king alexander and the people of the netherlands, your hospitality has been remarkable, your organizationas been flawless. to all of the people who were involved in putting this together, including those who were putting up with the traffic that i caused, i want to say thank you. i'm told there is a dutch word which captures the spirit, but my first visit to the netherlands has been truly hozelic. [ laughter ] >> so . . . i convened the first nuclear security summit in washington four years ago, because i believe we need a serious and sustained global effort to deal with one of the greatest threats to international security, the specter of nuclear terrorism. we made progress in seoul, and built on that here. this was about taking tangible and concrete steps to secure more of the world's nuclear material so it never falls in the hands of terrorists. and that's what we have done. in particular i want to commend belgium and italy for completing their removal of highly enriched materials. in a major commitment japan announced it will work with the united states to eliminate hundreds of kilogr

and i want to thank his majesty, king alexander, as well as the people of the netherlands for all theons that go into bringing together so many heads of state. this is just one more example of dutch leadership, not just on nuclear security, but on many global challenges. as you know, the netherlands is one of our closest allies and our cooperation underscores a larger point. our nato allies are our closest partners on the world stage. europe is the cornerstone of america's engagement with the world. and today we focused on several priorities in europe and beyond. first, we obviously spent a considerable amount of time on the situation in ukraine. europe and america are united in our support of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian people. we are united in opposing a cost on russia for its actions so far. the prime minister routtan said this would bring growing sanctions to the russian economy. and i'll meet with my fellow g7 leaders later today to coordinate closely with the netherlands and the european partners going forward. second, i thanked the prime minister for the netherla

president obama is continuing his trip overseas where he hopes to mend fences with king abdullah. peter alexander joins us live from rome where the president met with pope francis. hi, peter. >> reporter: good morning. it was a historic visit between pop francis and president obama, together for nearly an hour. the president expressed his great admiration for the pope. they shared their interest in eliminating income equality but didn't spend much time on abortion and contraception. president obama will go to saudi arabia, the largest arab ally. among the most significant topics, they will focus on iran and syria. saudi arabia's largest rival is around and the u.s. has new contacts with iran as it deals with its efforts to crack down on the nuclear weapons capabilities. on syria, they are hopeful that the u.s. will provide larger military insistence to the syrian rebels as they try to fight the regime of bashar al assad. >> thank you. >>> we are going to shift gears. we want to get the latest in sports. for that, look who is here. good morning, craig melvin. >> hey, there, betty. good morning to

king alexander and the people of the net he they are lands, your hospitality has been remarkable. your organization has been flawless, to all the people who were involved in putting this together, including those who were putting up with the traffic that cause, i want to say thank you. i'm told there is a dutch word that captures this spirit which doesn't translate exactly into english but let me say that my first visit to the netherlands has been truly, hosellic. i convened the first nuclear security summit in washington four years ago because i believed that we need a serious and sustained global effort to deal with one of the greatest threats to international security and that's the specter of nuclear terrorism. we made further progress at our second summit in seoul and under your prime minister's stewardship we built on that progress here. in keeping with the spirit of these summits this was not about vague commitments t was about taking tangible and concrete steps to secure more of the world's nuclear material so it never false into the hands of terrorists and that's what we'

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king abdullah. nbc white house correspondent peter alexander joins us now from rome where president obama met with pope francis. peter, good morning to you. contra >> reporter: good morning. it was a historic visit lasting nearly 50 minutes. president obama expressing his great admiration for the pope. he said the two discussed a variety of topics. among them, their shared interest in eliminating income inequality. and president obama said the topics that they are more divided on, social issues like contraception, abortion, did not come up in their conversation. now, president obama will head to saudi arabia, the final stop of this four country trip, to visit today with king abdullah. he's the king of saudi arabia, of course, america's largest arab ally in that region. among the most significant topics they'll focus on, iran and syria. for one, the saudis want the u.s. to provide more military assistance to the syrian rebels. and on the topic of iran, there is concern within saudi arabia that the u.s.' new contact, new cooperation with iran, an effort to negotiate over its nuclear weapons capabilities

king. senator graham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general alexander i wish you well in retirement but i wish you are not retiring. you've done a great job for our country. i find you to be one of the most capable officers we have come and i just want to let you enter them in a how much i appreciate your service to our country. now, having said that, could you describe in 30 seconds, and i think what's in the team and others talked about, boil it down, what would, what could a major cyber attack due to the united states? what kind of damage could incur? >> i think they could shut down the power in the northeast as an example, shut down the new york stock exchange, damage data that's in the stock exchange, removed it and shut down some of our government networks, other government networks. impact our transportation areas. those are things that -- >> are these chemicals? >> i think that would be harder. they could get into scada systems and -- >> water supplies? >> right. they could do damage to the. they could do flows on rivers spend what it cost trill

alexander is in rome, italy, where the president began his day. peter, good morning. >> reporter: tamron, good morning to you. president obama will be meeting and having a private dinner with saudi arabia's king abdullah today. among the most significant topics the two men will focus on, iran, syria and egypt as well as the role of the muslim brotherhood. the saudis want to increase weapons to syrian rebels to insurgents in that country fighting against the assad regime. iran, which is saudi arabia's biggest rival in this region. hoping to lift sanctions in exchange for limits on iran's nuclear program doesn't in any way compromise the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia. senior administration officials say the relations between the two countries have already improved after six days and a four-nation tour, president obama, tamron, will finally head home to washington tomorrow. >> all right, peter, thank you very much. >>> more than 6 million americans have now signed up for president obama's new health care plan just days before the march 31st deadline. that fulfills a goal set by the congressional budget office and embraced by the white house. but it's still short of the original