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evening i'm margaret warner jim lehrer is off on the newshour tonight a summary of the news the job ahead for inspectors in iraq reshaping make those boundaries and mission shields and brooks and a poem for our times major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by imagine a world that would not diminishing resources they call it soundbite of music and by spca communications committed to providing americans more choices and high speed internet access and working

toward and opportunities in broadband technology as providers as we're as bc communications and traditions russian president vladimir couldn't join president bush today in warning iraq to disarm or face the consequences of the russian president also warned the us not to go to war alone against iraq the two presidents met in st petersburg russia afterwards clinton was asked whether president bush had requested russia's help in any military action against iraq has tripled and said it was important to ensure rockets no weapons of mass destruction but we have to stay with him the framework of the work being carried out by the united nations in iraq today un officials made ready for the first inspectors to arrive on

monday we have a report from emma lee morgan of associated press television news with just days to go before their first inspections un weapons monitors finalize preparations before starting work next week baghdad has accepted the resolution and instead of science and un officials say the rockies have promised full cooperation with any sites that or we will force in the us to any adaptation and the vivian goodman that's blowing them land says of rock's greatest challenges reporting on their complex chemical industry the un this includes those chemicals that are used by civilians you not necessarily shared by involved the plane down potential disagreements chief un weapons inspector hans blake met with tony blair in london say he was satisfied by cancer spawned so far rock has until december eighth to declare any nuclear chemical or biological weapons will have more on this story in

just a moment nato leaders wound up their summit in prague today with the secretary general lord george robertson same the alliance wants closer ties with former soviet republics in the caucuses and central asia another diplomat said those countries are nato is next frontier will have more on nato later in the program president bush today welcomed the arrest of archive is head of operations in the persian gulf ahmed iraqi an amish erie was captured earlier this month in an undisclosed foreign country his accounts today said he is cooperating with us interrogators president said his arrest showed the us is making progress in the war against terrorists police in indonesia said today a key suspect has admitted his role in last month's deadly nightclub bombing in bali we have a report from ian williams of independent television news indonesian investigators say in them some more drug has confessed to being the strategic planner of the bali bombings

coordinating two teams totaled and twelve people they say the thirty five year old computer expert receive training in explosives and arms in afghanistan and is also of dr church bombings in indonesia two years ago some order has apparently confessed to choosing the body targets in which more than one hundred and ninety people died mostly western forests sinatra was captured yesterday about a lot of stereotyping indonesian island of sumatra investigators say they've yet to establish links to tom i was let me on a southeast asia militant group walter well kinder with that questioning is in its early stages also today authorities in saudi arabia arrested a fugitive too weighty policeman accused of shooting and wounding two us soldiers yesterday in kuwait israeli forces reoccupy bethlehem today troops searched homes and deploy tanks in manger square the action came in response to yesterday's bus bombing in jerusalem that killed eleven people

elsewhere un refugee officials from britain was killed in jeanine on the west bank he was caught in gunfire between israeli troops and palestinians the bush administration eased clean air rules today for utilities refineries and industrial plants these industries may now modernize without installing new anti emissions controls epa administrator christie whitman said the new rules would actually boost energy efficiency at the plans and bess cleaner air she said the old rules to turn companies from updating their plans but environmentalists and some northeastern states that the changes would undercut air quality standards and said they challenged them in court the one hundred and seventh congress has adjourned the house wound up its work today endorsing minor changes in the bill creating the department of homeland security the senate adjourned just last week both bodies went home without approving an extension of federal jobless benefits they're due to expire december twenty eight on wall street today the dow jones industrial average lost forty points closing just under eighty oh five

the nasdaq gained one point closing above fourteen sixty eight for the week the dow rose more than two and a half percent the nasdaq find four percent and that's it for the news summary tonight now it's onto iraq inspections reshaping nato shields and brooks and pinsky poetry reading he's been our rocky inspections this week the top un inspectors and splits mr ahmed el by dai led a delegation to baghdad to work on the logistics involved in resuming the un hunt for iraqi weapons of mass destruction it's been four years since the un had inspectors on the ground earlier today ray suarez talked with the man in charge of assessing the state of iraq's nuclear weapons programs muhammad al bara the former egyptian diplomat an international lawyer he was appointed to run the international atomic energy agency in nineteen ninety seven and was reappointed to a second term last year was the director general

welcome to the program thank you for having me really you've just returned from iraq on the journey with hans plex tell me about your consultations with the iraqi government and your impression now of what kind of reception is waiting for your inspectors what i think are a we got a quite a positive reception in iraq i think that that oculus argues out of nowhere that david domke have much avoid the room at that than to measure community is united it's a result of that iraq must prove that that it has no weapons of mass destruction so the meetings where very much gonna start this business like and their ideals aren't these committees and says quote unquote do it do whatever it is humanly possible to cooperate was an inspector's that obviously would have to wait and see we have to test this verbal commitment when we go

back we're starting out inspection in iraq next week on the prisoners of november and i hope that this committee when we lose a seat on the garland out inspectors thought that through the crosses all of doing the different arguments are required for fourteen expecting it at key sites and facilities in a recent interview with the guardian in great britain your partner hans blick said it is correct to say the iaea was fooled by the rockies during an earlier inspections regime what's changed about the forces at your disposal and the state of the art of inspections to make it a little less likely you'll be fooled this time well quite a lot for a change i mean it i'm not sure that the that we were fooled is an accurate description i think the international community was full but it but it is not surprising that we would fault because we did not have adequate or sart the ad that time to discover this time activities in a particular computer book on

the spine undeclared nuclear activities that we learned our lessons and finished community learned its lessons and since since iraqi painful experience and convince them they're in the nineties we were also writes why our members faced a way to have a much more traditional authorities in peru accessed information in terms of access to sites and retiring now we are in the process now to make sure that every country that the subject of an inspection it easy at the right this was with such a masonic isn't really going to get an estimate because of iraq is that this is a quite different ballgame because we are all surprised by the security guards and was the most sweeping inspection writes i should say we have the right to do inspections anywhere anytime and this interviewing people we were pretty much have all let you what we needs endeavor was sorry to even in the last two years when there was some fiction or on our axis those residential sides so called sensitive side set and government data

departments it's that there are all these restrictions would not bound by the new security council resolution we now have that i will have immediate unfettered access any site in iraq that we have the right to interview people both inside and outside iraq we have the right to freeze activities do an inspection to make sure that nothing would would that would leak from an unexpected site there so we have i think an ethic a comfortable started to do the job what we need in addition re is information and i think homs nixon i emphasize that very much that was also a forty we have we need information as where they're going to have to inspect and that's where intelligence information is very important and we were assured by many governments that they would put that power to dispose of all of the intelligence information at they have and that is the assuring and i hope that would help us quite debate that we also have a unified security guards to support i mean the fact that that is a measure was adopted security guard citizen which was adopted unanimously fifteen votes did

not send a powerful message to iran and i think that fact in the last few years that we were not very successful we had at as one speaks at a captain moussa case in iraq was a result of a divided security council now we have a united security council we hope that that security council would be behind us allowed the process and we hope that that would dissolve in food and i could corporation we impressed on our counterparts in baghdad that transparency and ford corporation is icky dollar success and if we succeed this is the beginning of a process for the door that elimination or suspension an adventure lifting of sanctions so that is like for them at the end of the tunnel but there's also serious consequences for them of the developer what oakridge this week both in prague and coming from various security council capitals there's been some disagreement about what constitutes material breach that is a violation of the current un resolutions we've heard one opinion from the

american administration another from jacques chirac in your view and the view of your inspection team is you get ready to do your work is this a fairly cut and dried black and white affair on what constitutes a violation of the current resolution that may be a major violation at the exhibit it's clear that break i think that you might have some different view is whether there is an a minor infraction with his is physically in material breach is a lot is it intentionally is a lot of what we have said and what i have said and i could also buy buy out of the eggs that our role is to deport the security guards and as accurately as objectively as possible all of their types of cooperation we win they have from that i decide or all types of interaction we would have was at it side at it is then for the security council to

evaluate head that the deal that i get dvds that the deal that iq responses and to say whether in fact this is a material breach or not and what is a quiet think is it that isn't the data breach we have also emphasized do the security guards during our consultation with a concert that we have to use common sense and will you the number of examples that if for example we're going to visit the site at and that is it's not that we're in a car when not rushing to the cows and saying wait this is a lack of cooperation and what if all the cars are you know have have have no they are not working that though and that's the button that's something which indicated that an attitude that's all we would have to be bored everything but we have also to do with our common sense and good judgment the last time the international community in effect caught iraq in violation it was because it was trying to refine its own nuclear fuels a

lot has changed in the world since then if iraq is skipping a step in trying to acquire already refined materials is that harder for you to find it to be that much harder for us to find that if they are developing the indigenous fuel in today and i think we have been unearthing get the measure going to the number of years that we need to make sure that iraq will not get its hands on the head high end its uranium or plutonium from abroad that means we need to make sure that there is adequate physical protection of all new comedy in the former soviet union and other racing with what we know that physical protection of nuclear material is not very very hard and we also maybe they did that you need to have a good or the point or easy and that would be a cbs challenge top of the ticket the decked it out at possible and i can afford to develop weapons if they were able to import material from

abroad and and this is something which we think this community should be very much i went off in addition thought and especially now that we need also make sure that the borders of the sea and that moment the end no weapon usable meant that you were to be disappointed what if it's not a question of getting it out of the country but just moving around inside the country do you have the means to have the technical means to find whether those materials have been around even if they have been moved or hidden i think i think it's is difficult because if if you give at the end of this process if the audit into the process of a defining new comedy and we would be able to detect that civil environment a sampling for example there's no academic ideation area survey but these images they're already stored it will not send their signature it would not leave fingerprints and that would be difficult to

detect summer picnic and marines would have to rely on on human intelligence and that's i'm saying i hope i hope that this is not the gaze i hope that they do not have the authority and the county the good that is much more difficult than that let's talk a little bit about the makeup of the iaea team your spokesman said you're tired of talking about it but i have to ask anyway is it part of a confidence building effort on the part of iaea to include not only a high profile person such as yourself from the arab world of the members of the team who are fluent in arabic able to communicate if they're a rocky hosts in a way the third that makes this not an east west confrontation not an arab christian confrontation what the work of the international community naturally they i mean this is as always been our practice in the boston would be our practice in the future that what i've always said that the primary consideration for us is competence and independence

and loyalty to the organisation nationality comes in second but once we satisfy the requirement of integrity of competence that obviously would like would like a diversity of nationalities to make the process transparent to create confidence that this is as you said is not an east west and all of your cells operation but this is this is an end to international cooperation we had and applause many arab affairs inspectors and we can bend in the future to have many out of inspectors in fact i can't believe that next week was was getting our first inspection in iraq there's the lead inspector from egypt was going to be part of the team there that that i think is is is something we wait we people have to be able to be aware of that ticket is not in any way meant to be in or solace you know confrontation and i keep saying on a number of occasions iraq is is being inspected not because it's an abnormal of the country but because of the pattern of behavior in the nineties because of its invasion of kuwait

because of that assessment by the international community by the security guards at that guy behavior that required that it is that it should be disarmed and age it should not have any weapon of mass destruction it is because of that it violated international norm that that is being disarm and it is not because of its job after profile iraq has complained over the last ten years that the you know the weapons inspection regime has appeared to them to be open ended and thus a violation of their sovereignty what can a rock due to shorten the timeline and also help you make a credible report back to the security council when it happened a lot like the act and then be transparent and then be forthcoming than operate in a positive way it it is not true that that operation has been open ended there and because

of the new clarified for example ray we were able in nineteen ninety seven to say that we have now believe at that time that we have neutralized anti nuclear program at the situation was different and the chemical and biological and this life where i'm scott that they cited predecessor of a movie that were reporting that they know there was that the number of open questions and this question remains open bed makes mentioned to them that in that very often biologically there's a lot of open question he cannot say for sure that they have chemical or biological weapons but you also cannot exclude that they have them and lock in access to do is to provide evidence documents other evidence does to make it at it to make a convinced a convincing case that they no longer have weapons of mass destruction but bp as i said chemical and biological in the area of nuclear they have to come to convince us also that nothing has happened it's

since we left in nineteen ninety eight ad that has changed political religion which we reached at that time that they don't have nuclear weapons or nuclear weapon capability is in addition to the inspection process it had a lot for an app to be forthcoming and to be to be on on the front line have been us to reach credible conclusions we go the iraqis if you cooperate with us the boss was a movie and it we were both of us wear of the view that within one year from the beginning when inspections week good people to the security council that i passed with is the requirement for suspension of sanctions that limit not that lifting of sanctions but suspension of sanctions and that that is a really good incentive for iraq that is like the end of the tunnel but the they have they have to work with us you know again i told them on a number of occasions that is and that there may have to swallow but this is for your own good and you better you but their work with us you know we need you we need you to get out of that corn it up which you said for needed to be a distorted sense as a full

members and the national committee but the price for that is full transparency and ford corporation director general about are there thanks for being with us we thank you very much for having me still to come on the newshour tonight the new nato shields and rocks and poetry for our times half but now we see in the nato alliance and began with his background in the sun for european capital of prague part of the soviet bloc for fifty years the leaders of the north atlantic treaty organization ended their historic two day meeting aimed at reshaping the alliance form fifty three years ago to defend western europe against the soviet union nato now stretches to the russian border yesterday the alliance invited seven former soviet satellites and republics to join

estonia latvia lithuania slovakia slovenia romania and bulgaria are expected to become full members in two thousand for they will join three other former warsaw pact countries hungary the czech republic and poland were debated three years ago before the summit formally began this week president bush challenges nato partners to keep the alliance relevant the nation's most upset our shared obligations to keep the peace were maids the nations of this come to be active in the defense of freedom they were looking or isolated by indifference ignoring dangerous or choosing aggression they temporarily every conflict that they don't ring true peace little leaguers responded by

agreeing to support the recent un security council demand that iraqis are to modernize meadows military forces and have created new twenty thousand strong strike force over the next four years once formed this rapid reaction force could be deployed quickly against terrorists or hostile nations effective tool today the alliance and really wanted to expand ties and cooperation with ex soviet republics in the caucuses and central asia after the meeting president bush traveled to russia for a visit with president vladimir putin in his hometown of st petersburg russia has resisted nato expansion in the past but also now has a formal cooperation agreement with the alliance mr bush reassured mr gooden there was nothing to fear from an expanded nato ms leslie a we must

continue you know one although president bush then headed to the lithuanian capital of billy us and a meeting with the new ball the members of nato is there a future for nato in this new age we get four perspectives on that robert hunter was us ambassador to nato in president clinton's first term he's now a senior advisor at random research organization charles kupchan senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and the author of a book focusing on the european american relationship called the end of the american hero stephen sestanovich dealt with soviet

and russia policy in the reagan and clinton administrations he's also with the council on foreign relations and a professor of international diplomacy at columbia university and angela stent is director of the center for eurasian russian and east european studies at the georgetown university school of foreign service welcome to you all as we just saw the president's challenge for nato to step into this new age and reshape itself our critter how far did he get this week at the event as far as he wanted in fact allowed for than anybody thought a few months ago not only as nato stepped up to the mark in the last decade two close the book on the twentieth century security is now opening the book on twenty first century security not only get allies to do more militarily in the end that's much money isn't capacity to work with us to take oil but also to think about the challenges of weapons of mass destruction or europeans are just as vulnerable as we are and also to take more seriously the war on terrorism is not always going

to agree this is the great repository of capacity and i think the allies have gotten loose on life working together for this future if it stinky got tough questions i think on the surface all went well that was a good atmosphere and bush actually shook schroeder's handed chancellor germany some of it does repair the relationship there i think beneath the surface nato is in a more difficult shape for several different reasons want within europe is coming together gradually rising and in that sense or them was more is up of a counterweight to the united states' second america's strategic priorities are shifting we're no longer focused on europe were looking at the middle east northeast asia and in that sense europe is slowly falling off our radar screen and third i think the political relationship between the united states and europe is beginning to wear thin in part because of american unilateralism in the sense that the united states is no longer a multilateral players it has been in the past and you see and

angela stent that i noticed that in the communique you didn't mention terrorism or weapons of mass destruction as new threats but then the one area in which it would have practical application which was a raw policy really all love president got was simply an endorsement of new way and not a commitment by nato as an organization to enforce its the europeans still don't agree that iraq had necessarily has the potential to pay capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction they don't agree and we have to accept the british on this the british government agreed but the population's of europe don't they're very skeptical about the policy of preemption the new us policy that should take action before anything happens they reject the idea that saddam hussein is really connected to al qaeda and in general most europeans reject the idea of a war on terrorism because they think you have to deal with what they see as terrorism as rude courses which are globalize a show in poverty all of these other things and finally i think that most europeans believe that unleashing a war on a rock i would have

buried villagers consequences in the middle east that the arab israeli question have to be resolved before this is done so they really is no consensus be on this un resolution to move to use force in iraq steve stein images that point is that lyrical climate going to make it hard for these nato members to deliver on the other a pledge they need at this summit which was to create this twenty thousand strong rapid reaction force are really high tech or sleep we're freer and one of the things that drives american officials crazy when they think about their relations with madeline maddie is european capabilities event if all of the disagreements that have been described here were resolved and there were full support for american policy european capabilities are so far behind those of the united states it's probably if you take the whole the european union fifty billion dollar gap an american officials will tell you that the defense spending defense spending

american officials will say what is it that they're getting even for the amount that they spend this has been brewing for a while in the course of the war the pentagon felt that the europeans were basically able to do very very little that was more dramatic even it's still in the in afghanistan and the question is how long will it take the europeans to get even the capability to deploy twenty thousand in a lot of american officials are very pessimistic about this but of course so are europeans to do that they don't that not one european country has proposed increase in spending since september eleventh so does that make this just the hollow pledged this this rapid reaction force that reaction force will do very limited things but they're very limited things are probably going to be needed to be done by confronting the soviet union what it meant for me it was a whole talk about going into iraq and as they still want it was a whole dog as director was to control the major military action if it comes to that don't want to share

a command you mean the way they had to do in kosovo and they want to have countries were gospel was desperately needed the political support all countries so mr milosevic would get the message so in the guard are rack there is this political support in the un resolutions pretty strong stuff but the united states will work when those allies which has the capacity to go into rock was as britain certainly get un resolution france certainly because that's a big deal for rapid reaction force first gives these countries a capability to do the kinds of things the more likely have to do it gives them access to high technology weaponry if we share our technology with them it also gets a relationship with the european union over yet and they know rapid reaction force and european union rapid reaction force same sources so it served a double purpose it also sends a political message to the people of the united states the europeans are gonna leave us behind they do care about the things are that matter i think is a positive about is that the main reason the

political reason that that secretary rumsfeld proposed this rapid reaction force last september to find some way that might not cost a fortune for nato to steal the a player militarily i think it had a lot to do with that because the bush team was preparing to go to the nato summit yes expansion is a big deal that puts these countries on the right side of history but americans are saying what does this do for us in our new war on terrorism right now this country is terrorism twenty four seven and have made it was going to be focused on european defense kosovo bosnia people and say why why are american troops still there something the bush administration was trying to find a new rationale for nato that would direct it toward the war on terrorism i'm less optimistic than bob hunter that is going work partly because twenty thousand troops is not a lot of troops and partly because the europeans are really not interested in turning it went to the global strike force they are not interested in and toppling saddam hussein they're really interested in locking in european peace and that's why i think we really are seeing a parting of

the ways with the eu ultimately assuming more responsibility for european defense and the us is basically going to decamp from europe and head to the middle east what do you think angela stent the expansion of nato and bringing in these former warsaw pact countries does to that divide that that friction i think the new members of nato physically the new ones are coming in of the three new ones he joined in nineteen ninety nine are in fact no pro american or at the moment on four pro american and they are less critical of the american concept of use of force down on the traditional members of nato and i think one of the reasons why the united states has pushed the further expansion of their job is to get more countries in the alliance that are going to back it up on its views now i don't know how long that last suddenly the three new members of nato is still pretty pro american and if there's another round of nato as we heard on that in the piece you haven't maybe they're even going to be more pro american country is that because as the president seemed to suggest in these new members have more recent experience

with tyranny or with rats singing why are these countries more robust more eager to sign up for they can't be members of the european union they don't shed a happy to be in the club and they saw the united states as the country that helped defeat communism and defeat you know the soviet union and that's what and i think that's the alaska sometime i don't know how long so how does russia fit in all this first i'm always surprised that clinton today didn't seem particularly exercise that the expansion is not publicly is that for real estate finance and wind the russians have been very calm about this for quite a while and particularly since september eleventh that gave them the way of explaining what their cooperation with nato was going to be about they now say routinely if other countries want to join you know it's there business we don't really see the point of this week an object the

defense ministry yesterday said it's not our business foreign minister said that we recognized native contributions to european security so they have decided this is something they're not going to fight but more importantly they've really oriented their and they're thinking about what the relationship and it ought to be used to be they thought that one of the religion business was to stop it from expanding so as to get into its business and keep it from doing things they don't like now it's to find out they say how to actually cooperate this committee conference in moscow next month for example that the future generals coming to which is about re fashioning defense ministry's to fight terrorism that's something the russians are really interested they don't have to make up this is not make work their cooperation this is the real thing from the midst of goods very shrewd how weather is greatest dziedzic alliance with the west are just tactical we

don't offer was one really keep america when they do in europe until we know what the rest of the video he looks around he says the anti ballistic missile treaty who needs a switch at that he looks at the expansion of medicine look these people are provided by just with the set bail that at the defense implacable and aggression and competent female that swayze made american blessing for what's happening in chechnya which the president gave a chance to say islam is bad as he did with it quite rude terms in in the end and europe today he made said to get into the world trade organization any need some cooperation with nato to do the kinds of things that he's that he's tied up and it was the united states to please not ignore russian interests in the caucasus and central asia is that a good deal for the united states in terms of the war terrorism and potent is that when he needed so that they don't think is really secondary i mean the us and russia have a new and very good relationship since september eleventh of last year russia has

arguably be more important for some aspects of the war on terrorism the nato house so he's not really losing anything he has the special relationship now with president bush and the nato issues of the less important and that perspective so charles kupchan does the us still needs nato and if so what for i think the us needs nato to continue moving eastward hopefully attach russia two europeans colleagues who were just saying that i think we are in a period in which made it was going to lose its relevance for the united states were no longer going to be a european power is europe will be at peace as rich as we are and we have all these important fish to fry elsewhere so i think this is a continent as switching decade in which the united states rather than see nato as the centerpiece will see they don't move office to become more of a side show and ultimately i think the eu the europeans are going to have to step up to the plate spend more on defense and assume more responsibility for their own defense because like it or not the united states is no longer europe started idc and we used an e mail because european security was what

worried about most and there is no waited to protect it and to assure that interest except through their lives now our concerns or elsewhere so the issue isn't so much one of inevitability it's can we choose to cooperate and do our interests converge and a lot of people see a divergence of straws right you disagree in the nineteen nineties when we made a deal was a realist because we're fighting for to do is what we need to do is get a relative who turned out to be so right now the issue is security for the future which countries who want work with words militarily or politically and economically it's the european countries and the great repository military power economic power politically engaged in whatever we wanted to know whether it's interact post crisis war on terrorism are reshaping the world the people we have to work with the europeans with his nato european union bilaterally why not look at it in the realities of security ziv say well this institution doesn't quite back that that's just public the world are built

right bob hunter angela stent space scientists and house kept thinking oh thank you our fields and rocks and deterrence that's syndicated columnist mark shields and david brooks of the weekly standard gentlemen welcome to you both david the hundred seventh congress is now history for all intents and purposes the senate what about the sleepy the house said today as you look back on the two years as ernie theme to its footing so it's a loin order is the thing the feelings of many of the major bills that were passed into law also insecurity corporate corruption defense increase i even campaign finance policing the way we raise money port and the airport security a whole series of measures which create government authority government more intrusion into our lives this was of the commerce that began

with compassionate conservative conservatism in the faith based initiative that was a long time ago i n ends in a world in which the defense partners can be collecting data on everything with my eye that's incredible transformation the agenda no one was elected to do discuss the stuff but lawn or became the top issue of broader home and congress has responded tonight and i guess the big point of demarcation with september eleventh september eleventh at that what i would add to read david's point i think it is right we're seeing is for the first time really big government conservatism and anime a strange way it is that gets the yeah their signature legislation the president praised september eleventh or maybe even post was this a tax cut one point three five trillion i would share his inhibited other spending eye to the point where some of the initiatives pass to david described security i'm really essentially an funded high end that that unfunded mandates when i didn't say i so i think that that said that the tax cut is that

it is the holy grail of this administration we talked about on funded in fact only two of the thirteen appropriations bills we're passed so what's the significance of that real steps will amaze they continue funding at this year's levels which is how big a promise that the pencil yes a lot of people in congress democrats especially so it's a big problem a few dozen agencies they say we have we're having to cut back here and hair with a hiring freeze we can afford it because we need it to do the security thing to find people saying something probably the white house they seem a little less concerned they say we got some reason spent an urgency funding that we got last year on security only news that says shuffled around about basically what it means is the governor's running at last year's levels out which is good if youre afraid of deficit ballooning because you've got sort of flat spending in many cases can be resolved early in the next congress of course the homeland security bill was a huge thing and then you're arguing that that it's in some ways i'm funny because it is it isn't funded amenities they're said and here we have the biggest the department in his big

government and they're the biggest change certainly since its creation the defense department after were were two and yet there's not a dime for stationary for a postage meter is for inadvertently care isn't there and desks as soak i mean i think anyone can themselves anew week we don't have the money for that we don't have the money for port security we don't have the money to inspect containers will have all sorts of things but what was fascinating to me politically about the homeland security was that this was something that had been advocated by senator joe lieberman i democrat from connecticut former vice presidential candidate i think i must have been resisted by the administration and any administration the president particular embraced it into an ally in that in the midst of disclosures about lapses in intelligence lapses in security that preceded nine eleven the number of people in raleigh that fbi agent who were looted and testimony was so stark that was the day that the president embraced it and it embrace it and phil graham senator from texas republican said ninety five percent was in the bill with what the

democrats had originally written and requested but they put a poison pill and politically which was that the president would be able to suspend sir bargaining rights and civil service protection for workers and then accuse the democrats for opposing that to be in their slaves of the trial lawyers in and the family reunions and the president used it as they quite effectively as a political ally and i think that the feet of both next clue and democratic senator georgia jean carnahan missouri democrats attribute large part to let their opposition to homeland security's so when the president came back and the president said i want a raven trent lott who was only resisted center and complied with democrats to think that they thought it was a way for them at the time defending union things in this agreement homeland security is that you're with other cravings huge agency the homeland security agency which does not include the two main thought is the government in charge of homeland security and the cia and the fbi and the intelligent argument to be made about the office of homeland security is that it's a

receptacle but it's a beginning and they would have fought their way through i am struck by a lot of commentary about a man concerned about creating a big bureaucratic message of it is totally possible but there's so much doom and gloom pessimist a commentary that is never gonna work whenever you get a nash if you go back it's been a strange stuff even if you go back to work to sort of can do spirit now that can do spirit about an adult we can do it but i'm struck by the number of pessimism that surrounds allegiance market get attacked from christmas tree ornaments harvard and there's no love fascinating quite frankly in the middle of the night isn't always a great test of any legislation watchman who takes credit for nobody would take credit for these provisions provisions are insured homeland security i did get gave greatest reliability from the drug companies for vaccines that have been alleged pirates cause autism and children i have companies that moved offshore to avoid paying us taxes which have been prevented and a previous legislation from got up applying for federal contracts under red and the homeland security

now will be eligible i i n that is the sweetheart deals like this and what would interest in this is i know that's opposed it and most democrats did but dead and was the opposition leader to this administration and to k street k street is sort of the the business republican administration governing coalition and they love these deals i mean to be very frank about it in an hour once a month but that the opposition leader is not on national a nancy pelosi is john mccain and john mccain is the name disclosed and feared most buy those and play speed and by many in the white house in this patient because he alone has there commands the stature ah among boulders and the credibility among the press to spotlight these things when john mccain stands at this is this is a war profiteer and as he did say believe me they not only fear him and more than he's been in all these big and the truth is uniting people's he said my count my party received

twenty million dollars and one company money in the campaign there's a teddy roosevelt republicanism and calvin coolidge republicanism and it was also as you can operate offer a little more to support it that you're shirking your duty to protect mark is scandalized are you i am i am actually i mean i am and they have that offensive these people who operate offshore and still won federal contracts is that the business taxes on mass well business taxes may be less there may be an incentive to avoid them but you know shook a country that's where i really think we should change how the ceo's who've done this put there which is a funding vote for one thing congress didn't do as it went after today the house was extended the unemployment benefits that will run out for many people eight hundred some odd thousand are on december twenty eight and yet they didn't like i'm mark to give themselves a low salary increase four thousand dollars remember the next year they have a good ending for that shame shame but i think it took responsibility for this three hundred and thirty thousand american families will be lost

their paycheck in the three days after christmas the responsibility has to go into the oval office and the president is dates is all powerful ms tomei i mention that it could take homeland security and make it what republicans are opposed to make it their defining characteristic issue at the same time he could get trent lott to agree to work to bring it up in the rump session at the same time he could get republican the conservatives in the house to agree that it is terrorism insurance and that he didn't raise a finger in this instance it's for a little wider other was the senate bill which was co sponsored by republican tim gunn posted a terrific job and there was a house bill and there were some differences between the bills but the other day there was some thought the senate just take a less generous house builders to get some extent but that there was a a dispute over language over medicare funding whether doctors would have to get a pay cut which i guess they do under some for medicare funding and to me that's a scratch on the new car and despite the cause

or for some reason ton vessel decided not to accept that little provision and that that contributed to the whole lot less words a border we're okay i saved the word for the biggest media blitz us in a long time this week our war he came out well you know i thought of mortgage finance at the outdoor letterman was a lot more likable than any of more than seventy point two thousand campaign i'll say this guy al gore we really become caricature of pigeonholed by critics on both sides and i work with what's intriguing to me is about or does ron there are doubts really it reminds harshest critics of the man's intellect or his ideas his ability to deal with concepts it's about is likeability his personality he does run and does win the nomination he will establish some chemistry some likeability factor with the american wars it once and doesn't i get the nomination were the beats and i will

be someone to die and kill is a far bigger following month later filed an aggressive has won the leadership in the elites of the party what you think and i just those interesting that is decide to reposition himself as a sincere person is cleverly positioning himself and now he says he's going to come out and be sincere and they spontaneously of this carefully choreographed media blitz on the spot maybe about the war i actually think he's coming a little unhinged to be honest i must be one of his harshest critics i put his attacks of the bush administration warned her world of the top and way too vitriolic for the taste of most people and centrist voters i thought the decision to support a health approach health care approach which was even left when hillary and bill clinton proposed several years ago was brave but i would say one line saying that weird and so i and i think he's he's taking their positions including grower for politically suicidal pact as a lot more work and thank you both and

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and leaves swim down and wild shoal it's old penance streamers listened to glorify the field the ephemeral victors leaving the bows to the sky and hhs began the major developments of the day russian president vladimir putin's joined president bush in wanting a rack to disarm a proven also warned the us not to go to war alone against iraq and the bush administration eased clean air rules for utilities refineries and industrial plants a correction before we go earlier we reported the senate adjourned last week it was this week a reminder that washington we can be seen on most pbs stations later this evening we'll see online and again here monday evening i'm margaret warner thanks for being with us tonight fb major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by imagine

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toward and opportunities in broadband technology as providers has made their spca communications and traditions russian president vladimir couldn't join president bush today in warning iraq to disarm or face the consequences of the russian president also warned the us not to go to war alone against iraq the two presidents met in st petersburg russia afterwards clinton was asked whether president bush had requested russia's help in any military action against iraq has tripled and said it was important to ensure rockets no weapons of mass destruction but we have to stay with him the framework of the work being carried out by the united nations in iraq today un officials made ready for the first inspectors to arrive on

monday we have a report from emily martin of associated press television news with just days to go before the first inspections un weapons monitors finalize preparations before starting work next week baghdad has accepted the resolution and inspect the sites and un officials say the rockies have promised full cooperation with any sites that or we will force in the areas that the us and any elevation and the vivian goodman that's blowing them land says of rock's greatest challenges reporting on their complex chemical industry the un this includes those chemicals are used by civilians you not necessarily shared by involved either playing down potential disagreements chief un weapons inspector hans blake met with tony blair in london say he was satisfied by cancer spawned so far rock has until december eighth to declare any nuclear chemical or biological weapons will have more on this story in

just a moment nato leaders wound up their summit in prague today with the secretary general lord george robertson same the alliance wants closer ties with former soviet republics in the caucuses and central asia another diplomat said those countries are nato is next frontier will have more on nato later in the program president bush today welcomed the arrest of elkhart is head of operations in the persian gulf ahmed iraqi metal machinery was captured earlier this month in an undisclosed foreign country whose accounts today said he is cooperating with us interrogators president said his arrest showed the us is making progress in the war against terrorists police in indonesia said today a key suspect has admitted his it's b