needs to work more with asia to create jobs back home. he said there are tough things to deal with too. >> this is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world and where extremists who defile religion can plan attacks on both our continents. there can be no security or our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the asian pacific. to meet these kinds of challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> president obama later met with the japanese emperor. in singapore, he's expected to talk with russia's president about replacing the nuclear agreement which is expiring next month. >>> increased fighting in afghanistan is hurting morale among u.s. soldiers there. in contrast, two battlefield survey, morale is up in soldiers in iraq because combat there is decreasing. the surveys indicate suicide have jumped across the board. the army is working to get more mental health workers to help soldier

the second stop on his asia tour. he'll talk to russian leaders about renewing an agreement that's set to expire next month. he promised the u.s. will work more closely are asian countries. >>> heavy snow has killed 21 in china. snow caused thousands of buildings to collapse. almost 160,000 people were evacuated from their homes or stranded vehicles. >>> and several victims of the ft. hood shootings will be laid to rest today. services will be held in indianindian indiana, wisconsin and utah. >>> the attorney for the alleged gunman in the ft. hood rampage says major nidal hasan is paralyzed from the waist down. ed lavandera has more on where the investigation stands now. >> his family describes him as a good american, but several who knew him say the high-ranking army officer expressed extremist islamic views. one says he openly pledged allegiance not to the united states, but the koran. when asked if the constitution was a brilliant document, he said, no, not particularly. our source asked not to be identified. >> we

, largely throughout asia, and in america we have over one car per person and we will be replacing our cars and that is a big question, what will we replace or cars with, with the 20 mile per gallon suv we own or something really novel. >> is the american dream and the american car dream gone in your view? >> i think that the dinosaur vehicles we drive should be gone. i think mobility is not gone. we'll want to be as mobile as ever. but we'll have to think of far more creative ways to be mobile. in cars that get 80 or 100 miles per gallon, using our blackberries to hook us up with automatic car share services, using peratransit to pick us up where we have to go and e we are telecommuting and not traveling and when i wrote the book with dan spurling, i think we ended up getting together five times and there were not a lot of miles or airplane trips in the book and that is the type of productivity we have to think about? >> when it comes to transport and moving people? what is this solution. >> probably choice. right now, we have no choice. if you want to go somewhere, you got here and d

needs to work more closely with asia because it could create jobs. he also says there are other tough things to deal with. >> this is a place where a nuclear arms race threatens the security of a wider world and where extremists planned attacks on both of our continents. there can be no solution to our climate challenge wouz the rising powers and developing nations of the asia pacific. to meet these common challenges, the united states looks to strengthen old alliances and build new partnerships with the nations of this region. >> while in singapore, he plans to meet with the russian president as well. >>> there is strong reaction to bringing a 9/11 trial to new york city. there was a decision to be tried in civilian court. the suspects include cleed shake moham -- khalid sheikh mohammed. members are sharply divided over the prospect of a civilian trial. >> to bring it back here it is tasteless, insensitive and those scars which have never been healed are going be opened again. i am not comfort wbl this call. >> i think it speaks to the heart of who

i see a south asia of peace, friendship and prosperity. where its borders will see the flow of people, goods and ideas. for this to happen, pakistan must make a break with the past. they must forgive terrorism and it is my salemme hope that india and pakistan come together -- can move forward together to write a new chapter in the history of our subcontinent. we are three days away from the first anniversary of the barbaric terrorist attacks on bombay. the trauma of the attack continues to haunt us. terrorism poses an existential threat to the civilized world and it must be defeated. we should not harbor any illusions tackling terrorism in one place while ignoring it in others will work. we welcome the fact that president obama has committed the united states to the goal of the world free of nuclear weapons. india has been committed to this goal since their independence. we believe that india's security will be enhanced, not diminished by the complete elimination of nuclear weapons the world over. there is much that india and the united st

it will shrink their rice harvest of asia. but, this is not the most serious thing. that is coming from melting, not the glaciers. the world glacier monitoring institute in switzerland has now reported the 18th consecutive year of shrinking mountain glaciers around the world. the monitored glaciers in the andes and the rocky mountains, the alps and the tibetan plateau and what they are reporting is that glaciers are shrinking everywhere. it is the ice melt from the glaciers in the himalayas and on the tibetan plateau that sustains the major rivers of asia during the dry season. the changes, the gang sea and the yellow and it is that i.c.e. meld that sustains the rivers that also sustains the irrigation systems of the india and china for example. china is the world's leading wheat producer. the india is number two and we are number three. a lot of people think we are number one, we are not. china, because the irrigate most of their week were as we hear gave very little of our feet. with rice, china and india totally dominate the world rice harvest so what happens to t

i see a south asia of peace, friendship and prosperity. where its borders will see the flow of people, goods and ideas. for this to happen, pakistan must make a break with the past. they must forgive terrorism and it is my salemme hope that india and pakistan come together -- can move forward together to write a new chapter in the history of our subcontinent. we are three days away from the first anniversary of the barbaric terrorist attacks on bombay. the trauma of the attack continues to haunt us. terrorism poses an existential threat to the civilized world and it must be defeated. we should not harbor any illusions tackling terrorism in one place while ignoring it in others will work. we welcome the fact that president obama has committed the united states to the goal of the world free of nuclear weapons. india has been committed to this goal since their independence. we believe that india's security will be enhanced, not diminished by the complete elimination of nuclear weapons the world over. there is much that india and the united st

imagine ice melting in the far north atlantic will shrink the rice harvest of asia. but this is not the most serious threat. that is coming from melting mountain glaciers. the glacier monitoring institute in switzerland has now reported the eighteenth consecutive year of shrinking mountain glaciers around the world. they monitor glaciers in the andes and the rocky mountains, the alps, the himalayas, the tibetan plateau and they're reporting glaciers are melting everywhere. it is the ice melts from the glaciers in the himalayas and on the tibetan plateau that sustains the major rivers of asia during the dry season. it is that i smelled that sustains the rivers that also sustains the irrigation systems of indiana and china for example. china is the world's leading wheat producer. india is number 2, we are number 3. a lot of people think we are number one. we are not. china's harvest--a hours. it is because they irrigate most whereas we irrigate very little of our week. with price, china and india totally dominate the world rice harvest. what happens to the glaciers in

he will spend the next week in asia. he may announce a decision on afghanistan shortly after he returns. he's not rejecting the four proposals from military commanders that he wants to combine some of the best features of several of the options. the afghanistan commander general stanley mcchrystal is asking for 40,000 additional combat troops. secretary gates says the president is looking for the best way to signal resolve and make it clear to the afghan government that the u.s. commitment is not open ended. the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan who is a retired field commander, retired general karl eikenberry is said to be very doubtful about the wisdom of any vast troop increase. published reports indicate he sent classified cables to washington casting doubts on the afghan government's ability to join the fight against the taliban. >>> how do you define winning in afghanistan? e-mail us right now. cnn.com/hln. we'll keep it that simple. what constitutes winning in afghanistan? there's the toll free number. 877-835-5456.

one is northeast asia, korea, and the other is the persian gulf.can quibble, loosely speaking, i friends might say the clinton people went to far. but when we came into office in 2001, we were looking for whether there were more cuts available. some people on my staff in 2001 were saying 10 division army is bigger than we need. i'm glad some decided not to cut the army below 10 divisions. it probably would have been better to have 12. but the whole idea of sending american troops to afghanistan the way we did was virtually inconceivable, even as late as 2000 and 2001. we were still thinking, richard clarke, for all he talks, was thinking of some kind of strike that would take out osama bin laden. how do we -- [inaudible] it is amazing what was done in a short time. but to come back and answer your question, i think we set a path for reductions and the path was premised on let's see how the russians are doing. we had exit ramps as things start to reverse. dick cheney would say give me a list of the 10 things that will tell us whether real changes ha

we participate in the east asia summit. clearly, our preference is for the format proposed by japan, including india, australia, and new zealand. of course, we see all of these different efforts as building blocks to the emergence of an asian community in future. if you look at each of these processes, they sometimes proceed in parallel. if you were to draw parallels, you would see their work. at which these concentric circles would overlap. at some level, i would say that all of them can be helpful in terms of creating a much broader area for economic cooperation and investment in the asian continent. >> what did i hear? >> i am the publisher of "the american spectator." could you comment on in the's economic relations with china and particularly comment on how you see that relationship progressing over the next couple of decades, particularly in relation to china's attempts to control more and more national resources and resources in india and how that will affect your economy. >> i would draw your attention to the remark

president obama now heading for asia. it's not a small trip.sident obama will be spending eight days, he'll be hitting five cities, four countries. and here you see him coming out. of course "marine one" just landing. he's going to walk over to "air force one," a 747200. he's got to stop in alaska before he then lands in tokyo. not a short trip, as many of you know. six to seven hours at least to alaska. then another bunch of hours to hit tokyo. he will be, again, speaking to troops in alaska. he will be visiting new leaders in asia that themselves just begun their tenureships there. as you can see, president obama walking up the gangplank. he'll get in, turn around, is a salute, perhaps, and then it will take off. all right. there he is. "air force one" now headed to alaska. and a long trip to asia. we will be back with more. >>> new this morning, there's no record the ft. hood shooting suspect ever claimed to his supervisors about his claims of being harassed over religion. that's what two senior military officials told the associated press.

they were there for two economic forums involving the asia pacific region. leaders are working on replacing a treaty to reduce nuclear arms set to expire next month. >> in our first meeting when i traveled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles, our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months. our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the end of the year. i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urgency about it we should be able to get that done. >>> a stunning new development in the disappearance of 5-year-old shaniya davis. police have charged her mother with human trafficking. antoinette davis also faces a child abuse charge including prostitution and filing a false report. she is shown here alongside a man police have charged with kidnapping the child. they say mario mcneill is the suspect caught on a hotel surveillance video caught carrying the girl into a hotel room. last

. >>> president obama landed in china this morning, the third stop of his tour in asia.arlier today he covered ground negotiating a new nuclear agreement with russia. he met the president at an international summit in singapore, wornging to replace the treat country that expires next month. the president said things look good. >> in our first meeting when i traveled at moscow, we arrived an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months, our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the even of t end of the year. i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of uror jenscy about it that we should be able to get that done. >> president obama and the russian leader also talked about iran. obama said that time is running out for tehran to do something about its nuclear program. he said the u.s. and russia will keep pushing iran diplomatic alley and there are other options if that fails. but he

in 1995 and asia in 1998. whenever the u.s. dollar has been going through thejmz throwf ago any.ish we had a neutral reserve aspect. something neutral. what i'm saying is money is a tool. not something that descended from heaven. we live under legal tender laws. jo do they pay you to do that? >> the journal? >> yes. >> i think it's gone over the years from $150 to the one they ran a week or so ago, i got $600. you could not make a living. >> they ask forehow many words? >> 1200. let's listen to what you had to say. >> i've always liked the literature. i'm trying to memorize a day in the life. i have tape it's of his resiting his work. >> in russian and english. >> i have the work in russian and english. every morning for an hour, i start reciting what i've memoriesed so far and adding onto it and wokking my way through the book. >> why? >> it's a great pleasure. i think the way you get a >> how long wasúdp the day in t life? >> 109, maybe. speaking in foreign language >> have you gone back to this? you still read russian? >> yes. the new president. i think he is different from pu

>> because it seem to legitimize a chinese role in the south asia.he indians to see china as a potential problem. the statement looked as if u.s. was endorsing to china and southeast asian dispute. that did not go over well in delhi. >> the historical relationship has been called close, get tense. can you give historical context interrelationships in the last 50 to seven years? >> it has been a roller-coaster in many ways. -- in the last 50 to 70 years? >> it has been a roller-coaster in many ways. the united states supported britain. things began to go sour during the cold war because india wanted to opt out of the competition. the u.s. wanted to india as an ally. the of things got really bad in the 1970's. but since the reagan administration relations have been on the upswing. they have not been great, but definitely better than they were at the height of the cold war. certainly, during the bush administration they changed dramatically for the better. >> and relations between india and china, what have they been like historically? >> in the 1950's

his latest stop on an eight-day tour to asia. he said it's not predestined the u.s. and china be adversaries. he used the opportunity to address the issue of human rights which he says makes any nation stronger. >> we do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation. but, we also don't believe that the principles we stand for our unique to our nation. these freedoms of expressions and worship of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights. >> today and tomorrow president obama's meeting with china's president hu jintao in beijing, trade and finance issues going to be the majority of the talk. >>> and some saying the people trying to politicize this are way off base. president obama greeted the couple saturday during his visit to the imperial palace. a senior official says the president was observing appropriate protocol and his trip enhanced the position and status as a u.s. relative to japan. >>> take a look at the scene at shuttle "atlantis" blasted off. there it goes. it's loaded with large spare parts for t

all of southeast asia wants to go further.and so at the same time they also want greater access to the chinese market. so this proliferation of free trade treaties is quite natural the last six meetings with singapore when obama has clearly shown that the u.s. has no intention of leaving that part of the world either. and this is certainly not something which worries the chinese. so i see the development in free-trade areas as pretty much a development of continual growth, globalization of economic activities. how about u.s. chinese investments in africa back chinese investments in africa reflects very much the continuation of china's industrialization. the chinese has been lending money to u.s. consumers to continue buying chinese goods. since the u.s. consumer is unlikely to be spending the same as before thanks to our imprudent supervision of our financial system that has destroyed so much of our wealth the u.s. economy is not going to bounce back. after all, the federal reserve has projected that unemployment in the u.s. w

were big in derivatives in asia in 1998. long-term capital management, same thing happened with brazil. each one of these instances, the big wall street investment houses make wild speculative bets. >> but was a problem then that the federal government didn't regulate that enough? that's what you would think the common solution would be that they were making wild bets. were they thinking they could make wild bets and poor joe taxpayer would be forced to pony up if that happens to? that's what happened to each one of those cases, by the way, congress did not agree with his beloved of the clinton administration had to have a special u.s. treasury department fund that was ostensibly therefore the u.s. dollar. but to use it about these investment houses. here's what scares -- >> so private u.s. investment banks on wall street were making widely speculative bets. and they were making it, thinking that the federal government would bail them out if their investments went south, and in fact that's what happened to excel at the feder

president obama leaves today for his first visit to asia as president.o and make stops in singapore, shanghai, beijing and seoul. he's going to talk to asian leaders about the u.s. economy, the trade deficit with china, and his plans for afghanistan, among other things. >>> the husband of retired supreme court justice sandra day o'connor has died from alzheimer's complications. john o'connor was 79. he and his wife became a washington power couple when she served as the court's first female justice. colleagues say when his disease got worse she started bringing him to court. >>> lou dobbs is leaving cnn at the end of last night's show he said he's leaving the network effective immediately. over the past few years he's taken a stand on hot topics. he's going to look for more ways to take a more active role in the issues facing the nation. >>> how are you doing today? i'm robin meade. welcome. >>> new this morning, cnn has learned that tomorrow morning the parents of the so-called balloon boy will plead guilty to charges related to that case. now, richard

part of his eight-day trip to asia. he met with hu jintao today. before that, he held a town hall meeting with college students in shanghai. >> these freedoms of expression and worship of access to information and political participati participation, we believe are universal rights. >> president obama will also visit china's great wall today. >>> new this morning, a man's body was found in a chicago river earlier today and local media reports that it's believed to be the chicago board of education president, michael scott. police would not confirm this. the medical examiner's office has not identified the body. they are facing controversy after an honor's student was beaten to death. >>> price of prescription drugs has jumped. the industry has raised brand name prices by about 5%. they have said that they'll shave 8 billi$8 billion a year t passes. >>> a college football player spoke for the first time since his neck was crushed in a weight lifting accident and wait till you hear what he had to say. >> these were words that had special meaning to h

the third stop of his tour in asia.rlier today he covered ground negotiating a nuclear agreement with russia. he met russian president dmitry medvedev at a summit in singapore. they are working to replace the start nuclear treaty. president obama said things look good with. >> in our first meeting when i travelled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators made progress over the last months, our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the end of the year. and i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urgency about it we should be able to get that done. >> president obama and the russian leader also talked about iran. obama said that time is running out for tehran to do something about its nuclear program. he said the u.s. and russia will keep pushing iran diplomatically and there are other option that fails but he didn't offer details. >>> president barack oba

it was part of his eight-day trip to asia. he met with hu jintao earlier this morning. and in a sense president obama is checking in with the u.s.'s biggest banker. china's government may need assurance its huge debt of u.s. dollars are safe. and you don't see this very often. he pushed for greater freedoms in china during the and how tall. >> we do not speak to impose any system of government on any other nation. but we also don't believe that the principle that's we stand for are unique to our nation. these freedoms of expression and worship of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights. they should be able to all people including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the united states, china or any nation. >> 11:00 p.m. or around 11:00 p.m. in beijing. president obama when he gets up, headed to the great wall and hochfully have a good time. good hike, too. >>> have you noticed prescription drug prices jumped on you? the last year the companies raised brand-name prices about 9%. this as drugmakers promised to supp

indian and chinese immigrants as trade with asia has boomed in recent years.they have a tremendous advantage. they speak the language, they know the customs, they have family connections, and so you know, my hometown, sure, there was an occasional italian family who imported olive oil from it b

but american banks have less money tied up in middle eastern investments in banks in europe and asia. >>> did was not about investments at tysons corner. instead it was all about the deals. we saw the crowd at macy's at the doors opened bright and early this morning for those folks and a whole lot of other people. last night was about the meal. this morning all about the deal. the sales are all over the place but so are the chances of theft or problems in the parking lot. fox 5's jessica weinstein is live in rockville with what's in store for shoppers in montgomery county this season. >> reporter: good evening. these shots behind me just closing the last few minutes but parking lots a big problem place during the holidays. y have fights over parking spots between the drivers. the pedestrians aren't always watching where they're going. this year in montgomery county, you're going to see not only more mall security but more montgomery county police officers. >> have a good night. happy holidays. >> reporter: as shoppers grab their bags tonight in rockville, an early holiday gift from mo

part of his eight-day trip to asia. he is scheduled to meet with china's president hu jintao.shed for greater freedoms in china. >> we do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation. but we also don't believe that the principals that we stand for are unique to our nation. these freedoms of expression and worship of access to information and political participation we believe are universal rights. they should be available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the united states, china or any nation. >> president obama will also visit china's great wall today. >>> so, a marquise matchup between two of nfl's biggest stars tom brady and peyton manning went right down to the wire, that's the way the fans like it. except for the heart attack thing. >> as you said earlier the call that this coach made that people will be talking about it at the water cooler. bill belichick. now, the fireworks went off and caught fire on the turf. this was the call that has people fuming. colts were up with two minutes left and they go for it

i was in asia for a week. i was having lunch with the president of south korea. i was interested in the education policy that they have grown enormously over the last 40 years. i asked about the biggest challenges in the educational policy. he said the biggest challenge is that the parents are too demanding. he said that even if someone is dirt-poor, they are insisting that their kids are getting the best education. he said he has had to import thousands of foreign teachers because they are all insisting that korean children have to learn english in elementary school. that was the biggest education challenge he had. it was an insistence and demand from parents for excellence in the schools. the same thing was true when i went to china. i was talking to the mayor of shanghai. i asked about how he was recruiting teachers. the have 25 million people in this one city. he said they did not have problems recruiting teachers because teaching is so revered. the pay scales for teachers are comparable to doctors and other professionals. that gives you a sense of what is ha

we went to the mexican meltdown in 1995, asia in 98 -- in 1998, russia in 1999. i would get a little inquiry. a few years ago, i got an e-mail asking if i had any thoughts of what i think about this. i said that he would not want it because i am kind of a curmudgeon on this. i wish we had a neutral asset, something universally recognized. this is crazy. if you do not want to put this on the nation's premier business newspaper. he would write back, "yes, sounds great. why did that." -- write it up." we live under legal tender laws that you have to use the dollar. that implies a moral contract on part of the government. they better make the dollar a good product. to be a good product, it has to fulfil those functions. it has to do it honestly and with reliability and with integrity. >> do they pay you? >> the journal? >> yes. >> i think it has gone from $150, and one a few weeks ago, i got 600 for it. >>>> i want to go back in histoy again. you have this relationship with the russians back then -- you had this relationship with the russians back then. let's listen

it is seeing more cases in north america, europe, and parts of asia. in the southern hemisphere even in the summer they see a lot of cases compared to the regular flu. on this, police could be processing 11 bodies found in a sex offenders home. coroners in cleveland have identified three women but they need more families to come forward with dna samples and the coroners are having to reassure them the samples won't be turned over to police. suspect anthony sowell is being held without bond. his charges include five counts of murder. >>> new this morning president obama's health care plan has lost some ground with americans. in a new cnn/opinion research poll, 45% of those asked favor the plan. 53% opposed it. that's a nine-point increase since october. but a total of 59% felt that congress should continue working to make changes to the health care bills. tomorrow the house takes a floor vote on the bill. you know, phoenix, arizona, police are sorting through about 1,000 pieces of stolen luggage. they found in a couple's home. the chances of identifying

. >>> president obama leaves today for his first visit to asia as president.s going to star in tokyo and make stops in beijing and seoul. he'll talk about the u.s. economy, the trade deficit with china, and his plans for afghanistan among other things. >>> bad news for drivers in the san francisco bay area. the bay bridge is going to be shut down again for more repairs. crews have more work to do on the same 80-foot-long steel bar that cracked earlier this year. now it's not clear yet when the work is going to happen. lou dobbs is leaving cnn. at the end of last night's show he said he's leaving the network effective immediately. over the past few years he has taken a stand on hot topics like immigration, and he says that he's going to look for other ways to play a more activist role on the issues. i think he said advocacy journali journalism. >>> i want to say good morning. you're up early. i'm robin meade. welcome. >>> every year, get this, an average of 11 u.s. commercial pilots try to fly under the influence of alcohol. "usa today" says faa records show it

remind everyone there is a hearing that is scheduled by the subcommittee on middle east and south asia, and i will recognize the gentlelady from texas, ms. sheila jackson lee for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, i thank you and ms. ros-lehtinen for allowing members to come back and for completing this hearing. it's a very important hearing and i want to thank the other witnesses and their absence and those who are able to stay. i want to applaud president obama that took the constructive step of allowing cuban-americans to visit family in cuba as often as they please. i think it is a magnificent stat and mr. peters, i think you acknowledged that is a policy change that is productive. i started my opening remarks by suggesting that i was engaged because of my committee assignment with the allin and gonzalez issue or circumstance, and i believe it was right on both sides, but i think we were right to unite this child up that time with his family in cuba but i also think it's important for his miami family to be able to see and to interact with their family. i believe my colleague articulat

in asia a, indian leadership is expanding prosperity and security across the region. the u.s. welcomes and encourages india's leadership role in helping to shape the rise of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous asia. beyond asia as the world's largest multiethnic democracy and as one of the world's fastest-growing economies and as a member of the g-20, india will play a pivotal role in meeting the major challenges we face today. this includes my top economic priority, creating good jobs with good wages for the american people. i believe that the relationship between the united states and india will be one of the founding partnerships of the united -- of the 21st century. this underscores the french of that i hope will continue throughout my presidency. that is why i hope to broaden the cooperation between our two nations. mike administration's commitment can be seen through our new strategic dialogue. i am pleased that we are joined today by the cochairs of our dialogue, secretary of state clinton and foreign minister krishna. our commitment to in the -- to india can be seen fro

president obama landed in china this morning, the third stop of his tour in asia.arlier today, he did cover some grounding, negotiating a new nuclear agreement with russia. he met russian president dmitry medvedev at an international summit in singapore. they're working to replace the start to nuclear treaty that expires next month and the president said things look good. >> in our first meeting, when i traveled to moscow, we arrived at an understanding that it made sense for our two countries to begin reducing further our nuclear stockpiles. our negotiators have made excellent progress over the last several months. our goal continues to be to complete the negotiations and to be able to sign a deal before the end of the year. and i'm confident that if we work hard and with a sense of urgency about it that we should be able to get that done. >> president obama and the russian leader also talked about iran. obama said that time is running out for tehran to do something about its nuclear program. he said that u.s. and russia will keep pushing iran diplomatically and t

last week, secretary clinton, on the tail end of her trip to asia was in kabul to observe the inauguration of president karzai for a second term of office. some of you were on that leg of the trip. with her was her special representative for afghanistan and pakistan, richard holbrooke. we think it is important there is a government in place in afghanistan. we want to put her trip in context and chart the way forward on the civilian side of ther strategy as we await the decision by the president'. richard? >> thank you. i'm here to report and secretary clinton's trip to a afghanistan. before i go into any of the trip, i want to explain these members of our team from our office. this is not our whole team. these are some of the people. i would like each one of them to stand and identify who they are and what they do because we are here today to talk about the civilian effort. most people focus on the troop issue but that is not here -- that is not what we are here to talk about. some of these people you know and some of the new don't. i would like to start with direct. let the people stand a

should the mast and south asia played a larger role in u.s. national strategy after the collapse of the soviet union than was actually the case? and a final question, what factors shape strategy in this period? >> yeah, thank you. >> the question about intentions is important, of course. britain has the capability, the soviet union, the russia has a capability of 40 million, 50 million americans. united states has the came of eliminating costa rica from the map. so the point is that we don't worry about any of those things because there is no intention to do so. it's not that there isn't capability of doing that. huge countries, militarily powerful countries, have lived next door to very small military, uninterested countries for very long tames and could take them out any time we wanted to. we could attack canada, and they're not even looking in the right direction. but the can dance don't seem to be terribly worried about that. so i think intentions are really what matters, not capabilities. and in the case of the soviet union, it's very cle

systemic dangers in the system, in 2007, we had the sec, fdic, office of thrift supervision, ssa europe, asia, all of these are movers and regulators with hundreds of thousands of people working but not as a coordinated group with a complete lack of coordination, a complete lack of risk-management when you have all of these regulators that would oversee the dangers of supposed to be overseeing these terrible risks growing through 2007. and the reason this is not only richard fuld problem but our regulators said they were so horribly horribly uncoordinated. going forward if we ask people to be in the rules of regulation we should have people that have a global systemic risk manager that look at the whole picture and leverage all-around wall street and the different banks. and have there be accountability. capitalism cannot work without transparency. we have to have transparency and risk. not investment banks and/or black box is in a more. really, from the bottom of my heart, i wrote this book because we never ever want to have this happen again. i still live six blocks from lehman brothers. an

later, is a palestinian drove from a time when she was traveling around the world doing photography in asia. these children are typically not with their parents but perhaps neglected but likely beyond the control of a caring parent and it was no doubt charged with the motion of her own children and her own childhood her carry identification of both neglected and neglect door and to the visual outrage embedded in the many images she made her child labor and exploitation. my hunch is that many of these children's hard lives functioned four her and the contradictory direction on the one hand making the deprivation and that she saw made her own children's pain at less intense and her own guilt less. on the other hand,, and counters russ can -- sick and hungry children did not let her escape. perhaps most unconventional are images of the fathers. we may call them say padonna. [laughter] these images are often exceptionally tender. quite possibly more so they and the mother child images. her sensitivity to fathers may be another product of her travels in the countryside whose close bother child r

we have to understand that the future of the united states and asia is inpsychiatricablinked. >> the two talked about afghanistan. japan is agreeing to provide civil assistance but will not allow u.s. military aircraft to refuel for afghanistan missions. >>> a sixth man was arrested in a very disturbing child sex abuse case in missouri. a 77-year-old father and his four sons are already in custody. they did not enter a plea yesterday. court documents obtained by local media say the alleged vingts are adults now and came forward in august. a reporter from affiliate kmbz talked to hln's mike galanos about this case. >> a lot of this is based upon the victims that have come forward and some of the stories they have told. among those stories are there are written accounts in jars buried at various points on the property. and perhaps a body or two. so police are playing this one really close to the vest. they don't want to taint the investigation. but they're bang out searching the property again today. >> get the latest on the story on "prime news" with mike galanos at 5:00 p.m. eastern

in asia a, indian leadership is expanding prosperity and security across the region. the u.s.elcomes and encourages india's leadership role in helping to shape the rise of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous asia. beyond asia as the world's largest multiethnic democracy and as one of the world's fastest-growing economies and as a member of the g-20, india will play a pivotal role in meeting the major challenges we face today. this includes my top economic priority, creating good jobs with good wages for the american people. i believe that the relationship between the united states and india will be one of the founding partnerships of the united -- of the 21st century. this underscores the french of that i hope will continue throughout my presidency. that is why i hope to broaden the cooperation between our two nations. mike administration's commitment can be seen through our new strategic dialogue. i am pleased that we are joined today by the cochairs of our dialogue, secretary of state clinton and foreign minister krishna. our commitment to in the -- to india can be seen from

we can go to north korea which threatens to destabilize east asia with its nuclear weapons. even during the darkest days of the cold war our citizens could visit the soviet union, yet the vast majority of americans are still prohibited by law from traveling to cuba. it is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go. i am no fan of the castro brothers. in my book their dictators and despots. the cuban people are still denied the right to choose their own form of government. they are jailed arbitrarily. they are denied a free press, freedom of assembly and of expression. at the recent beating of the renowned cuban blogger as she walked to a peace march says it all. but face it -- by any objective measure of the nearly 50-year- old travel ban simply has not worked. this fact is clearly understood by the american people. recent polls indicate 64% of americans and a full 60% of cuban-americans support allowing all american citizens to travel to cuba. it is clearly time for a change. this hearing is not about ending the entire cuban embargo. when president

>> henry: 49 cities around the world-- in europe, in north america, south america, asia. >> kroft: do you have any idea what country these people were from? >> henry: yes. >> kroft: care to share that with me? >> henry: i would not. >> kroft: you would not care to share. >> henry: no. >> kroft: have you caught any of them? >> henry: working on it. >> kroft: another case you have probably not heard anything about involves an extortion plot against the state of virginia. earlier this year, a hacker got into a medical database and stole millions of patient prescription records and then followed it up with a ransom note. the note said, "i have your"-- i can't say that word on television; "stuff," we'll call it-- "in my possession right now." the hacker went on to write, "i've made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. for $10 million i will gladly send along the password." the state of virginia says it was eventually able to restore the system. but the stolen information-- including names, social security numbers and prescriptions-- can be used, sold or exploited, acc

with the clinton administration and mexico 94, russia 96, big and derivatives in asia and 98 come a long term capital management, brazil, each one the big wall street investment houses route overseas. >> was a problem the federal government did not regulate that enough? but they were making while that's prevented they think they could make wild bets than poor joe taxpayer would have to pony up? vivica in each case the clinton ministration, by the way congress did not agree with the bailouts. that had to have a special u.s. treasury department fund that was there to support the u.s. dollar. they used it to bail-out investment houses. >> host: you are talking investment banks? private u.s. investment banks on wall street making wild speculative bets and making it thinking that the federal government would bail them out if the investment turns south and that is what happened? the government but reworded bad behavior? so was wall street emboldened? >> exactly. in each case the clinton ministrations did not only make sure they got their principal back some of the actually gave some of the wid

europe would've been ruled by hitler and his talent and japan would have run asia.now, when you look at the way the news is being covered today, and the disparaging things that are being said routinely by my colleague in the mainstream media about those who serve in our armed forces, or those who support our armed forces, and i have met several other contractors to today, that's the new dirty word in america, contractor. the media has to get out to the american people are going to do to these soldiers, sailors, sailors, guardsmen and marines in my generation came back from vietnam. the american people are not going to stand for. and in large part that's because the extraordinary experience of these young americans. that hasn't stopped politicians from denigrating them. we all know of certain politicians in washington. i'm trying not to be partisan here. mr. president. i don't want to be partisan, but we know a certain illinois senator whose nickname is a dick. [laughter] >> excusing. i am just quoting him. and the like and those two serving in our armed forces. and

would have been ruled by hitler and stalin and they would have parceled, and japan would have run asia. now, when you look at the way the news is being covered today and a despaired of things that are said routinely by my colleagues in the mainstream media about those who serve in our armed forces or buzz to support our armed forces and i met several of you contractors today, that is the new dirty word in america, contractor. the media has figured out that the american people aren't going to do to these soldiers, airmen, guardsmen marines that did to my generation that came back from vietnam. the american people are not going to stanford in in large part that is because of the extraordinary experience of these young americans. that is not stop politicians from denigrating. we all know of certain politicians in washington, i'm trying not to be partisan here mr. president. i don't want to be partisan with boots we know oyster the lmi senator whose nickname is-- excuse me, i am just quoting him like in the arzt reserve and our armed forces to those who served pol pot. was immediately jump

spouses john brown, all over the world, people i've known from south america, south africa, europe and asia, love john brown. that there is a strange continuity that continues with the u.s. -- >> thank you. i appreciate those remarks. it is not really germane to the trial. so i think that we will consider your remarks. yes, sir? >> as i listened to talk about this trial, i am thinking of the trial of the german resistance to the nokia regime -- nokia regime. again, they were charged with treason to the nokia regime, tried by the knotty party judg judges. how is the john brown trial for treason for judge and jury and slaveholders any different? >> well, that is an argument that you made a good argument there, and certainly there is a good body of opinion that would agree with you. on the other hand, there are people who do not look so favorably on john brown's. john brown is a controversial figure in american history. i think he will probably always be a controversial figure in american history. and we have to recognize that out of the controversy arise different opinions but i have expresse

economic growth is inevitable, particularly in asia, the most dynamic part of the world, and we would like to stay that way for the foreseeable future. and the growth in others is something we cannot control. in principle, the fact that others get stronger gives them potential to contribute more and become part, so the challenge for american foreign policy is to influence how others use their guerin -- growing strength and capabilities, to integrate them into an international order with the arrangements that we take the lead in shaping. essentially to help give them skin in the game said it will play the game are rules that we support. we want -- we do not want anyone to think, any leader to think that they can gain more for their country were themselves by overthrowing the rules of the game, by violating them. essentially, we want them to stay inside international @@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endemic diseases. we're trying to slow terrorist record and an act of terrorism. this is essential the goal of american foreign policy, to integrate others as they inevitably grow stronger, b

and china, there are still things going around india saying china will play a major role in south asia. [inaudible] how can turn a place such a role when millions of people are under communist rule and they have no respect for any human beings over there were supporting him and around the globe? they're calling the time has come for the u.s. to support a major security council seat for india. >> to get to the first part of your question on india and china as a two rising powers, there are very important on the rise in global scene. china, as we have said, there are issues of concern that we have with the chinese and we have raised them. all levels of air action and hopefully china will move in the direction that we would like to see it go. it is an important nation. india and china, they're going to be countries that we deal very closely with in the coming years. i do not know what more to say about it. they are key. our relationships with both are growing. do we have concerns? yes. they both have concerns with us. it is why we need to work closely and have intensive dialogue with both

despises john brown-- all over the world people are coming from south america, south africa, europe and asia who love john brown, that there is a strange continuity that continues with the u.s-- >> i appreciate those remarks and they are not really germane to the trial so i think we will consider your remarks. yes, sir. >> as they listen to talk about the trial i am thinking of that trial to the nazi regime, the defendants and also the so-called red orchestra and again they were charged with treason and in this case did not receive a trialed for nazi court presided over by nazi judges defended by members of the nazi party such as it was. how is the john brown's trial for treason for judges and juries label any difference in your estimation? >> that is an argument. you have made a good argument there and certainly there is a good body of opinion that would agree with you. on the other hand there are people who do not look so favorably on john brown. john brown is a controversial figure in american history. i think he will probably always be a controversial figure in american history and we ha

. >> the president was telling reporters in asia this past week, he does not want to leave this to hiscessor and they asked him, what is the end game? how would you answer that? >> i think the end game is find a political settlement and a political solution. right now, i believe our forces in afghanistan, one they provide, they provide support, they basically prop up the regime. because of our support, the karzai regime has no incentive to negotiate with the opposing side. additionally our presence as a foreign occupiers so inflames the opposing side, the royal side, that they will not, they will not settle or negotiate until we leave the country or begin to leave the country. so in order for us to get to any political settlement to end the civil war, we need to consider withdrawing our troops. >> let me share with the audience that was found this morning. and this is a piece from the "new york post," you indicated our top authority should be destroying al qaeda and stabilizing pakistan and you go on to say that al qaeda has not been this afghanistan since 2001. >> correct. since 2001,