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Has carved out for itself a set of relationships all of which revolve around many similar issu issues, protection of sovereignty and it's an old alliance with syria, it's one of the last cold war alliances russia has. when everything else crumbled maybe this is why they hold on. >> talking about the cold war the relationship between the u.s. and russia disintegrated in spectacular fashion since the reset, the worst since the cold war. what's behind all that you think? >> well, let's remember to begin with, it was only good for a short period of time when boris yeltsin was president, they neede...

I think that was the point i was trying to make, is that it's not the end of news content. it's still incredibly powerful, yet people still focus on the newspaper itself. >> i want to actually show something that you wrote in your piece on wednesday. it is about what is the nature of internet journalism, how do we think about that differently than we think about, i don't know what the term is, traditional journalism. you wrote this. "to me the most important trick is to deeply inculcate the joy of internet journalism without losing actually restoring to some degree after recent cutbacks the gr...

Woman -- and there are a lot of men who are subject to sexual assaults here as well -- who are still not comfortable for lots of different reasons, cultural reasons, personal reasons, embarrassment, retaliation, you know, reporting this up because people who have power over them in an incredibly democratic way. that's the nature of the military, the chain of command. if you're not keeping it in the chain of command, i'm not sure how you get past that culture of fear, keep it to myself. >> this is a crime that will always be underreported no matter where it occurs because of the nature of the c...

Victims coming forward? retaliati retaliation? and where are you going to be more protected from retaliation? in our reforms and in the reform that kirsten agrees with, we also are going to make retaliation a crime. but it doesn't make any sense. retaliation is not going to magically go away just because a lawyer a long way away has made a decision as opposed to the commander. and we know commanders are making the decision to go forward more often than the lawyers. >> final point on this, senator. as i speak to women about this issue, including my wife, beth, a former captain in the army, they...

Woman -- and there are a lot of men who are subject to sexual assaults here as well -- who are still not comfortable for lots of different reasons, cultural reasons, personal reasons, embarrassment, retaliation, you know, reporting this up because people who have power over them in an incredibly democratic way. that's the nature of the military, the chain of command. if you're not keeping it in the chain of command, i'm not sure how you get past that culture of fear, keep it to myself. >> this is a crime that will always be underreported no matter where it occurs because of the nature of the c...