speaking in english. now, to be fair, at least he can speak english and quite well. completely free of charge. very few american or british leaders can speak any language other than english. remember, newt gingrich s bilingual apology a few years ago. [ speaking spanish ] or here s president obama trying his hand at hebrew. [ speaking foreign language ] maybe they should all listen to tony blair, who admitted that trying to speak french was a bad idea. [ speaking foreign language ] but then again, he tried it anyway. [ speaking foreign language ] the correct answer to our gps challenge question was b. the resolute desk was presented to president rutherford b. hayes by queen victoria in 1880. it was constructed by the timbers of the hms resolute, a british warship that had been abandoned in the canadian
uncharacteristically he was speaking in english. now, to be fair, at least he can speak english and quite well. completely free of charge. very few american or british leaders can speak any language other than english. remember, newt gingrich s bilingual apology a few years ago. [ speaking spanish ] or here s president obama trying his hand at hebrew. [ speaking foreign language ] maybe they should all listen to tony blair, who admitted that trying to speak french was a bad idea. [ speaking foreign language ] but then again, he tried it anyway. [ speaking foreign language ] the correct answer to our gps challenge question was b. the resolute desk was presented to president rutherford b. hayes by queen victoria in 1880. it was constructed by the timbers of the hms resolute, a
somebody who cares immensely about the first amendment has to do with wiretapping. it has to do with pressure on and possible prosecution of reporters and action against whistleblowers. that is extremely serious. i don t think the irs matter rises to the level despite the republican rhetoric and some commentator s rhetoric of iran contra or watergate. talking about benghazi. benghazi, daniel? danielle? continues to be the case that the president and the secretary of state could at any moment come out and say, look, we didn t handle this well. we said a lot of things that involved lack of careful investigation. we re going to go back and we re going to fix this. this shouldn t have happened this way and the public would go, okay, that kind of thing happens. yet, relentlessly refused to examine themselves and exam their own rhetoric and answer the question of why the american people were lied to for more than a week. so, you know, again, i think, for me, this is less troubling than
behind the likes azerbaijan. and the kyrgyz republic. foreign investment is declining and trade with europe and the united states is slowing. according to a recent survey, more than a third of u.s. companies in china say that their business there is hindered by state favoritism for chinese companies. the same survey also reveals that the two biggest perceived risks in china are economic slowdown and rising labor costs. in short, there is a strong case to be made for a round of serious reforms in china. the question is, will any of it actually happen? economic reforms everywhere are politically difficult. beijing s leaders realize that reforms are necessary to boost long-term growth, but some of them will actually address public discontent on issues like corruption. but on the other hand, many reforms will face resistance from political elites that run
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