george clooney on evidence he says he has of war crimes. and a look at what we can learn from health care around the world. a preview of a new gps special that premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. first here s my take. when he was in college in the early 80s as part of a student organization, i invited ronald reagan s defense secretary, casper weinberger, to give a speech on campus. at the time american colleges were hotbeds to the reagan administration especially to its defense policies. sure enough, as he began to speak, a series of students stood up and began to heckle. one after another, they rose and chanted a single line, deterrence is a lie. i was reminded of that turbulent meeting because i have been listening to these debates over iran s nuclear ambitions because it highlights a strange role reversal in today s foreign policy discourse. it used to be the left that refused to accept the idea of deterrence. searching instead for options like the nuclear freeze. and it
for the next debate, does cain have what takes to go the distance? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. . president obama says that iran must be held accountable for an alleged plot to kill a saudi ambassador to the united states. he is ramping up efforts to punish and isolate iran as he puts pressure on republicans in congress for blocking his jobs bill. jess yak jessica yellin is standing by much he was asked about the alleged assassination plots, the links to the iranian government. give us the headlines. well, the president repeatedly declined to say that nation s supreme leader and president were aware of the alleged plot. but he insisted that knowledge of it reached high into the iranian government. here s the president. we believe that if even if at the highest levels there was not detailed operational knowledge, there has to be accountability with respect to anybody in