at the president when heaid his health care plan would not cover illegal immigrants.he called the white house to apologize. he says he considers that sufficient. >>> a d.c. police detective found dead. police found the body of detective terrence greene in maryland last night. sources tell news 4 he was questioned in response to allegations he gave help to a murder suspect. robbinson is charged in the death of another person. no charges have been filed against detective greene. >>> the district announced it shut down a ma sonic lodge because of wild parties there. they claim teenagers have been partying at that lodge in northeast d.c. city officials said it led to violence over the past few months. they will hold a news conference to talk about the decision to shut down the lodge. >>> a man has to act quickly when his car catches on fire. >>> hundreds are thanking injured soldiers forirhe >>> it was a special september 11 remembrance tonight. hundreds gathered to salute those who1vz served. some held signs, others waved american flags. others cheered to honking cars.

heaid it was a war of necessity. he laid down the gauntlet on thisnd now he faces the consuence of a great deal of loss. even if you succeed in the miion, it will cost a great deal in lives and treasury, and i'm not sure hes willing to ke that step. >> jeanne cummings, it is complicated by theact that we ve a stolen electio -- at least a very sulli and staine ection, allegedly reelecting rzai, and corruption issue wife in the system. does this make it tougher for the president? >> it doesake a lot tougher for the president. chrystal's position is t the only position in the administtion, and congress is certainly becong more concned about afghanistan, d the tainte ection added more to theirkepticism, and they are worried about u.s. involvement over the. the present has a lot of opinions to weigh. the vice president is a skeptical voice on whether mo trips are necessary, terms of the timing of the troop the size of it, whetherthe 17,000 alady added over their needs more timeo see if they can act change before we send m

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he aparently has told somewild stors about, heaid for example, i was td by one offici that during hisinterogation, you know, i really didn't intend to target nhattan, i was gng to hit a big diount store,something outsidof manhattan. then ihaed my mind. was trying to throw themoff. he also sa, you know, i was entirely omy own in this. thsimple answer to the question is, as far as we kn, they don't knoyet what the plot was, what thetarget was, the means ofttack or the timing. >> pe, do we know how early the government picked up this guy's trai, how much intelligce went ito connecting the dots. because after 11, one of the great ars was that the countrysid my be full of secret al qda sleeper cells. do we gea sense outs f ths whether we are safegainst that? >> one of the surprisi things about thisase is the government hasot come out and plicly patted itself on the back very ch. we have heard ry little fom the torney general, the direor of the f.b.i., the secretarof homeland secuty or the presiden though wre told ty're all deeply involved in this ca. ey haven't cme out to say, we can't nne

heaid i'm going to new york ty. i said whayou. >> charlie: you didn't know. >> n i didn't but he left tha nit and came back a week later. 's very active, he's writing. >> charlie: what does he have out israel and israel's destiny and about isra's pce and about what israelhad to do to build its tional security and build its opportunity. >> both my parents, mother and fatr had obviously very strong influence on me as did my oldebrother. but 's not only on me. i mean what has shapedll us is thereat experiee of the jewish people in the 20th century. thisransformation fro utter poweessness whe we want a winoss lead. i wasn berlin the other day and i vised the villa where the nazimet in january of 1942 and decidein a few hours to destroy the jewish people. invitation reads, hitler's deputy, the head, you are cordlly invited to discuson on the final solion of the jewish people, you know, after breakfast. ey say breakfast will be served. and they ate breakfast, a hearty breakfast and ty discussed this for several hours. nob

heaid it is the law tha must run every affa in the country. that musrule the country.or the first time, the ader uses his prerogative to extend the te frame normally given post-ections for electoral complaints. the guardi council announced several timesthat any other party that may have domentation or evidence proving that t election may have been distorted should hand those over to the grdian counci and theother side said, "no, e eleoral process itself was finebut the environment inhe country wasjust not right." >> charl: are you saying that there is no deep divide in iran toy? no deep divide between reform, the forces of reform andhe forcesof president madinejad andis lies? as a result of that election,is there a hism in your country? i wou like t make two points, here. first of all,the iranian nation is ufied nation. 's a fact. i mean, for years we've had elections. and people have voted, and then they acct the results of the vote. even rightow ase speak, over 90of the people believe that the resultsof the elections were legaland correct and they're goingn with thei

becausi think that t great german philosopher kant was right because heaid the servation leaders ve to make is that there are two kinds of peace in the world. the's most wh democracies andeaceith dictatorships. the demonstratsees don't want to go to war but dictatorships n't have that limitation. the only way t stop the dictator fm going to war is ha a forced tnsgression if it ils. the greatest castrophe in histor the greatest tragedy in the history of m people and the history of the wld occurred when leaders of democracies failed todistinguish whatkind of peace to have. >> charlie: whakindf peace was achievable. >> they practiced th peace of democracies propos the gater dictatorip of all times nazi germany. th learned a lesson they practiced with peace of deterrence. what kind of entity do we have on the other side of the fence. if we get aictator type like the iriansponsored dictorship. >> charlie: you're surrounded by dictorship. >> authotarian government. >> charlie: you're surroded by tm. >> but we have arrangements, thoritarian governments. >> charlie: and you he most withhem. >>

. >> warr: so i guess secretary gates s understating when heaid yestday it will be tough. linz and evan perez, thank you so muc >> thank y. >> thank you. >> lehrer: andinally tonight, remembering williasafire, a maof words and punditry. jeffrey brown reports. >> brown: fomore than 30 years williasafire sent forth wit, barbs and much mo from his infential per much as a conrvative columnist fothe "new york times". began his career in public relations and became a speh writer for rhard nixon before coming to theimes whe he won a pulitzer prize antook delight in his contrarian role. >> i get a l of mail now, a lot ofmail now, from people sang how come you're at the "new york times," you stick out like aore thumb. ll, i was hired to be the sore thu. i'm delighted toe going against the grain. it's like when you're a lmon swimming utream f the stream stream is going fastnough evenf you're only standing still u get the feeling you're really going st. >> both parts are now running ainst the other side. >> brownover the years safi was a regular television presence incling on the new

heaid, because i was gd it. >> yeah. at's true. and he was.he was terrifi >> charlie: o, how d you know you're good? >> you learn that very early age. when teacher begin to tell you that your compitions are really good and you should keep writin or even members youramily are proudly introducing you to embaassment to other peoe as "the writer in the family also, i happen to be nedafter edgar alan poe wch was an innction there. children areamed as a wish bend a name, isn't there? my father did love e work of edgar alan poe. actuae liked a lot of b writers, butoe was our greatest bad writer that'sy consolation. >>harlie: our greatest ba writer? >> he is. amazingly good and b at the same time. >> charlie: this is silly question but i'm fondf silly questions. would you rather create the perfect sort of novelistic nceit of a sty that has eat meaning and tnscends and connec with everybody's life and has power or write good book that haderfectly constructe sentences >> whyould you have things likehat? why not take them both and put them together? and

and this was pointed out today by secretary gates wn heaid there's a dey in this process because we can't g the parliaments inhese two countries to even galong with this idea. >> warner: sohat impact... you've dealt with ejb russians, the soviets in your day, what imct do you think this will ha on russia? >> i think there are huge smiles inoscow today and tomorrow. i thinrussians will view th as a major victy. they have been on a relentless campaign attacking and criticizing the pls for poland an the czech republic. they he linke to conclusion of a pt-start arms control reement and basilly said such an agreement would on the r if we went ahead with the missile dense plans in pond and the czech republic. i think lsson they will take away from this is at loud complaining and even bully tactics such as threatening missile agnst poland and th check republic wk and i think that's a dangerousisk. >> warner: i n't necessarily agree th. i don't think e russians wil necessarily e this as a concession. >>arner: you don't? >> think in fact is as the russiaforeign minister has said, he thought this w

heaid and i'muoting iran's actns raise grave doubts in ter of their presentationf their clear program was for aceful purposes. so what exactly is known about is facility? >> wel, not very much. i mean there's bn some statements about that it's gas centrifuge plant, it enriches uranium, it's relavely small compared to what you uld need for a lant to make well enriched uranium f nuclear pow reactsers. t most importantly it has been built in secrecy. and iran has sd many times publicly thatt has vealed everything to th iea. everything is own and yet heryou have a very important nuclear sit that was notnown. and appes to only have been revealed to the iea after iran was caughting whetheit. >> woodruff: you s a very important site. how much do wknow. what is this site capable of dog and how fast. according it to what the government has ben saying, is that it's a te tha wold hold up to 3000 gas centriges. that enough that -- to make a bb's worth of highly enriched uranium ery year. >> woodruff: one mb a year. >> and they don't real know, think, what nd of centrifus are going to be inalled.

and the send is heaid he would like to have the us. supply him uraniumor a reactor run at the universityof tehran. tt is reactor, incidenlly, thathe united states supplies in the mid-19s and then it w fueled with high enried urium. these are, in mview, strat gems of engagement that wi, in fact, over time make it very difficult to we... it' going to be hard notto pick up the offer to tlk to anian scientists. afterll, at the depths of the cold war, this was one of the things we did with the siet union and over time it bore fruit. but to due dothat at the same time, you go ahead with n sanctions i thin is going to be very hard. that's e game the iranians play. th understand sams. >> couric: seams? >> seams in our diplomacy. you s it the same way mr. takeyh ( >> i uld agree that. i think sciece meeting is a ltle less than meetshe eye becau scientists are supposed to meet t figure out how to get the enriched uranium a have a track twis o discussn among the scientists as opposed to answering about... >> lehrer: and it souldn't be accused wit

he completed that listening to that little boy over to his younger brother and he turned around and heaid now we are free. quite amazing words. he had lost his country, he lost the people he was born to rule and his destiny by he was seeing a loss ass opportunity and realizing he could now do many things in exile that would be next to impossible he could offer new opportunities to women and bring science and into the curriculum and rescue to bed with centuries-old isolation and most important, he could bring democry to his people for the first tis of his first year in exile around the time when he was meeting my father, he was trying up a constitution for the first time allowing for the dolly llama impeachment now he set up democratically elected government which is why he says he is semi retired because no political authority is the prime minister and not with him. his first priority is to ensure that his people would have a lasting home in the world until they could return to tibet. when he was really a offering a much larger lesson because this i the age of the exile there are 200 mill

wh he said was fromhe evidence that he had seen-- and heaid he hast seen it all-- that essentially it didn't look ke there was enough there to chge zazi with conspiracy. the actual charge i conspiracy to use weapons of ss destruction against targets in the u.s. and he said he didn't see enough for a conspiry. he said what he saw was that zazi had actual traveled to pakistan, which is completely lega and what he saw is zazi had boug a lot of emicals in bulk, hydgen per oxide and acetone ang them which of coursis also legal. we're start to go see a little bit of wha might hpen in terms of defense for zazi. >> srez: with zazi's girs day in court did can federal prosecors or iestigators reveal anyore about the case they've built ainst the man? >>ot really. we saw an awful lot in the charging documentshat they released last week. in those duments legedly he admitted to attending an al qaeda mp andetting explosives training. legedly they foundome notes th were iged on his computer tt were in his own handwritg that showed how to ke a bomb. essentiay a bomb recipe. ry similar to the bomb reci