Bombing grozny because you use air power in kosovo. You cant talk about jailing Political Prisoners because you have guantanamo. You cannot talk about press freedom because george bush fired dan rather, right . That is exactly what he said to him once. In 2005, he said, george bush, you fire dan rather so you can talk to me about that. If you go out there and say that, americans dont really understand you. That is the way putin side. Having said that, he certainly has a point to make, which is to say that they United States has avoided at times the u. N. Or other ratifying types of structures for issues like the proposed strike on syria. I was with the president in st. Petersburg when he was trying to get more support out of the g20 and didnt really get what he would have liked out of that because there was great ambivalence in the international community, as there was anemic in public, by the way, and as there was obviously in the oval office. Obama himself didnt want to do what he said he was going to do. The oped was a nice little jab on the part of the russian president and i think he got what he wanted out of it. Im is particularly amused by the part that he says that america should think it is very exceptional, this whole notion of exceptionalism. But it did have a telling passage. It asserted that the assad regime had no chemical weapons. Seemsht, which days later to be the opposite of what his point is. Lets go get them together. I will let you say whatever you want to say. He gets to some of the points that peter was saying before, t some of the previous have complained that some of the facts get melded or molded. You have been right there at the forefront in the postsoviet country, like at the beginning of the [indiscernible] you have had some pleasant experiences. Im thinking of your time in negotiate. Ing to almost the entire i mean in government that shot as you are leaving to the airport. Those were terrible times in and the difficulty of having that u. S. Russia relationship over a rather nasty complex, not just georgia, but others. I wonder if you might have a quick thought on how you think the u. S. Russia relationship has impacted those other relationships. The only life i can never claim to have saved was the life of the armenian foreign minister who was supposed to go with Prime Minister across the street to sell the deal that we had got to the parliament. And i asked of the Prime Minister if i could kidnap the foreign minister and take into my car out to the airport to close a couple of deals. It was because he he was with me that he was not noted down there. Not mowed down there. The russian message seems to be to keep stirring up trouble during trouble. Bolshevikjob in the government was the peoples commissar for nationalities. He had a lot to do with drawing the map and designing the policies, all of which notably including in his homeland ensure that ao lot of these old feuds would continue to simmer. Keep those parts of the country week so that they could be ruled from moscow. And i think that is also their view of the world as a whole. Angela, youyria, emphasized this, but just to conclude on its, there is an ironclad rule of Russian Foreign policy now that is not only never again will they be party to a regime change, whether it , but theya or ukraine will do everything they can to thwart that. This is a lesson that they didnt just learn in libya. It is a lesson that they learned in the balkans and particularly as a result of the kosovo war. What did the kosovo war and with . And this goes back to the slavofile pint. Point. Unorthodox country in europe had its regime toppled and a subset of that country was a muslim majority population became an independent state. And the russians saw that and they said that could happen here. Today, it is bombing belgrade and free kosovo. Sunday, eight will be bombing moscow and a free chechnya and that is very deeply rooted. I was in Saint Petersburg during the bombings. That was certainly the view of everybody that i spoke to from the ground all the way up. I think it is hard, getting back to all the points we are talking about, not always understanding the perspective to realize that that was a genuine sentiment. Cant resist on peters wonderful point on false analogies. And now it a dinner that we were both at with mr. Putin, we were next to him when a journalist asked him why london was still in the red square. He asked them what country are you from. He said great britain. And he asked why do you still have statues of Oliver Cromwell . [laughter] he has a ready answer for everything. The analogy of cromwell and landon. And then it is explain that cromwell is not involved in the parliament. I want to come back to the question of syria and i think it has been partially answered. You ask what leverage the u. S. Has. Not much. Is absolutelyogy. He antiexample for mr. Putin he said it in so many terms. Russia has always believed that president assad would prevail and it looks at the moment as if he will. A major concern is to have a strong secular government in damascus. Were an islamist government come to power that has implications not only for the region that russia would find dangerous but for russia itself and for its own north caucuses and the other islamic parts of russia. And therefore all of these other issues this is why russia wont agree to a vote in the United NationsSecurity Council but would tie humanitarian relief to sanctions against the syrian government. If they dont allow this humanitarian relief, that could threaten assads rule. And they got they are diehard standing with this view and policy. I dont think they will change it. Frankly, i think russia today views the United States as being in decline and the europeans, too, rightly or wrongly. You can see in what the secretary kerry and what president obama said. Great frustration about how we can get over it is a terrible, horrible situation what is happening in syria with the humanitarian crisis. How do we get beyond that . In geneva, perhaps it could have been predict it in the moment that these talks would not work out and at the moment there is a stalemate. I dont think the United States has very much leverage. Therefore, it is hard to see how you can move forward and get a solution to the needs of the syrian people. That is really what your book is about you it is also a chronicle about leverage over issues where we have had very little. So not just the limits of partnership, but the old limits of our own assets and policy making and outreach that you described so well in the book. Copies ofl sign some the book for those of you who would like to sign them outside. Would like to buy them outside. Have anothere will chance to get together to talk about some of these issues as this year goes on. Im sure that mr. Putin and russia will give us plenty to talk about here at brookings. Angela, i want to wish you every success with the book and thank strobe and here for sitting here so long when the sun is actually shining outside. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] this discussion on u. S. Russia relations happen on a day when violence erupts into yet. A nineted press reports demonstrators have been killed in the violence demonstrations there. Well show you all of this in our Program Schedule and you can see it online at www. Cspan. Org. The house and senate are out this week. Congress is out for the president s day recess and the district work cakey work period starts again next week. This read in part that increasing the minimum wage would have two brits both exxon lowwage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their families income. Some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold. But some jobs for lowwage workers would probably be eliminated. The income of many workers who became jobless would fall substantially and the share of lowwage workers who are employed would probably fall slightly. That is from the Congressional Budget Office and the report released today. Earlier today, the president continuing to take executive action on policy limitation of policy as he talked about in the state of the union address. He directed his administration to date to develop fuel efficiency standards for medium to heavy duty trucks by march of 2016. He spoke with a safeway Distributions Center just outside the nations capital. But today, we are taking the next step. Fory duty trucks account just 4 of all the vehicles on the highway. I know when you are driving sometimes, it feels like its more. But they are only 4 of all the vehicles. But they are responsible for about 20 of Carbon Pollution in the transportation sector. So trucks like these are responsible for about 20 of our onroad fuel consumption. And because they haul about 70 of all the mystic freight, 70 of the stuff we use, everything from flatscreen tvs to diapers it, every to you name mile that we gain in fuel efficiency is worth thousands of dollars of savings every year. So that is why we are investing in research to get more fuel economy gains. And thanks to a partnership between industry and my administration, the truck behind was able to achieve a 75 improvement in fuel economy over the last year. 75 . Thats why i call this super truck. [laughter] its impressive. This one right here as well. These are first of all, they are really big. [laughter] but you can see how they have redesigned the truck in order for us to save fuel economy. And improving gas mileage for the struts will drive down our oil imports even further. That reduces Carbon Pollution even more. Feel down on businesses costs, which should payoff in lower prices for consumers. It is not just a winwin. It is a winwinwin. All of theshow you president s comments coming up at 5 30 eastern here on cspan. And you can see it anytime at www. Cspan. Org. Some reaction from congress. Said and i have a bill to do it. Commerce is out this week for the president s day recess. Holding events and meeting with constituents. We are tracking twitter. David letter saying they to hear from folks at my townhome meeting. Now heading to arcadia paris. Commerce men ron kind of wisconsin there is more at twitter. Com cspan. Look up members of congress on the list. Our conversation with bob corker on his early career in business. I had started working like most folks when i was 13 doing all kinds of odds and ends. I migrated to being a construction laborer and kind of a rough carpenter. College, iuated from became a Construction Superintendent and after four years, i had built some regional malls around the country and learn how to build objects and saved 8,000. So when i was 25 years old, i went in business. And started doing a lot of petite works, Small Projects where i could be paid quickly. The company grew about 80 a year. The whole time ended up building Shopping Centers around the country, retail projects in 18 states. So it was energizing. To be. A great place i mean, the energy, when you come into the front door, it almost knocked you down. And i sold that when i was 37 to a young man who had worked with me for many, many years. And then of course, ive done several things since i ended up acquiring a good eel in real estate. Throughthe years, portfolios. Many wake i love being in business. With amy we will talk klobuchar about being in the senate and the mother of a teenage daughter. She called me and i picked up the cell phone as i walked into the senate and she is in tears. Mom, they said we couldnt wear a bikini at the pool party, but tankinis. Re and dead doesnt know the difference. I said get him on the phone right now. I think for any mother, it doesnt matter if you are a senator or you are a nurse trying to balance the family and the work, you never do it perfectly. And anyone who says they do are wrong. Bobnterviews with senators corker and Amy Klobuchar starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Week atand all this 8 00, it is book tv programming on prime time. Today, James Carville discussing love and war. Then keith ellison, the first muslim to be elected to congress. Then dan by gino then dan bongino and his career as a secret service agent. It has been 15 years since president bill clinton was acquitted by the senate after being in pitch being impeached by the house. We will look at that impeachment debate at 8 00 p. M. Followed by the senate trial at 11 00. Next up here on cspan, a discussion with federal officials and Telecommunications Executives on the upcoming spectrum reallocation and how it might impact National Security. Last december, tom wheeler spectrum auction until 2015. This is from the center for strategic and international studies. It is an hour and 40 minutes. I would like people to take their seats and we can go ahead and get started. My name is jim lewis. S where we at csi are starting another round of his questions on spectrum policy and Spectrum Management. I didnt realize the other one long ago. Go are we have a great panel. Generalote speaker is Robert Wheeler who will be going through his slides and giving us some information on dods thinking on Spectrum Management and relocation. Thank you for coming out on a day that the news outlets predicted would be unparalleled in snow. In general, would you like to come up . So i do know all the folks on this panel. We are usually yelling at each other. An interesting discussion. I was a little bit late because it takes 10 minutes to get from the pentagon to hear. It took about 46 minutes, to be exact. So that was a little bit of a knighted not expect. An importantis subject for our nation because it really talks to the National Security issue as well as the economic issue. To be frank, those are intertwined. Those are together. Ed is one of the important takeaways, the National Security and Economic Growth and capability of capability and strength of our nation are one. Well need to think about this from that perspective. The other piece that i want to make sure you walk away with is the international flavor. It is hard for people to fully understand sometimes the spectrum plate from a worldwide perspective. While we can make a domestic plan, if i have whirling sublets coming over in that same spectrum that comes from many countries, that will be a problem. At that point, we start to interfere with their satellite and that causes problems for them to help us when we need help overseas for the same factories. So there is a very Strong International flavor, something that does not get heard well. That is a big deal. Here it has become smaller. There is no doubt with the advent of the internet and the way we are connected to gather. It is a much smaller world. That aspect is a very critical part of the spectrum game. There we go. Looks like a very complex slide. Theres something to take away from it and spectrum is a thread that ties all of dod together. The other aspect is come fewer think about this, they got three dimensions. You see the space dimension whirling up a copy of the air dimension, which is the aircraft going back and forth. And the terrestrial. You have three communication layers in that particular part. All of them connect together on voice, video and data. Space, all them way to the air layer, all the way to the terrestrial air, all those connections occur. That is what happens from a dod per spec. I think youre seeing that in the domestic level as well. Stealth armor guy. B2 Stealth Bomber guide. , a laptop that sits between me that has Microsoft Office on it. So i get emails and things of that particular nature at the same time. I have linked 16 showing all the other aircraft and all the other potential threats that are out there on my particular screen. At the same time, i am getting voice. All of that is receiving at the same time. I am receiving data on two separate screens. I am receiving voice, multiple in most cases. And at the same time, i am starting to get the pieces and types andonvoice beeps and squeaks that tell me where the stuff are. That is happening at the same time. If you can enter time intertwined all three of those, that is that slide. Next piece. Ok. You want me to stop touching that hearing is that it . [laughter] ok, there we go. One back. On this particular slide, we are talking about the data. It takes a while to understand it. The top line tells us the traffic growth. It is stabilizing, what we are seeing across the board. , what is clear is that the amount of traffic is growing at a clear 20 . As the device numbers drop off, traffic is still going up at about 820 clip recently year. That means data will be the future. That means spectrum. That is the key. We are growing at a rate that is somewhat stabilizing at this point, but it is clear that more spectrum will be required or more efficient use of spectrum and i will talk to both of those. Right here, we are seeing that the whole commercial broadband piece to it is tied back to Economic Growth. There is no doubt about it. The way i look at it is, can you imagine the thought the possibilities from a business perspective . If you could get data to every rural area of the country, this is about a mac is creativity. It is about americas ability to stay repetitive in the world and keep its edge. That goes from a military perspective across the board. I think we are intertwined and that is my message on that perspective. The president has pushed for a 500 megahertz goal. We are definitely pushing hard towards the 500. The thousand, we understand that perspective. It drives a lot of things. It is driving technology. Moreng technology to be efficient. How do we make it so that we are not a spectrum hauled, whether you are the federal side or the commercial side. It spoke to both the federal aspect of it and the commercial aspects of this. Those are intertwined. Hadley at better across s how do we get better across the board so