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Take a look at the graphic. 25,000 pounds of low enriched uranium to russia. iran has yet to get rid of its supply of uranium enriched to near the 20% threshold which was only a step away from weapons-grade material. george there are democrats up on the hill who have a problem with iran on another front. on their missile testing, thumbing their nose at the world. >> missiles are what at the end of the day make nuclear weapons technology ultimately lethal and a threat to this country. missile technology was just left out of the entire framework of this agreement. we had that statement there, th...

So and then you see things like this, you know, this arrest as well as death to america. i mean, you have to go back and say to yourself what are we doing? >> listen, richard nixon made a deal with the communist china. president reagan made a deal with the communist soviet union. they were far more dangerous threats to our country than iran ever was or will be. what were we doing then? we were taking steps in our national interest even as we recognize that we were dealing with a hostile power who we must resist in other areas. let me say on enrichment, they have agreed to reduce their stockpil...

An iran that was already enriching uranium to the level of 20%. which is just below weapons grade. an iran that had already installed 10,000 plus centrifuges, an iran that was moving rapidly on commission a heavy water reactor able to produce enough for additional bomb or are two a year. that my friends is where we already were when we began our negotiations. at a well remembered moment during the u.n. general assembly the previous fall, israeli prime minister netanyahu had held up a cartoon of a bomb to show just how dangerous iran's nuclear program had become. and in 2013, he returned to tha...

2013, we were facing an iran that had already mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, already stockpiled enough enriched uranium that they could make 10-12 bombs. an iran that was enriching at a level of 20% which just below weapons grade. an iran that already installed 10,000 plus centrifuges. and an iran that was moving to commission a heavy water reactor able to produce an addition bomb or two a year. that is where we were when we began the negotiations.

Two-thirds of centrifuges are taken offline. uranium is going to be sent somewhere else. the potential to enrich uranium to weapons grade is down and their ability to have themselves checked exists in a way it did not before. how does it make it more likely this deal that they get a weapon. >> chris, let's start with enriching uranium in centrifuges. they are using the most basic kind of centrifuges. in eight to ten years, they will have advanced research and development. it will help them master the process to enrich uranium. they don't need to develop it now. they can wait eight to ten years...