I wanted to ask him about language department. Think the following dr. On your program can answer it. What is host what is your concern about it . Why does it interest you . Caller you can hear i have an accent. I was 27 when i came here from the soviet union. I got accepted to ucla and i was having a terrible time with the language. Ive been here many years now, but i wanted to ask him what the brain does or does not do to acquire the language faster. That was my question. I was kind of looking forward to getting his answer. Host hunh. And the fact that you were in ucla a year after leaving the soviet union, do you think it helped . Caller i remember nightmares. Like, 72 hours a day. It was a very difficult time. No social life, no nothing. It was extremely hard. That is maria in l. A. And this is jerry in cottontail, alabama. Good morning, jerry. Caller good morning. I was wanting to talk to dr. Guttmacher, too. Host he is gone, but what was your question going to be . Caller i was g
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Good point. It was only canceled because of congress and the administration that purchased the russian helicopters. On the issue of the demonstrators, we have been assured that those demonstrators who are under detention will be released. If there is further violence against the demonstrators, i am confident that the administration and congress would move forward with a style of legislation. As far as the reforms are concerns, i am not sure that would be sufficient reason to generate sanctions early enough. They fired the mayor of key of antihad nothing to do with the violence against the demonstrators. That is true. I think we need to proceed carefully and with measured steps. We need to make sure that we are not giving the russians propaganda. We must not intervene in internal affairs of a country i think we have to be very careful and measured in the steps that we take. We cannot react in an emotional fashion. I am absolutely appalled by what putin has done. I have pointed out those
Talk to them. G to that is of the way it should be. There is a link between the nsa program and others. There are government surveillance issues that have come up. Let me ask. The post had an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of these leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It catalogued how, going up against the mechanisms of the United States government has one person, can destroy lives, even for those for whom the prosecution fell apart. Do you think these early prosecutions that did not seem pointed towards True National security information that would damage the United States were really done to make a point to say this is what can happen to him you . We do not know that. A previous director of the National Intelligence told a reporter on record that this was his intention, to get the Justice Department to prosecute people so that it would have a Chilling Effect on others. Could you talk about the Insider Threat program . I thought your discussion about that wa
Host that breakthrough year, is something that took leisa the president s press conference. It was highlighted in the paper today. Here is president obama yesterday talking about the economy and his 2014 being a breakthrough year. Up and whathat all it means is we head into next year with an economy that is stronger than it was when we started the year. More americans are finding work ad experiencing the pride of paycheck. We are positioned for new growth and new jobs and i firmly believe that 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. Outlined in detail earlier this month we know there is a lot more we are going to have to do to restore opportunity and brought based progress for everyone. It is a good start that earlier this week for the first time in years both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget. That unwinds some of the damaging sequester cuts that created headwinds for our economy. It clears the path for businesses and for investments that we need t