tonight, ernest moniz, u.s. secretary of energy and one of the principal negotiators with the iranians over nuclear weapons. >> certainly when i was introduced into the negotiations it was for addressing technical dimensions, be it enrichment, plutonium production in reactors et cetera so certainly for that part of the agreement, you know i am certainly working intensely with members of congress, but don't forget there are many other dimensions to this agreement. >> rose: ernest moniz for the hour next. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: ernst ernst is here. he is the secretary of energy for the united states. "washington post" called him obama's secret weapon in iranian talks. he has been negotiating with his iranian counterpart. he is a professor at m.i.

next, energy secretary ernest moniz, billions to improve pipe lines and energy storage capacity, the secretary appeared before the senate energy committee last week. >> welcome to the committee. hearing will now come to order. we're here this morning to review the first installment of the quad drenial energy review the qer around here. we're pleased to have secretary moniz back before the committee. this is your second time so far this year. we greatly appreciate not only the public engagement but the time that i know you give each of us as you come to either discuss issues in our offices or through your frequent phone calls. i appreciate that engagement and that reach out. i think it is -- it's very helpful. secretary moniz oversaw the development of this report at the department of energy and again, i think many of us have had an opportunity to have a little bit of discussion on this report but this morning is our opportunity as a committee to review it. in the united states we take it for granted that when we flip a switch the lights turn on and our devices charge up when we plug

secretary of energy ernest moniz. >> when i was introduced into the negotiations it was for technicalera. so certainly for that part of the agreement i am certainly working intensely with members of congress. but don't forget there are many other dimensions to this agreement. the sanctions relief, the military dimensions. >> rose: okay. where secretary kerry obviously is the principal spokesman for that. secondly, there are broader issues being introduced into the discussion about the nature of the negotiation, not about the results of the negotiation, but the nature of the negotiation and for those clearly secretary kerry and the president are quite in the lead. >> rose: the iranians have said at this table three presidents of iran, they have said we don't want nuclear weapons. they say that all the time. how do you assess that? >> well, first of all, let me say, we hope it's true and this is what this agreement is, as i said earlier is built for the long term, because we have specific restrictions that go up to 25 years and some basically are in effect forever. so the whole idea is,

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