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Clearly the fbi had been following this for a decade. they were prepared for this possibility. i was taken with the fact that they didnt seem to be reporting on anything of much value. this is just my speculation. maybe it was a program that started before the bureaucratic era. through inertia, it was moving on. it seemed they were giving the russian handlers a couple of clicks and google search would have provided. they put a lot of effort in this and didnt get a lot of bang for their buck. >> ...

Documentary trying to get everybody to do away with the nuclear arsenals. is that realistic given the reliance that u.s. and russia or china or some of the other countries have? >> i think that it is realistic, and all of us with the producing team from "inconvenient truth" would not believe it if we didnt veer off of the path. and no one has expectations the do it unilaterally, and it has to be done thoughtfully and in a disciplined fashion where you said there is a set plan that we will go thr...

Cia officer valerie plame wilson, the 2003 leaking of her identity sparked a huge national political firestorm that all of our viewers remember. valerie is in los angeles right now promoting a new documentary entitled "countdown to zero." well talk about that in a few moments. valerie, thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> it was a three-part series, very long, very detailed. the gist said this in this article in the "washington post." ill read it to you. the top secret wor...

Perspectives, republican and democrat, but also russian, pakistani, iranian, british and european. it brings together the perspectives that help to explain how we arrived to where we are today and most importantly how those leaders and all those who support them through the global zero and other movements believe there is only one direction now. that direction is zero or our children and theirs will live in an increasingly dangerous and potentially catastrophic time. this is an existential threa...

This film lies. >> lets take another look at a clip from "countdown to zero." >> the iranians have worked very hard at disguising and hiding their facilities. many of their facilities are in crowded, urban area and under ground extremely well protected from any sort of aerial bombing. >> if iran were to acquire nuclear weapons capability, the impact is across the region. you have a whole set of other countries needing nuclear weapons capability as well. >> was there a time that you ever worried ...

Terrorist groups like al qaeda would love to get their hands on nuclear weapons. right now, at least nine nations can build them, but theres a movement in full force to eliminate all nuclears. its called global zero, and the hope is to live in a world without the threat of nukes. film makers and leaders around the world are using a documentary to deliver their message. its called "countdown to zero." take a look. >> highly mixed uranium is now within the grat. of mm countries. >> weve got to ens...

Various groups have been focused on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons. >> all the black market seizures im aware of were caught. >> at a russian naval ways in the early 1990s potatoes were guarded better. >> united states launched a rocket to study the northern lights. somebody forgot to pass word on it. the russians opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk and said, were under attack. >> thats part of "countdown to zero" w...

Fortunately, yeltsin wasnt drunk and didnt believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. that that clip was from the new documentary, "countdown to zero" which makes a strong case against countries including ours having nuclear weapons and that makes a good case that being against nuclear weapons isnt just for hippies anymore. take a look at who appears in the film as supporting the notion of a nuclear-free world. yes, jimmy carter but the late robert mcnamara, ...

Nuclear material, gets it delivered to the senate hearing room. can you just explain that? >> its a scary concept. but he was -- they were doing senate hearings. he was like, okay. i dont believe it. prove it. and they literally went off -- its something that certain colleges do in the graduate programs. they ask them to build a nuclear bomb based% what they find in the internet. >> all commercially available components. >> all commercially available. they did it, built it, minus the fissile mat...

Sending out an electromagnetic force that would fry all electronics, radar, computers, in the country to be attacked, followed by an onslaught of nuclear weapons. and for the first time in the nuclear age, the russians actually opened up the nuclear football. they went to president yeltsin and opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk and said, were under attack. fortunately, yeltsin wasnt drunk and didnt believe what the military was telling him. he said, th...