united states cutting off the budgets but actually reflects more i would say also the european perception that we need to cut back basically on everything and my country, myself as well, we have this small problem that is called financial crisis now. so we need to cut basically on everything. imagine the minister of defense in greece cut back in one day 700 million just like that. now the problem is that nato is still, nato should, and still is valid and it will be valid for the future to come. for us in southeastern europe nato is the only credible security organization in the europe atlantic region. and nato's fundamental question, in this case i speak for myself, is that nato has

paul play it. you can bet we'll be all over it. >> let me -- maybe you missed it, richard. laura ingram her radio show, and she had him comparing romney to president obama. he made a resounding endorsement. listen to this. >> would you disagree with joule giuliani and others when they say mitt romney will be a better president? >> yes, i think marginally so. >> that's a bumper sticker. >> he barely could get it out were marginally so. there are deep divisions here, richard. >> the bad thing is if the consolidation we have seen in the polls, there have been consolidation in the party. people have come back to romney, his numbers improved. the bad something if the process stopped right here and it doesn't go further, and we just don't know right now. >> a lot of it though is real deep divisions in terms of real firm beliefs, and i mean that sincerely. you see over the weekend, saturday, willard mitt romney was at liberty university, and he was trying to appeal to them saying -- and this is a very conservative university, and he says that we share common purpose despite different faiths. l