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my guest today is the president of finland, sauli niinisto. do finns now see russia as the enemy nextdoor? president sauli niinisto, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr president, finland hasjust made a major strategic shift. this country is now prepared to join nato. how big a deal is that? it is, but if you look back at the time before the cold war ended, that is the beginning of the 90s, we have all the time developed our interoperability with nato. our armament is, well, quite modern, us—based, mostly. so, in a way, we have been very prepared all the time. but the changes, like ...

Preparation on that, but that we will enhance our cooperation with nato, with our partnership with bilaterally with sweden, even with the usa. and i want european union to develop more defense thinking. he asked me why and i said that every independent nations maximize their security. and russian understands that kind of expressions. so why, why it was in a way important to, to try to have normal relations, at least normal relations. we had a long borderline. i know. in 2015, we suddenly saw that they let people come, so—called refugees, from 30 countries to finland, crossing

The judge was very astute the way she ruled. she said this is the theory of prosecution. they were attempting to establish -- also it is valid in my opinion as far as cross-examination and impeachment. they came the from another angle and didn't open the door to character. they had a theory of prosecution. they use it under that and did did not open the doompl i agree if zimmerman takes the stand and opens it in another area it will be a back and forth. not going to happen, not with this judge and the defense thinking about putting him on the stand. >> he's never going to take the stand. >> ma...

Now, are the middle class going to get? >> they have to to get serious revenue. he is talking about we will tax corporate jets and oil and gas. that raises about $3 billion a year. the deficit next year according to the congressional budget service $845 billion. they have $3 billion in tax increases against a $845 billion deficit. the point that you make is a good one. the president and he drove this thing in august of 2012. h20122011. he wanted the sequester. read woodward's book in page 226 or some where in this and the deep cuts in defense thinking at the time that would put enough pressure...