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These horses are sacred to us. We love our horses. But we love our land, too. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill our lead story tonight the end is finally in sight, in the political stalemate that closed part of the government and threatened national default. Senators crafted a compromise today, and House Republicans threw in the towel. Newshour Congressional Correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. The majority leader. Ifill Senate Leaders took the floor at midday, deal in hand. The chambers top democrat harry reid this legislation ends a standoff that ground the work of washington to a halt this fall. Madame president , this is not a time for pointing fingers or blame. This is a time of reconciliation. Ifill the leader of the republican minority Mitch Mcconnell said both sides had to give. For today, the relief we hope for is to reopen the government, avoid default, and protect the historic cuts we achieved under the budget control act. This is far less than many of us had hoped for, frankly, but its far more than some had sought. Ifill the framework came from a Bipartisan Group of 14 senators, led by republican Susan Collins of maine. This great country deserves a congress that can govern. And that was the unifying theme of our group. Ifill the agreement they worked out, funds Government Operations for three months, at reduced spending levels already in place. And it raises the debt ceiling through february 7. The deal also calls for a Congressional Panel to negotiate a longterm deficitreduction package. And it requires that americans verify incomes to qualify for subsidies under the new health care law. That was the sole section related to obamacare, after republicans spent weeks trying to block or delay parts of the law. Last month, texas senator ted cruz a leading tea Party Conservative filibustered over the issue. Today, he said hed vote no, but would not try to delay action. I have no objections to the timing of this vote. And the reason is simple there is nothing to be gained from delaying this vote one day or two days. The outcome will be the same. Every senator, every member of the house is going to have to make a decision where he or she stands. Ifill Arizona Republican john mccain, meanwhile, had opposed the shutdown, and he voiced relief today. I think its obvious that we are now seeing the end of this agonizing odyssey that this body has been put through, but far more importantly the American People have been put through. Its one of the more shameful chapters that i have seen in the years that i have spent here in the senate. Reporter senators resurrected the deal late yesterday after competing proposals floated by House Republican leadersfailed to gain support from conservatives. By then, the pressure to act had ratcheted up sharply, with the financial world warning about the effects of a default, including a possible downgrade in the governments triplea credit rating. On the other hand, there was pressure from outside conservative groups to oppose the plan. Much of that pressure was aimed at House Republicans, who met this afternoon to evaluate how to proceed with the senate proposal. Going in, Speaker John Boehner told a cincinnati Radio Station that his side had done all it could. Weve been locked in a fight over here, trying to bring government down to size, trying to do our best to stop obamacare. We fought the good fight. We just didnt win. Reporter after the meeting, boehner issued a statement saying House Republicans would not try to block the senate bill. At the white house, president obama waited as the hours until the american r American People have paid a price for this. Holman wall street applauded the breakthrough, the dow industrials gained more than 205 points on the day while the nasdaq rose 45 points. Ifill we go now to capitol hill, and Lori Montgomery of the washington post, who has been following the days developments. Yesterday, lori, there was a dealing n the morning, it collapsed by evening, today it looks like theres a deal again. Everybodys about to vote and ratify that. John mccain called it an agonizing odyssey. What changed today . What changed is that john boehner couldnt move legislation. They left last night for no explanation why they called off the boat but it was clear that they could not put together a package that would get the support of 217 republicans so it really left reid and mcconnell with no choice. They had to revive these talks which had actually been put on hold to gave bane err chance to try to consolidate his hold on his own caucus. That didnt happen. Ifill so it seems like there were a lot of key senators involved in forcing the issue. One was Mitch Mcconnell, the other was ted cruz. How did they sort out their differences today . Well, cruz is apparently not going to support the bill but Republican Leaders were having some conversations with him and his allies on the right this week saying, look, if we get a deal, you cant stand in the way of this. Weve got to make this thursday deadline. So cruz agreed that he would not block anything. The senate is fixing to vote here, thinking about in an hour, and they can move very rapidly to approve the thing and send it over to the house. Ifill and Mitch Mcconnells role . Well, mcconnell is facing a very difficult Reelection Campaign back home in kentucky and he did not want to be in this position. He did not want to be negotiating another difficult deal that didnt deliver the goods for the conservative right. But in the end, you have to hand it to him, he went to work, he got the job done, and hes marshalling the votes to make sure the country doesnt face a Global Financial cataclysm. Ifill in the end, were there any Health Care Concessions from the white house in this final deal . And did the white house have a hidden hand in crafting it . The white house pretty much stayed out of things at the request of democrats. I mean, you could almost see harry reid, the Democratic Senate leader, relishing this opportunity to sort of, you know, hand it to the republicans and saying no, were not going to give you this stuff. And in the end they got very little. They gotten a agreement that the Health Secretary would confirm that she could prevent fraud in the distribution of tax subsidies for people to buy insurance but she was supposed to do that anyway. So its really hard to see how they can claim that as a victory. Ifill yesterday one of the key shifts in the afternoon with votes happened after the Heritage Action fund, this conservative advocacy group, suggested that republicans vote no and the club for growth as well and they both said the same thing again today. Why isnt that derailing the deal today the way it did yesterday . Well, what youre seeing today, i think, is people especially in the house waking up to the realization that they contributed to a 16day Government Shutdown, they have once again rattled the economy by threatening not to let the treasury pay bills and youre seeing republicans in the middle saying we dont really like this and were not really sure we want to be involved in this again. So republicans are predicting a fairly strong vote for this bill, well over 100 members, more than half the caucus, because moderate well, i cant call them moderates but centerright lawmakers want to send a message to this hardline fringe that, look, weve got to figure out a way to work with democrats and make our government work. Ifill Lori Montgomery of the winnipesaukee, thanks so much. Thanks for having me. Woodruff what is the political state of play after 16 days of the Government Shutdown . Two close observers of it all join us Stuart Rothenberg of the rothenberg political report and roll call and susan page, Washington Bureau chief of usa today. Welcome back to the program. Susan, any doubt that this deal is going to fly . Is going to pass tonight . Its clear that its going to pass. Its going to pass easily in the house, this that had been a question. And i think that everyones going to declare victory and go home and have that this fight over again in a few months. Woodruff stu, no doubt in your mind this is going to pass . No doubt. Its going to pass and the pragmatic conservatives in the republican part gee seen the writing on the wall for a long time and the uncompromising conservatives are out of options. Z woodruff so what substantively did republicans get out of this . They got nothing. This was a disaster for them. They picked a fight they couldnt win and, in fact, all the political benefits accrue to the president and to the democrats. The republicans caved. The president didnt have to compromise so the republicans start off with a weaker hand when they have to engage again. The democrats are are gonna benefit from recruiting in congressional races. Republican money may dry up. I mean, theres a this is a mess for republicans. I would disagree on one thing. I think they got one thing they dont seem to recognize which is they got the sequester budget levels. Woodruff lower spending. Lower spending levels that democrats six months ago were saying were completely unacceptable. Thats the new baseline. Now, remembers didnt note that and claim victory with it, but the fact is that did happen and that is a republican victory. Woodruff but as both of you have just referred to, were going to see come january, february, just a few months from now youre going to see the same argument again over spending levels and over the debt limit. Susan, whats to stop this play from just being enacted all over again. I think the one thing that might change it from just being another repetition in a few months is the way the republicans got their clock cleaned in this one. And so they may choose not to have another kind of showdown over the debt ceiling like they did this time. I mean, thats one if you want to count barack obama as a big winner and i think i do believe hes a winner from this fight its he made his point that he wasnt going to negotiate on the debt ceiling and he didnt and the republicans ended up caving. I think one question is about the survey data. What the polls show after the first of the year. If the republican numbers have rebounded then ted cruzs of the world will say see, this was not permanent damage and we can have another fight. If it looks like there was considerable damage and its longlasting i think a lot of conservatives will say maybe we better move on. Woodruff but they were insisting on these early dates as part of this language, right . January and february. The white house wanted a later debt limit rise. All the rational people wanted later deadlines so we dont have to go through this so soon, so we dont have to go through it during an election year. That will be another calculation when these fights come up. Thats the year these people all the house members and a third of the senators will be running for reelection. Woodruff stu, you touched on some of the effects on the Republican Party. How do you see it . How much of this is the Republican Party broadly . How much of it is confined just to ted cruz and some members of the tea party . Oh, no, i think the damage is to the Republican Party and its in all these areas the democrats are emboldened, theyre recruiting candidates, theyve already recruited a candidate in nebraska against lee terry who wasnt running but now is involved. Pelley woodruff based just on whats going on . I think so, yes. The fact that the republicans are now more easily demonized and defined as the guys who are against anything and everything. Republicans are worried about smalldollar fundraising and bigdollar fundraising. Theyre concerned with the smalldollar folks because those are the true bluegrass roots tea Party Conservatives who have nothing theres no benefit from the republican the republicans caved. They didnt get anything. The big donors who are more pragmatic are petrified at the thought the republicans are going to drive the party and the country off the economic cliff. Not only that, judy, if you looked you also have to look at what the republicans gave up. They gave up arguments over the past few weeks about the roleout of obamacare and what a mess it was. And theyre just in an inferior position now. Theres also two republican parties, now. The party is really split in half and meanwhile the democrats are now newly reunited. The democrats had some fractures going on over drones and over the n. S. A. Disclosures and some unhappiness with president obama. They are together now and that is a real strength for a party. Woodruff so in other words its not just the republicans are hurt, you think the democrats are strengthened as a result . I think thats right. A month ago we were talking about syria and the president s problems and making decision there is and all that stuff is wiped away. I think susan is exactly right. The dealts are now energized and unified and the republicans are divided. Woodruff so who gets the credit for this . Is this was this understood to be a white house strategy that paid off . Is that what were talking about, susan . The white house had a strategy that was good, that worked out. I think senator reid and mcconnell deserve a lot of credit and i would give credit to women in the senate. Weve had we have only 20 women in the senate but still its a record. 20 of the 100 and the women in the senate starting with susan colins of maine who pushed for a bipartisan compromise and that is something we know from Academic Studies that women legislators are more likely to seek compromise, to be willing to talk across party aisles. Not every woman Office Holder but as a group women tend to be more willing to do that and you definitely saw that in play in this fight. Woodruff how about speaker boehner, stu . Where does he stand . I think hes going to emerge not that hes undamaged but he is unchallenged. He is unchallenged. What were hearin hearing hearim conservatives is theyre saying, well, john boehner gave us the chance to fight this and he played along with us, he led the fight and we dont blame him. So i dont think theres going to be a challenge to him. There arent a lot of republicans in the conference who want somebody else so i think hes going to survive okay. I think Mitch Mcconnell is the big question mark. Thats because of the difference between the politics back home in kentucky where hes got a challenger and a primary and a significant challenger in the general election. Woodruff how much does this affect other issues . Were already hearing from the president that he wants to push Immigration Reform once this is done. After the last shutdown in 1996 i was covering the white house and it was a big opportunity for bill clinton and Newt Gingrich. They got big legislation through in 1996 after a shutdown where the president was empowered. But it doesnt feel that way to me with this one. For one thing, in the 1996 shutdown, there was a lot of communication between Newt Gingrich and president clinton. There was a certain even though they battled, there was a certain relationship of trust. You dont see any of that now. But its possible. I suppose its possible that this opens the door to more compromise. I just dont think its likely. I cant imagine House Republicans going along with anything the president offers at the moment. Woodruff despite the weakness you just described . Yeah, they have one thing. They can continue to vote no. Thats the one thing they have going for them and if its something that the president wants i think they will be inclined to oppose it. Unless he reaches out to them and they really feel rightly or wrongly that he has not reached out to them. Woodruff on that note we are glad the two of you were here. Stu rothenberg, susan page, thank you. Ifill in other news, Investment Bank j. P. Morgan chase will pay 100 million and admit its traders acted recklessly. The announcement today stems from disastrous trades in the banks london operation that lost 6 billion. The settlement is with the u. S. Commodity futures trading commission. The bank is also paying 920 million in a separate deal with other regulators. A federal jury in dallas has acquitted billionaire mark cuban of insider trading. The owner of the n. B. A. s Dallas Mavericks was accused of selling shares in an Internet Firm based on insider information. The securities and Exchange Commission brought the civil case. Cuban denied any wrongdoing. A court in russia today decided not to imprison Opposition Leader alexei navalny. The 37yearold has led protests against president vladimir putin. He was convicted of embezzlement in july and sentenced to five years. Today, the court suspended that sentence, but upheld the conviction, which bars him from running for office. Navalny said both the original prosecution and todays decision were politically motivated. translated this decision to suspend my fiveyear sentence was not made here. It was made personally by vladimir putin. I do not have an idea of what exactly is happening in his head and why he has changed his decision. It is clear that the authorities are doing their utmost to pull me out of the political fight. Ifill last month, navalny finished a strong second in the race to be moscows mayor, garnering almost a third of the votes. The latest talks on Irans Nuclear program wound up today, with diplomats calling them very important and intense. The meetings in geneva involved the u. S. And five other powers, plus iran. The next new round is scheduled for november 7th and 8th, again in geneva. Well have more on this later in the program. In the philippines, the death toll from tuesdays earthquake rose to at least 144. Rescue crews on the Central Island of bohol finally managed to reach some of the hardest hit areas, a day after the quake struck. They combed through the rubble of collapsed buildings, including at least a dozen heavily damaged historic churches. About two dozen people remain missing. This was election day in new jersey, as voters chose a United States senator. Preelection polls showed newarks democratic mayor cory booker holding a double digit lead over his republican opponent, steve lonegan. The winner takes the seat of democratic senator frank lautenberg, who died last june. Ifill also ahead on the newshour an interview with italys Prime Minister; roundingup wild horses in new mexico; iran comes to the negotiating table over its Nuclear Program and a new book on jazz great Charlie Parker. Woodruff now that a deal appears to be at hand, the doomsday scenario that had alarmed the International Community seems to have been averted, at least for a while. Over the weekend, International Monetary fund chief Christine Lagarde had said that a failure to come to an agreement over the u. S. Debt would mean massive disruption the world over. And we would be at risk of tipping yet again, into recession. Tonight, we get reaction to the proposed deal and the fight that led up to it from the leader of europes fourth largest economy, italian Prime Minister enrico letta. I spoke to him a short time ago. Prime minister enrico letta, welcome to the newshour. Thank you. Woodruff so were watching whats happening on capitol hill today. It looks as if theres a deal. If that holds what does that mean for the Global Economy and for italys economy . I think we need absolutely an agreement. It would be very important for stability, stability in the markets, first of all. We need stability in the markets to have reforms, of course at the global level. We decided to have important reforms in the last g20 meeting. Against fiscal evasion, fiscal avoidance, on Structural Reforms and we need, of course, to have reforms in each country, italys one of them. But to have reforms we need stability in the markets. So the agreement this evening, we hope, the agreement this night will be very important for our future. Woodruff and youre referring not just to italy but to the entire world . Yes, to the entire world but i would say to europe first of all because i will stress the point that the American Leadership last year was very important to help europe to start to exit from the euro crisis and obama was very important in the g8 to help the europeans to go to step by step out of the crisis. Now, of course, the American Leadership is needed to continue on the path for growth because we are out of the austerity of the years of crisis, of euro crisis and so on and we have to be in the path of growth. This is why we need america. Pelley of course even if this deal is passed its only until february. When the politicians have to come together and have another agreement to raise the debt ceiling. How much confidence do you have that leaders in this country right now have the ability to do that . I cant say anything about the internal political debate, of course, but im here in washington also to say the rest of the world is looking as congress men, senators and so on and your decisions are important for the rest of the world. So the worlds growth needs stability and we need such an agreement and i hope also another agreement in february, of course. Woodruff do you think you understand whats happening here right now . Its not easy but i can understand because i have my problems at home and i know how big is the fight, debate among factions among electoral factions, political parties, individuals. Its not easy to have agreement in politics today. Woodruff well, speaking of italy, you have just emerged from a confidence vote in your own country. Your former Prime Minister, berlusconi, was challenging you some political turmoil. How confident are you that your own country now on a path to economic and political stability . Im confident because of this confidence vote very important because yesterday we improved the budget for 2014 and the council of ministers and this budget will be the first budget after years in italy with the general debt decreasing, the deficit decreasing the public spending decreasing and tax level decreasing. I hope that well have growth next year but i would say for the first year i would say we are out of the emergency and that is for my country, for italy, very important news. Now we have to apply reforms, of course. But we are ready to have budget under control, no more debts, the best news, i think for the markets and for the italians, for the young italians is that our debt is decreasing next year. And so no more debts and i hope for reforms to having growth. So i am confident. Woodruff well, the entire european continent as you know, mr. Prime minister, is experiencing a wave of populism right now. Some of it angry, reacting to the austerity thats been instituted, to the recession that has taken so long to begin to lift and some of it has turned violent. How serious a problem is this and what are you doing in your own country to address it . The problem, i think, is very serious because next year well have the election of the european parliament. The big risk is that this election will bring the most antieuropean parliament ever. Because in many countries like mine, of course, but also in france or in other countries we have the race of populist parties, antieurope and antieuro. That will be a big problem, of course because we had these five years of crisis, austerity, lack of growth, and lack of jobs. Jobs is the true problem of europe and first of all jobs for youth. We risk to have a sort of lost generation, the generation of youth today. We have to help them and we have to give them opportunities. This is why hope is so important today and this is why Structural Reforms are so important. So my mission, our mission is to defeat populism but challenging populism with concrete answers on jobs and growth and that is, i think, the main issues today. Woodruff well, in connection with that you have the issue of immigration and this tragic incident of a few weeks ago, the boat of migrants coming from the continent of africa. They were headed to the island in lampedusa, there was a terrible accident. Hundreds were killed. Do you have a sense that youre able to get to the bottom of why this kind of thing has happened and to be sure that it doesnt happen again . It was a tragedy, of course. It is a tragedy and i will say that this issue today is one of the main issues of our Mediterranean Sea because, of course, we have something completely new. Migrations in the past were linked to economic reasons. Today migrations are first of all linked to failed states, refugees. Terrible wars of the former arab springs are now not only springs but something of worst than spring. This is why today we have to change our approach. We have to be very selective, of course, but we have to help those who are really refugees, first of all we have now a problem in libya. Libya is a state without strong institutions. The tragedy with the boat, the boat was from arriving from misurata, from libya. So italy asked for a European Initiative and we will discuss this brussels thursday in the next week which initiative but we the italians, we are the main mediterranean country so we have our own responsibility and we are taking our own responsibility. So we started a military humanitarian yesterday, just yesterday. We have many ships, many planes to try to control, of course, the sea in the area around lampedusa, around malta towards libya and to rescue people, of course. We dont want to see other terrible images like we i was in lampedusa some days ago with the president of the european commission. We were there with 300 coffins. It was really terrible. With kids, with women it was we cant tolerate Something Like that. This is why our mission, military humanitarian mission and i hope the mission will avoid other tragedies like that. But also i would like to have a European Initiative. We need a European Initiative. Pelley Prime Minister enrico letta, we thank you very much for coming to talk with us at the newshour. Thank you. Ifill there is renewed controversy in new mexico over a plan to reopen horse slaughterhouses, which have been banned in this country for six years. Hari sreenivasan has our report about whats triggered this debate. Reporter several times a week this summer, residents of the Navajo Indian Reservation in new mexico mapped out a game plan, they set up a temporary pen and then headed out by horseback and a. T. V. S to round up groups of wild horses that have become a threat to the livelihood of farmers and ranchers here. These horses are bouncing between ranchers land, eating the forage, drinking the water. Each feral horse we estimate eats anywhere between five and 18 pounds of forage a day. They drink five between five and 15 gallons of water a day. Reporter erny zah, spokesman for the tribe, estimates, that feral horses that is horses that run wild but at one time were domesticated cost the navajos 200,000 a year in damages. There are approximately 70,000 of them in Northwestern New Mexico alone and zah says they are putting a tremendous strain by on the land and resources. Land that is already struggling from a catastrophic drought. You have cattle who arent gaining as much weight. Not getting as much money at auction. So our ranchers are losing out money. Reporter to try to ease the problem, tribal leaders have authorized these roundups, in which horses are chased across open land, into makeshift corrals and then loaded into trailers to head to auction. Many of the horses will end up in slaughterhouses in canada and mexico. Their meat exported to china or europe where, unlike the u. S. , horse meat is regularly consumed. The United States shut down horse slaughterhouses in this country six years ago when it prohibited federal funding for inspectors. But recently, congress removed that prohibition and this summer, the u. S. D. A. Awarded permits to several Business Owners and said they could prepare to open. Rick De Los Santos was one of them. For more than 20 years, he slaughtered cattle at his Valley Meat Company in roswell, new mexico. But his business had declined over the last five years with the economic downturn. So he applied for the horse slaughter permit, knowing there was vast potential market, more than 150,000 horses are shipped out annually for slaughter in mexico and canada. The real problem here is the overabundance of horses that are going to slaughter anyway. We thought we would provide a service and do it humanely in this country and provide jobs for people that need jobs. If i have the opportunity, i could hire 50 to 100 people immediately. Thats a lot of jobs. Reporter De Los Santos was set to begin operations in august, but the u. S. Humane society, which has long been an opponent of horse slaughter, filed a lawsuit, claiming the practice is a risk to Public Health and the environment. A judge ordered a temporary restraining order. Phil carter is with Animal Protection new mexico. He says Animal Rights groups like his are pushing for a permanent ban, saying any kind of horse slaughter is cruel. You cannot slaughter horses humanely no matter where you do it. Horses do not adapt well to industrialized scale slaughter. They panic easily, they have very large skulls so its extremely hard to kill them cleanly. So we have to be able to provide more Humane Solutions than just regressing to this slaughter that 80 of americans do not support. Theres so many questions as they would open that chute and in comes in the livestock. Reporter De Los Santos disagrees. He gave us a tour of the shutdown facility, which he says uses the most humane techniques available. We built up the walls where the livestock comes in. They cant see out. Theres no noise going on. So they dont get spooked when theyre in the knocking chute. Reporter and he blames Animal Rights groups for distorting the facts about slaughter. A lot of people that call in and if i sit there and talk to them and explain to them and educate them, then they calm down and say well i didnt know that. Reporter many Animal Rights what to do with the overabundance of wild horses in the american southwest. Groups want to see the creation of more horse sanctuaries, like this one called the horse shelter just south of santa fe. The shelter accepts horses that have been mistreated or abandoned by owners and some that are rescued from the wild. Here the horses are fed and trained and most end up being adopted. Hi, baby, hi. Reporter still, shelter owner Jennifer Rios says organizations like hers will never be able to solve the problem alone. The 75 horses were able to help out are the tip of the iceberg. It is a bandaid to a much bigger problem. We do what we can and for these horses, it makes all the difference. But for the overall problem, much more needs to be done. Without real funding and organized programs being put towards humane euthanasia and population control. The problem is going to continue to spiral out of control, even when youre not in a drought, because the amount of grazing lands is not going to continue to multiply. Reporter rios concedes that humane euthanasia and population control are very expensive remedies. Euthanasia costs roughly 300 per horse and thats not including the cost to round it up. Right now, contraception for wild horses is difficult to administer. It involves shooting darts from helicopters with a treatment that must be reinjected every two years. Rios is opposed to slaughter, but she says its not a simple issue. She says horses are dying every day in trucks as theyre shipped out of the country and on the rangeland when they run out of food. She thinks the government has been delinquent by not spending enough money to deal with the problem. Its inhumane to let animals starve to death, dehydrate to death, to procreate at a level that the environment is unable to support. So thats why at the shelter, we wont just say were against slaughter. We are for humane alternatives. Reporter the issue has also divided native americans. For the navajo people, this is a hard decision for us personally, individually, as leaders, as a clan, where we have to choose one or the other. These horses are sacred to us. We love our horses. But we love our land, too. Reporter for all the debate that has raged over this issue as of late, its unlikely that congress will allocate money for inspectors in the upcoming budget and so for another year at least, horse slaughterhouses in this country will remain closed, while horses continue to be rounded up for export. Woodruff talks over Irans Nuclear program wrapped up this evening in geneva, all sides agreed to meet again. But as ray suarez reports there are differing accounts on how much progress is being made. Suarez the two days of talks in geneva produced no breakthroughs, and diplomats provided few details. But a rare joint statement called the meetings substantive and forwardlooking. The European Union Foreign Policy chief, catherine ashton, is lead negotiator for the u. S. , britain, france, china, russia and germany. Weve had the opportunity as ive already indicated to talk in much greater detail than ever before, to answer each others questions. Were not going to go into the detail. What i would say is our positions have been set out on a number of issues. Suarez the chief issues revolve around irans enrichment of Nuclear Material to purity levels that could make it easy to use in weapons. That activity has led to debilitating sanctions that crippled the islamic republics economy. Today, irans newly named foreign minister javad zarif said he hopes for an eventual end to what he labeled an unnecessary crisis. There are more important issues that we need to deal with and the right of iran to pursue Nuclear Technology for peaceful purposes including enrichment can in fact be exercised with the necessary political will without any proliferation concerns and that is what we are going to move forward and achieve in my view. Suarez in washington, white house spokesman jay carney said u. S. Officials remain wary, but do see reason for some optimism. The iranian proposal was a new proposal with a level of seriousness and substance that we had not seen before. Having said that, no one should expect a breakthrough overnight. I mean, these are complicated issues, theyre technical issues, and as the president has said, the history of mistrust is very deep. The onus remains on iran to come into compliance with its international obligations. Suarez the greatest skepticism on the chances of reaching a deal came from russia, however, Deputy Foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov said there is movement. The positions of the iranian suarez the next round of talks will be held in just three weeks, back in geneva. Joining me now is Michael Gordon who has been covering the geneva talks for the new york times. He said ive never had such intense, detailed, straightforward candid conversations with the iranian delegation before. Are we in New Territory now . Well, i think it is fair to say that the United States and iran are in New Territory and that the tone of the discussions between the two sides is very different. Qualitatively theyre talking about issues in a technical way, a pragmatic way that they havent before but they also failed to announce any breakthrough or even any shortterm measures to build trust so so nobody is claiming they theyve marrowed major differences. Suarez just a few minutes ago we heard from swra skwra have had a sar reef and it sounded like he was sticking to his previously held guns. During this immediating has iran stated its ready to modify its program in some way to meet international demands . Well, irans position is that it has the right to enrich uranium, a point that the american officials here did not concede and that it wants that right acknowledged and it wants it acknowledged up front. It appears will be to accept some constraints, particularly on its right to enrich uranium up to 20 but a big problem is that over the past year the kwraoerpbian program has grown. They now have advanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium. Theyre building a plant that can produce plutonium so the sort of measures that iran has talked about in the past and what seem to be on the table here may no longer be sufficient to contain the program even in the short term. And one american goal has been to freeze the program while talks proceed. Even that wasnt achieved at this talk, although theyre planning, as you know, to meet again in just three weeks. Suarez from the very beginning of this confrontation iran has insisted it is not seeking the means to make a Nuclear Weapon. That it is enriching radioactive materials in order to have electric power plants and medical uses. The rest of the world has been saying if you need those things, well get them for you and dont want you to enrich. Has iran explained why it must retain the ability to enrich to the levels that youve been talking about . Well, iranian Officials Say they have invested so much in these facilities they cant just write off that investment. Sometimes they say its a matter of national pride. Basically they say they have the right. They claim they have a legal right to enrich under the nonproliferation treaty, a point on which the americans havent conceded, at least in these talks, although theyve sometimes acknowledged it in the past. You know, the point is if theres going to be a compromise it seems very likely that iraq iran will have to retain the right to enrich to some degree but that it will have to be done under very tight monitoring and very close scrutiny. And so if there is to be a compromise, that would appear to be an element of it. But will iran agree to the rather intrusive monitoring that would be required . Would they limit the number of centrifuges so they dont have the breakout capability . The ability to sprint to a Nuclear Weapon if they were to throw the inspectors out and refuse to be subject to monitoring anymore . Those are the thorny issues the two sides have to tackle and theres a sense on both sides time is running out. Its running out on the iranian side because of the economic pressures and its running out on the american side and the west side because of advances in Irans Nuclear program. Well, both the Obama Administration and other members of the u. N. Permanent 5 have openly expressed encouragement after this latest round in geneva. One power thats had a lot to say about the Iranian Program and has the United States ear is israel. Has Prime Minister netanyahu made it clear to the United States where he stands on these meetings and iranian treaties . I think the israelis have made it abundantly clear. The israeli Prime Minister made this point at the United Nations and the israelis said today that the United States is going to meet today with serbg john kerry in rome and make the point again. From the israeli perspective they dont want iran to have any enrichment capability whatsoever. Whats also interesting is another state in that region is very concerned in this direction of the talks is saudi arabia which is of course an adversary of irans. Arab and persian kind of opposition. So the saudi position and the israeli position are actually very close. That said, i think white house really wants to avoid making good on its threat to use military force as a last resort to disable to iranian Nuclear Program and i think both sides are looking for a way out and if there is to be an agreement i think its one that leaves iran with some potential capacity to Nuclear Weapons in the future but not a breakout capability. Not one that they could exercise in a mad dash for a bomb and so i think thats really the parameters that are likely to guide the talks over the next several months. Suarez Michael Gordon at the new york times. In geneva theyll be back in november. Ifill finally tonight, one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century. Jeffrey brown has our book conversation. Brown in his lifetime and since, he was the stuff of legend. His playing and recordings on the saxophone remain influential to this day. The man charlie yardbird parker was the product of a very particular place, kansas city, who in a few short years would help change the sound of jazz before his death at age 34 in 1955. His story is told in the new biography kansas city lightening. Its the first of a planned two volume biography by writer and jazz scholar stanley crouch. He joins me now. Welcome to you. Welcome to be here. Brown who is Charlie Parker . Why was so so important . Well, he actually embodied the word genius which is now used as just an advertising term but he was there. Brown he was the real thing . He was there. Brown which mean what . He had a superior sophisticated find and he could react musically doing improvisation at a high speed with an incredibly high quality of melodymaking, because that was what he wanted to do. He wanted to make melody on the spot very fast. Brown and why did he come to the saxophone and when did he was there a moment where he not only realized that music was his life but that he might aspire to do something important with it . He went to a jam session and wanted to play because he just thought he could play. And he got laughed off the bandstand. And that made him so mad that he told somebody, he said im gonna become the greatest at the saxophone. Brown the book begins with this wonderful scene of when the kansas city band hes part of come to new york, to the savoy and jazz is a competitive sport there, right . Its a combat sport, almost, right . Right, right. Brown and they come into town, nobody thinks much of them and they do a pretty they do pretty well and suddenly theres this comet thats burst, right . Charlie parker. Well, the jazz story, as far as i can see it, over and over and over its the american story in in the sense that American History and American Culture is just compressed in the individual lives of people and in the context because, see, to actually play jazz you have to be able to hear. As great a talent as Charlie Parker had, he couldnt hear at the start of his career. Because he had to learn that to play jazz, jazz is the only art that i know of that actually moves at what we call digital speed. So when Charlie Parker is playing, when you hear him playing, hes hearing his note that hes going to play in relationship to three or four other notes that are around him. Pelley thats a good introduction. We have a little clip that i want to play now. This is from the peace hot house. That was a perfect example of a way he could play because when you listen to that over and over you actually realize that hes playing off the drummer, hes playing off the piano player, hes playing off the bass player and hes hearing another set of notes. So hes relating to all of them at the same time. Brown hes listening to them all but hes also playing. Brown playing. Right. So the speed with which he plays these notes, that is a digital speed. See, we live in such a movielike world we think we dont really understand what real speed is. But when you listen to players like Charlie Parker, any jazz player whos great, they all play the same way. Not style wise, but they all do the same thing. They learn to listen to the whole context. Brown this book is just part one of a life. It was a short life. Yup. Brown and a difficult life in many ways. Right. Brown there were nervous breakdowns near the end, there was drug addiction. What in the man allowed him to accomplish so much as an artist but not survive . Well, the thing is, see, he see he had a he had enormous discipline. With when he focused on something, he would do it. Now, he even kicked the drug habit a number of times. He wasnt completely incapable of getting off drugs, but the influence of the situation that he was in was a little bit too heavy for him. But, like, the other thing thats very interesting about shim that he always had very intense intellectual pursuits in his personality. And so throughout the book youll find that he gets with different people and they actually are interested in the life of the mind as they call it. Now, most people today dont think that black jazz musicians did that. They definitely dont think hiphop musicians well, calling hiphop musicians musicians is a little bit too much. But today people dont really realize that truly sophisticated artists thought a lot, you know . And a lot of times in the book you see Charlie Parkers relationship to lester young, to duke ellington, to louis armstrong, to all of these different people because of what they meant to him as a player and because they kept setting up they kept setting his expectations for himself higher. Because he wanted to be up there with the guys on the top shelf. And their attitude is if you can climb up here, just climb on up. laughs they werent standing stomping his fingers. When his fingers got up there they said another one coming, come on. Brown the book is kansas city lightning the rise and times of Charlie Parker. Stanley crouch, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Woodruff again, the major developments of the day the stalemate in washington finally broke. Senators worked out a deal to reopen the government and prevent a default, and House Republicans agreed to allow a vote. Wall street rallied on the news. 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