The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer : WETA : September 25, 2009 7:00pm-8:00pm EDT; The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer

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>> Lehrer: GOOD EVENING, M JIM LEHRER. ON THE NEWSHOUR THIS FRAY THE LEAD STO, TODAY'S REVELATIONS OF ANOTHERRANIAN NUCLEAR FALITY. JUDY WOODRUFF LKS TO A FORMER WEAPONS INSPECTOR. THEN, ME THE OTHER NEWS OF THE DAY. THE LATEST ON THE G20 SUMMIIN PITTSBURGH. JEFFREY BROWN LOOKS ANEW FINANCIAL AEEMENTS MADE THERE. NEW AGREEMENT WERE A NOURNTIONED RE. WE'LL EXPLAIN. JEFFREY

>> Lehrer: JEFEY BROWN LOOKS ATEW FINANCIAL AGREEMENTS MADE THERE. RK SHIELDS AND DAVID BROOKS ANALYZE THE IRANIAAND OTHER NEWS OTHE WEEK. RAY SUEZ, FROM NEW YORK, TELLS THE STORY OF THE CLINT GLOBAL INITIATI.

>> Suarez: JIM, LUMINARS FROM AROUND THEORLD ARE CUTTING LLION DOLLAR DEALS HERE. I'LL HAVE THE DETAS.

>> MAJOR FUNDING FOR E NEWSHOU WITH M LEHRER IS PROVIDED BY: >WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS ENERG THE ENERGY TO GETHE ECONOMY HUMMING AGAIN. THE ENERGY TO TACKLEHALLENGES LIKE CMATE CHANGE. WHAT IS THAT ENERGY CAME FROAN ENERGY COMPANY EVERYDAY, CHEVRON INVEST$62 LLION IN PEOPLE, IN IDEAS-- SEEKING, TEACHINGBUILDING. FUELING GROW AROUND THE WORLD TO MOVE US ALL AHEAD. THIS IS THPOWER OF HUMAN ENERGY. CHEVRON.

>> THIS IS E ENGINE THAT CNECTS ABUNDANT GRAIN FROM TH AMERICAN HEARTLAND TO HARAN BEST SELLING WHE, WHILE KEEPING BILLION UNDS OF CARBON OUT OF THE ATMOSPHE EVERY YEAR. BNSF, THE ENGINE THAT NNECTS US. SUPPORTING MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR TOMOOW'S INNOVATORS.

>> AND BY LLS FARGO ADVISORS. TOGETHER, WE'LL GO FAR. AND, THISROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE CORPORATI FOR PUBLIC BROAASTING. AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YO PBS STATION FROMIEWERS LIKE YOU. ANK YOU.

>> Lehrer:HE U.S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE REACTED SHARPLY TAY TO NEWS ABOUTRAN'S NUCLEAR PGRAM. INVOLVED A KEY FACILITY BEI BUILT IN SECRET,NTIL NOW. NEWSHOUR CORRPONDENT KWAMHOLMAN HAS OUR LEAD STORY REPORT.

>> REPORTER: THE DISCLOSU THAT IRAN HAS EN BUILDING A NEW PLANT TO ENRICH URANIUM CAM AMIDST THE G-20 ONOMIC SUMMIT IPITTSBURGH. PRESIDENT OBAMA, FLANKEDY THE LEADEROF FRANCE AND BRITAIN, ID IRAN INTENTIONALLY HAD HIDDEN THE PLANT FOR YEARS.

>> THE SIZE AND CONFIGURATIOOF THIS FACILITY INCONSISTENT WI A PEACEFUL PROGRAM. IRAN IS BREING RULES THAT ALL NATIONS MUST FOLLOW, ENDANGING THE GLOBAL NONPROLIFERION REGIME, DENYINITS OWN PEOPLE ACCESS TO THE OPPORTUNITYHEY DESERVE, AND THREATENG THE STALITY AND SECURITY OF THE REGION AND THE WORLD WE HAVE OFFEREIRAN A CLEAR TH TOWARD GREATER INTERNATNAL INTEGRATION IF IT LIVES UP TO ITS OBLIGATIO, AND THAT OFFESTANDS. BUT THE IRANIAN GOVEMENT MUST NOWEMONSTRATE THROUGH DEEDS TS PEACEFUL INTENTIONS OR BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE INTERNATIONAL STDARDS AND INTERNIONAL LAW.

>> REPORTER: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GOON BROWN CALLED IRAN'S NUEAR PROGRAM "THE MOST URGT PROLIFERATION CHALLENGE THAT THE WORLD FACETODAY."

>> CONONTED BY THE SERIAL DECEPTI OF MANY YEARS, THE INTNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS NO HOICE TODAY BUT TO DRAW A LI IN THE SAND. AND I SY ON BEHALF OF THE UNITEKINGDOM TODAY, WE WILL NOT LET THIS MATTER REST AN WE ARE PREPARED TO IMPLENT FURTHER AND MORSTRINGENT SANCTNS. LET THE MESSAGE THAT GOES UT TO THE WORLDE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: THAT IRAN MUST ABANDOANY MILITARY AMTIONS FOR ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM.

>> PORTER: FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY WT EVEN FURTR. HE ATTHED A DEADLINE AND DID NOT RULE OUT MILITARY ACON.

>> translated ): WE WERE ALREADY IN A VERY VERE CONFIDENCE CSIS. WE ARE NOW CED WITH A CHALNGE, A CHALLENGE MADE TO THE ENTIRE INTERNATION COMMUNITY. EVERYTHI, EVERYTHING MUST BE PUT ON THE TABLE NOW. WE CANNOT LET IRANN LEADERS GAIN IME WHILE THE MOTORS ARE RUNNING. IF BYECEMBER THERE IS NOT AN IN-DEPTH CHANGE BYHE IRANIAN LEADE, SANCTIONS WILL HAVE TO BE TAKEN.

>> Holman: THE HIDDEIRANIAN FACILITYS BASED SOME 100 MILES FROM THE CAPITAL, TEHRANNEAR THE CITY OF M. THE COTRY'S FIRST URANIUM ENRICHMENT PLT NEAR NATANZ WAS REVEALED IN 2002. IRN LONG HAS INSISTED ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS FOREACEFUL USES. BUT A SENR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SAID THE QOM CILITY COULD PCESS ENOUGH URANIUM FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON IN O YEAR. IRAN DISCSED THIS LATEST SITE TO THE INTERNAONAL ATOMIC ENEY AGENCY ON MONDAY. BUT AMEICAN OFFICIALS SAID THAT WAS ONLY AFTERRAN LEARNED THAT WESTE NATIONS ALREADY HAD KNOWN THE SECRET FORSEVERAL YES." EY SAID MR. OBAMA WENT PUBLI SO IRAN'S EXPLATIONS WOULD NOT UNCHALLENGED. INDEED, E IRANIANS TODAY SISTED THERE IS NO SECRET. THEY SAITHEY HAVE COMPLIED WITH ALL OBLIGIONS UNDER THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIRATION TREATY. ND IN A NOTE OF DEFIANCE, PRESIDNT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD TOLD "TIME MAGAZINE": "THIS ES NOT MEANE MUST INFORM MR. OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATN OF EVERY FACILI THAT WE HAVE." LATER, AT NEWS CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK, HE SAID HIS COURY HAD BEEN FALSE ACCUSED.

>> ( tnslated ): I MEAN ITS REALLY BAD FOR 3 HEA OF STATE TO SAY SOMETHING THAT DON'T HAVE ANY LEL FOUNDATION. THEY'RE ACCUSING AN INDENDENT GOVERNMENTITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE OR DOCUMENTATION. THIS IS REALLY THEEVERSE TREND THAT MR. OBAMA WAS AIMG AT.

>> Holman: BUT SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLION SAID TODAY'S DISCLOSURES WILLEIGH HEILY IN MEETINGS IRAN HOLDS XT WEEK WITH THE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL D GERMANY. THIS IS NOW A CLEAR CHALLEN TO THE INTERTIONAL COMMUNITY AS TH FACILITY SHARNS OUR SENSE OF URGENCY

>> Holman: MEDVEV IN RESPONSE, SSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV SA TODAY IRAN'S NEPLANT VIOLATED U.N. SECURITY DECISIONS. BUT HE MADE NO MENTI OF NEW SANCTIO. AND CHINA SAIDLL SUCH ISSUES CAN BE RESOLVED THROUGH NEGOTIATION.

>> Lehrer: JUDY WOODRUFFAKES THE STORY FR THERE.

>> Woodruff: FOR MORE ON L OF IS WE TURN TO DAVID ALBRIGHT A FORMER UN NUCAR WEAPONS INSPECR. HE'S W PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY. DAVID ALBGHT, GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US AGAIN.

>> GOOD TO BE HERE.

>> Woodruff: PRESIDENT OMA HAD A NEWS COERENCE A FEW MINES AGO. HEAID AND I'MUOTING IRAN'S ACTNS RAISE GRAVE DOUBTS IN TER OF THEIR PRESENTATIONF THEIR CLEAR PROGRAM WAS FOR ACEFUL PURPOSES. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS KNOWN ABOUT IS FACILITY?

>> WEL, NOT VERY MUCH. I MEAN THERE'S BN SOME STATEMENTS ABOUT THAT IT'S GAS CENTRIFUGE PLANT, IT ENRICHES URANIUM, IT'S RELAVELY SMALL COMPARED TO WHAT YOU ULD NEED FOR A LANT TO MAKE WELL ENRICHED URANIUM F NUCLEAR POW REACTSERS. T MOST IMPORTANTLY IT HAS BEEN BUILT IN SECRECY. AND IRAN HAS SD MANY TIMES PUBLICLY THATT HAS VEALED EVERYTHING TO TH IEA. EVERYTHING IS OWN AND YET HERYOU HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT NUCLEAR SIT THAT WAS NOTNOWN. AND APPES TO ONLY HAVE BEEN REVEALED TO THE IEA AFTER IRAN WAS CAUGHTING WHETHEIT.

>> Woodruff: YOU S A VERY IMPORTANT SITE. HOW MUCH DO WKNOW. WHAT IS THIS SITE CAPABLE OF DOG AND HOW FAST. ACCORDING IT TO WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEN SAYING, IS THAT IT'S A TE THA WOLD HOLD UP TO 3000 GAS CENTRIGES. THAT ENOUGH THAT -- TO MAKE A BB'S WORTH OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM ERY YEAR.

>> Woodruff: ONE MB A YEAR.

>> AND THEY DON'T REAL KNOW, THINK, WHAT ND OF CENTRIFUS ARE GOING TO BE INALLED. SO I THI THESE ARE VERY UNCERTAIN ESTIMATES. BUT ALSTHERE HAS BEEN A WOY FOR SEVERAL CAREERS THAT IRAN WOD CONSTRUCT A FACILITY TO ALLOW IT TO BREAK OUT OF A NONPROLIRATION TREATY. WHICH MEANS THAT TH WOULD SE THEIR WELL ENRICHARD URANIUM THAT HASEEN PRODUCED AT THE OTHER RICHMENT PLANT INSPECTED BY HE INTERNAONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCAND THEY MOVE THAT SECRETLY OVERO A SECRET ENRICHMENT SITE AND PRETTY RAPIDLY, WITHIN NTHS TURN THAT INTO WEAPON GRADE URANIUM THAT COULD BE USEDN A NUCLEAR WEAPN. IN SENSE, BREAK OUTOF THE NONOLIFERATION TREATY IN RELATIVELY RAPIDLY HAVE UCLEAR WEAPONS.

>> Woodruff: NOTHE PRESIDENALSO SAID A FEW MINES AGO, DAVID ALBRIGHT, THT THE UNITED STATESND ITS ALLYSRE ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT OF THIS INTELLIGENCE. WHAT -- MEAN HOW MUCH OF IT HAVEOU SEEN, HAVE YO BEENBLE TO LEARN FROM THE ADMINISTRAON?

>> WE'VE TED ALL DAY TO ARN. AND WE HAVEN'T LEARN VERY MUCH. I MEAN WE FOUND THE GOVEMENT RATHER EVASIVE ABOUT ANSWERIN BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INFORMATION. THEY MAKE ASSERTNS. THEY SAY THEY E CERTAIN ABOUT IT. BUT WHAVEN'T ACTUALLY SE MH OF IT. AND ULTIMATELY, I'S ING TO BE UP TO THEIAEA INSPECTORS.

>> Woodruff: THE INTERNATIONAL BODY.

>> TO GO IN AND VERIFY THIS INFMATION. AND BYVISITING THE SIT T AGAIN, IRAN MAY NOT COOPERA. AND THEN WE' LEFT WITH WHAT, HOW GOOD IS THIS INTELLIGENCE INRMATION. D I THINK THEUNITED STATES GERNMENT AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS, BRITISHND FRENCH ARE GOIN TO HAVE TO RELEASE A LOT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT -- ABOUT TH FACILITY I ORDER TO BE BELIEVED.

>> Woodruff: IN OTHEWORDS, YOU ARE SAYING THEY ARE HOPING THAT IRAN WILL DO THA BUT IF IAN DSN'T, THEN THEY LL HAVE TO RELEASE MOR

>> AN WE'RE LEFT DISCUSSIN THE CAITY OF THE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION.

>> WoodruffIRAN INSISTS THIIS NOTHING FOR THE WEST TO WORRY ABOUT IT IS FOR PEACEFUL, CIVILI PURPOSES. HOW WE KNOW THEY AREOT TELLING THE TRUTH?

>> WELL, IN THE END WE ARE RELYING INTELLIGENCE INFORMION AND ASSESSMENTS OF THAT FORMATION TO SAY THITHIS IS PART OF A NLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM. AND THAT'S WHY ITAN BE SETTLED IF THE IAEA GOES IN THERE. AT LEA THEY CAN KNOW OUT THE FACILITY,HEY CAN PUT IT UNDER SEGUARDS AND IN A SENSE REMOVE ITROM THE CATEGY OF SECRET SIS AT COULD BE USED FOR IRAN TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS EIER THROUGH A BREAKOUT ENARIO OR JUST IN SECRET AS A PARALLEL PROGRM. BUT UTIMATELY, UNTIL IR COMES CLEAN, WE WON'TNOW.

>> Woodru: BUT YOU'RE SAYING THERE IS A CHANCE TH IT COULD BE A CIVILI --

>> IT IS ALWAYS A ANCE. OR IT COULD B THAT IRAN ESN'T KNOW WHAT IT IS GOING TO DO WITH I THAT THEYERE CREATING A CLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY AND THAT THEY HAVEN'T MAD A DECION TO BUILD NUCLEAR WEONS BUT IF THEY DO, THEN THIS SITE S GOING TO BE AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PARTF THEMPLEMENTATION OF THAT POLICY.

>> Woodruff: SO IF IRAN DOES NOT COME FORWD, DOES NOT PERMIT INSPECONS, DOES NOT GIVE THE INFORMATION, WHAT IS THE --HOW DOES THE REST OF THE WORLD DISCOVER WHAT REALLY GOING ON?

>> WELL, IT I GOING TO BE VERY HARD. BUT YOU KNOW,ONE HOPES THAT THE INTELLIGCE INFORMATION ISRULYSOLID AND THEN IF IRAN DOES NOT COOPERATE WITH THING INSPECTORS THEY'RE GOING TO BE IN A FAR WORSE POLITICAL POSITION. BECAUSE IT'S ONE THI FOR THE WORLD, THE IERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, OTR NATIONS TO LOOK AND DIDE IS IRAN GOING TO BUILD NUCLE WEAPONS IN THE FUTUE. THEY AREUCH LESS INTERESTED IN THAT. BUT THEY'RE ALYS VERY CONCERNED IF A CNTRY REFUSES TO ALLOW THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY DO THE JOB WHEN IT CONCERNSFACILITY THAT COULD BE USE TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. SO IFRAN DOESN'T COME EAN WITH ITS FACILITY BY LETTING THE INSPECTORS IN, I THINKT GOING TO FACE A VERY HARD TIME FIGHTGFF SANCTIONS.

>> Woodruff: DAD ALBRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> IN OTH NS TODAY,

>> Lehrer: IN OTHER WS TODAY THE US MITARY ANNOUNCED FIVE MORE AMERICANS WERE KILLEIN AFGHANISTAN ONHURSDAY. AND THE OVERALL US MMANDER THERE GERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL SAID HE'S BEEN SURPRID BY THE STRENGTHF THE TALIBAN. HE TOLD THE CBS PROGRAM60 MINUTES": THE GENERAL ALSOUBMITTED HIS FORM REQUEST FOR MORE TROOPS TODAY. THERE WAS NO OFFICIAL WORD HOW MANY HE WANT IN PAKISTAN, THERE WAS WO A U.S. MISLE STRIKE KILLED 12 AFGHAN MILITANTS. AKISTANI INTELLIGENCE OFFICIS AND VLAGERS SAID A DRONE AIRAFT ATTACKED A HOUSE NEAR THE BORDER. U.S. DRONES HAVE CARRIED OUT SEVERAL STRIKES INHAT SAME AREA IN CENT MONTHS. THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER ISRAEL, EHUD OLMT, WENT ON TRIAL R CORRUPTION TODAY. IT'S THE FIR TIME ANY ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER HAS FACED CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. ON HIS WAY INTO COU IN JERUSALEM, MERT AGAIN PROCLAED HIS INNOCENCE. HE'FORMALLY CHARGED WITH FRAUD AND BREACH OF TRU. STEMS FROM HIS TIME AS MAYO OF JERUSALEM. PROSECUTORS SAY HE TOOKLLEGAL FUNDS FROMN AMERICAN SUPPORR, AND DOUBLE-BILLED JEWISH GROUPS FOR TRIPS ABAD. ON WALL STREET STKS TOOK ANOTHER T AFTER THE GOVERNMENT REPORTED ORDE FOR DURABLE GOODFELL IN AUGUST. THE DOW JONESNDUSTRIAL AVERAGE LOT 42 POINTS TO CLOSE AT 966 THE NASDAQ FELL 1POINTS TO CLOSET NEARLY 2091. FOR THE WEEK, THE DOW LOSMORE THAN 1.5%. THE NASDAQ FELL 2

>> Lehre AND STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT: SHLDS AND OOKS; DEAL-MAKING CLINTON- STYLE; AND A FIELD OGOLD. THAT FOLLOWS E NEWS FROM THE G20 SUMMIT IN PTTSBURGH. JEFFREY BROWN HAS THE STORY.

>> REPORTERONE KEY OUTCOME OF THE SUMMIT IS TH THE GROUP OF 0 WILL REPLACE THE G8 AS THE PERMANENT COUNC ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC COERATION, REFLECTING THE LARGER ROLE OF COUNTRES LIKE CHINA, INDIAND BRAZIL IN THE RLD ECONOMY. >>EADJUSTING LOCAL BALANCE TO PREVENT ANOER NANCIAL CRISIS. THAT END LEADERS MEET LATE TODAY ON PROPOSALS DESIGNED TOEVAMP THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSM. AMONG TH ISSUING RULESON OW MUCHAPITAL BANKS MUST HOLD TO CUSHON AGAINST FUTURE LOSSES TO BE ROLLED OUTY 22. LINKING EXECIVE PAY TO LONG- RM VALUE CREATION NOT EXCESSIVE RISK TAKING. NO BONUS CAPS, HOWEV. REDUCING GLOBAL IALANCES. AND CREATING A SO-CALD "PEER REVIEW" STEM UNDER WHICH COUNTRIES, WITH ASSISTCE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL MONARY FUND, WOLD ASSESS EACH OTHERS' POLICIES ON SUES LIKE NATIONAL SAVINGS AND SPENNG.

>> THE TRANSITI TO STRONG, SUAINABLE, BALANCED ECONOMIC GROWTH. WE OUGHT THE GLOBAL ECONOM BACK FROM T INK. WE LAID THE GROUNDWORK TODAY FOR LONG-TERM PROSPERITY A ALTH. TODAY WE TOOK BO AND CONCERTEACTION TO SECUR TH PROSPERITY AND FORGE A NEW FMEWORK FOR SONG,#÷ SUSTAINAB AND BALANCED GWTH.

>> Reporter: NEXT YEAR T SUMMIT WILTAKE PLACE IN CANADA D KOREA. OUR ECONOMICS CORRESNDENT PAUL SOLMAN HAS BEEN PITTSBURGH THIS WEEK I TALKEDITH HIM A SHT IME AGO.

>> SO PAUL, WHAT E YOU HEARING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE SIGFICANCE OF THIS SUMMIT?

>> I WAS REALLY AMAZED, JEFFREY HAS BEEN ON OUR OW SINCE 1986. INTERVIEWED HI TODAY RIGHT ABOUT HERE. AND HE SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS AISTORIC OCCASION. YOU KNOW, HE'S ALWAYS LE THE JIMINY CRICKET OF THE WORLD ECONOMY, ALWAYS SAYING WHASHOULD BE THAT ARE YOU NOT DOING RIGHT. AND HE ID HISTORIC, HISTIC OCCASION BECAUSEOF E INCLUSION O THE EMERNG ECONOMIES, THE BRAZILSTHE CHINAS, THE INDIAS AFTER SO MANYEARS WHEN IT WAS AN ELITE CL, GOING FROM I DON'T KNOW, LESS THAA BILLION PEOPLE REPRESENTED SOMETHING LIK THAAT THE G-8 TO SOMETHING LIK4 BILLION PLUS IN T 20 WHICH ISHAT THIS, AFTER ALL, IS.

>> WELL, YOU KOW, WE SAW YOUR INTERVIEW YESTERDAY WITH PRESIDENT DE SILVA OF BRAZI SAYING THE SE, THE IMPORTANCE OF MOVINGTO A G-. DOES IT SEETO YOU THAT IS WHAT PELE ARE PICK UP MOST ON OUT OF THIS?

>> CERTNLY THAT WAS THE THING THAT STRUCK ME MOST. IT STCK ME IN THE INTERVIEWITH LUL A KIND OF A, I THINK ALMOST VINDICATION OF HEY, I'VE -- YOU FINALY REALI THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TT COUNTRIES LIKEINE HAVE ARRIVED. ST NIGHT I TALKED TO A CHINESE PRESS CONFERENCE ASKED THEM QUESTIONS. IT W A DIFFERENT SENSE IN TALKING TO THE CHINESE THAN THERE HAVE BEEN JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. MOREF A SENSE OF HEY WE BELONG. WEE GOTUTHOR AT THAT TIMEIVE INGS TO SAY AND THEN HIMSELF SAYING HE JUST NEVER HAS SEE A MEETING LIKE THIFROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PEOE FROM THOSE COURYS TALKI IN EMPOWERED WAYS.

>> NOW THEY ALS TALKED IN THIS AGREEMT AOUT PLEDGIN TO SOLVEMBALANCES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.

>> UH-H.

>> Reporter: FIRST WHADOES THAT MEAN A WHAT KIND OF REACTION WERE U GETTING TO THAT?

>> SICALLY IT MEANS INA SAVES TOO MUCH. AMERICA SPENDS TOO MUCH AND SO DO OTHER DEVELOPED ECNOMIES. SO THE IA IS HOW DO YOU -- HOW DO U CHANGE THAT BALANCE. THATS WHAT I ASKED THE CHINESABOUT LAST NIGHT. ANDHAT THEY SA WAS LOOK, WRE COMPLETELY AWARE OF THIS. WE WOULD LE TO FIX IT. IT IS GOG TO TAKE A LONG TIME. WE'RSPENDING A LOT MORE, THECHINESE SAID. WE'VE GOT THE BGGEST IMULUS PACKAGE IN THE WORLD. THEY DIDN'T SAY THATUT I SAY THAT, PER CAPITA BASIS. AND SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO CHANGE BU IT'S A STCTURAL PROBLEM, I'M QUOTING ONE OF THE TOPCHIN EASE OFCIALS LAST NIGHT. AND IT GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME TO F. SO WHAT THE GRO HERE IS PLEDGING IS WE'RE GOING TO LO AT THIS. 'RE GOING TO MONITOR IT. WE'RE GOING TO KE ACCOUNT OF THE IMBALANCES. AND THROUGH THENF WHICH IS BEING MEIONED HERE MORE PROMINENTLY THAN IT HAS BN IN THE PAST, HROUGH THE IMF WE ARE GOING TO TRY T DO SOMETHI ABOUT IT. BUT YOU KW IT'S EASY TO SAY WE'RE ING TO SPEND LESS THAN AMERICA --IN AMERICA SPEND MORE IN CHINA AND QUITE ANOTHER THING ACTUALLY HE IT HAPPEN.

>> LET ME ASK YOU ONE MORE BRIEF THING BEFORE LET YOU GO. YOU KNOW, THRE ARE STILL DEBATES HERE ABOUTWHETHER WE ND MORE STIMULUS. IN TERMS OF WHERE WE ARE NOW, WHAT WAS THE SENSE OF HOW MUCH MOREWHETHERHE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM NEEDS TO KEEP STIMLATING THE ECONOMY AND GROWTH.

>> YEAH, I'M GLAD U ADDED THAT. ECAUSE I HAD FORGOTTEN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SEEMS TO BE COMING OUT OF T COMMUNICATE. M TALKING TO YOU NOWUST AS IT IS COMING OUT. BUT IT SEEMS TO BE AT ERE IS GOTO BE A REAL EMPHASIS O FUTURE STIMULUS. NOW I DOT KNOW WHAT EMPHASIS MEANSUT ONE OF THE KEY PHSE, THE MANTRA IIT WORKS MEANING THE STIMUS, THE COORDINATED EFFORT OFHE WORLD ECOMY THATHE IMF CHIEF WAS BRAGGING ABOUT OR WAS SO IMPRESSD BY ON THE SHOW WHEN WE TALKED TO HIM JUST ABOUA WEEK AGO, THAT, THEY VOW WILL CONTINUE,OR AT LEAST TY WILL NOT STOP IT RIGHT AWAY. NOW TOUGH TDO THAT GIVEN THE CONSTITUEIES BACK HOME. BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE PART OF WHAT TY ARE SAYING HERE, VERY SPECIFICALLY. YET WE'RE GOING --E'RE NOT GOING TO OP. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT GOING TO COTINUE SO MUCH AS WE'RE NOT GOING TO ST. WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THE WORLD COVERY SLOW DOWNR COME TO A HALT.

>> ALL RIGHT, PAUL SOLAN IN PITTSBURGH, FOR USHIS WEE THANKS A LOT PAUL. >>SURE, JEFF.

>> AND MORON WHAT CAME OUT OF THE SUIT NOW FROM SION JOHNSON OF THE M.I.T. SHOWN HOOL OF MANAGEMENTND THE PETERSON INSTITU FOR ECONOMICS. AND ESWAR PRASAD OF RNELL UNIVERSITY ANDHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE. WELCOME TO BH OF YOU.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Reporter: A YEAR AGOE ALL S HERE. THE PROBLEM WAS GETTIN US OUT OF THE CRISIS D PREVENT IT IN T FUTURE. WHAT DOES PITTURGH TELL US ABOUT WHERE WE ARE NOW.

>> THINGS HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN THE LAST FE MONTHS. AT THE END OF LAST AR IT LOOKED LIKE THE WORLD ECONOMY WAS GNG OFF A CLIFF. ALL THE MAJOR ECONOMIES HAVE HIT WALL. D NOW THE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED, IN PART, THANKS, I THINK TO THE RESILIECE OF MARKET ECONOMIES. BUTLSO THANKS TO THE STIMULIVE MEASURES WHICH T ONLY HAD A DIRECT EFFECT BUT BECAUSE THE LEADERS TOOD TOGETHER TO TAKE ACTION TETHER. I THINK TT HAS HAD A PRETTYOSITIVE EFFECT ON COIDENCE. SO ALL OF THAT SEEMS TO VE GOTTEN AWAY FROM THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. SO WE AREIN A MUCH BETTER POSITION WHERE WE CAN START THINKING ABOU HOW TO ENTRENCH THE RECORY D WHHER THE MEASURES PUIN PLACE TGET THE RECOVERY GOING OULD BE PULLED BACK OR NOT.

>> Reporter: SON, BEFORE WE GETO THE WHAT'SCOMING, WHAT ABOUT TT? AND YOU HEARD PAUL TALK ABO THAT IT WORKED, THE STIMULUS. WELL, THE LAST G-20 SUMMIT, APRILINONDON, I THINK W SUCCESSFUL. EXACTLY THE REASON ESW SAID. THE GOVERNMENT, THE BIG POWERFUL GOVERNMENTS A THIS IS 90% OF THE WORLD'S ECONOMY IN TERMOF GDP REPRESTED BY THE G-20, THEDECIDED TO TRY A STOP THE CRISISACT TOGETHER. ANI THINK THEY DID WELL. UNFORTUNATELY SINCE APRIL THEY HE BEEN REST O THEIR LAURELS IS MY PERSPECTE. I'M NOT SURE THIS PITTSRGH SUMMIT ISEALLY SUCH A GRE MOMENT.

>> Reporter: EXPLAIN. WHERE DOES IT FA SHORT? >>WELL, ONHE KINDS OF MEASURES THAT YOU WLD THI YOU WOULD NEED TO PREVENT IS KIND OF CRISI ROM HAPPENING AGAIN. FOR EXAMPL AROUND THE FINANCIAL SECT. THERE HAS BEEN GOOD RHETOR FROTHE WHITE HOUSE IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS BUT VERY LITTLE IN TERMS OF SPEFICS. AND I'M AFID WHAT WE HAVE GOT TODAY FROM PITTSBURGH WE VE MORE EMPTY WORDS. WHICH IS SOCKING AND I THINK A LITTL SURPRISING GIEN WHERE WE ARE COMING FROM.

>> Reporter: DO YOU SEE SOME MORE POSITIVE REACTI OR ACTIONS OUT OF PITTSBURGH?

>> I THINK THE LAST THREE SUMMITS KOUL MINE ATING WITH THIS ONEAVE COMPETITIED A LOT. TH HAVE BROUGHT THE EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES IRMLY ON THE TABLE. I THINK THE FACT THAT THE LEADERS HAVE AGREED THAT THE G-20 RATHER THANHE G-7 OR SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY FOM FOR THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL ECONOMIC POLY IS A BIG DEAL. THE FACT THAT ERE IS SOME AGREEMENT, ALOUGH THE DETAILS STILNEED TO BE WORKED O ABOUT GIVING THE EMERGING MARKET ECOMIES MOREF A STAY ATHE INTERNATIONAL METARY MONDAYI THINK IS PRETTY BIG DEAL. SO IN TERMS OF OVALL GLOBAL GORNANCE, ACTUALLY I THINK WE VE ACCPLISHED QUITE A BIT. THIS IS A VERY DIVERSE GROUP OF ONOMIES FROM SO E CT THAT THEY COULD AGREE EVEN O SOME GENEAL PRINCIPLESI THINK IT IS QUITAN ACCOMPLISHNT. BUT WHETHER WE CAN GET AGREEMENT ON THE SPECICS, OF COURSE,TILL REMAINSHE KEY ISSUE.

>> Report: LET'S WALK THROH A FEW OF THOSE THINGS. START WITH THE ONE YOU JU MENTIONED. THE FIRST ONE IS THE 20 T OF THE-8 AND PAUL TALKED OUT THAT. AND HE WAS QOTING JEFFREY SACKS, SORT OF AN HISRIC MOMENT IS THAT GOODMOVE FORWARD.

>> ITS A GOOD MOVE FORWARD. THE G-7, THE INSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES ISAVE BECOME AN AN AGO RH. HEY USED TO DOMINATE THE WORLD ECOMY. THEY DON'T A MORE. EMERGING MARKS ARE ABOUT HALF OF WORLD G. THEY DO NEED TO BE ATHE TABLE, NO QSTION ABOUT IT. THE PROBLEM WHEN YOU RING THEM INTO THE DITCH KITCHEN THAT IS A L OF COOKS AND CAN THEYGREE ON ANYTHING MORE AN PRETTY GERAL FRAMEWORK. WE CERTAINLY NEED AOT MORE THAN THAT FOR EXAMPLE ARND THEEGULATION OF BANKS B YO DIDN'T SEE TODAY AN CONCRETE PRRESS IN THAT KIND OFIRECTION.

>> Reporter: DID YOU SEAT LEAST HAVING THEM AT THE TABLE AS AN PORTANT STEP.

>> IHINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THEM TOBE AT THE TABL IF YOU THINKABOUT ISSUES LIKE THE GLOBAL IMBALANC THAT WE TALKEDBOUT, CHI IS A VERY BIG PART OF IT AND THE OTHER EMERGING MARKET CONOMIES ARE A VERY BIG PART OF IT. SO UNLESS WE CAN INVOLVE THEM IN THE SOLUTION, WERE NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE. SO IT IS ESSENAL THAT THEY BE PART OF THE CONVERSATIO ABOUT HOW TO MKE PROGRESS. AND THEOINT THAT WE DON'T HAVE TT MANY SPECIFICS COES OUT OF IT, T EVEN HERE I THK THERE IS SOME GAME CHANGES. FOR INSTANCE THE NTION THAT THERE SHOULD BE A PEER REVIEW PRESS THAT IS GOING TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF COUNIES MICRO-ECONOMIC POLICIE THERE WASA PEER RIEW PROCESS BEFORE ROUGH THE IMF BUTOBODY CARED VERY MUCH ABOUT T. ESCIALLY THE BIG COUNTRIES. BUT WHAT IF THE GAME CHANGE I THINK RIGHT NOW IS THE U.S. IS SAYIN THAT IT IS GOING TO TAKE TMF MORE SERIOUSLY. AND I THINK THIS WILL FORCE THE OTHER COUNTRIES TO TA IT MORE SERIOUSLY. BU THERE IS STILLSN'T AN END FOR MECHANM SO WE STILL VE TO SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT. >>eporter: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PEER REVIEW EANESS I THINK THE KEY IS THE ENFORCEMENTMECHANISM THAT ESWAR SAID. UNLESS YOU HAVE SOMETHING CONCTE, SOMETHING SPEFIC, YOU KNOW, THAYOU ARE GOING TO BE KING TO THE WORLD TRADERGANIZATION, FOR EXAMPLE FOR SOME SORT OF HEARING OR TRADE SANCTIO IF YOUIOLATE CERTAIN COMMITMENTS. UNLESS YOU HE THAT, NOTHING WI CHANGE.

>> Repter: BACK UP, HOW WOULD IT EVEN WORK? HELP OUR VIEWERS UNDERSTAND. WHAWOULD A PEER REVI TAIL.

>> WT IT MEANS GAUS THE G 20 DOESN'T HVE A REGULAR ECRETARYATE, THEMF WOULD BE DELEGAD WITH THE TASK OF REVIEWING THE POLICIES THAT THEOUNTRIESURSUE ANDNY TIME THERE IS A G 2 SUMMIT THERWILL BE TWO NEXT YEAR ITS MIX -- THE IMF WILL MAKE A REPORT SAYING ESE PEOPLE ARE DOING WHATHEY SAID, THEE AREOT.

>> THE BIG COUNTRY DO NOT LIKE TO BE CRITIZED BY THE IMF AT A AND UNLESS THERE IS A COMMITMENT TO SOME SORT OF ENFORCENT NECKNISM AR YOU NOT REALLY GNG TO MAKE ANPROGRESS.

>> Reporte AND THEN THERE S THE GLOBAL IMBALANCE QUESTION THAT I ASKED PL ABOUT. ANDHE KIND OF STRUCTAL PRLEMS. DO YOU SEE THAT, AR THERE DETAILS ON LOOKING FORWARD ON SOMETHING LIKE THA

>> IT IS GREAT TO -- IT IS GOING TO BE VERY TRICKY. ONE THE PA OF THE GLAL IMBALANCE IS THE FACT THA CHINA HAD THE MODEL EVENING THEY REALLY NEED THE EXPOR IN DER TO GENERATE JOBS AND IN ORDER KEEP THEIR GWTH MODEL GOING. HAT HASN'T REALLY CHANGED. FACT THE STIMULUS PACKAG THEY PUT INTO PLAC IS GOING TO MAKE MTERS WORSE IN THE SHORT TERM BECAUSE LOT OF THE STIMULU SNDING IS GOING TOWARDS INVESTMENT. SO THEY E BUILDING UP A LOTORE CAPITAL STOCK, HOUSEHOLD INCOMGROWTH IS NOTUITE KEEPING UP SOTHEY HAVE TO SHIP THE STUFF OUT SOMEWHE. LIKEWISE JAN AND GERMA ARE STILL ECONOES THAT VERMUCH RELY ON EXPORTS. SO ALL OF THESE ECONOES ARE STILL LOOKING TO RDE THE U.S. COATTAI, SO THAT PROBLEM MAINS. BUT ONE FUNDAMENTAL TNG HAS BEEN HEVIVED -- A EF CHOOD THAT T EMERGING MARKETS ARERYING TO BUILD UP FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES TO PRETECT THEMSELVES FR CRISES -- CSES AND TWOIG ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AT THE TERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND AND THE INTERNIONAL MONETARY FUND ACTS AS AN INSURAE MECHANISM FOR EMERGING MARKETS THAT CREAT 250 BILON TO NEAR A TRILLION DOLLARS AND SECOND E EMERGINGING MARKE FEEL THEY HAVE MORE OF A SAY AT THE IMF THEY MAY FEEL MUCH LESS OF NEED TO SLF-INSURANCE THEIR BUILDING RESERVES WHICH COULD BE GOOD THING.

>> Reporter: COULD AT BE A GOOD THI THIS IS THE GLOBAL IMBALANCE QUESTION, COULD THAT BE AOOD THING.

>> I THINK THIS IS THE TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER EXPERIEN TO BE HONEST. THE EMGING MARKETS DON'T TRUST THE IMF. THE IMF LOST HE LEGITIMCY AFR THE ASIAN FINCIAL CRISIS IN THE 1990s AND HAS NOT REBUILD IT. COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA, KOREA AND INDONESIA DON'T WANT TO HAVE OO BOREE FROM THE IMF IT GOOD THE INF HAS MORE NEY. BUT MOST HE OF THEM DON'T WANT TOOME TO THE IM THRE IS NOTHING I SEE IN THIS PROCESS AT IS GOING TO REBUI IMF LEGITIMACY, TH ABSOLUTELY KEY TO E POT THAT ESWAR IS ADDRESSING WHICH YOU NED FOR A MORE STABLE WORLD ECONOMY.

>> IN THE LAST MINUTE I WOULD PROBABLY ASKED YO THIS AFTER EACH SUMMIT BUT WHAT IS NEXT, DO THE GOVERNMES GO BACK AND NTINUE WORKING ON THEIR OWN OR IS THERE A CHANCE FOR A KINDOF COORDINATION.

>> WEL THEY REF TO NBER OF THEY MATICS TO T MISTERS OF FINANCE WL MEET IN NOVEMBE THEY NEETO GET A MOVE ON. THEY HAVE TOINSTALL THE CRS BORDER ISSUES WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BIG BANKS FAIL. THEY HAVE NOT WORKED ON. THEY SAY THEY DO THAT AT THE END OF010. THAT IS TOO SLOW. RAISE CAPITAL CLIMATEAND TELL US THE NUMBE IN 2012, THAT IS AN ETERNITY. THEY NEED GET A MOVE ON. I THINKHEY ARE DRAGGING HEIR FEET AND PATTING EMSELVES TOO MUCH ON THE BACK.

>> Repoer: A LAST WORD.

>> THIS IS A BIG CHALLENGE. I EAN THE GENERAL PRINPLES ARE GREAT BUT GETTING TH SPECIFICS IS GOING TBE VERY HARD. IN FACT ME COMMMENT OF THE G- LEADERS MADE TOO MUCH FANFARE SAYINGHEY WOULD NOT TAKE PROTECTIONIST ACTION AGAINST FR TRADE. THEY WE BACK TO THE HOME COUNTRIES, IMMEDIATELY SIGNED THR -- BUT PUTTING IN PROTTION MEASURES, SO HETHER THERE IS GOING TO BE THE DESIRE OR TRY TO FOLLOW THROUGH ONHESE COITMENTS ALLY IS AN OPEN QUESTION. REASONS ESWA PRASAD, SIMON JONSON, THANK YOU.

>> Lehrer: THE FU TEXT OF THE G20 REEMENTS IS ON OUR WEB SITE NEWSHOUR.PBS.ORG. >>Lehrer: AND TO THE ANALYSI OF SHIELDS ANDBROOKS, SYNDICATED COMNIST MARK SHIELDS AND "NEW YORK TIMES" COLUMNIST DAVID BRKS. >>HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS NEWS ABOUT THE IRANIAN NUCLEAFACILITY?

>> I'M NOT SURE, JI IHINK IT IS IPORTANT. THINK IT REVALING HOW THE PRESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES DIDESPOND. IN STARK CONTRA T WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST, STANDING THERE WITH SAOZY AND PRIME MINISTER BROWN. I MEAN I THOUGHT THAT WAS SORT OF A SIGNAL FOR THE RAVITY OF IT. AND SORT OF A NEW APPROACH. I THOUGHT THE WORDS RE SEVERE AND QUITE BLT. AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE THE DEAL ON THE LAND-BASED ANTI-LLISTIC MISSILES THAT -- OF LAST WK, MOVING FROM THE CCH REPUBLIC AND POLA, THE MIILE DEFENSE SYSTEM, MAYBE ENLISD RUSSIA TO ICH IS GOING TO BE KE WITHOUTUSSIA AND WITHOUT CHINA, ANY SANCTIONS AGAINST IRN ARE GOING TO BE MORE FORM THAN SUBSTANCE.

>> Lehrer: IS THIS HUGE.

>> I WAS MOSTL STRUCK BY THE SENSE OF URGENCY BY THE ATMOSPHERICS OF IT THE COUNIES HAVE WORKED TOGETHER MANY, MANY YEARS ONHIS ISSUE AND HAVE BEEN QTE STRONG IN SOME OF THEIR STATEMENTS. NONETHELESS THIS IS SO OF LIKE A WEOCH YOU MOMEN >>PPARENTLY BASED ON U.S. INTELLIGENCE WHICH OBA THEN INFORMETHE BRITS AND THE FRENCH. AND THE INTELLIGENCE SAY WE HAD APPARENTLY FOR MANY MONTHS. BUT WHAT STRUCK ME WAS YOU DON'T WRITE THAT CHECK. YODON'T GO INTO THIS LEL OF URGENCY AND EVEN ULTIMATUM A SARKOZY D ESPECIALLYUNLESS YOU CAN CASH THAT CHECK, UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING BEHD TH CHECK. SO BASICALLY TODAY THEY MADE A NCH OF THREATS. AND SOTHAT MADE ME THINK WHY, WHAT DO W HAVE IN THEIR POCKETS THAT MAKES THEM FEEL COMFORTABLE MAKING TSE THREATS. AN BASICALLY ITUGGESTS TO ME THATOMEWHERE IN THIS CREATION OF NEW SANCTNS REGIME,HEY'VE GOT SOMETHING. AND IT SUGGESTS TO ME THAT IN THE PAST WEEKS, THE RUSSIANS HAVE DROPP HINTS THAT THEY WOU BE SUPPORTING THE SCTIONS. I HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING THEY WOULD HVE GONE TO SUCH LEVEL OF URGENCY UNLESS THE HINTS WERE SOMEHOW REAL. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE AB TO CASH THESE CHECKS. THEY --.

>> Lehrer: MARGARET WARR HERE ON THE NSHOUR LAST NIGHT REPORTED THE FT THAT THE U.S PRESIDENT AND THE RUSSI PRESIDENT SAT DOWN AFTER TEY HADKIND OF A RMAL MEETING, THEY SHOED EVERYBO OUT OF THE ROOM EXCEPT THEIR INRPRETERS AND TALKED PRIVATELY FO SEVERAL MINUTES. AND THAT AARENTLY IS WHEN OBAMA SAID THE RUSSIANS, WE GOT TIS. YOU THINK THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE BALLISTI MISSILE SHIELD ARE CHANGING T NATURE OF THAT, M HAVE ENCOURAGED TH PRIVATE CONVERSATION?

>> NOBODY WANTS TO SAY IT WAS A QUID PR QUO BUT I CEAINLY THINK THAT AS, TO USE A LATIN TERM,ITHOUT I NOT, IT WOULDN'HAVE HPENED WITHT THE ALLISTIC MISSILE, WITHOUT THE SHIELD. I THINK TAT SEALED THE DEAL WITH RUSSIA AFAR AS IRAN IS CONCERNED.

>> Lehrer: BUT DO YOU THK THIS PUTS NOW THE IRANIANS MORE ON T DEFENSIVE AND GIVES CREDENCE TO THE FENSIVE LANGUA.

>> I THINK THEY ARE OSE TO BEING ISOLED RIHT NO

>> I WOULD WOULDN' GET THAT HOPEFUL, ACTUALLY. IT'S ONE THING F MED EF VED TO SAYOMETHING. IT ANOTHER FOR VLADIR PUTIN TO SAY SOMETHING HE HAS BEEN QUITE CLEARHAT HE ENJOYS E FACT THAT IRAN IS A THORN IN OUSIDE. RUSSIA H BEEN QUITE HELPFUL TO THERANIAN REGIME. AND THE RUSSIANS HAVE SO FAR STILL IS SOMEQUESTION ETHER THEY WILL ACTUALLY DO IT. AND THEN THE IS THE FACT THAT THE CHINESEHO HAVE MADE NO HINTS AT ALL, AND YOU REALLY CAN' DO IT WITHOUT THEM. SO I Y FROM MY INT OF VIEW IT IS STEP FORWARD BUT IF WERE THE IRANIANS I STILL WOULDN'T BE TERRIBLY AFRAID. I SLL THINK IT'S UNLIKELY THAT WE'LL G TM TT WAY.

>> THE THINK THE PRESIDE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WOULDE OPEN TO LITICAL CRITICISM AND LEGITIMATE POLITICAL CRITICISM IF THE RUSSIANS DON'T ME ALONG.

>> POLITICAL CRITICISM.

>> HERE AT HME.

>> THAT HE WAS TOO GULL I BELVE, TO BELIEVING, TO TRUSTING. THAT HE LOOKE INHE SOULS OF THE RUSSIANS.

>> THAT AGAIN.

>> ONE OTHER THING TT STRUCK ME ABOUT THIS WAS THAT WE HAD THIS LONG DEBATE ABOUTO YOU NEGOTIATE WITH IRANIANS ORDO YOU NOT. I THI THERE IS A WIDE CONSENSUTHAT WE SHOULD NEGOTIATE. BUT HOW DO YOU RERD THOSE NEGOATIONS. DO YOU TNK JUST BY SITTING DOWN ARE YOU GOING TO BE ABLE TO WORK OUT DEAL. I THINK IT CLEARHE PRESIDENT SEES THE NEGOTIATIONS AS A MEANS TO AN D. THAT PROBLY WON'T GET ANYTHING OUT OF THE TAS UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE SANCTIONS. THEANCTIONS ARE THE BIG DEAL AND JUST T FACT THEY ARE SITTI DOWN WITH AYE NIANS DOESN'T GO VERY FAR

>> THERE IS THE MEETINGEXT WEEK ON OCBER 1st CAN WE GET AETTER TASTE BECAUSE THE IRANIANS WILL BE THERE WITHHE AMERICANS AND CHINA.

>> ABSUTELY RIGHT.

>> RE GENERALLY, MAR, HOW DID YOU THINK TH PRESIDENT PRESIDENT OBAMA HANDLED HIMSELF THE BIG STAGE. THE U.N., NOW THE G-20, ALL THESTHINGS, E SPEECHES, HICOMMENTS. THE WHOLE NINE YARDS.

>> WELL, HE CERTALY DID THIN WHICH -- THAT HIS PREDECESSOCOULDN'T DO. WHETH SITTING DOWN DIRECTL AND HANDLING NEGOTIATIO TWEEN THE PALESTINIANS AND THE ISRAELIS, AND INSERTING HIMSELF RIGHT THERE AND PLAYING HE CENTRAL ROLE.

>> MADE THEM SHKE HANDS.

>> SHAKE HANDS. WE'RE STILL ITING FOR RESULTS HER. WE'RE STL WAITING FOR PROGRESS BUT THAT AND THE IRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO CHAIR THE.N. SECURITY COUNCIL. BEYOND THAT, JIM, THERE WAS A STRONG MSAGE THATHIS IS A DIERENT TIME. THATWE ARE NOTHE SWAGER, O IF ALONE BY OURSVES. WE'RE GOING TO BE COLLABOTIVE. BUT THAT'SPROGRESS. I THINK 'S APPEING TO EOPLE. ITS APPLING TO COUNIES AROUND THE WORLD. IT'S APPEALING THE OTHER NATIONS. HEAS QUITE FRANK IN CHIDING THOSE OTHER NIONS, DON'T USE IT AS AN EXCUSE ANY LONGER FOR INACTION ON YOUR PAR JUST BAUSE THE UNITED STATES IS ACTS. ON THINGS LIKE CLIMATE CONTRO THE UNITED STES HASN'T MOVED ON THAAT ALL. THERE ISNO --

>> TO DEFE PRESIDENT BUS, HE DID SSTANTIVELY WORK WH THESE PEOPLE. WAS GIVING ANDREA MERKEL SHOULDER MASSAGES OUT TRE IN PUBLIC, CLOSE RELATNSHIP. BUT SENSE IS THAT HE DECLAR A NEW REGIME IN THE UNITED ATES WITH NEW PHILOSOPHY BUT WN YOU ASK WELL SO, WHAT. IF YOU THOUGH THAT JUST BY DECLARING A NEW REGIME AND THENNOUNCEMENT WE WI CLOSE GUANTANAMOHAT PENNYS WILL DROP FROM HEAV, WE WERE DISABUSED OF THA HE MADE GESTURES THAT THINGS CAN CHANGE HER AND WE CAN WORK TOGETHER ON VARIO ISSUES. BUT ON ONE ISSUE AFTER ANOTHER VERY LITTLE HAS HAPPENED. THE MIDDLE EAST, VER LITTLE HAS HAPPEN. COALITIS IN AFGHANISTAN, VERYITTLE HAS HAPPENED. NOING HAS HAPPENED HAS GOTTEN WORSE. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE,ERY LITTLE S HAPPENED. THEONE EXCEION WHICH WAS TODAY WAS SOME REAL PROGRESS, GETTING THE RUIANS INVOLVEIN THE SANCTIONS REGIM SO THE IRANIAN PROCESS IS A STEP FORWARD. EVERYTNG ELSE IS PRETTY MUCH WHERE IT WAS. >>> WHAT DOHINK THE CRITICISM OM THE FELLOW CONSERVATIVES OF THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHT THE U. FOR THEENERAL ASSBLY SPEECH. HE AIT TOAD MANY ERRORS BY THE UNITEDTATES AND SHOWED WEAKNESS.

>> IT IS A POLITICALLY EFFECTE. I DON'T REALLYARE. YOU KNOW IT POLITICALLY EFFECTIVE TO SAY THAT LOT OF PEOPLE HATED PSIDENT BUSH AND SO IF HE WANTS, IF HE THINKS IT WILL GET IN GOODITH THE OTHER REGIMES TO SAY THAT, FNE. I GUESSY VIEW IS IT DOESN'T HELP YOU. PPLE HAVE INTERESTS. PEOPLE CRITICI PRESIDENT BUSH. BUT BEHI THE SCENES THEY WORKED VERY CSELY. T SECOND TERM WH NDOLEEZZA RICE WEAD PERFECTLY GOOD PRESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. AND COURIES WERE MOTIVATED BY INTERESTS, N BY THESE SPEEES. MY OBJECTN WITH THE SPEECH, ALL THE U.N. SPEECHES VERED A LOT OF THIS STUFF. THEY ARE FILLED WITH PABLUM. THOUGHT OBAMA ABUSED THE PRIVILEGE AND WORKED WENT TOO FAR IN THE LET'S ALL WORK TETHER RHETORIC. I DON'T MIND IT BUT I NOT ALLY IMPRESSED BY IT EITHER.

>> I DISAGREE. I THINK IT'S A CHE SHOT ON THE PART OF MY CONSERVATVE BRETEN AN SISTEREN. Lehrer: DOESN'T THAT POUR WATER.

>> YES, IT IS. IT'S T JOHN WAYNE APPACH TO FOREIGN PLICY. YOGOT TO SGER, YOU GOT TO BE TOUGH. YOU GOT T WALK IN. AND IF Y DON'T, I THINK ACKNOWLEDGING MISTAK IS NOTONLY THE INTELLECTUALLY HEST THING TO DO. IT IS REALISM. I MEAN 'S NOT GOINTO BE A PATTERN AND A HABIT IN EVERY SPEEC B IT IS A WAY O SIGNALING AND SAYING THISS A DIFFERENT REGME AS DAVID CALLS ITIT IS A DIFFERENT APPROACH. BUT IT IS ONE THING TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO BUTHEN NOT TO REALLY CLOSE IT ANDOT TO TAKE ANY THE PEOPLE IN OUR OWNOUNTRY. AND THEN ASK OTHER COUNTRIES WHY D'T YOU TAKE THOSE PEOPLE, WELL SUBSTANTIVELY THY ARE STILL A PROBLEM.

>> THE McCHRYSTAL RORT ON AFGHANISTANBIG DEAL?

>> I THOUGHT IT WAS A BIG DEAL IT REMARKABLE REPORT.

>> Lehrer: 66 PAGE

>> ANIT'S VERY NEST BOUT WHERE WE HAVE BEEN FAING AND IT MAKES THE CASE QUITE INTELLINTLY THRE HAS BEEN ALL THE TALK ABOUTHE TROOP LEVELS. THE TRO LEVELS ARE NOT THE MAITHING. THE MAIN TNG IS THE STRATEGY. AND McCHRYSTAL ALO WITH VID PETRAEUSRE PART OF THESE GROUP THEYCALL THE COIN GROUP. T COUNTERINURGENCY STRATEGY WHICSU DON'T JUST TRY TO KILL THE BAD GU, YOU HAVE T WORK WITH THE POPULATION. AND WE HAVE NOTONE THAT. AND IT WAS A CRITICISM ANKLY OF HIS OWN MILITAR FORAVING PEOPLIN CONVOYS.

>> YOSAY McCHRYAL'S REPOT. >>ES, AND EVERYTHING EE. AND SO HE SAID THE IS ONLY ONE WAY OF BEATING AN INSURGENCY. YOU DON'T DO ITITH DRONES, WITH CRUISE MISSIL OR PECIAL FORCE, YOU DO IT WITH THIS HEAVY, INTSIVE, ONHE GROUND REALLY ARMED TIONS BUILDING. THOUGHT IT WAS AN INTELLECTUALY SERIOUS REPT. IT PUTS BARA OBAMA IN A TERRIBLE POSITION BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY HE SAID EITH YOU GO IN OR U MIGHT AS WELLET OUT BECAUSE THERE IS NO MDLE WAY. ANDPOLITICIANS DON'T LIKE THAT. BUT THINK INTELLECTUALL HE'S ABSOLUTELY CORRE.

>> DO YOUAGREEHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS NOW IN A DIFFICULT POSITION.

>> HE IS PRESENT OBAMA'S CHOICE.

>> McCHRYAL.

>> SURE.

>> Lehrer: A McCHRYSTAL WAS PETRAS'S CHOI. EY ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER.

>> HE I IN FACT, THE PRESIDENT'S -- WHAT SUCK ME AND AGA IN STARK CTRAST I THINK TO THE PRIOUS ADMINISTRATION WHICH DID GOREQUENTLY SHOPPINGOR FRIENDLY ADVICE OR ADVICE THAT ITGREED WITH MILITARY ADVICE WAS IT CANDOR. I ME HAD WAS NOT AEPORT THAT WAS INTENDED TO WIN FAVORT THE WHITE HOUSE OR MAKTHE WHITE HOUSE MORE UNCOMFORTALE. THE REQUEST FOR 30,000 TROOPS, SAID WITHOUT THE 30,000 TROOPS WILL BE FAILURE. THAT IT WAS TO GUARANE WITH THE 30,000 TROOPS THERE WILL BE SUCCESS. OR ANY TE CERTAIN. SO I TNK IN THAT CASE, THE MISSION ESTION STILL REMAI. WHAT IS THE MISSION. WHEN WILL WE KNOW WE HAVE WON. AN WHEN WILL WE BE OUT.

>> Lehrer: DO Y AGREE WITH DAVID THATT'S LESS ABOUT TROOPS TN IT IS ABOUT THE MISSION AND STRATEGY, WHETHER YOU DO COTERINSURGENCY OR CNTERTERRORISM.

>> THINK HE SUGGESTS TAT THEY ARE BOOK DS. I DO'T THINK YOU CAN DO YOU CAN'T D THE STRATEGY THAT GENERALcCHRYSTAL REMMENDS AND URGES WITHOUT THE ADDED TROOPS. I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE ARGUNT IS. AND THEEALITY IN THE COUNTRY IYOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY OF AMERINS ARE AGAINST A TROOP IREASE AND WE'VE GOT ONE OUT OF THREE AMERICS STRONGLY OOSED. SO IT HAS BECOM A POLITICALL DIFFICU SITUATION.

>> BUT 30,000 ME TROOPS MEANS 100,000 AMERICANS ARE NO UNDER ARMS.

>> AND WEAVE TO SPEED UP E TRAINING BUT WE STILL WOULD BE SHORT OF WHAT THEY CALL THE RATIO BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF TROOPS YOU WANT FOR POPULATION. WHAT TS REPORT I THINK REALLDOES, WHEN U LOOK AT THE POLLS,HE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO GO IN MORE. BY AND LARGE, THEY DO NOT WANT TO JUST PULL OUT. BUT WHATTHIS REPORT DOES AND I THK WHA A LOT OF THE EXPERT DOES IS TAKE OUT THAT MIDDLE GROUPED THA PEPLE WOULD LOVE TO SEE WHERWE JUST SORT OF ARE THERE FOR COUPLE -- COUP OF YEARS. AND HE IS EENTIALLY SAYING NO. Lehrer: YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A CHOE.

>> YEAH.

>> Lehrer: AND ARE TOO. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MAKE ONAND I JUST MADE IT. WE HAVE TO GO THANK YOU.

>> Lehrer: NEXT TONIGHT, IS WAS THE WE THAT WAS FOR MEINGS OF INTERNATIONAL LEADERS. ONE WAS DIFERENT THAN THE OTHERS: THE CLINTOGLOBAL INITIATIVBROUGHT TOGETHER BIG NAMES FROM THE PRIVATE AS WELL AS PUBLIC WORL. RAY SUAREZAS BEEN COVERING AT EVENT AND HE TALKED WITH JUDY WOODRU EARLIER THIS EVING.

>> odruff: RAY, HELLO THERE.

>> Suarez:I, JUDY.

>> Wdruff: BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESINT, WITH A LOT OF CLOUT BUT NOFFICIAL POWER. SO HOW DOES THIS WORK? WHATXACTLY GOES ON THEE?

>> Suarez: E CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE HAPPENST THE SAME TIME AS THE OPENING OF THE UNITED NATIO GENAL ASSEMBLY EACH YEA BUT UNLIKE THE EMPHIS A COUPLE OF BLOCKS AWAY ATHE U.N., THE CLINT GLOBAL INITIATIVEMPHASIZES A SORT OF HYBRID MARKETPLACE. IT BRINGSOGETHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS, NGOs, BANKERS AND CORPORATE CHIEF, CREATES A KIND OF MARKET OLICE WHERE INVESTORS CAN MEET UP WITH THE PEOPLE LOOKING FORNVESTORS.

>> Woodruf AND THEY GO ON TO MAKE COMMITMENTS, SOME OF THEM TELL US ABOUT TOSE? WHAT ARE SOM EXAMPLES OF THOSE THIS WEEK?

>> COITMENTS ARE THE STOCK AND TRADE OF THIS WEEAT E CGI IN NEW YORK. ANTHEY CAN BE RLLY BIG THINGS KE ADDING ZINC AND IRON TO PACKAGEOOD TO IMPROVE THE NRITIONAL VAL OF FOODS SOLD T OPLE IN THE VELOPING RLD OR ENSURIN MILLIONS OF THE POOREST FARME IN THE WORLD IN AAY THAT THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE BE INSURED BEFRE. AINST CROP LOSSES. GAINST THE LOSS OF LIFE. AND THEIHEALTH. BUT ALSO EMPHASIZING SMALL THINGS. DEVELING MODELS FOR BUILDINGS THAT CAN BE BUILT EASILYND CHEAPLY AND STLL ENERGY EFFICIEN OVER THE YEARS, THE CLINTON GLOBAL ITIATIVE CLAIMS THAT 'S PUT TOGETHER COMMITMENTS, DEALS, PROMISES TOTAL $46 BILLION TO IMPROVE THE ALTH, THE SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE DAILY LIVES OF MLIONS OF THE POORESTEOPLE IN THE EARTH. 46 MILLION DOLLS AS I SAID. AND JST TODAY PEGASUS CAPIAL ADVISORS ANNOUNCED A DEAL FIVE ARS, $2ILLION TO HELP BUILD ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSING.

>> Woodruff: BUAS YOU SAY, THEY ARE ON COMMITMENTS HODOES HE GET PEOPLE TO ULFILL THESE OBLIGATIONS. HOW DO EY MONITOR THIS AND BY T WAY, HE HIMSELF HAD TO DEMONSTRATE SOME ACCOUNTILITY LAST YEARR EARLIER TS YEAR WHEN HIS WIFE W NAMED SELLING OF STATE.

>> arez: WELL, THE CLINTON GLOBAL INIATIVE CONCEDE THAT IT IS DIFFICULTO EASURE THE FOLLOW-THROUGH, THE IMPACT OF THESE COMMITMENTS. AND THEY'VE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OFYEARS TRYING TO CREATE A MACHINERY WRE THERE ISONSTANT COMMUNICATION BETWN ALL THE PARTIE AND CLINTON GLOBAL INITTIVE KNOWS WHETHERHE COMMITMENTS MADE HERE IN NEW YORK ARE ING FULFILLED. THERE IS GULAR MONITORING. THERE IS REGULAR PROGRESS RERTS. AND IF YOU D'T FOLLOW-THROUGH YOU DON'T GET INVITED BAC AND THIS IS A HOT TICKET. AS YOU MENTIONED, THE FRMER PRESIDENT HSELF HAD TO COME CLEAN IN A WAY, BEING RE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHO FUNDS THIS GANIZATION, WHERE THE MONEY COM FROM WHEN HIS OWN WIFE WENT WORK FOR THE OBAMA ADMISTRATION. AND FED SENATE CONFIRMATION AS SECRARY OF STAE. AND INCIDENTALLY, HE WAS ABLE TO GET HER TO CLOSE E CONFERENCE TOD OUTNING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATI'S PLANS FOR FOOD SECITY IN HE MOST CHAENGED PARTS OF THE WORLD.

>> Woouff: I GUESS SHE HAS A HARD TIME SAY NOTHINGHEN HE ASKEHER TO MAKE A SPEECH.

>> Suez: THAT'S RIGHT.

>> Woouff: RAY, HIS ROLE IN ING THIS IS ALMOST UQUE, IN HIS ABILITY TO CONVENE SOMETHING LE THIS.

>> Suarez: WELL, IT'S FUY. HE SAID SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE WEEK AND HES VERY VISIBLE ASHE CONFERENCE ROLLS O ALL WEEK, HE SAID SEVERAL TIMES THATE'S OUT OF PER. BUT THAT'S NO SICTLY SPEAKING SO. HE'S GOT A LOTF INFLUENCE, A LOT OF CLOUT. AND HE'S ABLE TO USE HIS CONVENING POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER EN NORTHERN IRAND ASKED FOR A SPECIAL CONFEREN TO ATTRACT INVESTORS, IN JUST THE SPACE OF COUPLE OF DAYS, A SESSION WAS PUT TOGETHER FOR THIS WEEK'S CONFERENCE SOTHAT PEOPLE INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN NORTHERN IRELAND COULMEET THE TOP OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN BRINGINGINWARD INVESTMENT. AT ONE POINT DURING THAT MEING PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD TE LIGHTS BROUGHT UIN THE HOUSE AND HE STAED NAMING SPECIFIC PEOE OUT INHE AUDIENCE WHO HAD MONEY TO INVEST. LAST NHT DURING A SESSION ON NEW ORLEANS, THEAYOR OF MISSISSIPPI TOWN GOT UP AND TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE WATER SUPPLYN HER TOWN, HOW THE WATER ISEALTHY TO DRINK ANDEETS ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS, BUT IT IS DISCOLOURED. AND HOW THAT DISCOURAGE INVESTMENT. RESIDENT CLINTONSAID OUT LOUD INTO HIS MICROPHONE, IF YOU IN THIS ROOM RAISE HALF THE MONEY, HALF OF THE $18 MILLION NEEDED TO CLN UP THE WATER SUPPLY, I WILL SHAKE LOOSE THE OTHER HA FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. A REALLYKIND OF AUDACIOUS STATEMENT FR SOMEONE WHO SAYS HE'S OUTOF POR.

>> Woodruff:O HE'S ABLE TO DO THINGS, RAY THAT HE COULD T EVEN DOS PRESIDENT.

>> Suez: WELL, A COUPLE OF TIMES DURING TH WEEK WHEN I WAS SPEAKING TO A BANKERS, CEOs, OPLE FROMGOs THEY SA TO ME WELL, WHEN BILL CLINTON AS YOU TO DO SOMETHIN IT'S HARD TO SAY NO. SO IT'S IERESTING TCHING THE CREATION ANDEVELOPMENT THIS ODD HYBRID WITH SOMEONE WHO STILL HA A LOT OF INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT, WHO STILL HAS LOT O CONNECTIONS GOVERNMEN, STAND AT ONE AMS LENGTH REMOV AND IS ABLE TO BRING TOGETHER, USI THE INFLUENCE GAED AS PRESIDENT, TO EXPECT THE WAY THINGS HPEN IN GOVEMENTAL CIRCLES AND PRATE INVESTMENT CIRCLES. IT IS AN ODD HYBRID BUT FOR THE PELE OF THE CGI, I GUESS AN CITING ONE.

>> Woodruff: RAY SUAREZ -- SUAREZ RERT ON THE CLINT GLOBAL INITIATIVIN NEW YK. THANK YOU, RAY. >>uarez: GOOD TO TALK TO YOU,UDY. >>Lehrer: FINALLY TONIGHT, A STORY ABOUT SOME LO LOST GOLD. THE LARGEST COLLTION OF GOLD ARTACTS EVER FOUND IN BRITAIN. INTRICATE PIECEOF ANGLO-SAXON HISTORY MORTHAN 1,300 YEARS OLD. NICHOLAS GLASSF INDEPENDENT TEEVISION NEWS REPORTS.

>> Reporte FIVE DAYS IN JULY AND A MAL DETECTORIST, HERE WAS SO MUCH ANGLOAXON TREASURE, CH OF IT LYING ON SURFACE. HOARD LIKE NO OTHER. TERRY HERBERT COUN'T QUITE BELIE IT. I S QUITE CHUFFED WHEN I SAW IT. >>HE SO HE WHEN HE TERRY SAID HWAS DREAMING THE TTERNS. ONEHING HE SAID, THE SECOND AND DAY THREE OF HISEARCH THERE WAS RRIFIC WEATHER THDER AND LIGHTNING. STUFFED HIS POCKETS FL OF GOLD. CHUCKLED TO HIMSELTHAT IF HE GOT HIBY LIGHTNING, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF THEY FND HIM.

>> porter: WHAT TERRY HERBERT SEEMS TO HAVE FOUND S A COLLECTIONF ANGLO SAXON WAR TROPHIES, STRIPPED FROM SRDS, HELMETS, AND SHIELDS LEFON THE BATTLEFIEL PROFESSIONAL TEAM MOVED IN T COMPLETE THE DI THIS IS SOMETNG YOU VERY RARE SEE, A DIG WHERE THE ARTIFACTS ARE SPLY THERE OVER AR JUST 20 METERS SQUARE. THE FIELD HAD BEEN PLOUGH JUST LAST YEA WE WATCHED INILENCE AND ASTONHMENT AS THEY OWED THE SHORTILM AT THE PRESS NFERENCE. STAFFORDSHIREAS ONCE A BORDEAND, SO ADMIRED BY ANGLO SAXON SCHOLAR J.R. LKEIN. TH ARE STILL COUNTING. OVER 500 KGF GOLD, FRAGMENTS OF ANGLO SAXON ENGLAND, MUH OF FRAGMENTS FROM GLO SACKSON ENGLD. MH OF IT EXQUISITLY WORKED.

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>> IT ALLOWS USO REINTERPRET. THIS ESN'T DIMINISH THE IMPORTANCE, GIVING IT A CTEXT. HERE WE'VE GOT EUGH MATERIAL TO LK FOR CHRONOLOGY QUENCES.

>> Reporter: A DECADE AGA FIND LIKE THIS ULD HAVE AUTOMATILLY ENDED UP AT ITISH MUSEUM. BUT A DESION MADE TO LET IT GO TO MUSEUMS IN THE MIDLAN IF THEY CAN RAE THE MONEY. T HOARD IS NOW TREASURE TROVE A PANEL WILL DEDE WHAT IT IS WOTH. TERRY HERBT AND LANDOWNER WILL SPLIT IT 50/50. THERE'LL BE NSURPRISE IF THEY TH BECOME MILLIONAIRES. >>ehrer: AGAIN, THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DAY, PRESIDENT OBA AND THE LEADERS OFRITAIN AND FRANCEONDEMNED IRAN FOR SECRETLY BUILDING ATHER PLANT TO ENRH URANIUM. BUT IRAN INSISTED IHAS COMPLIEWITH ITS INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS THE GROUP OF0 ECONOMIC SUMMIT CONCLUDED IN PITTSBURGH. WLD LEADERS PROMISED TO CONTINUE STIMULUS PROGRS. THEALSO DECIDED TO GIVE A GREATER SAY IN POLICY MING TO CHINA AND OER GROWING ECONOMS. AND FIVE MORE AMERICAN OOPS WERE KILLED AFGHANISTAN. NEWSHOUR.PBS.ORG TWO ONLINE ONLY FEATURES TIGHT YOU CAN STEN TO BETTY ANN BOWSER'S PODCAST WRAPPING UPHE HEALTH CARE RORM NEWS THIS WE. AND TO JEFFREY BROWS CONVERSATION WITHRITER LORRIE MOORE ABOUT HER NEW NOL, "A GATE AT T STAIRS." MOE TALKED OF HOW SHE CRAFTED HER STORY OF A MIESTERN STUDENT IN THE PERD JUST AFTER THE/11 ATTACKS. HERE AN EXCERPT.

>> EY TRY TO PUT EVERYTHING THAT INTESTING AND INTERESTING ABOUT THE TIME AND INTERESTING OUT THE PLACE. AND I TED TO THK WHAT WOLD -- WHAT WOULD BE THE LARGEST AND MO COMPLICATED AND MOST INTERESTI THINGS THIS CHARACTER COULD REASONABL ENCOUNTER IN THAT PARTULAR YEAR OF HER LIFE AND HOW WOULD SHE RESPOND TO THEM IF SHE ENCOUNRED THE O TO SOME EXTNT THE NOVEL IS A LITTLE AMMED --

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