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Airliner and charged with unleashing poisonous gas. our brian todd has the report. >> reporter: two terror plots show isis growing ambition to strike u.s. targets. two men in sydney have been arrested in trying to bring down a passenger plane with an ied. >> this is one of the most sophisticate the plots ever attempted on australian soil. >> reporter: australian officials say the plan was to place a bomb inside annett that ahead plane. but plotters aborted the plan. authorities arent sure why. p...

Do it yourself bomb. they say a senior isis commander sent part of the bomb assembled along with other loose parts, including weapons grade explosives from turkey to his contacts in sydney via air cargo. >> this is an ikea model of terrorism. the fact that they were in touch directly to provide guidance with these plotters in australia, the complex logistics of the plot, the supply of explosives, the imagination ingenuity that went into it, take isis into a whole new ball game when it comes to i...

Allows them to retain the -- for example, the ability to enrich uranium to the point where it is weapons grade eventually. they retain all of that capacity. they continue to build out their long-range missile capacity, there conventional capabilities, their irregular and asymmetrical forces like the support of hezbollah, allows them to have more economic activity and revenue to fund all of this. >> bret: candidate donald trump and candidate marco rubio both set on the campaign trail that this is...

Allows them to retain the -- for example, the ability to enrich uranium to the point where it is weapons grade eventually. they retain all of that capacity. they continue to build out their long-range missile capacity, there conventional capabilities, their irregular and asymmetrical forces like the support of hezbollah, allows them to have more economic activity and revenue to fund all of this. >> bret: candidate donald trump and candidate marco rubio both set on the campaign trail that this is...

He says he will work to bring peace to syria. skeptics claim the russians will continue their support of the dictator. given the presidents criticism of the security alliance with nato. the new administration has promised to address chinese military and economic aggressio aggression. while he has waited for the senate to approve his nomination, the white house is already delivered a message to some of the employees. >> the bureaucrats have a problem? they should get with the program or goal. >> ...

Take a look at the graphic. 25,000 pounds of low enriched uranium to russia. iran has yet to get rid of its supply of uranium enriched to near the 20% threshold which was only a step away from weapons-grade material. george there are democrats up on the hill who have a problem with iran on another front. on their missile testing, thumbing their nose at the world. >> missiles are what at the end of the day make nuclear weapons technology ultimately lethal and a threat to this country. missile tec...

So and then you see things like this, you know, this arrest as well as death to america. i mean, you have to go back and say to yourself what are we doing? >> listen, richard nixon made a deal with the communist china. president reagan made a deal with the communist soviet union. they were far more dangerous threats to our country than iran ever was or will be. what were we doing then? we were taking steps in our national interest even as we recognize that we were dealing with a hostile power wh...

An iran that was already enriching uranium to the level of 20%. which is just below weapons grade. an iran that had already installed 10,000 plus centrifuges, an iran that was moving rapidly on commission a heavy water reactor able to produce enough for additional bomb or are two a year. that my friends is where we already were when we began our negotiations. at a well remembered moment during the u.n. general assembly the previous fall, israeli prime minister netanyahu had held up a cartoon of ...

2013, we were facing an iran that had already mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, already stockpiled enough enriched uranium that they could make 10-12 bombs. an iran that was enriching at a level of 20% which just below weapons grade. an iran that already installed 10,000 plus centrifuges. and an iran that was moving to commission a heavy water reactor able to produce an addition bomb or two a year. that is where we were when we began the negotiations.

Two-thirds of centrifuges are taken offline. uranium is going to be sent somewhere else. the potential to enrich uranium to weapons grade is down and their ability to have themselves checked exists in a way it did not before. how does it make it more likely this deal that they get a weapon. >> chris, lets start with enriching uranium in centrifuges. they are using the most basic kind of centrifuges. in eight to ten years, they will have advanced research and development. it will help them master...