men and women who are sworn to protect it. the only conceivable motive for such damaging and classified leaks of information is that it makes the president look good. we re going to talk to senator mccain in just a moment. the white house for the most part is flightily denying the charges. jay carney told reporters any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. i ll have senator mccain respond to that in a moment. now, all this outrage stems from a wave of news reports about secret operations overseas including a new york times article last week about u.s. cyber attacks on the computers i rarn uses to run the nuclear facilities. the reporter david sanger comes out and says his scoop is, quote, based on interviews with current and former officials involved in the program. now some of the information came from current officials working on the program. this is a direct quote from t
biggest stockpile. jenna: do you think they re actually reducing their nuclear weapons? they have fewer nuclear weapons because their systems are aging and taking them out the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty that the u.s. and russia negotiated and went into force last year are giving verification procedures. we don t have to trust them. we go to their sites. every time russians move a missile or a bomber they re required to notifyfy us about it. we have a very good intelligence now on russian nuclear forces. jenna: i hope so. i rather have good intelligence than the opposite, right, joe? certainly something we ll talk about. we always appreciate your insights. look to having you back, joe. my pleasure, jenna. thank you. jon: who s watching? some new concerns about your privacy and how much your actions on social networking sites like facebook and twitter are being monitored. the fbi plans to keep an eye on those sites to help track potential security threats
expressed great confidence that between what our own intel and what the verification procedures will be that we will know. here is what he said. i think we ve gone to school on some of those developments over the last decade or so, so that we can now have a better plan and opportunity to verify some of the things that they are saying that they re going to do and not do. is brennan right? do you share his confidence that we would know what iran is doing on its nuclear program, forget the regional side of it? and what are the chances that iran could or might be able to build a secret nuclear facility we would know nothing about? yeah. here is again, you showed a clip of general austin not knowing what one of our closest allies in the region are doing. that s the saudis going in to do air strikes in yemen. so what makes us think that we are going to have, you know, as