The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer : WETA : September 17, 2009 7:00pm-8:00pm EDT; The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer

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>> Woodruff: GOOD EVENG. I'M JUDY WOODRF. ON THE NEWSHOUR THIS THURSDA THE LEAD SRY IS PRESIDENT OBAMA SHELS A BUSH-ERA MISSILE DENSE PROGRAM AIMED AT IRAN. THEN, WE HAVE THE HER NEWS OF THE Y: KWAME HOLMANOOKS AT THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE ROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNG, THE UNINSURED AND SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE; JEFFREY BRN TALKS TO HOUSE MINORITY LEADER JOHN BOEHNER ABOUT HEALTH CARE D MORE; THE LAST IN RAY SUAREZ'S SERS FROM TANZANIA; PLUS, A CONVERSATIONITH TED KENNEDY, JR., ABOUT HIS FAER'S MEMOIR, "TRUCOMPASS." AND REMEMBERG THE RINGING VOICE OF FOLK LEND MARY TRAVERS OF PETER, PAUL AND MY. MAJOR FUING FOR THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER IS PROVIDEBY:

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>> Woodruff: PRESINT OBAMA TODAY SCRAPPED THE BUSH MINISTRATION'S PLAN FOR A MISSILE SHIELD IN EAERN EUROPE. HE SAID IT NO LONGER MATCHEDHE NATURE OF THE REAT. NEWSHOUR CORRESPONDENTPENCER MICHELS HAS OULEAD STORY REPORT. >>eporter: THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME THIS MORNING FROM PRESIDENT AMA AT THWHITE HOUSE.

>> PRESIDENT BUSH WAS RIT THAT AN'S BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. THIS NEW PROACH WILL PROVIDE CAPABILITIES SOONER, BUILD ON PROVENYSTEMS, AND OFFER GREATER DEFENSES AGAINST THE THREATOF MISSILE ATTACK THAN THE 2007 EUROPEAN MISSILE FENSE PROGRAM.

>> Reporter: AT THE PENTAGON DEFENS SECRARY GATES SAID NEW INTELLIGCE SHOWED IRAN IS DEVELOPING SHORT AND MEDIUM-RANGE MISSILEASTER THAN EXPECTED SO THE DENSE SYSTEM HAS TO CHANGE A WELL.

>> THIS POSES AN ININCREASED AND MORE IMMEDIATE THREAT TO O FORCES ON THEEUROPEAN CNTINENT ASELL AS TO OURLLIES. ON THE OTHER HAND, OUR INTELLIGENCE ASSESSNT ALSO NOW ASSESSES THAT THE THRT OF POTENTIAL IRANIAN INTERCTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE CAPABILITIES HAS BEEN SLOWER TO DEVELOP TH WAS ESTIMATED IN 2006.

>> Reporter: UNDER E ORIGINAL SYSTEM, POLAND HAD AGREED T HOST TEN MISSILE INTERCEPTORS AND A RADAR INSTALLATIOWOULD BASED IN THE CECH REPUBLIC. THSYSTEM WASESIGNED TO SHOOT DO INCOMINGONG-RANGE MISSES BUT WAS NEV BUILT. UNDER E NEW PLAN, EXISTIN MISSILE INTERCEPTORS, WHICH ARE SSILES THEMSELVES, WOULD BE DEPLOYED O U.S. SHIPS F SOUTHERN EUROPETARTING IN 11. FOLLOWED IN TER YEARS WITH ADDITIONAL GROUND-BASED MIILES. E BUSH PLAN HADED TO STRAINED U.S. RELATNS WITH THE RUSSIANS O FEARED THE SYST WAS AIMED AT THEM. BUT BOTH PRESIDENT OBAMA AND SECRETARY GATES INSISTED TODAY RUSS'S OPPOSITION WAS NOT A MAJOFACTOR IN THIS DECISION.

>> WE'VE ALS REPEATEDLY MADE CLEAR TO RUSS THAT ITS CONCERNS AUT OUR PREVIO MISSILE DEFENSEROGRAMS WERE ENTIRELY UNFODED. >>HE DECIONS ON THIS WERE DRIVEN, I WOULSAY, AOST EXUSIVELY BY THE CHANGED INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT D THE ENHANCED TECHLOGY. IT REALLY WAA ZERO-BASED LOOK AT BOTH THE THREAT A OUR CAPABILITY TO DEAL WITH .

>> Reporter: THE U.S. DECISION DR PRAISE FROM RUSH PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV.

>> ( translated ): W APPRECIATE THIS RESPONSIBLE MOVE BY THE S. PRESIDENT TOWARD REALIZG OUR AGREEMENT. I AM REA TO CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE. >>eporter: IN WSAW, LISH PRIM MINISTER DONALD TUSK SAID POLAND WILL STL BE SECURE. THE C P.M., JAN FISHER, SAID THE ANNOUNCEMEN WILL NOT CHANGE RELATIS WITH THE U.S. BUT IN THE U.S.CONGRESS, WCH S TO FUND ANY MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM, THENNOUNCEMENT DREW IMMEDIE AND SHARPLY OOSING VIEWS.

>> I THINK THIS ISBRILLIANT. THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE RE-EVALUATED THE TREAT, THEY HAVE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT THE ADNCED TECHNOLOGIES E NOW, WHAT THIS MEANS TO OUR RELAONSHIP IN NAT AND WHAT THIS MEANSN OUR BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP WITH RUSSIAS VERY VERY IMPORTANT.

>> THIS ILL-ADVISED DECISION DOES LITE MORE THAN EMWER SSIA AND IRAN AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR EUROPEAN ALLIES. I THINK IT SHWS A WLFUL DETERMINATION TO CONTINU IGNORING T THREAT POSED BY ME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS REGIMES IN THE WORLD WHILE TAKING ONE OF THE MOST IORTANT DEFENSESAGAINST IRAN OFF THE TAE.

>> Reporr: INRAN, A SENIOR GOVERNMENT SOURCE SA THE ONGOIN CONFROATION OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM COULD SE AS A RESULT OF TODAY'S U.S. DECISION.

>> Woodruff: MARGARETARNER HAS MORE.

>> Warner: NOW MORE CONTRASTING EWS ON TODAY'S DEVELOPMENT FR TWO MEN WITH EXPENSEIVE EXPERIENCE DEALING WH EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNI. RICHD BURT SERVED AS BASSADOR TO GERMANY, CHIEF ARMS NEGOTIATOR, ANDSSISTANT SECRETARY OF STA FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS DUNG THE REAGAN ADNISTRATION. HE'S NOW WITH A BUSINE CONSULNG FIRM, AND PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL ZERO, A NUCLEAR AR CONTROL MOVEMENT DAVID KRAM WAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DECRACY, FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR, AND DEPY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATEOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS DURING E ST BUSH ADMINISTRATION. HE'S NOW A SENIOR FELLOW ATHE GERMAN MARSHL FUND. WELCE TO YOU BOTH. DAD CRAMER, BEGINNING WITH YOU YOUR IMMEDIATE REAION TO THIS MOVE BPRESIDENT OBAMA. IS A SUPPORTER OF WHAT PRESIDENT BU HAD ENVISIONED WITH POLANDND THE CHE REAP. I'M VERY DISAPPOINTEBY TODAY' DECISION BY THE PRIDENT. THINK IT REFLECTSA CAVING TO RUSSIAN PRESSURE I THINK ITLSO IS A BETRAYALOF THE GOVERNNTS IN POLA AND THE ECH REPUBLIC. I SUPPORTED AINGR ENHANCING EFFORTS TOEAL WITH DIFFEREN KINDS THREATS THAT MAY EMERG FROM IRAN. BUT ILSO THINKIT'S A MAJOR MISTE NOT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT E POSSIBLE LONG RAIN THREATS THAT THE MISSILEYSTEM AND RADAR POLAND AND THE CHECK REAP RESPECTIVELYOULD HAVE BEEN DLING WITH.

>> Warner: CAVING TO RUSSIAN PRESSURE?

>> WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S CAVI TO RUSSIAN PRESSURE AND I AGREE WITH THE STATENTS THAT THE PRESENT AND THE SECRETARY DEFENSE ME. I THINK IT WASAINLY MILITARY AND TECHNICAL GROUNDS. I INK THEY'VE CO UP WITH AN APPROACH IS MOOCUSED ON THE EMERGI IRANIAN THREAT ANDNOT A DESIRE TO BLD A GBAL BALLISTIC MISSILEHIELD WHICH I DON'T THINK THE TECHNOLOGY IS IN PLACE TO THAT. AND I DON'T THINK IT STRATEGILLY MAKES SENSE. THERE WILL BE SOME BENETS. I THINK THOSE BENEFITS WILL BE LARGE WITHIN THE NTO ALLIANCE AS TH ARE IN TERMS OF FACILITATE A DIALOGUE WITH THE RUSSIANS. THE FACT OF THE MATTER , IS TH WAS NEVER A POPULAR DECISION WITH THE NATO ALLIES. IT WAS ORIGILLY AGREED WI POLAND AND THE CZEC REPUBLIC BEHIND THEACKS OF SOMEOF OUR MAJOALLIES. I THINK IT WILL FACILATE MORE UNITY THIS ISSUE WITHIN THE ALLIANCE A IT WILL ALSO FACILITATE, I THINK,ROGRESS WITH THE RUSSIANS.

>> Warner: BEFO WE CONTINUE, MORE ON THE POLITAL AND GEOPOLITICAL FRONT, LET'S DEAL MORE WITH THE RITS OF WHAT SECRETARY GATES SAID. HIS POINT WAS OUR ASSESSMENT HAS CHANGED AND THE TURE OF THE THREAT HAS CHANGED AND THE OLD SYSTEM WAS N GNG TO ARESS THE SHORT-RANGE AND MEDIUM-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE THRT AND EY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THE FIRST MISLE INTERCEPTORS OUT THERE BY 211 ON SPS.

>> I'M SUPPORTIVE OF GETTING MISSILES O INRCEPTORS OUT TO DEAL WITTHE ORT-RANGE THREAT. BUT I SE HOPE THATHIS NEW ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT THAT IS COMING FRO THE ITEL COMMUNITY IS RIG BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A MAJORISTAKE IF WE G THIS WRONG. I WOULD MUCPREFER TO EYRE ON E SIDE OF CAUTION, AND BY THAT I MEANAVING MISSILE SYSTEMS IN PLACE AND DEALING WITH LONGANGE THREAT THAT MAY MATERIALE. KEEP IN MIND, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, TH WERE ENVISIING THIS PLAN, IT WASN'T TO DEAL WITH A THREAT THAT WAS GOING TO COME FROMRAN TOMOOW OR THEEXT DAY OR EVEN NEXT YEAR, IT WAS TO BE READY FO SOMETHING THAT WOULD COMELONG BY 20 OR SO. AONG-RANGE THREA

>> Wner: BUT WHY IS THAT VISABLE OR PREFERLE TO THE PROACH THE OBAMA MINISTRATION IS TAKING WHICH IS THE OTHER WA AROUND, LET'S DEAL WITH THE ORT-TERM THREAT CHNOLOGY WE'VE GOT NOW AND MAY ROBUSTNOUGH DOWN THE RO DEAL WITH THE LONG RGE THREAT?

>> WHAT I WOULDIKE TO SEE IS A COMPLEMENTARY SYSTEM WHEREE WOULDEAL WITH ANY SHORT OR INTERMEDIATE RANGE THREAT. SO I'M SUPPORTIVE OF WH THE ADMINISTRAON ANNOUNCED TODAY IN THAT RESPECT. BUT I THINK WE VE TO SIMULTANEOUSLY PROCE WITH THE POLES AND CZECHS AND WHAT WE HAD IN MIND LAST YEAR. WAR WHAT ARE DO YOU S TO THAT? WHY NOT KEEP THEM BOTH GOING

>> WELL, IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL WE COULD FND EVERY SSIBLE DEFENSE PROJECT AND PROTECT AINST EVERY CONCEIVABLE RISK. BUT E FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WE JUST HEARD THE DATE 2015, I'M NOT SU THE IRANIANSILL EVER DEPLOY INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC SSILE. WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE DELOPING AND BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF DEPLOYING ORT ANDEDIUM-RANGE SYSTEMS. THOSE ARE CLEARLY A THREAT TO OUR....

>> Couc: WHICH ALREADY HAVE PART OF SOUERN EUROPE AND TURKEY IN RANGE.

>> RHT. D THEY THREATEN OUR ALLIES IN THE GU AND THE MIDDLE EAST. AND WE HAVTO RECOGNIZE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT SURE WHETHER E IRANIANS EN PLAN TO DEOY NUCLEAR WEAPONS YET. WE DO NEED TO TAKE PRUDENT STEPS TO DO TH. AND WEAVE BEEN DISCUSSING TH THE EUROPEANS T OR5 YEARS NOW APPROACS TOTHEATER, BALLISTIC MISSE DEFENSE WHICH MAKE A LOT OF SENSE. BUTO DEPLOY A SYSTEM WERE THER ARE REAL TECHNICAL UBTS WHETHER IT WOULD ACTUALLY EVEN WORK AND WHEN LARG PORTIONS THE DEFEE ESTABLISHMENT-- INCLUDING THE JOINT CHIEFSND THE CIVILIAN DEFENSE MANERS DOUBTETHE NEED FOR TH SYSTEM-- TO RUSH AHEADITH THIS SYSTEM IS SPLY A WASTEOF MONEY AND IT'S NOT PRUDENT WHEN THERE WERE SUC HIGH POLITICAL COSTS. YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT REMEMBER ABOUT THE CZECHSND THE POLES IN PARTICULAR IS THEIR PLIAMENTS DN'T EVEN RATIFYED THIS AGREEMENT. AND THIS WAS POINTED OUT TODAY BY SECRETARY GATES WN HEAID THERE'S A DEY IN THIS PROCESS BECAUSE WE CAN'T G THE PARLIAMENTS INHESE TWO COUNTRIES TO EVEN GALONG WITH THIS IDEA.

>> Warner: SOHAT IMPACT... YOU'VE DEALT WITH EjB RUSSIANS, THE SOVIETS IN YOUR DAY, WHAT IMCT DO YOU THINK THIS WILL HA ON RUSSIA?

>> I THINK THERE ARE HUGE SMILES INOSCOW TODAY AND TOMORROW. I THINRUSSIANS WILL VIEW TH AS A MAJOR VICTY. THEY HAVE BEEN ON A RELENTLESS CAMPAIGN ATTACKING AND CRITICIZING THE PLS FOR POLAND AN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. THEY HE LINKE TO CONCLUSION OF A PT-START ARMS CONTROL REEMENT AND BASILLY SAID SUCH AN AGREEMENT WOULD ON THE R IF WE WENT AHEAD WITH THE MISSILE DENSE PLANS IN POND AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC. I THINK LSSON THEY WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THIS IS AT LOUD COMPLAINING AND EVEN BULLY TACTICS SUCH AS THREATENING MISSILE AGNST POLAND AND TH CHECK REPUBLIC WK AND I THINK THAT'S A DANGEROUSISK.

>> Warner: I N'T NECESSARILY AGREE TH. I DON'T THINK E RUSSIANS WIL NECESSARILY E THIS AS A CONCESSION. >>arner: YOU DON'T?

>> THINK IN FACT IS AS THE RUSSIAFOREIGN MINISTER HAS SAID, HE THOUGHT THIS WAS A BAD DECISION IN THE FIRSTLACE. AND ERE, IN FACT, I AGREE. I THINK THAT IT COULD FACILITATE GREAR PROGRESS IN THE... IN MS REDUCTIONS, WHIC IS PROBABLY GOOD THING. IT'S IN OUR IEREST AS MUCH AS THE RUSSIANS. IT WILL YBE MAKE IT EASIE TO T LOWER LEVS OF OFFENSIVE NUCLEAR WEAPS DEPLOYED BY BOTH SIDES. BUTCONG THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTTION BELIEVES AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS HAS SORT OF UNLOCKED THEOOR,T'S BEEN AREEMPTIVE CON STOGS GET AN REEMENT. THE KEY INT HERE,ARGARET, IS I DON'T THINKHIS DECISION WAS TAKEN BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS COMPLAIN. THIS DECISION SAKEN BECAUSE IT DIDN'T MAKE... IT WASN'T GOOD DEFENSEOLICY AND IT WASN'T GOOD ALLIANCE MAGEMENT PICY.

>> Warner: NOW, ONE OF THE TRADEOFFS THAT H BEEN DISCUSSED EAR ON A PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS EVEN ELUDED THIS WAS A TRADEOFF BETWEEN TH U.S. PERHAPS ANGING ITS PLANSN MISSILE DEFENSE ANTHE RUIANS BEING MORE WILLING TO STEP UP THE PRESSURE ON IRAN IF NECESSAROVER ITS NUCLEAR PROGRA W, HOW DO YOU THINK THISOVE AFFECTS THAT WHOLE CAULATION BOTH BY THE RUSSNS AND THE IRANIANS. THE RUSSIANS VE FLAT REJECTED THIS ND OF LINKA AND THEY HAVE SAID EVEN VERY RECENTLY WHEN THE TALK OF NEW SANCTIONS RE BEING CONSIDERED AGNST IRAN FOR THE CONTINUED DEFIAN IN THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL THAT THEY WOULD N GO ALONG WITH FURTH SANCTIONS. I N'T THINK THE DECISIO TODAY IS GOING T PRODUCE THE RUSSIANS IN A MORE POSITIVE DIRECTION INCLINED WITH OUR SITION. I INK 'S WISHFUL THINKING TO ANTICIPATE THAT DECISION LIK TODAY'S IS GOING T LEAD THE RUIANS MORE IN ZINC WITH OUR THINKING.

>> I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT AND I DON'T THINK AT WAS GUING THIS DECISION. I DON'T THK ANYBODY SAW A TRADEOFF HERE THAT SOMEH WE'RE GOING TO GETTHE RUSSIANS ON OUR SIDE SEE A VIE AN.

>> Warner: BUT I MEAN...

>> THAT SAID, I THK WE EXAGGERATE THE ABILITY OTHE RUSSIA TO DELIVER THE IRANNS INHE FIRST PLACE.

>> I AGREE THA

>> IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, IT'S GOIN TO DEPEND AS THE ADMINISTRATION HASAID, ON THE ABILITY OF THE UNITED STATESO GET INTO ACONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE WITHHE IRANIANS. AND IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME WE CAN DOHAT RIGHT NOW WITHTHE IRANIANS.

>> Warner:ND HOW DO YOU BOTH VERY BRIEFLY THK THIS WILL BE RE IN TEHRAN?

>> I THINK PARTICARLY AHEAD OF A ETING COMING UP ON OCTOBER 1 THEY WILL VI THIS POSITIVELY.

>> WarnerOSITIVELY? EVEN THOUGH THERS NOW GOING TO BE A MRE OF A DEFENSE AGAINST THE TECHNOLOGY TH'VE GOT?

>> THE WAY THIS IS BEING PORTRAYED IN MT MEDIA REPORTS, THE ADMINISTRATION IS ABANDONING THMISSILE DEFENSE PLANS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.

>> I DON'T SEE IT HAVING A LARG IMPACT ON THE IRANIANS. I THINK THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS RGELY DESIGNED TO ACCENTUATE CHAT TIR STANDING IN THE REGION, TO SHOW THAT THEY'RE AN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGAL COUNTRY. AND WANT TO REPEAT, I DON'T THINK EY'VE MADE THE DECISION YET ON WHETH TO ACTUAY DEPLOY A NUCLEAR WEAPON VERSUS HAVING URANIUM ENRICHME CAPABILI AND THE ALITY AT SOMEUTURE POINT TO MAYBE ACQUIRE NUEAR WEAPONS.

>> IUST HOPE WE DON'T FIND OUT TOLATE.

>> Wner: ALL RIGHT. I HOPE WE DON'T TOO. RICK BURT AND DAD CRAMER, THANK YOU BOTH

>> THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: IN OTHENEWS TOY, A SUICIDE CAR BOMBING IN AFGHANISTAS CAPITAL KILLED HALF A DOZEN ILIAN SOLDIERS AND TEN AFGHAN CIVILIA. THTALIBAN CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY. WE HE A REPORT FROM NICK PAYTON WALSH OF INDEPENDEN TELEVISION NEWS.

>> Rorter: JUST 300 METERS FROM THE U.S. EMBASY, THE HEART OF WHAT'S MEANT BE KAB'S SAFE ZONE, THE TALIBAN STRUCK T AGAIN. A CONVOY OF ITALIAN TROOPS ON THE ROAD TO THE AIRPORTIT BY A SUICIDE BLT. TWO VEHICL WERE FLIPPED OVER ANDIXOLDIERS DIED. ITALY HAS LOST TOTAL OF 20 TROOPSINCE THEY CAME HERE IN 04. A GUNSHOT, PANIC, EVE IN THE TERMATH. "RIGHT AFTER THE BG I RUSHED OUT AND SA A VEHICLE TOTALLY DESTROYED D ALL PERNNEL INSIDE THE VEHIC WERE KILLED." Reporter: TEN CIVILIANS ALSO KILLED AND 55 INJURED. KABUS NOW BEEN HIT BADLY THREE TIMES IN ABOUT A MONTH AND NATO'S NEW MANTRA: TO PROTECT CIVIANS FROM THE TALIBAN,S CHALLENGED TODAY. THIS BLAST CAME ASHE FINAL RELTS EMERGED OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT WAS SEEN AS MAKE OR BREAK BY NATO BUNOW HAS BEEN WIDY COEMNED AS FRAUDULENT. YET PRESIDENT KARZAI WITH 54% OF THE VOTE FT VICTOR ENOUGH OVER HIS MAIN CHALLENGER ABLLAH ABDULLAH TO CLAIM TH TODAY.

>> I BELIEVE FIRMLY FIRMLYIN THE INTEGRITY THE ELECTION, IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLE, AND IN E INTEGRITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

>> Reporter: MR. KZAI ADMTED TVERYONE KEPT TOE THE RULES.

>> THERE WERE SOME GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO WERE PARTIAL TOWARDS ME. VERY, VERY MH. THERE WERE OVER GOVNMENT OFFICIALS WHO WE PARTIAL TOWARDS ABDULLAH, VERY,ERY MUCH.

>> Reporr: BUT EUROPEAN OFFICIALS SAID A THIRDF VOTES COULD HAVE BEEN FRAUDULENT.

>> Woodruff:N ITALY, PRIME MINISTERILVIO BERLUSCONI SAID HE WANTS TO WITHDRAW ILY'S 3,0 TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ALSO TOD, AN AFGHAN COMMISSION REPORTED 3CIVILIANS AND 69 TALIBAFIGHTERS DIED IN A NATO AIR STRIKE THIMONTH. U.S. PLANES WERE CALLED IN WN MILITANTS HICKED A PAIR OF FU TANKERS. THE REPORT SAID THAT W A MISTAKE. ALSO BLAMED THE TALIBAN FOR PUTTING CIVILIANS RISK. TO IQ NOW, WHERE VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS ANUNCED THAT IF ITS GOVERNMENT ASK AMERICAN TROOPS TOEAVE EARLIER THAN PLANNED, THE S. WILL GO ALONG. DEN TODAY WOUND UP A VISIT T BAGHDAD. IRAQI LEADS HAVE TALKED OF HOLDING A REFEREND ON THE ISE IN JANUARY. ON THEURRENT TIMETABLE, ALL AMERICAN FORCES WI BE OUT OF IRAQ BY THE D OF 2011. ONE SOUTHEAST ASIA'S MOST WANTED AL-QAEDA LEADERS WAS KILLED IN INDONESITODAY. NOORDIN MOHAMMED T HAD BEEN IMPLICATED IN EVERY MAJOATTACK THERE SINCE 2002. POLICE RAID HIS HIDEOUT TODAY NEAR SOLO CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA'S MAIN ISLD, AND A GUNFIGHT ERUPTED TER SEVERAL HOURS, AN EXPLOSION BLEW APART THE HOU WHERE E SUSPECTS WERE HOLED UP. NOORDIN AND THREE OTHERSERE FOUND DEAD. THE U.S. HOUSE HASOTED TO PLACE ALL STENT LOANS FOR COLLEGE UNDER PUBLICONTROL. THE LL WOULD ALSO GREATLY EXPAND AID FOR NEEDYTUDENTS. DEMOCRATS SHED THE MEASURE TODAY TO TAKE PRATE LENDERS OUT THE PROGRAM. REPUBLICANS COMPLAED ABOUT ANOTHER GOVERNNT TAKEOVER OF A PRIVATE SECTORUNCTION. ON WALSTREET TODAY, THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL ARAGE LOST MORE THAN SEVEN POINTSO CLOSE UNDER 9,784. THE NASDAQ FELL SIX POIN TO CLOSE AT 2,126.

>> Woouff: AND STILL TO COME ON T NEWSHOUR TONIGHT: MINORITY LEADEBOEHNER; MALARIA IN TANZANIA; SENATOR KENNEDY'S MEMO; AND FOLK SGER MARY TRAVERS. THAT FLOWS OUR CLOSE-UP ON YOUNG AMERICANS WITHOUT ALTH INSURANCE. NEWSHOUR CORRESPONDE KWAME HOLMAN HAS THETORY FOR OUR HEAL UNIT. THE UNIT IS A PARTNEHIP WITH THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNN FOUNDATION.

>> Repter: HANNAH HOWARD LIV EVERYDAY WITH CHRONI PAIN.

>> I HAVE SEVER GYNECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS A I HURT MY BACK A FEW WEEKS AGO. I'M IN ON STANT PAIN.

>> Repter: THE TINY HOME-BASED MARKETG COMPANY IN ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, WHERE E 21-YEAR-OLD WORKCAN'T AFRD TO PROVIDE COVERAGE A HOWA SAYS AN INVIDUAL PLAN IS FAR TOO EXPENSE.

>> ANYTHING WI A DEDUCTIBLE UNDER A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND A CO-PAY TO GO SEE PHYSICIA I WAY OUT OF MY PRI RANGE. AND ANYTHING INY PRICE RAE S A DEDUCTIBLE O ABOUT FIVE GRAND, WHICH DOESN'TELP ME AT ALL.

>> Reporter: HOWARDS NOT ALONE. NEARLY 14 MILLION YNG PEOPLE-- ABOUT A THIRD OF THOSE AGED 19 TO 29-- AREUNINSURED. THEY'RE THELARGEST SEENT OF THE CNTRY'S 46 MILLN UNINSURED ANONE OF THE PRIMARY TARGETFOR COVERAGE UER THE INRANCE OVERHAUL BILLS MOVING THROUGH CONGSS.

>> IT'S QITE REASONABLE THAT MANYF THEM CAN'T AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE COVERA.

>> Reporter: DIANE ROLAND OF THE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATIONS AN EXPERT ON THE UNINSUD.

>> THEY'RE LING COVERAGE FROM THEIR PARENTS' POLICY AS THEY AGE. THEY'RE NO LONER ELIGIBLE FOR COVERAGE UNDER MEDAID THAT'S OFFERED TO PEOPLE UNDER AGE 19. Reporter: YOUNG ADULTS HAVE BEEN DUBBEYOUNG INVINCIBLES BECAUSE MOST ARE HEALTHYND THINK THEY'LL STRAYHAT WAY. BUT IS ALSO TRUE TH MANY YOUNG PEOP SIMPLY CAT AFFORD TO BUY COVEGE. ABOUT HALF OF THEM EARN LESS THAN $1,000 YEAR. ONLY 10% HAVE CPLETED COLLE. AND EVENHOSE WHO HAVE OFN FIND THEMSELVES IN LOW WAGE OR PART-TIME JOBS THATON'T OFFER BENEFITS. 22-YR-OLD YUWANDE AKINLAAY HAS BEEN WAIT S REING IN WASHINON, D.C. SINCE SHE GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.

>> I'M AAYS LOOKING AT A NEFITS PACKAGE. THAT'S MY MAIN GO. MORE THAN GETTING PAI A LITTLE T.

>> Reporter: O INSURANCE OPTI FOR YOUNG ADULTS IS A SO-CALLED BARE-BON POLICY OFFEREBY SOME COMPANIES. PREMIUMS ARE RELAVELY LOWUT CORAGE KICKS IN ONLYFOR HIGH COST CATASTROPHIC ILLNESSES.

>> YOU MIGHTAVE A DEDUCTIBLE $3,000 OR $4,000 OR EVEN $5 THAT Y HAVE TO PAY OUT OF POCKET FOR HEAH CAREXPENSES BEFORE YOU GET ANY HEALTH INSURAE COVERAGE. SO THAT MAY HELP YOU IF YOU HAVE A CANCERIAGNOSIS OR RELY CATAROPHIC AUTO ACCIDENT, BUT IT WON'T HELP YOU RY MUCH TO GET SOME OF THE BASIC PIMARY AND PREVEATIVE CARE THAT YOU NE. IN ADDITION, MANY OF THE BAREONES ANS MAY PREVENT THE INDIVIDUALS FROM BEING ABLEO EVEN AFFORD THEIR DEDUCTIBLE AND DRIVE THEM IO MEDICAL DEBT.

>> Repter: YOUNG ADUL WHO SPENT ANY TIM UNINSURED WERE TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE MEDICAL DE AS THEIR PEERS WH WERE INSURED THROUGHOUT THE YEA ACCORDING T A REPORT BY THE COMMONWETH FUND LAST MONTH. IT FND NEARLY HALF OF UNINSURED YOUNG ADULTS REPORTED FFICULTIES PAYING MECAL BILLS AN7% WERE CARRYING MEDICAL DEBT. SOME YOUNG PEOPLE SIGN UP FOR TEMPORARY INSURANCE PLANSHAT END AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME A ARE NOT GUARANTEED RENEWABLE. PRESIDENT OBAMA TK HIS PUSH R HEALTH INSURANCE FORM BEFORE A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOP AT THENIVERSITY OF MARYLA TODAY.

>> THANK YOU,OLLEGE PARK!

>> Repter: HIS PLAN WOULD MANDATE TH YOUNG ADULTS AND EVERYONE ELSE GET INSUNCE OR PAY A PNALTY, BUT OFFER GOT SUBSIDIES FOR THOS WHO CAN LEAST AFFORD IT. HEALTH CARE ABOUT MORE THAN THE DETAILS OF A POLICY, IT'S ABOUT WHAT KD OF CNTRY YOU WANT TO BE.

>> Reporter: MANYEARD THE CALL INCLUDING 24-AR-OLD STUDENT EMMA SAND.

>> I'M HERE BECAUSE SUPPORT HEALTHARE REFORM AND I WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE THE CHANCE TO HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE AND THE SECURITYND SAFETY OF KNOWG TH IT'S THERE FOR THEM IF THEY NEEDT.

>> Repoer: BUT MANY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CONFUSE

>> I'M FOLLOWING I PRETTY CLOSELY AND I DON' UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT.

>> Reporter: TWO YOUNG GEORGETOWNAW SCHOOL STUDENT VE SET OUT TO ANGE THAT. THEY LAUNED AN ORGANITION CALLED "YOUNG INVINCLES." THEIR WEB SIDE CARRIESTORIES FROM THE YOUNG AND UNINSURED AND CALLS ON THEM TO BE MORE INVOLVED IN THEEALTH CARE REFORM DEBATE. ARIETUZIAK IS A CO-FODER. THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS ISUR CRISIS. GIVING TM THE FACTS ABOUT W THAT'S THE CASE. TELLG THE STORIES OF UNG AMERICANS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES IN IN THEHEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND MOBILIZING OUR COMMUNITY S THAT OUR VOICES ARE ARD AS THE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE IN WASHINGTON. I MAKES TUESDAY YAK AND CO-FOUNDER AARON SMI VOLUNTEERED ONHE OBAMA PRESIDENTIALAMPAIGN. TH WANT TO MAKE SURE REFORM ETS THE NEEDS OF THEOUNG.

>> WE ALSO BEEVE THAT EVY AMERICAN SHOULD HAVEEALTH INSURANCE.

>> Reporter: AND SE YOUNG PEOPLE RIST THE IDEAOF BEING REQUIRED TO PURCHASE HLTH INSURANCE. CLARK OUPER IS A 23-YEAR-D RKETING CONSULT TONIGHT. I MAKE ENOUGH THAT I WOULD BE FOED UNDER THESE PLANS TO BUY INSURANCE MY OWN. SO I'M LEFT IN THE MIDDLE SO I'M LE PAYING FOR SOMETHING THAT I DON'TANT BECAUSE SOME BUREAUCRAT DECID THAT I SHOULD.

>> Reporter: LIKE MANY HIS A, ROUPER HAS GONE INAND OUT OF HEAL COVERAGE BY CHOICE.

>> I UNDERSTAND MY TUATION AND I ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCES. I CHANGE JOB A LOT, I CHANGE EMPLOYERS OFTEN. RIGHT NOW IHOOSE TO BE UNINSURED. I HAVEHE MONEY IN THE BUDGET FOR IT BUT RIGHT NOW I CHOOSE TO INVEST IN THE HER THINGS LIKE SAVINGS, MY GYM MEMBERSHIP, I TRY INVEST IN MY HEALTH INSTEAD OF PAYING FO BEING SICKFTER THE FACT.

>> Report: YOUNG ADTS SUCH AS ROUP MAY BE ABLE TO PUT OFF TTING HEALTH INSURANCE, BUT THOSE LIKE HANNAH HOWARD WORRY ABOUT HOW TH'LL FARE WITHOUT IT.

>> Woodrf: NOW TO OUR NEWS MAKER INTEIEW WITH THE TOP REPUBLICAN IN THE HELP REP TIFS JOHN BOEHNER. JEFFREY BROWN SPOKEITH HIM A SHT WHILE AGO. BROUP BROUP CONGRESAN BOEHNER, THANYOU FOR BEINGERE.

>> I'MLAD TO BE HERE.

>> YESTERDAY SENATOR BCUS CAME OUT WITH A PLA THAT HAD NO PUIC OPTION, A MUCH LOWER PRICE TAG THAN PREVIOUS PNS, PARS FOR ITSELF ACCORDIN TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFI, EMED TO INCORPORA THINGS REBLICANS TALKED ABOUT WANTING BUT GOT NO REPUBLICAN SPORT. WHY NOT? >>ELL, THERE CLEAY ARE SOME THINGSN THERE THAT RUBLICANS DO SUPPORT. BUT WHENOU STEP BACK AND LOOK AT THIS, IT STILL HAS A BIG GOVERNMENTAKEOVER OF OUR HETH CARE SYSTEM. WHETHER IT'S THE CO-OPS, WHETHER IT'S THE MANDATESNNDIVIDUALS THE MANDATES ON CPANIES, T UNFUED MANDATES ON STATES. AND STILL COSTS SOME $800 BILLION OF MONEY THAT DON'T HAVE D SO A STEP? THE RIGHT DIRECTION BUT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS UNDERSND THAT WE DO HAVEHE BEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM I THE WORLD. IT'S NOT PERFECT. AND WE CAN FIX THE PROBLEMS IN THCURRENT SYSTEM WITHOUT THROWING T WHOLE SYSTEM AWAY AND STARTING OVER WITH THIS GORNMENT TAKEOVERECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY AT'S WHAT IT IS. BROWN BROWN WELL, I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY GOVERNMENT TAKEOR BECAUSE WOULDN'T IT STILL BE THE CASE THATOST PEOEOULD BE RKING THROUGH THE PRIVATE SECTOR, THE PRIVATE INRERS THATUCH OF THESE TINGS WOULD BE STILL VOLUNTARY R PEOPLE TO MO INTO THAT THE MAJOTY OF PEOPLE WOULD STILL GO THROUGH TIR EMPLOYER PLANS.

>> WELL, THAT'S NOT WHAT'SOING TO HAPPEN. IF YOU LOOK AT THESE BILLS, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT THAAFTER FIVEEARS EVERY EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH PLA HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THE DERTMENT OF LABOR AND T HEALTH CHOIES SDAR NOW, WHATHAT MEANS ISHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S GOING DESI WHAT EMPLOYERSRE ALLOD TO OFFER TO THEI EMPLOYEES GARDLESS OF WHAT THE EMPLOYEES SNT. AND IF EMPLOYERS DON'TDO THIS, THERE'S AN 8%AYROLL TAX. AND WH THIS IS GOING TO DO IS DRIVE NY EPLOYERS OUT OF THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDINGEALTH INSURANCE TOHEIR EMPLOYE AND THEY'RE ING TO BE FORCED INTO THESE HEALTH EXCHANGES THAT ARE ING TO BE RUN BY THE GOVEMENT. AFTER FIVEEARS, YOU CAN'T GO OUT AND BUY A HEALTH CARE POLICY WITHOUT GOG TO ONE OF THE VERNMENT EXCHANGES. ANTHIS IS... WHEN YOU BEGINTO LOOK AT THE IFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S BEING BUILTERE, YOU CAN BEGIN TOEE THATHERE'S ALL THIS GOVERNNT IOLVEMENT IN THE DELIVERYOF HEALTH INSURANCE AND HEALTH CAR IN AMERICA AND IT'S SETHING THAT THE AMERIC PEOPLE A SOUNDLY REJECTING. THEY BELVE THAT, YES, WE'VE GOT PROBLEMS INUR CURRENT SYST. WHY DON'T YO FIND A WAYO REDUCE THE COST TO ME AS A AMERICAN AND WHY DON'TE FIND WAYS O PROVIDING AFORDAB ALTH INSURANCE TO AMERICANS WHO DON'HAVE GOOD ACCESS TODAY.

>> Reporter: BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, WHERE WE A TODAY, IS THERE SOMETHG HERE TO WORK TH OR IS IT 100% OPPOTION? I SAWHE PRESIDENT... THE PRESIDT'S SPOKESMAN CALLED THIS AN IMPORTANT BUILDNGLOCK KAREN IGNAGNI REPRESENTING INSURANCE GROUPS, A REGAR GUESON THIS PROGRAM, SAID IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP. PLAYERS SE TO AT LEAST BE STILAT THE TABLE. SO WHEREARE WE?

>> TEY'RE AT THE TLE, BUT I DON'T THINK FROM WHAT I88 CAN SE THAT IT'SOING TO RNER ANY REPUBLICAN SUPPO. THERE'S JU WAY TOO MCH GOVERNMENTNVOLVEMENT HERE. WE DON'T NEED ALL THIS GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT TMAKE OUR CURRT SYSTEM WORK BETR. AND AT THE END OF THE DA THAT'S THE BIG DIFFENCE. DO WE WANT TO WORK WITH OUR CURRENT SYSTEM A TRY TO IMPROVIT OR DO WE WANT TO REPLACE TH SYSTEM WITH FEDEL GOVERNMENT AND ALL OF THEIR PLANS FOR WHAT HEALTH CARE OUGHT TOOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SAYING "WE'RE N GOING THERE." Reporter: YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT. YOU'VE USED THEWORD "RET." START ER. W, WOULD THAT PERHAPS JUST DELAY ACTION OR THERE ANY REASONO THINK THAT RES WOULD NOSTART ANOTHER KIND OF DIVIDED DEBAT HERE?

>> I BELIE THAT ANY OF THESE HEALTH PLANS THAT WE'VE SEN IN OM THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRES CAPASS IN MY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. AND I DO BELIEVE THAT AT SOME POINT THE PRESIDENT IS ING TO HA TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON AND SAY WE'RE GOING TO STOP AND WEE GOING TO START OVER AND START AT THE BEGINNINGIN A BIPARTISAN WAY I'VE DONE A LO OF MAJO PIECES OF LEGISLATIONS IN MY LEGISLATIVE CAREER AND ALL OF THEM THAT BECAMEAW START TOGETH IN A BARTISANWAY I THINK ONLY WAYE CAN GET THERE HEALTH SCARE IS TO SIT DOWN MAP OUT THE PROBMS THAT WE CAN ADDRESS, THAT CAN AGREE ON AND BEGINTO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTN. >>eporter: DO YOU THI IT IS SSIBLE, IS THERE A REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE OUT THERE TO CER RE PEOPLE, TO EXPAND THE COVERAGE BUT ALSOEEP THE COSS UNDER CONTROL?

>> THERE IS. YOU CAN GO TO HEALTH CARE.GOP.GOV AND SEE A NUMB OF OPOSALS THAT ARE OUT THERE. Reporter: WITH PRICEAGS ON THEM

>> SOME HAVE PRICE TAGS, SOME DON'T. T THEY LAY OUT THE KIND OF COMMON SENSEHANGES WE CAN MAKE MAKE OUR CURRENT SYSM WO BETTER. LET'DRIVE DOWN THE ST BY FIXINGEDICAL MALPRAICE PROBMS THAT WE HAVE. NOT ONLY DOES IT COST DOCTORS AN AWFUL LOTOF MONEY FOR THIS INSURANCE, BUTHE DEFENSIVE MEDICINE THEY PRACTICE ACCORDING PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS WOULD SAVE US OUT $125 BILLI A YEAR. WHY NOT DO IT? WHY NO REQUIRE MEDICE, MEDICA AND EVERY INSURANCE COMPANY TO AGREE ON ONE SET OF CLAIM FORMS? ONE. IT WOU SAVE $40 TO $50 LLION A YEAR IN OUR CURRENTHEALTH CARE SYSTEM. MONEY THAT WE COULD E TO TUALLY HELP THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE GOOD ACCESS TODAY.

>> Repter: LET ME TURN TO THE RANCORANGER, DIOURSE THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON OVE THE PAST FEW EKS. IT'S BEEN QUITE A FEW WEEKSOF COURSE. ALL KIS OF OPPOSITION, BUT SOME OF I LOUD,SOME OF IT ANGRY, SOME OF IT NASTY. WEAD THE INCIDENTITH JOE WILSON, YOUR HOUSE COLLEAE CALLING THE PRIDENT A LIAR. WE HAD PRESIDENT CARTER YESTERDAY RAISINTHE QUESTION... THISSUE OF RACISM AND THEROLE TH MIGHT BE PLING IN THE OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIDENT. HOW CONCERNED ARE YOU ABOU THE LEVEL OF DISCOURSE? NOT T FACT OF OPPOSITION, BUT THE COURSE THAT IT' TAKING.

>> WELL, WE WANT AMERICS TO BE INVOED IN THIS DEBE. AND THIS DEBATE THAT I'VE WATCHED GO ON AROUNDHE COUNTRY IT'S NOT JUST HEALTH CARE. IT'S AN $800 BILLIONTIMULUS AT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT CREATING JOBS, AND YE 2.5 MILLION AMERANS HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS SINCE. 'S TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS FOR FAR AS THE EYE N SEE. IT THE GOVERNMENT TAKVER OF OUR AUTO COMPANIES. IT'S A CAP-AND-TRADE PROPOSAL THAT CAME THUGH THE HOUSE TT WE NOW FIND OUT FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT WOULD ST EA AMERICAN FAMILY OV $700 PER YEAR.

>> Reporter: BUT EXCUSE ME, WITH.

>> ANDN TOP OF THAT YOU'VE GOT THIS HEALTH PROPOL AND THE AMERICAN PPLE ARE SCARED. AND WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS WAIT A MINUTE, THISS NOT... WHERE WE'RE GOING, MY KIDS AND GRA KI ARE GOING TO GROW UP IN A DIFFERENT UNTRY THAN I GREW UP IN BECAUSE THEY SEE GOVERNMENT GETTING LARGER, MORE IN DEBT, MOREONTROL OF OUR SOCIY AND MOST AMERICS UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIGER GOVERNMENT GETS THE LESS OPPORTUNITY TRE IS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Reporter: BUT SOME O THAT FEAR IS RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT THE FORMS THAT I'S TAKING. JUST TODAY HOU SPEAKER NANCY PESI WENT SO FA AS TO WORRY ALOUD ABOUT VIONCE. SHE WAS RECALLING THE PAST, 1970s IN SAN FRANCISCO. WE HAVE A CLIP HE, I'D LIKE TO PLAY IT R YOU.

>> I A V CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THE LANGGE THAT IS BEING US BECAUSE I SA.. I SAW THIS MYSELF IN THE LATE70s IN SAN FRANCISCO, THIS KIND OF RHERIC WAS VERY FRIGHTENING ANIT GAVE..IT CREATED A CLIMATE IN WHICH WE... VIOLENCE TOOK PLACE AND SO I... I WISH THAT WEçóÑq;3 ALL AGAIURB OUR ENTHUSIASM IN SO OF THE STATEMENTS THAT ARE MADE.

>> Reporter: WT'S YOUR REACON TO WHAT SHE SAYS?

>> WELL, I HAVE NO DOUBT TH THE SPEAKER IS SINCERE IN R CONCERN. WE WANT AMERICANS TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE DEBATES. WE WANT THEM INVOLVED IN OUR DEMOCRACY. WE WOULD HE THEIR INVOLVEMENT WOULD CIVIL BECAUSE THESE ARE IMPORTANT SUES. AND WHEN PEOPLEET T LOUD, THEY GET TOO HATEFUL, IT... YOU CAN'T HAVEUCH OF A CONVERSATION. AND TODAY WE OHT TO BE ENCOURAGG AMERICANS TO BE INVOLVING THEMSELVES ITHIS DEBATE BUT THEYUGHT TO D IN THE A CIVIL TONE.

>> porter: RIGHT, BUTAS THE LEER OF YOURPARTY, AS ONE OF THE LEADERS, HO DO YOU SEE YOUR OWN LER RESPONSIBILITY. FOR EXAMP, PERHA DISSOCIATING YOURSELF FR EXTREMES OR TAING DOWN SOM OF THAT RHETORIC. WHAT'S YOUR ROLE?

>> I THINK... YOU'VE HEARD ME ER THE LAST SEVERALMONTHS MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WANT AMERICANS TO IOLVE THEMSELVES IN TSISCUSSION BUT IT OUG TO BE CIVIL. AND AND LARGELMOST ALL OF IT IS. THERE'S GOING BE SOMEONE NOW D THEN O'S GOING TOET OUT OF CONTROLOR YELL. BUT WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DERN DAY POLITICAL RBELLION IN AMERIA.

>> Rerter: RELLION?

>> REBLION. I'VE NER SEEN YTHING LIKE THIS. I'VE BEEN AROUND THE COUNTRY I A NUMBER OF MEMBS' DISTRICTS AND I'VE BEE WATCHING THIS GRASFIRE GROW A YEAR. AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THEIR GOVERNMENT IS DOIN THEY KNOW AT THESE TRILLION DOLL DEFICITS FOR ASAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABL. AND THEY'RE CONCERNED GOVERNNT HERE IN WASHINGTON IS GETOO BIG, GETNG TOO MUCH CONTROL AND THEYE MAKINGTHEIR OPPOTION TO IT KNOWN AND ALL OF MY COLLEAGS HAVE ENCOUNTED THEIR CITIZENS MO ENGAD THAN THEY'VE EVER SEEN I WENT TO A T PARTYN STCHESTER, OHIO, ON SEPTEMR 5, LABORAY WEEKEND, ALONG WI SOME OMY COLLEAGUES AND 18,000 PEOPLE WERE THERE. AND THERWERE SOME DEMOCRATS THERE AND SO REPUBLICANS THERE. BUT THREE-FOURTHS OF T PEOPLE THE WERE PEOPLE. AVERAGE AMERICANS WHO NEVER BEEN ENGAGED IN E POLITICAL PROCESS. REALLY DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABT IT. EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE OUR COUNTRY WAS GOING. AND S THIS CONVSATION THAT'S UNDE WAY IS HEALTHYOR OUR DEMOCRACY. IT WAS THOS JEFFERSON 220 YEARS AGO WHO SAID "A LITTLE REBELLN NOW AND THEN IS GOOD FOR OUREMOCRACY."

>> Reporter: RIGHT, BUT "REBELLIONIS A CHARGED WORD OF COUE. BECAUSE E BELLION BACK THEN WAS A SERIOUS MATTER.

>> IWAS. BUT HAVING AMERICANSNGAGED IN THIS PLIC DEBATE IS HEALTHY. AND I WOULD HOPE AT IT WOULD CONTIN, BUT CONTINUE IN A VIL WAY.

>> Reporter: HOUSE MORITY LEADER JOHN BOEHNER, THA YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: NEXT TOGHT, THE THIRD AND ST OF RAY SUAREZ'S GLOBAL HEALTH REPORTS FR THE EAST AFRICAN NION OF TANZANIA. TONIGHT, CBATING MALARIA.

>> Reporter: TANZAA IS TAKING ON ONE OF ITS OLDEST AND MOSTEARED KILLERS: MALARIA. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS C BE HEA IN VILLAGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. TH ONE IN MNZA REMINDED TANZANIANS T PICK UP MALARIA PREVENON NETS. THE RESPONSE WAS ORWHELMING. LONG LINES APPEARED IN MWANZA WELL BEFORTHE NET DIRIBUTION BEGAN. FUNDED LARGELY BY THE GLOBAL FUND, THE OGRAM CALLED "CATCH UP UNDER 5" CAMPAIGN GIVES FREE D NETS TO EVRY HOUSE HOLD IN TANZAN WITH A CHILD UNDER FIVE YEARS OLD. THE CAMPAIGN IS ONE PART OF A MASSIVE EFFORT NOW UNDER BY THAT TANZANIA T ELIMINATE MALARIA, A DISEASE THAT KILLS 60,000 TO 80,000 PEOPLE HERE EERY YEAR. THE ITED STATES GOVERNMENT GAVE $6.7 MILLION TOWARD THE EFRT. ON HAND TO OERVE WAS RETID REAR ADMIRAL TIM ZEEMER WHO HES MALARIAROGRAMS FOR THE OBAMA ADNISTRATION.

>> THIS CAMPAIGN REPRESENTS ABOUT.2 MILLION NE SO THAT COVERS THE MAJORITY OF KIDS UNDER FIVE, IF NOTLL. HOPEFULLY ALL. OKAY. THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD. SO EVERY ILDNDER FIVE TANZAN, IN THEORY, SHOU HAVE A FREE NET. TH'S HUGE.

>> Reporter: THE NETS ARE TREATED WITH INSECTICIDE AND DESIGNED TO HA OVER BEDS, PROTTING CHILDREN FROM PARASI-CARRYING MOSQUITOS THAT BITEATE AT NIGHT ANDARLY THE MORNING. ANTI-MARIA CAMPAIGNS TARGET THE VERY UNG BECAUSE CHILDREN STILL HAVE IMMATURE IMMUNE SYSTEMS D ARE THEREFORE MOST VULNERLE TO SEVERE MALARIA. DR. ALEX MWUITA OVERSEAS PROGMS FOR THEANZANIAN GOVERNMENT.

>> UNDER FIVE CHILDR ARE JUST 20% OF THE POPULATION BUT THEN THEYBEAR THE BNT OF THE DISEASE IN THAT 60% OF TH ARTHE VICTIMS OF MALARIA.

>> Reporter: IN CT, MALARIA IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR CHILDREN IANZANIA. WORLIDE, A CHILDIES EVERY 30 SECONDS. FELICE'S SON MOST DIED WHEN HE WAS TWO.

>> ( translated ): I THOUGH TH HE WAS GOING TO DIE. HE GOT A VERY HI VER, COUL'T EAT AND HE COULDN'T MOVE. HE COULDN'TAT ANYTHING. EN WHEN I TRIED T GIVE HIM WATER, VOMITED AD IT WAS VERY, RY SCARY.

>> Rerter: H EERIENCE COURAGED HER NEIGHBORS IN TH TYPICAL TANZANIAN VILLGE TO GET THEIOWN NETS. BUT SOME TZANIANS HAVE BECOME COMPLANT ABOUT MALARIA, MAKING THE B OF HEALTH ADVOCATES HARDER. THIS VILLAGER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MWANZA WAS RECENTLY DIAGSED WI MALARIA BUT CHOS NOT TO TREATT.

>> ( translated ): I RIDE A BICYE EVERYDAY. I FEEL THAT IF EXCISE A LOT, THE MARIA WILL JUST G AWAY.

>> Reporter: HIS BED NET REMAIN HIS OHM UNOPENED. IF THE MALARIA PARASITEIS TRANSMITTED THROUGH A MQUITO TO ONE OF HISOUR CHILDREN AND DOESN'T SEEK QUK MEDICAL ATTENTION, THE TCOME COULD BE DEADLY.

>> MALARIA, PARTICULARLY IN CHILDREN, IS A FATAL DISEASE UNLESS IT IS TREATED REALLY EARLY. SO WHAT FILIES DO WHEN A CHILD GET MASS LR YA VER CRUCIAL. MALARIA HAS GOT TO B TREATED WITHIN 80 HOUR

>> Reporter: GTTING MEDIC TREAENT QUICKLY IS ANOTHER CRITICAL STEP TARD HALTING THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE MALARIA PAIR SITE. THTHINKING IS THAT WITH FEWER NEW CASES, SQUITOSS WILL HAVE FEWER INFECTED HUMAN HOSTS TO BITE AND THUS PERPETUATE THE EPIDEMIC.

>> WE HAD MALARIA IN THUNITED STATES, WE DID A HEAVY SPRAYING PROGRAM, WEPUT SCREENS ON OUR WINDOW WE HAD AI CONDIONING. THE ENVINMENT CHANGED AND WE RE ABLE T IVE MALARIA AWAY. HAVE THE SAME MOSQUITOS IN MY BACKRD IN VIRGINIA AS THEY HAVE HERE, BUT THE PARASITE IS LONGER THERE.

>> Repter: NEW EVIDENCEHOWS POCKETS OF SUCCESS ARE NOW EMERGING. HEALTH OFFICIA POINT TO THE ISLAND OFZANZIBAR JUST OFF TANZANIA'S MAIAND WHERE AGGRSIVE PREVENTION EFFORTS HAVEEATEN DOWN INFECTIO RATES. UNLIKE THE REST O TANZANIA WHERE MALAA REMAINS A MAJOR BLIC HEALTH PROBLEM, THE ISLAND OF NZIBAR HAS NEARLY ELIMINATEDTHE SEASE AND OVER THNEXT FIVE YEARS WILLEMBARK ON A MAJOR PH TO COMPLELY WIPE IT OUT. ALOUGH ZANZIBAR IS AN ISLA, OFFERING A MORE CONTROLLED ENVIRONMEN IT'S ALSO A MAOR TRADING PORT IN ST AFRICA, HOSTING A CONSTANT STREAM OF VISITO. STILL, ITS SUCCESS WITH MALARIA CONTROL HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT.

>> TODAY THE ENDEMIC FECTION RATEN ZANZIBAR IS UNDER3%. OV THE LAST TWO YEARS, BECAUSE OF NS AND SPRANG, WE'VEEEN DROP FROM ABOUT 63% DOWN TO UNDER 1%. WE CAN CELEBRATE THAT. BUT THE RAL KEY IS HOW DO WE SUSTAIN AT?

>> Reporter: DEATHS FROM MALARIA IN ZANZIBAR HAVE DROPPED,çó T, DOWN 75% FOR CHILDREN UNDE FI. ALTH OFFICIALS VIEW POSITI RESULTS LIKE THOSE MN? ZANZIBARS EENTIAL IN THR FORTS TO KEEP FOREIGN AID FLING.

>> I THINK T AMERICA PEOPLE ARE IN SPI OF GLOBAL ONOMIC PROBLEMS, IN SPITEF HUGE YOFFS AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE STATES, THERE'S THIS NOTN, THERE'S THIS ABILITY EMBRACE THOSE O ARE ALSO IN NEED. AND I THINK WHAT'M SEEIN IS GENEROSITY WITH AN EXPECTATION OF SOME SORT OF RESUS.

>> Reporter: ALEX MUITA AGREES. >>ES. MONEY COMESAND GOES,EREST COME AND GO FASHIONS COMAND GO, BU I THINK MOST IMPORTANT THINIS TO DEMONSTRATE THE USE OF THAT MONEY WHEN IT IS AROUND.

>> Reporte IN FACT, IF NUMBERS DROPDRAMATICALLY TLOUGT THE COUNTR THE OVERA HEALTH OF TANZANIA'S POPULATION IS LIKELY TO IMPROVE.

>> AT THE MOMENT,ALARIA COUNTS FOR MORE THAN 40% OF ALL ATTENDANS IN THE HEALTH FACILITIES. SO YOU CAN IMAGINE REDUCI THE BURDEN OF MALARIA. WE AOW THE DOCTORS TO P MORE ATTEION TO PATIENTS AND PROVIDE A BETTERCARE TO THESE PATIENTS ONE OF THE IMMEDIE DIRECT BENEFITS THAT WE'L SEE IS THAT IF PEOE DON'T HAVE MALARIA, THEYILL BEREATED PROPLY. >>Reporter: DR. SALIM ABDULLAH IS THE LEINGESEARCHER OVERSENG TRIALS ON THE WORLD'S MOST ADVANCE MAD LAIR YAACCINE CALLED R.T.S., NOW IN ITS FINAL PHASE OF HUMAN TRIA.

>> THE VACCINE WILL NOT BE IMPLEMENTED AS A SOLE CONTROL STRATEGY THE VACCINE. THE IDEA THE VACCE IS TO SUPPLEMEN ALL THE EXTING STRATEGIES FOR CONTROL. AND EREFORE GETTINGETTER MILEAGE IN T CNTROL EFFORTS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENT ATHE MOMENT.

>> Reporter: THE VCINE, DEVELOPED BY GLAXOSMITHKLINE A THE PATH MALARIA VACCINE INITIATIVE IS CONSIDERED THE MOST PROMING MARIA VACCINE TO DATE, PROTTING 50% OF CHILDREN FROM THE MO SEVERE FORM OF THE SEASE. IS 50% EVEN CLOSE ENOUGH?

>> WE'RETALKING ABOUT 50% FOR MILLIONS OF CASES TH OCCUR EVERY YEAR F A DISEASE THAT CAN BEREATED, THAT CAN BE PREVTED. SO A VCINE THATILL OFFER 50% PROTTION TRANSLATES TO MILLIONS O LIVES SAVED. >>HE HAS THE DIAGNOSIS SEVERE MALARIA.

>> Reporter: TAANIA'S ASSAULT ON MALARIA WILL BE WATCHED WORLDWIDE AS COTRIES MAKE NEW EFFOS TO RID THEIR POPULATIONS OF THISEADLY DISEASE. >>oodruff: YOU CAN READ ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR A MARIA VACCINE IN R'S REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK ON OUR WEB SITE, newsho.pbs.org. AND FI OUT MORE ABOUT ZANZIBAR'S SUCCESS INEARLY WIPING OUTALARIA. NOW, NEW INSIGHTS IN EDWARD KENNEDY'LIFE AND LEGACY FROM THSENATOR HIMSELF. IN A BOOK PUBLISD POSTHUMOUSLY THIS WEEK, KENNEDY SHARES MEMORIES OF HIS FAMOUSAMILY AND S POLITICAL CAREER, INCLUDING E DARK MOMENTS. YESTERDAY, I SATOWN WITH TED KENNEDY, JR., TO TALK ABT HIS FATHER'S AUTOBIOAPHY. 'S SO GOOD TO VE YOU WITH US.

>> THANK YOU, JUDY

>> Reporter: AS SIT HERE, IT'S BEEN THREE WEEKS SIE YOUR FATHER PASD AWAY. HOW IS YR FAMILY DOING?

>> WELL, YOU KNOW, WE VE... IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIE, YOU KNOW, EMOTIONAL PERIENCE, YOU KNOW, EXPERIENCINGEOPLE WHO HAVE COME AND JUST, U KNOW, BEEN SHARING WITH ME THE WONDERFUL WORK EXPIENCE THEY HAD WI MY FATHER. BUT EN JUST THIS AFTERNOON, I WENT TO MYATHER'S SENATE FICE TO TALK TO HIS STAFF,@E TO THANK HIS STA. AND, YOU KNO I JUST COULDN'T HOLDT TOGETHER, BECAUSE, YOU KN, SO MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HA GIVEN THEIR WHOLE LIVES TO MY FATHER. >>eporter: THE BOOK... "TRUE COMPASS," HE... TE US ABOUT WHEN HE ARTED WORKING ON IT AND HOW HE WROTE IT BEUSE HE WAS SICK FOR MUCH OFHE TIME.

>> HE WAS. WE, WRITING A MEMOIR IS SOMETHING THAT MY FAER HAS NTED TO DO FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND SO HE HAD ACTUALLY BUN WRITING THIS BK A NUMBER OF YES AGO. AND YOU ANI TALKED ABOUT, JUST BEFORE THIS BROADCAS HOW HE TOOK CONTEMPORANEOUS NOTES O HIS EXPERIENS, HIS MEETINGS TH DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS, HIS OPINIONS ABOUT DIFRENT POLITICAL MONTS IN OUR COUNTRS HISTORY. SO, YOU KN, HE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. YOU KNOW, THAT SO MANYOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT TH KENNEDY'S-- ME GOOD, SOME BAD, OF COURSE. AND MANY MORE WILL BE WRTEN.

>> Repter: YOU REMARK THAT, IN THE BOOK, HOW HE EXPERNCED A LOT OF PERNAL THINGS IN HIS LIFE. WERE THESEUST THINGS HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT WHEN HE WAS AVE?

>> YEAH, NO,E NEVER DID. HE NEVER TALD TO ME ABOUT VING TO TELL MY GRANDFATHER THAT, YOKNOW, THAT JACK HAD BEEN KILLE FOR EXAMPLE, A TUATION HE RETELLS IN THE STORY. AND SO, MANY OER EVENTS BEUSE, YOU KNOW, JUST GROWING UPN AN IRISH-CATHOLIC FAMILY, IT WAS NEVER... NEVER REAL PARTF OUR STORY TO TELL, TO TALK TO SHARE THESE DE EMOTIONS WITH CH OTHER.

>> Reporr: I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE YOSAID, AT ONE INT, THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM E BOOK. DO YOU THINK THAT YOU DI'T REALLY UNDERSTANHIM UNTIL AFTER WAS GONE?

>> NO... MY DAD AND WE HAD AN INEDIBLE RELATIONSHIP, A VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIPSO I FEEL I REALLY UNDERSTOOD HIM. BUT I WASN'T EXPECTINGHE LEVEL OF HOWEEP... HOW DEEP HE GOT INTO THE EMOTIONAL PT OF HIS LIFE. BECAUSE HE... HE FELT LIKEE HAD BE STRONG FOR ALL OF US, JUDY. D ANOTHER THING IS, AND WHAT COMES OUT INHE BOOK, IS HIS DEEP CATHOCISM, AND I THINK PEOPLE ARE KIND OF SURPRISED WHENHEY FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW RELIOUS AND FAITHFUL THAT HE REAY WAS, BECAUSE HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT.

>> Reporter: SO MUCH OF E BOOK. OF THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK, IS ABOUT H FATHER, ABOUT WH A HUGE ROLE HIS FATHER, JOPH KENNEDY, PLAYED IN HIS LIFE. HOW DID THAT SHAPE T KIND OF FATHER HWAS? I THINK HE HAD A, YOU KN.. YOU KN, A VERY FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HISATHER, A VERY LOVING RELATIONIP WITH HIS FATHER. THE RELATIONSHIP MY FATHERND I HAD WAS, YOUNOW, A VERY DIFFENT ONE. SO. YOU KNOW, IT WAS STILL STRICT. MY FATHER HAD VERY HH EXPECTATIONS OME, JUDY. AND THINK HE HAD THE SAME CONVERSATION WITH THAT HIS THER HAD HAD WITH HIM, WHICH WAS, YOU KNOW, "DDY, YOU'RE GOING TOAVE TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHAT KIND OF LIFEOU'RE GOING TOEAD-- YOU'RE EITHER GOINTO LEAD A PRODUCTIVE OR SERIOUS LIFE OR YOU'REOT. AND IF YOU WANT TO LEAD A PRODUCTI LIFE, I'M GOING TO BE HERE EVERYTEP OF THE WAY TO KE SURE YOU ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS. D IF YOU DON'T, I'LL LOVE YO JU THE SAME BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO STAND AROUND AN WAIT FOROU TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND."

>> Reporter: HALSO WROTE ABOU OF COURSE, THERE WAS SO CH TRAGEDY AND PAIN IN HIS LIFE, AND HE WRO ABOUT HOW HE JUST HAD TO KEEP GOI, KEEP MOVING. I MEAN, ERE ARE POINTS IN THE BOOK WHERE IT FEELS LIKE IT ST HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTING TO BEED KENNEDY.

>> THINK HE US... I THINK THE REASON WHY HE PT MOVING WAS THAT HE HAD SOUCH BUILDING UP INSIDE OF HIM. THAT HE JUST FELLIKE HE NEEDED TO PAC YOU KNOW, EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY D, AND JUST... TO KIND OF EP FROM SITTING STILL AND THKING TOO MUCH ABOUT THE INGS THAT WERE BOTHERING HIM IN HIS LIFE.

>> Rorter: DID YOU EVER TRY TO PERSUADE HIM TO SLOWOWN?

>> Y KNOW, THERE WERE THINGS THAT HE DID THATYOU KNOW, PERHAPS DISAPPOINTED ME. BUI REALIZED THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT... THIS WAS A PTTY INCREDIB HUMAN BEING. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOTLL 100% GOOD, YOU KW, OR BAD, AND U KNOW, HE WAS A TERRIFIC PARENT. BUT I'M SURE EVERY CHI WOULD SAY ABOUT THEIR PARENT, WISH TH WOULDN'T DO THIS OR WODN'T DO THAT." >>eporter: ONE QUESTION ABOUT POLITICS. DID HE THINK OF HIELF AS A DIVISIVEIGURE? WE KNOW ALL THE STORS-- REPUBLICANS WENT OUTND RAISED ALL THIS MONEY, TELLING FOLK "TED KENNEDY'S GNA TAKE OVER UNLESS YOU CONTRIBUTE MONE" HOW DID HE DEAL WI ALL THAT?

>> Y KNOW, I GREW UP A FEW SHORT MILES FROM HERE, I McCLEAN, VIRGINIA,ND I REMEMBER, YOKNOW, DONALD RUMSFELD AND LELL WEICKER, ALAN SIMPSON, PAUL LACKSE-- THESE WERELL REPUBLICANS, THESE WERE A DINNER GUESTS AT OUR HOUSE. AND TEIS, THEY WOULD COME OVER AND PLAY TENNIS WITH MDAD. AND EY'D ALL EAT BREAKFAST TOGETH AND DRIVE INTO THE CAPITAL. IT WAS JUST DIFFERENT DAY. YES, THEY WOULD CRITICIZEACH OTHER, BUT I DON'T THINKY DAD EVER REAY TOOK IT PERSONALLY. I THINK ONE OF THE REASONSE WAS ING HONORED BY SO MANY OF HIS REPUBLIC COUNTERPARTS IS BECAUSE THEY LED HIM. EY KNEW THAT HE WAS, YOU KNO A FFERENT BREED OF CAT.

>> Reporter: TED KNEDY, JR., TALKINABOUT HIS FATHER'S BOOK, "TRUE COMPASS". THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WATCH MORE OF THAT INTERVIEW WITH TED KENNEDY, ., ON OUR WEB SI, newshour.pbs.org. FINALLTONIGHT, REMEMBERING NGER MARY TRAVERS OF THE FOL MUC TRIO, PETER, PAUL AND MARY. THEY WERE CAL POLITICAL ACTISTS AS WELL AS PERFORMERS. RE THEY ARE, PERFORMING "IF HAD HAMMER" AT THE 1963 NEWPORT FOLK FTIVAL.

>> ♪ IF I HAD A LL... ♪ ♪

>> THE FAMILY OF FOLK CONTINS; IT'S JUST A TTER OF PASSING IT ON. OR AS PETER ONCE SAID, "WEE ALL ON THE SE TRAIN TOGETHER. ME PASSENGERS GET ON, SOME PASSENGERS GET OFF."

>> ♪F I HAD A HAMMER... ♪ ITS THE BELL OF FREEDOM ♪ ♪ ITS THE LL OF FREEDOM ♪ ♪

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