In 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had just held on to the Nuclear Weapons that they had on their territory once they became an independent country, they would have become the fourth Largest Nuclear armed state in the world. But they decided when they became independent that they did not want Nuclear Weapons. They had tons of them, but they voluntarily gave up all of those Nuclear Weapons. They gave up bein
Watching tv. The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, laookig back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had
The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, of course russia. Russia is the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what happened to all the freaking Nuclear Weapons over there once that country spun apart. Kazakhstan alone, if kazakhstan alone had ju
Cenk welcome to the young turks. As you might imagine im a little worked up about the hearing on gun control today in the senate. And they got a little fiery as well. You missed that point completely. Its basic. Senator i think you missed it order cenk i think they all missed the point. All right. Were going to have two great guests on that. Former gun lobbyist and then someone who quit the nra in disgust after newtown. Hell be on the show as well. And then well talk about oakland. Well not only is violence bad, but Racial Discrimination in oakland is so bad recently a mother said this. Im sad and scared to be having a black boy in oakland. Cenk shell be joining us on the show as well. And then finally, in texas you know they were doing the crazy creationism teaching . Well, the guy who literally did the movie on that will join us. We say on this day, the will be done. Cenk some schools in texas are teaching that the universe is missing a day, because thats what it says in the bible. W
So what we have to do is you know come back tomorrow, put the equipment on again and we go at it again. [ theme music ] bill good morning my fellow americans. And welcome to the full court press here on current tv. Great to see you today this thursday january 31st if you can believe it. Were coming to you live from our Nations Capital today bringing you up to date on all of the news of the day. A lot of job changing here in washington, d. C. A big hearing on guns in the Senate Judiciary committee, another shooting in phoenix, arizona yesterday, even while the hearing on gun control was taking place, and israel during an air strike deep inside of syria. John kerry said farewell to the senate. Hilarys final day is tomorrow. And then brennan the next director of the cia, and we have a new senator of massachusetts, mo calen, im telling you, you need a program to identify all of the new players around here. And now for todays current news update early on the west coast here she is Lisa Ferg