buying the nets and big yachts, they are the ones in political power when they went from communism to to democracy. all those people took care of each other. you got that. you have gazprom, yukos oil. they split up all the assets of russia, and those people, not because they were good, just because they were in the right place at the right time so what s happening is they try and go and do a big event like that. they will spend $50 billion on this event. they will probably lose $20 billion or $25 billion for holding the olympics. vladamir putin, this is his moment on the world stage right now. there won t be an empty seat in any of the venues, don t kid yourself. world, where are you? there will be a russian sitting in every one of those seats. they will empty the priss ovens siberia. you can bang some rocks over there or watch the downhill skiing and most people don t. in defense of the russians on the spying piece, in 2008 the chinese were accused of the very same thing and y
neil: he could have gone to superiors and say i have a real problem with seeing allç these files we re collecting at verizon, et cetera. that that is going too far. now, his boss could tell him that s the way it is, kid, deal with it, that s;hpá we doltñrpm then what would his options have been. you have an ig at the nsa, you can quietly go there you can go to actually he could have gone to booz allen, his superiors neil: at that point the argument was, you re sharper on this he is already a marked man for having raised questions about this in the first place. that s right. neil: and he is doomed no matter what. he is doomed now no matter what regardless. as smart as this guy may think he is by running to communist china, hong kong, dust me when i tell you, he has his greatest adventures ahead of him. when the chinese get through with him, and anyone who thinks he is just going to get on a
cubicle gnome gets a bee in his bonnet about any one of us, doesn t do a little snooping on his own there? and don t tell me that can t happen because it already has by a 29-year-old kid who we re told couldn t have had this access, but did, but even if he did stumble upon it, could never leak it, but has. forgive my doubts if nsa types say they d never release this stuff. isn t that what irs agents said about tax leaks, then a bunch of romney donors were stuck. what is to stop a grunt from taking a fascinating in your e-mails or reading them or my tax returns and peruse them, whether they see the light of day, knowing it sits there for any imbecile with a badge to rifle through, not good. that s what s at stake, my friends. not if this stuff ever gets released, it sits on some idiot s computer a point and click away for anyone to read. beware of politicians that say
you re saying that that is the danger here and that china is just going to take full advantage of that. well, don t kid yourself. that plan, although i don t know that it s been written down or we have seen it, but that plan includes going back to the moon. i think you ll see, along with them developing the manned space station, you ll see them land unmanned vehicles on the moon, much as we died as a precursor to human beings. it s a natural evolution of that kind of plan. are they behind are they behind us today? yes. what they re doing today we did 20, 30 years ago. but it s what we re not doing in the future, and the inertia when you do nothing is pretty heavy to get back in the game, and this it scares me, quite frankly. it hurts personally. neil: gene, a lot of folks say if they re going back to the moon gene did that 40 years ago. been there done that, let them go ahead andç try to repeat th. what are we worried about?
on in the republican party, as you know, and eric cantor, the number two in the house majority republicanmajority, republican majority, is much more connected to the tea party. but don t kid yourself. boehner is a conservative republican, a much more moderate one. and he was laying down the law with obama, said, no tax increase. he agreed to $800 billion. through tax reform which is raising revenue. which is tricky. i mean, it s possible. but i call it the great white whale. you chase it in the ocean and it might kill you. let s talk about the republican party in the house. we know there s x many number of tea partyers against any revenues, against everything, cut spending, cut spending. i heard every time boehner would come back from the white house with a deal he thought he could meet with the president, make with the president, he d get a call from his chief of staff barry jackson, eric cantor s talking to the crazies out