when they contributed $150,000 to the skeptic himself and his team, investigate what skeptics believebe questionable data supporting chimate change. the only problem, they approved otherwise. for more on this, the man behind the times. in santa fe, they have been talking about his results. richard, thank you for spending with us to discuss this. you focused on two specific pieces of skepticism. first off that whether stations were unreliable. why is that relevant and what did you find? >> i believe that everybody should have been skeptical two years ago. the data for the stations were shown and confirmed by the u.s. government to have large uncertainties associated with it. it demanded a closer look. that's what we did. we got into thirç business to take a look at the issues being raised by skeptical scientists. >> the weather stations were providing inaccurate information that indicated the temperatures were higher than they were. >> that was the hypothesis. so what we did was got the record of the stations and divided them into two degrees, the bad stations and the good stations, us

with tunisia isn't there was skepticism when hamas was elected seven years ago. well i think the us has a legitimate concerns as far as tunisia and the rest of the arab spring countries the fact of the matter is that in the past and i want to emphasize very much in the past the experiment with democracy in islam has not been very successful we see what happened in iran we see what happened with hamas in the gaza strip and with hizbollah in lebanon having said that it really does seem that we're witnessing something of a revolution in the in the arab world the fact that tunisian voters went to the polls had a choice of electing going to. party or party reflecting islamic values that's prepared to go into a coalition with secular liberal parties is a very very encouraging but we should bear in mind that in the past there have been coalitions like they're going to exist more or less in lebanon now in the past and the palestinian areas so there was a coalition between fatah and hamas the question is not just if they're going to be elections and when the elections are

economic and political unity resulted in the current skepticism over the entire european project as well as talk of permanent defaults and departures. in my view the best the best option for the greeks is to default of course that there is much bigger financial consequences for for the rest of europe than for the rest of the world if that happens leadership as well aware of. also has state that's hope some deeper political cooperation especially from its biggest economy germany. europe cannot be successful i also believe that germany cannot be successful without europe the penchant for political integration and the understanding that base euro and europe have become intricately connected is more than shared at the moment merkel has time and again driven that point home saying if the hero fails europe will fail and that argument could hardly be more cogent at a time of a crisis not only threatens to wreak havoc on the european economy but also in danger its political stability while all the parties concerned seem to acknowledge the need for a concerted approach in practice the will to mak

of europe and the need for governance and the politics of europe which are becoming increasingly skeptical of the e.u. and this is something that's also affecting things here on this side of the atlantic where you have electorate saying help me i've long losing my house i'm losing my income and governments are not able to act and so this is really up share and problem a crisis of governance and it leaves the e.u. in a very awkward position because no one is really getting out there and trying to provide the courage the leadership that europe needs america is just now coming to use the kind of broad vision and encouragement that's been lacking but it may be too little too late because politics is running away from leadership in capitals and in brussels it seems averted if i go to you looks like anyone that wants to take a lead on this is going to find a political career shortened and very quickly i mean over the past year we've seen six governments fail or change in europe and anyone that gets out there in front is going to be marked forever like herbert hoover at this point out in the unit

crisis as its borrowing costs and unemployment rates soar people are skeptical whether the outcome of the upcoming parliamentary election will bring salvation. the leaders of russia belarus and cosmic stand taking their first steps toward creating a united economic bloc after signing agreements on deeper integration friday to find more about the future plans were being seen as an alternative to the e.u. archie envoys a russian of radio spoke with victor conte stanko who's been appointed to head the eurasian commission a body that's preceding the new block. if the place is i say west of the mysteries so the presidents have signed the declaration on eurasian economic integration you have been a non asleep who does they had of the regime economic commission i don't know if that would be appropriate to congratulate you but at least i think i can address you as the head of the commission we all know that integration causes this work better when the world economy is growing but the the world economy is on the verge of recession today and neither washington or velo are snork as i mean to its

and a skeptic of whether or not the greeks could pull all of this off, he said at this point in time he's giving a stern warn together greeks. he said they can either reform inside the euro zone or leave the euro zone but there's, quote, no middle ground on that matter. of course, the business side of it and the financial community here in germany has somewhat of a different take on all of this. the head of deutsche bank came out, also this an interview last night, in a television interview, he said that greece must remain inside the euro zone. and his big fear, of course, is contagion. of course, deutsche bank also is quite involved in greek debt bonds. therefore, he will have interest as well. he said it would be catastrophic if in fact greece left the euro zone. certainly the mood here in germany seems to be changing somewhat, not to one of indifference but a take it or leave it attitude at this point in time, charles. >> clearly greece has been dominating the discourse. the tension more broadly is swinging now to italy. is there a sense, again, in germany that this is something t

i mean, a lot of republicans were more in that taft tradition, they were more skeptical, and eisenhower made it very clear that he was going to lead the republican party in a more internationalist direction. and it stayed there. um, and there never was a republican president during the cold war that ever really rebuked that. yeah. >> what would you consider to be ike's successes, his failures in foreign policy? >> i think on the whole he was a very successful foreign policy president. i think he, he avoided unnecessary wars. i mean, there were multiple cases over, um, taiwan and over indochina, berlin where he managed to kind of maintain a firm line diplomatically, militarily without actually entangling the u.s. in a third world war. so that was very useful. he also managed to strike a balance between the fiscal responsibility and the u.s. diplomatic role overseas. he sort of insisted on a cap to military spending as a percentage of the gross national product and in spite of a lot of pressure, he kept it there. by the way, it was much higher than it is today. it was almost 10% throughou

i personally have a skepticism that i want to convey about the addition of more local hiring preferences. some of these are thoughts i have come paid -- conveyed in the past during the city local collier discussions, but i think in particular for this project, i have even more skepticism. there are working-class people and unemployed people in san jose. they are as deserving of a chance at work as residents of san francisco. i do not want to be part of pitting working-class communities in one city against another. furthermore, this project is not a local project. it is being paid for by taxpayers of california and the entire united states. as we began to focus on ways tp ii, we're going around the region say this is not a san francisco program, that they should help pay for it through all kinds of mechanisms. i do not want to give them any ability to save this is actually a san francisco project and should pay for it ourselves. i think the regional targeting has more logic to it, but even there i have skepticism, because the definition of region is very arbitrary. a working-class person

well you know liz the skeptic out of two traditionally comes from people assuming that it's a lot of all lip service so many leaders so little time so many important issues to be tackled but we have to keep in mind that gathering such as this really offer an opportunity for a lot of bilateral meetings where leaders get together on the sidelines to discuss a lot of the issues that are important for countries we know that in the next couple of days obama and the russian president dmitry medvedev will be holding a bilateral and they're going to be discussing issues such as. the u.s. plans for european missile defense shield this is something that's important because there's been somewhat of a stall because the u.s. of has been refusing to provide legal guarantees that this is not going to be a threat to russia's security this is certainly something that's at the top of russia's agenda they will also be talking about the boot and garfunkel cases the two russian citizens that have been that are being held in jail on u.s. territory and issues such as for russia i mean we it's important to

prices as low in cost and employment rates soft people are skeptical whether the outcome of the upcoming parliamentary election will help bring salvation the. next leaders of russia better start taking the first steps to creating a united economic body after sonny agreements on deeper integration on friday to find out more about the future plans for what's being seen as an alternative to the e.u. and the voice of russia radio spoke to christiane cook who's been appointed the head of the eurasian commission proceeding bloc. if the but if i say west coast girl mysteries so the presidents have signed the declaration on eurasian economic integration and you have been anonymously approved as they had of the regime economic commission i don't know if that would be a proper congratulate you but at least i think i can address you as the head of the commission we all know that integration process is worked better when the world economy is growing in the world economy is on the verge of recession today me the russian or below is not as i mean to its effects why is it so important to launch the com

well, like you said, i think we think of the democratic party as the party that is more skeptical of free trade because of the influence of organized labor. but when you look at polling in the last couple of years, there is a big portion of the democratic party now that is much more open and supportive of free trade. they're winning a lot more upper middle class suburban voters who have an internationalist orientation. the republican party, the center of gravity is moving toward greater skepticism of free trade because they have been doing better among those blue collar working class voters who believe in many cases correctly that the loss of jobs overseas is a big part of the economic distress they face. the center of gravity is shifting. in some polling, there is more protectionist sentiment now. that's a big change in politics, part of an overall class inversion in the coalition that each party really brings to bear on elections now. >> ron brownstein, thanks so much. we'll check back with you later on in this hour, several times as a matter of fact. thanks, ron. >>> a week of gaf

that the people increase out of very skeptical about the euro i think ok there it's better we are in the euro. of course definitely but. there are some serious problems. because a lot of people they lost their jobs you don't know what. you can you can prolong your life twenty years old and i don't have a job. i have to leave with my parents i don't have money i can leave i help for everybody to be calm and. try to get out of the crisis and i really hope everybody can help us to brewskis a european country in greece and euro is a good work a great work i hope something can be done so we can save this beautiful country and be able to pass it on to our grandchildren and the children after that he resisted it's up to the mike and had a chance to have a say a question now is whether anyone's going to be ready to listen to them whether decisions again to keep being made behind plays those. things had miscarried or. not entirely. the prime minister's main coalition partner has urged him to step aside ahead of a crucial budget fraud concerns are growing that italy is on its way to becoming t

now that's a very good question why were they so skeptical the main arguments were environmental that laying a pipeline on the seabed would be dangerous in relation to archaeological treasure and place to leftover weapons from second world war and so on and so forth and i think the successful implementation of the project shows that what has always been quite clear is that these. cryptic critical standpoints arguments didn't have much basis in reality they were driven by some kind of of prejudice or some kind of alter multiple difficult to say exactly what's probably different motives for different actors at least now we see the project has been implemented successfully there haven't been any major problems. and most of the criticism has gone silent all right that one of the words criticism that had been embraced in the past was that of too much dependency will there be still those concerns too much dependency on russia with regard to energy supplies you think. i think there will always be voices who will be be critical but i think there's also a maturing understanding of the situatio

, climate skeptic.or it, but you didn't -- a funny thing happened on the way. >> well, i never believed there was no climate change, i simply felt that some of the other skeptics had raised valid issues that required addressing. >> what did you find? >> well, we studied four different effects that people thought might have affected the previous claims of global warming. one of them is whether heating of cities contributed unfairly to the estimate. cities do heat more. but that's not because of the greenhouse effects. so you don't want to include that in when you measure global warming. there are issues of whether they had treated the data fairly. they used only 20% of the data at most. and there were worries they had somehow selected the data in such a way that it would increase the effect. so we studied these and several other effects. >> what was your conclusion? >> our conclusion was that none of these effects actually had altered the data. it wasn't clear to me that this would be the answer. and so,

we need to be very skeptical of this testimony and put in all of the proper procedures. even in concert with other evidence, we need to be very skeptical. again, the job of the d.a. is to do justice, not to convict. we need to make sure that our evidence is completely reliable. >> and his use of incentivized witnesses is a terrible practice. these people are in jail for a reason and they become self interest. we talked about getting witnesses from the jail. and we should know exactly what is going on in these jails. people go into jail and they don't come out. sometimes they died. why should we know exactly what is occurring? we should know, just -- they don't have any right to privacy in jail. we should know the truth. maybe he is telling the truth. if he isn't, we know that that didn't happen. >> i think it goes to a training issue. you can put cameras everywhere you want, but at the end of the day, you have to teach how to do things right.

the police officer is still skeptical. one thing leads to another they have words professor gates it is quite upset thinking racial discrimination had something to do with that. >> host: but specifically? >> guest: may be. let's say for the sake of argument that henry louis gates was short tempered and was deferential what's even suppose he was being fought -- eric and is that the crime? i don't think so. i hope not and i would also hope that will trade police officers would be trained to look with this is a sense and not arrest people simply because for the sake of argument being arrogant. in any event the officer event the the the profs showed this was him. this is a firestorm, a press conference, the president is asked his views and the president, barack obama says, first of all, i don't know the facts but given what i do know, will i say this is racial discrimination? no. but he does say that it does appear it was a stupid action that the professor had given proof this was his house. he said it was stupid. stupid. ther

. >> so basically i should be more skeptical of these guys? >> yeah.ean, you may learn some of their bias. >> by being skeptical, can't you learn something -- >> yeah. >> you will learn from others around you being skeptical more than you will learn by becoming skeptical. >> oh. >> teach us a lot about markets. >> nice to see you. have a good holiday. good to see all of you as well. >> happy thanksgiving. >> next, we are off to egypt for a live report. richard in tahrir square. tens of thousands now protesting in excess of 100,000 at its peak. this time it's against the military. after this. let's go to vegas. alright, let's do it. let's do it, let's go to vegas. vegas baby! maybe we should head back to the dealership first? vegas! no, this is a test drive. vegas! [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a jetta. that's the power of german engineering. get zero first month's payment, zero down, zero security deposit and zero due at signing on any n