ruia and the united state wh we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communicatis from o studios in new york city, this is charlie se. >> rose: we gin this evening th president obama's visit t moscow. today heand russianresident dmit medvedev announced a preliminary agreemt to cut nuear stockpilesby as mu as a third. russia agreed to allow the unitedtates mility to transport weaps androops across its territory io afghanistan. e two countries ll set up a joint commissi to focus on a nge of economic,nergy,nd terrorism issues. the suit is part of the president's pledge to ret the relaonship with rusa. and here's a part of what the presiden and also the leader of ruia said at the krlin today. >> ( translated ): on the whole, by aracterizing our fir day of wk as a result of negotiations that have had, i would ke to say that i vi them as a fist but very important step in the process of improvg full scale cooperation between our two countries which should go the benit of both states. and if both states befit by it, that means ever

at the end of the cold war, ruia hadver 11,000 stragic nucleararheads. today, it has just under 3000. in 1990 america had mor than 13,000 warhds. w it has just oer 2000. theew treaty will cut each to about 1600. thats still more than enough to destro the planet. critics say the treaty is actually a throwback the past. >> wshould understand that veloping our rations on the trea of the cold war wi make our relations ry vulnerable. >> this unmatche and in particular thegreements nucleareapons, will be held here and washington as a real achievement. and it is. but it i just the first small step towd btter relationshs. it's still vy hard for the political elite here and america to break free of the cold wa and stop treing each other as adversaries. >> more of the main inrnational news -- t truth and reconciliation commissioin liberia has recommended the presidente banned from public office for 30 years. ts is because oher alleged role in one of the couny's civil wa. there you see her in these pictures with itish prime minister, gordon bwn, established a commi

is the president playg this ld presidency as described to me the other day in ruia is he playingit srtly for the united state >> wel thinkhis meetingn moscow will prove divis down theoad perhaps. you have tlook at president ama as very much a strategic thinker and will have seen this meeting, not in terms of the one or two-day impact but how this plays out over the next four ars. he started a relationshipith putin. i was surprised that he was a little critical of putin but accurate aut putin in his statemen here in washinon. i think now he given the russians, thoh, something to work for, a better relaonship there is n illusion among the nationecity team of president obama that medvedev is really if power. they understand ry well that putiis the key player but they also understandth medvedev is going to have a key role, it is important to build him up it's important tosee how putin responds to , what the internal dynamic i and h you play that out over the long-term and noin terms o a two-day meeting. >> is there aing to the fct th the russian people did n respond toarack obama nor to mich

too often, the united states and ruia only comnicate on a narrange ofsss or let old habits withi oureaucracy stand in t way of our progress. that's where why this cmmission wi include working groupsn the devopnt and economy, energy and the environment, nuclear ergy and secity, arms control and iernational security, defense, feign policynd counterterrorm, preventing and handling emergencies, civ society, sciee and technology, space health, educatio a culture. this work will be cordinated by secretary clion an secrery clinton will tvel to russia th fl to carry this effort forward. just to giv you one example of this cooperation, is theew memoryum of mem ran dumb on undersnding of health. pwe learn that a disease that emerges anywherean pose a risk to peopl every why and where our department of health and humaservices will cooperate with its russiancountparts to impactnfectious and chronic and nne commune ka commuble seases. i'm happy tt russia taken the st oflifting important restrictions on u.s. lifestyl e cost o these businesses is ov 1.3 billion and we've made impoant progress. i wo

. >> political questio he didn't gethe response in ruia than he has had in other foreign capital. >> no, but that should be no surprise. they areary of the united ates, and it does not matter with the presiden is, they will be wary of that peon. this is a relationship that has be built. clinton met -- met putin and didn't like in the beginning and things and did cross the. bush loved and and the beginni and things and frosty. but this me, a little thing obama did. he had dinner wi medvedev and he was opposedevin of the ne that the putin but he id, no, i am spendinthe night with family. putin, an evening guy, had breakfast. in the picte, putin looks like of the guard. he has a little cup, los like somebody given t cut t look fancy buddy has bun in the ba. the news conrence friday, the president id he thinks health care is on tck. things he will have something by the august recess. will it be anything tangible, substantial >> i think by theugust recess is pretty optimistic. i think i this -- the senate in particular it is in a hard place because they are tryg to write a bill that ll dr

's just a terrie, terrible thng and you know this vernment in ruia, they're just n knockg off journalis and human rigs right a left. >>so what should the obama administration d >> it's very interting because the "times" had an editorial on it this morning. >> gideonyou're roing. >> the fac that it's a tragedy. a lot ohuman rights abowese inchechnya,ave been for many years of course and not much thathe united states can or frankly in my opinn should rt do on an actual policy vel. the differce between obama and bush on this is that bush basical talked a bigg game but didn't do anythin the obama admintration has ven dropped the talk. they'r very festiious of what they wi do to someone se. 'll not tortureow but happily ske the hand of people who do torture. >> wait a minute, i think that's a little exeme. i think as wmentioned when w were he on the anniversary of tiananmen, the ministration did hav a qite strong statement that came out. it is a challen to balance the fact thatthere's an enorus. a things that they want to get done with the ussians. it's a crupt and -- repressive government t

-- come back in september d at that point he major powers aregoing to try to get mo sanctions but ruia and china are sill ying no. so you notonly have th nfrontation with ran, you havethat road blo looming in septembe >> beforthe president ent away on this rip the white house made a bg push to get climate chae legislaon at least pased through the house. they thought this ould giv them a ittle leverage dealing on the national stage. the president wentto the jay payton summit, eemed to have come up kinof -- g-8 summit, seed to have co up kid of sht. what happened? >> that was on ofthose glss half empty things. many the pe was you culd get the g-8 counies together in this largergroup that was about the g-20, -15 -- i kept being dferent numbers -- but u could gt the industrialing countries to sign on to touhertargets. theysigned out, woldn't do it. so at the end of the wek the olderindustrial democracies did sign on t tougher targets but it's a 40-yar timetablenot very inding. >> gwen: ok. thank you, bl. by the end of this week ngress was supposed to have made real progressn the house and

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at kind ofututur e e ruia and americica going to have tothth? what wororldrdrderill repepla e e co war? those questiononststildon't have cleaear swsws. and so nowow ty must be answered y you by your generationinin russssiainin arica and arorodd the e wwld. you gege to didid a wle i caotot awer those questions foyou, can spepe plainly out the future that americacass seseekg. america wants a strong, peaceful and prosperous ruruss.. this belelieisis r roodd inour rereect for the russisian peopl andd a srered history bebeeeeenr nation that't's eses bond competetioions despite our p pas rivalry,urur opopleerellies ithth greatest strugggg o of e last centurury. rececelyly, noted is when was in normandy. for justas menen from boston an birmingham risked a that they had to storm t tse bches and alale ose cliffs, soviet soldieiers from places like kik endured unimaginable hardships to pepel an invnvasnn and turn e e ti in the east. president john kennedy aid, noation h htory of battle ever suffered more than t t soviet union in ththe coco world war.r. a

it'song way to scow, but you can see ruia from these shor of lake lucille her now to tom pickering in washgton here, former us. ambassador to mosc, former u.n. ambassar to the united states. thanks for joining us. how important is building a personal relatish between president obama anpresident medvedev, or is it me important that he be buildg a retionship with vladimir putin, when he meets with him tomoowmr.ambassador? >> ihink that they're both important to have good relations with botheaders of russia. that gs without ying. presidentutin or former president putin, now prime minister, is consired by many still behe majortring puller, if i could put itthat way in russia. t i's also important to focus on some of the substantiative sues that the president is dealg with. so far today, we've hadigh or nineaj announments of various activities goinon, incoming a new commission to ersee u.s./russian leaders, which lead the strategic nuclear talks, whi have now moved ead toward a go. very importantn noroliferation and missile defense and other things. pure, personal relatiohips alone don't c

plus a big expansion into ruia and china where there's a long rch away from general cho and toward colonel sanders. do you really think that china and russia, brazil, are they marching to e tune of the mbers of our labor deptment? pending new me sales, they're soaring. doesn't matter, unemployment big ordepiups in autos, doesn't matter, unemployment. 8 llion build of cs going to million, who cares unemployment. they're al rdered null and void, totally trumped an pantsed by unemployment? makes no sse to me. that's the question yohave to ask yourse with this market? does angly jobs situati twgh or countealance everything, everythinghat's good? ishat's what the people who were selling early in the d seemedo believe after th big selloff on uray. i thk they're ong. juing by today's positive close after stocks spent most of the timein the red, the market seems to aee with me. before you sell stock aggressively off a particar monthly labor report, you've got to ask yourself. do 40,000, 60,000, mbe even 63 lost jobseally offset everything gd that has happened arounthe wod in the last threeonths? i

families who know about i league schools but we're starting to g fabuloustudents from eastern europe or ruia or china where parents don't have economic means at all, in fact they're getting fullinancial aid. >> charlie: and your biggest university relationshipeyond china iswhere? >> well,e're developing a lot in indiaight now. we have hisrically qui a bit of strength in t study of japan. we have a lot of strength this say latin america and of course western rope. buour focus now having built a really stron twork of relationships in china an partnershipsas been india. wee building up our faculty in that area. we hired the noble laurte, he's going to serve on ahalf time basis. we're buildi tiesith his stitute delhi which focuses on environnt sustainability. and were looking to build up partnerships. we're ruing like our chinese governnt leadersh programs where we educate chinese prime american stirs on conmporary issues wre doing the same for a group parliament tainers loving to come to yale in o years. >>> do y get fincial suprt fr these countries when you go there. >> limited. we have a lot

in calling for a partnersip with ruia, in saying that h wanted russia occupy its ritful place as a great power, he really was sending a new messa to the russian here who have been of the vew, as we repoed last week and this week, at the u. has wante to real take advantage of russia weakness after the cd war. so for them tohearim talk abt wanting a psperous and secure russia, i talked to me students afterwas. even though they didn't go czy during the speech, th wereery struck bythat. that the unitedtates wasow seeking a partnersh. he's also do a interting thing whh is to use the imagery of the second world war to talk about a time when russia or t soviet uon and the u.s. were ales. the very first thg he did on arrival s to go to th tomb of e unknown soldier behind up in red squarend lay a wrea. he talkedoday aout the time when thu.s. and russ were allies in what he called the eatest struggle of the 20th century. and he likened the young men who died at normandy beach to young soviet soldiers who died fending and trying to retake the estern border. so it really was driving me the entire th

it came nearly a year aft gegia's war with neighboring ruia. mr. biden address the georgian paiament. he tried to allafears about u.sefforts to improve relations with moscow. >> ladieand gentlemen, i know that some a concerned and i uerstand i that our effortsto reset relations with russia will come at the expeeof georgia. let me be car. they have nt. they will not, and they cannot. >> lehrer: in moow a russian govement spokesman accused georgia of rearming. he said russia will take "concrete measure to prevent that >> lehrer:nd still to come on the newshouronight: racial profiling onot, and on stage, on the road. that follows the iri prime minister'sisit to the u.s. margaret warner reports. >> warner: wn bombs go off in baghdad d other cities in iraq, it is now iraqi soldis, not american forces,ho rush to the sce. the hand-ofwas a major milestone in returning contro of iraq to the peoplwho live there, while eping 130,000 u.s. troops in thbackground for no but when iraqis celebratethe june0 withdrawal of u.s. forces from the cities, u. officials we

so we have bome very dependent upon cna and its reserve, pan ruia, for that matter. large treasury bond buyer. quite apartrom european and panese sources, which have en regulars. trillions ofollars now held by these couries. and from time time, they tk about is there ather way to balancour porolios? so that we are not so involved in the dollaand the event someing would happen. foexample, ilation in our country brought abt by these budgs. now, i uerstand the president's point ofiew is you've g maybe one shot at this. you're popul, you've got momeum, clearly health care needs to be solved, climate change is out there, lots other thgs, railroad perhaps. and soyou go fort. but in going for it, we may be taking on s many obligations at this becomes frightening to a person like me just looking at e score card. >> rose: and on reign poli? >> on foreign polic, this have proceed in a much mor orderly way and i complimen the president for his collections of secretary clinto secretary gates, general jim jones. like we, a remarkable emissaries such as dk holbrooke and ou former

i rembmb being in ruia about 2525 years ago, a and they weree playing mototown it was michaelel and the jackso5 an d dia ross. anan so michael annd thtimes, and he e ss a transfoformveve cultural role figure. >> if you w we to look to tatak omom h passinin the st werful m mesgegehat you cld takeroro his life a and passing and apppp it to america tod and to the w wrlrld tododay, whd you think his passing and his work mostepresents going forward? whwhatan we takeroro what did, from whate hhied, and s death, a put i it to some forwarard vavalu eieierer molll spiriritlllly? >> out of f e h houseldld comes family off values, a awowork ethihic,ndnd ung your talent against theddds andmaking drms. all of u us have ththat cllkrng ususe at we hvevend not cry ababouwhat we don't't hhav we couldldump singer,,ndnd that mamar, that eacher, and that teacher, and wehohoe to be accordining t t inn our own tal. >> will you b b volved in the upcoming memoriaial, jesese? >> elell, the private ceremony s for the fafamiy.y. and ey wiill have it a at foress lawn appaparelyly. and thenen i willee he cryingg an

tops an ples will be abl to fly over ruia in order to supply troops in afghanistan, how significant isep. i am not sure whether we will transi russia with troops, and i thin it's equipment. and that's vy important. logistical support is very impoant. the russians have support in afghanistan and not becoming a liban base, because if it es, not only in al kada a potential problem for em, but central asia which is now composed of several independt republics. and many people overlook the facthat russia, which today has 140 millionple, and anywhere between 25 to 30 milln muslims. muslims o are not rusians. we hav mus inamerica, but they tend to be by and large in most ces americans. and the muslims in russia a no russns. and they areothers. and the russians are very concerned that islam could become their flag the green flag around which ese people rally. >> iust want to get ur impressions and your thoughts about the death of robert mcnamara. a front piece in the "new york times" called him the moestin beential secretary. what do u think? >> i think that's not fair. he was not the architect

. >> you know what theyall me in ruia? uncle joe. >> really.re is a trade announcement. john deere is one that will get a deal. russia jps on anyme someing says nast about the dollar. and chen ina, when you at wat they we saying - >> eri wereu in real america or fake america over the fouh of july. where wereyou? >> what do y mean, real america or f amic >> where were you? >> new jersey. >> that is real america. >> i ha a feeling you ve harassing donny. >> you miss me, don't you? >> yes, i do. stick upor you there. i am coming clean, i am a n york typehat goes to the hampnsn the weekend. >> ateast he is nest. >> yeah, and -- >> i am hanging o with george and will. >> yeah, justrying to get by. a regular guy. >> i could have guesd she was in the garde state. >> that's real america. >> prablyin some lavish mansion. prably on the shore. >>erin is big-time,baby. >> i was watchi fireworks with my 6-year-old daughter. how more erican is that? >> oh, good. >> i was on a big boa when i was doing that. >> what are alaskans saying about sah palin. we are

and is not somethi simply being imposed by the ited states or ruia or memrs of the nuclear club and it that we can rebuild a nonproliferation framework that works forll countries. and i think it's important for us to establh a set of international norms thacan be verifi, that can beenforced. and when we are speaking to iran or northkorea, it's not a matter of singling tm t, but ratherit's a st of international norms behavior that we' expecting everybody to abide by. paul low v paulo valentino. >>eporter: thank you, mr. president. it seeme that yesterday morning u had a very spirited and live discussion with the g-8 plus five plus one ignited by esident lula's objection to the adeacy of the g-8 a a forum. and what was your argument in this discussionnd whether or t you have the feeling that thdays of the g-8 are over, and theecond question butery lighfter six monthseeling and dealingith these inteational forums, the g-20, nato and g-8, do you nd it more complicated or l mplicated to deal wi that than wit the american congress? >> oh, well,he -- the second questi, it's not even close. i