chairman, i think it could have turned out quite differently.t chairman, i think it could have turned out quite differently. o chairman, i think it could have turned out quite differently.fed or a very different chairman, i think it could have turned out quite differently. it reminds you how individuals can change the vours of the cou events. some say germany can t afford to writ checks. just a question of how it happen, but you take the sum total of all these debts and the germans can t fooshd it, but you re saying we may be past that point. we are past that point. it s about the end of the german appetite for writing checks to the periphery of europe. so explain what you re saying. what happens? really simply, do the germans want to be the bankers to the united states of europe? in other words, do they want to create a truly federal system in which it will be clearly understood that they as the rich cup, the core of the system, will be making regular transferses from hair tax
a capable government up and running so that it can provide real leadership on europe not least in response to the various proposals that have been made by french president but there is a lot of disagreement between these two parties on whether europe s future should be something like a united states of europe as the s.p.d. leader has called for or whether in fact power needs to stay in nation states hands more than the green on the story for us here in berlin belinda thank you. here s some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world germany s chancellor has been in france for talks aimed at drumming up support for a new anti-terrorism force in five west african countries which are fighting islam most malicious european and african leaders want to assemble a group of five thousand troops by mid two thousand and eighteen it. will stress the urgency of combating extremism in the region france will completely ban smartphones from public schools beginning next septem
[ laughter ] like 9% expansion. [ lauger ] i love herman. is he the best? i have fun with him. he is a great and interesting guy. and thank you, herman, for helping pay for the event tonight. [ laughter ] who else would you rather have in charge of america s nuclear weapons and national labs but our new president picked him. but this problem, he sometimes seems drunk when he s not actually drunk, problem, it s not only a american phenomenon. in europe, in the european union there s no exact equivalent for our position of president, there s no president of europe but this is juan claude juncker and he is the president of the european commission, that s close to being the president of the united states of europe and he, too, has this same problem.
dollars to help them is a big deal here both politically and economically but it does nothing to resolve europe s underlying debt problem which just rolls on and on and on and still is right at the cliff edge. yeah, i is a big deal here for us because we spend our money. it is not a big deal there because it didn t fix their problem. you say the debt situation in europe has not been solved and they re a long way from doing that? yes. bill: what does it say about our own debt situation here at home, stuart? the europeans arrived the at debt crutch a long time before we did but we re driving down that road and we ll face that crunch at some point in the future unless we reform. bill: i think it is important to remind people why the euro was created in the first place. this was the late 90s. they were getting creamed by the united states. that is why they wanted to compete with us. that s why they created the euro. they knew they were nowhere as efficient as united states of amer
spectrum, right wing presidential candidates are talking about the president. use his speech to attack president obama. he is a natural secular european socialist. the united states of america is not gonna become the united states of europe. very good reason to support my bill to get us out of the u.n. only one presidential candidate agrees with jimmy carter, that we are all losing because of the war on drugs. up until 1937, smoking marijuana was legal. it was still stupid. it was legal. all of a sudden, we decided to outlaw it. nobody outlawed marijuana. more people smoke it now than ever before. america s public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. hundreds of american guns ending up in the hands of mexican drug cartels. this is your brain on drugs.