he was based in geneva, where he says there may be more money- counting machines than parking meters,at once bragged it had more banks than dentists. >> bradley birkenfeld: it's not swiss money in those banks; it's foreigners'. you have a culture there that has been ingrained in society about managing people's money protected by swiss bank secrecy. >> kroft: and who has a right to that information, under swiss law? >> birkenfeld: only the banker and the bank itself. >> kroft: how unusual is it for a swiss banker to come forward and say, "this is how it works"? >> birkenfeld: it's never happened before in history. i'm the first one. >> kroft: when birkenfeld, a mid-level banker with an undistinguished employment history, knocked on the door of the u.s. justice department in the spring of 2007, he touched off an investigation that would threaten one of the world's largest banks with extinction, and shake 300 years of swiss banking secrecy to the foundations of its underground vaults. he did it by providing inside information and documentation that his former employer-- banking giant u.b

and from geneva, sophia loren, the academy award-winning actress. we're out of time, so good night. before we get into our discussion with this talented bunch, let's take a look at the film everyone is talking about. here is a segment from "nine." ♪ ♪ >> larry: i was fortunate enough to see "nine" last week. at its l.a. premiere. my quote is -- "'nine' is a ten." its director is rob marshall. how did you assemble this cast? >> oh, gosh. i guess piece by piece. i never would have imagined we would have this cast. this is a dream cast for me. every single one of them. it was joyous to work with them every day. >> larry: who was the hardest to get? >> oh, gosh. the man in the middle. >> larry: did you resist it, daniel? >> you can't resist him. he is irresistible. >> larry: did you like this from the get-go? >> i did, yes. but it just wasn't -- at the time, it was -- when he found me, we had just finished making -- my wife had just finished making a film in the states. it wasn't a good moment for me to transplant everyone somewhere else. >> larry: so why did you succumb? >> him. and th

and the soviet union and the three western powers were negotiating about it in geneva at the time. eisenhower hoped to break the stalemate, and he hope to do so by issuing this invitation to khrushchev to come to united states. the invitation was written out and delivered to a soviet official by an american state department official named murphy. murphy was instructed to tell his soviet counterpart that the invitation had strings attached, that any event that the talks in geneva resulted in a plan, and other words if they came to fruition, and then khrushchev would be invited to the united states. unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately as it turned out, murphy either didn't understand or for god to tell his soviet counterpart that strings were attached. so the invitation was delivered to khrushchev without any strings attached. he read it and he needed he said sure, i'd love to go to the united states. to talk to eisenhower. in the meantime, and i also travel around for 10 days to two weeks? so that's why the trip happened. and perhaps as you say, it's better that the strings were n

gorbachev at least in 1985 mentioned it to reagan at the geneva summit, their first meeting.he alluded to it by saying to break connector herring reagan's description of the plan for nuclear weapons obsolete, we he said will build up to smash your shield but gorbachev did not want that entry there. he did not one another arms race. he didn't want to build his own sdi and ultimately he decided not to build that but to use and one other aspect of the asymmetric response, his voice than try and talk reagan out of that which gave rise to vitaly katayev and many things happened after that. i think this short case shows us that pressures that gorbachev was under were actually much greater than we understood. we thought old school guy and they are building their own star wars and the truth was new school guy and they didn't. in the sense gorbachev's roland this period i think deserves more scrutiny for their really courageous decisions he made. this is only one of them. we know also the sanctity of the top people in the defense ministry and the new military doctrine and concessions

and gorbachev released in 1985 mentioned it to reagan at the geneva summit, their first meeting.he alluded to it by saying to reagan after hearing reagan's description of his plan to make nuclear weapons obsolete. we, he said, will build up to smash your sheet. the gorbachev didn't want that answer either. he did not want another arms race. he didn't want more warheads or to build his own sdi and ultimately he decided not to build it, but to use one other aspect of the asymmetric response, his voice and tried to talk reagan out of it which gave rise to reagan in many things that happened after that. and i think that this short case shows us that pressures that gorbachev was under were actually much greater than we understood. we thought old-school guy under building their own star wars and the troops with new school guy and he didn't. and in this sense, gorbachev's role in this sense do i think deserves more scrutiny for the really courageous decisions he made. this is only one we know also the fact nt of the top people and the defense ministry after matthias bruce at this plane

concurred with the international community in the wings the israeli settlements as a violation of the geneva convention and against international law is is maintained right through the presidency of jimmy carter through 1976 through 1980. the change began with the presidency of ronald reagan when he moderated the position in he declared summons a hindrance to the peace process that was unhelpful rather than if the go. many will argue that president george h. w. bush took a hard line on settlements when his administration froze billion in loan guarantees as pressure to stop settlements less well known is the administration did finally reverse that decision and the loan guarantee went through and settlement construction continued. even during the period when the palestinians were most seriously engaged in a land for peace process the construction supplements if anything at a more accelerated rate it was to that point*. between 1993 and 2000 the number settlers increase by 52% to win for about 247,375,000 this is a rapid escalation israelis and palestinians were most engage. but that was not th

a bullet came flying through jeanefa where they were sitting with their -- geneva where they were sitting with their four children. the family was watching tv in the living room at the time. >> scared to -- i was going to get shot with a bullet and i was going to be bleeding -- bleeding everywhere. y that come through the wall. >> an officer came out the next day to remove the 45-caliber bullet from the reframe rater. >> lucky family. >> absolutely. >>> in the age of internet, crime is moving from the streets to cyberspace. president obama appointed a cybersecurity czar working to protect us all against hackers, adam housley got a rare look at how agents tackle and prevent cybercrimes. >> reporter: the fbi, secret service and other law enforcement continue to step up efforts to combat cybertheft and cyberterrorism that threaten the agencies and infrastructure with thousands of attempted attacks each day. president obama has called cybercrime, quote, one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face. >> it's a serious threat. we're attacking it as a serious threat,

numerous conversations with the ceo's of carriers, the secretary will be meeting with the head of-- in geneva on this trip she is going to today after the hearing with you, and we will be having a discussion with airline carriers as to how we can all work together to improve the security of the system. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with the law enforcement intelligence community. my understanding is that, when the airline files its manifest passenger list for this claim, there is a proces

numerous conversations with the ceo's of carriers, the secretary will be meeting with the head of-- in geneva on this trip she is going to today after the hearing with you, and we will be having a discussion with airline carriers as to how we can all work together to improve the security of the system. >> carriers have indicated that information regarding passengers visas dad this is not available in real time when a passenger checks in at the airport. we will actually be taking addresses and other similar problems. >> so, the visa revocations and these are refusals or did nylz are checked prior to boarding an individual. bair check this part of the preflight screening process that is ongoing and has been ongoing for some time. >> okay, so do you think there is an issue with them not having this visa information in real time? >> the state department uploads all of these issuances that it makes to databases that are coming that we share with the law enforcement intelligence community. my understanding is that, when the airline files its manifest passenger list for this claim, there is a proces

as many of you know dean aleinkoff tenure as dean will in this week as he goes off to geneva to serve as deputy high commissioner for refugees. it is a we are fortunate that judy will be working as the active dean. now we have come first full circle. look into this second georgetown law aspen institute symposium. we selected the two cases that our pals are going to discuss today because both are about money and the elections. last term's caperton case was about when judges should refuse themselves from hearing a case and they have received donations from a party in the case. in caperton a five million dollar donation was not deemed by the recipient to be sufficient grounds to recuse himself from hearing the appeal of the case where the contributing company was the litigant. the supreme court disappeared disagree. opened the door to increase expenditures under federal election law. the reasoning will require the same result in the state. we are faced this situation where more money will go in to both federal and state elections and particularly of concern to state court elections. that

in geneva, right before new year's eve, the director general of the world health organization had an upbeat report of the state of play in many countries. >> the long overdue influenza pandemic is so moderate in its impact, it's probably the best health news of the decade. >> suarez: there have been some 47 million cases of h1n1 nationwide, and while for some older americans, h1n1 has caused severe illness, many people over 60 have an immunity from earlier flus. >> but for children and young adults, the rate of death is at least five times higher that regular flu season. and for children, at least, it has been as bad as the 1968 pandemic. so, by all means, it has not been a 1918, it has not been a 1957, so far. but it's a disease that has made many people sick, many of them severely ill and has, sadly, killed more than 10,000 americans. >> suarez: nearly 1,000 of those who have died are children. so, has h1n1 lived up to the scary advance billing that came roaring out of mexico in the spring, or is it a variety of flu that was easy to catch but didn't really turn out to be virulent?

>> the legal problem otherwise is that we were essentially covered by the geneva convention. that limited both what we could do equally, it limited the ability of a number of other countries to come in and help. they require further legal justification to be able to deploy their people, soldiers and others, to assist in the aftermath. even in february, we needed a un mandate to legitimize their international route to sort out sanctions. we were very focused on that. >> what are your expectations about the level of pose conflict? >> our expectations were that all the other might be an initial destruction caused by the invasion, in the sense that the un might then not assist in the delivery of food, that quite quickly we would have expected to get a security council resolution. that would then allow the un to seamlessly carry-on. until the attack on the un building, that seemed to be happening. it was the attack on the united nations that stopped all that. until then, it seemed to be a reasonable assumption. >> our understanding is that the un was not so keen on un involvement.

individuals could be detained without any kind of legal protection outside the constitution, outside the genevaonvention, outside the law and outside of habeas corpus, the ability to challenge your detention in court that's been with us since the nation's founding. many of you are, i'm sure, familiar with what's gone on at guantanamo. the arbitrary detention, the detention of many innocent individuals, the holding of

the ones who dispense with tedious formalities, geneva conventions, went for the jugular, back to thebone stouter he could learn any language that he was a fierce capitalist without any religious most of. this quote is from his sister. who would have become molly's sister-in-law if their marriage had gone for. he was not a compassionate person. he was tackling. he grew up with a really cold indifference to social issues. or societal issues of the heart. and again, quite contrary to molly. so power and money work hank holland's world. he felt religion was a open of the people. at the same time he was a very cold capless, says his sister. in a sense,. >> translator: might not have been all that different from dick cheney. [laughter] >> so we over at the journalism school sometimes use a bad choice of words as my daughter calls wtf. can anybody guess, what the fudge? that to me was a wtf in molly's life. i hope molly is laughing now when hearing this. i presume she's laughing. she's laughing and having. the thought that someone would say holly -- excuse me, that molly was going to be eng

individuals could be detained without any kind of legal protection outside the constitution, outside the geneva convention, outside the law and outside of habeas corpus, the ability to challenge your detention in court. that's been with us since the nation's founding. many of you are, i'm sure, familiar with what's gone on at guantanamo. the arbitrary detention, the detention of many innocent individuals, the holding of people without trials, torture, abuse, and other violations of human rights that so tarnished this country's reputation. what we wanted to do through the book was to make clear that guantanamo wasn't just about legal battles. but, of course, it was about these landmark legal battles that have been fought that have been brought by the lawyers on behalf of their clients to challenge the prison beyond the law. guantanamo is about more than that, though, it's about the stories and i think the stories is the key here. what we've tried to do through the contribution of more than 100 of the lawyers who have worked on these cases. lawyers from all walks of life, large law firms, small l

signed is not going to expose canadian forces in afghanistan between now and 2011 to participating in genevaar crimes as a result of possible torture? >> we thought we had a good agreement prior to that. there were some deficiencies. at all times, when we get information that requires usÑi o improve, that is what we have done. i think the system has been working well since then. it has not been perfect. we stopped transfers on a couple of publications. but i think we have adequate monitoring in place and a program to help develop the afghan prison system itself and we think we're making progress on these things. >> we have had a lot of trouble this year. it has been interesting. i probably need a little bit of rest now. >> it has been in place about a year now. >> you should know what i have always said. the prime minister of canada has an obligation to establish a good relationship with the president of the united states because the united states is so important to our economic interest. they are our best ally and closest neighbor. they are our best friend and we should not forget that. we

certainly, the legal problem otherwise was that we were essentially covered by the geneva conventions. and that limited both what we could do. but equally -- and the key considerations as far as i was concerned, it limited the ability of a number of other countries to come in and help. they required a further legal justification for their presence in southern iraq in order to be able to deploy their people, soldiers and others, to be able to assist assist in the aftermath. i mean, even in february, my letter said we need a u.n. mandate to legitimatize international rule to sort out sanctions. so we were very focused on that. >> so but what were your expectations about the level of likely u.n. involvement in post-conflict? i mean, focusing on the resolutions is one thing. what were your expectation isn't it so >> our expectations were that although there might be an initial disruption caused by the invasion in the sense that the u.n. might then not assist in the delivery of food, that quite quickly we would have expected to get a security council resolution and that would then allow th

signed is not going to expose canadian forces in afghanistan between now and 2011 to participating in geneva-based war crimes as a result of possible torture guest:? that is why -- >> we thought we had a good agreement prior to that. there were some deficiencies. at all times, when we get information that requires us to improve, that is what we have done. i think the system has been working well since then. it has not been perfect. we stopped transfers on a couple of publications. but i think we have adequate monitoring in place and a program to help develop the afghan prison system itself and we think we're making progress on these things. >> we have had a lot of trouble this year. it has been interesting. i'm probably in need of elizabeth of rest. >> has been in place about a year now. -- i probably need a little bit of rest now. >> you should know what i have always said. the prime minister of canada has an obligation to establish a good relationship with the president of the united states because the united states is so important to our economic interest. they are our best ally and closest nei

that violates every concept of the geneva accords. makes every bit of sense to hold them in guantanamo, where we have built a world-class facility and they are not maltreated or mistreated. we have the ability there to try them, a secure facility. we were going through a military tribunal. they wanted to plead guilty. for whatever reason, we decided to not accept the plea of guilty and put them into our civilian system. it makes no sense. i think it does heighten the possibility of new york being a fresh target. i think it concerns -- i think the concerns expressed by the police commissioner there are real. he knows, i think, what he is talking about. it is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. look, the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey, a federal judge who actually was the presiding judge in that trial of the terrorists and the early 1990's, says it is a huge mistake. we ought to listen to him. he has experience in this and i think he knows what he is doing. in addition to the fact that we have t

next is lake geneva -- silver spring, maryland. caller: after 9/11, the whole world was there for us. they were there for us. they called in and sent stuff. they did all kinds of stuff. when we were helping the afghans fight the soviet union, set to the soviet union leaves, we pack up and leave. we leave those poor people, even more pork. or. if you do not take care of these people and come in and leave, you leave them in poverty. you are setting up for a terror- type results. these people feel left out. you offer fish and [no audio] it does not make sense. they want to say f those ends. host: next caller. caller: to you have any other newspapers who are talking about the situation in haiti? host: i just read the editorial from "the weekly standard" which supports the president's efforts. caller: do you have a conservative guests on your show this morning? host: we have kevin madden joining us in a moment along with karen finney. caller: i think 80 should be a short term thing. and i think haiti should be a short-term thing. we sho

the united nations treaty signed an executive order that said the united states would follow the geneva convention, that the united states would not torture. that was the beginning of laying out a promise that we would approach international relations differently. much of the first year was fleeing now the promise more specifically, and setting the foundation for a new approach to diplomacy. it is not as though this was unique with obama. we have seen this approach before during the second world war. it was an approach that had been lost over the past eight years of the previous administration. host: he is a government and foreign services professor. we'll buy you to phone in with your questions and comments. we're talking about the diplomacy of president obama. another message from the inaugural, in which he does touch on what he sees as a terrorists from around the world. >> we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. we are a nation of christians and muslims, jews and hindus, and nonbelievers. we are saved by every language and culture, drawn from every end of

certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the genevaconvention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the acronym. the fact is it implemented most of the bipartisan recommendations of the commission. governor kean and congressman hamilton have been unique on the commission and continue to track the implementation of their recommendations persistently over the las

they're interested in carrying out the agreement on the enriched uraniums -- that was reached in genevaad? two, even if the door to talking about the l.a.u. deal is still open, is the administration now closer to imposing targeted sanctions, particularly on companies or individuals that have ties to the revolutionary guard corps? and lastly, do you not perceive a dange that are additional sanctions could play into the hands of the hardliners who often make the argument that they are engaged in a struggle with foreign forces and try to rally people around them that way and they've made that argument even as they've been crushing the protests recently? >> ar shad, we remain committed to working with our international partners on addressing the serious concerns we have regarding iran's nuclear program. now, our approach, as you know, is always proceeded on two tracks. we have an engagement track and a pressure trackment. and as i said, the results of our efforts to engage iran directly have not been encouraging. we're disappointed by their response to the proposal for the tehran research r

certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the geneva convention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the acronym. the fact is it implemented most of the bipartisan recommendations of the commission. governor kean and congressman governor kean and congressman hamilton have been unique on the they are testifying before us today in their current capacity as cochai

last week i was also pleased to find a similarly strong one in geneva. i met with representatives from more than 20 airlines. the private sector's role in aviation security cannot be overstated. i stressed the importance of working to improve international security standards and heard a strong response a commitment toward common approaches to aviation. i believe we have an important opportunity marinell, right in front of us, to strengthen the system that has served as an extraordinary engine for progress and prosperity. that system has its weak links. we must address them without delay. beyond aviation security, we also have a responsibility for the security of our land and our seaports. just because the target of attack was in the air, we cannot afford to take our eyes of other areas. that is why in 2010 we are going to build on the unprecedented effort we existed in 2009 to deploy resources on the southwestern border and strengthened security along the northern border. we will continue that effort by bolstering security and seaports. it ensures that a

that they are still carrying out the agreement on a enriched -- and rich uranium that was reached in geneva. is that deal dead? two, even if the door to talking about the lu deal is still open, are we closer to imposing targeted sanctions, particularly on companies or individuals who have ties to the revolutionary guard corps? do not perceive the danger that additional sanctions could play into the hands of the hard- liners who often make the argument that they are engaged in a struggle with foreign forces and tried to rally people all around them that way, and they have made that argument even as they have been crashing protest recently. >> we remain committed to working with our international partners on addressing the serious concerns we have regarding piraniran's nuclear program. we have an engagement track and a pressure track. as i have said, the results of our efforts to engage or run it directly and have not been encouraging. -- engage iran directly have not an encouraging. we are disappointed. the iranian government announced a deadline to receive a positive response to their unacc

that included the decision to run for a seat and to join me evidently flawed human rights council in geneva. we took the judgment that because we are deeply committed to the protection and promotion of human rights, because we of pour -- abhorr it's focus on one country, isreal, instead of staying on the outside, we will work on the inside to try to make a difference. we have had some successes, some frustrations. that is the nature of the beast. but you don't get anywhere without real elbow grease and action. we are meeting our obligations, paying our bills on time. congress has been instrumental in being able to have us do that on a bipartisan basis. we push for real reforms of the institution can perform better and be more accountable, more transparent. and worthy of trust and investments that not only the american taxpayers make, but taxpayers around the world. we're approaching things differently, and while it is not uniform across every metric, it is palpable change. we sent a greater willingness to cooperate. we are finding -- finding compromise and common ground on areas that we hav

. >> and given the ostensible agreement that was reached in geneva in october regarding the tehran researchor, one, are you aware of any sign whatsoever that the iranians still have any interest in that agreement? and then secondly, on the assumption that you don't have any such signs, is it fair to say that what you are hoping to get out of the meeting is some kind of an agreement to pursue further sanctions? even if you don't actually agree on what those might be tomorrow. >> you mean notwithstanding, you know, an iranian deadline applied to their unacceptable counteroffer to our quite reasonable offer. we're working this as a process. i wouldn't -- so the meeting tomorrow is useful, important. i wouldn't expect that particular deliverable out of this meeting. but we are consulting within the p-5 plus one with the membership of the security council and more broadly, on the way forward, we are communicating our concern and the concern of the international community for iran's inability or unwillingness to we are going to continue down this road. it does the preclude that they cannot come b

we were involved at geneva and the human rights council in september in cosponsoring a resolution ont resolution made reference to the internet. we are very much aware of the best piece of it and continuing to use the un as a forum to make sure that freedom of expression is reinforced. there is also a tighter security in questions of privacy. we have to be mindful of the right of privacy and finding the right way on a global scale to find the right rules of the road for dealing with the negative and dangerous aspect. >> does that mean that the u.s. is going to call on other nations to sign that council of europe convention or whatever the one she was referring to is that the u.s. is signatory to? and she going to call on more nations? who will be inflicted these consequences? >> we made reference to it and it is something we are looking at. i am not sure at this stage that i can tell you the next up is. >> how many countries are signatories to that? >> thank you. >> today in haiti, foreign aid donors worked to expand the pipeline of food, water, and medical care for survivors of last

. >> and given the ostensible agreement that was reached in geneva in october regarding the tehran research sign whatsoever that the iranians still have any interest in that agreement? and then secondly, on the assumption that you don't have any such signs, is it fair to say that what you are hoping to get out of the meeting is some kind of an agreement to pursue further sanctions? even if you don't actually agree on what those might be tomorrow. >> you mean notwithstanding, you know, an iranian deadline applied to their unacceptable counteroffer to our quite reasonable offer. we're working this as a process. i wouldn't -- so the meeting tomorrow is useful, important. i wouldn't expect that particular deliverable out of this meeting. but we are consulting within the p-5 plus one with the membership of the security council and more broadly, on the way forward, we are communicating our concern and the concern of the international community for iran's inability or unwillingness to respond to what we consider to be a good-faith offer. and we're going to continue down this road. it doesn't precl

we were involved in geneva at the human rights council in september.we co-sponsored a resolution that made reference to the internet. we will continue to use the u.n. as a form to make sure that freedom of expression is reinforced. there's also server security. there are also questions of privacy. -- there is also cyber security. there are also questions of privacy. we need to find the right ways on a global scale to find the right groove in the road for dealing with the-and dangerous aspects of this. >> is the u.s. going to call on other nations to sign the convention, the one she is referring to? will she call on more nations? who is going to be inflicting the consequences that she referred to? >> it is something we are looking at. i am not sure i can tell you what the next step is on that. it is something we're looking at closely. >> how many countries are signatories? >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> according to the wind, the government of ha

certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the genevaconvention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the acronym. the fact is it implemented most of the bipartisan recommendations of the commission. governor kean and congressman hamilton have been unique on the commission and continue to track the implementation of their recommendations persistently over the las

signs that i'm aware of that they're interested in carrying out the agreement that was reached in geneva. one, out from your point of view, is the value deal dead? -- is beat leu deal dead? number two, is it tied to the revolutionary guard corps? and lastly, you believe that additional sanctions could play into the hands of the hardliners, who often make the argument that they are engaged in a struggle with foreign forces and try to rally people around them that way? they even made that argument as they were crashing the protest recently. >> week remained committed to working with our -- we remain committed to working with our international partners, addressing the serious concerns we have regarding iran posing a clear program. our approach, as you know -- regarding iran seven nuclear program. our approach, as you know, it is an engagement track and a pressure drop. as i said, our results in trying to engage iran have not been encouraging. we are disappointed by their response to the proposal for the taron research reactor. and the iranian government announced a deadline to receive a pos

in geneva in september, we co- sponsored a resolution on the freedom of expression. reference to the internet. we are very much aware of that piece of this and continue to use the un as a forum to make sure the freedom of expression is enforced. there's also cyber security and questions of privacy. we have to be mindful about the right of privacy and also finding the right ways on a global scale to find the right rules of the road for dealing with the negative and dangerous aspects of the internet. what does that mean that the u.s. will call on other nations to sign that council of europe convention or whenever she was referring to that the u.s. is a signatory to? will she colombes more nations and who will be effecting these consequences? -- will she called on more nations? >> we made reference to it and it is something we are checking on. i cannot tell you what the next step is. >> how many countries are signatories? >> i do not know. >> thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> president obama is in ohio today and posted a town hall meeting in the county of lorain. the focus

. >> given that agreement that was reached in geneva in october for -- regarding the tehran researchlied to their unacceptable counter offer to our our reasonable offer. we are working as a process. the meeting is useful and important. i would not expect a deliverable out of this meeting. we are broadly consulting within the new membership of the security council. we are communicating our concerns and the concern of that national committee for iran's inability or unwillingness to respond to what we consider to be a good offer. it does not preclude that iran will not come back at some point and express -- the have not up to this point. part of this process will communicate to iran that there are consequences for the steps that either it has taken or seems unwilling to take. >> on the search and rescue effort, can you explain how the teams will go? is it based on where they will find people? whether you have the location for the team's right now. >> i think in terms of our to our operations are details, i was -- would refer to the disaster assistance response team on the ground. it is

certainty and gratitude that this means he will be held and given rights far in excess of what the genevaconvention requires enemy combatants or prisoners of war be given. we will stay on top of this to make sure this mistake, the failure to consult with -- to decide how to handle abdulmutallab and the decision to turn him over to the civilian courts is ever made again. i do believe our intelligence gathering analysis remarkably improved since the attack of 9/11. the sharing of intelligence is vastly improved. this is due in part to the judgment with us today. shares of the -- shares of thcsf the 9/11 commission. driving the changes that make the american people more secure today than they were during 9/11. that leads us in part to refer to the act i just referred to as the 9/11 commission act. it sounds a lot better above saying the acronym. the fact is it implemented most of the bipartisan recommendations of the commission. governor kean and congressman hamilton have been unique on the commission and continue to track the implementation of their recommendations persistently over the las