one, of course, is preside obama but e other is esident bill cnton. therisn't another piece on the board th president obama could have deployed that match the power and just attention grabbing of bl clinton. it, of course, i about the security and relse of those two joualists but as glenn says, it's potentially much more. for rth korea all things american are connected. and this could lead to the restoratn of direct bilatal talks between the united stes and north koa. potentially north rea freezing its nuclear pgram again, ming back to the space walks and the process of... six party lks and the denuclearization of north korea the's a lot of pieces nown ay. who got it done? you mentiod the president and kim jong il. who t it done? >>ell, i'd be interested i ur view... glenn, gohead. >> well, i was jus going to say that think there were a number of playe here. obviously the white house decided they would make this move and picking bill clinton is aninteresting choiceecause, as you may recall, presidt clton nearly wentto pyongyang at the end of 2002 he d

. >> there was also a political, ideological component cnton's presented centralism in a way and keedyore on the le. i ink that was rt of the reon. iq is one example of that. also, clion is thone who abolished welfar which kennedy opposed. i'm not sure thathe endsement of obama release wait a lot of -- rlly swayed a lot of votes. but he used the words open with e torch hadeen passed" which john kennedy had used when he watalking about t eisenhower generation paing the torch to his. and i think this was a change. and i thinkbama was regarded as a nnedy-esque figure. >> let's lk about hlth care. you did some reporter ght -- reporting on how the debateis shapin up despite the abnce ofed kennedy. tell us about h that is shapg up. >> a very prominent and respectable reblican pollste put it very well this week. he said, senator -- president obama, excuse me, people want him to succeed, people like him. republicansnd better unrstand that. he problem is that he has his own dete to ke and the oba plan and the numbers d support ha gone down. they had better come up in every with a recantingaepac

th latest on hillary cnton's tour her husband did mu to warm relations between south africa antheu.s. in the 1991 s, so coulthe clinton affect work again? we ha more from jannesburg. >> popular as ev at the age o 91,elson mandela receivethe u.s. secretary of state. a decade ago, t close relationship between mandeland presidenclinton brought these countries togeer. hillary clinton was given a tour of the archives by his wife. >> to be the and seehe pictures o him as aoung man and to know much about his life -- iof cose inspires me, t only in to -- not only even greateradmiration for hi public work and even greater admiratiofor the man. >> t subject of frosty lations between the u.s. and south africa w the main order of the day. mrs. clintonpoke of neighboring zimbabwe. the united states has yet to be convinced byhe idea of robert mugabesharing power. >> we, ayounow, are attempting to target t leadership of zimbabwe with nctions that, we think, might influen their behavior without hurtg the pple of zimbae. during the recentvisit to the unit states of the prim minister, we talked witthe

>> i think you eard hilary cnton say this wek they hope there will be impovement. since then t north oreans have baveged well. people i've talked t about watching the north koreans say they're pleased ith what they've seensince bill clinton left. i don't kn what that particarly mens. i guess theyaven't fired any ssiles. but they really id change the dynam. john: mathy, i wantto ask you about a big eal in akistan. he leaderf the talban killed by a strike. how important this for the u.s.? >> think -- i think this isa very, very big strike and particularly a bg deal because pakistan was not appy with the way the united states is pproaching. the guy was the leader of th pakistani tliban ad pakitan had complaed to the united states for mnths that the only peoplehey cared about were theeople attacking te u.s. so the u.s. rally started training ec. -- its effts on mass ood ad others and they re able to gethim this week the he was lso a real, real bad guy. hehreatened soliers in afghanistan. he's accused of killng benair butteo as well the john:thanks, martha and thanks ev

even gingrich and cnton were talkingo each oth. a few weeksater, monica melesky. so you have that brief moment where fiscal sanitdid make sensand it did show that there was a lot of plic support for thedministration, and it all fell apart. but it would be nice to sethat money does matter occasionally >> i wonder it wouldave laed. >> i believe it would. i think thatas a remarkable ment. the fiscal houas in order. lots ofthings were possible. i remember the clinton books lking about medicare refor and social security refm in the spring. that was theirig agenda. and th thought thate have the resoues to do it, and republics alike, "may be so." >> i justound it to be really intereing, and we are now at the por opposite. >> be balanced budget act of 1998 was more than anying in public health bill. they did not fix it up completely, but theyegan some of the cbacks and doctors and hospital care is was part of psident clinton's program to the cremental reform. remember who was so bion that. >>his is to remind our steners of sirius xm radio that they are listeng to "white h

. >> as secretary cnton makes her way thugh africa, enomic velopment and human rights e also expected be high on the enda. afr kenya, she will make ops in south afri and goala, the democratic rublic of coo, nigeria, libia and cape verde. >>> here to talk more about seetary clinton's africa visit, we ar joined by amira woods. she is co-director of foreign licy in focus at the institute for policy studie and a u.s. foreign policy expert on rica. she joins us fro washington. nice to have you with us. >>reat to with you, martin. >> as sretary clinton mes the prident of somalia, wh are the american goalsthat she will be articulating? and what is smaomalia looking f in return? ? i think secrary clinton is going to articulate goals around security and peaceround the ho of africa i think on the somalian end, there are tremendousoncerns being raised that really the u. is being looked to to prop up a transional government that many see as being imposed really from the outde. ihink cearly what at stake ishat a vernment thatas se as creble was oust by e americans back i 2006 and since then, there

tt annncement came la this afternoon an formerresident bill cnton made an unannounc vit to north korea, and en held a serie of high-level talk, including rare ct with north korean president kim jong-il. well wit dramatic news of the parning of the reportermade headlinetoday the formers meeting withorth korean official hi far greater implications. the clinton visit and analis of it, that's our "lead cus" toght, beginning with "worldfocus" prucer feliciano. >> reporter: the former president was greeted wit warm handshakeand flowers as he arrid in pyongyang today. the fact that clintonas greeted at the airprt by north korea'shief nuclear negotiator and then had a re meeting wi north koreaneader suggested that his talks went well beyond his effos to free the two reporter in fact,orth korea's state control media described them as hang exhaustive tal covering wide range of issues. leon sigal is a north korean expert the sial science resear couil. >> the obamaadministraon's position i the release of th o women is separate from any negotiation but when bill clinton goes there's no way to do se

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jose garcia was convied on four cntons of robbery after breaking into the homes of four different women. in eh case he hog-tied and bound the women inside their homes. the final victim was severely beaten and died fromes her juri injuries. he was convicted of first degree murder in that case. he could face life in prison without parole. >>> this morning a woman is accusing a judge of deflating her car tire outside a courthouse. woman says a security guard toll her charles county circuit court judge robert mally let the air out of her tire on monday. she says did he it because he parked in his restricted spot. "the washington post" reports that now they reportedly said that he had left notes for the driver and that he thought deflating the tire was less inconvenient than having the car towed. the incident was allegedly caught on a cell phone video though that video is yet to surface. police department confirms it is investigating a case of vandalism but will not say whom they are investigating. >>> it's been a rough summer for metro. now there are calls for agents at gm to resign. an onl

that it had sent in around 40 tons rms and ammunitionto the transional federal government and hillary cnton said they will continueto provide arms and aunition. th will also help with training. but also tre will be a humanitarian aid aspect. arnd 40% of somalis ten million people areow inneed of humanitian aid. there's a drought which is affecting food production. plus, of cours the ongoing civil w which is causing terrible strife for people. thousands have di, hundreds of thousan have been forced from their homes. this is a realumanitarian crisis. i mean, he in kenya were i a ere are arou 300000 somi refugees living in ualid nditions in refugee camps in the nor of the country. so thiis a bigumanitarian probm. it's also a big security problem a what hillary clinto was saying w that the u.s. willo its best to supporthe traitional federal government in both these areas. >> warne i know you're not in somalia, you're in naiobi, but from what you understd who has the momenm in at least the militaryonflict part of this struggle goingn in mogishu and elsewhere in somia? >> well, since early may al