they went to president yeltsin. they opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk, and said, we're under attack. fortunately, yeltsin wan't drunk, and he didn't believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. >> in lawrence lessig's "republic lost," he uses the idea of drunk yeltsin, the metaphor of drunk yeltsin to convey the seriousness of what's happened to our politicians, to our congress, to our political system. money in our politics is so absolutely unconstrained now. it has so occluded every other thing that public servants are supposed to do that our political institutions are essentially powerless before the fund-raising system, the campaign donation system, the money. like a well-meaning, lovable drunk who nevertheless is a drunk, congress does not have a way to cure itself at this point. how could a congress that's totally run by and ruled by big corrupting campaign money ever take action against big corrupting campaign money? the current

they went to president yeltsin. they opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk, and said, we're under attack. fortunately, yeltsin wasn't drunk, and he didn't believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. >> in lawrence lessig's "republic lost," he uses the idea of drunk yeltsin, the metaphor of drunk yeltsin to convey the seriousness of what's happened to our politicians, to our congress, to our political system. money in our politics is so absolutely unconstrained now. it has so occluded every other thing that public servants are supposed to do that our political institutions are essentially powerless before the fund-raising system, the campaign donation system, the money. like a well-meaning, lovable drunk who nevertheless is a drunk, congress does not have a way to cure itself at this point. how could a congress that's totally run by and ruled by big corrupting campaign money ever take action against big corrupting campaign money? the current

summer of one thousand nine hundred ninety one to declare recognition of the three baltic republics yeltsin said here flanked by the chairmen of their parliaments garman off represented latvia last previous from lithuania in early till from a store nia yeltsin made a speech here he signed three treaties with the baltic states. estonian historian mark lauder began his struggle for his country's independence in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. he organized and took part in numerous acts of protest. the most high profile of them was the famous bowl to weigh in on august twenty third one thousand nine hundred nine people in the three soviet bowl to the publics of lithuania latvia and the stonier formed a six hundred kilometer human chain linking the three capitals. on the reserve and . i began my struggle against communism when i was still a college student at the same time i campaigned for a stony as independence which was a logical thing to do and if we had lost our freedom as a result of a pact between two regimes and communism. as a staunch opponent of communism mark clark twice held the

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then yeltsin came along and said no. with gorbachev was it reformable in your opinion. >> no, absolutely. the other hand you know the problem with yeltsin was he did it in a very cathartic way. likef you look at how the chinese did it, they started privatization capitalism in a very intelligent way. they started with small consumers industry. very slowly expanded. the russians did it exactly the opposite. they started it with banks and natural resources so we got the most non-productive capitalism which you can imagine. new rich guys tycoons -- >> charlie: the oligarchs. >> the old goshes. >> charlie: here's an idea that you propounded which is the notion that while capitalism and mocraticky has gone hand in hand. china with a kindf capitalism you may not see for the first time in history democracy follow. and that that may be a threat to the order in itself. >> what i'm saying is that again, i'm not just saying i'm a capitalist. let's be serious it's the motion social productive order in the history of humanity. let me

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beautiful mountains forests in russia siberia i remember a few places on earth thought to be roamed by yeltsin's and this is where the scientists from around the globe have come for the largest expansion of its kind since the nineteenth fifties to set out what's never been done before to finally catch the creature. first we go to get blessing from baselines indigenous inhabitants and the least their spiritual support. shaman and doesn't have any doubts i'm not sure i can tell you that yes he does exist. encouraged we continue our journey the path goes through impassable tiger fake it never has a human steps from here before but perhaps an altogether larger and harriet creature has in the hunt for the evidence every minor detail becomes important ranches to mr clyde queers are believed to be a key clue to the others existence the scientists say it could not have been done by animals as they don't have hands of fingers to do and humans cannot do this way either as they are just not strong enough to give you we go into the forest the more so cold marco's we come across to the gods in the middle of

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kremlin with this clear yeah but as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president bodys yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact that initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation that would once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results but there are people who criticize me and dmitri maybe they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for him but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only to present it also to proven cracked is that they can do this job better but we can also refer to the experience of other countries franklin roosevelt stood at the helm throughout the ordeals of economic depression and world war two and was elected four times because his polici

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here's what i would like to sing as i've mentioned many times it does first russian president but he's yeltsin said i never aspired to this position and it's a well known fact that initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation but once i take up a job. i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results. but there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me and dmitri medvedev they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean that there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only present it but also to prove in practice that they can do this job better there are others who say that we're in for a period of stagnation similar to the time and soviet leader lead to depression it was in power. i do not want to sound too critical

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kremlin with this clear yeah but as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president bodys yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact that initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation would once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results but there are people who criticize me and dmitri maybe they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only to presented also to prove uncracked is that they can do this job better but we can also refer to the experience of other countries franklin roosevelt stood at the helm throughout the ordeals of economic depression and world war two and was elected four times because his policies w

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here's what i would like to sing as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president buddies yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation but once i take up a job i do my best to complete it or at least to yield maximum results. but there are people who as you mentioned the criticize me and dmitri may get if they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election. that would mean that there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only present it but also to prove in practice that they can do this job better there are others who say that we're in for a period of stagnation similar to the time when soviet leader lead to brazen it was in power. i do not want to sound too critical there wer

kremlin if it is clear yeah but as i've mentioned many times and as first russian president buddies yeltsin said i never aspired to this position it's a well known fact that initially when this offer was made i explicitly expressed doubts over my ability to handle such a huge workload and enormous responsibility for the fate of the nation i would want to take up a job or thought i do my best to complete it or at least two year old maximum results but there are people who criticize me and dmitri maybe they say that if your humble servant takes part in the election that would mean there would be no election at all perhaps that would be the case for them but an ordinary citizen always has a choice to make so our critics might see it their own way but in this case they ought to present their platform and what's more important not only to presented also to proven cracked is that they can do this job better we can also refer to the experience of other countries franklin roosevelt stood at the helm throughout the ordeals of economic depression and world war two and was elected four times because h

. >> even russian president boris yeltsin seems comfortable on the dance floor. >> kick it. >> not all politicians are quite so musically inclined however. just ask karl rove. >> tell me what is your name. >> m.c. rove. >> i saw this one live, i'm afraid. it was even scarier to watch karl rove rapping in person than on the tv. he's got some of the movements that only dick cheney could manage. >> emcee rover. >> it's fun to come to the dnc. >> colin powell is equally musically challenged. here he is singing at a security meeting in indonesia. and bad boy blagojevich is caught on camera taking on elvis. ♪ >> yikes. don't quit your day jobs, fellows. oh, wait, never mind. perhaps they should have made a speedy escape like president bush tried to do after this press conference. >> this was one of the famous episodes with george bush looking like he didn't know what he was doing because he didn't even know where the door was. >> i was trying to escape. >> and talk about wanting to escape, who can forget vice president dan quayle exercising his spelling expertise in front of the cameras. >

. >> looking at that reminds you of, quick question, boris yeltsin, 1996. dancing on the stage. >> that's one of the greatest of all time. let's get that for next hour. >> all right. another clip. check this out. it is burning up the web. this is a bicycle race in south africa. >> my gosh. >> watch for an antelope on the right. stand by. >> oh, no! >> what? >> millions of people around the world -- >> my lord. >> have watched this clip online. this is a south african bicycle race. this is a red antelope which can weigh as much as 300 pounds. >> oh, my gosh! >> just lights that guy up. here's the good news. not injured. >> what? >> no way. >> his mel met was shattered. went to the hospital and got checked out. >> wow. >> can you imagine? >> the antelope was fine. kept running. antelope didn't even notice. >> that is an argument for helmets. he should get a deal, a bike helmet deal. hold the shattered helmet and say see? >> former governor george pataki, refuge jeanne robinson and howard dean. we'll be right back. [ wind howling ] [ technician ] are you busy?

i want you to explain how it worked, that--and this was all around, i think, a yeltsin visit that you describe this process. >> guest: yes, when he came--when he was out of office, had no office at all, and how would we receive him? c-span: the first possibility is that someone gets a visit with the president. the second one is a visit with the--you, brent scowcroft, and then a drop-in to see the president. the third one is a visit with you, brent scowcroft, and then the president drops in. and the fourth one is a visit with brent scowcroft. the fifth one is not getting into the white house at all and a... >> guest: fifth one's two visits with scowcroft. c-span: yeah. and then the sixth one, which is probably gonna sound unfair, was a visit with vice president quayle. >> guest: well, that--that's sort of outside that. that--that--that's a separate kind of thing, but, yes, when--when he was not going to be in the white house itself. c-span: now how did you two work out who got to do what on this >> guest: well, we'd--i would get recommendations from the national security adviser, who,