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Demands. the people who were attacking sarah palin, oh, my god -- >> running around through their garbage and see -- >> exactly. they want a lot more than two unopened bottled waters. >> all right. we have to get to news. weve got a good show coming up. >> elizabeth warren is coming up. >> yes, i was going to mention that. >> is she from washington? yes, shes right there. first, lets take a look at todays top stories. president obama wrapped up his two-day conference on the threat of nuclear wea...

Ill said you next im too. lets go down here. u tomorrow. good night, america. >> bret: next on "special report," president obama ends his nuclear summit with a note of nuclear irony. a republican senator says the white house cannot decide where it should hold trials for accused terrorists. we look at the economic chaos if greece and whether the u.s. can learn anything from it. live from the studio in washington, this is "special report". good evening, im bret baier. president obama nuclear summi...

But what youve seen in president obama is he tried to tie together three different elements. this new nuclear strategy that came out last week, an arms control deal with the russians that i think you and i agree doesnt move the ball very much, but at least continues a slow move downward, and then the nuclear security side of this. hes got two other big elements. stopping countries like iran and north korea, and the second one is reforming the nuclear nonproliferation treaty so that countries can...

So weve made real progress in building a safer world. i would also note the united states has made its own commitments. we are strengthening security at our nuclear facilities and invited the iaea to review the security at our research certainly, reflecting our commitment to sharing the best practices needed in our global efforts. were seeking significant funding increasing for preventing nuclear proliferation and trafficking. today the united states joins canada in calling on nation to say comm...

Thailand and vietnam agreed to join and strengthen the treaties and international partnerships at the core of our efforts. japan, india and china will create new centers to promote nuclear security technologies and training. nations pledged new resource to help the iaea meet responsibilities. in a major and welcome development, russia will close the last weapons grade plutonium production reactor. im pleased the united states and russia agreed to eliminate 69 tons of plutonium for weapons progra...

Likelihood countries as odds over these issues will cooperate? how can this be enforced inned? for about ten years, we have been encouraging ukraine to either ship out highly enriched uranium for transform it to a lower grade -- lower enriched uranium. and in part because of that conference ukraine took that step and announced it would complete this step over the next couple years. all the commitments that we talked about are ones that weve already booked. even before the communique and work pla...

Agency, the multilateral partnership that strengthens nuclear security, prevent nuclear trafficking and assist nation ins building capacity to secure nuclear materials. but as i said, today was about taking tangible steps to protect our people. we have agreed to a detailed work plan to guide our efforts going forward. the specific actions we will take. i want to commend my partners for the important commitments they made in conjunction with this summit. let me give you examples. canada agreed to...

Measure progress, to insure that were meeting our commitments and to plan our next steps. and i again want to thank president lee and the republic of korea for agreeing to host the next security summit in two years. finally let me say while the summit focused on securing nuclear materials, this is part of a larger effort. the comprehensive agenda that i outlined in prague last year to pursue the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons 679. indeed in recent days, weve made progress ...

Argentina, the philippines, thailand and vietnam agreed to join and thus strengthen the treaties and international partnerships that are at the core of our global efforts. a number of countries, including italy, japan, india and china will create new centers to promote nuclear security, technologies and training. nations pledge new resources to help the iaea meet its responsibilities. in a major and welcomed development, russia announced it will close its last weapons-grade plutonium production ...

Binding commitment. whats the likelihood that countries which have been at odds over these issues for a number of years are now going to cooperate? how can this be enforced? >> well, lets just take a specific example, bill. for about ten years we had been encouraging ukraine to either ship out its highly enriched uranium or transform it to a lower-grade, lower-enriched uranium. and in part because of this conference, ukraine took that step. and announced it would complete this step over the next...