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Audio is connected and we begin. the president going over the beginning of this summit with his vice president there. real quickly, sharon -- he just popped on his mike. when he starts speaking, sharon, i will have to cut you off. talking about protecting nuclear stockpiles, which countries do you think do the poorest jobs of doing that. >> it is hard to say. when a country does a poor job, it may mean that it doesn't really know all the steps it has to take. it may be unintentional in some cases. the countries we worry about are those that have trouble implementing regulations, that may have ...

Qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon. if they ever succeed, they would surely use it. how do we know this is true? we can only count on white house officials and what they are saying, which is intelligence, points to the fact that they believe al qaeda and other criminal gangs are trying to get their hands on this material. we have heard this from president clinton, president bush. we are now hearing it from president obama and what he is trying to do is create a sense of urgency, some momentum to get some of these other world leaders involved in trying to secure that ...

Alarm system. where there are not very good guns, guards and gates for this material. so the issue is, let's put everything together to protect this material. let's develop security cultures so that there are no lapses. >> interesting. so you think the threat is more infiltrators getting into a facility and stealing these materials versus these materials being sold on the black market? >> the two are not necessarily inconsistent. you can have insider threats. people who work within facilities that decide they want to sell some material or you can have outsider threats. remember, just -- i can'...

Of time and effort to go through all the steps to secure this material and consolidate it. >> suzanne malveaux, you are there at the white house. you actually got a chance to see some of the excerptses of t of president's remarks. he makes the point that the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up even though the confrontation has gone down. >> reporter: i have to apologize for the construction noise in the background. that's one of the things the president is going to talk about, the fact that the whole game here has changed. everything has really turned around. they are no longer worried about ...

Faces. you know what? they would sell secrets for money. they would develop nukes for its own protection. some of these leaders are just showing up for a little face time to try to make itt look good. when it comes down to it, money talks. >> i don't know about that. there is a wide range of nations who are attending this summit. certainly, every one does want some face time with president obama. there are some very important discussions going on on the sidelines. for example, with hu jintao, president obama has been talking with him about sanctions on iran. it's not prereally a question o sel...