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Started, people said oh, you cant get there from here. its too hard. the russians will never agree. youll never be able to come up with the verification measures. i hear all of that now for cyber. but yeah, it takes awhile and yeah, we dont know the solutions right now but we have to begin the process and the trump administration has eliminated the people in the state department who are doing that. the trump administration eliminated the position in the white house that was thinking about that. ...

Can iran get to a stage where the can develop nuclear weapons any time in the near future? >> well, first of all, we already know that iran did have a structured nuclear weapons program up through 2003. so they certainly have a lot of -- had a lot of work in that direction. but by the same token, there is pretty wide agreement that since that time, they have not had anything like a structured program. now, the jcpoa, the iran deal, as you described, already gave us a really solid way of making s...

All might be fine in front of the camera and hand shakes and things might seem rosy. in four or five or six months we dont seep this coming together in terms of the instrumental frame work on paper being carried out by officials in north korea and here with verification measures, then the meeting is just a meeting. so i want to be optimistic. i want to believe we can reach a positive conclusion if not a positive development here. i mean, the worst case scenario here is for something to go wrong ...

He said we accomplished what we wanted. is this him trying to be accepted by the globe as a nuclear power? or is this him saying, which i didnt read in the statement, that hes going to reverse what the north koreans have accomplished. i think theres too much optimism on this one. second question, if we believe that the north koreans are serious, i dont see anything that gets into things like, what the verification measures are. would they let inspectors on site? what would those inspectors do? t...

Foundation. if we went all the way and reimposed sanctions while iran is in compliance, again, our allies made it very, very clear they would not be following us. this would be a slippery slope towards a bad outcome, something very much not in our national security interest. >> all right. whats driving the presidents decision is this. its a bad deal, mr. moniz. that the way the testing is done and the certifying, not in regard of him decertifying the agreement, but their following the deal is to...

We need to freeze the program. we need to, over time, work towards that denuclearization. >> mr. secretary, you were part of the negotiations for the iran nuclear deal. last week before the united nations the president said the u.s. should be embarrassed by that deal. im wondering what your reaction was when you heard that? >> well, once again, inflammatory language does not substitute for diplomacy. lets make it very clear -- the iran agreement, first of all, is a very strong agreement. certain...

Couple of months. it would be too humiliating for the regime. i think in 12 months or so youll see tentative feelers come out from pyongyang saying were willing to return to the bargaining table, the six-power talks and we want to discuss verification measures in exchange for economic. >> leland: talking about just how bad the relationship between the united states and russia had gotten. you can speak to this directly. in the sense for so long the past 16 years the u.s. has been training its mil...

The breakout time from two to three months to at least a year and put in place extraordinary verification measures. so this is a deal built for the long term. iran will have to comply and build confidence in the international community that it is a peaceful program. but we will have a strong verification regime essentially forever. >> secretary ernest moniz, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> joining us now form er senate majority leader -- mitchell, special envoy for m...

Market. thats least the rationale they put forward. again, im not judging on the wisdom of that. >> secretary moniz, is that the rationale the u.s. team accepted? you have to have a rationale for this being in the deal. >> our rationale -- first of all, one should remember the nonproliferation treaty permits and in some ways encourages the development of peaceful nuclear power programs. in this deal our job was simple. they have a program. we rolled back that program. we guaranteed an extension ...

Engaged in this issue and i think its gone well. i would be happy to go through the four pathways to a weapon in iran. >> please. >> one is plutonium production through a reactor, and there what you really have to know, bottom line is, that we have agreed that they will redesign their reactor to produce far less plutonium, the fuel that contains it, will be sent out of the country anyway. thats blocking. >> there are two involving enrichment, to make enriched uranium for weapons, and there in th...