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Of enriching to 20%. youve now got systems in place which allow you substantial enrichment capacity, all the way up to 60%. why on earth are you doing that? why shouldnt iran do that? iran has every right to do so within the framework of international law... ill tell you why — ill tell you why. you asked me the question — because its quite simple. because you say your nuclear programme is completely civilian—oriented — its all about developing your power infrastructure — you simply don...

Going in and attacking him isnt going to get you the 51 votes. >> i couldnt agree more. we are agreeing with each other. i think the strategy here senator markey was, were going to lob on this thing and get manchin and sinema to come along, you cant invent leverage over a person you dont have. i watched polling today, joe bidens approval is 29%, joe manchin is 64%, donald trump is 65%. thats west virginia voters. sob if you can get the west virginia on board for half a trillion in climate spendi...

Were reaping the reward of that. europe is reaping the reward, they are heavily dependent on russian oil, that will not change in the near term. it is leverage for vladamir putin. we have an energy problem, if you want understand what is going on in ukraine, look at energy markets, it starts there. >> todd: for anybody who says this is not joe bidens fault, look at this chart. this chart shows how much this is joe bidens fault. january 2020 to january 2022. keep in mind, covid reduced demand for...

Its its outrageous. now therere are serious security concerns for anyoneng going to the olympics. we find out the communication services are going to be provided by china unicom, beijing and thats going to bely relying on huawei technology for the games. now both weiwei and china unicom, the parent company, have been blacklisteded by our government and the ioc chose alibaba as its exclusive provider of cloud services for the entire games. ir company wer consider a national security risk elbridge...

About the deployment of russian troops to belarus. a state department official told us it was not about exercises. the official said it was about a show of force. possibly to increase russias leverage and the official also said that if the official also said that if the russians at the decide to invade, this would give them another route, and other avenue to do so because belarus is on ukraines border. there is concern about the potential here. it seems at the very least it is a way to try to de...

About consequences for russia. but then he said its one thing if its a minor incursion. what did that mean? >> reporter: norah, russia is going to pounce on that phrase during diplomatic talks which are set to begin friday, because this could be interpreted minimizing the type of attack or minimizing what the u.s. may do. the president seemed to be trying to say the u.s. will alter its response, depending on the scale and scope of russian aggression, which could be a cyber attack or an invasion....

Price controls, but you think about the concept of price control being reissued in this country? >> it is a failed idea. economics 101 wont tell you that leads to shortages. so what you need to do is you need to make sure you do not throughout all of the free money which she has been doing with every piece of legislation he promotes. you do not want to encourage people to stay home for those people at home are the producers and our economy. we need to be producing more gets me too be lowering th...

So the iranians, therefore... so the iranians, therefore, they have to use leverage to force the americans and the europeans... well, look, you call it leverage. many people watching and listening to this might call it a threat. what you seem to be saying is, "were going to enrich uranium, develop our capacity to 60%, and — who knows — maybe beyond it, to the 95% you need to develop a nuclear weapon, simply as a threat to hang over the united states and its allies, to tell them that if they ...

So these are not threats. these are actions by western regimes that try to gain leverage through the suffering of ordinary people. the iranians are quite willing to go back to the nuclear deal, but the other side has to come back with iran as well. iran wont appease the europeans. right, but this is where it gets complicated, because youve been very candid with me about what iran is up to right now and the degree to which you are seeking leverage. and the fact is that between 2018 and now, you h...

Type of an invasion fully to try to take over ukraine or partially to continue to destabilize it and not put it in the orbit of the west or to use all of this for leverage with the united states and the west to find some type of curt is guarantees that he says that he needs. we dont know which one of those it is, but we will know in short order because in the next week the united states is responding to his positions in writing. the british foreign ministers supposed to be visiting lavrov in rus...