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Aims. we did the first. no evidence we did the second. >> is that where the rub is here that its not -- everybody taps everybodys phones. the governments get information and e-mails and hacking happens all the time but the rub here is taking that information and actually trying to affect the outcome of an election. >> weaponizing the information in effect. collection is a standard practice of every intelligence service. they are stealing information. and then you know the secrets you want to kno...

Prism. if it helps your guy, its no big deal. if it hurts your guy, its terrible. this was a hack on the american political system. i would hope there would be a point -- i think you saw it in the senate with the bipartisanship where everybody says this is beyond the pale. what david just described. this is weaponizing against us. it would be, i think, a wonderful thing in the next couple days in president-elect trump, which hell be by the end of the day, would say this is irrespective of its my...

All it would mean presumably is americans can put back sanctions unilaterally but iranians could then start enriching again, right? they can go down the path of weaponizing again. >> absolutely. essentially the horse has left the barn on the iran agreement in the sense of the billions of dollars that have gone back to the iranian government. all this will accomplish is that european business, russian business, chinese business will be doing business in iraq and u.s. business wont and the other p...

Council sanctions because those other countries, russia, china, will not comply. all it would mean presumably is americans can put back sanctions unilaterally, but the iranians could then start enriching again, right? they can go down the path of weaponizing again. >> absolutely. you i mean, essentially, the horse has left the barn on the iran agreement in the sense of the billions of dollars that have gone back to the iranian government. all this will accomplish is that european business, russi...

How rare, how important how bold is that step? >> its one of the ways they think of naming and shaming and hopefully stopping some of the behavior. spies will tell you that stealing e-mails, that is normal. honorable spy craft. weaponizing them by releasing them through an organization like wikileaks and trying to affect public opinion. that is a step too far. and theyve got to put a stop to it. lets see if it stops some of these influencing operations, or if we get reports of further hacking in...

Like the economy, like health care. like education. you know, it touches on all those things. in a way that obviously donald trump has done a magnificent job of weaponizing to his advantage. and i think actually going back to what amy was saying, that all of this obfuscation about politicians trying to cover up their record, i think in a lot of ways that helps donald trump, too. he can just say, you all are all wrong. im going to build the trump wall. and thats working for him. >> by the way you...

One of the reasons theyre tilting into this de facto defense that if you dont do this deal well have iran weaponizing this nuclear capacity down the road. thats going to put us on a road to conflict because thats the reality of whats going to happen. this is an important inflection point in american history. the and a lot of people are opposed to obama getting that win in this. but i think they are fear mongering in very reckless ways. theyre behaving like a chuck hagel would or even a mitt romn...

>> i wish stevens was running for president because hes more reasonable. most of the people dont know a darn thing about whats in the agreement. they havent looked at it and one of the reasons theyre tilting into this de facto defense that if you dont do this deal well have iran weaponizing this nuclear capacity down the road. thats going to put us on a road to conflict because thats the reality of whats going to happen. this is an important inflection point in american history. the and a lot of...

Does that mean theyll get to go to a military base in iran not a nuclear base a military base which is why iranians have not let them go there until now. the world thinks perhaps at some time they experimented with weaponizing nuclear material there. if iaea gets to go there, thats also a development. in coming months what theyve pulled positive constructive major critical decision will be further investigated further drafted and technical and political experts will again draw the specifics. tha...

More developed capacity you know can you be like japan, a very advanced power that is always consciously not weapon weaponizing weaponizing? >> we dont want iran to be in that japan situation, threshold power. japan can build a bomb in a hat matter of months if it wanted to. their technology were talking about is 1970s technology they got from pakistan. part of the deal is they were limited on any research. so yes, you can put irans program in a box with a camera on it. that is the deal that is ...