and north kean relation this could be hu. >> nth korea's nuclr prram frightenssia and the world.y have th abity to exploda nuclear divides. the u.s., russia and china have albeen unable t persuade them to giveup their ambitions. but might there be new opening now? a clue. bill clion was medical on the tarmac by north korea's chief nuclr negotiator. is that a gnal? this i an extordinary outcossafor the u.s. and the clintons. in the coming days, the world ll be loong for more signs that the north koreans rey to stareengaging with the world. ad brooks washington. >> a mor diomatic question as iran is confirming it i holdg three american to crossed in from kurdistan. the two men a one woman were arrest near e border. ey're relativesay they strayed over e border accidentally while hike neglence northern iraq. ssia troops in ossetia have heightened their battle readins. moscow blamea serie of provocatn frs georgia. a five-day war bween russia and gegia started a year ago this cing friday. police in the afghan capital say insurgent have fired nine rockets into the city. e missiles lande

the south kean daily reports the obama administration is strongly considering accepting the invitation. north korea has long been after direct negotiations with washington about its nuclear program and other issues. >>> the veterans affairs department is blaming a computer glitch for mistakenly telling 1,200 veterans they were suffering from a fatal neurological disease. although the department is rushing to tell everyone who received this letter of the mistake, many veterans say because of that letter they've already undergone expensive and unnecessary medical tests. many suffered the psychological effects of thinking they were dying. >>> south korea successfully launched its first rocket into space this morning. north korea said it will be closely watching how the international community relates to the launch after facing condemnation for its own launch in the month of april. >>> here's how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 9,509. nasdaq fell two points. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei sank 83 points. the hang seng nudged up 100

a sprise visit to north korea and wins the release oftwo american journalis but hi tal with north kean leaders didn't stop there. >>> in australia, police say they have broke up a terrorist plot in which extremists pla to invade a military base and kill until they tmselves are kild. we will tell you who ty say i hind the threat. >>> in sud, what th woman is doing is consideredso scdalous that she's being put on trial, andould be flgged. will tell you why. >>> andn german there is no ignoringhe 800-poundgore ail in the womb, now when she is holdg a brand-new baby. we will explainhy this birth means souch. >>> fromhe world's leading reporters and analts, here is what's happening from arou the worl this is "worldfoc." made possibl in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening, i'm main savidge. there is maj news out oforth koa tonight. two american journists, ea lee and laura ling, who were arrested imarch while reporting along the border of china and north koa, have been rdoned. tt annncement came la this afternoon an formerresident bill cnton made an unannounc vit to north korea

that's where we have to be take kean ir of through mrs.kson. >> let me get the judge's comment on that. >> i am predicting to you tonight this will will be challenged. that in 2002 when he signed that will they are going to claim he was incompetent, he was under the influence of drugs because a few months later he was in a clinic. the jackson family is going to ask the court for instructions. mrs. jackson is going to say please your honor we don't want to lose the 40 percent but allow us the challenge the fact that these three trustees, i believe they are going to be the trustees. the executives are going to be the trustees. they are going to have a big piece of the estate. >> how much do they get paid? >> 3 percent but it's a sliding scale. >> you are talking serious money. >> the boys are going to become very rich from this event that their names are in the will and i bet you right now if -- my condo in florida they are in the trust. >> can i say something? >> make the statement quick i have to move on. >> may i say sag about that? >> ye

tom kean, the governor of virginia, probably helped sink his candidate for november with, for coming out and calling people a mob is unprecedented. i was shocked and it reflected -- it was stupid. sean: that's an interesting statement. the d.n.c. is obama. i never heard a democrat say that before. >> and also the most interesting thing, pat said this on your radio show, i finally understood why he ever thought for himself as a democrat and he said, he's against the parties of the elite and the little guy. that has certainly switched in his lifetime. but as for these -- the moms at the town halls, they can't really get away with this, since the people you see protesting correspond to what the polls say, especially old people and people turning more and more against this of course they're turning against it because it's insane, they know they're being lied to, the american people aren't stupid. you can't say we're suddenly going to cover 47 million people and it's going to cost les and we won't have to ration health care. that's -- you can drink as much as you want and you won't get dr

last friday, i met with governor tom kean, congressman lee hamilton, and former homeland security secretary tom ridge, and others, to discuss progress made in the five years since release of the 9/11 commission report. there were write to note our achievements and progress to a safe homeland does not belong to one political party but a lot changeds in the past six months since i became just the third secretary of homeland security after my distinguished predecessors tom ridge and michael chertoff. so, let me give you a sense, today, of how i see the threat environment that we are in, talk about what we are doing to counter that threat in the four response areas i just identified. so, what does the world we face look like today? first, while the terror threat is evering in changing it is critical to reiterate the threat remains, the consensus view of the intelligence community of which dhs is a member is at the terror threat to the home land is, quote, persistent and evolving. in my daily briefings and as a mib of the the president's national and hoped -- member of the president's national a

december 17th, 2003, tom ridge -- thomas kean says the attacks were inevitable.federal appeals court says they cannot detain jose padilla indefinitely without charges and the chief u.s. weapons inspector in iraq dr. david kay who announced he found no weapons of mass destruction there announces he'll resign his post. december 21st, 2003, four days later, the sunday before christmas -- >> today the united states government raised the national threat level. >> homeland security again raises the threat level to orange claiming credible intelligence of further plots to crash airliners into u.s. cities. subsequently, six international flights into this country are canceled after some passenger names purportedly produced matches on government no fly lists. the french later identified those matched names. one belongs to an insurance salesman from wales, another to an elderly chinese woman, the third to a 5-year-old boy. number six, march 30th, 2004, the new chief weapons inspector in iraq tells congress we have still not found any wmd in that country. and after weeks of

and i pe the north keans were listening carefullto that messe. >> obviously whebarack obama took office the rhetoric was very different and he wanted engagement. buwhen the north koreans didn't do what he wanted them to do, they publicly... the rhetor was very simil to what george bush was doing at the ti. and that, i think, just compnded the problem and the noh koreans realized they weren'getting anywhere, the obama ministration realize they wen't getting anyere, and that's whe you started seeing plicly as well that change. and mrs. clinton saying "we're not ing to pay any attention to them. although a couplweeks later ere's bill clinton over ther >> rose: tre much tal at the white house out how thismay indite a new role f bill clinton? >> i ink that there's not a lot of talk about that. i think present obama said today that he wants to talk to bi clinton at some point and see what happenedver there and what they talked about. but it certainly does pubill inton backn the spotlight. it was a rl taleof two clintons today and ovethe past couple weeks. >> rose: thank youmartha, great to se

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these women gave my book to governor kean and he is the one responsible for me testifying before theommission. i go back to why should we care. qc dufflebag, those of you that have been delayed at the airport knowing that you can't -- you can only take so many liquids on a plane. you know why? that has nothing to do with richard read the shoup bomber, that has to do with ramzi ahmed yousef. you'll hear why in a minute. the fact you can't carry liquid on plan and have to take your shoes on before you get on a plane, ramzi ahmed yousef. that's all going to be on folded in this story. and the spiritual icon in new york responsible for both the trade center bombing and 93 and 9/11 omar abdel-rahman on the, but he's also responsible for the 1993, excuse me, what was called the day of the terror plot to blow up the bridges and tunnels in manhattan. the embassy bombings in 1988 he was considered one of the spiritual icons and motivators of the plot even though he was in jail by 1993, the coal bombing, when bin laden issued his famous prior he said go to the spilling of blood, this is how im