as usual russia america racial becoming a very important issue in both countries during the election year so what the latest is russia and america really facing confrontation as the republicans would like to see it today or is it just popular discuss a story and i don't really an expert in russia and russia the local elections stephen. went to meet him in the bath and barack obama came to power they proclaimed the famous reset in the russian american relations after the cold rhetorical administration that manton a new period of partnership and cooperation rather than a standoff. knowledge the reset has been one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of both russian and american leaders the biggest reward is being used in the trade he signed in april two thousand and ten as the kremlin a song about to welcome the return of president putin and there have been downs the recent year old continues yet also insists it's not going to confront washington but americans are yet to choose their new course the leading republican. romney for example has recently russia america's number one geo

for word and it was seized upon by barack obama's republican rivals mitt romney even declaring russia america'snumber one enemy but a small faux lad on the and the russian bandwagon guy nature can reports their war cries aren't exactly resonating with the american voter. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should remember. by the president represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments president medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood stereotypes and take a look at the ca

it was seized on by a rocket while it was republican rivals with mitt romney even declaring russia as america'snumber one enemy apart as more hawks land on the anti russian bandwagon he's got a check on reports there was cries i want resonating with american voters. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime can in me while it's president elect different i mean this. place. represents a real threat. to the world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments prism of it advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood spirit types and take a look at the calendar. and he would advise all u.s. pres

but first america's missile shield plans emerged again this week to form a stumbling block between russia and the u.s. the pentagon now wants to expand the defense system to asia and the middle east this is president medvedev and obama held key talks on an international nuclear summit in seoul. just like. a microphone caught obama's private remark asking for a space until november as u.s. elections past his republican challengers immediately pounced accusing him of secretly plotting with moscow what is more hawks lipan to be anti russia bandwagon argues guide for the war cries aren't resonating with the american voters. the runup to the presidential election in the us. a perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while it's president elect you should remember. that. i think president putin represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world. that's seen the world of mitt romney what about well amer

democrats secretary of state, hillary clinton went after him criticizing the statement that russia's americaber one geopolitical foe saying the comments show his views on foreign policy are outdated and democrats are attacking, republicans are jumping on board, including the senate minority leader. >> it is absolutely apparent it is in the best interest of our party at this particular point to get behind the person who is obviously going to be our nominee and to make the case against the president of the united states. >> all of this is discoupling news for rick santorum whose homes are dwindling but he predicts may will be a good month for us. the race goes on. he is pulling out of wisconsin a day before voting returning to pennsylvania, his home state, the polls show he is trailing romney by from 5 percent to ten percent in wisconsin. back to you. >> thank you, steve. time, now, and there it is, first, want to know what the weather is when you go out and maria has it all. >> good to see you this morning. it will be a warm one across parts of the center of the country and across the southea

romney called russia america's no. 1 g.o.p. foe and secretary of state hillary clinton fired back saying that the u.s. shares many interests with russia, including concerns about ian and afghanistan. >>> california has pulled the plug on an expensive efforts to link all the state's courts in one computer system. the project ended tuesday when the judicial council voted to scrap it. critics called it a flop and boondoggle. instead cost for specialize software and consultants arounded up. >>> 408 will be joined by 669 in november, but starting april 219 if you are dial a 408 number all callers are encouraged to start dialing a 1 plus the area code and seven- dict phone number and in october, that will become mandatory to place a call. existing phone numbers will not change or the cost for any toll calls. >>> the golden gate bridge will not re-open. bicyclists and pedestrians have been shared east sidewalk since january because of construction on the west side. they say the work is not expected to be completed until mid-may. a spok

from america to russia and armenia.aiting until everyone else has left before he begins to shoot. >> in our family, it is my wife who takes the portraits. so i wait until i can tell stories in a different way. for me, pictures say more about people when they are not in the frame. >> that is certainly the case in his most recent work. photographs of fukushima in 2011. he traveled the periphery of the evacuation zone. radioactivity damaged his negatives. all the more reason to put them on display at the exhibition in hamburg. >> one of the world's biggest commercial intersections could be in for a rethink of the building sits around times square in new york are plastered with massive digital advertisements. >> what about the space behind those billboards? a prime location, but it can only be used for storage. a german family company has come up with a solution. thousands of computer-controlled l.e.d. flights are embedded in the glass to display images, including advertisements. unlike other systems, this prototype digital

america's missile shield plans emerged again this week to form a stumbling block which when russia andthe u.s. the pentagon now wants to expand its defense system to asia and the middle east it comes as president of year their friend president obama held a key top seven international nuclear security summit in seoul. a microphone accord obama's private remark asking for space until november u.s. election has passed his republican rivals immediately pounced using him of secretly plotting with moscow but is more hawks in jump on the and he russian bandwagon artists garniture cattle reports war cries france necessarily resonating with the american voter. the run up to the presidential election in the u.s. . the perfect time to drag out the good old cold war skeleton from the closet. russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while its president elect you should recover. i think represents a real threat to the. stability and peace of the world but that's in the world of mitt romney wha

that is really feeling the pinch a little bit of global isolation of some of the things that russia and america agreed on just a few years ago. the russian support for the sanctions regime was vital. it's clear that. inside iran there is inflation high prices that they're feeling that i cannot be squeezing the diplomatic isolation. i don't know if that's going to change their behavior but it's interesting that they've now talking about rejoining the talks with the i.a.e.a. i think that's positive. and and so i i think the policies that we work together on three years ago are now showing some possible fruit in terms of the behavior of the icing. i know how the president how strongly the president feels about this relationship with regard to iran similarly with. with israel we are working very closely with them to make sure that there isn't a precipitous action that would be justified in terms of where we think the nuclear program is. we get to these positions by working together we get to these positions by trusting each other we get to these for the sins by sharing information and i think iran

question our number one geopolitical foe in the world of the presidential hopeful mitt romney russia is america's prime enemy while it's president elect you should remember this. represents a real threat to the. world but that's in the world of mitt romney what about well america there is no evidence of any popular support for bashing russia for hostility towards russia so this idea that somehow or another russia is a concern for americans it just doesn't add up at all with a very small sliver of people asked about romney's comments president medvedev advised him to stop reverting to olden days hollywood steered types and take a look at the calendar. but it can go i would advise all u.s. presidential candidates to make reasonable statements it wouldn't do them any home to do so and such and they will choose it's the twenty twelve midnight and seventy's and even the current leaders of the two countries may have long delayed the cold war to aggress but for some it's just too good to like girl boy to return to those cold war simple days. russia is not the only foreign policy bandwagon the republican

in contrast, standing strong and actively pursuing a settlement with russia would enable america, britainnd the world to go down the brighter path where he said the high roots of the future will be clear, not only for us, but for all. not only for a time, but for centuries to come. now as i researched the aftermath of this most historic of churchill's speeches, i was amazed by how strong the negative reactions truly were. today we remember it is one of the pivotal moment that the area come a speech that defined the problems of the post-world war -- excuse me, the postwar world and one that should pass and the cold war. but at the time, churchill was blasted on both sides of the atlantic and on both sides of the aisle. despite the speech being called the pennies apiece and the press and politicians called him an imperialist, emil torry perhaps more even stalin himself culture show a war monger and insinuated that it wasn't that churchill, not stalin who wanted world war iii and world domination. afterward, as they planned all along, harry truman tonight reading the speech, even though it's

continue space exploration if we really fly try to plan it shouldn't be a joint project by russia and america china whoever won and the race would be healthy and running as you say i couldn't help thinking listening to the probably just run how much better things would have gone had we all been able to collaborate in trying to do something in space i didn't i didn't mean by the way earlier to say that it's not worthwhile system because we didn't discover anything living what i meant was that when you don't have something alive out there the voters lose interest the other people the population of the country which needs to be on board i think. one way basically nobody looks like there are there are certainly some strong reasons forces go in the space of the serious for example. we can we can we have the technology now if we had the will to put some hundreds of put some solar collectors in space and we'd be able of being power back to earth and get away from well the need that we have for fossil fuels. that is not that difficult to do but nobody ever talks about it because the initial investmen

. >> governor romney went on to characterize russia as america's number-one geopolitical rival. a charge that threw re row joinedder from medvedev that, this is 2012, not the 1970s, the height of the cold war. congressional republicans are calling for a "urgent explanation" of mr. obama's comment to mr. medvedev. here's the exchange again. after my election i have more flexibility. >> question, mr. obama's -- or reset of u.s.-russian relations is his foreign policy priority. how much further is he likely to take that, that reset, in a second term? >> this is a gaff of the really the first order, john. he has confirmed the suspicions of every conservative and traditionalist and nee con in america that after his election, all this nonsense i've been supporting in my first term goes out the window and we've got the new and the -- obama de has scared the daylights out of it. >> wait a minute! wait a minute! [overlapping speakers] >> the missile system is gone. >> who is to say he means that? is it even interpreted by medvedev as to be literal? >> don't they allow -- [overlapping spe

musicians of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia in america and europe are so late in the lead there will be the starving ski season so what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games where my orchestra will be involved some of the seven august i will give them myself for the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games and i personally hope also rushed. all the world so you hear you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you you. endorsed potence presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity a name to to put his campaign it's very simple i think russia needs a strong leader it's a little horse of a job well it's a little bit like orchestra choosing conductor because the fate of mr big corporate house very much depends on the leadership i think even better than four years ago how to lead this country king of the economy better than maybe ever before and he will meet like me very strong team and the by far the most important question will be with m

positions of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia and america and europe as a in the lead that will be the striving ski season what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games well my hope is the world view of some of the civil rights that i will be there myself in the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games on a personal russia all the world so you. you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you he were. put his presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity your name to to put his campaign it's really simple i think russia needs a strong leader rushing insulin for. my job well it's a little bit like orchestra choosing a conductor because the fate of orchestra or big corporate house very much depends on the minister i think even better than four years ago. to leave this complication of the economy better and maybe ever before. he will need a very strong team and that by far the most important question will be what would be the team members espec

at the news desk as well and i'll be back with the headlines also will discuss whether russia is really america's number one far as republican presidential hopeful mitt romney recently claimed they were. well. it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

and romney, himself, infamously said that russia was america's number one political foe.they can't wait to get back into power, get back to the cold war it seems, these people who always seem to have their eye on yet another war to fight. >>> also, republicans have made it their goal to destroy barack obama, did you know they started planning it the day of his inauguration? >>> and it's an old hollywood adage, funny is money. tonight, we have a comedy writer that once came up with gags like this one for president obama. >> others say that i'm arrogant, but i found a really great self-help tool for this -- my poll numbers. >> we're going to look back at some of the best moments from past dinners as washington gets ready for tomorrow night's big night that you can watch here on msnbc. let me finish with my concern about influence of ank ri right wing among that we consider our democracy. both men here are msnbc political analyst. i was struck this morning by a small item, gentlemen, in the washington examiner whiclç i tr to read every day. it's a shopper with lots of intere

the way i see it, the 20th century belongs to america and russia, as well as space exploration.and not in hushed base station, i see that as one effort that has been some collaboration at the international level. you talk a lot about war and economies of the motivations for countries do it alone. but what about cooperation globally? when china coming into, japan, russia, america, we don't all go in the same direction, but come together to do something, a grand vision so to speak. and despite being a very big skeptic of you in and how the international system of functions, but is there some hope for us? >> the international space station is the greatest collaboration of nations, other than the waging of war. in terms of the size, the scale, the investment, the number of nations that participate. so it is quite a model for the cooperation of space as we go forward. but i'm reminded of the scene in the film 2010, which ostensibly was the sequel to 2001, where the russians and americans collaborate in space trying to find life on jupiter. and there some cold war incidents at an emba

protect themselves they say ok but let us look at also the economy between the united states of america russia and china has been happening in the. cheney scene going to make interest there and how they have been targeting those. sometimes which doesn't support promulgated certainly certainly you bring up a really valid point here and i'm not sincerely apologize because we don't have any more time to delve into that but i prefer you raise the point that china is the biggest buyer of sudanese all and on that note we'll have to concede continue this conversation another time here on the political right are reasonable for whatever i thank you so much for coming on i apologize for the lack of time. thank you. that's what. now three members of a feminist punk band who were arrested for hooliganism back in february have been brought before a court right here in moscow but the judge will consider whether to extend their custody which now expires in less than a week while they're facing currently up to seven years in jail and this comes as at least twenty of the group supporters have been detained aft