yeltsin's ambition was to gain power. and you paint a pretty ugly picture of yeltsin as a person who grabbed power and diminished the democracy and the reforms that gorbachev instituted and set up this kleptocracy. you call it a grafatization. clinton had a different leader to deal with, and that must have been a factor here. steve? jack? >> well, that certainly was, but the problem -- the problem during, in my opinion, during the clinton administration was, first of all, the decision to expand nato to the east without building a security system in which russia participated, at least in european security. therefore, we began to treat russia as a defeated country. whether we called it that or not. and then second, when we used nato to authorize an attack on serbia over kosovo without u.n. approval. now, this is -- these were the beginnings of the moves that set things up for the confrontation with russia that developed later. so i think that's where we began to get off the track. and i agree that many republicans today are

by yeltsin. and in yeltsin's memoirs, he said why. because putin had previously saved his own mentor from arrest from indictment by smuggling him out of the country. therefore, yeltsin said this was a man i knew i could trust. and the first act that putin committed when he became prime minister and yeltsin left office which meant putin was going to be the president was to sign a decree giving yet sltsin and hi family immunity from prosecution. so the whole entanglement of the kremlin with this property which i regard as stolen pillaged property, which is also the view of the majority of russian people, affected politics at the very top. how did it affect american releases? well, we endorsed and embraced the oligarchs until 1998 when the russian financial system melted down, and they reneged on their sovereign debt. and we got all agitated. but we have supported these people. and there's something that hasn't been noticed. they supported the expansion of nato eastward which was the most grievous m

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. >>> yeltsin upcoming police academy will put more officers on streets in the hills but that will take time. >>> are returning in the meantime to make citizens feel safe? kristen there's cbs five. the bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives is looking at last week's fire that shut down trend of service for most of the day the city ask for help in investigating the fire that started with add red star senior apartments the buyer is responsible for an estimated $25 million in damage. authorities had to evacuate most telling the word in order to get a fugitive out of their room it happened at about three this afternoon on mission boulevard tabitha i've ever had is officers were able to coax a 34 year-old joseph baca out into the open. the lead content of gang member was taken into custody and two outstanding warrants including sex with a child under 10. a woman the room was also taken into custody for drug possession and no one was hurt in the standoff. tibia's five is learning about a new crackdown on copper thefts in the spec of it involves our work and work by investigators to

the yeltsin years i never saw a fewer than six or eight old ladies picking through the snow for bottles to remember money to eat you don't see them anymore this is becoming a very middle class country now it is inefficient there is major corruption there it could do a lot better and i think it is going to gradually evolve in that direction but this is russia it's not singapore you're not going to see sudden change you're not going to see. rapid acceleration so a gradual opening of the political system is important but i think this is going to happen in the regions i think it's going to basically and say it was pointed out that one of the problems with russia is nobody respects anybody else is certainly everybody have a different opinion and people have a tendency to scream about you know their their opponents being absolute monsters which there are relatively few munster's on the scene so there has to be a gradual people have to talk to each other and there has to be a gradual cooling of the terms of the debate because otherwise the opposition is simply useless we don't mean erick i mea

. >> hawaii's governor says billionaire where yeltsin reached a deal to buy almost all of the island of lanai. it is the sixth largest wine island and according to the governor the current owner filed for a transfer application. larry ellison is the c o of oracle. the sale price is unclear but according to hawaii newspapers, it is between 500 and $600 million. heavy rain has caused severe flooding in minnesota. people who live in at least one neighbor hood evacuated from their homes. internet and cell phones service are down in several areas. police are asking people to stay off the roads. >> nasa's messenger probe found what looks like mickey mouse on the planet closest to the sun. at least three craters form the iconic face. messenger has taken more than 100,000 photos of the surface of mercury. >> it is a popular bay area bake,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> a san francisco woman has been honored with the national jefferson award for her cities, working her city's tough tender white neighborhood. mitch wilson received the jacqueline kennedy onassis award for service benefiting the local commun

bush running for president in 2000 was very critical of bill clinton's closeness to yeltsin, bush wastical of the behavior in chechnyia. then the two of them managed to create a fairly productive relationship for a number of years before it kind of broke down at the end. putin is a realist, a pragmatist. he doesn't take all this stuff too seriously and acts in what he sees as his own interest, not in what america thinks is his interest. >> it is certainly a developing situation. we will be pouring over the jpegs and online screen shots of the two men meeting all day with all sorts of armchair psychoanalysis. the "new york times" peter baker, thank you for your time, sir. >>> after the break, is marco rubio's dream over? what president obama's new immigration policy means for the gop's immigration policy. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. totell congress we can't wait.eo firecongress refuses to act.s, chances are, you're n

he pulled back and made it possible for gorbachev, the transition of the soviet union -- >> rose: yeltsin and -- >> that wouldn't necessarily have happened if there was like you're humiliating people to change and i don't think it was appropriate for helmet khol. there's very few people in public life that can be strong and humble. >> rose: how is his health today. >> it's good mentally. he's slower. he can't walk. he has to he's held up by a stroller. that's hard for a guy that's been so vital and vigorous in life. he still sends occasional e-mail which i get and love. >> rose: did he take the role of advice at all to president bush 43 when he was going through the worst of the iraq invasion and all that that debate became? >> they have an incredible relationship. it's like a father to a son. it's not like a policy advisor to a president. but they're in continual contact. it wasn't like once in a while. my guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly. more than i probably did. i apologize. >> rose: even though at one point in an interview he appealed to a higher fa

he wanted to make a deal with force yeltsin, the then president of russia, to give autonomy, particularly cultural autonomy to the city. what he did was stretch the word sovereignty. these people, the people of tatarstan, it was based on mutual respect. justice thomas so forth, all of the residents, they went and struck a deal. in return for significant tax breaks, etc., that tatarstan would remain within the russian federation. the deal was for a tenure period. when the deal was for new, it was trimmed back to some extent. but it is still there. you can see that the word sovereignty has an interesting implication that could apply to other areas, based on the tatarstan model. we turn to marseille, about 240,000 out of 839,000 inhabitants. moreover, there are sizable jewish and orthodox minorities, roughly 80,000 people each. they are, as well, every other nation and origin you can think of is represented in marseille. i should add that i have written an op-ed from the times which will run tomorrow which is drawn from the chapter on marseille, which is timely because this has become an iss