government crisis and boris nemtsov spoke about the need of reforms of democratic reforms, political reforms, to stop the war. reporter: after the interview, nemtsov came here to moscow s iconic red square. it was after 9:30. he met his ukrainian girlfriend and they came to this upscale restaurant to have dinner. after 11:00 at night, nemtsov and his girlfriend came out of restaurant and walked through red square. now you ve got lenin s tomb. and presumably they would have walked over here which houses the office of the president putin.
to wait until it succeeded. we got from this president, obama, announced surge in afghanistan and the next sentence the speech he made on december 1 he says we will begin withdrawal, leaving in july of 2011. you can do all the interpretation and parsing of words that gates said, that the president is saying today, we re not going to leave, what did he say? and turn the lights out on that date. but look, we can do chronological interpretation. next week, the national security team will be standing on lenin s tomb. and say biden is standing closer to petraeus is and that means 2011 is off. all the president has to do is say, he doesn t have to withdrawal the 2011 date and say the target is july 2011. however, it will depend on conditions on the ground. nine words, i think it is. nine words. that will dispel the
towards president obama and it is important in terms of pre precedent setting. the russians were upset in 1945 when the west accepted the surrender two days earlier on may 7th and they were sort of piqued and angered by it. that carried over into the early days of the cold war. however, this is not the first time americans have participated in parade. general eisenhower stood on lenin s tomb and watched a sports parade. okay. what about british and french troops as well, they took part in the event. what is it russia has to gape by taking part in something that is seen as historically a national event? that s the whole point, inviting americans and the french and british makes it into
of the new yorker magazine by way of telling you before joining the new yorker david lived in russia for four years as the moscow correspondent for the washington post. he s an expert on that country, so much so he wrote a book on it, lenin s tomb, the last days of the soviet empire won a pulitzer prize now he has co-bylined this exhaustive report in the new yorker about russia s relationship with our new president and david is here tonight to help us lay this out. exhaustive doesn t mean long. i joked i took the day off and read the article. magisterial. part of this conversation will be urging anyone watching to read it because of the way you chose to map out the relationship. in broad strokes, when i know we all grew up the cold war was about then the soviet union and our country in ways that had us hiding under our desks in grade school but with big ticket