. >> a fan favorite on the team is rock cartwright, team captain. he keeps plugging away, almost exclusively on special teams. the redskins signed another running back, anthony aldridge. now it is crowded, and core rate is frustrated. -- and rock cartwright is fresh. . >> i just work here. we could have six running backs on the roster. it is what it is. i just work hard every day. >>> michael vick is back, playing for the eagles on sunday. he is fired up. after spending 18 months in prison, suspended the first three games, he is chomping at the bit. donovan monadnock practice today, he cannot go, and the coach says he is not sure if garcia will or will not start. >> regardless of what i amdoing this week, just to suit up and go out and play in a game that counts -- i have been watching football from afar the last two years, and this is a dream come true. >>> hockey fans, the capitals are at home tonight against the blackhawks, and capitals have looked good in preseason. one of the all-time great players from the capitals has called it a career, olie

>> john cartwright sat in on the same meetings i sat in on with the president. the decisions on this were driven, i would say, almost exclusively by the change in intelligence assessment and the enhanced technology. it was a zero-based look at the threat and their capability of dealing with it. that said, the russians are probably not going to be pleased that we are continuing with the missile defense efforts in europe. at the same time, there are two changes in this architecture that should ally some of their unfounded concerns. one is there concern that the radar that was going into the czech republic looked deep into russia and could monitor the launches of their icbm's as well. the second is the russians believe, despite our best efforts to dissuade them, that ground-based interceptors in poland could be fitted with nuclear weapons and become an offensive weapon like the persian missile. it would be a weapon where they could have virtually no warning time. the move to the sm-3, that is a weapon that they cannot rationally argue, there's any kind of threat to

they march all the way down the field, campbell to cartwright.r yards for the touchdown, skins within five. last chance, eight seconds left, need a touchdown, this play, no touchdown. the redskins fall 19-14 to the lions. the lions win since the first time of december of '07. >> there are not many words to say yet. we talked about going into this week, we did not treat this team lightly. we knew that they were good, and they came out and got ahead. we certainly weren't out of the game, even though we had a poor first half. >> the redskins fall to 1-2. they did win last week even though, thanks to three field goals it was treated as a loss. want to see how this one is treated? tampa bay comes to town on sunday. how do the fans feel about it? bobby is live in union jacks. they can't be happy, either? >> reporter: it was a tough loss for even the die hard redskins fans. the confidence further shattered by the loss today. forget about the monday morning quarterbacng the second guessing of this team has already started. for redskins fans it wasn't jus

by the way, as i recall what general cartwright said in the press conference, the investment will still continue in the ground-based interceptor to see whether or not in five years time if the threat is there we can notice this forward to anywhere else with mobile radar. >> what's interesting about this, this is a system of systems. these are components. and you try to get greater and better coverage by how you take them apart and put them back together again. the component that was cut is the one that would have had the greatest amount of coverage for the united states and the soonest coverage. and that's really what i think people are more interested in. they're certainly interested in protecting our allies and our military assets in europe, but when it comes right down to it, people want to know when is the united states the safest, and that system would have been available sooner and would have provided the greatest coverage. now, you don't have to take my word for it. our committee had asked for an independent assessment of this whole thing. the super defense analysis, this is the

finding matt cartwright . get it back one last time. no hail mary pass.o tosses it to bets who runs out of time. game over. detroit gets their first win in nearly 650 days. 19-14 over the skins. >> not many words to say yet. we talked about going into this week, we did not treat this team lightly. >> >> we just have to bounce back. take our hats off to them. they had a good plan. they beat us. >> the sense of urgency is more than it has ever been if you think about it. you don't ever want to be in this position but we really got to push each other now. we really got to find a way to get this thing turned around get it turned around quickly. >> the loss drops the skins to 1-2. next up the buckaneers. winless on the season. a little later we will break down the game more and much more reaction from the locker room. >> thank you. >>> what are the fans saying tonight about the loss today? >> honestly? i'm a true redskins fan but our quarterback i feel like is lacking on our plays. >> why not one today. you know what i mean? >> it is bad penalties. it is lack

. >> reporter: joint chiefs of staff general james cartwright said the new system has more flexibility for future threats. >> one thing i'm relatively sure of is the threat will change. we have a thinking adversary and have it acknowledge that. >> reporter: a strategic analyst at the conservative heritage foundation nil gardner says the obama administration abandoned allies under pressure by the russians. >> this is an appalling surrender by the obama administration to the russians, an incredible about face with regard to u.s. policy and the undermining of key allies in eastern and central europe. this is all about appeasing moscow. >> reporter: congressman don misulo a republican member of the house foreign affairs committee says obama's new stance will embolden iran. >> it simply sends the wrong message to the iranians at a time when we should be stronger. i am very much concerned over the president's shift in a big policy issue. >> reporter: one clue as to why the administration has made such a sudden shift comes from the language of president obama's remarks on the issue. he emphas

campbell threw another touchdown this one to cartwright but a last minute attempt ends in failure. the skins fall to the lions 19- 14. >> no words to say yet. we talked about going in to this week we did not treat this team lightly. >> we have to bounce back. you know, tip my hat to them, they beat us. >> reporter: we will hear from the redskins offensive starters coming up in sports. >>> a movie industry figure who's been a fugitive more than 30 years is under arrest this morning. that story is coming up. >>> plus, an historic building is no more but it will be part of reality tv history. >>> researchers discover moderate exercise may prevent a common form of cancer. you are watching 9 news now. >>> welcome back. ten minutes after the 5:00 hour. 270 drivers look at this. 1281 we have an -- 111 we have an -- at 121 we have an accident and people are backed up to 109. in the news now man polandust ski has been arrested. he is wanted on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old in 1978. >>> today, jews around the world are observing item kippur the holiest day on the jewish calendar.

with that, let me now turn to general cartwright who has been deeply involved in this proposal for asentation of it. >> thank you. what i would like to do is step down through some of the elements of this capability and this architecture and give you a sense of how we're thinking about it. most of this has generated from the review that's part of our qdr analysis. one thing that has not changed is the set of priorities that we started with which is the defense of the homeland first, defense of our deployed forces and then friends and allies. it's consistent with budget decisions we took in '09 and '10 as we moved forward associated with missile defense and capabilities that we wanted to have there and some of the decisions started back in the bush administration as we started to shift the priority and the weight of our effort toward the deployed forces after we fielded the initial ground based interceptors in alaska and out in california. the review and accompanying analysis has moved us based on the threat principlely to shift architecture and enhance it. this is not moving away of

if it multiplies the way secretary gates and general cartwright laid out, you could have hundreds ofon dozens of ships with extremely capable systems that could threaten u.s. strategic systems. so the russians are not just going to give obama a free pass on this. >> of course, if that happens, then the conservatives will attack obama as needlessly provoking russia, our great ally, right? >> that's exactly right. any issue will be used to portray obama as weak, over-reaching, as vacillating. the facts don't matter here. just like in the health care debate. the conservatives and the neoconservatives do not care about the facts. in this vitriolic attack they're doing more harm to national security than anything they could hope to gain. as you pointed out in the beginning of the show, this is the great curse we now have in washington. this vicious, vicious fight that sacrifices domestic issues or international issues on this partisan altar of hate and vitriol. >> thanks very much for joining us and helping us work this out tonight. >> my pleasure. thank you. >>> a quick programming note.

>> general card rate is set in with all -- general cartwright satin with all the meetings. the decisions on this were driven almost exclusively private changed intelligence assessment. it was a deer -- it was a zeroth-base look. that said, first of all, the russians are probably not going to be pleased that we are continuing with missile defense efforts in europe. at the same time, there are two exchanges in this architecture that should allay some of their unfounded concerns. one is there concern that the radar that was going into the czech republic looked deep into russia and could actually monitor the launches of their icbm's as well. the second is that the russians believe, despite our best efforts to dissuade them, that the ground-based interceptors in poland could be fitted with nuclear weapons and become an offensive weapon, a weapon for which there would have virtually no warning time. the move to the sm-3's, while enhancing our capabilities, that is a weapon that they cannot rationally argue that there is any kind of threat to russia. and we are very interested, as

james cartwright the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and patrick o'reilly the director ofthe missile defense agency. we're delighted to have you with us. we thank you for your service to the nation and i see that senator lemieux is also with us today. we're delighted you are here. we give you a very warm welcome to a committee which works on a very bipartisan basis. i think you'll enjoy your service on this committee and we very warmly welcome you. we also are going to, if we have a quorum here going to take up military nominations when we have that cure rom. last -- cure rom last thur president obama announced he accepted unanimous recommendation of defense secretary gates and joints chiefs of staff to restructure the plan for missile defense in europe. president obama put it this way, "our new missile defense architecture in europe will provide stronger, smarter and swifter defenses of american forces and american allies". secretary gates called the new approach" vastly more suitble and and a far more effective defense than a previous plan to deploy 10 long-range interce

general cartwright, the vice- president of the door steves, testified that we currently have the ability from the alaska and california sites to defend against an iranian launch anywhere in the united states and from any point of launch iran. i checked with the pentagon today and they said that that is correct, but they have the capability now, and that the european and paul and czech would have made it a stronger capability but that we still have it now. >> there is an argument, but there are three important issues that we need to address in trying to grapple with that. the first is the argument of shooting from alaska. we do not have to shoot from europe. we can handle that intuitively among ourselves. if you and i both have packages to send iran and i'm going to send my from europe and you were going to send from alaska, i think we can all agree that i am more likely to get there before you are. that is the system that he does scrapped. the second thing is that the president just cut, by $1.2 billion, eliminating a third of the missile field in alaska. there were 30 missiles scheduled

now, don't quote me or general cartwright. another general is saying that the president made the right decision. it flows not from any external event, but from technology upgrades. quite frankly, from testing. and based on our intelligence, the intelligence assessments said that instead of 325 long- range intercontinental ballistic missiles, the far greater likelihood who as a medium to intermediate-range -- was medium to intermediate-range missiles. you have seen the videos. they test these in multiple numbers at a time. so if you have that happen -- let's just say, if you have that happen and you have 10 ground- based interceptors, and somebody fires 10 rockets, what do you have to do? you have to be perfect, right? but to address a greater threat, we now have a mobile system, and as general corporate said to me yesterday, there are 120 holes that can react to multiple missile launches. >> does this harold some opening of trade with russia? >> we still have a vibrant missile defense system in europe. i think that is not the

and general cartwright agrees and says the decision was driven by cost savings and being able to havection to the real threat of short and medium range missiles. wolf? >>> now to the war in afghanistan, president obama's facing growing pressure today to reveal any future plans to send more u.s. troops to the region. the vice president joe biden and other administration officials are asking for patience as they privately review a report from the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr who's getting new details. >> reporter: well, wolf, the question may be are they asking for patience or are domestic political considerations finally overriding military worries in afghanistan? the latest suicide car bomb attack in the heart of kabul. another day when insurgents made clear the capital city is not safe. but suddenly, the obama administration and the president's top military advisors are split on the urgency to fix afghanistan's security problems. just days after the top military officer said -- >> reporter: the vice presiden

>> i got a call this morning from general cartwright. so no, we haven't had much notice. okay? thank you very much. we need to get back to vote. >>> the ranking member of the armed services committee, senator john mccain also responded to the administration's plan for missile defense and europe. this is ten minutes. >> mr. president, i rise today to express my deep disappointment with the administration's decision to cancel plans fully developing missile defense in eastern europe. this decision calls into question the security and diplomatic commitment the united states has made to poland and the czech republic. and i believe it has the potential to undermine american leadership in eastern europe. given the strong and a boarding relationships we have forged with the nation since the end of the cold war we should not take steps backward. i fear of the administration's decision will do that when a time we are wary of renewed russian aggression. the at ministrations decisions to abandon the sites come at a time when the u.s. is in the midst of negotiations with russia on reducing

general cartwright, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs, testified to the senate armed services committeethat we currently have the ability from the alaska and california sites to defend against an iranian launch anywhere in the united states, he said, and from any point of launch in iran. i checked with the pentagon today, and they said that that is correct. that they have the capability now, and that the european, the poll and check site would have made it a little stronger capability, but that we still have it now. >> that's an excellent argument, but there are three important issues that we have to address in trying to grapple with that. the first is, is the argument of we'll just shoot from alaska. we don't have to shoot from europe. we can handle that just intutively among ourselves. if you and i both have packages to send to iran and i'm going to send mine from europe and you're going to send yours from alaska, i think we can all agree that i'm more likely to get there before you do. and that's the system he just scrapped. the second thing is that the president just cut missile def

add a general cartwright is very well not to do that.palo and i communicated back them by putting out a blast e-mail and getting a zillion in nasdaq? maybe i want to put it on and at og because all those questns that i being asked, maybe they want to put that on the public at anonymously or attritable so that other people have that have the same question can see the answer. so how d i make that government 2.0? well, again, down my chart -- go back up here. you want to craft that message behind the firewall, and then it once you start getting your practice, right in the blog, you want to put that out of the internet and actually start using that as your press release or public affairs. i've mentioned enterprise 2.0 and got a couple i don't know what that is. it's really does play into all the government 2.0 the message. government 2.0 isencapsating b 2.0, social media, and that professional message behind the firewall. we are taking that knowledge management of, you know, it was a buzz word i guess in the early 90's and -- late 90's, earl