. >> joining me now are congressman brian higgins, democrat of new york serving on the homeland security committee and michael sheehan, head of operations at the pentagon. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> congressman, how concerned are you about the people in the u.s. and the people in the u.s. going to fight for isis? >> well we are very concerned. obviously the isis propaganda machine is working. it's drawing people to syria, to iraq. but they are being told explicitly if they can't make that trip to undertake home-grown terrorism. this is a real problem. the good thing is our counterterrorism officials are working diligently and in counterterrorism you never get credit for what didn't happen. >> congressman, we just heard the fbi director say, and you repeat, they are told if they can't get to the states to kill people where you are? >> that's what you're hearing. and that's a meaj juror problem. i think the good thing is in this case and in others, local law enforcement agencies are able to thwart terrorist activity before it's actually executed. terrorism is a strate

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brian higgins of new york. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you mr. secretary. just on the iran issue centrifuges and iran enrichment and capability and they have had 164 centrifuges, for weapon s weapons-grade material and today there is over 19,000 and it is suggested that 9400 are operatal centrifuges to enrich uranium. how important is the number of centrifuges to the negotiations ongoing right now? >> it is important. >> do we accept that iran should have thousands of operational centrifuges to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes? >> well that question is so general that is doesn't allow for the question of what is their production level, what are they doing et cetera, et cetera. i'm not going to get into the numbers at this point in time except to say to you, we have established a critical measurement of needing a one-year break-out time for a reasonable period of time and an ability to be able to limit the impact of whatever is produced by whatever centrifuges are running. in other words you have to look at the stockpile and what happens to the spent fue