so you can. i m going to let you see some of my favorite footage. this is from the moment that we think of as the great kitchen debate. this is july of 1959 and it s nixon and khrushchev and they actually have a debate, if you remember this, about sort of consumerism and consumer products and sort of who has it better, in part because of who has the better kitchen. this is all pre-hgtv. i want to bring this up, because we ve talked about kind of the global aspect and the question of political positioning, but there s also an economic question here. russia has the largest economy in europe. it is booming relative to our stagnant economy. is that part of the only relative to our stagnant economy, is that part of the swagger here? do we need them economically? if you look at the list of american trading partners, russia clocks in at 20.
mr. putin. and given the fact that it went so great last time remember the two of them in that awkward photograph they re not going to meet this time either. gretchen: that is because putin wanted to meet with his shirt off and president obama just kidding. we ve seen a lot of pictures with putin with his shirt off. swimming, on top of a horse. who knows if this is the right call or not? i think the president is trying to send the message we don t agree with you giving even temporary asylum to who many people believe is a traitor, a guy named edward snowden. that is one of the many issues america disagrees with russia about. i m thinking about other serious issues like syria, iran, et cetera. peter: when you think back on history, is this the way we used to treat russia, even in the cold war? you go back 53 years ago to the famous kitchen debate between khruschev and vice president richard nixon and that was broadcast both in the united states and in the soviet union then, and
and so that s what he s going to do, paul ryan himself in kentucky this week and arguably, he s going to have a harder row to hoe here going into the first presidential debate and barack obama, everyone expected he would win and romney needs to put in a good performance and in fact did very well. the argument here is that paul ryan is so great and he will hold his own, but no one should underestimate joe biden. he s going to be okay out there. paul: this may be something of a trap for ryan because you know, the media expectation he s going to do so well and he s a numbers guy and knows his brief and so on, but widen is a real slasher and he s going to go after, i assume, mitt romney, hammer and tong. what does ryan have to do here in this debate? well, he s going to have to fight back, paul. there was once a debate called a kitchen debate. this is going to be the kitchen sink debate and joe biden is going to throw one
and so that s what he s going to do, paul ryan himself in kentucky this week and arguably, he s going to have a harder row to hoe here going into the first presidential debate and barack obama, everyone expected he would win and romney needs to put in a good performance and in fact did very well. the argument here is that paul ryan is so great and he will hold his own, but no one should underestimate joe biden. he s going to be okay out there. paul: this may be something of a trap for ryan because you know, the media expectation he s going to do so well and he s a numbers guy and knows his brief and so on, but widen is a real slasher and he s going to go after, i assume, mitt romney, hammer and tong. what does ryan have to do here in this debate? well, he s going to have to fight back, paul. there was once a debate called a kitchen debate. this is going to be the kitchen sink debate and joe biden is going to throw one