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Regional geopolitical power broker and defines the region broadly. >> let me ask you this, fiona, on a lower level, is it possible putin is simply acting like charles de gaulle did in the '60s and late '50s? he wanted to make life difficult. that was the gaullest strategy. be difficult. is there a part that doesn't want to be friendly to obama, simply as that? >> absolutely. this plays extremely well at home. the whole story about sending out delegations of the russian doom and the russian parliament to meet with members of congress, this is just a piece of political theater. it plays well for...

Charles de gaulle did in the '60s and late '50s? he wanted to make life difficult. that was the gaullest strategy. be difficult. is there a part that doesn't want to be friendly to obama, simply as that? >> absolutely. this plays extremely well at home. the whole story about sending out delegations of the russian doom and the russian parliament to meet with members of congress, this is just a piece . it plays well for the domestic audience who enjoy -- >> you know what they have now? enough money to pay for the plane trips. thank you so much, simon marks, from the brookings institution. miss f...

Of the stuff he got. when bob mcdonnell finally broke down and hired a team of professional apologists and spinners to try to deal with this gift-gate problem he is having as governor, first thing they made him do was to give the money back and say he was sorry. then they made his daughters give back the money they got, too. no word yet on the suede jacket and the handbags that went to his wife. no word on the rolex, actually, either. hey, at least they've given some of it back. baby steps. although ken cuccinelli took bob mcdonnell's lead when it came to accepting gifts like those while he wa...

Although ken cuccinelli took bob mcdonnell's lead when it came to accepting gifts like those while he was in august, ken cuccinelli has no yet picked up on the how to make it seem better after the fact strategy. ken cuccinelli who is now running for governor acknowledges getting $18,000 in gifts from the same guy who gave so much of the stuff to bob mcdonnell. free vacations. free plane trips. a big $1,500 thanksgiving dinner spread for his family. and ken cuccinelli has been criticizing bob mcdonnell for taking these gifts. he's trying to position himself as if he's the big ethics guy in virg...

South korea's two major carriers. there has been a handful. half a dozen crashes since the airline was founded back in 1988. the first was in july of 1993, one of two most recent -- i correct myself -- a domestic passenger jet that slammed into a hill in south korea. in that incident, 68 passengers were killed in that crash. weather was a huge factor. that was a boeing 737, not as large as triple 7. if you fast forward to july 2011, two fatalities when one of their passenger flights, a cargo plane crashed into the waters off the coast of southern korea. and triple 7 crash upon landing in the s...