i would also note that plans to cover most of europe and add to defense of the u.s. homeland will continue on the same schedule as before. as the president has said very clearly as long as the iranian threat persists, we'll pursue proven and cost effectively missile defenses. today the department of defense is briefing the congress and our nato allies about this plan. one of our guiding principles for missile defense remains the involvement and support of our allies and partners. we will continue to rely on our allies and work with them to develop a system that most effectively defends against very real and growing threats. those who say we are scrapping missile defense in europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing. the security of europe has been a vital national interest of the united states for my entire career. the circumstances, borders and threats may have changed but that commitment continues. i believe this new approach provides a better missile defense capability for our forces in europe, for our european allies and eve

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policy and the undermining of key allies in eastern and central europe. this is all about appeasing moscow. >> reporter: congressman don misulo a republican member of the house foreign affairs committee says obama's new stance will embolden iran. >> it simply sends the wrong message to the iranians at a time when we should be stronger. i am very much concerned over the president's shift in a big policy issue. >> reporter: one clue as to why the administration has made such a sudden shift comes from the language of president obama's remarks on the issue. he emphasizes a, quote, less costly, less controversial system to defend against iran's short and medium-range missiles. secretary gates also appears to have changed his mind on china. in previous years defense officials have stressed military cooperation, even joint military exercises with china. well, now this week secretary gates said china's military modernization could pose a threat to u.s. bases and forces in the pacific. lou? >> quite a display of if you will flexibility on the part of the administr

europe i'm talking about, but also eastern europe has its issues. >> obviously cope enhag enis in the news, the idea of climate change. sustainability is something you think about at coke. you've got basically two issues when it comes to sustainability and one is you use a lot of packaging and two is you use a lot of water. how do you deal with these? how do you confront that reality? >> we start from a simple premise. we say in our world of coca-cola together with our bottling partners, our total system around the world, that unless we can meaning fully contribute towards communication of sustainable communities around the world and also helping to create a sustainable planet, we will not have a sustainable business. and through that belief, we also believe strongly that we can grow our business but not carbon footprint, so that strategic agenda calls for us to be water neutral globally by 2020. >> well, it could be history in the making or a historic dud. officials from more than 170 countries converge on copenhagen for a week and a half to try and solve global warming. helps uncove

when he was president of europe for six months, we achieved a lot. in this country, which i dearly like, president obama is a terrific leader. and if these two leaders actually join forces, which i'm sure they will, with in mind the same common good, they can have fantastic results. i certainly hope so. by the way, i want to mention that, because it is a fascinating to me. there was a poll that was just conducted recently about -- >> in france? >> no, in the united states, about the opinion that american population has about france. and it was 61% favorable. so, 61% of the american population that was surveyed in that poll thought that france was great. >> must be -- this must be up from the bush years or do you know? >> well, all i can say is that it seems quite positive. and i hope we can do everything we can to convince the other 39% that, yes, france is a strong, reliant friend of the united states. >> do you think that the current administration, and tim geithner in particular, are doing a good job? >> it is difficult to pass a judgment, frankli

and europe know their enemy. stay with us. >>> your democratically elected government trust us against our people or the world and that makes you directly responsible, just as i am directly responsible for protecting my muslim brothers and sisters. until we feel security, you will be our targets. >>> so, that was the ringleader of the london suicide bombers and we bring it up because it goes to the heart of the matter, so many questions about why often it's middle class, educated. people who even had some secular education who commit these crimes. joining me, benjamin at the state department and karen greenburg and thomas who has been tracking the global jihad movement. the question i want to pose to you, daniel benjamin, do you, even after all these years, understand the complications in so much of this modern islam. for instance, the kind of grievances that somebody who is educated took upon himself to the point of becoming a jihadist? >> well, it would be full hardy to claim to know everything about this movem

western europe is not a font of high technology. >> i'm sorry, gentlemen. >> western europe is doing fine by any standard. >> not for innovation. there's no silicon valley in western europe. >> hopefully you'll both come back and we'll continue the discussion because the issue will be before us for some time. thank you very much jeff mad rick. the new book "a case for big government." and "power, ambition and glory," all things which steve has aspired. thanks for being with us. >>> brooke baldwin has the update on the other important stories we're following tonight. >> the launch of a major marine offensive against a taliban strong hold in southern afghanistan. the marines exchanged heavy fire with insurgents in hell mund province before dawn. they're trying to provide security for next week's presidential election. at least seven insurgents were killed. the bodies of the five italian tourists killed in the mid air collision in the hudson river were back on their way home to italy. the tourists were on a site seeing helicopter when it crashed saturday afternoon. the helicopter pilot

on the international front, we discussed the importance of europe and the united states raising standards on financial institutions to ensure that a crisis like the one that's taken place will never happen again. >> part of it is trying to get everybody on the same page here to come up with a strategy after this is over so that it doesn't happen again. we heard the president emphasize over the past couple of days, just yesterday in russia, talking about the need for transparency, for accountability, tough regulations, opening those markets. those are the kinds of things that he's going to be talking

when he was president of europe for six months, we achieved a lot. in this country, which i dealer like, president obama is a terrific leader. and if these two leaders can actually join forces, which i'm sure they will, with in mind the same common good, they can deliver fantastic results. i certainly hope so. by the way, i want to mention that because it's fascinating to me. there was a poll that was just conducted recently about -- >> in france? >> no, in the united states. about the opinion that the american population has about france. and it was 61% favorable, so 61% of the american population that was surveyed in that poll thought that france was great. >> this must be out from the bush years, or do you know? >> well, all i can say is it seems quite positive, and i hope we can do everything we can to convince the other 39% that, yes, france is an ally with the united states. >> do you feel that the current administration and tim geithner in particular are doing a good job? >> it's awfully difficult to pass a judgment, frankly. i think that he i

the top brass insists america is not scrapping missile defense in europe. instead, they say, the new plan would give them more flexible defenses sooner against what they say is the biggest threat from iran right now. >> the threat from iran's short and medium-range ballistic missiles is developing more rapidly than previously projected. >> reporter: we mapped out the iranian missile threat and the first phase of the obama teams new plan to counter it. iran currently has missiles which can reach israel, u.s. bases in the middle east. this missile under development. >> right. >> with transportable radars in and around turkey. is that going to be enough to stop these missiles? >> it depends on how many of these ships are deployed. if there are only a few ships, the problem is that the missile might be able to fly between the ships, that they can't fire the interceptors very far, side to side, and that the iranian missiles would just fly between them. >> reporter: u.s. military officials say between now and 2011 they only plan to send three cruisers with those

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we also know the opposite is true, and only when europe became free did it find peace. america never fought a war against democracy, and our closest friends are the governments that protect the rights of their citizens. no matter how callously defined, neither america's interest nor the world's are served by the denial of human aspirations. so even as we respect the unique culture of different countries, america will always be a voice for those aspirations that are universal. to the hundreds of thousands that marched silently through the streets of iran, it's telling nations these people, these movements of hope and history, they have us on their side. let me also say this. the promotion of human rights cannot be about exor tags alone. i know that engagement with impressive regimes lack the satisfying purity of indignation. and condemnation without discussion can carry forward only a crippling status quo. no repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door. in light of the cultural revolution's horrors, nixons meetings showed the hope

passengers traveling inside europe, and i gave you my daughter that traveled inside europe today, they didn't experience any extensive delays. if you're traveling to the united states, you can certainly expect that longer screening process, larry. of course, the security at these airport security, officials very, very concerned and now have another set of possibilities that they have to deal with. perhaps the possibility of people wearing some kind of garment that may have an explosive hidden, concealed within that garment. that's something new. a new concern for them, larry. >> larry: it's a different world, folks. can we assume that now detroit is considered edgy, so if you get sick on a plane or go to the bathroom for ten minutes and you're going into detroit, they're going to have problems with you? >> reporter: it's not just detroit anymore, larry. it's any destination within the united states, especially from aircraft coming from overseas. there are new restrictions putting on by the tsa and airlines that are requesting -- actually demanding that passengers have to remain in her

now, what europe feels -- and you see this across europe -- is that they have said we are willing to cut our carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 based on 1990. >> right. >> what the u.s. and china encouraging people to do is set low range expectations and we are only going to cut about 3% by 2020. that's going to leave us in a dangerous position. if we were willing to be ambitious we can get up very close to 20% worldwide and that would come within a whisker of what all the scientists believe is desirable. >> i want to go back to the point you were making before. obviously brown and other leaders were saying they don't believe the u.n. is the best body to deal with climate change. you've got 193 countries getting together, trying to come up with some sort of statement here. do you think the president essentially walked into a political trap by showing up in copenhagen, the expectations were not met on anybody's side. that he comes back and loses some of the political capital he was hoping -- >> i think that is a very, very hard question. some came away from copenhagen thinking it would h

we need better security as they found in europe. they have been facing this problem a lot longer particularly in france. one of osama bin laden's objectives is to give us in the united states a national nervous breakdown. we musn't let him do this by overreacting to these events however ugly and nasty they are. >> larry: harry, how do you get petn? >> it is a military explosive. it has to be derived through a group -- >> larry: al qaeda could get it? >> al qaeda. it is clearly a strong indicator this guy had support from an al qaeda type franchise or al qaeda. >> larry: how does he get through security? >> well, look at the path that this guy took. he first got aboard a klm aircraft in lagos, nigeria. then he went to amsterdam. i understand he was held in a sanitized area, in other words an area that would segregate him from the general population of the airport because he is transiting to another transatlantic flight. no screening. he is being held in this sanitized area. now from there to detroit. so what we're talking about is a

secretary, you're off on a trip and you're going to europe and other places. i have a quote here from europe central bank. and he said i have one message. it is extremely important that the united states say that a strong dollar is in the interests of the united states. >> it is my pleasure to say it. a strong dollar is in the interest of the united states. of course, i deeply believe that and my commitment is that the world and the american people make sure that we are putting in place the poll says that can sustain confidence in this economy and this financial system. >> you don't worry that the dollar is going to weaken as a result of the currency of the world as the chinese talk about -- wondering if there are some alternatives, as the russians talk about it? the arrows seem to be pointing in that direction. >> i actually don't worry about that. because look at the responses in the world they go through at this time. when people are most concerned about risk, generally they want to be invested in the most liquid, safest market in the world, which is still

we saw one day of falls in europe and today europe is flat or just up a tad. what it does mean and where this is serious is for dubai. this is a thumping great big reputational crisis for dubai which they will have to deal with. what it did, let me just very briefly say that what it did was it said on the eve been a holiday, hey, guys, we won't pay debts of $60 odd billion. we want to extend that. we would like you to take a debt moratorium for six months and we'll see you next week. that you cannot do if you have aspirations to be a world class financial center. >> wait a minute here, richard. what about abu dhabi, the capital of the uae, could dubai's problems be abu dhabi's problem soon? >> the relationship between the two is fundamentally fascinating. what worrying about the way this incident was handled is we have been led to believe that abu dhabi would bail them out again. they were going to pay the bills. they were going to take the teenager's credit card, rip it up, but still pay off the debt. this has been leading markets. when they didn't do this, t

the theories, the skeptics and, of course, the e-mail scandal coming out of europe. of course, with officials from all over the world in copenhagen we'll use rick's list to find out what they are saying today and when they say it, you will be the first to see it. our access is your access. r lif. call... to get started, and learn how to secure retirement income that won't go down -- guaranteed. call fidelity at... for details about guaranteed income for life, and change the way you think about your retirement savings. >>> welcome back. you know, we have been following on rick's list a lot of situations going on in europe. you have heard a lot about it. this controversy over these hacked e-mails that reveal that there may have been some shenanigans going on with some of the leading scientists over in europe. and certainly the right is making a lot of hay out of it -- and so is the left. we have been getting a lot of tweets on this just from regular folk, but we are also getting some people who follow this because it's part of their job to follow it. let me show you wh

our whole history with eastern europe and russia. americans traveling there meant american contact with dissidents, promoting american values, bringing to the people of these countries as they would to the cuban people the story of what freedom and liberty are really like. >> congressman berman, as chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, what do you see happening in your committee in congress, regarding the cuban issue? is sentiment shifting away from this embargo? certainly, cuban americans, by a vast majority, want the embargo lifted and certainly the travel ban lifted. >> well, you make a very good point. there is a change of position going on within the cuban-american community. more and more of them realize the few tilt of the travel ban in terms of achieving our shared goals. and in addition, we now have something like 175 getting close to half of the members of congress co-sponsoring the legislation to repeal the travel ban. there is no doubt that we are in a much better situation now than we were, even a few years ag

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in europe where no one is left out they pay 8% of gdp. in europe they live longer. our birth rate is one of a third world country. the insurance industry has a bottom line. our health isn't part of it." christopher writes, "the president needs to fight. he needs to put conservatives on their heels by reminding them this is a moral issue, not just an economic one. these are the same people who wave their bibles around over gay marriage and abortion. now that we want to take care of the poor and the sick, they put their bibles down and clutch their checkbooks. he needs to remind americans that love, not fear makes us a great country." then he writes, "he ought to apologize for trying to socialize and bankrupt the sxournt say he's taking a couple days off to read the story of why america was founded. maybe he'll understand that america was founded on a limited federal government." andy in cleveland, ohio, "jack, my man, he ought to give one of those pre-election speeches. remember those? give congress the details on what exactly he wants, work the crowd, show that conf

europe didn't seem to care. >> europe cared on the first-day session, it rebounded on friday. the reason is the markets in both asia and europe and the u.s. have been looking for some reason, some sort of indigestion, if you like, a chance to clear a little bit of froth off the top and that's what this dubai situation gave them. it gave people a reason to pause, take stock, and decide to sell on. but the key thing is europe didn't followthrough on friday actually with the ftse making gains when all was said and done. and that, i think, shows that the dubai issue is contained. it shows us that the excesses of certain places will be punished in debt in terms of rescheduling and in terms, obviously, of falling markets. the british prime minister, gordon brown, has been speaking on this in the last couple of hours. can i just read you? mr. brown says, "whilst dubai is a setback, i think we will find it is not on the scale of previous problems we've dealt with. global recovery is not that necessary going to be affected." so, that gives you an idea, a nasty reputational problem for

would abandon controversial plans for sites in eastern europe. russian prime minister vladimir putin called it a right and brave move. meanwhile, media reports in decided to scrap its own plans to deploy short-range missiles in the baltics. >>> military vets are being warned to watch out for an ongoing phone scam. callers say they are with the v.a. and need credit card information to update prescription medication records, but the v.a. says it doesn't ask for personal information over the phone. >>> congress is cracking down on a.c.o.r.n. the house approved an amendment yesterday to pull federal funding from the community organizing group. the senate passed a similar provision earlier this week. the votes are in response to several undercover videos like this, shot by conservative activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute. on the tape, a.c.o.r.n. employees appear to give the couple illegal financial advice. a.c.o.r.n.'s ceo says she's deeply disturbed by the videos, but she says the employees who appear on the tapes are bad apples who have b

that there are more places, even in europe and certainly now in china, south korea, singapore. when you look at this field, where do you see innovation happening? >> well, the first, no question that india and china and the developing world is made enormous strides. so, there's all these statistics about how many engineers are being graduated in india or china. now, it used to be when those engineers graduated the first thing they wanted to do was come to the united states -- >> probably work for you at microsoft. >> one of the first things we did at microsoft was went on a recruiting trip to india and hired a bunch of people and ultimately started a research lab in india. it, increasingly, as those countries develop, they don't come to the u.s. to do their graduate work or really start their companies. they stay home. and, so, yes, the u.s. is clearly not going to have the preeminent position that it used to have. now, some people view that with great alarm. the way i view that is to say, look, we ought to continue to do better. we have to make sure we don't kill the goose tha

in many cases, to eastern europe. but those mules open a door for law enforcement. >> the lowest hanging fruit for us is the money mules. so when they get picked up at the atm machine, you know, we'll interview them, we'll tell them how much jail time they're looking at, and they'll wind up working for the fbi and then giving up their sources. >> reporter: an experts say the economy both here and the u.s. and in eastern europe is one of the reasons behind the rise in these thefts, with more people turning to cyber crime to make quick money. mary snow, cnn, new york. >>> a lot of people have been complaining with credit cards and how the companies can jack up your interest rate with no warning. well, not anymore. there are new credit card rules put into place. christine romans will be along to tell us what they are. now in new sun crystals ® . the only 100% natural sweetener made with pure cane sugar and stevia. with just 5 calories a packet. new sun crystals ® all natural sweetener. - kids: cup-cakes! cup-cakes! cup

. >> when you look at europe that is home to a lot more acts of home-grown terrorism than the u.s. what are we doing differently that seems to be working? >> well, i think that, you know, it is not so much what -- part of it is what the government is doing, but part to have is the nature of american society. i mean there is no british dream. i grew up there. i can say that with some certainty there is no eu dream there is no french dream there is an american dream, has worked pretty well for most american muslims that is not just what the government does but attitudes within the muslim american community and attitude toward muslims. by the fwharks europe, a british muslim is really of the an second class citizen compared to the way they are treated here in this country. >> and yet we are seeing an increasing numbers of problems here. peter, appreciate that >>> up next, we are going to talk to a man who is fighting home-grown terror from within. our big "360" interview working with keeping young men in his community from radicalized. start to describe the process of how you deradica

you shoved her into a wall in europe. according to the probation report, the second incident took place in barbados, driving in a car again, you got out of the car and broke the front driver and passenger's side windows. are those false reports? >> that was in the probation report. >> larry: that means the probation officer learned that, right? >> no. i think what the probation officer did was take something that he saw in another report. i don't think that that -- in fact, i'm positive that if you look at the probation report, he never spoke to rihanna, nor was there a statement that was delivered. >> larry: are you saying that didn't happen then? >> yeah, i don't have -- especially of that nature. as an actual couple like we have disputes and arguments, but we never got to the extent that i got to this point. >> larry: did you have major differences? >> no, i mean -- >> larry: you're a 20-year-old. what would be major difference what lollipop are we going to get? >> no, our relationship was pretty good. we had a pretty

. >> now, the three have spent time or have lived in western europe and the middle east and are seasoned travelers. sarah shourd appears ob a website that mentioned her travels. she's also named on shane bauer's website. he's a still photographer. the american hiker shon meckfessel is now at the u.s. embassy in baghdad according to his grandmother. meckfessel is a graduate student at the university of washington. the state department says it has asked the swiss consulate in iran to try to make contact with the detained americans. so you can see, don, this is going to be going on for some time. >> susan, just so i can get a real clear picture, can you walk us through the people again. sarah shourd. you said we got information from her website and also shane bauer. they are said to be girlfriend and boyfriend, if we can bring their pictures back up. >> certainly friends, certainly friends, and they travel together, and they have evidently worked together according to information on their website. and we have talked to several of their friends who also confirm this and that they have travel

back with john mclaughlin, the former deputy former cia case officer and john o'sullivan, radio for europe. john mclaughlin, do you believe there are important rifts emerging within the iran regime? and do you think this is significant in a broader sense? >> the iranian republic is one of the great survivors of the last three decades, so i think we should not underestimate the resillience of the regime. but i don't think these things can be papered over as it was before the election. it's impossible to know at this point where it's going, what it might look like a year from now, but i think it's fair to say that iran will never be quite the same again. just, for example, how we thought of iran, say, two years ago, when the united states was pinned down in iraq, when israel was fighting hezbollah to a standstill in lebanon. iran at that point seemed like a collosus forming in the region. its prestige was high. what happened in the aftermath of this election, i think, sent shock waves through the region as well as iran, so it no longer has the standing it had and it no longer seems like this

that there are more places, even in europe and certainly now in china, south korea, singapore. when you look at this field, where do you see innovation happening? >> well, the first, no question that india and china and the developing world is made enormous strides. so, there's all these statistics about how many engineers are being graduated in india or china. now, it used to be when those engineers graduated the first thing they wanted to do was come to the united states -- >> probably work for you at microsoft. >> one of the first things we did at microsoft was went on a recruiting trip to india and hired a bunch of people and ultimately started a research lab in india. it, increasingly, as those countries develop, they don't come to the u.s. to do their graduate work or really start their companies. they stay home. and, so, yes, the u.s. is clearly not going to have the preeminent position that it used to have. now, some people view that with great alarm. the way i view that is to say, look, we ought to continue to do better. we have to make sure we don't kill the goose tha

and i nervously went and asked my parents can i go away for the summer to europe. >> larry: did you have a role? >> i did after a while. i asked him. i got so bored just sitting in hotel rooms with him so he gave me a job on the -- >> larry: they loved him all over europe? >> loved imeverywhere. one of the most amazing thing is every stadium was sold out hundreds of thousands of people yet afterwards you could see he was so isolated. he was by himself. >> larry: some final comments, the temperature is 86 degrees in glendale, california. the humidity is not bad. 33%. sunset is 7:15. they are not going to start at 7:00. what's the vantage point, a final comment for "larry king live", ted? >> well, it is turning out to be a gorgeous night, larry, with the temperatures starting to drop and the sun setting and we're just waiting on the family and a few late guests. but no sign yet of the family. obviously once they arrive this will begin. but turning out to be just a gorgeous night and a beautiful setting. >> reporter: jim moret i know you'll head over here to host the next edition of "larry

i don't think it's so bad that we have become europe. by and large, the muslim pop lagtss move in the communities and become assimilated and while being true to their faith and religion of islam. i don't think we have less of that integration problem. we have domestic radicalization. >> what is driving it then? if we are different than europe, what is driving it here? is it localized? is it imported from abroad? >> it's both. you have the local problem with radical preachers indoctrinating young men. and also from abroad. the internet is wonderful in many respects but these guys train and create money. >> one extremism. >> that's the down size of the internet. >> michael chertoff, says there is definitely a nexus to al qaeda. he said there is a pipeline. we don't know if that group of people -- if they are involved or terrorism or if they had plans to be involved or terrorism or where they were planning to carry out attacks. was it in pakistan. were in afghanistan or were play manning to come back to the united states? >> that remaining

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they will drive muslims in europe deeper into their own traditions. it will make them feel more hostile. and that hostility will produce a greater sense of divorce from the general public. it will become a sad downward spiral. and we might see it get much worse. and we will be right back. i don't think you can live the american lifestyle without energy. we have all this energy here in the u.s. we have wind. we have solar, obviously. we have lots of oil. i think natural gas is part of the energy mix of the future. i think we have the can-do. we have the capability. we have the technology. the solutions are here. we just need to find them here. >>> hello. i'm fredricka whitfield. here's a look at the top stories right now. afghan president hamid karzai is responding to president obama's new war straelk in afghanistan. in an exclusive interview on cnn's amanpour president karzai says it will take at least two years before afghan forces can begin taking the lead in security operations in parts of the country and five years before taking full control of th

until last week, privacy qualms slowed down the spread of body scans at airports here and in europe. but in the wake of what happened on that u.s. bound flight christmas day, scans are back on the fast track. and privacy takes a backseat. the amsterdam airport where umar farouk abdulmutallab allegedly brought explosives on flight 253 says it will have more than a dozen body scanners running in three weeks. let's get the details from phil black in london. >> reporter: yeah, kyra. they reckon about 15 full body scanners are going to be operating at amsterdam's airport within three weeks to scan all passengers traveling to the united states. no surprise, this is a direct consequence of that attempted christmas day bombing. authorities there say they believe it's necessary because that attempted attack has shown a flaw in existing security procedures. the suspect there was screened by a metal detecting gate. but the bomb or the weapon he's accused of carrying contained no metal parts. take a listen now to the dutch interior minister on this. >> translator: all aspects of security investi

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before being shipped to the new world, being shipped to america, being shipped to the west indys and europe. i went there today and the president will be there tomorrow. we'll speak him on the site of one of these fortresses. it is a sobering visit for anybody who goes there. there are many african-americans who come back and make that return. we spoke to one of them today. we'll have that later on in the program. it is truly a chilling place to be, to stand in one of these dungens where hundreds of africans were suffocated to death, killed, brutalized. truly sobering experience. we'll have some of that later on in the program, erica. >> we'll check with you later for that anderson, thanks. >>> breaking news tonight there is a new voice in the michael jackson story. it is 180 degrees different from those claiming that yax was physically fit enough or mentally ready for his grueling series of 50 comeback concerts. one of several developments tonight including this musical memorial happening in jackson's birthplace, gary, indiana. father joe jackson attending and a custody hearing postponed f

drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in europe and canada and mexico. we'll let medicare negotiate for lower prices. we'll allow the safe reimportation of low cost drugs from countries like canada. >> a little more than a year after that campaign stop in virginia, the head of president obama's food and drug administration urged a no vote on a drug imports bill proposed by north dakota senate democrat. margaret hamberg raising safety concerns and calling the measure "logistically challenging to implement and resource intensive." former democratic congressional staffer david serota now a left of center political analyst says the amendment would've achieved the goals of candidate obama. >> many of the drugs that people consume at their pharmacy right now are made not in this country. what this bill merely would've done would allow wholesalers and pharmacists to buy those drugs at the international world market price. >> reporter: the proposal, with some republican backing would've permitted licensed u.s. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to import fda approv

amsterdam is one of the largest airports in europe. it's on the scale of, say, heathrow or frankfurt in germany. around 40,000 to 50,000 people a day. security there is headed by military police and have a platform in which different operators in which private security operate. u.s. flights definitely get more -- additional security coverage than others. but clearly this is going to be a focal point. i just spoke to some people in amsterdam two hours ago. and there's a major operation under way there to support homeland security and the fbi in its endeavor to figure out what's going on. >> clark, let's talk a little about next steps. we spoke to mike brooks who said fbi is involved in this and are probably taking this incendiary device or whatever liquids or powder, whatever it is, to quantico and trying to get a handle immediately on what it is. until we have a handle on what it is, are we likely to see increases in airport security? >> we absolutely are. as jeanne meserve and others have been reporting, we are definitely likely to se

secretary, you're off on a trip and you're going to europe and other places. i have a cause here from euro central bank, and he said i have one message. it is extremely important that the united states say that a strong dollar is in the interests of the united states. >> a strong dollar is in the interest of the united states. i deeply believe that, and our intention is that we put the policy in place to sustain the economy of the united states. >> as the chinese talk about alternatives, as the russians talk about it, it seems to be pointing in that direction. >> i don't worry about it because look at the responses in the world they go through at this time. when people are most concerned about risk, generally they want to be in the most liquid, safest market in the world, which is still the market for treasury bills. i think you see that consistently over a period of time, and wemt to make sure we can sustain that basic response. >> you told us about things that have caused this problem or the backdrop for it. part of the solution has to be that we spend less,

we're reporting what's happening in the united states kingdom, denmark, europe. the highest approval rating is in denmark, a nation of 5.5 million people. what we are finding in the oldest of universal care, public-funded system, that is in germany, that they have extraordinary dissatisfaction, about 55%. and they're calling for immense change. what we have found is similar in the united kingdom. and what we are coming to understand is, there is no template for health care which puts lie to the fact that there are three bills in congress right now that represent not the obama administration's proposal. and the polls that we continue to report here favoring and opposing, plotting we don't have a shape for this. >> i'm not saying there's a template. what i'm saying, there's three things that are through, there's a democracy that does not cover a citizen. it's immoral. >> it's that immoral? >> to be a country and it's only industrialized democracy had hasn't figured out how to cover everyone. number two, every industrialized democracy has done this through a federal

because we have twice the chronic disease of europe. three times of asia. it's like we have a sink that's overflowing with chronic disease. what we've got so far is people are giving us more mops, more access. where the insurance companies are telling us to mop faster. the real question is, what can we do to turn off the faucet of chronic disease and unplug the sink? and senators wyden with cornyn and hatch, from the democratic side have got a bipartisan solution. it's called take back your health where they actually pay to do livestyle treatments of chronic disease that will save enormous amounts of money. the key is, don't just mop faster. don't just give us more mops. we've got to turn off the crime disease and what gets paid for in medicine gets done. that's what this bill does. it lets us turn off the chronic disease faucet. >> i know dr. gupta wants to weigh in. he's got a good question for some of his colleagues here on this panel. i want to take a quick break. we're going to talk with dr. andrew weil. he's standing by on skype. i want to get his per

>> mainly western europe and just a tiny little bit of native-american. >> okay. for a lot of americans, particularly african-americans, the question where do you come from is a difficult one to answer. and coming up, we got this story i want you to see about a young man tracing his routots. you'll see what he learns abo himself. >>> next, the yale murder. details on how police tracked down the man charged with killing annie le. we'll be right back. # ♪ (announcer) tums dual action. this tums goes to work in seconds and lasts for hours. all day or all night. tums dual action. bring it on. instead of $5 per person for fast food, you can serve a nutritious breakfast from walmart for just over $1 a person. one breakfast a week saves a family of four over $800 a year. save money. live better. walmart. over health care reform, aarp has chosen a side-- yours. we're fighting to guarantee that you'll never be denied coverage because of your health or age. to prevent anyone from coming between you and your doctor. and to make sure patients don't take a backseat to insura

now a look at how similar programs panned out in europe and i give credit where credit is due. if you're a cnn viewer, you heard about the idea of trading in a car to stimulate car sales here on the show from you, because you were describing that this was happening in europe. give us an update. as you know ours has done spectacularly well. >> this has been a repeat performance because it doesn't matter whether it is spain, france or germany, or even here in the uk. right across the world, cash for clunkers or car scrappage schemes which sounds better, car scrappage schemes sounds good. in germany, for example -- car scrappage schemes up 30% new car sales in germany. in france, up 11% compared to last year. spain, up 45%, even in the uk. it seems to be that everyone has taken the opportunity basically of getting rid of any old banger -- >> here is the question, richard. a lot of people have been asking me, that's fantastic, we have the best year -- ford had the best month because of cash for clunkers. what does this mean six months from now or a year from now? how is this type o

the fact that the rise of china, india and europe as, if you will, anti poeds or alternatives to america is not a bad thing. it makes it more difficult. it means we have to have complex negotiations. it also means that we have to operate in an era of ambiguity. i'd love the old world where we knew exactly what to do and who the bad guys were. let's go do this and that. that's not the new world. this new world of information is shades of gray, and it's important that we develop the diplomatic skills, educational skills and culture where we with end up in long, painful negotiations to try to make the world a better place. i fundamentally believe and most people i know believe that every person is the same, everybody still wants health care for their children, their children to go to school, safety, and they want the consumer world that's been built in the west. >> you and i once talked about this and you said you thought a lot it had to do with giving young men something to do. >> many of the conflict areas have a surplus of young men in poor economics. if you're 12, 13, 14, you have a dif

the success he found in europe would land him in hollywood. in 1968, he directed "rosemary's baby." the horror film became a classic and made polanski one of the world's most sought-after directors. that same year, he married actress sharon tate and they quickly became one of hollywood's most celebrated couples. soon, they were expecting a child. but we all know what happened to tate and their unborn baby. the two murdered in the summer of 1969, brutally stabbed to death by disciples of charles manson, who on orders from him, went on a killing spree in los angeles. polanski attended the trial and in the early '70s returned to movies, directing another classic, "chinatown." >> hello, claude. where'd you get the midget? >> polanski became a friend of the film's star, jack nicholson. it was in 1977 at his home that polanski had sex with a 13-year-old girl. he said it was consensual, but in testimony the girl said polanski gave her quaaludes and rapped her. as part of a plea bargain he pleaded guilty for having sex with an underage girl. before he was sentenced, he fled the states and f