Country and virtually nothing happens. No sustained comprehensive action is taken. But it is happening and it does every day. Illegal guns are the weapons of mass destruction on our streets. We experience as one of any fellow mayors has said has murder once by one by one in slow motion every single day in the United States of america. And so i ask the question, where is our right red line on violation violence in america . 10,000 plus murdered americans every year. That is a crime against humidity. We have a civil war unfolding in our cities every day, week, every month. Mary landrieu and i have both have spoken with president obama on this issue. He is ready to act. The question is where is the congress . What are they prepared to do . So let me ask this question, what if our response to domestic terrorism was as thorough and engaged as our response to International Terrorism . What if we had a 9 11 commission about black men getting slaughtered on the streets of america . A National
What happens after the current regime . The soviet people with their antiwestern mindset still admire the west as consumers. The same phenomenon is observed in todays russia. They brandished their patriotic as rely on imports in almost every aspect of their daily area. Experience. Anyone who can afford to go abroad for shopping or were some tourism will do it. The population might welcome more engagement with the west. They have the hope of achieving a higher living standard. But it becomes too risky. Historical parallels become too risky. Painful memories of the interior crisise the ukrainian has reopened the old sores. It did not heal any wounds. The contrary was the case. Russia remains extremely fragile. This is not good news for anyone who wants to be democratic or peaceful. [applause] thank you very much. That was a professor from the university of tartu in estonia. Is annal speaker associate at harvard university. Thank you. Expertise is in military. I will start by talking abou
There are new books out about the history in he would say look at the cost of cotton is a great team 49 until the turn of a greater Economic Freedom of in the 80s. Of course, i speculate that the glove was lost before chide have found itself in a more prosperous direction and. But then the utopia and fantasies. Antidash has gotten beyond that. But with all of that loss had we not been so naive fet mao was the agrarian reformer. As an undergraduate in the 60s we learnt china west it was there culture and anyone who said tidies tidies, buddhism is terrible was a little hysterical. We did not learn about the great famine and the professor described right date about this where tens of millions died analogous to the gulag this was say headed the history and did not get my chair time or attention to. With its parallel to of china and russia. Hoover was so concerned to with the history of the dangers of the historical trends that people bird of the cost as he would have been frustrated to thi
[inaudible conversations] and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, take you for being here today for the briefing. I have a couple of guests with me today. Susan rice and the National Security adviser that are here to give you a preview of the president s Upcoming Trip and then we will take questions on that trip. Then we will start with an overview of the schedule and ambassador price will provide a systematic overview then we will take questions on those topics areas. Then i will stick around for questions. I will start with the interview with the president over the course of the trip on sunday night in arrived on it a 8 00 in the morning said he will go to the museum where he will meet with the Prime Minister of the netherlands. They will then have the bilateral meeting there as well. Following that the president will go to the soviet side id have a bilateral meetings to initiate the meeting with trade and this is the first since the g20 in september and they could agree to this is
Contrary to conventional media about consumption, and new survey finds that the nature of news itself the idea of the socalled filter bubble. There are relatively few differences by generation, party or socioeconomic status in the level of interest with which people report following different topics. We want to learn from you this morning as we go through the papers in this first hour on the washington journal how you get your news. Whered you get your news and how do you get it marco you can also make a comment on our twitter feed. You can take part in the conversation currently going on on facebook facebook. Com cspan. And you can send an email to us. Heres a little bit more of this study by the Media Insight project. There are five devices or technologies that majorities of americans used to get news in a given week. First call up is from ralph in manoa, new york. On a democrats line. Caller i am a uaw worker from upstate new york. I get my news straight from my union from cspan als