dr brzezinski thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate this opportunity it's very nice to be with you it's been nine years a sense nine eleven and there are still no signs of osama bin laden and your book the grand chessboard you write for america the chief geo political prize is eurasia america's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively it's preponderance on the eurasian continent is to staines is that why we're in afghanistan to sustain our global supremacy nowhere in afghanistan before because of nine eleven. nine eleven involved a horrendous crime against the american public. and its cold for measures designed to make certain that that doesn't occur again american role. continent of europe asia it's much more benign involves alliances with some countries it involves improvement in relations with some previous sometime going to. show it should not be confused with the operation of afghanistan which was a very specific historical motive and a very specific objective now i want to ask in an interview with a french magazine in one thousand nine. hu

served as the national security advisor under the carter administration he sits down now with dr brzezinski thank you so much for joining us we do appreciate this opportunity it's very nice to be with you i want to ask in an interview to french magazine in one thousand nine. prior to the former soviet union's invasion idea according to their analysis of what use. of the soviet union was to a degree more important than quote. and that you don't stand by that statement now yes our version of the interview was not an interview the interview was an extensive interview which was supposed to be translated to me never was. a sort of amalgamate unpublished but basically the facts are correct the united states decided to provide. resistance. it was big getting to intervene directly. or indirectly that was expanded and continued under republican administrations after the president carter left office. turned the resistance in the direction of the collapse of the soviet union. from the international scene of a possible nuclear war between the soviet union and america. it has made possible the kind of r

dr. brzezinski, you tell me the story -- finish this story about iran. he was the only one that saw it coming. >> michael is exactly right. it was a pretty glamorous weekend, i want to say. michael and i were down in athens, georgia, we were watching c-span in the hilton. it was pretty glamorous, pretty exciting. so i was on a stage with dr. brzezinski, madeline ail bring it -- albright, and it was about the middle east policy. at some moment, iran was in the news and admiral turner said we didn't know enough about islam and the region to really understand the hostage crisis. president carter raises his hand and he says, jon, may i come up? i said, they're all your helicopters, sir, sure, you're the president. he comes up and he says, i understood everything about iran. that's just not -- that's just not the case. the other thing about this, this is when he wrote the book with apartheid in the title, about palestine. the first question i asked, of the panelists, have you read president carter's book, what do you think? they all said, no, we haven't read

you think you see very close to true five for all your priorities brzezinski musim we had to open super come back to you soon supercool. dr you just sorry you missed the boat and if you should see. nuclear technology so next you ration seisures force neutron reactors fusion reactors. nuclear made is seen if we use right to isotope therapy and take notice as well we construct super computers in our federal nuclear centers all they'll say are in space birdseed now we can be constructive for us. nuclear energy installation or space crafts off mic but it sounds like you have amazing and very intense projects going on the best of luck to you so again no the come from a want adam who is one of the stands here at the rest of the year we have course a lot more throughout the day for you from the same high x. . and he's now reporting there russian president dmitry medvedev has signed a decree firing the moscow mayor your english cough who was in power for almost two decades the kremlin says it was due to a loss of confidence in the city's top official large joins us now from moscow city center in a tired good morning now what happ