coffee and snacks on a new york street corner for years. we're learning new details about his life here in america. and a surprise arrest, famed movie director taken into custody on a 31-year-old warrant. he was expecting to get a lifetime achievement award. plus. >> my tent and i were turned away by central park. worst of all englewood, new jersey. >> "saturday night live" back in action for the season with a new look at moammar gadhafi's long rambling and very confusing speech. we'll hear more in moments. good sunday morning. i'm contessa brewer in for alex whit. we're going to hear from a dad who traveled halfway around the world in an effort to help his son. let's get to the big news. new this morning two americans among six nato forces killed in afghanistan. afghanistan's energy minister survived an assassination

attempt this morning that left four others dead. in a new interview today the top u.s. commander in afghanistan says he was blind sided by the show of strength from the taliban this summer. army general stanley mcchrystal submit add request for more troops. let's go to washington, d.c. now. mike viqueira is outside the white house. what is the process for white house on deciding do we accede to the general's requests? >> reporter: the stakes couldn't be higher as attention turns to the future afghanistan and the future of the united states military mission there. it's the longest war in american history, of course american troops have been there since the days following 9/11. and of course the insurgency renewed in past years, bringing talk of more troops for afghanistan. the president during the campaign had pledged to reduce the number of troops in iraq. he says he wants to send them to afghanistan. that's where the taliban was. but the same taliban that harbored al qaeda and the people

who came here on 9/11. the trouble is now in the democratic party, political problems. nancy pelosi said not a lot of support in congress for more troops in afghanistan. and now we learn that general mcchrystal has formally submitted his report to the pentagon asking for some 40,000 new troops. the debate continues here and one of the ironies is that republicans are backing this troop request that the president has previously backed himself. kit bond is a key senator, he was on a program talking about the stakes that are involved. >> short of the full blown strategy that mcchrystal outlined f we try shooting at terrorists and going back to the camp, then the taliban will come back over the border from pakistan, they will bring with them their friends in al qaeda and will re-establish the taliban control of afghanistan which is a disaster. >> reporter: now, the mantra here at the white house and among administration officials

over the past week, after it was revealed in "the washington post" the secret memo from general mcchrystal, the commanding general in afghanistan, that the united states faces and its nato allies face failure unless the troop level is increased, the mantra here has been we are developing this policy, we're developing this strategy, we're not going to commit one way or the other to resources until we decide upon the strategy. and so now over the course of the next coming weeks the administration has to digest this. we understand there are internal debates not only among policymakers here but in general, at the pentagon over what the next step should be. democrats in congress want a time line, they want bench marks. very familiar debate for when the bush administration was in power and democrats want the same from iraq, and now iron ironically president obama is facing the same demands from his own party. >> it was a blunt appraisal, too, from general mcchrystal. he also mentioned in that leaked

memo that the corruption runs rampant in afghanistan and it's one of the biggest problems that leads toward the instability in that country. are you getting a sense now whether the white house is rethinking the alliances it made with some of afghanistan's leaders? >> reporter: not only that, but the president himself made illusion to the last election in which hamid karzai was re-elected under questionable circumstances and according to independent groups who have done studies of the way the election was conducted, yes. clearly a problem there. i think as a practical matter the administration is going to look at what are the alternat e alternatives to karzai, to what is clearly a deeply embedded practice within the culture of afghanistan. and so, that is going to be part of the equation here in the coming weeks, no question about it. whether they are throwing good money after bad and already we're seal people making parallels to the situation in south vietnam in the 1960s and early '70s and obviously that is

not a favorable comparison, not the ground that they want the debate on. >> saying that part of the parallel here is that people went into vietnam with just the wrong premise entirely. mike viqueira, thank you, buddy. our other big story out of iran, war games day one, a top general says the revolutionary guards test fired two short range missiles and a launcher. the show of force comes a couple days after a secret iranian nuclear facility was revealed. iran's envoy to the energy agency called the outrage fabricated western clamor. he says it will have a negative impact on the negotiations for thursday. iran's state radio says the guards will test fire another missile tomorrow, with a range of more than 1200 miles, potentially that has the capacity to reach tel aviv. obama administration officials say they are in the final stages of picking a u.s. location to house terror

suspects held at guantanamo bay. officials are trying to meet president obama's deadline to close gitmo by january. the justice department announced transfer of three prisoners to yemen and ireland, 223 terror suspects still are being detained at the military prison in cuba. new details on terror suspect najibullah zazi. officials say 24-year-old zazi could have been just weeks away from assembling a bomb. he had at least 18 bottles of peroxide-based hair lighteners and "the new york times" reports how he transformed into a terror suspect. the paper points to potential connection between his trips to pakistan and his shift to becoming a more devout muslim, growing his beard, carrying prayer beads. today kazzy's attorney is asp sem belling a team of lawyers for his client t. the 24-year-old afghan is scheduled to be arraigned tuesday.

joining me now is nbc terrorism analyst evan coleman. what do you make of these and the transition to someone accused of plotting to build a bomb? >> it's interesting that "the new york times" article brought out the sense that he really seems to have been radicalized in pakistan. when he left from the united states he was general american, maybe he didn't have the greatest life but seemed to have a lifestyle. yet when he came back here, suddenly something changed. but i think we also have to keep in mind there is another factor that went into play here. last somer mr. zazi went through a bankruptcy, he apparently was having serious financial problems. i think we also have to see how that fits into his radicalization. was this someone who had a decent career or job prospects and something fell through, he went to pakistan. there's a lot of factors but it

seems as mr. zazi again with most terrorists a combination of personal factors and exposure to something in pakistan. >> so let me start from that. does this put more scrutiny on travelers to and from pakistan? >> i think it should. i shed yesterday, the northwest frontier province of pakistan where the training camps are, this is not a mecca for tourism. it's a beautiful place but it's extremely dangerous. and the people that we pick up, the pakistani police and law enforcement are picking up in this area, they all have one thing in common. they shouldn't be there and they seem to be in search of one thing which is jihad. they found scottish guys, britons, americans, there was a guy who is wanted by the fbi down in north carolina who has been picked up by the pakistanis multiple times, a young kid who seems to be out there and in search of this mission, this jihadi mission. and it's disturbing the idea

that you have these very american guys, i mean, these are not naturalized, they are american-americans. they are running around looking for ways to come back in the united states, get the training to carry out something here. and that is very disturbing. eight years after 9/11. >> how surprising is it that najibullah zazi, who his family members described bluntly as stupid, a guy that you say may have been motivated by economic problems, those are conditions that a lot of americans have. they are stupid and they are poor. how big a problem is that for intelligence expert you're going to be on the lookout for home grown terrorists do you go after every stupid poor person? >> obviously you can't. for a long time there's been a sense of self congratulations in the u.s. because we look at the uk and it seems to be much more after problem there. the root causes that led to

recruitment in the uk didn't seem present here. yet, all of a sudden now there is this home grown terrorists. >> the guy who was -- who stands accused of hatching a plot to bring down a dallas sky scrape e guys in north carolina planning to target members of the military. yet we foiled those plots. >> so far a lot of thefs guys have been stupid, they made mistakes. >> they aren't all stupid. >> that's the problem. not everyone is going to make those mistakes. in the future people who are watching this they are reading about these mistakes. you can be sure that al qaeda is too. people are going to be careful to say i'm not going down that road. i'm not going to get caught in that trap. you have americans watching american tv processing what's going on and they can see the mistakes being made, they can see the loopholes. they live here. there is no you know, no stopping someone at a border, no wire tap intercept.

they are right here in the u.s. >> and may be more careful who they talk to and where they shop. >> you would think so. yes. >> evan, thanks. for more on this and article how it may be impossible to cut off the money supplied to the taliban you can head to our website msnbc.com. swiss police have confirmed they arrested film director roman polanski on a 31-year-old arrest warrant. let's go to tom aspell. where did this, i mean, it happened in switzerland. under what circumstances? >> reporter: well, roman polanski was flying into zurich airport, he was to receive a lifetime achievement award tonight. and police were waiting for him at the airport there. the 76-year-old director was picked up at the airport and he's now being held in a detention center pending extradition request from the united states. he fled the u.s. to live in france in 1978 a year after

pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl t. girl's mother complained that polanski had given her daughter drugs and alcohol before having sex with her at jack nicholson's house in los angeles. polanski directed classics "china town" and rosemary's baby. he was once married to sharon tate murdered by followers of charles man son in 1969. polanski's career continued in france. he received an oscar for the 2002 movie and he recently sought dismissal of his american case on grounds of misconduct by the now deceased judge who he said arrange add plea bargain and reneged on the deal. >> given the fact that polanski has eluded police for 31 years, heading to switzerland which i thought of as the place that you go if you want to elude arrest by american authorities or others, has something changed in

switzerland to allow this arrest? >> reporter: well, the swiss say at the moment they are holding him pending extradition request. that means it hasn't been made. you know, the swiss are notoriously thorough in extradition matters and relations with the united states have been quite good recently thanks to a change in attitude as the swiss banking secrecy. we may see this case fast tracked and polanski back to the u.s. to face original charges brought 31 years ago. the u.s. stepped up efforts to look for polanski since 2005 and put out notices waiting for a place where it could get an extradition request in place. >> all right. tom, thanks. still ahead this morning, from guantanamo bay to the public option, president obama, is he becoming at odds with his own snaert and a new film ready to hit about a couple that went halfway around the world to help their child with autism. poking fun at moammar gadhafi. the funniest moments from the

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new this morning. people cheering and shouting god is great on iranian state television as the revolutionary guard tests a missile launcher. let's go to washington now. how big a deal was this? >> reporter: it's a very big deal. the decision by the iranians to test missiles days after the revelation on friday about this secret nuclear facility shows you all that you need know about the posture that the iranians are taking going into these very important talks in geneva on

thursday. first ever direct negotiations between the u.s. and the iranians in 30 years. and there's every reason from all indications, comments friday about the revelation of the facility, the testing of missiles over the weekend, there is every reason to believe that they are not going to be in compliance with the demands from the international community and that we can expect further defiance from the iranians. >> russia's leader said last week while at the united nations after it was reveal there had was this secret nuclear facility, he said look, i think that iran has an obligation to the international community but they also have a right to peaceful nuclear power. the fact that this plant is run by the revolutionary guard, the fact they are test firing missiles is that enough to coax russia and potentially china as well into taking a stand with the united states, great britain and france? >> reporter: the united states

is very impressed with the reaction from the russians on friday. it was very stern reaction about coming into compliance and the need for this to be investigated and iran to cooperate. the reaction from the chinese was not strong. it was much more hesitant and luke warm. it was disappointing. while the obama administration certainly has more leverage with these other countries going forward it's not clear, i think the united states remains hopeful that russians can be brought on board to back tougher sanctions if the iranians don't comply with the requests that these countries are making thursday. but it's not clear at all that the chinese are going to come and they need to be brought on board. they have veto power against sanctions and that's going to be the final -- the final cross to bear for the obama administration to try to bring the chinese in. that's just a huge question at this point. >> so you have these

international countries coming together to work on diplomacy. how much concern is there, what are you hearing inside washington, about the actions that israel may take? >> reporter: well, that's very interesting. a challenge for the obama administration. you've seen in the last month president obama trying to tackle this mideast peace problem, trying to bring the israelis and the palestinians together. of course pressuring israel about a settlement freeze. that didn't work. both countries came to the photo opp and dug in, saying it's hard for them to come to the negotiations. obama is pushing hard on this because he believes that this is something that can mitigate the iranian threat. if he can resolve that mideast peace crisis and come to some kind of stability there, that will weaken the hand of iran in the region. since that's not going well, it makes it much more challenges for him to deal with the question of iran. >> okay.

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that announcement set for friday. we'll be watching. "saturday night live" kicked off its 35th season and was this a block buster. megan fox hosted the premiere and wow, she transformed into a flight attendant with a southern accent and flexed her acting muscles. fred, known for his barack obama impersonation, this one moammar ga gadhafi. >> making matters worse, i had to write one at the last minute on loose leaf paper. and that made me look crazy. this is crushing. if i had written my speech on plain paper. everyone, i mean everyone on

plane was watching taken. imagine trying to write a speech while out of the corner of your eye the great liam niece season running through paris trying to recover his daughter. using both his intellect and his strength. >> funny stuff. you know he could have played the real speech from moammar gadhafi and it wouldn't have been far off. still ahead. roquen polanski arrested. why it's turned into a very long weekend for many michael jackson fans. here they are smiling, happy. we'll explain why. , heartburn, , upset stomach, diarrhea. yeah, my buddy's got all that. do we need to buy a bunch of different medicines? pepto guy: oh, no, pepto alone relieves all five symptoms. plus gas too. dude. we're covered. enjoy the game. easy. pepto guy: pepto-bismol. yup, you're covered. what is goin' on ?

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welcome back to msnbc. i'm contessa brewer. as we approach the bottom of the hour. august was the deadliest month this year for afghan civilians according to a new report from the united nations. attacks were way up ahead of the

presidential election. and that violence has prompted the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan to submit a request to the pentagon for more troops. general mcchrystal says without an increase the mission could fail. a report in today's washington post says president obama has not set a deadlin whether to give more troops. with us is barry mccaffrey. what's your take on this? would more troops be effective in trying to bring stability to the nation? >> contessa, the end of the day what the president has to sort out is what is his strategy. does he want to embed in the civilian population, provide local security and build an afghan army and take a decade to do it? if he does he needs more troops. >> all right. so, here we have defense secretary robert gates, he was on this week with george

stephanopoulos. let me play his take on afghanistan. >> i think it's important to get the strategy right and then we can make the resources decisions, as i said i don't expect this to be a protracted process. the reality is that even if the president did decide to approve additional combat forces going into afghanistan the first forces couldn't arrive until january. >> the president said last week, general, that he was waiting to see about the strategy in afghanistan. is the white house clear on what the strategy is, what the mission is? and how it could best accomplish those goals? >> you know, the president did give a momentous speech articulating what he thought he wanted to achieve. he put in a new commander, mcchrystal who operationalized it and has announced he's trying to again embed in the local population, build afghan forces. on the face of it he made the call. i think what's happened is the implications of asking for

40,000 more troops, $4.6 billion a month in the middle of an economic crisis, with no support out of his own political party and dubious skepticism out of the american people, causes him to gag at the implications of his own strategy. that's the dilemma he's facing. >> given general mcchrystal's blunt assessment of the corruption that runs rampant through the government of afghanistan, not just at the local level but the national level even, is it clear that the military and adding more troops would have any impact on shoring up that problem? >> well, it's not clear. i think the notion of building governance so that you have provingsial governors who provide services and electricity and water and security, that's a decades worth. and in the short run we're stuck with what exists as a very chaotic and cruel and

impoverished country ridden by violent tensions between the major population groups. this is not switzerland. it's a tough environment. >> general mccaffrey, always good to see you. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> two u.s. senators weighing in how to deal with iran. jim web of virginia and republican whip senator jon kyl of arizona, both appeared on "meet the press." the two reacted to the announcement by iran that it successfully test fired short range missiles today ahead of a meeting thursday regarding iran's nuclear program. >> at a certain point talking is counterproductive than productive because time is not on our side. all the iranians need is time to develop their nuclear weaponry. >> i think what we have right now is a way, a process in place where we can really start to exfloor what the iranian what is their intentions are. this is the value of opening up the dialogue and the way we're

going to see in the coming week. >> news of the missile test from iran comes just a couple days after western countries disclosed iran had been secretly developing a previously unknown underground uranium enrichment facility, cause for consternation among the countries at the united nations. a new report suggests that the president won't meet his deadline of closing guantanamo bay by january. it was one of the first promises president obama made. one of the examples of the reality of governing apparently changing the president's stance on issues in a way that could put him at odds with the base of the party. are the far left, are the liberals upset at president obama for some of the differences between what actually gets done and what he promised would get done? >> i mean, when it comes to these issues, we'll see, i think on health care the president has

been extremely clear. i think part of what you're talking about in terms of progress of the party has more to do with afghanistan than with guantanamo. the issue is the only thing more important than closing guantanamo is doing it correctly. so if that means extending the deadline the president will have to speak to why that is, offer a new deadline but i don't think it's the end of the world. >> it's interesting, brad, the republican reaction when he made the announcement. we have to make sure we're not bringing terrorists onto american soil. in delaying the deadline for the closing is that in any way shape or form a victory for republicans? >> well, look. it's not a victory for republicans but it certainly is a seat back for the president. the president realized it's easier to campaign than govern. he made an important decision without the information for him to base his decision on. now the president from his own government is being told mr. president we cannot meet that

deadline, it's impossible, and perhaps you shouldn't have done to the begin with. so it should be done right, it's not a victory for republicans but it is a setback for obama. >> you think his advisers are telling him it shouldn't have been done to begin with? >> i think there were some in the white house, some in the government he was about to lead who said mr. president, this is not possible but he pandered to his base instead of being presidential and getting all of the information possible in order to make a decision that he could -- that he could be credible on. >> alicia, you see that as pandering? >> i don't. i think he made a principled decision, something he has been clear on. the fact we're coming to it does show that perhaps this was not the best process by which to do it. it can be a learning experience. i think what you don't swant this to evolve into partisan politics. >> you brought up afghanistan. let me ask brad, do you think afghanistan makes strange bed fellows for president obama? you have conservatives who are pushing the white house to grant general mcchrystal's request for

more troops. >> certainly general mcchrystal was the president's choice to lead and he should be listened to. and the president also is learning a very valuable lesson that things that you believed in as a candidate you don't necessarily agree with as president. we've seen that in iraq, we're now seeing it in afghanistan. the president has really tough decisions to make and he should be listening to those in charge who he put credibility in. >> president bush had begun the process of withdrawing troops, that was not particular to president obama but on afghanistan, he didn't campaign on getting our troops out of afghanistan. at this point does the debate about iraq now from liberals from the progressives start to become applied to afghanistan? >> no. i think these are separate issues and i think they are treated as separate issues. if you read the move on e-mail urging people to call the white house to say they do not want escalation and they want a distinct plan how we're going to

get out of afghanistan, a good exit strategy, i think you'll notice that the tone is very different than the communication we saw around iraq. it's much more reasoned, it's much more measured and it's a pretty simple message which is that if this is what you want, if you want an exit strategy out of afghanistan you need communicate that to those in power. >> good sunday to you both. >> thank you. >> for more political news including the roll of the economy in washington, check out first read.msnbc.com. we're looking at a bank robber in connecticut. authorities believe that heather brown hit six banks in three states, the latest just yesterday in connecticut. the new london paper reports that she was released from prison for a bank robbery. each robbery has the same pattern t. woman goes in, the video captures her, walks up to a bank employee, says she has a bomb, police say she's given the money and leaves. according to fbi statistics,

bank robberies by women have increased since 2002. the long weekend wait is over for some of michael jackson's most devoted fans. tickets for the movie, this is it, went on sale a minute after midnight in los angeles. some people were in line beginning thursday. just to buy tickets for the first showing. it hits theaters october 28. jeff rossen joins me now. is it really that they want to be the first to see it or have the ticket? >> it's probably both. what strikes me as odd this isn't a concert. this is a movie that you can buy tickets for online. it will be out for two weeks when it discuss come out. the big red carpet premiere is october 27th, that's what these people were on line for. the first 500 tickets, the first 500 in line get to go to that star studded red carpet thing in l.a., it comes out nationally the next day. you can buy tickets on line for that showing, it's out for two weeks, the movie is "this is it."

it has rehearsal foodage. sony bought the rights from aeg, this is a jackson's comeback tour, it was supposed to be his comeback tour. it's all the outtakes, his rehearsal, final moments. an all access pass to what was happening. >> but if you don't get into the first showing there or nationwide, how long is this going to be in theaters? >> only limited run two weeks. sony is trying to basically use all of the hype to gin everybody in. they feel they can pounce if they only have it for a limited amount of time. of course i'm sure they will sell a dvd after that. they want to make their money back. >> thanks. still ahead more on the nuclear tensions rising. the international group against iran. what are the iranian people thinking about this missile testing over the weekend? we'll get perspective. also the legal uproar over a frozen embryo mistake at a fertility clinic. how does that happen? more ahead on msnbc.

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new this morning. we're hearing from new york governor david paterson on whether the white house has encouraged him not to run for a new term. this morning the governor says he is steadfast in his decision to run in 2010 to keep his southeast he appeared on "meet the press" this morning and david gregory asked him if the president or other white house officials asked him to step aside. >> i think that the people of the state of new york are the ones who should choose their governor. >> but let's be very clear about what happened. the president's team, and others speaking on their behalf, said to you, you should not run. isn't that right? >> i can't say that, david. there are people that told me not to run. a lot of people told me not to run. >> but the white house specifically said don't run. >> i don't know that. >> you don't know that? you certainly know you don't

have their support. >> well, david. the white house has a country to run and i have a state to run. >> meet the press re-airs on msnbc at 2:00 p.m. eastern. a new film set to open this week in new york highlights the length many parent goes to to find a cure for their children who have autism. rupert road a father's quest to heal his son. now the book is a documentary film. take a look. >> my son is diagnosed with autism. the feeling was like being hit across the face with a baseball bat. grief, fear, what is this thing? also shame that -- the weird irrational shame, i can't have a normal child. i've cursed this child. >> rupert isaacson made the film

and joins me on the phone. good to talk to you. >> thank you for having me on. >> tell me the extent that the family goes through to get help once the diagnosis is made. your child has autism. >> well, all parents and a lot of parents out there watching who know what i'm talking about. when the diagnosis comes through, because so little is understood about autism there aren't a set of propo columns that your doctor can give you. it's you and the internet and a lot of conflicting information because so little is understood. so you have to kind of feel your way to where does my child fit on this spectrum of disorders and which of the sort of infinity of therapies, it's going to be right for him or her. >> i know to a degree what -- you go through because my nephew has autism and i know the conflicting information that's on line. it can be so incredibly confusing yet at the same time it seems like families are

willing to try anything. tell me the story when your son met bets the horse. >> i am a life loong horseman. i used to train horses but i stopped because i thought he was unsafe around them. he was better in nature. always better in nature. we live in the woods. we were tawalking and he got aw and he went the direction i wasn't expecting. he got through the fence into my neighbor's horse pasture. all of my neighbor's horses were there. he threw himself on the ground but he didn't. instead the mare of that herd, betsy, came and bent her head and licked and chewed which is an equine sign of submission that horse trainers look for. i had never seen a horse offer that spontaneous. she's got a direct line to her. he's got the horse gene. so i started putting him up on

her and it was as if all the language that had been stopped up inside him started pouring out and the cork out of the bottle. >> i know there are parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents thinking okay, all right, so i'm going to take my child who has autism to a ranch or to a pony farm and i'm going to get them around horses. is it your experience that for every child with autism the key is something different? >> yes. i mean, it's definitely case by case. but something we have seen, this is well documented, is that such a large majority of children seem to respond really, really well, particularly for some reason with verbal skills around horses that i say definitely worth giving it a try. >> and just in a broader sense, what are you hoping your film accomplishes, not just for your family obviously, you really have given you videoers inside

into the raw emotion having a child with autism and the daily responsibility. but what are you hoping to achieve? >> well, i think that you know, obviously we went -- we ended up going across mongolia on horseback going to visit traditional healers and even though rowan came back not cured, he came back so healed of the dysfunctions with his autism that it was really like having a different child when we got back. nonetheless every family's got to do something specific to them. and every family in the situation goes to mongolia in their own living room, routinely every day. i think the key is listen to your child. i didn't take rowin to betsy. rowen took himself to betsy. he was nonverbal. the only way he could show me what he wanted to do was to physically place himself there. that taught me a different way of listening. follow the kid, follow your heart as a parent.

it might seem a crazy idea but if your gut is telling you to do something, try all of the western therapies as well. but follow your gut, don't be afraid to break the rules a little. don't be afraid to follow your parental intuition. >> i appreciate you so much sharing your story with us. not only in the film but today. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me on. >> after spending 18 months behind bars for running a dog fighting ring michael vick returns to the football field for his first regular season game since his release from prison. the professional quarterback will wear his number 7 jersey when his team faces the kansas city chiefs at lincoln financial field in philadelphia. no word from the eagles what vick's role will be in the game. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor threw ot the first pitch last night. she is a long time yankee fan. her pitch was a strike right down the middle. it's not her first brush with baseball.

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today iranian state television reports the country's revolutionary guard conducted new tests of short range missiles, this two days after we got word of iran's new nuclear facility. robert gates addressing the situation says it could force more economic penalties against iran, a country that is already struggling with three sets of u.n. sanctions. >> my view has been that there has been an opportunity through the use of diplomacy and economic sanctions to persuade the iranians to change their approach to nuclear weapons. the reality is there is no military option that does

anything more than buy time. >> joining me is the founder and executive director of iran future.org. when there are sanctions, the economic penalties i know hit people across iran, not just making the decisions about nuclear weapons or the like. so what's likely the reaction among iranians to the announcement of more missile tests? >> as the missile tests done in my opinion to ensure iranian people that we are strong. a very good show when it comes out and also something to show that he's in power. allow me to explain a little bit more about sanctions. if you guys are going to do sanctions which is probably what's going to happen, i doubt it if october 5th or next thursday they are going to do anything different than what they are doing right now in iran. but the sanctions must be done i a way that for instance i have a

document right in front of me, it's management international from germany, has been dealing with iran, iranian government since 4 september 2007, and their last purchase was over 2.5 million euros. that shows that there is lack of money in the treasury of iran and we also had another conference between ahmadinejad and near the end of ramadan that one of the journalists said i haven't been paid for three months, where is my money. these are the facts that iranian regime is under stress. and short of the dollar amount they get for the oil is actually pressing them. but if we are having all of these countries and germany is one of them, italians and spanish, that they are allowing iranian to buy the equipment, send to the dubai and getting it

to iran, it will be a burden on the heart of iranian people. and i would invite secretary gates or president obama or secretary of state to allow us as iranian to give them another perspective. there is another way to deal with iranians >> what is that? >> without military or anything like that. and that i can discuss on here but there is another way to deal with them. >> why do you feel like you can't discuss it here? >> because it's all information coming out of people that are in high places in iran that they gave this information and part of the information that i just discussed, this is only one phase i can tell who is who but the rest is confidential and people lives can be in jeopardy. >> are you talking about direct diplomacy with individuals in iran? give me a sense of just the process other than sanctions or military action. >> well, no. i'm not talking about dip plo

mass we the current government iran. what i'm talking about, we know all the systems are computerized. we know that where the government iran buys the system, we know what system they are running, we mow that everything is done internationally and we know what the satellite signal, we know basically everything we do need to know. we have tests in iran, with the help of some sort of influential help, not just a group or two groups we can shut down the system and sending a search and destroying those computers. and remember, they may build them again but it will be another few years. most of this knowledge that has been given to iran is via russia and china. >> it looks like russia, russia may be more willing now to join some of the other countries in condemning iran's current actions. we'll have to wait and see on china. nice to talk to you. thank you. still ahead, roman polanski

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