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March 6, 2014
You can go after targeted people instead of going after the overall country. if you want to understand why theres a reluctance now, you just have to look back to 2008 when russia went into georgia. >> big report out yesterday on the wealth of the world which showed the amount of wealth being spent in london. its not going to happen in that sense. keep in mind those big companiecompanies tit for tat sanctions would hurt. >> can you do a bunch of small things that would have a cumulative affect to...
March 6, 2014
Do. >> we think that they are. we think they understand that destabilizing activities on the borders of europe is not in the interests of their economy either. they indicated today that if this continues, if russia doesnt come to the table in a constructive way, they have move to similar types of sanctions. they have an escalating series of steps that they can take. we do believe that can have an impact on their economy. this is already having a cost on their economy and as the sanctions sink in...
March 5, 2014
Over and over again and then a man screaming and the four shots. that completely undercuts pistoriuss defense that he thought there was a burglar and shoots through a locked door at the burglar and preposterous to begin with. and then screaming, hes in trouble. >> dr. henry lee, a lot of attention being put by the defense on the forensic aspect of all this, in particular, whether oscar pistorius was wearing his prosthetic legs and so on. the angle to fire, the bullets went in and the affect on s...
March 4, 2014
Russians. president obama is holding high-level cabinet talks at the white house. this happened last night. the plan moving forward is to rally world leaders and make russia pay for the crimean incursion. michelle, what do we understand about what direction these talks will take and when? >> were seen over the last few days the u.s. response to this building in these measured steps. most lately, weve seen the u.s. council trade talks, counsel all joint military exercises. the question being of c...
March 3, 2014
Million of sulfur. it has been reduced to 30 parts, 90%, and now they are trying to go down to 10% and there are questions about the health benefits at all, but there are a lot of cost problems. it isnt on new car makers as much as gas refineries. it will cost them a lot more to get it down after reducing by 90%. >> it comes down to decide whether the health benefits, and everybody likes that, but it is a question of whether or not it would do that it to a measurable affect and whether it is wor...
March 1, 2014
Michael donnelly said there was thug music. bill oreilly is saying kanye west and jay z are gangster rappers. this perception idea of young men of color being dangerous because they write lyrics of hip-hop, they listen to hip-hop, they like hip-hop, all of a sudden theyre dangerous, thats a hard precedent to sell. >> it reminds me the case 20 years ago when two pox label, interscope, was brought up because the state trooper bill davidson was killed. his lyrics were being pumped in the car by the...
February 26, 2014
100% renewable energy. i volunteer time with an organization called the solutions project which is the solutionsproject.org and mapping out how we get to 100% renewable energy. just parking lots and buildings in new york, alone, could -- when solarized could provide more than we need for all electricity generation in new york state, for example. what this is about is theyre for their profits. when its not coming into their backyard -- >> briefly, you heard exxon basically say, well, this is a pr...
February 26, 2014
Forward when ukraine is ready with the agreement it is had on the table, association agreement and deep and comprehensive free trade agreement but th-- but finally the west has to signal a willingness to work with russia and clearly signal to russia that any effort to ukraine, if -- will proundly affect getting to that goal. >> and what are some of the long and short-term goals of getting to that? >> i have to absolute the work of john dinkle. he taught me and others how to win and how to lose. ...
February 26, 2014
All u.s. forces by the end of the year. he warned that afghan president hamid karzais unwillingness to sign a bilateral security agreement, an uncertainty about a future u.s. presence, encourages afghan forces to hedge their bets and side with the taliban. he added, quote, it is having an affect on the enemy and in some ways i think encourages them, and intelligence supports that. they denied he issued ultimatums when he talked the president on tuesday. >> theres no discussion of complete withdr...
February 26, 2014
Tunnel lights but ill look into it. >> christie still has a respectable approval rating in new jersey, 50%, but its plummeted 20 points since this time last year when it was a sky-high 70%. in a new national cbs/"new york times" poll ranking potential gop presidential contenders christie stands out but not how youd like. more republicans think he should not run than should. 41% opposed, more than anyone else. perhaps he saw that before saying this. >> the only two professions in america where yo...