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In 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, georgia, kazakhstan, latvia, ukraine, uzbekistan, russia, of course russias the biggest. The second largest is kazakhstan. And if there is one thing thats maybe even more amazing, looking back at that time and the fact that the u. S. Had no idea it was all coming, the only thing that competes with our ignorance for being as unbelievable in retrospect is the story of what...

Watching tv. The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, ge...

The white house called the cia to find out what was going on over there in berlin, and the cia said, yeah, were watching the same thing you are. We dont know anything about it. Were just watching it on cnn. It was amazing. They had no idea it was going to happen. And within two years of the berlin wall coming down in 1989, the soviet union ceased to exist in 1991. Instead of one big, mysterious country called the ussr, the world got 15 new countries. Armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, estonia, georgi...

Theres new information coming out of syria. The unite nationed has received documents from syria that would ahow it to join the chemical weapons convention. It brings the International Community closer to taking over the regimes stockpile. But assad also said earlier that damascus will not fulfill any agreement unless the United States stops threatening to bomb his country. Phil is live in geneva where secretary kerry has been having meetings. Phil, the russians and americans seem to have very d...

Americans, part of this planet. Maybe the best part. But we share the world, and we better be a smart, just, and competent citizen in it. We need to take the long view of our interests and use our influence when we can but also avoid stuff that makes the future more dangerous. Romney, well, clearly hes in debt to the hawks, the neoconservatives who write the stuff we heard last night, this talk of accusing the president of iran of genocide for the things he said about israel. Its purely politica...

Watching the exact same thing for the exact same amount of time before we get down to election day. Last night was our last collective moment as a nation, watching the same candidates at the same time in a way that was unmediated that brings us together as a country. This past july, mitt romney made the first visit of any candidate to the great totally nonswing state of montana. Montana has a close senate state, but for president , montana is not hotly contested. So the candidates would usually ...

Romney, well, clearly hes in debt to the hawks, the neoconservatives who write the stuff we heard last night, this talk of accusing the president of iran of genocide for the things he said about israel. Its purely political stuff. That and what he said about russia being our number one enemy in the world today. All this old cold war stuff. Whats beneath it . Who knows. What we do know is he feels the need to wear that neocon suit. Will he rip it off if elected . Why would anyone think that . He ...

Has to go. And call her never say die dieana diana. Marathon swimmer diana nyad will say never say never. Thats up next on cbs this morning for saturday, august 31st, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend, a long holiday weekend. I hope its a good one for everyone. Well get right to syria. President obama says he has not yet made a final decision to launch a military strike but if he does order one, it will be limited in scope. Early this morning a team of u. N. Chemical weap...

Baseless and such claims within the context of the dirty media war. Go ahead with confronting terrorism. We sought advice from an expert. There appears to be a lot of dead people with no outward wounds that have died of something. Some of the symptoms like the debt stairs are very similar to what we saw where thousands of people were killed by nerve. Gents chemical weapons inspectors are in serious, but they do not have government permission to visit the site and may not get it. It is unclear th...

Of the United Nations mission in israelioccupied territory. The issue is an israeli air raid on what syrian Officials Say was a military Research Center near damascus. The arab league has also condemned the strike, but the actual target is still not exactly clear. Some reports suggest a weapons convoy believe to be carrying russianmade antiaircraft missiles from syria into lebanon. We will speak to an expert on the region later. First, this report. The Israeli Government has not issued any state...