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Both ABC and CBS assigned a correspondent to cover a demarche by President Barack Obama to Dmitri Medvedev, his counterpart in Moscow. A secret letter suggested that NATO might not build an anti-missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic, as planned, if Moscow, in turn, helped stymie Teheran's plans to acquire nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles. CBS' Lara Logan called Obama's offer "a dramatic reversal" of the policies of George Bush, under whom US-Russia relations had deteriorated "to their lowest point since the break-up of the Soviet Union." Logan's anchor Katie Couric pointed out that the secret missive had been made public not in Washington but in Moscow. "What do you think motivated the Russians?" "For the last few years they have been demonizing the United States and now they are preparing their people for a change…This could be a new era of friendlier relations."
ABC covered the diplomacy from the point of view of US-Iran relations. Martha Raddatz, in Jerusalem in Hillary Rodham Clinton's entourage, asked the Secretary of State about the letter. "We are trying to enlist the assistance of every nation." Raddatz' follow-up concerned Teheran not Moscow. She asked about the detention of journalist Roxana Saberi by Iranian authorities, "a 31-year-old former Miss America contestant who told her father she was arrested for buying a bottle of wine…Is there anything you can do about that?" "We hope so."
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