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Down when we were there back in 2008. the cooling tower was destroyed. automatic part of the negotiations with the west. i am told today that that can be rebuilt and restored to service in as short a time as six months. it could turn out enough plutonium for a bomb in just a year. just as dangerous i'm told the parallel uranium enrichment program, north korea also saying that will be reeving up. the u.s. does continue to treat this all seriously. the u.s.s. john mccain, a ballistic missile destroyer coming into the vicinity of the korean peninsula also there are reports that a u.s. military fl...

Ambassador de trani, welcome. thanks for joining us today. >> no, thank you for inviting me. jon: we saw that, you know, that much-ballyhooed implosion of the cooling tower at the north korean nuclear reactor. that's now gone up in smoke really. they're going to rebuild this thing, huh? >> that's what they say. and usually when they say something, they follow through, and they will build it, rebuild it. it's going to take them some time. it's in total disrepair. it's being very conservative, at least two years before that thing is up and running. so it's going to take some time, but they're de...

Sell to the american people what white house insiders call "the product." . >> thank you very much. >> it was a shock. it was a total shock. i couldn't believe the vice president was saying this. and doing work with the cia on iraq wmd, through all the briefs i heard at langley, i never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. and that's when i began to believe they're getting serious about this. they want to go into iraq. >> two weeks after the speech, cheney again makes his case on national television. >> what we know is just bits and pieces we gather through the...

And doing work with the cia on iraq wmd, through all the briefs i heard at langley, i never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. and that's when i began to believe they're getting serious about this. they want to go into iraq. >> two weeks after the speech, cheney again makes his case on national television. >> what we know is just bits and pieces we gather through the intelligence system. but we do know with absolute certainty he is using his procurement system to acquire what he needs in order to build the uranium enrichment program. >> saddam and nukes, abso...

Islamic revolution in iran and developing peaceful sources for medicine and electricity. we've heard this before, ambassador. what new nugget of truth will we glean from this? >> well, i think it's a signal of iranian determination despite the economic sanction that is we've seen and that have had an impact, particularly on the middle class in iran. ironically, of course, iran's middle class element of society most hostile to the rule of the ayatollah, so, unfortunately, the sanctions have had the effect of diminishing that opposition or i impairing the opposition, i think they signal they int...