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my head, i feel it in my heart. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. mr. yang, i want to bring you in. you've made a up virtue of your outsider status. you've nerve served in military or the government. what has prepared you to respond to a disaster? >> you can't knock someone for having money and spending it in the right way. my opinion. >> thanks, andrew. >> no problem. as commander in chief i think we need to be focused on the real threats of the 21st century. and what are those threats? climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, material drones and non-state actors. and if you look up we're in the process of potentially losing the ai arms race to china right now because they have more access to more data than we do, and their government is putting
raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends. [ laughter ] >> and i'd like to point out it is not an expanding base, so i don't just think this with my head, i feel it in my heart. >> thank you, mrs. klobuchar. mr. yang, i want to bring you in. you've made a virtue of your outsider status. you've nerve served in military or the government. what has prepared you to respond to a terrorist attack or a major disaster? >> well, first, i want to stick up for tom. we have a broken system and tom has spent his money fighting climate change. you can't knock someone spending money in the right way, in my opinion. >> thanks, andrew. >> no problem. as commander in chief i think we need to be focused on the real threats of the 21st century. and what are those threats? climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, military drones and non-state actors. and if you look up we're in the process of potentially losing
a 20th century threat. loose nuclear material, climate change, military drones and non-state actors, these are the threats that are going to require our administration to catch up in terms of technology. we all know we are decades behind the curve on technology. we saw when mark zuckerberg toufd before congress, the nature of the questioning. as commander in chief,ly move us forward. >> i want to respond to mr. yang. i don't see a moral equivalency between our country and russia. vladimir putin is someone who has shot down planes over ukraine, who has poisoned his opponent and we have not talked about what we need to do to protect ourselves from russia invading our election. this wasn't meddling. that's what i do when i call my daughter on a saturday night and ask her what she's doing. sorry. this was much more serious than that. this was actually invading our election. so to protect ourselves in 2020, what we need, one, backup paper ballots in every single state.
this isn't an ideological question. it's sort of like you go into the center for control and -- >> the election happened and then we just sat around waiting and we heard nothing from the trump administration. >> from the other side of things the obama administration had prepared what amounted to the best course ever prepared how the federal government works because they had been encouraged to do such a thing. and so places like the energy department, which is the department of nuclear weapons, where loose nuclear material is cleaned up, it's a mission critical kind of thing, expected the next day dozens of people would come in to start to learn what therapy managing. they had set aside the parking spots and conference rooms and they wait and wait and no one shows up the next day or next week or next month. it was -- so my interest in this was like what don't they know
the center for control and -- >> the election happened and then we just sat around waiting and we heard nothing from the trump administration. >> from the other side of things the obama administration had prepared what amounted to the best course ever prepared how the federal government works because they had been encouraged to do such a thing. and so places like the energy department, which is the department of nuclear weapons, it's where nuclear weapons are tested. where loose nuclear material is cleaned up, it's a mission critical kind of thing, expected the next day dozens of people would come in to start to learn what they were managing. they had set aside the parking spots and conference rooms and they wait and wait and no one shows up the next day or next week or next month. it was -- so my interest in this was like what don't they know that they need to know?
operatives. this material would be used for what they call a dirty bomb. this is when you take loose nukes, loose nuclear material, you fashion it around an explosive device and it exploeds, contaminating entire city weeks so it effectively shuts down large areas of urban areas. this is, believe me, the crown jewel for groups like al qaeda and now it seems isis as well. >> you say there are four attempts. i always think there's so many things that we often do miss. we miss when pakistan tested a nuclear weapon. is there any suspicion there were successful sales? >> based on some independent reporting we've done here at fox news, it certainly suggests that this is just the tip of the iceberg, that there were other incidents as well. there was one case in particular where they caught it very far down the pike in the sting operation and they were lucky to kind of intervene and disrupt it. the key thing that the
what they call a dirty bomb. this is when you take loose nukes, loose nuclear material, you fashion it around an explosive device and it exploeds, contaminating entire city weeks so it effectively shuts down large areas of urban areas. this is, believe me, the crown jewel for groups like al qaeda and now it seems isis as well. >> you say there are four attempts. i always think there's so many things that we often do miss. we miss when pakistan tested a nuclear weapon. is there any suspicion there were successful sales? >> based on some independent reporting we've done here at fox news, it certainly suggests that this is just the tip of the iceberg, that there were other incidents as well. there was one case in particular where they caught it very far down the pike in the sting operation and they were lucky to kind of intervene and disrupt it. the key thing that the associated press hit on in their
i want to thank my colleagues for making the unprecedented gathering a day of unprecedented progress confronting one of the greatest threats to our global security. our work today not only advances the security of the united states, it advances the security of all mankind. >> bret: president obama wrapping up his 47-nation nuclear summit to address the issue of loose nuclear material. saying he got the nation to sign on to a plan over the next four years and there are critics about what came out of the summit today, including republican jon kyl from arizona who said this --
i want to thank my colleagues for making the unprecedented gathering a day of unprecedented progress confronting one of the greatest threats to our global security. our work today not only advances the security of the united states, it advances the security of all mankind. >> bret: president obama wrapping up his 47-nation nuclear summit to address the issue of loose nuclear material. saying he got the nation to sign on to a plan over the next four years and there are critics about what came out of the summit today, including republican jon kyl from arizona who said this --
summit. it follows last week's signing with russia. the president says he wants to reduce nuclear arsenal and not use nukes against countries who do not have them. ,. let's get to the author of tehran rising. good to see you. let's talk about the thrust of what the president is trying to do today. we all focus as much these days on the fact that there are loose nukes out there. talk about the importance of this and what we should know about it. >> no, i think this is a huge issue. it's, frankly, not a conservative or a liberal issue. it's pretty much an issue that there's a lot of support for both inside the country and internationally to deal with to a much larger extent than we have so far, and this is the issue of loose nuclear material, inadequately secured nuclear material, material that could potentially fall into the hands of terrorists. and the thrust of the summit over the next two days is going