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Correspondent christiane amanpour is joining us now. what do you make of president putin s explanation for the anti-guy laws in russia generating so much commotion out there, especialfully advance of the winter olympic games in sochi? that s right. he you heard he s not talking about traditional russian values. he calls it aggressive attempts and what this means they believe that western gay icons or the gay community are aggressively in his word, trying to bring, you know, that to russia. well, this, of course, met with der rigs from many inside russia but many believe what he says. certainly many are really, really, very worried about it because it s yet another example of seen essentially the anti-human rights cright rights campaign going on in many corners of the putin administration on many issues including the political issue. as you know, president obama is not going to the sochi olympics, ....
And that woman and those men. a&e, network that airs duck dynasty, announced it s suspending robertson from the show s filming. robertson responded by say, and i m quoting, i would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. we are all created by the almighty and like him, i love all of humanity. sarah palin is coming to his defense. she posted this, free speech is an endangered species. those intoll lants hating and taking on the duck dynasty pate yak for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us, that from sarah palin. new information, president obama, about to commute sentences of eight people in crack cocaine cases. brianna keilar standing by with new information. [ sniffles, cou] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn t treat all that. it doesn t? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus ....
Boycotting sends a very positive message. so that s also really important. some call for a boycott. many athletes have said, no, that s not the right thing to do. many in russia are worried there will be a boycott. thae they re concerned if there s any disruption of the sochi olympics, they will be blamed for it. so they re trying to figure out, you know, as they say, positive ways to protest this anti-gay propaganda law that the russians have instituted. wolf? on the issue of edward snowden, president putin s remarks were pretty, some would say, cavalier, not helping snowden, not working with snowden, sort of envies he said i don t know if he was sarcastic or what president obama s massive surveillance programs, what do you make on comments like there is? well, first of all, spoken like a true former kgb agent. ....
In an interview with me and in the speech he gave, he made these veiled illusions to hillary clinton, both her vote for the iraq war and just the fact she s been in politics for so long. it was surprising that people in the room, i ve got to tell you last night, thought he was going to talk about economic issues, incomee inequality and thing like that. people were surprise head brought up iraq war vote over ten years old. she voted for iraq war in 2002. as secretary of state she helped wind down the war in iraq. wolf? that strategy work for a young senator from illinois in 2007-2008, barack obama. he opposes the war in iraq, she voted for it. it was a major campaign issue on his part. maybe shweeker is going to barack obama s play book against hillary clinton. another story out of iowa, the state s republican governor, terry brand stad had blunt words ....
Vladimir putin said his government is not working with edward snowden and he envied president obama for getting away with spying but admitted it s nothing new. translator: nothing specific to be pleased about or to be upset about. everything has always been like this, first of all. spying has always gone on since ancient times. earlier on, putin spoke about the olympics and criticism over russia s anti-gay laws and said it s all about preserving traditional russian values. translator: it s not important for me to criticize western values. what s important to defend our society, it s not about criticizing anyone. it s about protecting us from rather aggressive behavior. our chief international ....