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Take a look at what must be done to help today's children excel in the classroom at noon eastern here on "msnbc sunday." iran's only atomic power plant set to start up this week thanks to fuel provided by russia. the uranium loaded into the reabouter on saturday and if it all goes according to plan, the plant will be providing electricity in about a month from now. i'm joined by ali, an international policy analyst at the rand corporation. good morning. i'm glad you're here. >> good morning. thanks. >> of course the biggest concern, could this uranium fuel be used to build weapons and why is...

Look, this is a great victory, this is a great victory for iranian technology but that may take pressure off them and give them room to be more flexible on issues we care about, like enrichment. >> in jim walsh's view, this is not necessarily the bad thing we think it is on the face of it. >> shepard: what about anything likely to stop the plant from going on line or is this a done deal? >> it's pretty much a done deal. although jim walsh also pointed out these are iranians and russians. we've heard both those countries say many times they're going to do something and failed to do it. there's ...

So while they may be applying a little more pressure to the russians privately, publicly at least, shep, they are say nothing problem here. >> shepard: can we know definitively whether this is putting the iranians any closer to the possibility of having a nuclear weapon? >> in a sense, anything that puts them on the path to nuclear power also puts them on the path to the possibility of nuclear weapons. experts point out that the uranium fuel they will be getting is very, very low level enriched it would need to be much, much higher for nuclear weapons. and i spoke to jim walsh, one the leading...

Investigating going on. >> what about the millions sloshing around before the 2016 election? >> martha: thank you very much, zach and charlie, good to see you both. more to come on that. now to talk about the national security applications and also what happened this week with isis, general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war. also a fox news military analyst, good to have you here tonight. i do want to talk to you about isis and what comes next after the fall of raqqa. what are the thoughts and the implications here? >> the real issue here is nuclear power industry is a...

Saying it's the economy, stupid. it's a mistake. >> dave: interesting. >> alisyn: what do you think? who gets to claim the national security high ground. in the meantime, let's talk about national security as relates to iran and the united states is basically saying that this moment right now is the last chance for iran. they're not saying-- >> again. >> dave: right. >> alisyn: they're not saying exactly what that means, but if these stricter sanctions don't work and iran doesn't come to the table and doesn't stop the production of uranium, and dismantle what they've already built, that it's o...