in that state. they have no political power many that state -- in that state. they get none of the benefit from any of the schools, fire, police, yet they're being asked to become unpaid tax collectors. and that is, we think, is not fair. we think that that puts a burden on them, an unfair burden on them. the taxes due in the states, states do other things to collect taxes from the internet and from catalog sales as well, from remote sales is probably a better way to say it. alabama just sent out a letter to everyone, and they received, i think, one-third of the people who received the letter sent back some statements. other states have things, lines on their income tax trying to -- there are ways to try for states to look at this rather than throw an expensionive burden upon -- expensive burden upon internet and and remote marketers. >> host: mr. peterson? what's your response to that? >> guest: thank you. jerry's correct that the supreme court has said that states do not have the authority -- >> h

states. the census bureau announced the state's population has grown enough to merit one more representative in congress. our state has been enhanced by transplants through the midwest and northeast and from people across the world due to a mild climate and lower tax rates. after 80 seats it appears we will regain a seventh house member. the people of south carolina will now have another advocate on their behalf in washington and another electoral vote for president. growing our representation on capitol hill is a key factor in achieving goals for the people of south carolina. our state will have another voice fighting for conservative principles with the new district on the grand strand with florence. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we will never forget september 11 and the global war on terrorism. godspeed to marine captain kay hunter who successfully accomplished her service and now will be in the office of the marine corps. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri seek

now are american states bankrupt and should they be able to declare it if that's the case states are currently not allowed to declare bankruptcy only local municipalities but a reuters report alleges that republicans have set their sights on changing that but why would politicians want american states to be able to clear bankruptcy most importantly it would allow them to renegotiate obligations potentially slash public employee benefits which have been blamed for many states financial woes so would this be just a ploy to wipe out the democrats' most powerful donors the public sector unions or is this a financial imperative for the economic future of america well join me to discuss this issue is patrick gleason director of state affairs at americans for tax of tax reform and michaele cleaver journalist and contributing editor for in these times gentlemen thank you both for being here well i will just ask the basic question should states be allowed to declare bankruptcy. yeah i'll take that one the simple answer is yes and there are three numbers that illustrate why this is a needed to

in the united states. it is where the greatest concentrations of both light and heavy rare earth elements exist. particularly those needed for the defense industry. rare earth ore or oxides needs to be reduced into a pure and elemental state before it can be used by industry. redeveloping our rare earth capabilities will be no easy tax. the hurdles for financing such a refinery are significant. the cost to construct a rare earth refinery capable of supplying u.s. consumption of 20,000-tons per year is estimated at more than $1 billion, perhap perhaps $1.5 billion. i do not believe it is practical or desirable for the united states to depend upon any single rare earth mining company to supply our nation's rare earth productions or supply chain requirements. that's why our legislation will require a feasibility study on building a u.s. cooperative refinery to process rare earth ores from other mines in the united states or other allied countries. and there are a number of states which have rare earth, califo

a good number of border states and nonborder states. it is hispanics. i joke, young intern, i told them, one of these days, there'll be one african-american in the state senate and another person in this that probably looks like me but be from the dominican republic, nice brown skin, but that's okay, i want them to have a district where they could fight for issues. you got to back -- these are not our seats. the -- this is -- this notion of the racial germandering is to create opportunitys for people that think like us. some people that look like me don't think like me. you got to be careful with it. >> americans demographics is moving in favor of communities of color. so community of color's backs shouldn't be against the wall, in terms of scrambling for representation. in 2000, there were 35 million african-americans. in 2010, there were 42 million african-americans. there are seven million mare people of african descent than 10 years ago. that's an opportunity for thking representation, not decreasing. not retro aggression. so, as senator ellis menti

state.e people getting by if they are not getting paid by the state? >> that's the tragedy. people borrow money. they borrow in order to get by until the state pays them. >> reporter: they are subsidizing the state, they are giving the state a float. >> exactly. >> reporter: and who dow owe that money to? >> pretty much anybody who has any interaction with state government we owe money to. >> reporter: that would include everyone from the university of illinois which is owed $400 million to small businessmen like mire who owns a pharmacy in chicago and has been waiting months for $200,000 in medicaid payments. then there are the 2000 not for profit organizations that are owed a billion dollars by the state. lutheran services has been around since 1867 and provides critical services to 70,000 people, mostly the elderly, the disabled and the mentally ill. the state owed them $9 million just before thanksgiving and they nearly had to close up shop. how long you can go on like this? >> well, we

if you look at the state map, we see large variations across the states.t circumstances have combined to contribute to the population growth or decline in each state are the state with the largest rate of population growth in the last 10 years is nevada with 35.1% growth. i note that in the last census, nevada showed a 66% growth. on the other hand, mich. saw a decline of the 0.6% and puerto rico a decline of 2.2%. in census 2000, 10 years ago, no state experienced a 10-year decline. however, in the 1990 census, four states experience decline. let's go into each region. within three regions, you will see very asians across each state. we begin in the northeast where we see rhode island with 0.4% growth compared to new hampshire with 6.5% growth. in the midwest, we again see the decline in michigan but we also see a 7.9% growth in south dakota. in the south, there was a great range among individual states. for example, louisiana with a 1.4% growth and west virginia with a 2.5% growth can be contrasted with texas with a 20.6% growth. in the west, there is ev

if people don't fillets a been adequately stated, we're happy to try state it more clearly w that, i'd wreeld to the senator from south carolina. -- i'd yield to the senator from south carolina. mr. demint: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. demint: i want to thank my colleague from south carolina and associate with his remarks. i appreciate the chairman's support of the idea of committing ourselves to developing a missile defense system that could protect against russian missiles. but, unfortunately, during the debate in committee, when we offered this as a binding amendment on the treaty, it would not be accepted unless we moved it to a mere declaration, which has no force of law. but it's good that bev brought it up and -- that we have brought it up and recognized that it is a major point of contention in the adoption of this treaty. so i'd like to begin by speaking in support of my colleagues, senator john mccain and senator john barrasso's amendment to strike the language in the treaty preamble that links offensive and defensive systems an

state and its absorption into the south. the lead government is more closely aligned with u.s. foreign policy goals on the korean peninsula than say the government's president's role in presidents kim. in south korea. president lee is often times seen as a puppet of the united states and the area around his office is called by many south koreans the news united states of south korea south korea certainly seized on any opportunity it can to escalate tensions there is the sinking of the south korean corvette chain on then which was immediately blamed on north korea over north korean denials and there are many in south korea who do not believe the official inquiry then we have the artillery exchange that happened on november twenty third which has been blamed on north korea however the exchange was triggered by south korea marine garrison on an island that lies very close to the north korean coast you consider that you consider a president leaves hostility toward north korea. it's his policy of confrontation deescalating more g

united states. are continually gaining market share. we have the most enviable position in china. but we talked about our plans -- we all live here and believe me, if you think about this, when i was at mci, we would not run the same ads in a birmingham, abama, as we did in brooklyn. there areifferent regions. california is kind of a culture of its own. so is alabama. so is minnesota. so is china. we'll look at china in four different ways. the big cities, shanghai, hong kong. and then we looked -- if you looked out in the western provinces, it would not sell in any industrial markets because we have to sell it for down in the $5,000 range. it does not have electric windows. that would free all of us t. -- phreak all of us out. it might hurt my wrist. we not only sell pulp market, but we will slow down market. -- up market, but we will sell down market. we have a new chevrolet that is coming out. it looks like a bmw. we stock all the cars in that sector up against the chevrolet and we e right in the

christian state a hindu state or any state it has to be a democratic state which believes in equal rights for its citizens israel currently is not it's an apartheid state gil. i'm very proud to be a citizen of a state where where we have arabs that are part of our government they are part of our supreme court an arab just one. unique on tast this is very much a democratic state in a sea of ananda democratic states in the region i wish my relatives had the right of return to iraq but they're not allowed there because they are jewish and there are thousands of jewish refugees from arab and muslim lands the same amount go ahead on american head and we found only we can agree on more of their i suppose my jewish refugees. i would i would fully support the rights of jewish refugees to return to iraq yemen egypt or any other country that they originate from and to receive compensation for any lost properties as a human rights advocate i have to be totally consistent all refugees have a right to go home and to receive compensation for properties pillaged or misused or abused so i would support t

host: you released a state-by- state breakdown?i encourage people to look at that if they want to. we do have a shortfall to years, but not necessarily deficit figures because of the shortfall being what they project in the lack of funds. remember, they have to balance the budget. in the end they do not have an out right deficit. host: indianapolis, good morning. caller: quickly, first of all the best answer for our economic problems is to have federal level monetary reforms. we need to stop paying interests to private and central banks. people need to take that as a bottle. guest: it is interesting, north dakota has a bank but there are factors in that area that have made them economically successful. most of them being there western oilfields and things like that that have been profitable. they have done fairly well during that recession. it is very hard to determine whether it is the bank itself that makes the big difference or if it is other economic factors. host: pa., last call. another interesting state with a budget situati

by state in their states studies on this in almost all cases the contributions immigrants make including illit undocumented immigrants present a net gain in terms of taxes and entrepreneurial ship is supposed to the services through education that they take you right now we are trailer illegal we know exactly what you're that's exactly down properly deborah is exactly right to understand that they contribute in general and what we also know is when they're legalized they add more to our economy number two the fact of the matter is they at immigrant man according to the pew hispanic organization immigrant men between the ages of eighteen and thirty one are about a third less likely to commit crimes and be incarcerated than ever i mean to jump in right now and i'll let you finish your point of let you finish your point when we return after a short break we'll continue our discussion on u.s. immigration policy stay with our. if you. want to. read you the latest in science and technology from the realms. we've got the future covered. next to the. beach. on the border of peace and war. they'r

could go this is this is this is not the state of israel this is not the state of israel this is the occupied territories and i dream of the struggle in the. wrong times israel jewel it won't come. come out. it's due to the comfortable. with. each other david go ahead go ahead john. if alec if alex wanted palestinian palestinians said he could have it he is talking about a unique situation why christians are leaving but the handful there are trying to come back and then it's a policy in a million christians and it is wrong for him to be deceitful and think that it's not right no no look this it's not a policy a christian is it and these two of left the land and the exempt are separate in the you lose your rights as to be a jerusalem all right residency all right david david that's why i go to those you would say to folks i go to you know i want to ask david david david i mean did what is really the difference then i mean it's just the israeli state and if we go from what daphne had to say i think i mean if it's unique or not i mean these really state wants jerusalem all of jerusalem

if you look at the state map, we see large variations across the states. many different circumstances have combined to contribute to the population growth or decline in each state are the state with the largest rate of population growth in the last 10 years is nevada with 35.1% growth. i note that in the last census, nevada showed a 66% growth. on the other hand, mich. saw a decline of the 0.6% and puerto rico a decline of 2.2%. in census 2000, 10 years ago, no state experienced a 10-year decline. however, in the 1990 census, four states experience decline. let's go into each region. within three regions, you will see very asians across each state. we begin in the northeast where we see rhode island with 0.4% growth compared to new hampshire with 6.5% growth. in the midwest, we again see the decline in michigan but we also see a 7.9% growth in south dakota. in the south, there was a great range among individual states. for example, louisiana with a 1.4% growth and west virginia with a 2.5% growth can be contrasted with texas with a 20.6% growth. in the wes

department report states this.ussia's confidence-building measures in the decoration sincu 1992 has not satisfactorily documented whether it's biological weapons ibi program d terminate. they said the same thing five years later that they said back in 2005. so we don't know. right now they are supposed be eliminating the biological weapons convention and they didn't doo it.eapo chemical weapons, 2000 by the state department says quotevi russia is in violation of its chemical weapons convention obligationsig because its declaration was incomplete witho respect to declarations of reduction and development facilities. in 2010, the state department again stated that there was an r absence of additionalg in information from russia u resulting in the united statesee being unable to ascertainl o whether russia has declared all of its chemical weapons stockpiles, all chemical weapons production facilities and all of its chemical weapons development facilities. so all the iy are saying is nowt five years later after they ha

represent the state's interest in defending a state statute. to go one further question about that earlier discussion about whether anyone tried to get this court to appeal the attorney general. that was a a writ of mandate case. did the court say anything about that? >> per did me, i do not have the specific recollection of the court's ruling in that case. >> better to say you do not know than to guess. -- four give me. and-- forgive me. >> we can certainly check that. there are two of you in this hour. and to go your designated only one of us would be eligible -- that was a wise decision. >[laughter] >> in light of that directive and the fact that i am at the podium first, i would like to reserve the balance of my time, which is just a couple of minutes for rare bottle. >> certainly. >> thank you. >> sorry for the delay. may it please the court, my name is robert tyler. the plaintiffs think that justice is served where appellate review is frustrated in this case, where the state depended circumvent any evidence to state law that they are poli

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the parliament here first state dinner then the federal counts on this could happen early as tomorrow but all the best of what amendments us has made to the ratification document is called the ratification resolution it's in the hands of russian legislators now we have learned there are some amendments we don't know how significant they are and it all depends on on that significance because that is the deal breaker right tomorrow we'll go to the state dinner they'll study it and see if those terms and conditions set by the u.s. are the ones that they originally agreed upon if they're not it's a very significant changes then and they may not end up ratifying it at all if they minor changes than they could end up voting on it tomorrow not just then but also the federal council because both houses of parliament are very keen to push this but a vacation through as soon as possible so is president of yet if he urged and hoped both house of commons would do that as soon as possible and that's because russia wants to honor the original agreement there but that the ratification process not on

states which we can work on jointly been continued to work directly even if sadly and we got a really good treaty does going to get approved ok dinner if i can go to you and i read your lengthly. support report supporting the ratification process but there are other other global issues here number one president made bed of that signed the agreement with president obama i mean from a russian side looking at this is that well what paper is what is it worth a paper that obama signs if ratification isn't going to go through after the lengthy process and it was very bipartisan up until the midterm elections ok and there's also the other issue here that's very important and you mentioned in your research is the nonproliferation regime which has been in tatters for over a decade and obama and i'm not a supporter of or against him ok but i think as a reasonable person nonproliferation is a very very important issue today because of some of the countries that have already been mentioned in this program so it does have a very important ramifications if this treaty does get in trouble beyond the

could the united states senate rise? with the united states senate accomplished this important goal which has meaning not just to us but to them because they have joined with us in resolution 1929 in order to put pressure on iran and not to mention long-term efforts we made with respect to north korea. what we do here is going to be an expression of our opportunity, our ability to provide leadership to the american people. let me clarify one thing at the onset of this discussion. we have enough time to do this treaty. anybody who wants to claim we don't have time and can't do it, is right before christmas and so forth, let me just remind people the original s.t.a.r.t. agreement which was passed back in 1992 was a far more dramatic treaties and the new s.t.a.r.t.. the original s.t.a.r.t. treaty was formulated in the aftermath of the demise of the soviet union. there was a huge uncertainty in russia at that point in time. the soviet union had just collapsed and yet despite all of the uncertainty, despite the complexity of

>> in seven states, you can never vote again. most states, you cannot vote while you are on paper. because of the criminal background record checks that are now ubiquitous, incredibly, a, you have a hard time ending an apartment, getting a car loan, getting any kind of job. i'm a convicted felon, and it would not hire me and walmart. i could not work the cash register at burger king. most occupations and recessions are close to you because you are a convicted felon -- occupations and jobs. when you see homeless people outside, most of them have felony convictions, mostly bullshit felonies, the little felonies. that is why they cannot get jobs. that is why they are panhandling and sleeping in doorways. their numbers are just going to multiplied next year, the year after, 10 years from now. >> let me ask, would you agree there are significant areas for people who have criminal history records? >> i would agree. it is not just people who have felony convictions and going to prison, but i was struck this morning by the stories that amy told, and a gentleman who was a reporter in santa

to the united states of america and becomes a citizen of the united states of america this child is continuing to be a citizen of the russian federation until eighteen years old and we have a right to support with chad like a citizen of the russian federation and we have. a right to observe all the situation with this adopted child in the new family and the second thing is. recognition of. the russian federation's court decisions in the united states of america because during this new agreement it wouldn't be necessary to. have a decision in the united states of america court just enough to have a decision of the russian federation court and this season will be recognized in that is this of america it's very important what's the position of our states in general on adoption of russian nationals by foreign parents i mean position is we. have to be patient we have to. recognize our obligations. which our state law. gives to us i mean we have a special. article in the family court which. gives rights for any overseas adoptive families to adopt the russian child if this child cannot fin

criminals or for such crimes presently visible so said in his state of the union state of the nation address he said those such criminals will be severely punished so are you one him saying this. same thing that the laws that are in place right now are not enough our president initiated the new. the new labor court. records which. make such a year for the duration of the field the different criminals which. crimes against children. to go into the children's environment and to walk in such. like. gardens schools children's halls you know as russia modernize as more and more young people use internet now how do you make sure that. safety is guaranteed online does russia for example have an active online anti-pattern taskforce where. all for income for the state duma parliament to. do to build up a new law new law which can restrict. information which children can use for music internet which can restrict negative information which can then which children. as the new amendments here have to do. to introduce them for our parliament because in. such difficult and such charge situation wit

the united states responded. and so understanding that there were obligations made and that we do have some tools that we can use in making sure that they follow through, in terms of respecting those obligations is probably job number one. two, would be to recognize the macroeconomic environment and that is that they have a terribly out of kilter currency. that by many estimations, not least of all the imf believes that it needs to appreciate a good 15 to 20%. and with that, you will have more in the way of export opportunities. >> rose: what do the chinese say to that. >> i think they recognize this point. if you look back, i mean let history be your guide. look at what they did between 2004 and 2007 when they basically appreciated it at 21%. slow, gradual and incremental. but nonetheless, at the end of the exercise, and i think they would have continued were it not for the global economy hitting the wall. and so they discontinued the appreciation along about 2007, based on the uncertainty in the global economic

two nuclear superpowers that goes with it for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of the of his administration all of the military all living former secretary of state and up to fans were calling for senators not to ruin this reset opportunity for us russia relations and the outcome of the world will show whether or not their calls fell on deaf ears in congress once he's going to japan reporting their well joseph syrian siani the president told the campaign group the ploughshares fund says barack obama has done well to overcome the many obstacles in the starts treaty ratification process. most of the opposition to this relatively modest treaty has been political the opposition what thought they could deliver a knockout blow to president obama they missed and he struck them down instead part of it is ideological there's about twelve to twenty senators in the car in the senate that are just opposed to arms control treaties they're arguing to the bitter end but they're a minority they're losing they were trying to run out the clock they kept making the argumen

i don't have citizenship in the state of israel i live here as an international person ok being born in jerusalem in you're an international person if i could go to daphne in your opinion what is the biggest porton reason why we see such a diminished. communal christian community in palestine now is it are people discriminated against in your opinion and who discriminates against them do the israelis really want to have a christian community amongst them amongst them. oh you have asked me several questions about let me first say. corrective information that alex has just. maintained it's true that even in jerusalem itself it is at its peak a delay to him and the story period the christians form about twenty percent of the jerusalemites in arab population however it's not correct as for the whole of mandatory palestine now there is a difference in. the reserves course between the state of israel in jerusalem jerusalem east jerusalem and the palestinian authority and it's a little bit misleading to speak about the drop of percentages a and translate that into a drop of figure is a if i

states or israel. no matter. what the statement in the preamble of this treaty should be deleted 0 so that -- so that we give strong senate direction to our policy of providing the strongest defenses possible against the growing danger of iran. i'm currently confused as to which cabinet department is preeminent on this issue. the state department largely negotiated the preamble generating pressure for the united states to recognize -- quote -- "undermining the viability and effectiveness of strategic offensive arms of the parties." in plain english we would run our defense programs to preserve the ability of russia to

movement in the united states. forces in the country and we know that conservatives saw very influential especially in places like the. bible belt. is a new thing. and they're trying to bury anything in the main with obama notwithstanding what they had simply. gone through his vital interests the signing of the three g. enabled the if by dual young dynamic president self united states and russia will get basically plaudits not just by. by older people as we call them in this time so good we'll of all reasonable people iran the planet because they're just and as i said bad signing these kind of three d. as and moving. along. for all. the strengths and the international stability and it's only. in the field. weapons of mass destruction. shown the cause and these are the position of the russian side as i understand it any further drastic cuts in the. forces would be impossible with all the members of. joining us. and still to come in the program the call from russia's deaf community to be heard. it's a sign of the tim

united states and the u.k. wouldn't have been so eager to support this criminal element coming to power in kosovo but right now that's water under the bridge and we have to figure out how to go forward ok if i go to you me show a lot of people were saying back then exactly what alan just said now it was a mistake to back these people the most violent element in kosovo is politics i mean there are intelligence reports out there that we knew exactly who we were dealing with but at the same time in one thousand nine hundred since the you know this is we're bringing reference back to that i'd like to quote someone that rather well known today fighting for the k.l.a. is fighting for human rights an american values joe lieberman said that in one thousand nine hundred nine i wonder if he would stick by those words today go ahead make sure. well he might do because some people are quite brazen about it and think that independent kosovo is in the interest of the united states but you're quite right many of those things

in the states to look at a program coming up next here on our t.v. join us as we travel across american soul that was once very much part of russia. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition language. this is the first to go pete could be. culture. the thing is that the have the genders are still unaware of what's going on in their lives you're still asking what you. like. i don't know a thing about alaska the great. one archie. more news now the israeli government so brutal nomadic arab tribes from the desert that they've lived in for over a century the jewish state says of the bed it was built without permission but there's deep suspicion that the crackdown on arab villages is to replace them with jewish settlements both maltese paula sleep in the negev desert. in the middle of nowhere the remains of all i'm a keep village. for the third time in two weeks israeli police came with the voters as and in a little more than an hour with demolished sixty houses. from a flood no this is my land i have a paper i h

both states have some very significant reductions underway over the next ten years the countries will cut their nuclear arsenals by a third down to some fifteen hundred fifty deployed warheads on each side the deal also limits the number of delivery vehicles and launchers but even with those cuts both russia and the u.s. will still hold more than ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so many agree that the value of the new arms reduction treaty is not just in reductions but i think it's also important to say that the significance of the treaty is much larger than the implications for arms control it really does give a lot of momentum and boost to the broader u.s. russia reset and i think puts obama and medvedev on course to cooperate more closely on a whole host of issues and it may well be that this is seen as a turning point in which the russia us rivalry of the past is finally laid to rest for weeks and months the president of the united states all members of his administration the military all living former secretary of state and of defense were calling for senators not to

well i think from the very beginning the notion of israel was to be a jewish state to be a jewish state but also a democratic state with full rights for all of its citizens to which were known jewish i think in all the world to have one state that is in free countries tradition by the spirit judaism is really inappropriate i mean many countries have the stablished state churches. be a church descended to great britain but no one would suggest that. in the u.k. verse god. freedom democracy. rights for all of its citizens recently. foreign ministers put off their decision to recognize color. stein how does this set back your mission well i think personally i would say my view but shared by many others is that a palestinian state should come out of direct negotiations between the palestinian authority in the state of israel and i hope that happens at some point soon but i think that's the way the state of palestine should emerge not by some recognition or a decree from outside. recently replace the an interior ministry official deny the holocaust and be called a legend and this sort of cas

perhaps in a few other states as well. the tea party needs to be very careful and judicious in their selection of candidates and what areas they go into in these various races and hopefully, this election has taught them what they can do and what perhaps they should not be doing. >> you co-founded the mainstream republican group 1998. you are now part of this no labels group. is there any solution in your thinking? >> not really. i have been involved in moderate republican politics for some time. we had a tuesday group. i got involved with amo houton. these are fundraising entities and helping moderate candidates. i think they are doing a good job. no labels is a different thing. it is just starting and it is not a political party. it is basically a movement. they had their first major meeting in new york and mayor bloomberg and others including myself spoke their at that session and their concept is that we need to work together as republicans and democrats. their slogan is not right, not left, so i agree with that concep

the united states the u.k. have been saying for years to the serbs just livin cost of under albanian rule that's life just move on and forget the past but if you understand that not only were serbs ethnically cleanse not only were serbs killed not only were certain serb a church is an historical sites destroyed but maybe in fact serbs had their organs physically removed they were killed their organs are physically removed and sold you can start to understand why the serbs of kossovo don't want to live under ethnic albanian rule and that's why it's very very important for us to understand that and to put pressure on prishtina to ensure that they give autonomy to the serbs the serbs north of the ybarra river in northern kossovo and also to serve enclaves elsewhere in cost so that's first of all second of all i think that mr marty is is right that if we as i've said i don't think we can reverse history i don't think that we can after seventy two countries recognize the independence of kosovo i don't think we can g

it's about the state department. we are revealing, you know, our internal controls because, you know, -- >> let me put it this way -- >> we want to make sure that our documents are adequately protected and that we have the ability to detect, if anything like this occurs in the future. but you know, i'm constrained in what i can say here because there is an ongoing investigation. to the extent that their are a number of networks that feed into this database, we have made some adjustments. and that has narrowed, you know, for the time being those who have access to state department cables across the government. >> okay, so it is correct that there are people now who, two weeks ago, had access to cables outside the government and now do not have it, is that correct? >> that is likely, yes. >> and it is also the case that there's some people and said the department who do not have access to these cables? >> inside the department -- i mean, i'm not sure that there's a change in access, but we have made -- we are going bac

for six months russian capital was in a state of siege. days and nights people lived in fear of occupation and were preparing for the desperate defense. took me to. the summit army switched to the offensive that was the first su near defeat of the where my. battle for moscow on our keep. welcome to cross talk on people about tree mind you were talking about the should teachers arms reduction treaty. but before let's see what russians think about this treaty the new strategic arms reduction treaty was signed in prague this april by presidents of russia and the united states the treaty will come to force after being read to quiet by the parliament of both countries stott is seen as one of the men to cheat most of obama's foreign policy and a key element in setting russia u.s. relations by their rectification in the u.s. senate is now in danger since republicans are threatening to derail it the right. public opinion research center asked russians who would benefit more by signing this thought treaty thirty three percent of the respondents sai

i see some eighty told leaders of fifty six member states it's time to overcome the stereotypes of the past under solve the differences mentioned albums and. it's the final day of lobbying for countries trying to host the football world cup still twenty eight twenty twenty two people will decide tomorrow russia is among the favorites and force official say that when the lose the country will still benefit from the new stadium as. well as we've been reporting the presence of bombers urging the senate to hurry up with a start agreement with russia but we'll have el asks his guests in crosstalk domestic u.s. politics is interfering with foreign policy. and you can. follow and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle start forward or start back with a new strategic arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. ever become law obama is putting all his political weight behind senate ratification while many see opponents playing politics in danger in global security . can. discuss ratification of the new start treaty i'm joined by my guests in washington richard burt he's a managing direct

if the united states intends to deploy more capable missiles either to defend europe or the united states, which it is our stated policy to do. so are we to believe that the administration will ever put this treaty at risk over future missile defense plans? that's a subject we'll be exploring in debt. -- in depth. certainly the senate gave advice to the administration not to limit missile defense or conventional prompt global strikers which is a capability that would permit us to deliver over long ranges, inte intercontinental ranges, something that is not a warhead, something that this administration and i think are very important for our future ability to deal with rogue states, for example. nevertheless, contrary to congress's instructions, the administration has subjected advance capabilities to limitations in this treaty. and we'll discuss that. eighth is something else. there are people that say there's nothing that stands between us and a world of -- a nuclear-free world. it's called zero nuclear. the president's stated goal of a world without nuclear weapons. some say that this tr

ball just in time for the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the start of the civil war and while the state defends its event saying that they're just representing the concept of self government the end of a c.p. argues that the history of slavery is being completely downplayed if not outright ignored here jamal buoy will give us his take on it then more flex on the advancements in medicine thanks to send cell research just last week alone scientists grew hair follicles through stem cells in one man who was hiv positive no longer has any hiv cells in his bloodstream courtesy of subsystem cell experimentation so is this proof that stem cell research is the key to finding cures in the future we're going to have a debate on the topic and britain wants to ban it pornography according to reports the only way the brits will be able to access their nudie pics as if they go through an opt in process now the government says that it's all meant to protect the children but is that really the government's job or to that topic at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. all eyes are t

non-state oil companies ucas the company grew from a state selloff in the one nine hundred ninety s. when government assets were being hived off in often shady circumstances it soon became russia's fastest growing oil producer but the path to success had a dark side to offer that his associates were later found guilty of a number of murders. the thieves place is in prison. is accused of stealing tax evasion and fraud with the new charges he faces it's about stealing hundreds of billions his company's security chief is in prison for murder. for that course he has always insisted he's innocent of the fraud charges which put him behind bars and the since his arrest in two thousand and three ignoring his past many in the west believe that he was singled out for prosecution among the billionaire businessmen because of his political ambitions the russian authorities say you can is purely a victim to the economic crimes of its management i think there's a strong upper edge on the part of many in the media and in the russian liberal media and definitely in the west to to politicize it as muc