. >> 's time to bury the antagonism of t cold war. that was president obama'sessage to russian stents in scow today. he ofered a more mixed assessment of the russian ime minister,calling in tou, rewd, and pragmatic. e made it clear tat on some issueshe does notexpect a meeting the mindsnytime soon. we havethis report from moscow. >>president obama began his second day her with t drive outside scow. to arucial meeting with the foer president, n prime minister vladimir putin just few days ago, president obama accused him ofaving 1 foot in the past coldar mentality. but today, he switched on the charm. >> i am awa of not only the extraornary wo you have done onehalf of the russian people in your prious role as preside, but in yr current role as prime minier. >> while the eakfast meeting look relaxed, mr obama would have been looked from -- would ve looked for reassurance fr mr. putin on the agreements signed on moay to reset the agreemts between moscow and washington. themerican president then turned to the center of moscow deliver his b speech her it was a chance

war in iraq began sixears ago. in fa, a senio u.s.ilitary office has broken rks with s prrs and president obama sayin it's time f the,000 declarvictory in iq and go home. but then there e days li today,hen a seri of bombs exploded near five siite mosques in badad, killing at ast 29 peple. and shatterng the rception at lest for now that ira is a ch safer place tan ued to be. in tonight's ead focus" the latest violencin iraq,hat it says about surity and the american missi as i wis down. >> the deadliest today's atacks took place in the northern baghdad neighborhood of al shaab. according to iri officials a east 24 people were killed d 17 wounded in e explosion ofa caromb near a shiite mosque. worshirs had gather at t mosqueor friy prayer the scene outside spoke to the carnage. prayer rugs were stained with bloodscores of shoes littered the ground. with all today's attacks having takeplace at shiite mosques, those atcks are seen as an attemp to reignite sectarian fighting between shiites d sunnis. ernesto lon don yeah in baghdad for the washington pos" >> caller: inhis particular case the attacks appr to be designed to

but at some point everybody agrees 's all going to become the obama presiden, whether you're taing about the economy, wther you're taing abouthe wars in iraq and afghanistan, the republicans are beginninto discern that there is a public mood th now it's president obama that'sn the public menlity and not the former president bush. >> and so what does all this do to the president'sealth care plan aspirations? get this all doneby the tme ngss takes off next month? >> wel you have to wond fer that isn't a bit of a false adline. ontacthey alwaysse when there's some major program coming up before cgress is to create a deadline thatdoesn't have a huge ount of meaning by saying they want ts all done by the august recess, golly gee, what happens if they don't have it done? do they then have september deadli? do they have an october deadline? after decades of history, of health care reform that is in such trouble, what ifey don't get it insession? do they abandon the effort? let's not put too much faithn that august deadline >> okay. bob anken, always got faith in you. thanks for joining us. >>> it looks like a bigit on the big screen but is

. >>> still ahead, barack obama and russian leaders talk about gettinrid of nuclear weapons. ke that, korld war. and elizabh blair with s very intesng details about miael jackson ahead. and ter, kent jones pays tribute to soon-to-b u.s. setor al franken. all that is coming up. but first, it'sime for a few holy mackerel stories in today's news. the obama administrati's to-do list i long and right up there at the top of the list is health care. the administrion has promised health care reform this ye. enter the lobbyists. wait, lobbyists in washington? onealth care? is that a typo? ook no surprise there but here's your holy macker, or holy something. "the wasngton post" reports today that the health care industry has hirede than 350 former members of congress and coressional staffers as bbyists, people with persona connections to the legislats themlves. quote, the tactic is so widespread that three outof four major health care firms have at least one form insid on their lobbying paol. the hirings are part of a recordreaking influence campaigny the health care industryhich is spending $1.4 million day on lobbng in the curr

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obama. the argument i make in my book is that since the 1990's, we in effect have been in a new cold war withrussia. the details i will go into, but if you accept that analysis that things have just gotten worse and worse and worse since the end of the soviet union when we thought the cold war was over forever, then what it means that obama went to moscow to try to and the new cold war. yearbook host: is entitled "soviet fates and lost alternatives -- "soviet fates and lost alternatives: from stalinism to the new cold war." begin with a new cold war and moving forward. what has been the russian reaction and how has that led to the current state of affairs? guest: of well, in my view, between 1988 -- well, in my view, between 1988 and 1918 -- 19913 leaders gave us a chance to and the walt the cold war, mikhail gorbachev, prison ronald reagan and first president george bush. each said repeatedly, including reagan, the cold war is over. they exaggerated a little bit. i remember it well. i was at some of the meetings. but they were very close to making it a reality, a historic opportunity to end

central american peace plan he devised in the 1980's link to the end of civil war to an internal space reforms as an essential ingredient of peace. the obamastration i believe has acted appropriately and even add broadly in response to the crisis. they have honored their commitments at the summit of the americas to work in partnership and seek multilateral solutions to regional problems. the support for the efforts of the oas and now for president arias -- partnership over unilaterally. i also believe that the obama administration has the appropriately restrained and prudent with respect to the elimination of u.s. economic aid in response to the coup. the example of haiti should stand as a sober reminder of the harsh economic -- the consequences that harsh economic sanctions against a desperately poor country can have. i'd like to conclude by saying the ponder increases should serve as a wake-up call to the extent that it might still be needed the despite huge advances in electoral democracy in latin america over the last two decades and scope of central conclusion remain deeply flawed and at times fundamentally compromised. supporting the

central american peace plan he devised in the 1980's link to the end of civil war to an internal space reforms as an essential ingredient of peace. the obamaration i believe has acted appropriately and even add broadly in response to the crisis. they have honored their commitments at the summit of the americas to work in partnership and seek multilateral solutions to regional problems. the support for the efforts of the oas and now for president arias -- partnership over unilaterally. i also believe that the obama administration has the appropriately restrained and prudent with respect to the elimination of u.s. economic aid in response to the coup. the example of haiti should stand as a sober reminder of the harsh economic -- the consequences that harsh economic sanctions against a desperately poor country can have. i'd like to conclude by saying the ponder increases should serve as a wake-up call to the extent that it might still be needed the despite huge advances in electoral democracy in latin america over the last two decades and scope of central conclusion remain deeply flawed and at times fundamentally compromised. supporting the c

american peace plan that he devised in the 1980's meant the end of civil war into an internal democratic reforms as an essential ingredient of peace. the obamaistration i believe has acted properly in even admirably in response to the crisis. they have on other commitment of the summit of americas to work in partnership and a signal bilateral solutions to reach -- regional problems. the support for the efforts at this before and now pour president arias reflect an understanding of the value of partnership over unilateralism. i also believe that the obama administration has been appropriately restrain and prudent with respect to the elimination of u.s. economic aid in response to the two. it's a example of haiti should stand as a sober reminder of of the harsh economic -- of the consequences that harsh economic sanctions against a desperately poor country can have. am i to conclude by saying that the honduran crisis should serve as a wake-up call to the extent that it might still be needed, that despite huge a advances in electoral democracy in latin america over the last two decades, the quality of democracy and the scope of social inclusion