i go first to voice of russia, which is also state controlled, and often look at "russia today," which is sort of, as i say, the zippy version of what the state wants you to hear. and they will even throw in stories that are sort of critical of russia, i think to make it look like they're not preordained from the government. so they do try to do that. but no, i'm happy. i think those stations should be available. you can learn a lot by the way a government wants to present itself, the differences. you should also be listening to radio ekho moskvy and some of the very few media outlets out of russia that are genuinely free. it's the competitive media that gives you a chance to make -- for you to decide to hear the news, and then you to decide what's really happening. >> you were talking in your book that we talked about 20 years ago, about the military and the money that the soviet union, all their focus was on the military. twenty years later, this country spends $700 billion in the new budget on defense. and you can hear people say that it's all the rest of the world's military combin

there were two sort of pseudo- revolutions in russia. won in 1919, and the more important one in 1923. krebs is a very young kid. was involved in the 1923 uprising. and soon thereafter became quite active in the common turn. the common turn was the international communist party. and its chief jobs were espionage, propaganda, agitation and so on. on one of his missions, to the united states in 1926, he committed an act of violence, attempted murder, in los angeles. and was incarcerated in san quentin prison. this becomes a very crucial question as to the veracity of his famous book, "out of the night" when it eventually appears, but immediately have the following effects on him. kreps became one of the editors, the contributors to the san quentin prisoners magazine. he took lots of extension courses in writing from the university of california again he at that point determined to become a writer. however, he got out of san quentin in 1929. was deported. went back to europe. got cut up again in communistic activities. according to him, he

russia and i like russian literature and i like the russian people >> i still like russia and i like the russian literature and i like the russian people. you cannot subjugate that to what some greater government decides is important. the soviet government decided military strength was most important. second to that was infrastructure. they wanted to be independent and internally powerful. a very poor third were the people themselves. i think that it bread a sort -- bred a sort of hopelessness. it was an overreaching government. >> have you been back? >> yes, a few times. now i specialize in pro- democracy projects in russia. >> what is the national endowment for democracy? >> it is called n.e.d. it was started under president reagan but is a completely bipartisan initiative. it is funded by congress for the state department. it is independent of the state department with an independent board. >> who runs it? >> the board and our staff. what we do is take our money and we have over 1000 projects, but we never tell people in another country what they should be doing. that is, we think

i go first to voice of russia, which is also state controlled and the most critical of russia, they doto do that. no. i'm happy. i think those stations should be vanl . you should also be listening to radio echo and some of the very few media outlets out of russia that are genuinely free. it's the competitive media that gives you a chance for you to decide to hear the news and what's really happening. 20 years later, this country spent $700 million on defense. you can hear people say all the rest of the world's military combine doesn't add up to $700 billion. why are we now in the position of still being the strong military country and do you believe we should be that's still about 4% of our gross national product. they were probably devoting over 30%. it was definitely i don't think americans with warmongers. i think we sort of slug our shoulders and say somebody has to did it. i think we would love it if nato would take on more of the burden in the end we find out that the rest of the world ends up looking to the u.s. to be the force for security. it's too bad. it's annaful burden. i

but it was an irritant in relations with russia.hink there's a very strong case for the strategy pursuing both nato enlargement in cooperation with russia. but that didn't make it an easy task. the situation got worse with kosovo wherein the russians at least went through the form of claiming that they were going to back theer is s. a critical diplomatic is, which was largely atributable to strow talbot personally, was getting the russianens mostly through the influence of him. but they were not going to pull his chestnuts out of the fair to, at that point with the culmination of a sustained goming campaign and the real property of gun -- and so there were some successes. russia withdrew its croops no the significance of that is i will trait straighted by the problem of middle dovea which is the only place they didn't withdraw and some places in the caucuses. but getting the russians to make the withdrawals that they were implicit in the dismantlaling of the warsaw pact. second and paul wolfowitz mentioned this this morning was elim

, and the russia that we see today may resemble the russia -- i think it is a good deal like andropov probably hoped to create. that is the kgb model of a modern, effective, more or less, russia. so what went wrong? what were the problems? i think the administration, like yeltsin and the russian reformers, simply underestimated the magnitude of the task. 70 years of communism had a much more profound deleterious effect on russia than it had in the shorter time in central and eastern europe. . yeltsin proved to be a weak read. not better summarize then by yeltsin himself in a speech when he announced handing over of power, intended handing over power to putin on the day the millennium turned. he said, i ask your forgiveness for the dreams we have shared but that have never came true. he had a good speech writer. for the fact that what seemed simple turned out to be torturously difficult. i ask forgiveness for not justifying the hope that we could in one fell swoop lead from a gray, stagnant totalitarian past into a bright, rich, civilized future. it turned out, i was naive about some t

russia would like to intimidate them into toeing the line. of iran would be nice. -- the issue of russia would be good to have them on. russia was protecting iran, watering down the sanctions resolutions. i hope that in return for cancelling the missile defense system, russia owes president obama. i assume there is some understanding that if the present negotiate with iran and the negotiations fail, they will join president obama in very tough sanctions. that is the central issue in the relationship. >> howell and closer you look on dealing with the russians support? >> they are prime on moving example. they have been very cooperative and collaborative within the so- called six party talks. >> any quick concluding thoughts? will you go home reassured? >> terribly, by what my colleagues said. i am only frightened by what i said. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> i will give the last word to ted sorensen. before i do, please join me and in thinking this panel and all the panelists for the day. -- thanking this panel. we are bringing out a d

including one in russia. we were in geneva, and they got focus and scrutiny brought to the prisoners in the gulags. since then, international committee for the red cross has been denied. there is a travel ban on the icrc going to the prisons. there is a travel ban dealing with the united nations. there was a travel ban on the investigation. have you ever asked castro to permit the icrc to visit prisoners? what have you raised with fidel castro and others in the government? have you asked castro to let you visit prisons yourself? i do not have access. those of us who have these questions cannot even get in the door. yesterday, the colonel, the

i think it is interesting that whatever else went wrong with the clinton administration's russia policy- and there were some important successes particularly in foreign policy -- it wasn't for lack of a strategy. it was a clear decision that this was important and a clear decision of how to do it which was to back yeltsin both materially and medically and emotionally. there was a good deal of money and lots of presidential time put into the effort. i think part of the problem is that grand strategies dark first of all, there is a real reluctance to make real strategic decisions because they do involve choices and commit you in the future and they involve taking things away from one thing and giving them to another. second, i'm always -- i con fells i don't understand business school models. but with great respect to expand our market share from 35% to 45% is not a strategy. it is a hope or an aspiration or something like that. but that kind of stuff often passes for strategy. it is important to have a clear sense of where you are going. it is also important to have a clear sense of what

and -- on ukranian and georgia and the whole front with russia, russia is going to blatantly and ugly prove they have a atmosphere of -- sphere of influence which we have given up, which is the path the administration is going on or it confronts which will be at real challenge. if everywhere you look the foreign policy is going to be a failure, enough is conspicuous, afghanistan, where he loses either way. he'll alienate either the proprogressives or the center of the country. and so, i think that -- that could collectively reduce the admiration for his masterfulness. and as katrina did for the previous president. that could have an effect, it would be negative for the party. >> all right. i think we have gone into overtime. so, i did want to thank the bipartisan policy center and -- tule lane university for hosting this. and this has been the spirit of friendship and civility on the panel. we hope it'll be pervasive through the rest of the political process. thank you so much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning instit

earlier today he covered ground negotiating a new nuclear agreement with russia.e met the president at an international summit in singapore, wornging to replace the treat country that expires next month. the president said things look good. >> in our first meeting when i traveled at moscow, we arrived an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months, our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the even of t end of the year. i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of uror jenscy about it that we should be able to get that done. >> president obama and the russian leader also talked about iran. obama said that time is running out for tehran to do something about its nuclear program. he said the u.s. and russia will keep pushing iran diplomatic alley and there are other options if that fails. but he didn't offer any details. >>> president barack obama couldn't bring home the olym

>> the question is whether china and russia are against nuclear weapons. they are. the real question is if they will do something to make that not come to pass. they seem reluctant to introduce or support the kind of robust sanctions that might actually place something in a helpful role. they're both also worried about iranian support of subversion within their territory. russia and china fear the impact. they're both likely to be what you might call limited partners. the process that is under way, the negotiating phase is going to persuade the iranians that the risks are greater than what they perceive to be the benefits. >> the0 this gentleman right here. -- this gentleman right here. >> they seem to have these long- distance missiles. >> we didn't have to ask the question, can we learn to live with nuclear weapons? we are already living with north korea at the's nuclear weapons. -- north korea's nuclear weapons. i hope that we will build a missile defenses to deter them from doing that. north korea has so few foreign policy options. they are so bottled up in thei

earlier today he covered ground negotiating a nuclear agreement with russia. met russian president dmitry medvedev at a summit in singapore. they are working to replace the start nuclear treaty. president obama said things look good with. >> in our first meeting when i travelled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators made progress over the last months, our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the end of the year. and i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urgency about it we should be able to get that done. >> president obama and the russian leader also talked about iran. obama said that time is running out for tehran to do something about its nuclear program. he said the u.s. and russia will keep pushing iran diplomatically and there are other option that fails but he didn't offer details. >>> president barack obama couldn't bring home the olympics but he's bringing some tourism to his hom

united states, china, and russia. none of the countries are admitting secrets about how they are pursuing cyber warfare as part of the legitimate strategy for component part. the reason we are falling behind is because cyberspace is a battlefield that could easily be contested. there are no borders to it, but armies are not deployed at that are in land and sea and air. not -- much more difficult if not impossible to control that space the way you would a terrestrial space. i think all three of those nations, and others, have seen how critically important this is going to be to military strategy, both because military communications depend upon cyber, civilian, and if you could really cripple a nation's ability to see and to communicate, it is an extraordinary strategic advantage. we have known that for centuries in warfare. we know the internet, the web is so integrated in everything that i think a lot of nations estimations it would be foolish not to pursue this as a strategy. but obviously clearly the u.s. is out th

>> the question is whether china and russia are against nuclear weapons. they are. the real question is if they will do something to make that not come to pass. they seem reluctant to introduce or support the kind of robust sanctions that might actually place something in a helpful role. they're both also worried about iranian support of subversion within their territory. russia and china fear the impact. they're both likely to be what you might call limited partners. the process that is under way, the negotiating phase is going to persuade the iranians that the risks are greater than what they perceive to be the benefits. >> the0 this gentleman right here. -- this gentleman right here. >> they seem to have these long- distance missiles. >> we didn't have to ask the question, can we learn to live with nuclear weapons? we are already living with north korea at the's nuclear weapons. -- north korea's nuclear weapons. i hope that we will build a missile defenses to deter them from doing that. north korea has so few foreign policy options. they are so bottled up in thei

. >> it is at a crossroads, china, india and, brazil, russia, most of asia, are all following us. affluence has made more mobility which is wonderful, and the way has been gm going to china and saying, buy cars. so, we're at the crossroads where it could be conventional or really could be different. and that is a lot of what the book is about. >> when you say, there are 1 billion motor vehicles on the world's roads today the title of your new book coauthored by daniel spurling says 2 billion cars. >> over the last 100 years, we have invented the car and fueled it with oil and have risen now to a billion. in the next 15 years, we expect to double that to 2 billion and that is the road we're on. it is incredibly fast. >> why? >> for the sake of affluence and mobility. and, right now the only technology we have for mobility is a motor vehicle. >> where is the growth, tro. >> the growth is in china, number one, india, number 2, brazil and russia, also, indonesia, rail, throughout asia, largely throughout asia, and in america we have over one car per person and we will be replacing our

earlier today he covered ground ne goerting a new nuclear agreement with russia.hey're working to replace the start to nuclear treaty that expires next month, and the president says things look good. >> in our first meeting when i traveled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months. our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and be able to sign a deal before the end of the deal. and i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urur jenscy about it, we should be able to get it done. >> the two leaders also talked about iran, obama said time is running fout out for tehran doing something about their nuclear program. >>> president barack obama couldn't bring home the olympics, but he's bringing some tourism to his home state. the united states will host the apec summit in hawaii. >>> some guantanamo bay detainees could be transferred to this prison in northern illinois. two obama admin

>> the question is whether china and russia are against nuclear weapons. they are. the real question is if they will do something to make that not come to pass. they seem reluctant to introduce or support the kind of robust sanctions that might actually place something in a helpful role. they're both also worried about iranian support of subversion within their territory. russia and china fear the impact. they're both likely to be what you might call limited partners. the process that is under way, the negotiating phase is going to persuade the iranians that the risks are greater than what they perceive to be the benefits. >> the0 this gentleman right here. -- this gentleman right here. >> they seem to have these long- distance missiles. >> we didn't have to ask the question, can we learn to live with nuclear weapons? we are already living with north korea at the's nuclear weapons. -- north korea's nuclear weapons. i hope that we will build a missile defenses to deter them from doing that. north korea has so few foreign policy options. they are so bottled up in thei

>> the question is whether china and russia are against nuclear weapons. they are. the real question is if they will do something to make that not come to pass. they seem reluctant to introduce or support the kind of robust sanctions that might actually place something in a helpful role. they're both also worried about iranian support of subversion within their territory. russia and china fear the impact. they're both likely to be what you might call limited partners. the process that is under way, the negotiating phase is going to persuade the iranians that the risks are greater than what they perceive to be the benefits. >> the0 this gentleman right here. -- this gentleman right here. >> they seem to have these long- distance missiles. >> we didn't have to ask the question, can we learn to live with nuclear weapons? we are already living with north korea at the's nuclear weapons. -- north korea's nuclear weapons. i hope that we will build a missile defenses to deter them from doing that. north korea has so few foreign policy options. they are so bottled up in thei

european countries for which the data was available, the czech republic, hungary, poland and even russia had nearly a century of godless communism have a big december spending bump in 2007. russia it is interesting its transition to a market economy not too long ago to keep track of the monthly data was about 94. this picture shows in red is the russians shows the size of the december spending of of -- bond and look at the u.s. around 2005 price think of dr. strange love played by a george c. scott and was worried about the gap here you have the santa clause gap. i do not know if this is good news or bad news but we're behind. let's move around the world some more. are we alone? now all the steve tisch of large spending bombs. there are some places where you don't see it dorsey less of it. some of which don't have it you can see in the end of for comparison israel does not have it. why? although americans use it in december for hanukah and israel gift-giving -- gift-giving holidays are passover and rauscher sean and so there's not spending funds. they do not occur. china does not appear

host: do you think russia and china may be on board?est: russia might be, but china so far has not been on board. they have economic relations with iran. they import a substantial amount of oil. they are looking long term. they are looking for the next 10 in 15 years. if the iranians do not accept this proposal, they have to face the consequences. let's see if they really come on board. host: what is the economic condition for those living in iran today is? guest: it is very tough and rough. the cost of living is on the rise. as long as i was visiting iran, every time i would go back, the cost of living had risen. people are in very difficult times. they are suffering. the government has shown a lot in disturbing money and having subsidies for certain items. host: arlington, va. on our democrat line. caller: morning. you have touched on a couple of points i was going to bring up. i wanted to get your take on contrasting the bush administration as opposed to the obama administration. the second component is the issue of the sanctions. th

in singapore, he's expected to talk with russia's president about replacing the nuclear agreement which is expiring next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale among u.s. soldiers there. in contrast, two battlefield survey, morale is up in soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the surveys indicate suicide have jumped across the board. the army is working to get more mental health workers to help soldiers cope with more depression. this report comes as president obama considers sending more troops to afghanistan. >>> strong reactions out there about the decision to bring a 9/11-related trial to new york. eric holder said yesterday five suspects with the alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. they include khalid shaikh mohammed and four other guantanamo bay detainees. >> i care about the fact these people are war criminals, they're terrorists. they do not deserve a full p panoply of the u.s. law. now they're going to be given a forum to make america seem bad again.

earlier in the day president obama met with russia's president. leaders are working on replacing a treaty to reduce nuclear arms set to expire next month. >> in our first meeting when i traveled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles, our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months. our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the end of the year. i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urgency about it we should be able to get that done. >> the president has arranged for the united states to host the apec summit in hawaii in 2011. he'll get to dictate what gets where for the summit's official picture. in singapore they wore mandarin colored shirts. mr. obama said he's looking ford to seeing leaders in colored shirts and grass skirts. >>> 1 billion people around the world are facing starvation. the world food program launched an online campaign called billion for a billi

. >> i favor in doing whatever is necessary to throw russia out of cuba and get rid of the missile bases down there. >> we had to act on a wednesday, and the first 24 hours, you i don't think we would have chosen as prudently as we finally did. >> washington is one big secret today, but all signs are that something important is about to happen, perhaps involving cuba. president kennedy will address the nation tonight on radio and television on a subject of the highest national urgency. president kennedy on the air in 15 minutes. washington calls it a case of extreme urge jen six. >> good evening, my fellow citizens. this government has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military build-up on the island of cuba. within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. the purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the western hemisphere. to halt this defensive build-up, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment

reluctant to give and why is russia pressing for more on that particular issue?art guest: it is a numbers issue. part of it is that our system, some of them delivered nuclear weapons, strategic nuclear weapons from the united states into a target 2000 or 3,000 miles away. we can now target much better with precision strikes. they do not need a nuclear weapon to carry out the mission. host: as with these predators drones? guest: no, these are icbm's. missiles with conventional warhead -- can do great damage to what has now been a new thing, to bury your facilities underground. host: san diego, on the republican line. caller: ok, good morning. i'm calling because i have been a victim of terrorism for the last two years gangs. this has something to do with me feeling like i have been exposed to weapons. this has been going on for thousands of americans across the u.s. i have contacted officials and on forssmann and there has been no response. host: what kind? caller: gang-stalker terrorism. host: do you know anything about that? guest: no. host: middletown, conn. ca

for the grand duke of russia they had just a single table. 36 guests. they served soup, fish, roast beef, lam chops, a few -- lamb chops, a few vegetables, in the 19th century 20 and 30 courses were not uncommon for a state dinner. in 1902 president theodore roosevelt had a formal dinner for the brother of the keyser -- kaiser of germany. he wanted to have a very large party so he had it in the east room instead of here in the smaller dining room. the other end of the building. it was an all male dinner. no women were invited. now, the prince of germany thought himself better than all americans. and the ambassador from germany actually suggested that the prince would go into the dinner by himself first. at which point president theodore roosevelt replied, no person living precedes the president of the united states in the white house. this is his home and here's where he's in charge. but later in 1902 president theodore roosevelt renovated the white house and he had the state dining room enlarged to what you see today. imagine it in 1902. the walls were

but russia is 5,500 miles wide, about twice the size of the united states. supporters say it will make disabout the regions feel closer to moscow. >> until the sunsets at 5:00 for you. >>> still breezy for new england. this weather is brought to you by green giant. what's going on across the region? yesterday, a lot of rain. this is how much we've seen. not just 24 hours. it start start ad few days ago. that's a tremendous amount of rainfall. it's all because of the wind straight off the atlantic through virginia and maryland and delaware, jersey, all the the way down to north carolina, too. that low is still in place. it's not moved very far. not as strong today. only 40 miles per hour gusts around the coastline. pab more. yesterday hurricane strength winds. here's what it looks like in new york. you get rain showers coming in. coastal flood warnings are there. p 34 miles per hour sustained winds all along the jersey shore. it breaks up in baltimore, washington, i-95. not as heavy as yesterday but you still get the rain. here's the radar. not much going on

there's a question about russia -- a great development is deputy prime minister and russia is coming back into the foreign assistance process, including things on agriculture. one of the opportunities is about 9% of the -- 90% of malnutrition is in 36 countries. you need to of all the focus. some debt -- sub-sahara africa, it is also south asia. half the children in india do not get enough food. people in and -- in this country tend to see india and china as a new emerging powers. you get out of the cities, and you see there is poverty there. one of the things i would urge, since you're from the state department, one of the challenges we always have is there is an understandable drive for donors to do things by laterally. one of the issues i know talking to the u.s. government, if you want to be more effective, if we can try to have multi-lateral improvement, we can do it with other players, we avoid this problem -- the donors get overwhelmed in the process. there is a quick question on the oil and food. oil prices went up, food prices went up. oil prices came down. food prices were

. >> i can see russia from my house. >> of course, i've never said that. and yet the line was blurred and i think people, because it was repeated so often, perhaps, believed that i had said such a thing. >> reporter: but palin did manage to say something nice about tina fey. >> i think she was funny, though, and i think she was very talented and spot-on. >> reporter: palin isn't as nice to david letterman. he earned the wrath of palin for this joke about a palin family trip to a yankee game back in june. >> during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by alex rodriguez. >> reporter: letterman later apologized for the joke after learning it was palin's 14-year-old daughter, willow, who was in the stands, not the older teen daughter bristol, who just had a baby. but as walters showed palin today, letterman's not quite done with the palin punch lines. >> that brings us to a little segment called, things more fun than reading the sarah palin memoir. things more fun than reading -- here, take a look. watch this. >> number 14, driving into a tree. >> c

everybody said that's because russia doesn't want it.nobody mentioned that a handful of activist in the czech republic got active, who went on hunger strikes, who passed local resolution that took 130 meters to the capital and passed the bill and overthrew a government made it impossible to put a base there. a friend of mine who is a veteran of the iraq war who was just in japan talking with their new parliament, a good chunk of which was thrown out because they actually listen to people, and on the way back, from japan, learned that they had done as with their board and had pulled out all contributions of the occupation of afghanistan. we are never going to have a day when they tell us here's the day when you stop an attack on iran. we have stop an attack and iran every day of the year. on the cover of newsweek this week, nuclear explosion, or words after iran gets the bomb. the same fear mongering, the same lies, the same type, the same baseless claims that took us into iraq, be afraid, be afraid. guess what? almost all americans are s

. >>> to russia now where a railroad company in moscow says a deadly derailment there may have been the result of sabotage, even terrorism. the derailment has killed at least 25 people. dozens more are hurt. the train was carrying hundreds of people from moscow to st. petersburg. >>> a d.c. restaurant owner strangled inside her apartment in northwest. nearly a month later police still have no suspects. the last time the victim was seen alive was while she was heading home on halloween night. fox 5's paul wagner explains why detectives are having such a tough time finding clues. >> reporter: it's been nearly a month since she was found strangled in her bedroom by her brother and younger sister. the two had gone to check on their sibling on 16th street after she had failed to show up for work. surveillance video shows the 38- year-old restaurateur entering the building alone after taking a taxi home. the video has yet to identify anyone suspicious entering or leaving the building in the hours after she was last seen. >> it's quite a large building here. from what we know, ost people, you

and -- on ukranian and georgia and the whole front with russia, russia is going to blatantly and ugly prove they have a atmosphere of -- sphere of influence which we have given up, which is the path the administration is going on or it confronts which will be at real challenge. if everywhere you look the foreign policy is going to be a failure, enough is conspicuous, afghanistan, where he loses either way. he'll alienate either the proprogressives or the center of the country. and so, i think that -- that could collectively reduce the admiration for his masterfulness. and as katrina did for the previous president. that could have an effect, it would be negative for the party. >> all right. i think we have gone into overtime. so, i did want to thank the bipartisan policy center and -- tule lane university for hosting this. and this has been the spirit of friendship and civility on the panel. we hope it'll be pervasive through the rest of the political process. thank you so much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captions performed by the national captioning inst

and russia could reach a deal by the end of the year to begin reducing their nuclear weapons stockpiles came out of president obama's meeting with dmitry medvedev. >>> a dog so disabled that it moved on its wrists is finally learning to walk and she's been adopted. a georgia veterinarian operated on spirit and gave her months of therapy after somebody dumped her on the side of the road. her new owner says she's doing fine. >> i don't want people to feel pity. what i want people to feel is look what can happen to a dog that somebody thought was useless. she's definitely not useless any more. she's beautiful. >> she sure is. spirit still has some discomfort when she walks, but it does not stop her from playing, apparently. she's just a love bug, isn't she? >>> brand-new details on the alleged ft. hood shooter. you'll hear what a muslim cleric reportedly says about nidal hasan. >>> today federal officials will tour an illinois prison that could house dozens of detainees from guantanamo bay. thompson correctional center is about 150 miles west of chicago. the town has a population of 600 pe

instead he buttercup to russia and china. he has got to take a strong stand. he has got to start taking a strong stand. host: what does a strong stand mean to you? caller: to face reality in life. the there are countries out there that hate us and will do anything to kill us. he does not take that stand. he did not want to call terrorists terrorists anymore. they are terrorists. i mean, it all comes down to terrorists. people out there that will kill us. host: the senate this morning, exploring the 2001 escape of osama bin laden. "a little-known military special operations command piece of history, the consequences of not sending american troops in 2001 are still being felt by several previous accounts. general, frank and donald rumsfeld did not put a large number of american troops there, unless they feel resented by the afghans. " michigan, larry, democratic line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i remember harry truman. he had numerous models. one of them was walked quietly and carry a big stick. this is what i think should happen with what is going on

host: a couple of sundays she rode about the potential nuclear treaty with russia. u.s. officials optimistic about a new nuclear treaty with russia. why does this have to be done? guest: the current start treaty runs out december 5. it is important to keep, particularly the verification issue going. i think they may or may not reach some kind of agreement. what they will reach is in agreement on straddling the of period of time between finalizing a treaty which is very complicated and reaching the agreement to keep the current agreements in effect. this treaty was put together in 1991 at a time when we and the soviet union are facing -- thousands of warheads on alert. in the intervening time the russian systems have gradually been less-well taken care of, so the threat is not there. but we have to keep the treaty in place because not everyone else is looking at us. if we and the russians can agree, then you will have a better movement broadly of cutting down numbers and making it less of a desire by other countries to build nuclear weapons. host: you write that a more co

. >> also while he's in singapore, he'll talk with russia's president about the nuclear agreement which expires next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale with u.s. soldiers. in contrast, two battlefield surveys found morale is up among soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the survey is indicating suicide have jumped across the board. the army is working to get more mental health workers to help soldiers cope with depression. this comes as president obama considers sending more troops to afghanistan. >>> police have arrested a sixth member of a missouri family accused of sexually abusing kids for years. 3 % them wthe en % >>> some strong reactions out there about the decision to bring the 9/11-related trial to new york. attorney general eric holder said yesterday, five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be try in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. the suspects include confessed 9/11 mastermind, khalid shaikh mohammed and four other detainees. >> i care about the fact they're war criminals,

plan would require iran to send a ton of year rain yum to russia.rocessed there and sent back to iran to use in a research reactor but not in nuclear weapons. >>> polanski's attorney is ready to file a new bail offer that includes a very significant cash amount. he wouldn't say how much. swiss authorities rejected a fail offer friday because they consider the 76-year-old filmmaker a flight risk. the earlier offer was not in cash. polanski was arrested in late november wanted in america for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in los angeles in 1977. >>> the world's largest cruise ship is so big it had to lower its smoke snacks in order to squeeze under a bridge. it's tough to see in the nighttime video but the oasis of the seas just cleared the bridge in denmark. it skimmed underneath with two feet to spare. the ship is five times larger than the titanic, has seven neighborhoods and can hold 6,300 passengers. it will make its u.s. debut at its home port port everglades in florida, on the 20th of november. >>> here are some of the stories covering in t

if you look at the major powers like china, russia, and india, in order to get to where they are perchedrican power, long before they get to the point, they will get to those around them that have, as geography has it, some other part to look for for assistance. so as china grows bigger and stronger, it is not surprising that we find greater eagerness or more american involvement in the region, not less. and i think although our west european friends are in different, our eastern friends are not, so there is a natural checking mechanism. it does not have to work, but it is something that other powers have to overcome that we do not have to. so that is a natural thing. i continue to believe that we're the most dynamic economy even as we are going for doldrums, and it is up to other people in the panel to say whether something we're doing now is fundamentally changed that dynamism to the time where we can no longer be dynamic, but our ability to adapt historically to changing circumstances has been greater than those of other countries. i am not persuaded that is no longer the case. finall

we have been in gulags, including one in russia.e were in geneva, and they got focus and scrutiny brought to the prisoners in the gulags. since then, international committee for the red cross has been denied. there is a travel ban on the icrc going to the prisons. there is a travel ban dealing with the united nations. there was a travel ban on the investigation. have you ever asked castro to permit the icrc to visit prisoners? what have you raised with fidel castro and others in the government? have you asked castro to let you visit prisons yourself? i do not have access. those of us who have these questions cannot even get in the door. yesterday, the colonel, the superintendent of the new jersey state police, said that everyone in new jersey once the cop killer returned to prison in new jersey -- wants the cop killer returned to prison in new jersey. she made her way to cuba, where she lives in the lap of luxury. i mentioned in 2001, i got legislation passed in the house that died in the senate, as so many things died over there th

it was initially the alliance between cuba and russia, yet we never put a ban on traveling to russia and we always said conversation with the russian government's, and now we even are working with them in the g-20 and other places, and it seems as though when cuba was a threat to the united states, it was only because of russia and the missile crisis, not because of cuba in and of itself so i don't see where cuba is a threat to the united states of america at all at this particular point. that being said, that me just ask ms. antunez, recently the president of the united states and that all restrictions on travel by cuba, to cuba by cuban-americans and i was wondering whether or not you believe that such travel should be prohibited or whether cubans should be free to go to cuba? >> translator: i am sorry, could you repeat the last part of their question? >> whether knots such travel by cubans to cuba, should that be prohibited or should cubans to cuba be allowed? cuban-americans. [speaking in spanish] [speaking in spanish] >> translator: in the first place in the tourism, anything th

russia is disarmed. this is what donald trump said on tv, that these people have been fighting for five dozen years. -- 5000 years. the minute you pullout, they will continue to fight. it is totally a waste of money. if you want to end the budget deficit, why do we need a military with $700 billion of income? the cost accounting is just out of control with the military. and obama is going to wind up like john kennedy, blamed for the next 30 years for staying in afghanistan. thank you for much. happy thanksgiving. you are great host. callerhost: republican gubernatl candidate scott mcinnis and his wife as they plan on their platform for prosperity. in the 2010 midterm elections. we cannot afford lawyers to find tax loopholes for us." writing about what is next in terms of the health-care debate -- "it would appear that one word is testing well, arrogance, which is how they repeatedly described the democratic approach. mitch mcconnell was at it again on sunday, the first day of the debate on the sweeping l

what did you accomplish in russia? did you -- >> i was in berlin, paris, and moscow and met with the british along the way. i would add, that in kabul, as you saw we had foreign ministers from france, the netherlands, deputy foreign minister of japan and i would draw your attention to the fact that the japanese quadrupled their aid last week and went up to $5 billion in commitment. tremendously important. a tremendously important decision by the new government. canada, their foreign minister was there. the indian foreign minister was there. and senior officials from many other countries. specifically to russia, as you know, i've been trying to go to all the concerned countries, but i haven't been able to get to all of them up to now. i still haven't gotten to all of them because of two thing the need to make, in the early part of my job, i had to go to afghanistan, pakistan a lot because there was so many issues to straighten out, we were in a period of transition in our leadership in afghanistan and had to put a whole

>> whatever happen to the b-17 that landed in russia? >> that is an interesting question. they did manage to get the motors repaired, and to make a herrle wing take off from that short field, which was incredible story within itself, and of course i detail that in the book. in the b-17 did survive to get back to england and back to this country and all together it had flown with different crews, a total of 35 missions, but then it was ultimately scrapped, unfortunately. there is a large portrait of it, probably about this long and this tall, that hangs on one of the walls of the u.s. air force museum in dayton and his then there for years. anything else? >> i have one more question. on your book on the atomic impact or on society, is there is special museum board you collaborate with the museum in elkridge? is there any kind of historical museum there? i have not been there for a while. is there some kind of a technological museum? either actually to museums. there's one on atomic research and there's also a children's museum and they both have very good collections and in

britain has the capability, the soviet union, the russia has a capability of 40 million, 50 million americans. united states has the came of eliminating costa rica from the map. so the point is that we don't worry about any of those things because there is no intention to do so. it's not that there isn't capability of doing that. huge countries, militarily powerful countries, have lived next door to very small military, uninterested countries for very long tames and could take them out any time we wanted to. we could attack canada, and they're not even looking in the right direction. but the can dance don't seem to be terribly worried about that. so i think intentions are really what matters, not capabilities. and in the case of the soviet union, it's very clear, they said it repeatedly, i mean, 20 billion times, they were anti-status quo, they didn't to want change the world, and they wanted to use revolution, they want to use class warfare, subversion, they would sometimes use limited military on the edge in the case that was free and got out of hand. by a surrogate. but that's it. they rep

we consume in this country, the next 20 countries combined, that includes japan, china, russia, germany, brazil and 15 other countries. we consume a lot of gasoline. the good news is oil use in this country, gasoline use as well, by 10% in the last two years, but the key to reducing our gasoline consumption is electrifying our transport system and with cars that means moving to plug in hybrids in all of electric cars and it is entirely doable. gm has pointed out that the standards for determining mileage will get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline use. that is because most of the time it will be running on electricity. it will have a range of 16 miles. most daily driving can be done with electricity and recharging the battery at night. prius, toyota will have several hundred plug in hybrids in various commercial fleets and so forth in this country by the end of next month. next year will probably begin marketing on a larger scale. be widely, the chinese term, started marketing hybrids last december. they plan to be in this market next year. warren buffett is one of the stockholders in thi

. >> larry: general, other countries that have gone into afghanistan have left, russia most recently. win, larry. i do think that we are a foreign element in a country that doesn't tolerate diversity. i think we have to find a way to leave behind some kind of structure that we can work with that won't be a terrorist state and we have to get our troops out of there. and i believe that's what the obama administration is trying to do. but you can't do this if you're being forced back on the battlefield and you can't maintain some control over most of the population centers. so i see the increase in troops as essential weigh station on get out of the country successfully. >> larry: and we'll be back with more. >> larry: by the way, tomorrow night, jack hanna is back with his animals. the chevy malibu and toyota camry received 5 star crash safety ratings. but only malibu has onstar. big deal. i'll just use my phone. let's say we crashed. whoops, you lost your phone and you're disoriented. i'm not disoriented. now you are. onstar automatic crash response can call to see if you're ok. onstar

it is not just mean pakistan, china, and russia. it also means iran now at loggerheads with the west over its announcement about 10 new nuclear facilities. can we take a tough stance with iran are keeping them engaged in keeping peace in afghanistan? what happens if president karzai does not achieve these benchmarks? what effort is he making to develop a plan b? to deal instead directly with local and regional governments? i'm sure he agrees with me that given the record on corruption we should not hold our breath for karzai to change, but work on finding ways to succeed without him if he does not. turning to what the prime minister said about improved equipment and particularly the delivery of certain vehicles, can he confirm yesterday that this means the protected land rovers are no longer being used by any of our troops? finally, let me address the issue of troop deployment from our natural allies. it was the prime minister who said the deployment of any additional troops would be conditional on other countries sharing the burden

russia most recently. is this a no-win? >> i think it depends on how you define winning, larry. a country that doesn't tolerate diversity. and i think we have to find a way to leave behind some kind of structure that we can work with that won't be a terrorist state. we have to get our troops out there. i believe that's what the obama administration is trying to do. but you can't do this if you're being forced back on the battlefield an can't maintain some control over most of the population centers. i see the increase in troops as essential weigh station on getting out of the country successfully. >> larry: and we'll be back with more with matthew hough, general wesley clark and tom cotton. >>> tomorrow night, jack hannah on thanksgiving eve is back with his animals. you're not going to want to miss this one. ( cluck, cluck, cluck ) oh, wowww ! that's fun ! you didn't say i could have a real one. well, you didn't ask. even kids know when it's wrong to hold out on somebody. why don't banks ? we're ally, a new bank that alerts you when your money could be working harder and earnin

right now with the level of debt burden i think people understand especially with china, the u.n., russia saying let's remove the dollar as the international reserve currency, that would mean less demand for the dollar which could portend a not good things for the value of the dollar that americans are on in. peter schweizer, i want to thank you. my name is michele bachmann, member of congress, i want to thank mr. peter schweizer for joining us to introduce us to his book "architects of ruin". you can find more information at peterschweizer.com. and thank you so much for joining us today. .. welcome to our tobler 1981. reagan's job approval rating was 57%. obama, 55%. in 1981 the democrats swept the virginia race is that were at stake, including the governorship to which democrats said hallelujah, all is not lost. in 1981, the new jersey governor's race was the closest in history. and tom kane, the republican pete jim by 1800 votes. history is repeating itself. no it's not. the reagan era, which was in full swing in 1981, to be best characterized as being un- yong, i'm poor, and i'm black