>> and said on air among other things that you were worshipping the false god of utter objectivity and then he brought up the run-up to the iraq war. >> the stories mr. koppel's career will emphasize the light he shown on the iran hostages, those stories that will probably not em pa size in 2002 and 2003 and 2004 and 2005. mr. koppel did not shine that same light on the decreasingly coherent excuses presented by the government of this nation for the war in iraq. >> i'm sure you would like a chance to respond. >> well, i'm not sure i feel i need a chance to respond. he clearly didn't see all of the night lines that we did and most particularly he cannot have seen a 90 minute or two-hour town meeting that we did, the title of which was self-explanatory, why now? and we did that in early march of 2003.