year and he was a lame duck anyway but he has been engaged in a sustained struggle with ayatollah khomeini and, these elections are an indication that mahmoud ahmadinejad is on the losing side of that struggle. now, what it means for iran's foreign policy, for its support for terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons, i think, is actually very little. there is no real dispute within the leadership about those things. there's a lot of dispute about tactics and economic and social policy inside iran and it is really those latter topics that were the real contested issues in the election. >> eric: in terms of its nuclear program you don't see much changing, even if he loses support? >> no, i don't think so at all. i think the more conservative element in iranian political affairs, has criticized mahmoud ahmadinejad for a number of years on the nuclear program for speaking out about it and their view was, if you keep talking about the nuclear program you will just get the attention of the united states an israel -- and israel and the others in the west and far better to have the centrifuges and

khomeini of god to people who survive primarily for saving someone's life to jump on a hand grenade to save others. we don't know how to handle the war but everyone who steps out of the gate is being heroic the. >> in the past conflicts this of william leadership had military experience. today it is shrinking to the microscopic level to those who have served how does that impact the decisions made for the military force? >> that is interesting. congress has of far lower percentage it has declined significantly. this is not to a good thing but the inclination and the people of congress to say i will vote for it to. my thinking in aid to have some more lance corporals. somebody in the military might not want to ask tough questions. last several it elections a war hero and george bush ii national guard he beat al gore and mccain was defeated by a obama. i don't think that this not put people over the top been a more. with less than 1% we have to recognize there is a smaller percentage and we have to deal with that. >> thank you for coming tonight. [applause] >> ien emma kraft being of the

is vision or rational economic policy but we pretty much know what happened after was because the khomeini aspired to and just for our. so-called social democratic opposition they both decided to vote against that kind of history always demanded a box and mr medvedev has the support of united russia which has slightly more than fifty percent of the seats in the door and he also has the support of the liberal democratic party or what even sitting on the street so that's enough for him to be elected. certainly this is nothing like the result that mr putin was four years ago when he was in fact that prime minister and when he was supported by the overwhelming majority in the duma deets you and mentioned president's new president vladimir putin they're trying to you think the relationship between putin and made good will change or will it change it all now that they seems that they will see till the end of taking over as prime minister and president well you know mr putin has made some very ambitious plans yesterday he plans to raise the salaries by fifty percent by the thousand to eighteen ne

khomeini us that forget to would see one i made a lot of people angry i did not realize this but i saido. we will use of primary that changes the equation because one way took 45 seconds therefore that is not primary the other one took 12 you could work with that it had privacy algorithms that lesley stahl described as those are not pornographic we did not have a problem with the body scanners when i was there but now i think the other technology has picked up some i did not have issues secretary chertoff went through all carefully to support even the aclu while had concerns preshow them and it really was not a problem. the subsequent use i cannot comment. . .v? we were concerned about the thing that the carter administration was current -- concerned about. >> i am charlie clark with government executive magazine. a unionization question and went homeland security was set up there was a big fight over wher? the tsa ought to unionize and more recently they have voted to have the opportunity so i was wondering your ideas of how that might impact the incentives of the workers and the abili

he didn't just walk into the famous interview with the ayatollah khomeini, he earned it through years, imam, forgive me, his words, not mine, a lunatic. >> i was uncertain whether mike was the most decent person i ever worked with or the most devious, but he was probably both. certainly among the most complex and without question the most competitive. >> there's a story that the correspondents used to tell to each other about, if you had a piece on sunday's show in the lineup and mike didn't, it was a bad week to go on the road, because by the time you got back, mike's piece would be on the air and yours wouldn't. >> now, wait just a moment. >> hold it a minute. >> around "60 minutes" he was just like he was in an interview. he drove us all crazy, made us all think on our feet, he made us all laugh, constantly reminded us when we were a few pounds overweight. >> and as someone once said, he had an underdeveloped sense of other people's privacy. can you imagine coming home from a date and mike wallace is waiting up for you? where did you go, he asks? what did do you? how do you explain

president carter hailed the ayatollah could manyy as a man of -- can many -- khomeini as a man of peace, as he came back from compile, and for the first time in so many years gave a foot hold for radical terrorizing islam to have a country in iran. americans soon found out the price of bad judgment in international affairs. not too long thereafter there was an attack against the american embassy in tehran. i know in fort benning, georgia, where i was, a lot of folks were put on alert, it may be necessary for us to go and defend this nation because an attack against a country's embassy is an attack against that country. it is an act of war. so there was an act of war committed in iran in 1979 and our response was so benign that it is still being used as a recruiting tool by radical islamists today. to show how americans are not very smart, they don't have a stomach for a strong fight. so we can still prevail. we had a benign response in 1983 after the attack on our marines and the loss of 300 precious marine lives in beirut. the response was to pull them out without a fight. so many time