The tv channel, belarus four in the potemkin palace you can not only see the interior, but also get acquainted with some unusual art. Do you know that in belarus, in addition to embroidered shirts, there is also a lieutenant, if embroidered shirts logically embroider what lieutenants do . I honestly i dont know, lets figure it out. Well, natalya will help me with this. Hello natalya. What is the difference between an embroidered shirt and a lieutenants shirt, cut out of paper, translated from belarusian into russian, this is a cut out of paper. Let me take one of your masterpieces. And this here, lieutenant, is very reminiscent of some kind of curtain, they are called trusses. Yes, why would the belarusians, instead of sewing them, cut out curtains for themselves . After the war, there was a shortage of fabric, so our belarusians cut them out very beautifully. But teach me to do something. Well, you can cut out the simplest snowflake. Well, by the way, i wanted to say that, in essence
Im Contessa Brewer. Hope you had a fang taktastic holiday. Lets take a look at futures were shaping up to have a slight hely lower open. Implied futures down 25 points, s p up just slightly here at one point and the nasdaq off by five taking a look at the treasuries and ten year notaes Holding Steady after rising slightly on friday were up about 2. 5 yield on the day. European markets are closed today for boxing day, but taking a look at the asian equities, the nikkei is off by 0. 2 . Shanghai risen by three quarters of a and the kospi has dropped by half a percent. As for the broader markets, oil down just slightly this morning. Wti crude is off by 0. 1 brent almost 0. 2 . And nat gas up they now expect the north sea pipeline to reopen in early january. And that is just tempering somewhat the production cuts weve seen in russia and by he opec taking a look at currencies now, and the dollar is also Holding Steady this morning. Down just slightly a tenth of a percent against the euro up
Fronts. But give us a grade for the president and tell us why. Ou can call us at 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats and independents. 2027488002. If you want to post on twitter, its twitter. Com cspanwj. About seven of you this morning so far, and on our facebook, at facebook. Com cspan. Ari fleischer who served in the george w. Bush administration has an oped talking about the president s first year. Too many flags in trumps first quarter, he says. To grade his performance in football termsen he deserves credit for moving the ball down the field over several different drives but he also committed so many unnecessary roughness penalties along with giving up one huge fumble that he may have to give up 200 yards to score one touchdown. Ari fleischer goes on to say but often mr. Trump runs himself too hot to handle. Host again, thats some of the comments from Ari Fleischer this morning when it comes to the president s year in office. Were asking you to give us the same.
Looks back on his 20 years in congress. Served in thet house of representatives as a republican representative from florida, and he is the author of the book life in the marble palace. This is Cliff Stearns. Good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Good morning. Host what was the goal of the book . Guest the goal of the book was to show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we were doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title. Follybtitle in praise of , what are you trying to accomplish their . Guest a restless wrote a book in in pursuit of folly, highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about
To show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we are doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title what are you trying to a couple should . Guest a restless wrote a book folly,n pursuit of highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about how much reform was needed. I use that title as a backdrop to really show how important it is to reform and change the way we do things in d. C. Onef there were 1 major step congress could take to reform, what could it be . Guest we should have a balanced budget every year. He saw recently we had a continuing resolution that moved us from september 2 december, and now