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The turn of century, perhaps longer. it's not only the uranium program but also the plutonium program as well. there's been an exchange of personnel so for instance, you ever iranians on site in north korea since october of 2012 at a military base south of the chinese border and every time that north korea explodes an atomic device, iranians are on scene. north korea has sold iran enriched uranium and each year iran pays north korea somewhere between $1.5 billion to $2 billion for missiles, nukes and other weapons. jenna: that statistic was interesting because north korea is such a closed nati...

California congressman ed royce, chairman of the foreign affairs committee and my guest now. sir, good morning to you and welcome back to "america's newsroom." >> good morning, bill. bill: what is your first question? >> our first question will be the comments made by the foreign minister of iran yesterday. even though the agreement, even though the agreement says the plutonium factory that you know is at iraq is the site of this, it is supposed to be halted, construction is supposed to be halted, they will continue construction. then on top of it, iranian officials said they are going to buil...

Literally over a decade ago. isn't it a fact that what you had was the deception wing was sitting in geneva while the destruction wing was sitting in north korea. and doesn't that bother you a little bit about their intentions? >> i would like to see the guys go before the hague. they're less likely to have nuclear grade uranium because this deal diminishes it. and it allows us to have inspections at the most dangerous sites and halt their plutonium program. it makes iran less dangerous. >> what you said makes perfect sense as a way of thinking. shouldn't the congress in fact pass very, very t...

We would address some of the majority leader's concerns. he mentions the plutonium program. we are talking about working to halt the progress of that plutonium program. we talk about making limits on the enrichment capacity, how to address the stockpile, neutralize a portion of it. we are getting at those concerns in the first step of the agreement and it's a common sense question. why wouldn't you want for the first time in a decade to halt the progress of the program while you have a negotiation. we think it would be far more destabilizing to allow the iranians to move forward with their pro...

Bought time for the iranian nuclear program to be completed by going through precisely the kind of subterfuge he's engaged in right now. what would it take to make a difference? i'm a little reluctant about getting into john kerry mode on syrian chemical weapons. if we hehe were to rip up by th roots in nuclear weapons program -- and that's exactly what it is. the centrifuges, the secret facilities in which many of them, i believe, house the plutonium program. on and on, the ballistic missile program, the sarin gas that's actually being produced by the iranian regime. all of these things are t...