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Assumption is the president is likely or would want to try to name a supreme court pick before he heads out to nato which starts on july 11. so we are looking at the next two weeks here. and this is stuttering john who is apparently getting this information from the president. if it is the president. who apparently is getting this information from the president, if it is the president, via this prank phone call. i would also note one other thing. interesting start to the conversation too. the president sort of congratulating him and then right after that, talking about how it was an unfair -- ...

Know where countries make nuclear weapons and where they store them, so what we fall back to typically is trying to look at their capabilities to make plutonium and weapon grade uranium and those facilities tend to be easier to understand and to inspect. paul: all right, how many of those facilities do we have, for a while we had a plutonium site but we didn't know about enriched uranium site? >> that's right, plutonium is much better understood. a focus of the six-party talks in the 2000's and earlier, and a lot is known about that. i don't think they have a secret reactor but they do have a ...

Know where countries make nuclear weapons and where they store them, so what we fall back to typically is trying to look at their capabilities to make plutonium and weapon grade uranium and those facilities tend to be easier to understand and to inspect. paul: all right, how many of those facilities do we have, for a while we had a plutonium site but we didn't know about enriched uranium site? >> that's right, plutonium is much better understood. a focus of the six-party talks in the 2000's and earlier, and a lot is known about that. i don't think they have a secret reactor but they do have a ...

Do you think being investigated as part of this criminal investigation will flip and cooperate with prosecutors? >> i have always said assume your best friend will flip. prosecution has enormous leverage. they can charge you with a dozen crimes, even if they're technical crimes, that can follow the guidelines and tell you you'll never see the outside again, you'll spend your life in prison. witnesses realize the better the story, the better the deal they get, so the risk is they will exaggerate or elaborate or even sometimes make up stories. so i think the president has to assume that his clos...

Mysteriously killed in the u.k. and there is a lot of russian ex pats in the u.k. what is going on here and what is the latest? >> yeah, you're right. in 2006, alexander litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive pole o polonium and if you like russia house form and the working assumption of the british police and the security service pds and it would appear the british government this was a state assassination attempt by russia, prime minister teresa may mentioning that possibility today very openly by talking about what she would do if it's proved that this is state sponsored. there is an if t...