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Secure all their nuclear materials, military, academic, civilian and otherwise over the next four years. among the agreements to come out of the summit over the past two days, mexico agreeing to convert uranium from its research reactor from weapons grade to less highly enriched. canada sending its spent nuclear fuel to the u.s. chile confirming it gave up the last 40 pounds of highly enriched uranium. malaysia adopting strict rules, ukraine agreeing to let the russia and u.s. secure its stockpi...

>> this is an unprecedented gathering to address an unprecedented threat. two decades after the end of the cold war, we face the cruel irony of history. the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down. but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up. >> the white house cited two major achievements on its first day of this summit. china agreed to pursue economic sanctions against iran and ukraine said that it will get rid of all weapons grade nuclear material by the year 2012. in jus...

Weapons grade nuclear material, thats a plus. but the administration, this administration and the previous administration, had deep concerns that the security in russia is not good enough. around its nuclear facilities. that enough is still not being done to keep former soviet nuclear scientists maybe from being swayed by somebody. and you had a fascinating conversation with the prime minister of pakistan, another big question mark in terms of not only are the nuclear materials safe guarded enou...

Mr. prime minister, thanks very much for joining us, and welcome to the united states. >> thank you. >> lets get right to some of the most important issues facing the united states and pakistan. the "new york times" reporting today that pakistan, your government, is getting ready, in their words, to greatly expand your weapons grade fuel. is that true? >> no, its not true. >> what are you planning on doing with your weapons grade fuel? because the "new york times" says youre struggling to make s...

Terrorists and smugglers to get their hands on weapons great material. iran and north korea were not invited, but both of nations nuclear programs will be up for discussion. also expected to come up, a lasts minute decision by israels prime minister not to attend. secretary of state hillary clinton played down the decision. >> the israeli government represented at a high level. they share our deep concern about nuclear terrorism. they want to be at the table as we try to figure out how to make t...

Weakland was there from 1970-1988 when this man was alive, weakland didnt do anything until the end, 1998, when the trial begins. my question is why didnt "the new york times" go to the judge when had authority over the trial? his father has spoken out and said this isnt through, that ratziger didnt stop the trial. theres a lot of misinformation here, and at the end of the day we have to question the sources. the plaintiffs attorney, who is providing this informs, and ash bik ole weakland who is...

Should we be take it word for word. so the impression he has left here by holding off on these documents until the last minute is he was deliberately trying to keep this material away from the senate judiciary committee because he didnt want to deal with a lot of the questions. megyn: in lius defense, we know where he stand on affirmative action, hes for it. we know what he believes about the constitution. he thinks its a living, wreathing document that changes over time. what is the big shock i...

Sanctions. periodically they claim theyll capitulate and within days, they recant, kind of a bait and switch diplomatic game. is it naive to think we can somehow talk iran out of its nuclear program? >> well, it is naive to think we can talk them out of it. i think we should take very seriously, to your question, the announcement that theyve made so far about speeding up the nuclear process. from both the technical and political perspective, this is serious. technically, there is no serious impe...

Capable of going to 80%, beyond and that gets to weapons-grade and said they would be capable of building a bomb and the white house yesterday said it was a long shot and in fact today a strong ally of ours, a french foreign minister agreed with him though in fact also saying that that kind of talk from iran is, quote, dangerous. the source of ours, a member state of the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency, iaea, said, he, too was skeptical about the comments, describing them as speechifying and they h...

Revolutionary guards and their transaction, then it will definitely have an impact. >> reporter: this is as iran released new imagines reporting to show the plant enhancing uranium closer to weapons grade. official claims theyd accept a western offer to enrich the uranium outside the country. >> if they come forward and supply the fuel, then we would stop the process of the 20% enrienrichment. >> reporter: but iran still hasnt confirmed it with the iaeh and some call it nuclear blackma blackmail...