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Nuclear weapons business now for 23 years and hasn't gotten there. that would suggest --. jenna: patrick, sorry to interrupt. 23 years here we are waiting for another report from the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency. you mentioned tippingpoint we get a little nervous everything gets a little too close for comfort. are we close to that point now and if we are, what is the policy given this report or not? >> the question can we step up our shadow war? and can we slow iran's nuclear clock at the same time that we speed up their democracy clock? none of us would have expected the qaddafi would be over...

Needed to build a nuclear weapon. how close they are to that is completely another question. we'll get into that in just a moment. this all comes as evidence mounts that the west is engaged in a shadow war with tehran. patrick clawson, director of research at the washington institute for near east policy and expert on the region. patrick, starting off generally why have these reports at all? what makes them significant? >> iran is evidently getting close to have a pretty sophisticated kind of nuclear weapon which fits well on a missile warhead. we thought for some time that iran has been worki...

Patrick do business with iran in different ways. do you buy that? do you think type of report is actually counterproductive to a more aggressive policy stance on the united states? or do you think what russia and china are say something more politically motivated? >> the job of technical experts like this u.n. agency, the international atomic energy agency to tell like it is. it is not their job to set policy it is their job to tell us what is going on. they have respected scientists who are quite good ferreting out information. they should just lay out the facts and we have to decide what to ...

gary schultz. both maintained their innocence but agreed to resign. legendary penn state football coach, joe paterno issued this statement. he called the charges shocking. saying he grieves for the victims and their families. we'll get a live report from harris berg on this developing story -- harrisburg a little later in the hour. good morning to you on this monday. some major developments on the economic front. hello, i'm jon scott. >> a lot of news to get to today. great to be with you john. i'm jenna lee. fallout over the financial crisis overseas amidst fears of the new debt tro...

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