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Receive plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment equipment? how do you think they would respond? >> senator, this is precisely my concern with the iranian agreement. >> right. that's the question i'm asking you, what would be the response if we were providing nuclear weapons material to the saudi arabians? >> senator, i think they would take it into account. remember, when we're talking about nuclear weapons, we're most often talking about components. we're talking about missile material, the capacity to authorize delivery of a mechanism often through missiles. today iran has that capacit...

Went up that way. that's what has officials concerned. when you look at this -- now, this is not -- the mileages may look off to you. if you were to fire from north korea to the united states, it would go over the north pole and this way. but los angeles is within 6,000 miles of missiles. potentially putting the u.s. mainland in the range of this new missile. as intelligence agencies analyze the data, what is still unclear is how far this rocket would go if it had a full nuclear payload. given the height of the tests, experts believe the north may have been testing a re-entry vehicle necessary...

First hours of a war. so clearly we need to do everything possible to avoid that. and we do have the tools, maria. you know, we can sanction chinese banks for money laundering for the north koreans. we should be stopping the flow of semiprocessed missile material from china to north korea for their nuclear weapons program. all sorts of things that we have the capacity and capability to do immediately, and we have not done as good a job of that, either in this administration or in prior ones. so before we actually start to talk about war, i think that we should be employing these tools because ...

So clearly we need to do everything possible to avoid that. and we do have the tools, maria. you know, we can sanction chinese banks for money laundering for the north koreans. we should be stopping the flow of semiprocessed missile material from china to north korea for their nuclear weapons program. all sorts of things that we have the capacity and capability to do immediately, and we have not done as good a job of that, either in this administration or in prior ones. so before we actually start to talk about war, i think that we should be employing these tools because i think that by themse...

Indication that the president is about to order military action. it's always the same problem in north korea. can you really get to the target and what would north korea do? would it unleash against south korea and that is always one of the big stoppers in any potential idea of retaliating against the north. >> barbara, what might those options look like? >> well, the idea is that u.s. spy satellites have very closely been tracking the location of the underground test site, what ges on there, the location of where north korea is fabricating this missile material, missile construction sites, mi...