. -- and swifter defens of america's forc and allies. >> presidentobama says there are other ways to deal witthe threat iranian missiles. but the timing of the announcement, days before he meets the russian president makes some wder whether mr. obama isbargaining with the ruians. how does that look to you, evan >> the president is a conciliator and he likes to split the difference and i am sure some of it is to appease the russians, that do not an it is a d idea. theechnologies, but it is better to go with th systems -- secretary of defense gates likes to go with what works n and not rry about big fan systemslater. theris some evidence that the iranians are building the small and termediate range missiles that are threening europe. in practal terms, it mak sense. >>t is polically sheer nius that he has robert gates as his secretary of defense mang this case. he is a big russian expert was a hardler about russia a decade or two ago, argued for the opposite position a said the inlligence hashanged now, and wahead of the cia. this is extremely hpful to making the case. >>e gives obama o

and i'm concerned wi him on ssile defen. i'll put tha to the side, but ving that ihope they've go lesso learned and they're implementing them. >> one ofhe hard things that came ut of nile i 9/11 i how to balance geing information for national security as wellas protecng individual rights. i think that's work in pogress with every ainistration. i tnk that's a hard thing o do i think we may protect orselves from things -- from seing possible 9/11-like attacks, but this guy with -- what do yo call it? the hairspra you never can rotect youself against some unatic who want to ape the al-qaed, just because they are nu. i think youdo the best th you can. u do border corols. i man, this ountry's huge. we can't poibly protect ourselves ll the time against every possible attk. >> i wouldlike to say i d like seeing her talk aut thee issues. i ve not seen the sectary talk tohe media very often than. here's been so much focu on esident obama, which i hink a misstep. you can't hg every issue on hi shoulders. i would like to see her more t

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>> if you talk to the people in the administration, the feeling continues to be almost defens e defensivelywe didn't do anything wrong. listen, i think this is the kind of thing we're not going to know until it's over. particularly on the issue of it was smart. few have been critical about that. we don't know until we know what the final bill looks like. >> let me ask you this, what's more important at this point. monica was talking about the really close quarters work in the senate finance committee, going over hundreds of amendments, then we talked about your poll, a view from 30,000 feet. what is more important to the people in congress, is it the public opinion as measured in the polls or smaller an closer to home? >> i think the public opinion is very, very important. it shows people want something done. i don't know how much it could affect them on public option, for example. there's a sense in congress, this is a big issue people expect to get something done. their credibility is going to rest on whether they succeed or not. >> a double thank you from both of us. we're in stereo. >>>

he defened t deep government interventon in the ao sector. because of the steps we take, this plant is out to hift into high gear. (cheering >> 150 of you co-workers came back to wor yesterday. (cheering >> more than a thousand will be coming bck to work in less than thre weeks as poduction othe cobalt ramps up. >> woodruff: ler the president jeted pittsburgh in the annul meeing of the afl-ci rurrecting that familiar ca from hcampaign, he gued the economy has been stabilized. he insisted it'snacceptable to return to business as usual. >> we're not turning back. we're moving forrd. that's whye need tobuild a new foundaon for lasting prosperity. >> woodruff: mrobama said a major building blockof that foundation is reforming heah care. in order to lit premiums from going evenigher. >> when are we goi to stop it? when are weoing totay enough is enough? how ma more workers have to lose their covage? how many morefamilies have to go into t red for a sick loved one? (. applause ) how much longer are w goin to haveto wait? it can'tait. >>oodruff: but

. >> reporter: at the pentagon defens secrary gates said new intelligce showed iran is developing short and medium-range missileaster than expected so the dense system has to change a well. >> this poses an inincreased and more immediate threat to o forces on theeuropean cntinent asell as to ourllies. on the other hand, our intelligence assessnt also now assesses that the thrt of potential iranian interctinental ballistic missile capabilities has been slower to develop th was estimated in 2006. >> reporter: under e original system, poland had agreed t host ten missile interceptors and a radar installatiowould based in the cech republic. thsystem wasesigned to shoot do incomingong-range misses but was nev built. under e new plan, existin missile interceptors, which are ssiles themselves, would be deployed o u.s. ships f southern europetarting in 11. followed in ter years with additional ground-based miiles. e bush plan haded to strained u.s. relatns with the russians o feared the syst was aimed at them. but both president obama and secretary gates insisted today russ's opposition was not

we wheret comes to our self-defen, obviously, we act when it's appropriate and accordingly, but t challges in saking to a world body-- be they on economic or nional security matte-- are challenges of e nature that requiraction and collective action and america wil lead, but that does not take away from the responsilities others have to lead andhat they say in private should no longer just in b in privatehen they have a responsility to speak up in public and be rt of solving these problems. >> rose: you are... >> h just delivered tt message very forcefully i ought at thenited nations today. >> rose: global cooperation is essential. >>ut also with the rigs at people sk come reonsibilities. anthat means the responsibility of counies in that body take up e allenges that they collectively have and in specic areas, but that in thmiddle east peace process, et, to be a partner in solving these solutions rather tha standing bk and only allow the unit states or individual countries to act when they require collective aion and being partner to that, that means they have sponsibilities not just claimi

preside obama held a strategy sessio this afternoon wh vice presidt biden, secretary of state clinton, defen secretary gates and general peaeus, head of the u.s. ntral command. and we have our own ssion now withsenators carl levin, chairman of the senate arm servic committee; and saxbe chambliss of geoia, a republican on thatommittee. senator levin, it's been rerted that gen. mcchryst is telling the president that he needmore forces or the colict "will likelyesult in failure." whatould you tell the president? that it's important that we cceed. i thinmost of us bieve it shou focus first on the strategy with genera mcchrystal said repeatedly in that report is is don'just focus on forces. first cide onstrategy. he's repeatedly madehat point although it doesn't seem to come rough in the media very well. don't just concentrate on w many more troops you might need. focus on what is the corct strategy f success. i believe that the resoues that are most needethere will be major creases in the ze of the afghan army rlier andquipment surge for the afan army. we ought to be hang a pl which we yet don't

a company i am with now we are in the defens industry,ur environment is changing.defense budgets, programs are beg cancelled. we are restructuring military. our antennas have to be up to perceive this so we can best support the war fighters to protect us and that becomes a critical part. if you sort of sit bac a say i'm going to keep doing business as usual i want to find a way to convince the military they need this you're going to get lost because they will tell you what they need or congress is going to determine that or the fact of economic affordability is going to drive and you need to be plugged into all of those sorts of channels of information and undersndg of your world a if you don't come if you are resisdant and believe i can drive this from my office on the top floor and will be my way again, you are not going to make it in this world today. >> host:id you find there are ceos out there willing to have a persoto knock on his store, i've got to talk to you? >> guest: very much so. and i don't think just a person. i think you have to have a staff areround

and, no what ty told us is they want to defen themselves. u know, we met with this wonderful grp of elder called the shura. it's a village counc in this llage in helmand roe perot vince. we just hpened to bethere dung the meeti of the old timers sittg on the floorand we joined them andwe said "so you want usere? how long do you want us here?" an the answer that they gave us was basically " want you to make our army self-suicient. and then we wt you to leave. and we wantou toome back as guts, but we want you just to stay here longnough to mak our army self-suffient." that their words, and i think that's theight goal. >> re: looking at our nato allies, if they arenot ppared to support the unite states in s efforts-- and we know whe e questions that are going on right noin gmany do do it damage to the nato alliance? >> i thin it does whenever they do cay out the commitments that they've made. it's been very spotty. some oour natollies have been terrific. the canadians, the brits, the germans. they'rreally the fighting and they've taken some ver

about what was in this bill, what was inhat bill and there w no bill per se, no oma bill for him to defen >> ros okay. but bill clinton and ls of other people he been saying to him "youhave to have aill." bill clinton's also been saying that to other democrats on t left and in e center and on the right. u've got to have a bill. you don't pass a bill... if you don't have health care refo of someind, it will boomerang agnst theentire presidenal agenda. >> and ihink theygree with that. i think they aee with the notion that they neeto have somethg, even if it small, even i it's much more modest, even if it doe't have a public option, they need toave something because it's important to have an achievement as opposed to a failu. and you're going to see, i think mething come throughthe hse so if itas been winnowed down. you already have the hse majority whip, congressm jim clyburn south carolina talking out howhe supports the id of a trigger mechanism for the pubc option. that is if the savin from health care insurance companies are not realized, then the public option come into effect. at would

it wasn't just an army to defen the nation. early on, the idea was that that jews should fight t defend themselves. they were seen inurope as having a hisry in european ghettos and they bece sort of unphysical. you know, in their heads instd ofn their bies. that was thedea. you can argue whether onot it was true or not but that was the idea othe sort of diaspora jew who lived in exile. and the early zionist very much waed jews who were physical, who defend themselves. so having an army became more than just about defending the country, it became a statement of the new kind of jew that was going to ce out of the second world war. >> rose: when israel was created was a triumph of zionism. >> yes. >> rose: wheres zionism today? >> well, it's a strange thing. the ziosts were kind of revolutionars and you can sort of think about it. they we partf all the other revolutionary movements of the 20th century that we know. exce it succded and it w basically good a now you have this state. but now so much effort was p into building the sta

. >> well, look, the fact is it's always puzzlg to listen to my friend fiercely defen cuts in medicare and then go off and beat the druabout how they're against single payer government-run healtcare. thers a certain schizophrenia in the republicanarty and maybe whate've finally seen here is that people uerstand medicare a little better and understandow successful it's been in fact, between noand the year 2013, which is year on in ts bill, employers are going to be able to drop people or not drop people justthe same way that they cod any oth time. t i think that fundamentally thad mccote is right about e thing. we do nd to finis legislating some of these this. one thing we're not going to do is continue to have the stus quo in pla. d a lot of peoe that were disrupti the debate over the month of august, that's at they wanted. they wanted the status quo t hold. we're not going too that. the insuranceompanies have fierce, fiee defenders, many on the repubcan side of the aisle andwe're breaking rough thatnd it's ful hard but we're going to do it. >> chaie, if i can. >> rose: go ahead. >> th

where the main defen is where bregenz says specifically that his views about the evil emre came from another time and another place. and his arms ctrol treaty, the inf treaty which was the first arms-control treaty ratified by the senate the first successful and 18 years. there are several ways to formulate this. one staken different ways from the right and left is to say that reagan's term, diplomacy with gorbachev did not matte because the soviet collapse was inevitable. the left-wing version of the inevitability argument that it was the inevitable result of truman policy of containment that over a period of decades contained -- containment worked so the sovieunion collapsed which that is all true but does not address the question of how and when it collapsed f crow the differing conservative argument that i heafrom time to time is reagan's second term did not count. what really coued was the first termauseeagan buildup american denses and the soviets gave and record is a traditional view of reagan. he built u american defense and gorbachev responded by deciding to tear down the wa

over the defen they called the last witness.er nearly spending two years in an italian jail she will learn her fate. here's our david muir. >> reporter: after seven months of hearings and more than 100 witnesses the final witnesses took the stand over the weekend. among them a dna expert called by amanda knox's defense team would took aim at the kitchen knife prosecutors believe was the weapon used to murder british student meredith kerchner. prosecutors say amanda knox's dna was found on the handle and that her roommate kercher's dna was found on the blade but they told the court it was too small to be reliable and that the knife easily could have been inadvertently contaminated at the lab. amanda knox's attorneys also point out it's never been proven that was the actual knife. a coroner testifying it doesn't match the injuries. prosecutors have tried to convince the court it was amanda knox then boyfriend italian raffaello sollecito who held meredith kerchner by the shoulders as amanda knox fatally stabbed her but with closing

. >> the fbi also intercepted from calls between zazi and the other defen tant. >> agents say the thirdll. also saying, quote, they came to ask me about your character. i told them that they are innocent, law-abiding. the fbi saying he also warned zazi the phone call was being monitored. >> thank you. >>> cops in a small iowa town targeted out of state drivers to pull over and arrest. the charge, they lacked small town hospitality. a missouri couple got caught and were wined and dined. >> you probably pulled over the right people. >> everybody's been so nice and friendly and the little downtown area here is darling. >> they tried to stop some from illinois though and they said, no, we're headed to the hospital. that didn't work. what are you saying? >> pretty much. >> they had an excuse. >>> the biggest regular-season crowd in nfl history packed the most expensive stadium in america. >> they say everything is bigger in texas and they ain't kidding. the dallas cowboys officially unveiled their $1.2 million stadium. that's nice. and former president george w. bush with the coin toss here