state which made the union state russia bellows the conference was held in london not in moscow not in minsk why wasn't it held on the territory of the state but abroad as a matter of fact i wouldn't call it as a conference it suggested was kind of a background meeting which was held in russian embassy and voice arranged by the russian vessel. so. and. it was a number of. political just and maybe editors of some some newspapers and. it was just an invitation i couldn't resist this temptation and said nothing special so do you consider this this meeting in the russian embassy in london as sort of a presentation of the union state to to the west yes right you it was the first stand in this direction i think that it's. not right because you're. right about the russian or the union state which was created in the west so i'd like to give more realistic. understanding what's going on between in relations between russia and belarus well here you have recently the end of last year replaced veteran politician bubble but i didn't as the head of t

on the eurasian question, i think it's going to be the same fate as the union state of russia, belarus. sometimes brought to the fore when it's needed for propaganda purposes, sometimes forgotten. you mentioned lukashenko. exactly the same pattern with that. this union state has existed since 1996. there hasn't been anything to do it. the only unintended consequences, the only good one, you were there, don, a couple months ago. one of the leaders of the opposition from belarus came here to washington to receive an award. and he's, of course, on the band, on the blacklist by lukashenko. he's not allowed to leave belarus. so what these opposition figures do, is because there's no border between belarus and russia, they go to moscow and take a plane from there and fly. that's the only good but unintended consequences of the union state. and in terms of your very important question on the transition, very much up to the regime how this transition will be. you know, when you saw the initial protests in december and february, you saw people coming out, you know, with families, with small kid

>> it shows a mixture of the types of states that are in the union like if all of the slave states succeeded and became part of the confederacy it is a real divide but if you keep the slave states in, then it kind of shows that you're not really letting that happen. >> yeah. that way it is not just the free north. have you some slave states in the union and lincoln is willing to try to compromise and do things to prevent war. for our purposes today maryland is the most important that we'll look at. the reason is that all of the railroads that went from the north to washington, d.c. weren't through baltimore. i am going to use this google map to illustrate the railroad lines and it works well because the railroad lines of the 1860s followed our interstate highway system and so one line went from philadelphia down through baltimore and to washington d.c. it roughly followed i-95. another line went from harrisburg roughly down i-83 to baltimore and another line came from the west roughly along route 70, and from here the trains would go southward to washington, d.c. so for lincoln it was impera

the soviet union has successfully detonated an atomic bomb. by the end of 1949, we basically have a stalemate in europe. the united states is propping up western europe. economically, militarily. the soviet union is propping up eastern europe economically, militarily and both countries are mutually suspicious of each other and both countries now have the atomic bomb. we're an awful lot alike. and we know that we simply don't want to push that envelope much further with both countries possessing nuclear weapons. and so what happens then, when we have this sort of stalemate in europe, it simply means that the cold war is going to spread into a different area. and we're headed into asia now. who's this fellow? china. >> i live right down the street from his street in cambodia. moo tse-tung. it's big street in cambodia, and i live a block away from there. isn't that cool? >> how many years ago was that? >> when i lived there. >> december a year ago. >> really? that's recent. all right. here's the situation in china. after the war's over, there is a civil war that engulfs china between the forces of chiang kai-shek and my tse

everybody has kind of in the back of their heads, all right, the slave states go in the confederacy, the free states go in the union. no, you have those border states. that lincoln has to deal with. his whole presidency he has to deal with more states going into the confederacy. all right. and any position he takes against slavery he has to worry about losing those slave states and potentially more. so this is going to be a constant thing he has to think about. the other thing i want you thinking about, okay, look at these areas for secession and against secession. mississippi, there are pockets in mississippi, particularly in poor areas, particularly along the river systems where they fear they're going to be right along the route of invasion where they are just not so sure about this whole confederate experience. jones county, county to the north is definitely going to be not necessarily pro-union but not so sure about the confederacy. there are pockets where you have these sections that, again, are not necessarily pro-lincoln, they're not abolitionists, but they're no so sure they're confederates. a lot of them

the very beginning. three african-americans, baker, townsend, mowry, they would enter union lines on the day that virginia votes to secede from the union so now it becomes a rebel state. may 23, 1861. they arrive, union lines, fortress monroe, southernmost point of the virginia peninsula. and they would meet with the general seeking refuge. he would give them refuge. when a confederate officer wanted property back. butler would argue these persons you claim is property. are being used to wage war against the unls. -- united states. i will confiscate such property as contraband of war. in 1861, congress would pass the first confiscation act that only applied to those being used in the effort. just any body couldn't enter the camp. butler at fort res, fort monroe. one cartoonist would call it the fort monroe doctrine, receiving the contraband. butler would allow women and children in. the children and the wives. of the soldiers, not soldiers, contraba contraband, confiscated. he would allow them in. you have really the first contraband camp of the war forming at fort monroe. butler would also be in association with abraham galloway as he returned to work with uncle sam

the soviet union has successfully detonated an atomic bomb. by the end of 1949 we basically have a stalemate in europe. the united states is propping up western europe economically and militarily. the soviet union is propping up eastern europe economically, militarily. both countries are suspicious of each other and both countries have an atomic bomb. we are an awful lot alike and we don't want to push that envelope much further with both countries possessing nuclear weapons. so what happens then when we have this stalemate in europe, it simply means the cold war is going to spread into a different area. and we are headed into asia now. who is this fellow? >> chairman mao. >> chairman mao. >> i lived down the street from this, and it's a big street in cambodia and i live a block away from it. >> wow. >> isn't that cool? >> how many years ago was that? when you lived there. >> december. a year ago. >> really? recent. all right. here's the situation in china. after the war is over, there is a civil war that engulfs china. between the forces, the nationalists and the communists, a civil war. long story short is, by the end

the manies many years. look at california. new york. automatic the states that, in fact, are in arrears because the unions who have controlled the states for so long. >>neil: thank you michael reagan. unions pumping millions into the wisconsin vote but does it have the power to win the race or are we looking at a man behind the curtain situation? michelle fields says wisconsin is proving union cash is king. that depends on them losing next week, and i guess you assume, michelle, them lose? >>guest: yes, this is actually very good for republicans because unions are using, wasting so were money, millions and millions of dollars on this election that they will probably use so what they are doing is exhausting their resources but they are energizing and mobilizing the conservative base, if you look at the numbers, all of walker's donation, 70 percent of his donations are less than $50. that shows how enthusiastic people are for walker and it is going to galvanize the people for the general election. >>neil: democrats have said, michelle, by pelosi and others, this is not that big a deal. >>guest: because they know they will loses. >>neil: o

the importance of killing off public sector unions. the most high profile is republican governor scott walker of wisconsin with a stroke of a pen wiped out 50 years of union rights in the statef wisconsin. wisconsin was the first state of the country to recognize union rights for employees where they were born but scott walker got rid of them. he did not campaign on getting rid of those rights but once elected said he had to kill union rights in wisconsin to save the state's budgets. when the unions said yes to all the financial concessions he asked for and he still wanted to kill them off, it became clear it wasn't about money, not about the budget. he wanted to get rid of union rights in order to get rid of unions all together. if you get rid of unions all together there is no one funding the other side. there is no one funding democrats when business funds republicans. you get rid of union rights and game the whole state so democrats cannot compete in the big money part of elections ever again. pull that off and wisconsin didn't just go all red in 2010, wisconsin will be all republican all red from here on out permanently. democrats will never recover. don't take my word

what they call the union state clearly it is in russia it's called so use the straits a joint venture and this is a visit that will probably outline the ways for the worse for integration biller us into russia but the real foreign visit that puts in starts his third term is to china and that should be taken as a note as as a hint for the direction of mr putin's foreign policy because biggest china is the number one his national rival for the u.s. to his china is a rising power. it is a game of words whether we call it a rising superpower china's g.d.p. is as large as ten trillion dollars while the u.s. g.d.p. is fourteen trillion and the chinese. economic growth is eight nine ten percent a year so it is a matter of time when china is catching up with the united states in terms of the size of the g.d.p. of course because of china's population g.d.p. per capita is much smaller but nevertheless china is taking seriously in the united states the policy of the bomber administration is called pivot to asia which means the u.s. will emphasize economic and strategic tarries with asian countri

a proposed amendment to the mcincome state constitution that could change the lives of house in the state. it is called amendment one. it would ban same-sex marriage, civil unionsps in that state. the reverend billy graham has endorsed a ballot initiative saying on his website "the bible is clear on god's definition of marriage." others, like president bill clinton, opposed the measure. listen. >> the real effect of the law is not to keep the traditional definition of marriage. we've already done that. the real effect of the law will be to hurt families and drive away jobs. north carolina can do better. again, this is bill clinton asking you to please vote against amendment one. >> but some argue the amendment is far more complicated and would have broader consequences. >> reporter: on tuesday north carolina voters will be making a big decision at the polls. the decision to change the state's constitution. amendment one would make marriage between one man and one woman the only recognized domestic legal union in the state. >> the reason we have to put it in other state constitution is that half a dozen other states have by judicial -- had a handful of judges ch

and as each state was readmitted to the union, the freedman's bureau left the state and left the state in the hands of its own governments. it didn't take long for those state governments to start passing different laws and different state constitutions, and to find loopholes in the constitutions that they had written, and by the mid 1880s, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, while they still existed in the constitution, were virtually null and void in the american south, and this ushered in the period of jim crow. welcome to the 1910 train depot at james madison's montpelier. we're located between route 20 and the norfolk southern railway. in 1910, this rail road belonged to southern rail and mr. dupont, who was the owner of montpelier at the time, wanted the train to stop for him, and in order to have that happen, he needed to build a train station, so he did. come on inside and i'll show it to you. the history at montpelier is very interesting in the dupont era, because of course, the duponts were not a southern family. the duponts especially willia

once the war is over, the united states and the soviet union decide to divide korea with the united states being in control of the southern part of korea, the soviet union is going to be administering the northern part of korea. eventually, both u.s. and ussr agree that we will withdraw and allow the koreans to have some degree of self-determination. we're going to pull out, soviet union's going to pull out. the koreans will be able to determine their future and their fate. and we both did. the difference is, when we pulled out, we basically took everything with us. when the soviet union pulled out, they left behind a stockpile of weapons. the most modern military technology that they had at the time, and that's the temptation that was going to be used the following summer, 1950, north korea with the use of soviet military armaments and try take possession of the entire country. this is exactly what kennan warned up about the soviet union is not content. they're going to expand into other areas. this is expansion trying to take over the southern part of korea. we must respond. he doesn't g

flag, wisconsin entered the union, as in the united states, not a trade union, in 1848. n wisconsin but they were wrong. they issued a correction. the president may be a socialist union pig stooge kenyan whatever but standing near a flag with wisconsin 1848 on it was not that. mistakes happened, politico was embarrassed. they ran the correction, story over. now something similar is happening. >> i believe america is on the way up. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> that's the end of a seven-minute campaign video unveiled yesterday. it appeared to may be the birth of a new campaign slogan, forward. took less than a day to uncover the sinister origins of that. here is michael walsh of the national review, tying the slogan "forward" to the name of the newspaper of germany's social democratic party. that's social as in socialist. walsh goes on to say, if you don't think david axelrod doesn't know this, you really ought to think again. victor morton notes that forward has a long and rich association with european marxism. his source, wikipedia

the united states. this is huge. and seven states leave the union specifically because of you, okay? i mean, seriously. ouch. all right? so lincoln's got to find a way to keep the country together. now as far as lincoln's concerned, the confederacy does not exist. he never -- there's one mishap where actually kind of de facto he recognizes the existence of the confederacy, in principle, his speeches, he never recognizes the existence of the confederacy. it's always the rebellious states, southerners, the rebellious people, rebel army. anything like that. he never actually recognizes the existence of those southern states forming into an independent country. what he tries to do in the spring of 1861 desperately is keep everything together. so what he's going to do in his inaugural address, they're in march in those days, is basically convince the south to come back into the fold. and he says in your hands my dissatisfied countrymen and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. don't try to get this down. it's cool. you'll miss it if you try to get it down. the government will n

lawmaker peter brown's debtor would modify the state's constitution to proclaim the marriage between man and a woman is the only legalized recog legally recognized union in the state and was broadly worded language me that any other kind of domestic partnership would not be recognized in north carolina so and the other type of relationship will be prevented from receiving benefits and protections by the state now the measure is going to make its way out of the ballot on may eighth where north carolina that will decide if they want to amend their state constitution to this bigoted definition of marriage but thankfully it seems that a growing number of people are opposed to amendment one today zero in university poll finding thirty eight percent of those asked supporting full rights for same sex couples and twenty nine percent supporting civil unions both of those numbers trending up from polls just a few months ago. and this isn't just a divisive issue in the state has received nation wide attention even obama said that he's against it let's get back to the runners here because after all peter's face is the one associated with the cement so earlier thi

level and the issue with the state unions, and this affects michiganlked about recalls and other things, the question is, do the unions with stranglehold control of the states politically, not just by getting their candidates elected but if they don't, overturning them, that issue i am telling you, that is a big issue but it goes to the issue to the context of chaos, in my opinion. and that hurts democrat unions badly. >>imus: did the -- >>stuart: did the unions have the money available or did they have to borrow it? they borrowed to back rebound and they are still borrowing more money now. >>guest: they are in wisconsin. you have to look at national money in wisconsin with a lot of money on both sides, the business brought a lot of union money and they borrowed and they are raising the union dues, and, look, we are talking about massive amounts of funding. but, this is a critical election. and in some ways it set as blood for november. >>stuart: we hear you, pat, thank you. protests fizzling out. is a new obama campaign ad attacking mitt romney and ba

once the war is over, the united states and the soviet union decide to divide korea with the united states being in control of the southern part of korea and the sev yet union is going to be administering the northern part of korea. eventually both u.s. and uss r agree we will withdraw and allow them to have a degree of self determination. we are going pull out and the soviet union will and the koreans will be able to determine their future and fate. we both did. the difference is when we pulled out, we took everything with us. when the soviet union pulled out, they left a stockpile of weapons. the most mot earn technology they had at the time. that's a temptation that was going to be used. the following summer with the use of soviet military armaments, they will innovate and try to take possession of the country. this is what they had warned us about. they are going to expand into other areas. this is a classic example of expansion and trying to take over the southern part of korea. we must respond and he doesn't go to congress to ask for a declaration of war. he thought it might set a ba

2008 he promised the hispanic incident moo that his priority would be in his first term, in fact, his first year, would be immigration reform. even mentioned it in his first state of the unionand after the state of the union when democrats controlled the white house, the house and the senate, where was the president? he didn't fight hard for immigration. on the contrary. he ruled that of ideology instead of rel right and went to health care and forgot about immigration until, what do you know, it's an election year and it's sin co-dimaio and months before an important election. hispanics all over america, especially in battle ground states, should remember what the president did and what the president said in 2008 -- >> arthel: we know -- >> did he nothing in to 2012. >> arthel: you know the dream act was vote before congress a year ago. passed in the house, majority of the senate voted, but ultimately it didn't pass and the president saying, if i have this job for the next four years, i'm gog bring it back up. >> the key here is that -- brad is a good fellow. we do these things all the time together. he can't escape the fact that romney has taken extreme anti-immigration p

on this issue, in your book, union war, you make a forceful case for the fact that millions of northerners fought this war to save the union, the united states. in fact, i've never read a book on the civil war where the term united states was used as much. i know you well. it is quite explicit on your part. are you in any way as a thoughtful historian that has to live in the present concerned that there is a death of prague ma matt tichl? the ultimate aim that a cohesive republic is endangered based on your study of what union meant in the 19th century? do we have a language of union anymore? >> i am not so sure. another thing we don't have. this plays off what you were saying. i don't think we have much of a sense of the civil war or anything else in our history. i think an indication of that is the sort of hysterical treatment of everything that happens now. it is the worst. there has never been anything like this. we have never been as divided as we are now. there has never been a problem with immigration if you are now. the only way you can believe that is if your historical memory goes back to last thursday. if it goes back very far, yo

this is the economic condition of west african states. the african unionnd others including the united states. the mission in liberia has been able to reduce the size of its force from some 15,000 to less than now 10,000 soldiers. some of the conditions that led to 14 years of civil still exist and in society could be exploited again to incite violence. that is one of the reasons why the government of liberia has asked to be praised on the agenda of the peace building commission. and that country is one of the si

government, the oecd, most of the european union's member states, the international monetary fund, allre telling you so. >> merkel faced a barrage of criticism, not least because of big regional elections looming this weekend. many important issues facing the g-8 summit were not mentioned at all. >> in other news, syrian state media reported that unidentified terrorists planted the two car bombs that exploded today outside a secret police building in the basket. but opposition spokesmen are denying responsibility and accuse the assad regime itself of gearing up the bombings which left 50 people dead and hundreds wounded. >> the biggest attack in the capital since the start of the syrian uprising in march 2011. it was sophisticated and coordinated. one blast was followed by a second larger one, maximizing casualties, damage, and terror. the u.n. security council has condemned the killings. >> the car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in central damascus during rush hour. the interior ministry said nearly a ton of explosives was used. many who survived were left in shock. nearly all t